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Love, Simon and In The Fade
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (120 Battements Par Minute, 120 Beats Per Minute)
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Robin Campillo; Writer: Robin Campillo; Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Yves Heck, Emmanuel Ménard, Rahim-Silvioli Mehdi, Antoine Reinartz, Caroline Piette, Marco Horanieh, Pascal Tantot, François Rabette, Naelle Dariya, Ariel Borenstein, Coralie Russier, Saadia Bentaïeb)
Portrait of the ACT UP activist group, a direct action collective aiming to impact the lives of people with AIDS.
The Ballad Of Lefty Brown
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jared Moshe; Stars: Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Tommy Flanagan, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel)
Always the grizzled sidekick and never the hero, Lefty is considered an unreliable loser but is pushed into the limelight after being left for dead when his best friend is murdered.
The Bookshop
(Country: UK, Spain, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Isabel Coixet; Stars: Bill Nighy, Emily Mortimer, Hunter Tremayne)
A widow moves to a small seaside town where she wants to turn a run-down building into a bookshop, but she faces local opposition.
Custody (Jusqu'à la garde)
(Year: 2017; Director: Xavier Legrand; Writer: Xavier Legrand; Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux, Mathieu Saikaly, Florence Janas, Saadia Bentaïeb, Coralie Russier, Sophie Pincemaille, Emilie Incerti-Formentini, Jérome Care-Aulanier, Jenny Bellay, Martine Vandeville, Jean-Marie Winling, Martine Schambacher)
A couple embark on a bitter custody battle for their son.
Isle Of Dogs
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson; Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Liev Schreiber)
In a future world where dogs have been exiled to the giant rubbish dumps of Trash Island, a Japanese boy sets out alone in search of his beloved pet.
120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) and Custody
In The Fade (Aus dem Nichts)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Fatih Akin; Writer: Fatih Akin; Stars: Diane Kruger, Numan Acar, Ulrich Tukur, Siir Eloglu, Jessica McIntyre, Ulrich Brandhoff)
Revenge thriller set in the aftermath of a bombing.
Journeyman
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Paddy Considine; Writer: Paddy Considine; Stars: Paddy Considine, Jodie Whittaker, Paul Popplewell, Tony Pitts, Anthony Welsh, Craig Thomas Lambert, Paul Donnelly, Jonny Masters, Richard Varley, Emelia Spencer, Shamir Masri, Kris Athey, Jonathan Cheetham, Nigel Passey, Jacob Smyth)
After a boxer suffers a head injury in a fight, it has a major impact on his family life.
Love, Simon
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Greg Berlanti; Writer: Elizabeth Berger, Isaac Aptaker, based on the novel by Becky Albertalli; Stars: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Logan Miller, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Kelynan Lonsdale, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Talitha Bateman)
A young teenager worries that his family will discover he's gay before he's ready, and finds himself falling in love with a similarly closeted classmate he talks to online, without either of them knowing who the other is.
Madame
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Amanda Sthers; Writer: Amanda Sthers, Matthew Robbins,; Stars: Rossy de Palma, Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, rossy de Palma, Michael Smiley, Tom Hughes)
A wealthy American persuades her Spanish maid to pretend to be a noblewoman in order to make up the numbers at dinner, only to have an English aristocrat fall in love with her.
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Peter Landesman; Writer: Peter Landesman, based on the books by Mark Felt, John D O'Connor; Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas)
A dramatisation of the story of the man who was Deep Throat.
You Were Never Really Here and Madame
Nae Pasaran
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra)
The story of the East Kilbride factory workers who refused to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile.
The Party’s Just Beginning
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Karen Gillan)
A young woman struggles to find meaning in life after the suicide of her best friend.
You Were Never Really Here
(Country: US, France; Year: 2017; Director: Lynne Ramsay; Writer: Lynne Ramsay, based on the novel by Jonathan Ames; Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette, John Doman, Judith Roberts, Jason Babinsky, Kate Easton, Frank Pando, Leigh Dunham, Madison Arnold, Dante Pereira-Olson, Jonathan Wilde, Scott Price, Silvia Pena)
A tormented assassin tries to rescue a girl but trouble lies ahead.
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