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Ace in the Hole (1951) #274 Remove Directed by Billy Wilder. With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. |
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Restless (2012) #108 Remove Directed by Edward Hall. With Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon. A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since. |
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) #191 Remove Directed by Kevin Smith. With Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Gerry Bednob. Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought. |
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Up in the Air (2009) #301 Remove Directed by Jason Reitman. With George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman. With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham enjoys his life living out of a suitcase, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a new hire and a potential love interest. On a single disk |
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Last of the Proms 2007 (2007) #621 Remove BBC | |
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The Dam Busters (1955) #319 Remove Directed by Michael Anderson. With Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney. The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective. |
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. |
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HORIZON: Fermat's Last Theorem (1996) #296 Remove 50mins. Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten- year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind - to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries. | |
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) #313 Remove Directed by F. Gary Gray. With Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney. A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal. |
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Anything for Her (2008) #136 Remove Directed by Fred Cavayé. With Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch, Olivier Marchal. With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail. |
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National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017) #1258 Remove Directed by Simon Godwin. With Adam Best, Oliver Chris, Claire Cordier, Imogen Doel. Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. |
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Robson Green and the Pitmen Painters (2011) #776 Remove ITV. The story of the Pitmen Painters, a group of Northumbrian miners who decided to study art appreciation in their spare time and developed into a group of untrained but powerfully expressive artists, has been documented in a book by William Feaver and a play by Lee Hall. Robson Green's particular interest in the story stems from the fact that he's a miner's son, brought up in Dudley, a few miles south of the pitmen's hometown of Ashington. | |
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National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019) #1287 Remove Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Paul Adeyefa, Hammed Animashaun, Charlotte Atkinson, Oliver Chris. Young lovers, a troupe of actors, and fairies have romantic encounters in the forest on summer's night. |
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Last of the Proms 2007 (2007) #621 Remove BBC | |
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Gamer (2009) #147 Remove Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, Amber Valletta. In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he? |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) #239 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas. A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible. |
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Public Enemies (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Michael Mann. With Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke. The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. |
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Little Voice (1998) #193 Remove Directed by Mark Herman. With Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor. A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend. |
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Chocolat (2000) #543 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. |
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Safety Last! (1923) #1443 Remove Safety Last!: Directed by Fred C Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young. A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures No DVD |
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Breathe (2017) #1348 Remove Directed by Andy Serkis. With Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers. The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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Severance (2006) #53 Remove Directed by Christopher Smith. With Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens. During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one. |
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Gran Torino (2008) #165 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her. Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. |
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Panda Makers (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and... |
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Bridge of Spies (2015) #687 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. |
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The Snowman: The Film That Changed Christmas (2022) #1456 Remove C4. 45 mins. Forty years after The Snowman was first broadcast on Channel 4, the story of how Raymond Briggs' classic tale was made and became a festive British institution. |
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Dunkirk (2017) #1100 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. |
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) #477 Remove Directed by John Schlesinger. With Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp. Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men. |
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Fantastic Planet (1973) #289 Remove Directed by René Laloux. With Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart. This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders. |
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Stan and Ollie (2018) #1350 Remove Directed by Jon S. Baird. With Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda. Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song - a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain. |
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Shrink (2009) #35 Remove Directed by Jonas Pate. With Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer, Joe Nunez. Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients. |
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Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) #1132 Remove Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order. |
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Cherry Tree Lane (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin. A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son. |
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The Graduate (1967) #1378 Remove The Graduate: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels. A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter |
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Red Joan (2018) #1359 Remove Directed by Trevor Nunn. With Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes. The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy. |
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Frozen Planet (2011) #774 Remove With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. 2x 1 hour episodes. BBC. |
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Loving (2016) #1096 Remove Directed by Jeff Nichols. With Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford. The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision. |
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Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) #1132 Remove Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order. |
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Sorry We Missed You (2019) #1398 Remove Sorry We Missed You: Directed by Ken Loach. With Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Mcgowan, Katie Proctor. Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation |
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Interstellar (2014) #478 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy. A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) #1261 Remove Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as the creature sets out to discover the world and the meaning of life. |
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Mr. Jones (2019) #1283 Remove Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) #264 Remove Directed by Mira Nair. With Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland. |
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The Third Man (1949) #1424 Remove The Third Man: Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. |
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The Boat that Rocked (2009) #160 Remove Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) #386 Remove Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6. |
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Mr. Turner (2014) #945 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey. An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life. |
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Peterloo (2018) #1371 Remove Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester |
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Emily Young. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Florencia Lozano. After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live. |
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The Train (1964) #4 Remove Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn. With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon. In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. |
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Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) #138 Remove Directed by Chris Nahon. With Ji-hyun Jun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham, JJ Feild. A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise. |
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Public Enemies (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Michael Mann. With Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke. The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. |
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The Two Popes (2019) #1439 Remove The Two Popes: Directed by Fernando Meirelles. With Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín, Luis Gnecco. Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church |
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The Last House on the Left (2009) #173 Remove Directed by Dennis Iliadis. With Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen. After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics. |
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Isle of Dogs (2018) #1166 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban. Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. |
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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) #60 Remove Directed by Carlos Saldanha. With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott. Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths. |
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) #1119 Remove Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. |
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Paranormal Activity (2007) #314 Remove Directed by Oren Peli. With Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong. After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. |
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Republic of Virtue (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Tim Dunn. With Richard Miles, Simon Russell Beale, Vittorio Colombo, Pierfrancesco Vecchio. How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey ... |
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Alexander (2004) #184 Remove Directed by Oliver Stone. With Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie Pitt. Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world. |
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She's Out of My League (2010) #24 Remove Directed by Jim Field Smith. With Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, T.J. Miller, Mike Vogel. An average Joe meets the perfect woman, but his lack of confidence and the influence of his friends and family begin to pick away at the relationship. |
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Young Victoria (2009) #11 Remove Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson. A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. |
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The Last House on the Left (2009) #173 Remove Directed by Dennis Iliadis. With Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen. After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics. |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) #264 Remove Directed by Mira Nair. With Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland. |
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The Snowman (1982) #110 Remove Directed by Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami. With David Bowie, Raymond Briggs. On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Santa Clause. |
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Great British Railway Journeys: York to Frizinghall (2018) #1102 Remove 30 mins. BBC. Series 9. Armed with his Edwardian Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo conducts important research in an historic tea room, built by an Edwardian immigrant to the city of York. Research of a more sombre kind leads Michael to the roots of our modern welfare state in the work of an early 20th-century Quaker investigator, whose family manufactured chocolate. |
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The Dam Busters (1955) #319 Remove Directed by Michael Anderson. With Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney. The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective. |
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Her (2013) #240 Remove Directed by Spike Jonze. With Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara. A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly-purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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The International (2009) #159 Remove Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen. An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring. |
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The Pillars of the Earth (2010) #689 Remove With Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell. Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart. Episodes 1 and 2 of 9 |
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To Olivia (2021) #1351 Remove Directed by John Hay. With Hugh Bonneville, Bobby O'Neill, Eve Prenelle, Michael Jibson. The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl. |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) #209 Remove Directed by David Fincher. With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond. Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. |
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The Tourist (2010) #371 Remove Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. With Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton. Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. |
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Paddington 2 (2017) #1288 Remove Directed by Paul King. With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. |
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) #233 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti. When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones. |
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Saw VI (2009) #22 Remove Directed by Kevin Greutert. With Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell. Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by jigsaw. |
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The Way (2010) #516 Remove Directed by Emilio Estevez. With Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen. A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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Ghost in the Shell (2017) #1189 Remove Directed by Rupert Sanders. With Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche. In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. |
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Jour de fête (1949) #1487 Remove 70mins. A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk. Directed by Jaques Tati |
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Life During Wartime (2009) #295 Remove Directed by Todd Solondz. With Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Michael Kenneth Williams. Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. |
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) #1379 Remove The Wizard of Oz: Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor. With Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr. Dorothy Gale is swept away from her home in Kansas to the magical Land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home and help her friends as well |
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The Surprise (2015) #986 Remove Directed by Mike van Diem. With Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman. After both signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and have to find a way to get out of their binding contracts. aka De surprise |
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Sparkle (2007) #134 Remove Directed by Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter. With Lesley Manville, John Shrapnel, Bob Hoskins, Peter Gordon. Sam is a charming, young chancer who moves to London. His best laid plans for success suffer a real setback when true love turns his world upside down in the most unexpected of circumstances. |
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) #131 Remove Directed by Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier. With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Eunice Cho. When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him. |
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Surveillance (2008) #467 Remove Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Caroline Aaron. Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell. |
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V for Vendetta (2005) #45 Remove Directed by James McTeigue. With Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea. In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman. |
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Dance Flick (2009) #220 Remove Directed by Damien Dante Wayans. With Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Damon Wayans Jr.. Street dancer Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as they enter in the mother of all dance battles. |
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) #191 Remove Directed by Kevin Smith. With Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Gerry Bednob. Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought. |
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Tolkien (2019) #1276 Remove Directed by Dome Karukoski. With Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi. The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. |
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Joshua (2007) #167 Remove Directed by George Ratliff. With Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan, Celia Weston. The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn. aka The Devil's Child |
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Violet & Daisy (2011) #252 Remove Directed by Geoffrey Fletcher. With Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Danny Trejo. Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan. |
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West Side Story (1961) #1299 Remove Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Courtesy of The Daily Mail. |
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Munich (2005) #62 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds. Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) #202 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco. A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. |
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The Kid (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Nick Moran. With Rupert Friend, Natascha McElhone, Ioan Gruffudd, Alfie Allen. About Kevin Lewis who grew up in poverty but survived to make a better life for himself and his family. |
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Vera Drake (2004) #25 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham. Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family. |
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Woman in Gold (2015) #472 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes. Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. |
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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Jobs (2013) #247 Remove Directed by Joshua Michael Stern. With Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas. The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. |
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Big Eyes (2014) #469 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter. A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. |
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Cherry Tree Lane (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin. A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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MacGruber (2010) #31 Remove Directed by Jorma Taccone. With Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe. Former special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his arch-enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C. |
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Taking Woodstock (2009) #227 Remove Directed by Ang Lee. With Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton. A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969. |
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Friends with Money (2006) #53 Remove Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack. After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. |
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Without a Paddle (2004) #189 Remove Directed by Steven Brill. With Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard, Matthew Price. After their friend dies, three men decide to fulfill their childhood dream by going on a camping expedition for the lost D. B. Cooper bounty, with calamitous results. |
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My Old Lady (2014) #981 Remove Directed by Israel Horovitz. With Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Burstin. An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident. |
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The Fourth Kind (2009) #315 Remove Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. With Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim. A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up. |
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A Christmas Carol (2009) #370 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine. An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. |
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Fair Game (2010) #385 Remove Directed by Doug Liman. With Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong. CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration. |
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1,000 Times Good Night (2013) #496 Remove Directed by Erik Poppe. With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Eve Macklin. Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work... |
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Brassed Off (1996) #536 Remove Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band. 4:3 |
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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016) #578 Remove Directed by Jack Macinnes. With Jeremy Paxman, Bernadette Murphy. Jeremy Paxman joins forces with 'art sleuth' Bernadette Murphy to try and solve one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries of the art world - why did Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear in December 1888? 60mins. Jeremy Paxman. BBC. |
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Grace of Monaco (2014) #498 Remove Directed by Olivier Dahan. With Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern, Frank Langella. The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. |
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947) #947 Remove Directed by George Seaton. With Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. |
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Fitzcarraldo (1982) #168 Remove Directed by Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes. The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. |
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My Sister's Keeper (2009) #324 Remove Directed by Nick Cassavetes. With Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Walter Raney. Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive. |
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Topsy-Turvy (1999) #69 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith. After Gilbert and Sullivan's latest play is critically panned, the frustrated team threatens to disband until it is inspired to write the masterpiece "The Mikado". |
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The Eichmann Show (2015) #506 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman. Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer. |
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Bottle Shock (2008) #218 Remove Directed by Randall Miller. With Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Hal B. Klein. The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". |
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Circle of Eight (2009) #298 Remove Directed by Stephen Cragg. With John Bishop, Kirk Bovill, Ryan Doom, Austin Highsmith. Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place. |
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) #1448 Remove FairyTale: A True Story: Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey, Peter O'Toole, Lara Morgan. In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies |
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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) #292 Remove Directed by Mat Whitecross. With Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy. A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s. |
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The Prestige (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine. Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. |
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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Iron Man 2 (2010) #24 Remove Directed by Jon Favreau. With Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father's legacy. |
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The Great Escape (1963) #177 Remove Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. |
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The Firm (2009) #228 Remove Directed by Nick Love. With Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab, Daniel Mays, Doug Allen. Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team. |
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National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra (2018) #1264 Remove Directed by Simon Godwin. With Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Tim McMullan, Tunji Kasim. Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. |
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) #75 Remove Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent. |
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The Hot Potato (2012) #83 Remove Directed by Tim Lewiston. With Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston, David Harewood. London's East End 1969. Based on real events. Two chancers 'find' a lump of Uranium and crisscross Europe to find a buyer. Accompanied by Danny's girl, the lovely Carole. They encounter a diverse cast of bizarre characters, all trying to steal the 'Hot Potato', but a deal agreed inside the Vatican has the co-conspirators confounding each other. The story twists and turns to an exciting and ... |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) #202 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco. A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) #386 Remove Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6. |
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Denial (2016) #1192 Remove Directed by Mick Jackson. With Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott. Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel. |
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Hamlet (2009) #199 Remove Directed by Gregory Doran. With David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie, Oliver Ford Davies. The RSC puts a modern spin on Shakespeare's Hamlet in this filmed-for-television version of their stage production. The Prince of Denmark seeks vengeance after his father is murdered and his mother marries the murderer. |
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The Best of Men (2012) #330 Remove Directed by Tim Whitby. With George MacKay, Bee Bee Sanders, Leigh Quinn, Eddie Marsan. Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and ... |
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The American President (1995) #281 Remove Directed by Rob Reiner. With Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox. Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway. |
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State of Mind (2017) #1352 Remove Directed by Jon Avnet. With Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford, Walton Goggins. Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving. |
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The Joy of Stats (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Dan Hillman. With Hans Rosling, Stephen Emmott, Sep Kamvar, Eileen Magnello. Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge. |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) #239 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas. A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible. |
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Dunkirk (2017) #1100 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. |
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The Simpsons Movie (2007) #50 Remove Directed by David Silverman. With Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith. After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpson family are declared fugitives. |
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) #537 Remove Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent. |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) #511 Remove Directed by Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason. With Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Richard Atwill. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. |
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The Wave (2008) #136 Remove Directed by Dennis Gansel. With Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jürgen Vogel. A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. |
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Letters to Juliet (2010) #15 Remove Directed by Gary Winick. With Amanda Seyfried, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Marcia DeBonis. Sophie dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the "Secretaries of Juliet". |
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Burning Man (2011) #395 Remove Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Matthew Goode, Rachel Griffiths, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis. An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women. |
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The Nativity (2010) #612 Remove With Andrew Buchan, Peter Capaldi, Al Weaver, Jack Shepherd. Explores the troubled times of turn of the millennium Judea, bringing legend to vibrant life, but rooting the action in a world we can all recognise & understand. 4x30min. BBC |
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Bottle Shock (2008) #218 Remove Directed by Randall Miller. With Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Hal B. Klein. The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". |
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The Wicker Man (2006) #40 Remove Directed by Neil LaBute. With Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Beahan. A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community. This is the second film on this disk - you need to fast forward '300' to get to it... |
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The Uninvited (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother. |
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The Eichmann Show (2015) #506 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman. Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer. |
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After Life (1998) #14 Remove Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. With Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô. After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity. |
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Colette (2018) #1358 Remove Directed by Wash Westmoreland. With Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh. Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms. |
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Iron Man Three (2013) #382 Remove Directed by Shane Black. With Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. |
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War and Peace (2016) #1055 Remove With Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson. As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever. BBC. 6 Episodes. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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West Side Story (1961) #1299 Remove Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Courtesy of The Daily Mail. |
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Darkest Hour (2017) #1147 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn. In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire. |
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Me Before You (2016) #1168 Remove Directed by Thea Sharrock. With Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance. A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she's taking care of. |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) #327 Remove Directed by Michael Patrick Jann. With Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney. A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win. |
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Hidden Figures (2016) #1064 Remove Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. |
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Tormented (2009) #176 Remove Directed by Jon Wright. With Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean. A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates. |
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The Lost King (2022) #1484 Remove The Lost King: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod. An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years. |
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The Wicker Man (2006) #40 Remove Directed by Neil LaBute. With Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Beahan. A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community. This is the second film on this disk - you need to fast forward '300' to get to it... |
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One Chance (2013) #253 Remove Directed by David Frankel. With James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney. The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britain's Got Talent (2007). |
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Empire of the Sun (1987) #540 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. Thought to be the best copy. |
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Seeking Justice (2011) #335 Remove Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Harold Perrineau. After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return. aka Justice |
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Lawn Dogs (1997) #10 Remove Directed by John Duigan. With Sam Rockwell, Kathleen Quinlan, Mischa Barton, Christopher McDonald. Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn't quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate's lawns, rather than of the girls her own age. Their friendship grows during her visits to his trailer home, but although it is completely innocent it is obvious that it would be unacceptable ... |
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A Bunch of Amateurs (2008) #158 Remove Directed by Andy Cadiff. With Burt Reynolds, Alexandra Weaver, Elesia Marie, Sarah Goldberg. A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England. |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) #299 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman. An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. |
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The Kite Runner (2007) #81 Remove Directed by Marc Forster. With Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub. After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble. |
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Duck Soup (1933) #224 Remove Directed by Leo McCarey. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx. Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale. |
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The Third Man (1949) #1424 Remove The Third Man: Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. |
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Centurion (2010) #28 Remove Directed by Neil Marshall. With Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski. A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack. |
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Bedtime Stories (2008) #158 Remove Directed by Adam Shankman. With Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce. A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true. |
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Hidden Figures (2016) #1064 Remove Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. |
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Lions for Lambs (2007) #200 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Michael Peña. Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) #264 Remove Directed by Mira Nair. With Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland. |
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) #43 Remove Directed by Ivan Reitman. With Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson. When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell. |
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Man on Wire (2008) #685 Remove Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century." See also: #554 |
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Weirdsville (2007) #310 Remove Directed by Allan Moyle. With Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning, Matt Frewer. A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices. |
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Waterloo (1970) #360 Remove Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. With Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins. Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo. |
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Selma (2014) #471 Remove Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint. A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) #125 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush. Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. |
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Terminator Salvation (2009) #220 Remove Directed by McG. With Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood. In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted? |
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Believe (2013) #261 Remove Directed by David Scheinmann. With Jack Smith, Brian Cox, Natascha McElhone, Anne Reid. A young, gifted football player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates. |
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Waterloo (1970) #360 Remove Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. With Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins. Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo. |
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Loaded (2008) #155 Remove Directed by Alan Pao. With Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley. A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence. |
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Loaded (2008) #155 Remove Directed by Alan Pao. With Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley. A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence. |
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Ant-Man (2015) #454 Remove Directed by Peyton Reed. With Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly. Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. |
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Frozen Planet (2011) #774 Remove With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. 2x 1 hour episodes. BBC. |
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The Tourist (2010) #371 Remove Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. With Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton. Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. |
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The Physician (2013) #950 Remove Directed by Philipp Stölzl. With Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby. In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians. |
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Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) #138 Remove Directed by Chris Nahon. With Ji-hyun Jun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham, JJ Feild. A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise. |
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Just Mercy (2019) #1320 Remove Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. With Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Charlie Pye Jr.. World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner. |
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National Theatre Live: This House (2013) #1273 Remove Directed by Jeremy Herrin. With Reece Dinsdale, Charles Edwards, Phil Daniels, Julian Wadham. This House is a play by James Graham, based on true events that occurred in the 1970s British Parliament. |
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) #223 Remove Directed by Terence Davies. With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams. The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning ... |
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Everlasting Moments (2008) #171 Remove Directed by Jan Troell. With Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall. In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life. |
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Cloud Atlas (2012) #389 Remove Directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski. With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. |
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The Remains of the Day (1993) #1392 Remove The Remains of the Day: Directed by James Ivory. With John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson. A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer |
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Lincoln (2012) #380 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. |
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Taken 2 (2012) #461 Remove Directed by Olivier Megaton. With Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser. In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. |
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To Rome with Love (2012) #424 Remove Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page. The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into. |
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The Remains of the Day (1993) #1392 Remove The Remains of the Day: Directed by James Ivory. With John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson. A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) #202 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco. A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) #209 Remove Directed by David Fincher. With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond. Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. |
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) #223 Remove Directed by Terence Davies. With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams. The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning ... |
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Inescapable (2012) #248 Remove Directed by Ruba Nadda. With Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Tomei, Oded Fehr. Years after he left Damascus under suspicious circumstances, Adib Abdel Kareem must confront what he left behind when his daughter goes missing. |
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Zodiac (2007) #23 Remove Directed by David Fincher. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards. A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. |
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All the King's Men (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. |
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) #326 Remove Directed by Robert B. Weide. With Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Kelan Pannell. A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City. |
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Deliverance (1972) #352 Remove Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. |
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Will (2011) #119 Remove Directed by Ellen Perry. With Damian Lewis, Bob Hoskins, Rebekah Staton, Kieran Wallbanks. An orphan journeys across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul. |
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Big Eyes (2014) #469 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter. A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. |
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Woman in Gold (2015) #472 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes. Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. |
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The Book of Life (2014) #476 Remove Directed by Jorge R. Gutiérrez. With Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman. Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears. |
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The Tempest (2010) #349 Remove Directed by Julie Taymor. With Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand. Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female. |
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The Best of Men (2012) #330 Remove Directed by Tim Whitby. With George MacKay, Bee Bee Sanders, Leigh Quinn, Eddie Marsan. Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and ... |
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Dark Shadows (2012) #80 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter. An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) #511 Remove Directed by Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason. With Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Richard Atwill. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. |
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Coraline (2009) #142 Remove Directed by Henry Selick. With Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders. An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets. |
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021) #1431 Remove The Matrix Resurrections: Directed by Lana Wachowski. With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff. Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more |
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Gandhi (1982) #524 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. |
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The Secret in their Eyes (2009) #20 Remove Directed by Juan José Campanella. With Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo. A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later. |
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Heaven Is for Real (2014) #505 Remove Directed by Randall Wallace. With Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Connor Corum. A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. |
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) #1432 Remove Spider-Man: No Way Home: Directed by Jon Watts. With Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon. With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man |
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Zorba the Greek (1964) #172 Remove Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. With Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova. An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba. |
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Emily Young. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Florencia Lozano. After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live. |
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Dolan's Cadillac (2009) #14 Remove Directed by Jeff Beesley. With Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley, Greg Bryk. A young man attempts to seek to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster. |
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National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019) #1287 Remove Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Paul Adeyefa, Hammed Animashaun, Charlotte Atkinson, Oliver Chris. Young lovers, a troupe of actors, and fairies have romantic encounters in the forest on summer's night. |
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Sunshine on Leith (2013) #267 Remove Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Paul Brannigan, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks. Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives. 'High' |
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Trouble with the Curve (2012) #408 Remove Directed by Robert Lorenz. With Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake. A daughter tries to remedy her dysfunctional relationship with her ailing father, a decorated baseball scout by helping him in a recruiting trip which could be his last. |
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Dance Flick (2009) #220 Remove Directed by Damien Dante Wayans. With Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Damon Wayans Jr.. Street dancer Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as they enter in the mother of all dance battles. |
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Peterloo (2018) #1371 Remove Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester |
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) #224 Remove Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern. The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. |
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Peterloo (2018) #1371 Remove Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester |
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Amour (2012) #483 Remove Directed by Michael Haneke. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud. Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested. |
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Juno (2007) #219 Remove Directed by Jason Reitman. With Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. |
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The Department Store: Milners (2008) #684 Remove Filmmaker Richard Macer visits the independent high street department stores that are fighting back against the big brands. | |
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Brigsby Bear (2017) #1125 Remove Directed by Dave McCary. With Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Jane Adams, Greg Kinnear. After being freed from his life in an underground bunker, a man sets out to make a movie of the only TV show he has ever known. |
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The Tempest (2010) #349 Remove Directed by Julie Taymor. With Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand. Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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Last of the Proms 2007 (2007) #621 Remove BBC | |
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Remember Me (2010) #35 Remove Directed by Allen Coulter. With Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Caitlyn Rund, Moisés Acevedo. A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder. |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) #6 Remove Directed by Anthony Mann. With Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason. The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire. |
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Romeo and Juliet (1966) #620 Remove The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan. |
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) #1456 Remove 32mins. BBC. Follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home. |
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Brief Encounter (1945) #1402 Remove Brief Encounter: Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband |
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The Color Purple (1985) #1315 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. |
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The Snowman (1982) #110 Remove Directed by Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami. With David Bowie, Raymond Briggs. On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Santa Clause. |
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Four Christmases (2008) #310 Remove Directed by Seth Gordon. With Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall. A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas. |
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Gravity (2013) #257 Remove Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen. A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space. |
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Cherry Tree Lane (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin. A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son. |
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Risen (2016) #949 Remove Directed by Kevin Reynolds. With Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis. In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of an executed Jew rumored to have risen from the dead. |
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The Post (2017) #1300 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk. A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. About the 'Pentagon Papers' - prior to the Watergate affair.. |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) #202 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco. A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #78 Remove Directed by John Landis. With David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher, Griffin Dunne. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. |
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The Last House on the Left (2009) #173 Remove Directed by Dennis Iliadis. With Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen. After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics. |
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) #171 Remove Directed by Mark Waters. With Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone, Michael Douglas. While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends. |
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The Railway Man (2013) #611 Remove Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine. A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. |
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The Wave (2008) #136 Remove Directed by Dennis Gansel. With Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jürgen Vogel. A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. |
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016) #1435 Remove Despite the Falling Snow: Directed by Shamim Sarif. With Sam Reid, Rebecca Ferguson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance. In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician - and falls in love with him. |
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Victor Frankenstein (2015) #1122 Remove Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott. Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today. |
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Billy Elliot (2000) #272 Remove Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. |
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The Castle (1997) #278 Remove Directed by Rob Sitch. With Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe. A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion. |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) #158 Remove Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath. With Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith. The animals try to fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African wildlife refuge, where Alex is reunited with his parents. |
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Mamma Mia! (2008) #178 Remove Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA. |
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A Bunch of Amateurs (2008) #158 Remove Directed by Andy Cadiff. With Burt Reynolds, Alexandra Weaver, Elesia Marie, Sarah Goldberg. A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England. |
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The Art of Eric Gill (9999) #323 Remove | |
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Grace of Monaco (2014) #498 Remove Directed by Olivier Dahan. With Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern, Frank Langella. The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s. |
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Man on Wire (2008) #685 Remove Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century." See also: #554 |
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Watchmen (2009) #155 Remove Directed by Zack Snyder. With Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman. In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it. |
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500 Days of Summer (2009) #462 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her. |
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Cemetery Junction (2010) #31 Remove Directed by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant. With Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan. A 1970s-set comedy centered on three young working class friends in a dreary suburb of Reading. |
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Mirrors (2008) #201 Remove Directed by Alexandre Aja. With Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce. An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home. |
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The Great British Year (2013) #572 Remove With Joseph Fiennes. 2x1 hour. Winter, Spring. BBC. |
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A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) #1190 Remove Directed by Nick Park. With Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay, Melissa Collier, Sarah Laborde. Wallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case. |
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Smokin' Aces 2: Assasins Ball (2010) #214 Remove Directed by P.J. Pesce. With Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan, Maury Sterling. Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise. |
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Aladdin (2019) #1237 Remove Directed by Guy Ritchie. With Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari. A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. |
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Dark Shadows (2012) #80 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter. An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. |
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Mass (2021) #1395 Remove Mass: Directed by Fran Kranz. With Breeda Wool, Kagen Albright, Michelle N. Carter, Martha Plimpton. Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways |
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Crank (2006) #464 Remove Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo. Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops. |
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Tube Tales (1999) #323 Remove Directed by Gaby Dellal, Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins. With Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Kelly Macdonald, Denise Van Outen. Nine stories based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers. |
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Miliband of Brothers (2010) #690 Remove Directed by Richard Curson Smith. With Samantha Morton, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Katherine Kanter. Charting the rise of the Miliband brothers, from their left-wing upbringing to their University days, using dramatized scenes and interviews with people who knew them. | |
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Life During Wartime (2009) #295 Remove Directed by Todd Solondz. With Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Michael Kenneth Williams. Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. |
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The Third Man (1949) #1424 Remove The Third Man: Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. |
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Black Swan (2010) #404 Remove Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder. A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity. |
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The Other Man (2008) #137 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai. The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life. |
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An American in Paris (1951) #157 Remove Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary. Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. |
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The Return (2003) #138 Remove Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) #347 Remove Directed by Lynne Ramsay. With Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell. Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined. |
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Breathe (2017) #1348 Remove Directed by Andy Serkis. With Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers. The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis. |
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012) #406 Remove Directed by David O. Russell. With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver. After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. |
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Waterloo (1970) #360 Remove Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. With Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins. Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo. |
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Dunkirk (2017) #1100 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. |
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The Riot Club (2014) #484 Remove Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay. Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening. |
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Downsizing (2017) #1138 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig. A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor. |
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Far Cry (2008) #147 Remove Directed by Uwe Boll. With Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier. An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island. |
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The Fourth Kind (2009) #315 Remove Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. With Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim. A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up. |
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A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) #1095 Remove Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship. |
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The Harmony Game (2011) #1389 Remove The Harmony Game: Directed by Jennifer Lebeau. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Mort Lewis, Roy Halee. 40 years after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon, Garfunkel and the principles involved with it reflect on the making of the album | |
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Friends with Money (2006) #53 Remove Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack. After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. |
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The Bounty Hunter (2010) #285 Remove Directed by Andy Tennant. With Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Gio Perez, Joel Marsh Garland. A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) #463 Remove Directed by Garth Jennings. With Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel. Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." |
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Interstellar (2014) #478 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy. A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. |
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Solaris (2002) #334 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis. A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet. |
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The Night of the Generals (1967) #501 Remove Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence. In 1942, a Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice despite the ongoing atrocities committed during WWII. |
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Monty Python Live (2014) #560 Remove Directed by Eric Idle, Aubrey Powell. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The reunion of the Monty Python team on stage for the first time in over 30 years, and for the last time ever. |
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Darkest Hour (2017) #1147 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn. In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire. |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) #125 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush. Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. |
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The Black Stallion (1979) #1491 Remove 1h 58m After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue. |
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Gladiator (2000) #195 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (2016) #1284 Remove Directed by Simon Godwin. With Paapa Essiedu, Tanya Moodie, Clarence Smith, Ewart James Walters. Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) #47 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) #6 Remove Directed by Anthony Mann. With Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason. The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire. |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #1233 Remove Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. |
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The Lost City (2005) #165 Remove Directed by Andy Garcia. With Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros. In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent night-club owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the night-club owner to flee to New York. |
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Mamma Mia! (2008) #178 Remove Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA. |
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The Great Escape (1963) #177 Remove Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) #125 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush. Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. |
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) #539 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter. Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. |
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The Damned United (2009) #1314 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington. The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United. |
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Secret State (2012) #117 Remove With Gabriel Byrne, Ralph Ineson, Charles Dance, Jamie Sives. Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks. 4x45min episodes C4 |
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My Old Lady (2014) #981 Remove Directed by Israel Horovitz. With Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Burstin. An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident. |
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The Uninvited (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother. |
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The Best of Men (2012) #330 Remove Directed by Tim Whitby. With George MacKay, Bee Bee Sanders, Leigh Quinn, Eddie Marsan. Towards the end of the second world war Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a brisk refugee from Nazi Germany, arrives at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and is appalled to find the partially paralysed spinal patients heavily sedated and left to rot with bed sores. He immediately begins a new regime,disposing of old equipment and sedatives, bringing him into conflict with stern Sister Edwards and ... |
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The Hot Potato (2012) #83 Remove Directed by Tim Lewiston. With Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston, David Harewood. London's East End 1969. Based on real events. Two chancers 'find' a lump of Uranium and crisscross Europe to find a buyer. Accompanied by Danny's girl, the lovely Carole. They encounter a diverse cast of bizarre characters, all trying to steal the 'Hot Potato', but a deal agreed inside the Vatican has the co-conspirators confounding each other. The story twists and turns to an exciting and ... |
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. |
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Brief Encounter (1945) #1298 Remove Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. Courtesy of The Daily Mail |
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Booky's Crush (2009) #324 Remove Directed by Peter Moss. With Rachel Marcus, Megan Follows, Stuart Hughes, Dylan Everett. The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. It's September and the new school year has just started. Willa has thoughts of attending medical school after she graduates, despite the family not having the money to send her. Arthur is showing aptitude in ... |
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Hail, Caesar! (2016) #948 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes. A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line. |
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Two Lovers (2008) #210 Remove Directed by James Gray. With Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce. A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor. |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) #158 Remove Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath. With Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith. The animals try to fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African wildlife refuge, where Alex is reunited with his parents. |
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The 33 (2015) #960 Remove Directed by Patricia Riggen. With Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin. Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days. |
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The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty (2020) #1301 Remove With Kate Fleetwood, Andrew Neil, Alastair Campbell, Nigel Farage. The incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's influence on world events. 3x1 hour BBC |
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The Scandalous Lady W (2015) #475 Remove Directed by Sheree Folkson. With Natalie Dormer, Aneurin Barnard, Shaun Evans, Oliver Chris. An eighteenth century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley. |
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Agora (2009) #30 Remove Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) #327 Remove Directed by Michael Patrick Jann. With Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney. A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win. |
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Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015) #547 Remove Directed by Simon Lloyd. With Michael Cockerell, Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy, Edna Healey. An intimate portrait of Labour politician Denis Healey by political journalist Michael Cockerill. Shown as an obituary and a tribute following his death at the age of 98 on 3 October 2015. | |
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Mystic Pizza (1988) #25 Remove Directed by Donald Petrie. With Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio. Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic. |
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The Way (2010) #516 Remove Directed by Emilio Estevez. With Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen. A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself. |