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Man on Wire (2008) #685 Remove 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." See also: #554 |
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) #1236 Remove Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson. Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. |
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Gifted (2017) #1098 Remove Directed by Marc Webb. With Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer. Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother. |
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) #982 Remove 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. |
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All Is True (2018) #1219 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Nonso Anozie. A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. |
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Ninja Assassin (2009) #402 Remove Directed by James McTeigue. With Rick Yune, Naomie Harris, Rain, Joon Lee. A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan. |
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Apocalypto (2006) #287 Remove Directed by Mel Gibson. With Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Rudy Youngblood. As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate. |
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The Last Station (2009) #701 Remove Directed by Michael Hoffman. With Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti. A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. |
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Michael Feinstein in Concert (1989) #614 Remove 60 mins. Acclaimed for his performances of the Gershwins, Berlin and other masters of the American popular song, pianist and singer Michael Feinstein is now well established on the US concert circuit. He entertained President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher at the White House last October, and made his British debut in last year's Royal Variety Performance. This recording is from a concert given earlier this year at London's Dominion Theatre. |
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Closed Circuit (2013) #259 Remove Directed by John Crowley. With Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds. A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy. |
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The Remains of the Day (1993) #1392 Remove The Remains of the Day: Directed by James Ivory. With John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson. A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer |
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Children of Men (2006) #464 Remove Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. |
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Castles in the Sky (2014) #846 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp. 90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes. |
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Zodiac (2007) #23 Remove Directed by David Fincher. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards. A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. |
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Schindler's List (1993) #541 Remove 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. |
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Henry V (1989) #532 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War in 1415, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France. Shakespeare. |
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The Firm (2009) #228 Remove Directed by Nick Love. With Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab, Daniel Mays, Doug Allen. Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team. |
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) #327 Remove Directed by Michael Patrick Jann. With Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney. A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win. |
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Election (1999) #684 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. |
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Push (2009) #152 Remove Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford. Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does. |
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Doctor Thorne (2016) #455 Remove With Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Harry Richardson, Rebecca Front. The life of penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her Uncle, Dr Thorne, and her relationship with the family at nearby Greshamsbury Park estate. 3x1 hour |
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Atomic Blonde (2017) #1285 Remove Directed by David Leitch. With Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan. An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. |
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Castles in the Sky (2014) #846 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp. 90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes. |
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Great Expectations (2011) #358 Remove With Douglas Booth, Jack Roth, Ray Winstone, David Suchet. The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor. 3x1hour BBC |
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Revolutionary Road (2008) #129 Remove Directed by Sam Mendes. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie. A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. |
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Zombieland (2009) #312 Remove Directed by Ruben Fleischer. With Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. |
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) #1130 Remove Directed by Simon Curtis. With Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Vicki Pepperdine. A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne. |
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Bottle Shock (2008) #218 Remove Directed by Randall Miller. With Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Hal B. Klein. The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". |
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) #169 Remove Directed by Woody Allen. With Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Evan Welch. Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. |
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Now You See Me 2 (2016) #1306 Remove Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco. The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet. |
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All Is True (2018) #1219 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Nonso Anozie. A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. |
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Taken 2 (2012) #461 Remove Directed by Olivier Megaton. With Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser. In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter. |
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Sorry We Missed You (2019) #1398 Remove 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 |
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The Prestige (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine. Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. |
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) #82 Remove 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. |
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) #191 Remove Directed by Kevin Smith. With Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Gerry Bednob. Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought. |
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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Dear John (2010) #293 Remove Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas. A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave. |
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Two Lovers (2008) #210 Remove Directed by James Gray. With Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Anne Joyce. A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor. |
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The King's Speech (2010) #535 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi. The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. |
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Chalet Girl (2011) #126 Remove Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria. |
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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016) #578 Remove Directed by Jack Macinnes. With Jeremy Paxman, Bernadette Murphy. Jeremy Paxman joins forces with 'art sleuth' Bernadette Murphy to try and solve one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries of the art world - why did Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear in December 1888? 60mins. Jeremy Paxman. BBC. |
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) #546 Remove 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. |
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To Walk Invisible (2016) #957 Remove Directed by Sally Wainwright. With James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie. A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language. |
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A Christmas Carol (2009) #370 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine. An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. |
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The Boat that Rocked (2009) #160 Remove Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio |
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The Rainmaker (1997) #136 Remove Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight. An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company. |
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Forrest Gump (1994) #1113 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
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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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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) #1143 Remove Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones. A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit. |
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Atonement (2007) #521 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. |
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Antigone at the Barbican (2015) #491 Remove Directed by Ivo van Hove. With Juliette Binoche, Obi Abili, Patrick O'Kane, Kirsty Bushell. Antigone is the story of the daughter of Oedipus |
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The Firm (2009) #228 Remove Directed by Nick Love. With Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab, Daniel Mays, Doug Allen. Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team. |
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Public Enemies (2009) #174 Remove Directed by Michael Mann. With Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke. The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. |
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Oliver Twist (1948) #1481 Remove 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. |