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January 2014

Venus In Fur
Alone in a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is complaining over the phone about the low standard of the auditionees. Not one has the poise to play the leading role. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas finds himself backed into a corner and lets her try her luck, he is amazed to see Vanda transformed. Not only has she found the right props and costumes, but she understands the character (whose name she shares) intimately, and knows all her lines by heart. The "audition" lengthens and intensifies, and Thomas' attraction starts to develop into an obsession...

Blue Is The Warmest Colour
At fifteen, Adele (Adèle Exarchopolous) doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever when she meets and connects with the young blue-haired Emma (Léa Seydoux) at a lesbian bar. Adele falls for Emma despite being ridiculed by her gay-bashing friends. Adele immediately finds herself in a passionate relationship and develops an intense sexual bonding with Emma. When they both become committed and live together, social class differences begin to emerge. Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and finds herself again.

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Shin and Sara have been engaged for two years. They once had an argument and agree to have fun individually. Sara's best friend Jeana who always has a soft spot on Shin, she then tried every means to seduce him. In the meanwhile, Jeana's boyfriend Jacky is also getting close with Jolie who's fun and wild. Lan Kwai Fong is as bustling as usual this weekend. The girls are all gathered to rock the clubs. Since Sara met the Korean hot guy Kim, the relationship between all of them started to change...

As The Light Goes Out
As a fire rages, so does mistrust. The bond of brotherhood is always stronger when you can be pitched into a life and death situation at any time and the only thing that gets you through the inferno is the trust that your brother will have your back. The firefighters of Hong Kong's Pillar Point division who are expecting a quiet night to see off their retiring chief find their faith in each other stretched to the limits when a small fire at a liquor warehouse threatens to plunge the whole of Hong Kong into darkness if it spreads to a nearby power plant supplying natural gas. Politics, rivalry, and suspicion all come into play when dubious decisions are made, warnings are ignored and colleagues start to fall. Can the Pillar Point brotherhood survive the night, if not the fire, with their trust in each other intact?

Last Vegas
Billy (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group's sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realise that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. The Rat Pack may have once played the Sands and Cirque du Soleil may now rule the Strip, but it's these four who are taking over Vegas.

The Legend Of Hercules
Desperate to free her people from the rule of her vengeful husband and bring peace to the land, Queen Alcmene prays to the gods for guidance. She is granted a son, Hercules, by Zeus, the God of War. As his true identity remains secret, Hercules' illegitimacy is resented by King Amphitryon, who favours his elder son, Iphicles. As a young man, Hercules falls in love with the beautiful Hebe, until they are suddenly torn apart by his father's proclamation that Iphicles shall marry the princess. Planning to run away and marry his love, Hercules is captured by King Amphitryon's guards and sent off to die at war. Escaping death, Hercules unites with fellow warrior, Sotiris, on a noble quest to free the kingdom from Amphitryon's tyranny, win back his true love from his brother's grasps, and take his place as the greatest of Greek heroes.

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Boss Suchart is the influential owner of a major elephant camp. When he was murdered in his own home - the killer delivered three fatal blows on his body - all evidence points to Kham (Tony Jaa), who was present at the crime scene and was seen with the victim the moment before he died. Kham is forced to run as the police launches a pursuit. Meanwhile, the twin nieces of Boss Suchart (Jija Yanin Wismitanan and Teerada Kittisiriprasert) are out for revenge. But luck is on Kham's side when he runs into Sergeant Mark (Mum Jokmok), an Interpol agent sent to Thailand on a secret mission. As Kham is hunted by several parties, he's also desperately searching for Khon, his elephant, whose disappearance is involved with Boss Suchart's death. In another twist, Kham is drawn into an underground fighting ring run by LC (RZA), a crime lord who's obsessed with collecting top-class martial artists from around the world. LC's fighters are branded only by numbers, such as the lethal, beautiful Twenty (Ratha Pho-ngam) and the diabolical No.2 (Marrese Crump). These fighters are ordered to defeat and capture Kham for a special mission that LC has in mind.

Dawn Of A Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
One of the greatest filmmakers in the history of Japanese cinema, the prolific Keisuke Kinoshita is best known for films like Carmen Comes Home and The Ballad Of Narayama. Discover an unknown chapter in his life with this gentle drama, produced by his old studio Shochiku in commemoration of his 100th birthday. Set in wartime Japan, Dawn Of A Filmmaker depicts the period when Kinoshita (Ryo Kase) stepped away from filmmaking due his refusal to make pro-military propaganda films. To find refuge for his family, Kinoshita pulled his ailing mother (Yuko Tanaka) on a handcart on an arduous 60 km journey. This journey would become a major influence for a crucial moment in Kinoshita's 1944 film The Army.

Girl In The Sunny Place
A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda (Jun Matsumoto) happens to meet Mao Watarai (Juri Ueno), a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied, but now she is an attractive woman. Kosuke and Mao fall in love and decide to marry, but Mao has a secret...

Hwayi
Hwayi is a 17-year-old boy living in a farm village, who was raised by 5 fathers for 15 years. His fathers are known criminals and the police nick-named them as "Daytime Monsters". One day, the group is commissioned to kill a man named Lima and his wife. Apart from the leader Suk-tae, rest of the group feel something odd about this particular contract, but Suk-tae is adamant to carry out this job with Hwayi in tow. This is the first time Hwayi has ever tagged along for job and discovers a photograph of a child in Lim's house. Suk-tae hands his gun to Hwayi and orders the boy to kill Lim. Despite his plea, Hwayi is forced to pull the trigger. He becomes ill after committing his first kill, and realises that the boy in the photograph looks uncannily familiar.

The Butler
The Butler tells the story of fictional White House butler Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), who serves during seven presidential administrations between 1957 and 1986. The film is inspired by Wil Haygood's 2008 Washington Post article A Butler Well Served by This Election which chronicled the real life of former White House butler Eugene Allen. The film begins in 1926 and follows a young Cecil as he escapes the tyranny of the fiercely segregated South in search of a better life. Along his arduous journey to manhood Cecil learns invaluable skills that ultimately lead to an opportunity of a lifetime: a job as a butler at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. There, Cecil becomes a first-hand witness to history and the inner workings of the Oval Office as the civil rights movement unfolds. At home, his loving wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey) raises their two sons, and the family benefits from a comfortable middle-class existence enabled by Cecil's White House position. But Cecil's commitment to his "First Family" fosters tensions at home, alienating Gloria and creating conflict with his anti-establishment son (David Oyelowo).

Enough Said
A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter's impending departure for college. She meets Albert (James Gandolfini) - a sweet, funny and like-minded man also facing an empty nest. As their romance quickly blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), her new massage client. Marianne is a beautiful poet who seems "almost perfect" except for one prominent quality: she rags on her ex-husband way too much. Suddenly, Eva finds herself doubting her own relationship with Albert as she learns the truth about Marianne's Ex.

Hours
Before sunrise on August 29, 2005, Nolan Hayes (Paul Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife, Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez), who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan's life quickly spirals out of control when the birth goes tragically wrong and Hurricane Katrina ravages the hospital, forcing an evacuation. Told to stay with his child, who is on a ventilator, and await transfer by ambulance, Nolan and his newborn are soon cut off from the world by power outages and rising flood waters. When no one returns to help, Nolan faces one life-and-death decision after another, fighting to keep his daughter alive, as minute-by-agonizing minute passes, becoming unimaginable hours.

Me And You
It's an engaging story about a troubled teenage boy, Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) who tells his mother he's going on a school skiing trip but instead hides out in the unused, crummy basement flat under the family home - and finds he has to share it with his older half-sister, Olivia (Tea Falco), who is also using it as somewhere to come off heroin.

A Complicated Story
Mainland student Liu agrees to become a surrogate mother for a sizable sum. But when Party A opts out, she refuses abortion and goes on the run. The baby's rich owner (Jacky Cheung) tracks her down. Things get further complicated when her ex-boyfriend intervenes and brings her head-to-head with the lawyer who has arranged the deal.

Once Upon A Time In Shanghai
In the early 20th century, labourers from all over the country were rushing to the flourishing city of Shanghai. Ma Yongzhen (Philip Ng), a youthful man from Shandong, arrived at this prosperous city working as a dock labourer. During those days, Shanghai was shadowed by two local gangs: Axe Fraternity and Long Qi (Andy On). Long Qi, the boss of Paradise Club, was a relatively righteous man. He adored Yongzhen's amazing martial arts skills and fearless quality, and wanted to take him under his wing. However, Yongzhen would rather earn his money in an honest and hard-working way. That being said, due to common interests, Yongzhen and Qi eventually became great friends. Qi, who refused to betray his country for the Japanese Government and opposed to the idea of drug trafficking, quickly made enemies with Axe Fraternity's gang leaders: Baldy Bai (Chan Koon-Tai), Laughing Buddha (Yuen Cheung-Yan), and Scruffy Chou (Fung Hak-On). Their hatred intensified when Yongzhen and Qi interfered with their drug trafficking business. Yongzhen lived next door to a street performer Master Tie (Sammo Hung) and his two daughters: Tie Mei (Jiang Luxia) and Tie Ju (Michelle Hu). Yongzhen was attracted to Ju's tough personality, while Ju admired his sense of righteousness and had a good impression on Yongzhen. On the other hand, Qi was infatuated with singer, Sheng Xiangjun (Mao Junjie) , not knowing that this love would put him in danger later. Antagonised by Qi's arrogance, the Axe Fraternity's leaders allied with the Japanese spy, Hashimoto to get rid of Qi. Qi was ambushed and executed brutally by the Japanese. Yongzhen's neighbourhood was also attacked by Axe Fraternity. By the time Yongzhen arrived, the place was already scattered with corpses. With his last breath, Master Tie told Yongzhen that Ju was kidnapped by the Axe gangs. In his deep sorrow, Yongzhen decided to intrude the Axe Fraternity's lair alone to save Ju and eradicate all evils using his bare fists...

Control
Mark (Daniel Wu) urgently hails a cab for Jessica (Yao Chen) and places her out of harm's way. Moments later hoodlums led by Tony chase him down, apprehend him and haul him before their gang leader, Devil (Leon Dai), into an ominous room where they beat him and demand the money Mark, an insurance salesman, stole from them. Unflinching, Mark insists he will only talk to the boss, Tiger (Simon Yam), who finally arrives. Mark claims he's been forced to steal from Tiger by a man far more dangerous than they. Flashback to the recent past as devoted son, Mark, makes the difficult decision to withhold evidence in court for his employer when told to do so, in order to earn a financial reward to move his aging mother, Jen (Kara Hui), in to a nicer retirement home. His action sets off a chain of events starting with a threatening call from a blackmailer, The Voice, who informs Mark it had emptied his bank account but would replenish it so long as Mark follows his instructions to the letter. The Voice then orders Mark to rob a bank where he must enlist the assistance of Jessica, Mark's childhood sweetheart, by coercing her...

Police Story 2013
Night. Inside an enormous bar on a busy street, all the patrons are being held hostage. Among them are policeman Zhong Wen and his daughter Miao Miao, and several strangers who seem to have met before... The kidnapper is the bar owner Wu Jiang. His only demand is the release of a long-term prisoner. What motive is worth this risk? The prisoner is brought to the scene of the crime, but the police now face an even greater crisis, as a cold case is re-opened. Cold is the mind of the policeman, decisively using his wits to resolve the crisis; his mission is to find - the truth. Cold is the blood of the criminal, calmly carrying out his evil plan for - his revenge. Cold are the hearts of uncaring people, reacquainted only to pay the ultimate price for their selfishness - their lives. Cold are the facts that prove to the rebellious Miao Miao through her extreme ordeal with her father - their love. This is a death-match to avenge a lost love.

The Starving Games
"Good morning hungry citizens of District 12! Don't forget today is the Gathering Ceremony, so parents please bring your beloved children to the square for a random death lottery." When lithe and fearless Kantmiss Evershot volunteers to take part in the winner-takes-all Starving Games, she takes on a whole lot more than we could ever have bargained for including... Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and The Avengers.

The Kiyosu Conference
Just before the unification of Japan, Oda was forced to take his own life at Honno-ji Temple during a violent revolt. Following Oda's death, Japan held the Kiyosu Conference, the conference that changed the course of history, to resolve the Oda clan's succession of leadership.

Personal Tailor
The Dream Planner (Ge You), the Scenario Designer (Bai Baihe), the Dream Builder (Li Xiaolu), and the Mind Anesthetist (Zheng Kai) come together to form the company, Personal Tailor. Their business is unique - making dreams come true. Their service allows one to escape their current life and experience the life they have always wanted. By staging specific scenarios that are tailored to meet the requests of each client, no matter how ridiculous, every client is able to "live the dream." Their slogan, "Any dream, at any cost," begins attracting many unusual customers and even more unusual requests... Nevertheless, the dream-team foursome is determined to meet all requests, allowing every customer to experience their wildest dreams.

The Spy: Undercover Operation
Kim Chul Soo (Sul Kyung-gu) may be the best undercover agent in South Korea, but he is also an obedient husband to Ahn Yeong-hui (Moon So-ri). On the day the couple planned a romantic evening with the hopes of adding a new member to the family, Chul Soo is assigned an urgent and immediate mission in Thailand tracking down a woman connected to a recent terrorist attack. After the inevitable quarrel with Yeong-hui, Chul Soo heads to Bangkok. While carrying out the field assignment, he encounters someone he never expected to see: his wife. What surprises and concerns him even more is that she is accompanied by an attractive mystery man. Yeong-hui, however, has no idea that her husband is an undercover operative and reaches her breaking point when Chul Soo cancels their date night yet again. Frustrated with her husband's frequent business trips, Yeong-hui - a flight attendant -makes a last-minute change to her schedule and flies to Thailand. On her trip, she stumbles upon the charming Ryan, and feels an instant attraction. Even with national security at stake Chul Soo can't focus on his assignment. His wife seemed happy with the handsome man of mystery. Will Chul Soo be able to save both his country and his marriage?

Hello Babies
The rich merchant Lui Ming and a his old opponent Yeung Wai fight for everything for years. This time they compete for first to be grandpa! Yeung is going have a grandson from his son Alex and daughter in law Shan. Lui therefore threat his grandnephew couple Scallop and Snowy who live off his money to have baby, or will cut off all financial supports. Lui also hire the Super Star midwife Gong San to supervise and urge Scallop and Snowy. The couple's life turns upside down, but recalls their romantic passion of the beginning of love...

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Ryan (Chris Pine) appears to be just another New York executive to his friends and loved ones, but his enlistment into the CIA secretly goes back years. He was brought in as a brainy Ph.D. who crunches global data - but when Ryan ferrets out a meticulously planned scheme to collapse the U.S. economy and spark global chaos, he becomes the only man with the skills to stop it. Now, he's gone fully operational, thrust into a world of mounting suspicion, deception and deadly force. Caught between his tight-lipped handler Harper (Kevin Costner), his in-the-dark fiancée Cathy (Keira Knightley) and a brilliant Russian oligarch (Kenneth Branagh), Jack must confront a new reality where no one can seem to be trusted, yet the fate of millions rests on his finding the truth. With the urgency of a lit fuse, he's in a race to stay one step ahead of everyone around him.

Justin And The Knights Of Valour
Justin lives in a kingdom where bureaucrats rule and knights have been ousted. His dream is to become one of the Knights of Valour, like his grandfather was, but his father Reginald, the chief counsel to the Queen, wants his son to follow in his footsteps and become a lawyer. After an inspiring visit to his beloved Grandmother and bidding farewell to his supposed lady-love Lara, Justin leaves home and embarks on a quest to become a knight. Along the way he meets the beautiful, feisty TALIA, a quirky wizard called Melquiades, the handsome Sir Clore X and is mentored by three monks; Blucher, Legantir and Braulio, who teach and test him in the ancient ways of the Knights of Valour. Whilst an unlikely candidate for knighthood, Justin must rise to the challenge quickly when banished former knight Sir Heraclio and his army, lead by Sota, return and threaten to destroy the Kingdom.

Saving Mr. Banks
When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins, he made them a promise - one that he didn't realise would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

From Vegas To Macau
The world renowned "Invincible Hand" Ken (Chow Yun Fat) could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz (Benz Hui), and Benz's son Cool (Nicholas Tse) and nephew Karl (Chapman To). Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool's step brother Lionel (Philip Ng), an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow (Kimmy Tong), Ken's only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his "Magic Hand" once again to uncover the evil plan...

Golden Chickensss
Working as a prostitute since she was 16, Kam has witnessed the highs and lows of Hong Kong over the decades. Kam is now a "madam" who manages a stable of high-end prostitutes, entertaining and hosting parties for rich men. She has seen it all. On the surface she embraces the prosperity of the 'New HK' but like countless middle-class HK citizens, she laments the loss of the old Hong Kong that once belonged to the people. Over the hill mob boss, Gordon, was put behind bars before the Hong Kong Handover in 1997. Gordon's appearance and mindset are still stuck in the colonial past. Recently released from prison, he is unable to cope with the New Hong Kong. His sole source of solace is his old flame, Kam. But Kam is no longer the naïve young girl who once idolised Gordon. She is heartbroken as she watches him struggle to adapt to life in the New Hong Kong. But rather than abandoning him to his fate, Kam decides to help Gordon rebuild his life, an undertaking as daunting as rebuilding our beloved Hong Kong. But Kam believes there's no problem that she can't solve or no adversity that she can’t overcome. Kam ultimately represents the indomitable spirit of the Hong Kong people who are ready to reclaim their rightful place!
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