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As teenage crime spirals out of control, the Japanese government adopt a hardline approach, sending classes of youngsters to an isolated island where they will be forced to kill or be killed in ever more horrifying ways. Thriller, starring Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda and Taro Yamamoto. In Japanese

A police forensic psychologist searches for the daughter of a senator, who has been kidnapped from her expensive private school by a media-obsessed teacher, sparking a desperate race to hunt down her psychotic and devilishly intelligent captor before it is too late. Thriller prequel to Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker and Penelope Ann Miller

A psychiatrist's career is thrown into disarray when one of his clients commits suicide. He then finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter. Thriller, starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan and Sam Claflin

A Soviet submarine commander creates an international crisis by piloting his experimental nuclear vessel, which is invisible to sonar, toward the American coast. The US and Russian navies think he is planning to attack and set out to destroy the submarine, but a CIA analyst suspects he intends to defect to the West. Cold War thriller, based on Tom Clancy's novel, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and James Earl Jones

Mafia don Michael Corleone sets out to clinch a make-or-break deal with an ageing gangster - but his plans are blown apart by a traitor within the family. Michael's story is intercut with flashback sequences chronicling the early life of his father Vito as he makes the shift from immigrant grocery-store clerk to Mob kingpin. Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning crime drama sequel, with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, John Cazale and Lee Strasberg

Two parents are thrust into a desperate race against time after a late-night call from their daughter reveals she caused a devastating car accident. Director Babak Anvari's psychological thriller, starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys

Truck driver Johnny is inspired to establish the Vandals motorcycle club in 1960s Chicago. He assembles a motley crew, including Brucie, Benny, Cal and Zipco. Exuberant outsider Kathy falls under Benny's spell, and they marry, but when the groom is the victim of a violent assault, Johnny exacts revenge, while Kathy fights for her husband's tormented soul. Drama, starring Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer and Austin Butler

Four teenagers are sentenced to reform school after a prank results in the accidental death of an old man, and suffer sexual abuse at the hands of the guards. Years later, when the boys have grown up and begun to follow very different professions, a chance encounter with one of their abusers inspires them to plot revenge. Drama, starring Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Bacon, Jason Patric and Minnie Driver

A London cocaine dealer is all set to leave the criminal world behind and start a new life abroad. However, his plans are thwarted when he is asked to track down a gangster's drug-addicted daughter and locate a stolen shipment of Ecstasy. Crime thriller, starring Daniel Craig, Michael Gambon, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham and Sienna Miller