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Bichunmoo (Korean) (IIB): Bichunmoo sword-fighter Jinha (Shin Hyun-joon) falls in love with Sullie (Kim Hee-seon), the daughter of a Mongolian general responsible for his parents' deaths..5

Billy Elliot (IIA): Classic rites-of-passage film with zing. Set in a northern English mining town during the great strike of the 1980s, Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a motherless 13-year-old who wants to take ballet classes with teacher Julie Walters instead of the boxing classes tough dad (Gary Lewis) has paid for.

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Bless the Child (IIB): The end of the world is nigh as Kim Basinger battles the forces of evil.

Cast Away (IIA): Tom Hanks is powerful in the title role, playing a Federal Express worker whose plane crashes and who ends up as a castaway with only a volleyball for company.

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Chocolat (IIA): Single mother Juliette Binoche breezes into a small French town in the late-50s to set up a chocolate shop. An art house movie for those who don't actually like art house.

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