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In Darkness (2011)
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Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader. A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov.

The Deal (2008)
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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.

1,000 Times Good Night (2013)
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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...

Ashes in the Snow (2018)
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Directed by Marius A. Markevicius. With Bel Powley, Sophie Cookson, Jonah Hauer-King, James Cosmo. In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.

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.

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

Circle of Eight (2009)
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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.

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.

The Third Man (1949)
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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.

Smokin' Aces 2: Assasins Ball (2010)
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Directed by P.J. Pesce. With Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan, Maury Sterling. Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.

Whip It (2009)
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Directed by Drew Barrymore. With Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Habel. In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.

Brave (2012)
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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.

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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.

Unrivaled (2010)
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Directed by Warren P. Sonoda. With Hector Echavarria, Steven Yaffee, Nicholas Campbell, Jordan Madley. The best fighter in the world works two jobs. The only problem... he doesn't know he's the best. Ringo Duran, the son of Gracie Duran, a famous Argentinian kick boxer, works two jobs to make ends meet. His passion, full contact fighting. His goal, fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a professional fighter. Ringo has put off attempts at a professional career for so long he has nearly succumbed to...

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
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The Matrix Resurrections: Directed by Lana Wachowski. With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff. Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more

Mr Bates v The Post Office (2024)
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Mr Bates vs. The Post Office: With Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Will Mellor. One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

The Wave (2008)
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Directed by Dennis Gansel. With Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Jürgen Vogel. A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

Revolution (2009)
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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.

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.

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.

The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019)
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With Sophie Cookson, James Norton, Ellie Bamber, Emilia Fox. Story of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s.

6x1 hour episodes. BBC.

Just Mercy (2019)
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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.

Legion (2010)
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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.

Smokin' Aces 2: Assasins Ball (2010)
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Directed by P.J. Pesce. With Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan, Maury Sterling. Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
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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 ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
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Directed by Garth Jennings. With Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel. Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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.

The Ipcress File (1965)
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Directed by Sidney J. Furie. With Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd. In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.

Courtesy of The Daily Mail

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.

Astro Boy (2009)
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Directed by David Bowers. With Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron. When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time.

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
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Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson. The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Brüno (2009)
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Directed by Larry Charles. With Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu. Flamboyant and gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.

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.

The Third Man (1949)
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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.

HORIZON: Fermat's Last Theorem (1996)
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50mins. Andrew Wiles stumbled across the world's greatest mathematical puzzle, Fermat's Theorem, as a ten- year-old schoolboy, beginning a 30-year quest with just one goal in mind - to solve the problem that has baffled minds for three centuries.

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.

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.

Hamlet (1996)
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4h 2m Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

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

aka The Choir

Winter's Bone (2010)
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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.

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

Kes (1969)
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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.

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
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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.

The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016)
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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.

Zodiac (2007)
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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.

Oliver Twist (1948)
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Oliver Twist: Directed by David Lean. With Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan. In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
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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.

Missing final section of the cast but at just under two hours makes standard definition.

West Side Story (1961)
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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.

The Spirit of '45 (2013)
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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.

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

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.

Frozen River (2008)
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Directed by Courtney Hunt. With Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe. Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border ...

Castles in the Sky (2014)
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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.

Elvis (2022)
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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.

Carols from Kings (2010)
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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.

Aladdin (1992)
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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.

HORIZON: Fermat's Last Theorem (1996)
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The Dam Busters (1955)
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Directed by Michael Anderson. With Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney. The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.

Kes (1969)
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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.

Rev (2010)
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Created by James Wood, Tom Hollander. With Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman, Steve Evets, Miles Jupp. The misadventures of an Anglican vicar, his wife, and a small but odd group of parishioners in London.

Episodes 1,2,3

Amadeus (1984)
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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.

Carols from Kings (2010)
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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.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
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Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell, James Caan. A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know, that things are about to take a turn for the worst.

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
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Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order.

Papillon (2017)
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Directed by Michael Noer. With Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank, Jason Ryan. Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (2016)
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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.

The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty (2020)
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With Kate Fleetwood, Andrew Neil, Alastair Campbell, Nigel Farage. The incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's influence on world events.

3x1 hour BBC

The Spirit of '45 (2013)
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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.

Man on Wire (2008)
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Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

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Rev (2010)
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Created by James Wood, Tom Hollander. With Tom Hollander, Olivia Colman, Steve Evets, Miles Jupp. The misadventures of an Anglican vicar, his wife, and a small but odd group of parishioners in London.

Episodes 1,2,3

Unrivaled (2010)
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Directed by Warren P. Sonoda. With Hector Echavarria, Steven Yaffee, Nicholas Campbell, Jordan Madley. The best fighter in the world works two jobs. The only problem... he doesn't know he's the best. Ringo Duran, the son of Gracie Duran, a famous Argentinian kick boxer, works two jobs to make ends meet. His passion, full contact fighting. His goal, fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a professional fighter. Ringo has put off attempts at a professional career for so long he has nearly succumbed to...

Mr Bates v The Post Office (2024)
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Mr Bates vs. The Post Office: With Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Will Mellor. One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

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.

Upside Down (2012)
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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.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Directed by David Lean. With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins. The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

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.

War and Peace (2016)
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With Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson. As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.

BBC. 6 Episodes.

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
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Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.

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.

Republic of Virtue (2010)
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Directed by Tim Dunn. With Richard Miles, Simon Russell Beale, Vittorio Colombo, Pierfrancesco Vecchio. How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey ...

Sorry We Missed You (2019)
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Sorry We Missed You: Directed by Ken Loach. With Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Mcgowan, Katie Proctor. Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation

Carriers (2009)
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Directed by David Pastor, Àlex Pastor. With Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp. Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.

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.

The Nativity (2010)
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With Andrew Buchan, Peter Capaldi, Al Weaver, Jack Shepherd. Explores the troubled times of turn of the millennium Judea, bringing legend to vibrant life, but rooting the action in a world we can all recognise & understand.

4x30min. BBC

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.

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.

7min

Miss March (2009)
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Directed by Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore. With Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, Raquel Alessi, Molly Stanton. A young man awakens from a four-year coma to hear that his once virginal high-school sweetheart has since become a centerfold in one of the world's most famous men's magazines. He and his sex-crazed best friend decide to take a cross-country road trip in order to crash a party at the magazine's legendary mansion headquarters and win back the girl.

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

aka The Choir

Chalet Girl (2011)
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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.

The Silent Child (2017)
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Directed by Chris Overton. With Rachel Fielding, Philip York, Rachel Shenton, Maisie Sly. A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

Short film - 20 mins.

The Nativity (2010)
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With Andrew Buchan, Peter Capaldi, Al Weaver, Jack Shepherd. Explores the troubled times of turn of the millennium Judea, bringing legend to vibrant life, but rooting the action in a world we can all recognise & understand.

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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.

On a single disk

In Darkness (2011)
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Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader. A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov.

Splinter (2008)
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Directed by Toby Wilkins. With Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Charles Baker. Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

The Lost City (2005)
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Directed by Andy Garcia. With Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros. In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent night-club owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the night-club owner to flee to New York.

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.

Episodes 1 and 2

The Best of Men (2012)
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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 ...

Toy Story 4 (2019)
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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.

The Department Store: Milners (2008)
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Filmmaker Richard Macer visits the independent high street department stores that are fighting back against the big brands.

Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
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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.

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.

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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Gandhi (1982)
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Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.

Remember Me (2010)
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Directed by Allen Coulter. With Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Caitlyn Rund, Moisés Acevedo. A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder.

Despicable Me (2010)
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Directed by Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud. With Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews. When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.

Frankenstein (1931)
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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.