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Romantic drama adapted from Ben Sherwood's novel, starring Zac Efron as the young sailor, Charlie St. Cloud. Charlie has the opportunity to go to Standford University but when his younger brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan), dies in a car accident, he is left reconsidering his future. When he realises he can see and communicate with Sam, Charlie determines to take a job as a cemetery caretaker instead of going to university. The two brothers meet every night but the return of Tess (Amanda Crew), a sailor who we went to school with Charlie, causes a divide between the brothers. When Charlie learns Tess's life is in danger, he has to choose between keeping a promise to his deceased brother in the afterlife and saving Tess in the real world. 

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Award-winning drama from director Tom Hooper telling the story of the relationship formed between King George VI (Colin Firth, in a Golden Globe and Oscar-winning performance) and his speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). After reluctantly acceding to the throne when his older brother Edward VIII (Guy Pearce) abdicates, George, or Bertie to his family and friends, is forced to act when his stutter leads to concerns about his leadership. Help is soon at hand, however, when he employs unconventional speech therapist Lionel Logue, who using previously untried techniques, begins to bring about improvements in the George's speech. As the relationship between the tow begins to strengthen, the King's new found confidence grows, just in time for him to lead his country through it's gravest hour. 
         

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Directed by David Fincher, this award-winning drama is based on the story of the creation of 'Facebook'. Jesse Eisenberg plays Mark Zuckerberg who, in 2003, developed the social networking site while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Six years later Zuckerberg is a millionaire but his success is proving to be problematic to his personal life and he finds himself undergoing multiple legal battles. Justin Timberlake also stars as Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster.

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Psychological thriller set in the American ballet world starring Natalie Portman in an award-winning performance. Nina (Portman) is a dancer in a New York City ballet company. Still living with her domineering and obsessive mother Erica (Barbara Hershey), a former ballerina herself, Nina barely has a life outside her dancing. When the company's artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for a major new production of Swan Lake, Nina finds herself losing sight of her own identity as she gets caught up in a twisted competitive friendship with her rival Lily (Mila Kunis). 
 

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Espionage thriller starring Angelina Jolie. Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is an ex-CIA officer whose loyalty is put to the test when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. In an attempt to evade capture for long enough to gather the evidence she needs to clear her name and protect her husband, Salt goes on the run, using all the tricks of her trade as a covert operative to stay off the radar of the CIA counter-intelligence officers sent to track her down. However, Salt's efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast further doubt on her motives as the hunt to uncover the truth of her identity escalates into an international operation by the world's most powerful forces.

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