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Cleo from 5 to 7 [Cléo de 5 à 7]
1962 89mins France, Italy (PG) Drama
Directed by Agnès Varda Starring Antoine Bourseiller, Corinne Marchand, Dominique Davray

Selfish pop singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) has two hours to wait until the results of her biopsy come back. After an ominous tarot card reading, she visits her friends, all of whom fail to give her the emotional support she needs. Wandering around Paris, she finally finds comfort talking with a soldier in a park. On leave from the Algerian War, his troubles put hers in perspective. As they talk and walk, Cléo comes to terms with her selfishness, finding peace before the results come back.

Speed Racer
2008 135mins USA (PG) Action/Adventure
Directed by Lana Wachowski|Lilly Wachowski Starring Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox

Born into a family business of race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is one of the track's hot stars. Sitting at the wheel of his Mach 5, he consistently deflates the competition. When Speed turns down an offer from the head of Royalton Industries, he uncovers a secret. Powerful moguls fix the races to boost profits. Hoping to beat the executive, Speed enters the same arduous cross-country race that killed his brother.

Wendy and Lucy
2008 80mins USA (15) Drama
Directed by Kelly Reichardt Starring Michelle Williams, Wally Dalton, Will Oldham

Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down, and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.

Beau Travail
1999 93mins France (15) Drama
Directed by Claire Denis Starring Denis Lavant, Gregoire Colin, Michel Subor

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

The Watermelon Woman
1996 85mins USA (15) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Cheryl Dunye Starring Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

The Virgin Suicides
1999 97mins USA (15) Thriller
Directed by Sofia Coppola Starring Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Josh Hartnett

In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence.

Point Break
1991 122mins USA (15) Action / Crime
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Starring Gary Busey, Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze

After a string of bizarre bank robberies in Southern California, with the crooks donning masks of various former presidents, a federal agent, Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), infiltrates the suspected gang. But this is no ordinary group of robbers. They're surfers -- led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) -- who are addicted to the rush of thievery. But when Utah falls in love with a female surfer, Tyler (Lori Petty), who is close to the gang, it complicates his sense of duty.

Little Women [2019]
2019 135mins USA (U) Romance/Drama
Directed by Greta Gerwig Starring Eliza Scanlen, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern, Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet

In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.

The Matrix
1999 136mins USA (15) Sci-Fi / Action
Directed by Lana Wachowski|Lilly Wachowski Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.