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Problem one: the old tenant won't move out. Problem two: he can't. He's a ghost. Sef is having a rough patch. He's just been divorced, his wife kicked him out, he's lost his old job and his new account, and the lovely new house he's just moved into is haunted. Theo, the ghost of the previous owner, considers the house still his, with Sef the interloper. What follows is a battle of wills between Theo and Sef. But with the arrival of the lovely and innocent young Julie, things take an unexpected turn.
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"If I must pay for my sins, I will make the Lord happy." Welcome to Lima, Peru, land of the doomed and the damned. Meet Perro (Dog), ex-military executioner turned hit man, a killing machine who's forgotten he once was a man. Until, researching a hit, he meets a teenage girl who is innocence personified, and something inside him comes trembling, flickering to life. A caring, a conscience, a soul. If he can save just one person, maybe there's a chance of redemption, even for someone like him.
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Are you willing to succeed at all costs? Winner of the Golden Zenith Award at the Montreal World Film Festival, director Christian Diaz Pardo's debut film features the prolific Harold Torres (Sin Nombre) and the charismatic Carlos Bardem (Javier's older brother, Cell 211). Gonzalez (Torres), a young man living an anonymous, solitary life in the bustling Mexico City, is desperate to pay off his looming debts and make a name for himself.
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"For it to be a crime, there has to be a personal motive." Two Parisian high school students have murdered a woman they chose as a victim from a chance encounter. They had no motive, other than to prove they could do it. Pierre wrestles with his conscience and is haunted by the crime, while Damien, a golden boy with a psychopathic bent, constructs his justifications and gleefully flirts with discovery. Zoe, a young woman who saw them leave the scene of the crime, is strangely attracted to the erotic power of the event and drawn into their web of danger and deceit.
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Made in China is not just a label. To survive in a receding business, Lin Dalin, director of a toy factory in Shenzen, desperately accepts an order from an American conglomerate with almost no profit margin. Cutting corners on worker safety, far behind with employees' wages, and exposed by an undercover journalist, Lin's actions bring the enterprise closer and closer to the brink of ruin.
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Sex, love, and drama in the heady world of Elsewhere, NY. A single encounter that was thought of as best left behind takes an unexpected turn in the present in this fresh, authentic, and intimate story about a love triangle in New York. On her first night in the city, Jen meets Todd; she spends the night with him, only to discover he has already departed the morning after. Two years on, Todd reappears and disrupts the life Jen has created with her new boyfriend, Ethan.
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Berlusconi thunders down the home stretch A down-on-his-luck harness racer, Bjarte Lem, gets entangled with the wrong crowd in this madcap Norwegian comedy. Previously, a star in his field, but now a little older, he turns to fixing race odds in order to pay back his wife's enormous debt to a pair of shady Finnish loan sharks. Hilarity ensues when he hires a pair of blockheads to do his dirty work. Their plan goes awry when the prizewinning horse is kidnapped.
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One night, beyond memory, stole away the life she knew. Marie works in the office of an auto repair shop. She enjoys the camaraderie of her (male) coworkers, and enjoys stepping out with them after work now and then. Although she fancies the occasional flirtation, she is faithful to her boyfriend Richard, with whom she lives comfortably on the outskirts of town. Antoine, the boss' son, an angry, gloomy man who keeps to himself, also works at the shop. One day, Marie and Antoine's paths cross unexpectedly, and the encounter irrevocably and tragically alters the course of Marie's life.
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Her fate hangs in the balance of his memory. Kathrine and Thomas arrive for a romantic weekend together on a remote island. Away from civilization, long-simmering tensions between them begin to erupt, and Thomas' sheen of gentility crumbles, revealing a psychopathic core that shocks Kathrine. When she accidentally pushes Thomas down a flight of stairs, he awakens with amnesia, revealing once again the man with whom she fell in love. Hopeful that his confusion will last until the ferry arrives, she pretends that they are strangers to one another.
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What if right wasnt what you thought it was? Ally is dead. Her two best friends, Seth and Nole, are horrified to discover that she never updated her will after divorcing her abusive, incarcerated husband. He gets every single thing she owned - even small mementos - thanks to her sister and executrix, a stickler for the rules. When the value of the estate takes an unexpected turn into the stratosphere, Seth and Nole begin to ponder what they are willing to do for a few million dollars - including justifying a murder as a charitable act.