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Interstellar (2014)
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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.

To Rome with Love (2012)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page. The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.

Barbarella (1968)
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Directed by Roger Vadim. With Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea. In the distant future, a highly sexual woman is assigned with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way, she encounters various unusual people.

Downsizing (2017)
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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.

Rango (2011)
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Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin. Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

The Fourth Kind (2009)
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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.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.

Schindler's List (1993)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.

The Danish Girl (2015)
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Directed by Tom Hooper. With Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Runaway (2009)
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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.

The Danish Girl (2015)
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Directed by Tom Hooper. With Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

To Rome with Love (2012)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page. The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
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Directed by Mike Newell. With Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson. In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.

The Dark Knight (2008)
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Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine. When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the caped crusader must come to terms with one of the greatest psychological tests of his ability to fight injustice.

The Duellists (1977)
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Directed by Ridley Scott. With Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox. A duel between two feuding Napoleonic officers eventually evolves into a decades-long series of duels, after each bout - for various reasons - ends unresolved.

Brothers (2009)
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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.

Captain Phillips (2013)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
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Directed by Marc Webb. With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Irrfan Khan. After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to solve the mystery of his parent's mysterious death.

Albert Nobbs (2011)
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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.

Drag Me to Hell (2009)
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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.

Invictus (2009)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng. Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns. Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Pan Am: Ich Bin Ein Berliner (2011)
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Directed by Alex Graves. With Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse. When the crew gets a flight taking journalists to Berlin to cover an important speech by President Kennedy, Maggie, who campaigned for him, is determined to meet JFK no matter what. Meanwhile, when her contact's safety is compromised, Kate tries to help the young woman escape East Germany; and painful memories of World War II force Colette to face her tragic past.

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The Tempest (2010)
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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.

The Proposal (2009)
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Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson. A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.

Billy Elliot (2000)
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Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
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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.

Robots (2005)
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Directed by Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha. With Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams. In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspiration's company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management.

The BFG (2016)
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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.

Rendition (2007)
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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.

The Scouting Book for Boys (2009)
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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.

The Lion King (2019)
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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.

Grace of Monaco (2014)
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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.

The Railway Man (2013)
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Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine. A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.

Meet Joe Black (1998)
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Directed by Martin Brest. With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber. Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth and in the process he falls in love with his guide's daughter.

The Tourist (2010)
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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.

Downsizing (2017)
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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.

Jack Reacher (2012)
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Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

Nebraska (2013)
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Directed by Alexander Payne. With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012)
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With Matthew Rhys, Freddie Fox, Tamzin Merchant, Rory Kinnear. An exploration of Charles Dickens' unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined.

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Valkyrie (2008)
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Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.

Dunkirk (2017)
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Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
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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.

Invictus (2009)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng. Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

The Tempest (2010)
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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.

Definitely, Maybe (2008)
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Directed by Adam Brooks. With Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin, An Nguyen. A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.

Amélie (2001)
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Amélie: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta. Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love

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 Other Man (2008)
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Directed by Richard Eyre. With Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai. The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.

88 Minutes (2007)
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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.

Hard Candy (2005)
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Directed by David Slade. With Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae. A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a sex offender with pedophilia.

Shine (1996)
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Directed by Scott Hicks. With Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd. Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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Directed by Frank Darabont. With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler. Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

Grace of Monaco (2014)
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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.

The Walk (2015)
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Philippe Petit, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon, Émilie Leclerc. In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

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Hugo (2011)
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Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley. Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Motherhood (2009)
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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.

A Christmas Carol (2009)
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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.

Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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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.

Flight (2012)
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman. An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.

Munich (2005)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds. Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

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.

Jane Eyre (2011)
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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.

Jack Reacher (2012)
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Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

Deliverance (1972)
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Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Captain Phillips (2013)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Avatar (2009)
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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.

Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
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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.

Paddington 2 (2017)
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Directed by Paul King. With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

The Monuments Men (2014)
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Directed by George Clooney. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.

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.

Public Enemies (2009)
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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.

The Island (2005)
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Directed by Michael Bay. With Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi. Lincoln Six Echo is just like everyone else - he's waiting to go to the Island, the only place left in the world to actually live a life. Thousands of people stay at a facility waiting to go to the Island. It all sounds like paradise, but Lincoln Six Echo soon discovers that there's actually a sinister purpose going on at that facility and that he must escape - but not before stopping the ...

Shrink (2009)
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Directed by Jonas Pate. With Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer, Joe Nunez. Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas. A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother

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.

Public Enemies (2009)
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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.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.

The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
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With Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell. Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.

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Pan (2015)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.

The Dresser (2015)
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Directed by Richard Eyre. With Emily Watson, Ian McKellen, Sarah Lancashire, Anthony Hopkins. A drama, based on a successful play, about an ageing actor and his personal assistant.

Paperman (2012)
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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.

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The Fourth Protocol (1987)
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Directed by John Mackenzie. With Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy. John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.

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The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
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Directed by Bryan Buckley. With Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi. In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
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Directed by F. Gary Gray. With Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney. A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
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Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas. A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

Alice in Wonderland (2010)
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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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500 Days of Summer (2009)
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Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.

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.

Pan (2015)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.

The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
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Directed by Harald Zwart. With Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia. Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts.

Paddington 2 (2017)
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Directed by Paul King. With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
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Directed by Robert B. Weide. With Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Kelan Pannell. A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.

Catch a Fire (2006)
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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.

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.

Solace (2015)
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Directed by Afonso Poyart. With Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell. A psychic works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer.

The Kid (2010)
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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.

Love Happens (2009)
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Directed by Brandon Camp. With Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch. A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.

Brothers (2009)
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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.

Denial (2016)
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Directed by Mick Jackson. With Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott. Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

500 Days of Summer (2009)
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Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.

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.

Margin Call (2011)
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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.

I, Daniel Blake (2016)
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Directed by Ken Loach. With Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann. After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

Violet & Daisy (2011)
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Directed by Geoffrey Fletcher. With Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Danny Trejo. Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.

The Light Between Oceans (2016)
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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.

Extract (2009)
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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.

The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
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With Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell. Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.

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The Lion King (2019)
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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.

Mo (2010)
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Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam.

Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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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.

Captain Phillips (2013)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
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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.

Victoria & Abdul (2017)
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard. Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.

Page Eight (2011)
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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 ...

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All the King's Men (2006)
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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.

Suffragette (2015)
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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.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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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.

Downsizing (2017)
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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.

Public Enemies (2009)
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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.

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.

Blue Jasmine (2013)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins. A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...

The Da Vinci Code (2006)
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Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen. A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

The Informant! (2009)
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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.

The Number 23 (2007)
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Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston. Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him. As his obsession increases, more and more similarities seem to arise.

Love Happens (2009)
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Directed by Brandon Camp. With Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch. A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.