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03:35Back in the Day

A young boxer is taken under the wing of a mob boss after his Mother dies and his Father is run out of town for being an abusive alcoholic.

06:00Foolproof

Kevin, Samantha and Rob live for Foolproof; their own private club where through high-tech, meticulously thought out and executed plans, they pull off the most impossible of heists - all in theory that is. They've never actually done it for real. But all that changes when Leo, a cutthroat British gangster, rips off their foolproof plans for a diamond heist and uses it to successfully execute the robbery. Threatening to implicate them, Leo blackmails them to pull off a robbery worth $20 million in corporate bonds.

07:30Departure

Two broken souls meet by chance on countryside. A man and a woman, neither of them young anymore, both saddled with the great disappointments. They understand one another, even without need of many words, each providing the other with support and solace for this brief section of life's journey which they share. Cinema has taken many different roads to tell stories of despair, pain, grief and loneliness. Yet this film forges its own unique path. It leads from an abandoned carpenter's workshop via a run-down old house to a port. The pace is sedate, the whole area deserted. A bottle of schnapps, a bouquet of gladioli, a few apples and potatoes, a photograph, a suitcase and a book of Russian poems - these are the only props needed for the minimalist plot.

09:10Lost in Florence

When Eleroo advises Bumblelion to make a wish when getting the biggest part of the wishbone, it means trouble for poor Rhinokey for losing two bank bags of money. Bumblelion starts spending the money and looses his friends while Rhinokey manages to escape from Officer Eaglebeagle. Rhinokey tries to convince Bumblelion to return the bank bags, but Bumblelion decides to run off thinking that Rhinokey wants to steal his money. Soon after, Bumblelion realizes how Rhinokey lost the bank bags and returns the money to the police.

10:45Timber the Treasure Dog

A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.

12:10Guido Superstar: The Rise of Guido

An Italian immigrant is thrust into the world of drug-lords, supercars and secret agents in this hilarious action comedy. After losing his job at the Disco Valet Company for undue heroism, Guido (Silvio Pollio) must pose as a Sicilian gangster for the FBI in order to infiltrate a powerful Asian gang. Things go sour and take a turn for the worse. Guido must now make amends before he is discovered and killed, or worse, deported.

13:35Malpractice

The first episode of a medical crime thriller series following a team of investigators as they uncover corruption and negligence. Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart and experienced A and E doctor in the midst of a nightmare shift - she has a gunshot victim and an opioid overdose patient who both need a bed in resus, but there's only room for one of them. When one of the patients dies, Lucinda realises that her troubles have only just begun as she faces a probe by the Medical Investigation Unit.

15:10North & South: The Battle of New Market

Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market, May 1864. A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley. Leaving behind their youth, these cadets must decide what they are fighting for.

16:45Talea

Summertime. Everybody is excited to go on vacation to Italy. Everybody but Jasmin. Jasmin is yearning something. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, from whom she had to live seperately for a long time. For weeks, Jasmin is trying to get close to Eva. She does not give up, even if she's rejected. After an argument, Jasmin runs away from her fosterhome and convinces Eva to leave the city together and go on a trip. The two get closer -- sometimes as friends, sometimes as mother and daughter. A first joint cigarette, a dance in the village disco, wanderings through the woods. But expectations and needs of the girl and her mother are diverging repeatedly, especially when a man attracts Eva's attention and disturbs the growing closeness between mother and daughter.

18:00Rain

A German Shepard named Rain is trained to fight in the Vietnam War and his intelligence and courage in the face of adversity wins the respect and loyalty of his platoon.

19:30Headwinds

Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.

21:00Dragon Blade

In northwest China, 48 BC (50 BC on screen in the English version), a security company under Han China's current government called The Silk Road Protection Squad is committed to stopping battles and promoting the idea of peace. Huo An (Jackie Chan), the captain, successfully averts a battle between the Indian people and Han dynasty. The group returns to their unnamed home city, where Huo An's gentle Uyghurs wife Xiuqing (Mika Wang) serves as a schoolteacher for orphans. However, the government uncovers evidence that someone in the group is corrupt, causing the entire group to be sentenced to construction work at Wild Geese Gate, a ruined fortress. Once they arrive, the group pays respects at the shrine of a fallen Chinese general. They originally were child-slaves of Han descent, but the general had later rescued them.

22:40Abduction

A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.

00:15The 51st State

In Ronny Yu's fast-moving crime-thriller, Samuel L Jackson plays Elmo McElroy, a pharmaceutical genius who has made a fortune in illegal drugs, particularly with Formula 51, which is more potent than heroin and crack. But instead of selling it to his drug lord employer the Lizard (Meatloaf), he flies to Liverpool where Felix (Robert Carlyle) is acting as broker for gangster Leopold Durant (Ricky Tomlinson). Durant is prepared to offer $20m for the formula; money Elmo would love to spend, if he can stay alive long enough.

01:45The Perfect Weapon

In the not so distant future, society is controlled by the powerful State and a dictator known as the Director. Condor works as a hitman for the State, but a reunion with someone he thought was dead forces him to consider who his enemies really are.

03:10Welcome To the Jungle

The plot of ''Welcome to the Jungle'' concerns two young couples who go to Southwest New Guinea from Fiji in order to find Michael Rockefeller, the son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller who disappeared back in 1961, and sell an interview with him to the tabloids for $1,000,000. After a close encounter with armed criminals and psychopathic border guards, and after finding evidence that suggests that Michael Rockefeller may still be alive, the group finally makes it to the jungle where Rockefeller was last seen. The group ventures deep into the jungle where they find two Christian missionaries and a middle-aged Australian man who warns the group not to disturb the tribes in the area or else they will be killed. However tensions rise between the two couples which ultimately attracts the attention of local bloodthirsty cannibalistic tribes who then stalk one of the young couples while they are on a makeshift boat in the river and then attack them when they make their way to shore.

04:30Bullfighter

Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite his fascination with bullfighting he leads a largely peaceful existence. When a crime boss' daughter is accidentally gored to death, Jack is implicated in the unfortunate event and singled out for termination by a seemingly unending army of lethal hitmen. As Jack wages an uphill battle for survival against the harsh desert terrain and a hail of gun smoke and lead, his will to live depends on his ability to exercise his demons and come to terms with the fact that he may not live to see another sunrise.

06:0010 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up

Abigail, a self-sufficient single mom meets Ben. They both think every great relationship ends in disaster. On the first date they come up with 10 things to do together before they break up. But the estimated end is not so sure - because fate adds #11 to their list.

07:15Above & Beyond

Two cop partners, who are also best friends attend a domestic disturbance, only for one to accidentaly critically wound the other. The rest of the police force are suspicious that there may have been no accident.

08:45McCinsey's Island

A former secret agent finds a treasure map and decides to find the loot. But he is not the only one.

10:15The Old Man and the Gun

David Lowery's crime biopic stars Robert Redford as Forrest Tucker, a real-life bank robber who found himself wanted by police across the United States for a string of prison escapes and robberies. We first meet Tucker in the early 80s. He's 74 and has been evading police for two years since his last audacious prison break. But he's not taking things easy and laying low. That's not his bag. This suave old geezer has a somehow enamouring way of walking into a bank, charmingly informing the teller that he has a gun that he doesn't want to use, and walking out with a big old sack of cash. In fact, he's just done exactly that when he meets Jewel (Sissy Spacek), an enchanting farmer who he quickly trusts so much that he decides to reveal to her his true identity. Tucker, alongside spending time on Jewel's farm enjoying her more simplistic way of life, embarks on a string of heists. On the case is local detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), and Tucker soon finds himself torn between the peaceful life he's enjoyed with Jewel and his old criminal ways. Also starring Danny Glover and Tom Waits.

11:45Cookies Fortune

Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk--with the exception of Camille Dixon (Glenn Close) - a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora (Julianne Moore), whose estranged daughter Emma (Liv Tyler) has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton), who also happens to be Cookie's best friend. Although the rest of the town is convinced Willis didn't commit the crime, an outside investigator (Courtney B. Vance) isn't so sure. As Easter Sunday and opening night of the play arrive, the truth comes out, revealing more secrets than anyone could have possibly imagined.

13:40Summer Dreams

Seventeen-year old Robbie Zirpollo has a problem. As the film opens, his mother is driving him to his new summer job. We learn that Robbie has grown up in Oceanside, California, but now he and his mother have moved to Colorado for a fresh start, as his father has taken the family's savings and his secretary to Mexico. Robbie's mom has, through an uncle, gotten him a summer job at Water World on the grounds crew. The adventure begins when Robbie meets Alex and gets moved to Aokee's Surf & Snack shack to work. Alex convinces Robbie to enter the park's "Employee Olympics" to bring the Surfer King trophy to it's rightful place among the concessions crew. Tiffany, the park owner's daughter, has other ideas for Robbie.

15:15Digging Into China

Harriet, a ten-year old girl, lives together with her big sister and her alcoholic mother out in the countryside. The family runs a motel. Harriet is different from the others, as she owns a great creativity and has nobody to play with. Her infinite world exists only in her mind. One day, Ricky comes along. He is a grown-up, but retarded son of an elderly lady. Soon, Harriet and Ricky share their experiences of life from a different point of view and become close friends. But his mother still plans to give Ricky away into professional care in a home, because she won't live forever to be there for him.

16:50Unknown Energies, Unidentified Emotions

A hybrid of animated, experimental, feature and genre film in found footage technique, with a radio phonic sound and of unexpected, almost 40-minute duration. Journalist Isidor Dukas visits the Institute for Research on Psychic Phenomena and Mental Film when a confrontation with one of the test subjects transforms a routine check into a never-ending maze. Barić's work calls into question issues surrounding artistic practices in the digital age including ideas about authenticity, simulation/replication and appropriation.

17:30Railroad Tigers

In December 1941, Japan expands the occupation of its neighbouring countries to Southeast Asia. The railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China became a key military transportation route, heavily guarded by Japanese soldiers. Railroad worker Ma Yuan (Jackie Chan) leads a team of freedom fighters. Using his deep knowledge of the train network, he and his men sabotage it, ambushing Japanese soldiers and stealing supplies to feed the starving Chinese. Although the freedom fighters have no weapons of their own, they employ whatever tools are at hand, including a hammer and shovels, loose railway track planks and diverted trains. The local Chinese call the unlikely heroes the "Railroad Tigers". The freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when the Japanese send reinforcements to Shandong. In an act of defiance, Ma Yuan launches his most dangerous mission yet, blowing up a heavily guarded railroad bridge. When the Japanese learn of the crippling plan, which will derail the war effort, the stakes are raised even higher. After many missed opportunities and missed shots, the bridge is blown up by the ragtag Chinese railroad tigers.

19:30True Smile

Sergio, a 26-year-old autistic male is blind and has never seen a smile. He does, however, give everybody a sincere smile every day. A documentary based on the amazing story encapsulated by Sergio Aznarez Rosado's life.

21:00The Siege Of Robin Hood

After the merciless Sheriff of Nottingham orders a brutal attack on his family, a young man named Robin swears bloody revenge on the men responsible, vowing to restore freedom to those trapped under the realm's oppressive rule.

22:55Bounty Hunters

Jersey Bellini is a bounty hunter who forms an uneasy partnership with a rival to capture a fugitive. But the hunters soon discover that the crook is also the man the mob most wants dead!

00:30High Voltage

A group of close-knit thieves are led by Johnny (Antonio Sabàto, Jr), Mollie (Amy Smart), Larry (Lochlyn Munro) and Sam (Mike Mains). Their latest target is a small bank in Little Saigon, Orange Country, California. Mollie has been working in the bank undercover for months with the bank's manager Jane (Shannon Lee) unaware of what she plans to do. On the day of the robbery, Johnny and the rest of the gang burst in, forcing everyone on the floor. Johnny orders Jane to open the bank vault. As she opens it, Johnny discovers a large cache of money which is laundered by a Vietnamese mobster named Victor Phan (George Kee Cheung). Instead of taking the money, they escape empty-handed. Victor orders his men to go after the gang and Jane is revealed to be Victor's mistress who is imprisoned by him. She wants to leave Victor but knows he would never let her go. Johnny and his gang manage to survive an attack on them by Victor's men and join forces with Jane, who offers them Victor's money if they kill him. On the night Victor is meeting with drug dealers at his nightclub, Johnny and his gang burst in, leading to a shootout. They successfully steal his money and escape with Jane, but Victor survives the attack, forcing the group to go on the run with Victor and his men after them.