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Peterloo (2018) #1371 Remove 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 |
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) #514 Remove 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. |
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Bridge of Spies (2015) #687 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. |
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Garden State (2004) #1032 Remove Directed by Zach Braff. With Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. |
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Carriers (2009) #312 Remove 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. |
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Shine (1996) #151 Remove 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. |
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010) #286 Remove Directed by Burr Steers. With Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew. Charlie's brother, Sam, dies in a car crash that Charlie survives. Charlie is given the gift of seeing his dead brother, but when the girl he falls in love with's life is at risk, he must choose between his girlfriend and his brother. |
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All the King's Men (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. |
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The Other Man (2008) #137 Remove 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. |
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Rango (2011) #111 Remove 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. |
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Munich (2005) #62 Remove 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. |
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The Lion King (2019) #1246 Remove Directed by Jon Favreau. With Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor. After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery. |
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The Wrong Box (1966) #1107 Remove Directed by Bryan Forbes. With John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook. In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other... or can be made to have seemed to do so! |
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Blue Jasmine (2013) #263 Remove 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... |
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) #223 Remove Directed by Terence Davies. With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams. The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning ... |
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The Imitation Game (2014) #553 Remove Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. |
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Red Joan (2018) #1359 Remove Directed by Trevor Nunn. With Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes. The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy. |
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The Hot Potato (2012) #83 Remove Directed by Tim Lewiston. With Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston, David Harewood. London's East End 1969. Based on real events. Two chancers 'find' a lump of Uranium and crisscross Europe to find a buyer. Accompanied by Danny's girl, the lovely Carole. They encounter a diverse cast of bizarre characters, all trying to steal the 'Hot Potato', but a deal agreed inside the Vatican has the co-conspirators confounding each other. The story twists and turns to an exciting and ... |
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Extract (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. |
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111 Remove Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) #61 Remove 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. |
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Far Cry (2008) #147 Remove Directed by Uwe Boll. With Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier. An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island. |