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Macbeth (2010)
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Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
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Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo, Robert Agengo. Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Frozen Planet (2011)
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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.

The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)
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1 hour. BBC. Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
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Directed by Werner Herzog. With Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge. Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note.

La Luna (2011)
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Directed by Enrico Casarosa. With Krista Sheffler, Tony Fucile, Phil Sheridan. A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his ...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
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Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo, Robert Agengo. Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Up in the Air (2009)
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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.

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Being There (1979)
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Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.

Smokin' Aces 2: Assasins Ball (2010)
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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.

The Pacific (2010)
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With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli. The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

Episode 3

The Shining (1980)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

MacGruber (2010)
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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.

The Windermere Children (2020)
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Directed by Michael Samuels. With Iain Glen, Romola Garai, Thomas Kretschmann, Tim McInnerny. This is the stark, moving ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.

Twelfth Night (2013)
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Directed by Tim Carroll, Tim Carroll. With Samuel Barnett, Liam Brennan, Paul Chahidi, John Paul Connolly, Stephen Fry.

Shakespeare. Globe Theatre Production.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
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Directed by David Slade. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Xavier Samuel. As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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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

Monty Python Live (2014)
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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.

Frankenweenie (2012)
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Directed by Tim Burton. With Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau. Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.

Peterloo (2018)
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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

The Road to Coronation Street (2010)
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Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Ann Aris, Lynda Baron, Steven Berkoff, David Dawson. The story of how the 22-year-old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street (1960).

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
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Directed by Oliver Stone. With Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin. Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.

Logan (2017)
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Directed by James Mangold. With Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook. In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X, somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world, and his legacy, are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

The Last Station (2009)
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Directed by Michael Hoffman. With Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti. A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
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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.

In the Loop (2009)
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Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Harry Hadden-Paton. A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.

Born Free (1966)
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Born Free: Directed by James Hill, Tom McGowan. With Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Lukoye. The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt

Cars (2006)
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Directed by John Lasseter, Joe Ranft. With Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Larry the Cable Guy. A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.

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Macbeth (2001)
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Directed by Gregory Doran. With Richard Armitage, Diane Beck, Ken Bones, Glenn Chapman. A television adaptation of the classical Shakespeare play.

Romeo and Juliet (1966)
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The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.

Devil (2010)
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Directed by John Erick Dowdle. With Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green. A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.

Green Zone (2010)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Igal Naor. Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

Hamlet 2 (2008)
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Directed by Andrew Fleming. With Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Watchmen (2009)
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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.

The Beauty of Diagrams (2010)
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60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design.

The Damned United (2009)
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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.

Hamlet (2009)
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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.

Struck by Lightning (2012)
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Directed by Brian Dannelly. With Chris Colfer, Rebel Wilson, Christina Hendricks, Dermot Mulroney. A high schooler recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin. A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Weathering with You (2019)
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1h 52m Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

The One Show (2022)
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30mins. BBC. 31st May 2022 in which Bradford is announced as City of Culture 2025.

The Harmony Game (2011)
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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

Flushed Away (2006)
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Flushed Away: Directed by David Bowers, Sam Fell. With Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno. The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.

Mark Lawson talks to Tracey Emin (2011)
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1 hour. BBC. Mark Lawson talks to the enfant terrible of the British art world, Tracey Emin, famed for her unmade bed and the tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with. The 1990s wild child talks in detail about her unconventional childhood and the traumatic adolescent experiences which inspired much of her controversial work.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint. In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.

Parkland (2013)
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Directed by Peter Landesman. With Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti. A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

The Hill (1965)
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Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch. In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

The Great Escape (1963)
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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.

Land of Mine (2015)
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Directed by Martin Zandvliet. With Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.

Will (2011)
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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.

Cathy Come Home (1966)
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Cathy Come Home: Directed by Ken Loach. With Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis, Wally Patch. A wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
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Directed by Dave Filoni. With Matt Lanter, Nika Futterman, Tom Kane, Ashley Eckstein. After the Republic's victory on Christophsis, Anakin and his new apprentice Ahsoka Tano must rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. Political intrigue complicates their mission.

Eddie the Eagle (2016)
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Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello, Jo Hartley. The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

The Pacific (2010)
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With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli. The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

TV miniseries - episodes 1 & 2

La Luna (2011)
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Directed by Enrico Casarosa. With Krista Sheffler, Tony Fucile, Phil Sheridan. A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his ...

The Book of Eli (2010)
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Directed by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes. With Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Gary Oldman. A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Two Lovers (2008)
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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.

An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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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.

Balloon (2019)
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Directed by Pema Tseden. With Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso. A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.

Flame and Citron (2008)
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Directed by Ole Christian Madsen. With Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind. A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

Bambi (1942)
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Directed by James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand. With Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn. The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
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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.

Panda Makers (2010)
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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...

The Surprise (2015)
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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.

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
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Directed by Ken Loach. With Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald. Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.

Shakespeare in Italy (2012)
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Shakespeare in Italy: With Francesco da Mosto, Samuel Barnett, Alberto Toso Fei, Susannah Fielding. Francesco da Mosto takes to the Italian road again in search of Shakespeare in Italy

2x1hour episodes. BBC.

Lady and the Tramp (1955)
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Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

76 mins. Disney

Crank (2006)
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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.

The Pacific (2010)
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With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli. The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

TV miniseries - episodes 1 & 2

The Coming War on China (2016)
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Directed by John Pilger. With Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher. The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.

The Great British Year (2013)
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With Joseph Fiennes.

2x1 hour. Winter, Spring. BBC.

Romeo and Juliet (1966)
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The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.

6 Souls (2010)
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Directed by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein. With Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy. A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

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Black Swan (2010)
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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.

Night Mail (1936)
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Night Mail: Directed by Harry Watt, Basil Wright. With Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Robert Rae. Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight

6 Souls (2010)
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Directed by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein. With Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy. A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

aka Shelter

Up in the Air (2009)
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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.

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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010)
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60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design.

The International (2009)
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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.

The Children Act (2017)
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Directed by Richard Eyre. With Stanley Tucci, Emma Thompson, Jason Watkins, Ben Chaplin. As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
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Directed by Peter Jackson. A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

Employing state-of-the-art technology to transform audio and moving image archive footage more than a century old, Peter Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell the story of World War I: the men who were there.

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
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Directed by Takashi Miike. With Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Quentin Tarantino, Masanobu Andô. A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth.

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
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Directed by Ti West. With Rider Strong, Noah Segan, Alexi Wasser, Rusty Kelley. A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.

Ancient Worlds: The Republic of Virtue (2011)
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How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? In the fifth programme of the series, 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 the Great and Julius Caesar.

Balloon (2019)
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Directed by Pema Tseden. With Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso. A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.

It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
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Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. With Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Dana DeVestern. A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

The Dam Busters (1955)
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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.

Macbeth (2010)
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Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production.

Republic of Virtue (2010)
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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 ...

Sixty Six (2006)
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Directed by Paul Weiland. With Charlie Clark, Nick Shirm, Thomas Drewson, Gregg Sulkin. A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.

Inside Out (2015)
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Directed by Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen. With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling. After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

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Tracker (2010)
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Directed by Ian Sharp. With Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Gareth Reeves, Mark Mitchinson. An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he's innocent of the crime. When faced with the life changing decision to turn him in or set him free only one man will walk away alive.

Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
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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.

Solomon Kane (2009)
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Directed by Michael J. Bassett. With James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite. A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.

Ultraviolet (2006)
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Directed by Kurt Wimmer. With Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu. A beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hemophages.

The Sessions (2012)
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Directed by Ben Lewin. With John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood. A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.

The International (2009)
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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.

Breaking the Waves (1996)
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Directed by Lars von Trier. With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr. Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
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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.

The Oxford Murders (2008)
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Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Wonder Woman (2017)
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Directed by Patty Jenkins. With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

The Pacific (2010)
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With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli. The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

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Enid (2009)
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Directed by James Hawes. With Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook. Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, ...

Ant-Man (2015)
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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.

The Ides of March (2011)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling. An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

The Merchant of Venice (2004)
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Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.

Shakespeare.

The Duchess (2008)
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Directed by Saul Dibb. With Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling. A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Year One (2009)
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Directed by Harold Ramis. With Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, Oliver Platt. After being banished from their tribe, two hunter-gatherers encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom.

Frozen II (2019)
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Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. With Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff. Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.

La linea (2009)
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Directed by James Cotten. With Ray Liotta, Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Armand Assante. The unstable new kingpin of a Tijuana drug cartel is targeted by an assassin for elimination.

aka The Line

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
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Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Keaton. Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Shakespeare.

Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
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Directed by Jon Watts. With Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.

Parkland (2013)
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Directed by Peter Landesman. With Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti. A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

The Harmony Game (2011)
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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

Furry Vengeance (2010)
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Directed by Roger Kumble. With Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ricky Garcia, Eugene Cordero. In the Oregon wilderness, a real-estate developer's new housing subdivision faces a unique group of protestors: local woodland creatures who don't want their homes disturbed.

Miliband of Brothers (2010)
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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.

Boychoir (2014)
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Directed by François Girard. With Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Eddie Izzard, Kevin McHale. Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.

aka The Choir

The Lone Ranger (2013)
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Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson. Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

Dune (2021)
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Dune: Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa. A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future

Echelon Conspiracy (2009)
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Directed by Greg Marcks. With Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce. At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world.

aka The Gift

The Great Gatsby (2013)
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Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire. A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.