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Gabriele Amorath (Russell Crowe) investigates the possession of a young child and a conspiracy the Vatican tried to bury. 

Based on memoirs 'An Exorcist Tells His Story' and 'An Exorcist: More Stories', by Gabriele Amorath. 

The modern world reacts to the appearance in the Middle East of a man claiming to be the Messiah.

Film based on Ashley Rhodes-Courter's memoir of years in the American foster-care system.

Senior clinical psychologist, Peter Bower’s life is in turmoil when he discovers that all his patients are actually ghosts. Upon further investigation he discovers they all died on the same day. In a spine tingling, supernatural thriller, in the vein of The Sixth Sense and What Lies Beneath, Peter travels back to his past to confront a secret he has kept for 20 years.'

(Source: Screen Australia)

An adaptation of Marcus Zusak's novel.

At the end of his seminary training, a young priest, disillusioned with the church, travels to Rome to undertake a course in exorcism.

The film is based on The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio (which itself is said to be based on real events).

In this adaptation of the fifth novel in the Narnia series (the third instalment of the Chronicles of Narnia film series), Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are whisked back to Narnia in the company of their cousin Eustace Stubbs. Here, they find themselves taking part in King Caspian's attempt to keep the vow that he made at his coronation, to find his father's seven friends (banished when his wicked uncle usurped the throne) and to make Narnia a great sea power once again.

Jess's husband Ryan and brother-in-law Roman are injured in a car accident that leaves both men in comas. But when Roman wakes up claiming to be Ryan, Jess must work out whether her husband's spirit really has returned to her in his brother's body--or whether something more sinister is going on.

The film is an American re-make of the Korean film Addicted, by Won-mi Byun.

'Bob's got a problem. He spent most of his childhood indoors. His Aunt Eileen didn't see the sense in him hangin' around with other kids, bringin' home their germs and filthy ideas. Boy's Own Story is an 8 minute odyssey of a man's life from its troubled beginning to its disturbing end.'

Source: IMDB. (Sighted: 26/9/2012)

An Australian-American co-production and loose adaptation of the third novel in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series, Queen of the Damned follow the vampire Lestat as he awakens (both literally and metaphorically) to Nu Metal, and refashions himself as a rock star. Warned by his compatriots that the vampire world will not endure his level of fame and exposure, Lestat finda a powerful ally in Akasha, the first vampire, who has been awoken herself by Lestat's music.

As a young boy returning home from boarding school, Sam Franks is drawn to local girl Silvy, who wears leg braces to counteract a weakness that prevents her from walking. Silvy shares her love of poetry with Sam, and they draw slowly closer, ending with a night at the lake, where Sam removes Silvy's leg braces so that the two can dance in the water. But when Sam releases Silvy's hand to point out a shooting star, she slips under the water. Her body is not found for years.

Twenty years later, Sam returns home once more for his father's funeral. On the train, he meets a woman, Ruby, whom he later pulls from the river when she falls from a bridge. The more time he spends with Ruby, the more convinced Sam becomes that she is Silvy returned to him.

'Till human voices wake us, and we drown' is the final line of 'The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock' by T. S. Eliot. Other lines appear throughout the film (most notably, the opening line: 'Let us go then, you and I.)'

'Drama set in a Catholic boarding school in the 1970s, where two friends, Tim and Francis, are drawing their own fantasy comic book. To complicate matters, Francis has fallen for fellow student Margie.'

Source: BFI. (Sighted: 17/2/2014)