An English teacher in Buenos Aires adopts a rescued penguin in The Penguin Lessons. In the year 1976, Tom Michel (Steve Coogan) arrives at Buenos Aires to begin a position at an English Boarding School. Despite the fact that Argentina is in the midst of a coup d’état, it is the policy of the headmaster […]
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The life and career of tenor Andrea Bocelli is revisited in Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe. Andrea Bocelli was born in the Tuscan village of La Sterza and has been completely blind since the age of 12. However, this hasn’t stopped him from enjoying a three-decade music career that encompasses pop, rock, and opera. Framed
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A grieving man develops a burial shroud that allows him to observe the decaying body of his deceased wife in The Shrouds. Karsh (Vincent Cassell) has been grieving the death of his wife Becca (Diane Kruger), who died four years prior from cancer. Through his company GraveTech, Karsh has developed burial shrouds that can allow
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An architect uses a powerful building material to create a Utopian city in Megalopolis. Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) is the head of the design authority in the city of New Rome, who won a Nobel Prize for developing the infinitely malleable and miraculously strong building material megalon, which he has been using to reshape sections
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A teenage boy is guided by a grey heron to search for his missing stepmother in The Boy and the Heron. After previously losing his mother to a fire, Mahito Maki (Soma Santoki) travels to the countryside with his father Shoichi (Takuya Kimura) to live with Shoichi’s pregnant fiance Natsuko (Yoshino Kimura). Mahito encounters a
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The survivor of a terrorist attack struggles to remember the events in Paris Memories. Mia (Virginie Efira) is a radio translator caught up in a mass shooting in a Paris bistro. Mia survives the attack but cannot remember how the events played out. She begins attending a support group for survivors, where she meets Thomas
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A New Yorker sneaks into the Vietnam War to deliver beers to his friends in The Greatest Beer Run Ever. John “Chickie” Donohue (Zac Efron) is a Marine Corps veteran and merchant seaman in 1967 Inwood, New York. While Chickie’s out drinking with friends, barkeep The Colonel (Bill Murray) expresses disgust at anti-Vietnam demonstrations in
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A naive young man joins a grizzled veteran on a Buffalo hunt in Butcher’s Crossing. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) is a Harvard dropout who travels to the town of Butcher’s Crossing, Kansas hoping to join in on the booming market for Buffalo pelts. After questioning local trader JD McDonald (Paul Raci), Will comes across Miller
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A teenager meets an older man online who turns out to have a history with her mother in Roost. Anna (Grace Van Dien) is a 17-year-old teenager who has been exchanging online flirtations with Eric (Kyle Gallner), a much older man from across the country. Anna is surprised when Eric tracks her down to meet
The general of a West African royal army leads the fight against an oppressive empire in league with slavers in The Woman King. In 1823 West Africa, the Kingdom of Dahomey, led by King Ghezo (John Boyega), is projected by the Agojie, an all-female military regiment led by General Nanisca (Viola Davis). Nawi (Thuso Mbedu)
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