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A Prophet
A Prophet
Drama
R18 Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him More Details

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Beneath Hill 60
Beneath Hill 60
War, Drama
M No Free Tickets: 2 September 2010

1916. Two massive armies facing each other along the Western Front have fought themselves to a standstill. The count down to the Battle of Messines Ridge has begun. The Allies' audacious plan to break the deadloc
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Cairo Time
Cairo Time
Drama, Romance
PG A tantalising brief encounter in a classic romantic movie mode, Cairo Time traces the intimacy and understanding that grows between Juliette, a Canadian magazine editor (Patricia Clarkson, clearly etched and luminous as ever) and Tareq, the Egyptian frien More Details

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Cemetery Junction
Cemetery Junction
Comedy
M Cemetery Junction tells the funny, touching and universal story of being trapped in a small town and dreaming of escape. In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave thei More Details

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Centurion
Centurion
Exclusive, Action
R16 Set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Michael Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict cam More Details

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Despicable Me
Despicable Me
Family, Animated
No Complimentaries
PG In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we More Details

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Going The Distance
Going The Distance
Comedy, Romance
No Complimentaries
R16 Erin (Drew Barrymore) and Garrett (Justin Long) are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep their romance alive with webcams a More Details

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Harry Brown
Harry Brown
Drama, Thriller
R18 Set in modern day Britain, HARRY BROWN follows one man's journey through a chaotic world where teenage violence runs rampant. As a modest, law abiding citizen, Brown lives alone. His only companion is his best friend Leonard. When Leonard is killed, Brown More Details

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I Am Love
I Am Love
Drama
M A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love. More Details

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Inception
Inception
Action, Adventure
M In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea within one's mind can be the most dangerous weapon or... In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea wit More Details

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It's A Wonderful Afterlife
It's A Wonderful Afterlife
Indian, Comedy
M My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Shaun of the Dead meet in this charming comedy romp about an Indian-Punjabi mother taking her obsession with marriage into frighteningly funny territory. More Details

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Peaceful Times
Peaceful Times
Drama
PG Irene and Dieter have fled 60s East Berlin with their three children for a better life in the West. The arrestingly odd Peaceful Times provides a comic, child's-eye view of the serious difficulties that ensue. Irene can't shake the Eastern Bloc mindset, c More Details

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Predicament
Predicament
Comedy, Drama
M Naive teenager, Cedric Williamson, conspires with two misfits to photograph and blackmail adulterous couples, When the scam goes wrong they end up with blood on their hands. Tortured by lust, roped into blackmail and possible an accessory to murder, Cedri More Details

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Skin
Skin
Drama
M Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

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Soul Kitchen
Soul Kitchen
Comedy
M SOUL KITCHEN is about family and friends, about love, trust and loyalty and about the struggle to protect a place called home in an increasingly unpredictable world. When Zinos, a young restaurant-owner, is left by his long-term girlfriend Nadine he spira More Details

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The Concert
The Concert
Comedy, Musical
M Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orch More Details

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The Expendables
The Expendables
Action, Adventure
No Complimentaries
R16 A hard-hitting action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things arent quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a danger More Details

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The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Drama, Foreign
R16 No Free Tickets until 12 August 2010

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Drama, Thriller
R18 Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit b More Details

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The Human Centipede
The Human Centipede
Horror
R18 During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree roadtrip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a derang More Details

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The Runaways
The Runaways
Drama
No Complimentaries
R16 Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in the music-fueled coming of age story of the groundbreaking, all-girl rock band, THE RUNAWAYS. They fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shan More Details

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The Secret In Their Eyes
The Secret In Their Eyes
Thriller, Foreign
R16 Benjamin, a retired court employee, decides to write a book about an old murder case that he believes wasn't properly solved. He becomes determined to find the real culprit and reopen the case - a complicated and thrilling quest that director Juan Jose Ca More Details

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Tomorrow When The War Began
Tomorrow When The War Began
Action, Adventure
No Complimentaries
M No Free Tickets 16 September

TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN follows the journey of eight high school friends in a remote country town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by a war that no-one saw coming. Cut off from their families and the
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