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A Night at the Opera (1935) #525 Remove Directed by Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. |
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Mary Poppins (1964) #438 Remove Directed by Robert Stevenson. With Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns. A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. Disney |
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Apocalypse Now (1979) #1304 Remove Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. The Final Cut - released in 2019. |
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The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012) #110 Remove Directed by Hilary Audus. A young boy whose dog has just died moves into the house in whose backyard the snowman was built. Finding a photograph of the snowman the boy rebuilds him,fashioning a snow dog out of the excess snow. The trio fly off in a plane to meet Santa,who gives the boy a magical dog collar which will make it the happiest Christmas ever for him. |
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We'll Take Manhattan (2012) #338 Remove Directed by John McKay. With Sascha Bailey, Frances Barber, Aneurin Barnard, Fiona Button. A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. |
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Whisky Galore (2016) #1086 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With James Cosmo, Sean Biggerstaff, Eddie Izzard, Naomi Battrick. Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship. |
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Step Up 3D (2010) #20 Remove Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Sharni Vinson, Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Alyson Stoner. A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown. |
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The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012) #110 Remove Directed by Hilary Audus. A young boy whose dog has just died moves into the house in whose backyard the snowman was built. Finding a photograph of the snowman the boy rebuilds him,fashioning a snow dog out of the excess snow. The trio fly off in a plane to meet Santa,who gives the boy a magical dog collar which will make it the happiest Christmas ever for him. |
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Humans S1 (2015) #984 Remove With Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Carless, Gemma Chan, Tom Goodman-Hill. In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live. 8x50min episodes. C4. |
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Perfect Sense (2011) #118 Remove Directed by David Mackenzie. With Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen. A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. |
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Election (1999) #145 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell. A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president. 16:9 |
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Antichrist (2009) #217 Remove Directed by Lars von Trier. With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm. A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. |
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Guys and Dolls (1955) #388 Remove Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine. In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. |
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Citizen Kane (1941) #29 Remove Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead. Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. |
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The Mission (1986) #12 Remove Directed by Roland Joffé. With Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn. 18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. Jeremy Irons in a tour de force. |
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Isle of Dogs (2018) #1166 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban. Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. |
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Duplicity (2009) #207 Remove Directed by Tony Gilroy. With Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti. Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one. |
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Weirdsville (2007) #310 Remove Directed by Allan Moyle. With Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning, Matt Frewer. A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices. |
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Mo (2010) #677 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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Singin' in the Rain (1952) #1010 Remove Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen. A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. |
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Max Payne (2008) #166 Remove Directed by John Moore. With Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris. Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation. |
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A Real Summer (2007) #38 Remove Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Ruth Wilson, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More. It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling. | |
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Balloon (2019) #1333 Remove Directed by Pema Tseden. With Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso. A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will. |
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Irresistible (2006) #148 Remove Directed by Ann Turner. With Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family. |
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Jonathan Creek (2010) #162 Remove With Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha. Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders. Easter Special |
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Whisky Galore (2016) #1086 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With James Cosmo, Sean Biggerstaff, Eddie Izzard, Naomi Battrick. Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship. |
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The Mission (1986) #12 Remove Directed by Roland Joffé. With Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn. 18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. Jeremy Irons in a tour de force. |
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Fantastic Planet (1973) #289 Remove Directed by René Laloux. With Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart. This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders. |
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Greed (2019) #1343 Remove Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Caroline Flack, Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher. Satire about the world of the super-rich. Thought (by me at least) to be about Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) - the British businessman who is the chairman of Arcadia Group, a retail company that includes Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit. The defunct BHS chain was also part of the group. |
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The Glenn Miller Story (1954) #1076 Remove Directed by Anthony Mann. With James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake. Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944. |
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) #244 Remove Directed by Justin Chadwick. With Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto, Robert Hobbs. A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. |
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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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Secret State (2012) #117 Remove With Gabriel Byrne, Ralph Ineson, Charles Dance, Jamie Sives. Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks. 4x45min episodes C4 |
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Caché (2005) #544 Remove Directed by Michael Haneke. With Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot. A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. aka Hidden |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) #526 Remove Directed by David Lean. With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. |
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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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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) #488 Remove Directed by Matt Reeves. With Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Andy Serkis, Kodi Smit-McPhee. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. |
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Solitary Man (2009) #20 Remove Directed by Brian Koppelman, David Levien. With Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny DeVito. A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions. |