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Shrek Forever After (2010)
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Directed by Mike Mitchell. With Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas. Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpel rules supreme.

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.

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.

Henry V (1989)
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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.

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Black Swan (2010)
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder. A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
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Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
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Directed by Anthony Mann. With Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason. The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.

Viceroy's House (2017)
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Directed by Gurinder Chadha. With Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi. The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

Monty Python Live (2014)
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Directed by Eric Idle, Aubrey Powell. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The reunion of the Monty Python team on stage for the first time in over 30 years, and for the last time ever.

Breathe (2017)
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Directed by Andy Serkis. With Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers. The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.

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.

Pearl Harbour (2001)
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Directed by Michael Bay. With Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott. Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.

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.

Fair Game (2010)
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Directed by Doug Liman. With Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong. CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

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.

Detachment (2011)
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Directed by Tony Kaye. With Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu. A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

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.

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.

Wrong Side of Town (2010)
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Directed by David DeFalco. With Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, Lara Grice, Edrick Browne. In order to save his kidnapped daughter, an ex-Marine is forced to take on a gang of killers when an accident leaves the brother of a malicious criminal dead.

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.

Taken 2 (2012)
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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.

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.

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
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Directed by Ti West. With Rider Strong, Noah Segan, Alexi Wasser, Rusty Kelley. A high school prom faces a deadly threat: a flesh-eating virus that spreads via a popular brand of bottled water.

Mr. Jones (2019)
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Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

Brief Encounter (1945)
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Brief Encounter: Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband

The Color Purple (1985)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
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Directed by John Ford. With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

The Hill (1965)
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Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch. In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

Brassed Off (1996)
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Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

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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.

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.

Young Victoria (2009)
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Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson. A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

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 Physician (2013)
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Directed by Philipp Stölzl. With Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby. In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

Viceroy's House (2017)
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Directed by Gurinder Chadha. With Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi. The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

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.

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.

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.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)
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Directed by David R. Ellis. With Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.

The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
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Directed by Jon Harris. With Michael J. Reynolds, Shauna Macdonald, Jessika Williams, Douglas Hodge. Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Henry V (1989)
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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.

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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.

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.

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.

Tolkien (2019)
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Directed by Dome Karukoski. With Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi. The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.

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

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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Directed by Sergio Leone. With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè. A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
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Directed by Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin. With Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller. Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability... Find out how the rest of the family cope and see if the holiday will ever end.

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.

Bee Movie (2007)
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Directed by Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith. With Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton. Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them.

Garden State (2004)
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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.

Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
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Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

A Few Good Men (1992)
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Directed by Rob Reiner. With Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon. Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.

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.

For a Good Time, Call... (2012)
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Directed by Jamie Travis. With Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long, James Wolk. Former college frenemies Lauren and Katie move into a fabulous Gramercy Park apartment, and in order to make ends meet, the unlikely pair start a phone sex line together.

Presto (2008)
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Directed by Doug Sweetland. With Doug Sweetland. A stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats.

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.

Mystic Pizza (1988)
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Directed by Donald Petrie. With Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio. Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.

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.

The Great British Year (2013)
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With Joseph Fiennes.

2x1 hour. Winter, Spring. BBC.