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Elena
When a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena’s potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan …
Playtime: 109 minutes
Production country / language: Russia / Russian
Production year: 2011
Director(s): Andrey Zvyagintsev
Producer(s): Sergey Melkumov, Alexander Rodnyansky
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin
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Down Terrace
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the “family business” is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren’t feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in…
Playtime: 93 minutes
Production country / language: UK / English
Production year: 2009
Director(s): Ben Wheatley
Producer(s): Andrew Starke
Genre: Crime, Drama
Cast: Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Julia Deakin
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Dead Man's Shoes
A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.
Playtime: 90 minutes
Production country / language: UK / English
Production year: 2004
Director(s): Shane Meadows
Producer(s): Mark Herbert
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Cast: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
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Casino Jack and the United States of Money
A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.
Playtime: 118 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2010
Director(s): Alex Gibney
Producer(s): Zena Barakat, Alison Ellwood, Alex Gibney
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, William Branner
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Candy
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Playtime: 108 minutes
Production country / language: Australia/ English
Production year: 2006
Director(s): Neil Armfield
Producer(s): Margaret Fink, Emile Sherman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush
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Ballet Russes
For many, modern ballet began with the Ballet Russes of Monte Carlo, originally made up of Russian exiles from the Russian Revolution. This film tells the story of this landmark company with its stars and production as well as its power games, rivalries and tribulations that marked its turbulent history, and is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists — now in their 70s, 80s and 90s — who gave birth to modern ballet.
Playtime: 118 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2005
Director(s): Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Producer(s): Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Robert Hawk
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Cast: Irina Baronova, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, Yvonne Chouteau
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And Everything is Going Fine
From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia – the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields – Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.
Playtime: 89 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2010
Director(s): Steven Soderbergh
Producer(s):
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Spalding Gray, Forrest Gray, Kathie Russo
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Adore
Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Playtime: 112 minutes
Production country / language: Australia, France / English
Production year: 2013
Director(s): Anne Fontaine
Producer(s): Michel Feller, Barbara Gibbs
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, Ben Mendelsohn
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1,000 Times Good Night
Rebecca is one of the world’s top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work…
Playtime: 117 minutes
Production country / language: Norway, Ireland, Sweden / English, Norwegian
Production year: 2013
Director(s): Erik Poppe
Producer(s): Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae
Genre: Drama, War
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny
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