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Pan's Labyrinth
(MA15+)
2006
Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and demons, in a bid to escape. From Guillermo del Torro, the visionary director of The Devil's Backbone, Cronos and Hellboy comes this frightening, yet fantastical film. Spanish with English subtitles.

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Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha is a sweeping romantic epic set in a mysterious and exotic world that still casts a potent spell today. The story begins in the years before World War II when a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha, Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang). Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man who is out of her reach (Ken Watanabe).

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Based on author Patrick O’Brian’s series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the movie is set during the Napoleonic Wars. Crowe is Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy, and Paul Bettany is ship’s doctor Stephen Maturin. Their ship, the H.M.S. Surprise, is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy. With the Surprise badly damaged and much of his crew injured, Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he pursues a high-stakes chase across two oceans, to intercept and capture his foe. It’s a mission that can make his reputation – or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew.

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Road To Perdition
(MA15+)
2002
He shouldn't have been there. But in the moment that Michael Sullivan's son witnessed a brutal slaying, the lives of this 12-year-old and his gangster father are shattered irrevocably. Now, targeted by the mob he's devoted his life to, Sullivan and his son find themselves with nowhere to turn and a sadistic killer in relentless pursuit. It's here - in a fierce and primal struggle to stay alive and protect his boy - that this lifelong gangster will discover honour and redemption. Riveting, powerful and visually stunning, Road to Perdition ranks among the classic gangster movies of all time. Tom Hanks , Paul Newman , and Jude Law are unforgettable as desperate men...

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson based on the first volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Set in Middle-earth, the story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron, who is seeking the One Ring. The Ring has found its way to the young hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). The fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance as Frodo and eight companions form the Fellowship of the Ring, and journey to Mount Doom in the land of Mordor: the only place where the Ring can be destroyed.

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2001 is the year of the dragon - the year when critics and audiences all around the world discovered the excitement and the mystery of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. International superstars CHOW YUN-FAT (from THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS) and MICHELLE YEOH (from TOMORROW NEVER DIES) star in award-winning director Ang Lee's epic story of warriors, legends, passion and destiny. With its stunningly choreographed martial arts battles, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON is an action-packed adventure unlike anything you've ever seen before. DON'T MISS IT!

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Saving Private Ryan
(MA15+)
1998
Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievement that has had profound and lasting impact throughout the world. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director, the film also captured Oscars for Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound and Sound Effects Editing. More than 70 critics (including those at Time magazine, USA Today, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics' groups in New York, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture of the Year, while the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honoured it with both Best Picture and Best Director awards.....

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The rugged Ludlow clan -- father William (Anthony Hopkins) and brothers Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt) and Samuel (Henry Thomas) -- splinters when Sam goes off to fight in World War I despite his father's opposition. To protect Sam, his siblings follow suit. But their efforts fall short, and Sam is killed. Returning home, Alfred and Tristan face a new battle: Both fall for Sam's fiancée (Julia Ormond), pitting brother against brother.
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Assigned to an abandoned army post, Civil War hero, Lieutenant John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone and beyond civilization. Only a wolf and some roving Sioux Indians provide distractions. Curiosity and survival force Dunbar into the Indian camp where he develops a unique relationship with the Sioux. But as the military ruthlessly push west, the Indian's existence is threatened and Dunbar finds himself torn between two cultures..

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Apocalypse Now Redux
(R18+)
1979
In addition to being re-edited with the 53 minutes of new footage, the film has been completely restored, converted to digital, and reprinted by dye-transfer, improving color reproduction. Vietnam War to "terminate with extreme prejudice" the errant Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando).

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Avatar
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2009
Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making, Avatar marks Cameron's return to feature directing since helming 1997's Titanic, winner of eleven Oscars® including Best Picture and, until Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time. WETA Digital, renowned for its work in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong, will incorporate new intuitive CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into...

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