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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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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) #1242 Remove 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. |
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Albert Nobbs (2011) #234 Remove Directed by Rodrigo García. With Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes. Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living. |
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The Deal (2008) #151 Remove Directed by Steven Schachter. With William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, LL Cool J, Elliott Gould. A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie. |
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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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Arrival (2016) #1336 Remove Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world. |
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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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Margin Call (2011) #92 Remove Directed by J.C. Chandor. With Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany. Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. |
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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 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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Brothers (2009) #291 Remove Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard. A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. |
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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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The Ugly Truth (2009) #307 Remove Directed by Robert Luketic. With Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter. A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result. |
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Goldfinger (1964) #1375 Remove Goldfinger: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve |
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) #245 Remove Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell. With the '70s behind him, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm. |
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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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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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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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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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Goldfinger (1964) #1375 Remove Goldfinger: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve |
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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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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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Devil (2010) #13 Remove 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. |
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009) #159 Remove Directed by Edward James Olmos. With Edward James Olmos, Dean Stockwell, Michael Trucco, Grace Park. When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors. |
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Carols from Kings (2010) #612 Remove A solo chorister singing Once In Royal David's City begins this traditional celebration of Christmas from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. The story of the Nativity is told in the familiar words of the King James Bible together with Christmas poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland, WH Auden and Charles Causley. The famous Chapel choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, sings carols old and new, including such favourites as The Sussex Carol, In Dulci Jubilo, Ding Dong Merrily On High, The First Nowell, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Bethlehem Down and O Come, All Ye Faithful. | |
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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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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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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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Barry Lyndon (1975) #1191 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger. An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. On two disks. |
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A Serious Man (2009) #318 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed. Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking. |
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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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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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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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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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Monkey Business (1931) #1270 Remove Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. |
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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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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) #1227 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. Complete at 125mins inc cast but in LP mode |
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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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The Spirit of '45 (2013) #425 Remove Directed by Ken Loach. With Winston Churchill, Tony Benn, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan. A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. |
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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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Avatar (2009) #299 Remove Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. |
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Death Warrior (2009) #314 Remove Directed by Bill Corcoran. With Hector Echavarria, Tanya Clarke, Nick Mancuso, Keith Jardine. Five of the best mixed martial arts champions from around the world are forced to play a deadly game, a game to the death. |
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Goldfinger (1964) #1375 Remove Goldfinger: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve |
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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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Unthinkable (2010) #297 Remove Directed by Gregor Jordan. With Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen, Stephen Root. A psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S. |
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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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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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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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Drag Me to Hell (2009) #169 Remove Directed by Sam Raimi. With Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver. A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point. |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) #311 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill. A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy. |
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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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Ninja Assassin (2009) #402 Remove Directed by James McTeigue. With Rick Yune, Naomie Harris, Rain, Joon Lee. A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan. |
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Last of the Proms 2007 (2007) #621 Remove BBC | |
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Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #533 Remove Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. |
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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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Alice in Wonderland (2010) #33 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway. Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. |
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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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Catch a Fire (2006) #66 Remove Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu. A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime. |
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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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David Gilmour at the Albert Hall (2006) #621 Remove *2nd of 3 items in 'single file' disk.* | |
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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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The 39 Steps (1959) #1482 Remove The 39 Steps: Directed by Ralph Thomas. With Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones. In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets. |
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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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Runaway (2009) #289 Remove Directed by Cordell Barker. With Richard Condie, Muriel Hogue, Leonard Waldner. A train runs into a cow on the tracks; with the captain nowhere to be found, the fireman is forced to desperately improvise in order to keep the train going. |
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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 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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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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Page Eight (2011) #808 Remove Directed by David Hare. With Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Tom Hughes, Michael Gambon. Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced ... First in the Worricker Trilogy |
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111 Remove Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) #245 Remove Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell. With the '70s behind him, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm. |
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Looper (2012) #452 Remove Directed by Rian Johnson. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano. In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination. |
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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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Charlie St. Cloud (2010) #286 Remove Directed by Burr Steers. With Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew. Charlie's brother, Sam, dies in a car crash that Charlie survives. Charlie is given the gift of seeing his dead brother, but when the girl he falls in love with's life is at risk, he must choose between his girlfriend and his brother. |
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Extract (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. |
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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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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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Aladdin (1992) #1077 Remove Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. |
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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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Man with a Movie Camera (1929) #74 Remove Directed by Dziga Vertov. With Mikhail Kaufman. A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. |
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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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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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Amadeus (1984) #393 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice. The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. Director's cut. |
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The Spirit of '45 (2013) #425 Remove Directed by Ken Loach. With Winston Churchill, Tony Benn, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan. A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. |
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) #296 Remove Directed by Guy Ritchie. With Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong. Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. |
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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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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) #225 Remove Directed by Gabriele Muccino. With Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor. |
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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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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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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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The Scouting Book for Boys (2009) #28 Remove Directed by Tom Harper. With Thomas Turgoose, Holliday Grainger, Ruth Wellman, Ewen MacIntosh. When David discovers that his best friend Emily is being forced to leave their caravan park home, he agrees to help her to run away. But after their plan starts to unravel, secrets come to light that transform his life in ways he never imagined. |
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Goldfinger (1964) #1375 Remove Goldfinger: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve |
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006) #528 Remove Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú. In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. |
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Frankenstein (1931) #1245 Remove Directed by James Whale. With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles. An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. |
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Horizon: To Infinity and Beyond (2010) #677 Remove 1 hour. BBC. By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems. | |
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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010) #809 Remove 60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design. | |
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Amadeus (1984) #393 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice. The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. Director's cut. |
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Alice in Wonderland (2010) #305 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway. Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. On a single disk |
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Halloween II (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Rob Zombie. With Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie. Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister. |
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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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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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The Scouting Book for Boys (2009) #28 Remove Directed by Tom Harper. With Thomas Turgoose, Holliday Grainger, Ruth Wellman, Ewen MacIntosh. When David discovers that his best friend Emily is being forced to leave their caravan park home, he agrees to help her to run away. But after their plan starts to unravel, secrets come to light that transform his life in ways he never imagined. |
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Rendition (2007) #154 Remove Directed by Gavin Hood. With Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin. A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US. |
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) #1356 Remove 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. |
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Of Time and the City (2008) #688 Remove Directed by Terence Davies. With Terence Davies. A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England. |
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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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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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That Day We Sang (2014) #235 Remove Directed by Victoria Wood. With Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton, Christopher Jordan, Conleth Hill. Musical set in 1969, with flashbacks to 1929. A middle-aged couple find love after meeting on a TV programme about a choir they both sang in as children. |
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Monkey Business (1931) #1270 Remove Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. |
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Brave (2012) #449 Remove Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell. With Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters. Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. Disney |
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Paperman (2012) #557 Remove Directed by John Kahrs. With John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jack Goldenberg, Jeff Turley. After meeting the gal of his dreams on a commuter train, an office worker uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention after spying her again in a skyscraper window. 7min |
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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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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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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) #245 Remove Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell. With the '70s behind him, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm. |
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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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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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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 Spirit of '45 (2013) #425 Remove Directed by Ken Loach. With Winston Churchill, Tony Benn, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan. A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. |
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Frankenstein (1931) #1245 Remove Directed by James Whale. With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles. An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. |
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Burke and Hare (2010) #94 Remove Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. |
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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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Elvis (2022) #1468 Remove Elvis: Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson. The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. |
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Kes (1969) #1400 Remove Kes: Directed by Ken Loach. With David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland. A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel. |
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The Light Between Oceans (2016) #1349 Remove Directed by Derek Cianfrance. With Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery. A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat. |
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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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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) #1093 Remove Directed by Karel Reisz. With Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker. A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. |
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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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Wonder Woman (2017) #1079 Remove 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. |
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Frozen Planet 2 (2011) #593 Remove With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. 2x1 hour. The Last Frontier, On Thin Ice. |
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1917 (2019) #1429 Remove 1917: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth. April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap |
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Amadeus (1984) #393 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice. The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. Director's cut. |
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Legion (2010) #30 Remove Directed by Scott Stewart. With Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black. When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope. |
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Now You See Me (2013) #1294 Remove Directed by Louis Leterrier. With Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson. An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #1399 Remove An American Werewolf in London: Directed by John Landis. With Joe Belcher, David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, David Schofield. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists 16:9 Good version. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Paperman (2012) #557 Remove Directed by John Kahrs. With John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jack Goldenberg, Jeff Turley. After meeting the gal of his dreams on a commuter train, an office worker uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention after spying her again in a skyscraper window. 7min |
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Drag Me to Hell (2009) #169 Remove Directed by Sam Raimi. With Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver. A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point. |
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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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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) #43 Remove 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. |
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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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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) #1242 Remove 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. |
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Criminal Justice (2008) #667 Remove 5x1 hour episodes. Series 1 complete. |
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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 Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) #179 Remove Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè. A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. |
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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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Kes (1969) #1400 Remove Kes: Directed by Ken Loach. With David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland. A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel. |
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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 Brass Teapot (2012) #273 Remove Directed by Ramaa Mosley. With Juno Temple, Michael Angarano, Alexis Bledel, Billy Magnussen. When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go. |
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Extract (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. |
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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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Dumbo (2019) #1225 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green. A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer. |
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Eddie the Eagle (2016) #1103 Remove 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. |
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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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Revolution (2009) #465 Remove Directed by Michael Rymer. With Billy Campbell, Peter Fonda, Michael Eklund, Maiara Walsh. A drama set on a distant planet, where two families related by marriage are on opposite sides of a Revolutionary War-like conflict. | |
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Goldfinger (1964) #1375 Remove Goldfinger: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve |
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Brave (2012) #449 Remove Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell. With Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters. Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. Disney |
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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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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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Wrong Side of Town (2010) #315 Remove Directed by David DeFalco. With Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, Lara Grice, Edrick Browne. In order to save his kidnapped daughter, an ex-Marine is forced to take on a gang of killers when an accident leaves the brother of a malicious criminal dead. |
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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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Julia (2008) #166 Remove Directed by Erick Zonca. With Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould. A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait. |
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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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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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Avatar (2009) #302 Remove Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. On a single disk |
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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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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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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) #314 Remove Directed by Chris Weitz. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Christina Jastrzembska. Edward leaves Bella after an attack that nearly claimed her life, and in her depression she falls into yet another paranormal relationship - this time with werewolf Jacob Black. |
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Fame (2009) #215 Remove Directed by Kevin Tancharoen. With Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally, Kay Panabaker. An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts. |
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Henry V (1989) #532 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War in 1415, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France. Shakespeare. |
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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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Monkey Business (1931) #1270 Remove Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. |
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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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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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Of Time and the City (2008) #688 Remove Directed by Terence Davies. With Terence Davies. A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England. |
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The Lion King (2019) #1246 Remove Directed by Jon Favreau. With Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor. After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery. |
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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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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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Monkey Business (1931) #1270 Remove Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. |
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Upside Down (2012) #1051 Remove Directed by Juan Solanas. With Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma. Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love. |
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La Fille du Regiment (2008) #638 Remove Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli. Marie, lost as a baby, was found and raised by the local regiment. Tonio loves her, she loves him, but when her aunt recognizes her, it seems they will never be allowed to be together. Thought to be a better copy than #637 |
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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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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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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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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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Winter's Bone (2010) #286 Remove Directed by Debra Granik. With Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone. An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. |
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The BFG (2016) #1214 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement. An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. |
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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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Verdi: Aida (2009) #604 Remove Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Violeta Urmana, Johan Botha, Dolora Zajick, Carlo Guelfi. Pharoah's daughter loves Radames, leader of the Egyptian army. So does slave-girl, Aida, who happens to be (unknown to anyone) Princess of Ethiopia. Aida must choose either her country or Radames. The outcome leaves both gasping for breath. Opera. The Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
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Elvis (2022) #1468 Remove Elvis: Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson. The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. |
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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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Amadeus (1984) #393 Remove Directed by Milos Forman. With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice. The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. Director's cut. |
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Dumbo (2019) #1225 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green. A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer. |
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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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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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Storks (2016) #1015 Remove Directed by Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland. With Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston. Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby. |
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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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Flame and Citron (2008) #214 Remove 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. |
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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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Russian Ark (2002) #18 Remove Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. With Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky. A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. |
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The Lion King (2019) #1246 Remove Directed by Jon Favreau. With Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor. After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery. |
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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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Barry Lyndon (1975) #1191 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger. An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. On two disks. |
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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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Charlie St. Cloud (2010) #286 Remove Directed by Burr Steers. With Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew. Charlie's brother, Sam, dies in a car crash that Charlie survives. Charlie is given the gift of seeing his dead brother, but when the girl he falls in love with's life is at risk, he must choose between his girlfriend and his brother. |
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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 Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) #179 Remove Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè. A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. |
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Frankenstein (1931) #1245 Remove Directed by James Whale. With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles. An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. |
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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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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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Toy Story 4 (2019) #1251 Remove Directed by Josh Cooley. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale. When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy. |
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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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Castles in the Sky (2014) #846 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp. 90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes. |
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Alice in Wonderland (2010) #305 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway. Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. On a single disk |
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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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Motherhood (2009) #215 Remove Directed by Katherine Dieckmann. With Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, David Schallipp. In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event. |
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88 Minutes (2007) #191 Remove Directed by Jon Avnet. With Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie, Leelee Sobieski. On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live. |
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Bee Movie (2007) #304 Remove Directed by Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith. With Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton. Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them. |
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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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Children of Men (2006) #464 Remove Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. |
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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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Mo (2010) #463 Remove Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #1399 Remove An American Werewolf in London: Directed by John Landis. With Joe Belcher, David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, David Schofield. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists 16:9 Good version. |
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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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Jane Eyre (2011) #492 Remove Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. With Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot. A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret. |
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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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Fame (2009) #215 Remove Directed by Kevin Tancharoen. With Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally, Kay Panabaker. An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts. |
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The Deal (2008) #151 Remove Directed by Steven Schachter. With William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, LL Cool J, Elliott Gould. A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie. |
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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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The Informant! (2009) #310 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll. The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. |
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Goldfinger (1964) #1375 Remove Goldfinger: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve |
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The Secret War on Terror (2011) #808 Remove 2x1 hour episodes. Epides 1 and 2 of 4. | |
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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. |