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7 Boxes
Paraguay, 2012, 105 min.
17-year-old Victor is offered $100 to transport seven boxes across a crowded outdoor marketplace, but the contents are linked to a serious crime and a lot of money and soon he finds himself in an adrenaline-fuelled race to outrun cops and bad guys.... more
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80 Million
Poland, 2011, 102 min.
An exciting political thriller about the struggle against Communism in Poland 1981, full of suspense, humor and surprising twists and turns as five young union leaders empty the Solidarity bank account just days before the declaration of martial law.... more
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Barbara
Germany, 2012, 105 min.
A suspenseful, enigmatic, rigorously controlled film from leading German filmmaker Christian Petzold, focussed on the arrival of an inscrutable, evidently sophisticated Berlin doctor (Nina Hoss) in a provincial hospital in Cold War East Germany. Winner, Best Director, Berlin Film Festival... more
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Breakaway
Philippines, 2012, 88 min.
This powerful drama is all about the love of a father for his young son and his heart-wrenching desperation when the child is lost to human traffickers in the backstreets of Manila.... more
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Call Girl
Sweden, 2012, 140 min.
Inspired by the 1976 prostitution scandal that led straight to the heart of the Swedish government, Call Girl is a meaty, never sensationalistic political thriller reminiscent of American 70s classics like All the President’s Men. Discovery Prize-winner, Toronto Film Festival.... more
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Checkmate
Dominican Republic, 2011, 90 min.
David Hernandez is the famous host of a successful variety show in the Dominican Republic. When a caller to his show reveals that he is holding his family hostage, David must stay on air and play the terrorist’s game or his family dies.... more
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The End
Spain, 2012, 90 min.
A group of friends reunites at a cabin – all except one, the victim of a practical joke years before. Suddenly all electronics and machinery stop dead; they seek help but one by one they disappear. From the writers of The Orphanage and Cell 211.... more
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Flying Blind
United Kingdom, 2012, 93 min.
In this smart, slow-burn mystery, lauded stage actor Helen McCrory commands the screen as a confident, 40-ish aerospace engineer working on secret government projects whose passionate affair with a young Muslim student may not be as innocent as first thought.... more
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Headshot
Thailand, 2011, 105 min.
A dazzling Eastern film noir, Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s slow-burn thriller follows a cop-turned-killer as a bullet to the head — which has him literally seeing life upside down — results in an increasingly fatalistic acceptance of his dark place in the universe.... more
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A Hijacking
Denmark, 2012, 110 min.
A fictional but sweatily plausible account of a Danish cargo ship ambushed by volatile Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean, which alternates between tensions onboard and in the Copenhagen negotiation chamber. Best Film, Thessaloniki; Best Actor, Abu Dhabi; Audience Award, AFI.... more
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I, Anna
United Kingdom, 2012, 93 min.
Charlotte Rampling’s lonely divorcée is a murder suspect in this twisty psychological thriller, a London neo-noir costarring Gabriel Byrne and directed by the actress’s son, Barnaby Southcombe.... more
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In the Shadow
Czech Republic, 2012, 106 min.
Inspired by the darkest days of Cold War Prague when the Soviets were tightening their grip on Czechoslovakia, this suspenseful crime drama follows an honest cop whose jewelry heist investigation is taken over by State Security.... more
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Inescapable
Canada, 2012, 91 min.
Rubba Nadda follows her hit Cairo Time with this timely thriller about a father returning to Syria to try to find his missing daughter. Starring Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomie and Joshua Jackson.... more
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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Italy, 2012, 129 min.
Marco Tullio Giordana’s (The Best of Youth) meticulous and engrossing conspiracy thriller dissects the real-life 1969 bombing of a bank in Milan’s Piazza Fontana that killed 17 people. The excellent Valerio Mastandrea is a cop whose investigation leads down the corridors of power.... more
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Purge
Finland, 2012, 125 min.
Purge spotlights the legacy of Soviet oppression in Estonia. Two women from two different eras are linked by separate histories of deceit, desperation and fear in this heartstopping adaptation of Sofi Oksanen’s bestseller.
Note: This film has disturbing scenes of violence against women.... more
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The Hypnotist
Sweden, 2012, 122 min.
Based on the international bestseller by Lars Kepler, this dose of Nordic noir revolves around a psychiatrist's reluctant use of hypnotism to glean clues from the survivor of a murder attempt. Director Lasse Hallstrom’s first Swedish film for a quarter century.... more
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Two Lives
Germany, 2012, 97 min.
An East German spy in Norway has built a life around a fake identity. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, her happy existence is threatened in this story of trauma, intrigue and espionage.... more
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