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Empire of the Sun (1987)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

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Caché (2005)
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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.

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Up in the Air (2009)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman. With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham enjoys his life living out of a suitcase, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a new hire and a potential love interest.

Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
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Directed by John Maloof, Charlie Siskel. With Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé. A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

Closer to the Moon (2014)
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Directed by Nae Caranfil. With Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser. A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

Closed Circuit (2013)
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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.

The Secret of the Grain (2007)
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Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche. At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his ...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush. Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Predators (2010)
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Directed by Nimród Antal. With Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga. A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.

Calvary (2014)
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Directed by John Michael McDonagh. With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen. After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

Irresistible (2006)
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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.

Jonathan Creek (2010)
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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.

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The Concert in Central Park (1982)
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The Concert in Central Park: Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, David Brown, Pete Carr. The long-awaited reunion concert of the renowned pop music duo, more than a decade after their separation as musical performers

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.

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
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Directed by Wolfgang Becker. With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas. In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Colonia (aka The Colony) (2015)
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Directed by Florian Gallenberger. With Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey. A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
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Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer. Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin's descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana la Fée.

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.

The Wolverine (2013)
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Directed by James Mangold. With Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima. When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.

Gladiator (2000)
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Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

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.

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.

First Man (2018)
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First Man: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler. A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969

Moneyball (2011)
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Directed by Bennett Miller. With Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin. A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Milk (2008)
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Directed by Gus Van Sant. With Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna. The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.

Blade Runner (1982)
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Blade Runner: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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Directed by Irvin Kershner. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.

V for Vendetta (2005)
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Directed by James McTeigue. With Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea. In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.

The Day of the Jackal (1973)
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Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel. A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

Star Trek (2009)
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Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Commander Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
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Directed by Tony Richardson. With Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen. A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.

Solace (2015)
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Directed by Afonso Poyart. With Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell. A psychic works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer.

A Poet in New York (2014)
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Directed by Aisling Walsh. With Tom Hollander, Phoebe Fox, Ewen Bremner, Celt Llewelyn Jones. A look at Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's fatal visit to New York City, and his stormy relationship with his wife Caitlin.

Jersey Boys (2014)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza. The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.

Push (2009)
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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.

My Old Lady (2014)
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Directed by Israel Horovitz. With Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Burstin. An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident.

Rendition (2007)
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Directed by Gavin Hood. With Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin. A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.

Bedtime Stories (2008)
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Directed by Adam Shankman. With Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce. A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.

A Real Summer (2007)
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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.

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
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Directed by Wolfgang Becker. With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas. In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Predators (2010)
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Directed by Nimród Antal. With Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga. A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.

The Ninth Gate (1999)
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Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner. A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
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Directed by Paul Hogan. With Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack. A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur.

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.

Push (2009)
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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.

Me Before You (2016)
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Directed by Thea Sharrock. With Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance. A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she's taking care of.

Sea of Love (1989)
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Directed by Harold Becker. With Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker. A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.

The Night of the Generals (1967)
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Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence. In 1942, a Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice despite the ongoing atrocities committed during WWII.

Mirrors (2008)
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Directed by Alexandre Aja. With Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce. An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Burning Man (2011)
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Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Matthew Goode, Rachel Griffiths, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis. An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.

The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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Directed by David Silverman. With Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith. After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpson family are declared fugitives.

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 Great Gatsby (2013)
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Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire. A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)
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Directed by Benedict Andrews, Nick Wickham. With Gillian Anderson, Clare Burt, Lachele Carl, Branwell Donaghey. As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

The Mission (1986)
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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.

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Pride & Prejudice (1995)
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With Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha. While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy. Novel by Jane Austen.

The Artist (2011)
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Directed by Michel Hazanavicius. With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell. A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

Captain Phillips (2013)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Jellyfish (2018)
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Directed by James Gardner. With Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri, Angus Barnett. A young carer discovers an unlikely talent for stand-up comedy.

The Aviator (2004)
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Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly. A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.

Heaven Is for Real (2014)
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Directed by Randall Wallace. With Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Connor Corum. A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.

Diva (1981)
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Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. With Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu. Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. All these characters twist their way through an intricate and stylish French language thriller.

The King's Speech (2010)
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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.

The Damned United (2009)
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Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington. The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.

The Da Vinci Code (2006)
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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.

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.

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Elser (2015)
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Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow. In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.

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The Gruffalo (2009)
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Directed by Max Lang, Jakob Schuh. With Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt. A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators.

Closed Circuit (2013)
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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.

The Secret in their Eyes (2009)
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Directed by Juan José Campanella. With Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo. A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Chronicle (2012)
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Directed by Josh Trank. With Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly. Whilst attending a party, three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

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 Final Destination (2009)
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Directed by David R. Ellis. With Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Bobby Campo. After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.

Yesterday (2019)
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Directed by Danny Boyle. With Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino, Ellise Chappell. A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.

The Killing Machine (2010)
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Directed by Dolph Lundgren. With Dolph Lundgren, Stefanie von Pfetten, Samantha Ferris, David Lewis. A Soviet-trained assassin is determined to escape his double life as a hitman and as a husband-father.

The Illusionist (2006)
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Directed by Neil Burger. With Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell. In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.

Pan (2015)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.

The Lion King (1994)
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Directed by Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. With Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg. Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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The Adventures of Robin Hood: Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains. When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
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Directed by Mike Newell. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina. A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

Sunshine on Leith (2013)
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Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Paul Brannigan, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks. Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives.

Colette (2018)
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Directed by Wash Westmoreland. With Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh. Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

Away We Go (2009)
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Directed by Sam Mendes. With John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Carmen Ejogo. A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

Braveheart (1995)
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Directed by Mel Gibson. With Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen. When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.

First Man (2018)
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First Man: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler. A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969

Hugo (2011)
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Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley. Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

A United Kingdom (2016)
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Directed by Amma Asante. With David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport. The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
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Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo, Robert Agengo. Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

The Gruffalo (2009)
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Directed by Max Lang, Jakob Schuh. With Helena Bonham Carter, James Corden, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt. A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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The Wizard of Oz: Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor. With Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr. Dorothy Gale is swept away from her home in Kansas to the magical Land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home and help her friends as well

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.

The Wrong Box (1966)
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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!

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 ...

The Falklands Play (2002)
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The Falklands Play: Directed by Michael Samuels. With Patricia Hodge, James Fox, John Standing, Michael Cochrane. On April 2, 1982, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. This movie is a gripping account of how Prime Minister Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal. It tells the story of how Argentina, an ally of the British, fought the Conservative government and invaded the Falklands. This play charts the backroom maneuverings between Thatcher's government and the military, between the British and the Americans, and the Americans and the Argentinians that led to a breakdown in diplomacy, to war, and to Britain's eventual victory

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.

The BFG (2016)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement. An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

Macbeth (2010)
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Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production.

Watchmen (2009)
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Directed by Zack Snyder. With Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman. In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
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Directed by Ivan Reitman. With Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson. When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.

Black Earth Rising (2018)
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With Michaela Coel, John Goodman, Noma Dumezweni, Lucian Msamati. Kate Ashby was rescued as a child from the Rwandan genocide by her renowned international lawyer adopted mother Eve. Living in London and working for barrister Michael Ennis, Kate's mother takes on a case involving an African militia leader which will upend both their lives forever.

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The Surprise (2015)
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Directed by Mike van Diem. With Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman. After both signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and have to find a way to get out of their binding contracts.

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Pride & Prejudice (1995)
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With Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha. While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy. Novel by Jane Austen.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
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Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap.

Little New York (2009)
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Directed by James DeMonaco. With Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel, Julianne Nicholson. The lives of three residents of New York's Staten Island intersect as they struggle to get ahead.

aka Staten Island

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)
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Directed by Mat Whitecross. With Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy. A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.

Radioactive (2019)
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Radioactive: Directed by Marjane Satrapi. With Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin. The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world

The Meaning of Life (1983)
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Directed by Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.

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.

Radioactive (2019)
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Radioactive: Directed by Marjane Satrapi. With Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin. The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world

Abigail's Party (1977)
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Directed by Mike Leigh. With Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski, John Salthouse. A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. Beverly's husband, Lawrence comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. The gathering starts off in a stiff insensitive ...

Toy Story (1995)
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Directed by John Lasseter. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney. A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

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The Windermere Children (2020)
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Directed by Michael Samuels. With Iain Glen, Romola Garai, Thomas Kretschmann, Tim McInnerny. This is the stark, moving ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future.

The Final Destination (2009)
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Directed by David R. Ellis. With Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Bobby Campo. After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.

Magnolia (1999)
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Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
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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.

Her Master's Voice (2012)
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Directed by Nina Conti. With Nina Conti, Jim Broadbent, Daisy Campbell, Ken Campbell. Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven' the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem. Ken Campbell ...

Suite Française (2014)
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Directed by Saul Dibb. With Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Eric Godon. During the early years of Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.

The Iron Giant (1999)
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Directed by Brad Bird. With Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel. A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

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.

The Uninvited (2009)
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Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother.

The Ides of March (2011)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling. An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

Ida (2013)
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Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela. A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.

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.

The Beauty of Diagrams (2010)
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60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design.

The Lady (2011)
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Directed by Luc Besson. With Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse. The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Hanna (2011)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps. A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.

Caché (2005)
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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

Hamlet 2 (2008)
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Directed by Andrew Fleming. With Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Joseph Julian Soria. In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

42 (2013)
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Directed by Brian Helgeland. With Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie. The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

It's Complicated (2009)
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Directed by Nancy Meyers. With Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski. When attending their son's college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship. But the complicated fact is they're divorced and he's remarried.

Hitchcock (2012)
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Directed by Sacha Gervasi. With Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston. A love story between the influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959.

A Bug's Life (1998)
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Directed by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton. With Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere. A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
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Directed by Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan. With Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor. A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Chronicle (2012)
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Directed by Josh Trank. With Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly. Whilst attending a party, three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

Mirrors (2008)
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Directed by Alexandre Aja. With Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce. An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

X-Men: First Class (2011)
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Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon. In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start World War III.

Peterloo (2018)
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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

Valkyrie (2008)
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Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.

One Chance (2013)
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Directed by David Frankel. With James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney. The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britain's Got Talent (2007).

Harold and Maude (1971)
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Directed by Hal Ashby. With Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack. Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (2008)
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Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo. Rossini's sparkling comedy is given a new shine here under the direction of Broadway director Bartlett Sher. Count Almaviva is smitten by the feisty Rosina, but she is kept under lock and key by Dr. Bartolo. Send for Figaro to help.

Opera. The Barber of Seville. The Metropolitan Opera, New York.

The King's Speech (2010)
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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.

Bronson (2008)
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Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. With Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews, Katy Barker. A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.

Interstellar (2014)
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Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy. A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas. A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother

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.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
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Directed by Ivan Reitman. With Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson. When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.

The Concert in Central Park (1982)
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The Concert in Central Park: Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, David Brown, Pete Carr. The long-awaited reunion concert of the renowned pop music duo, more than a decade after their separation as musical performers

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.

From TV. 4:3 Aspect ratio.

The Return (2003)
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Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.

The Two Popes (2019)
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The Two Popes: Directed by Fernando Meirelles. With Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín, Luis Gnecco. Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
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Directed by Michael Bay. With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson. Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

Frida (2002)
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Directed by Julie Taymor. With Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro. A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Prancer (1989)
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Directed by John D. Hancock. With Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Rutanya Alda, Abe Vigoda. A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is one of Santa's, hoping to bring it back to health in time for Christmas. Her holiday spirit inspires those around her, something her disheartened father is having trouble understanding.

Military Wives (2019)
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Military Wives: Directed by Peter Cattaneo. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Emma Lowndes, Gaby French. With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement

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.

The BFG (2016)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement. An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

Jane Eyre (2011)
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Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. With Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot. A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.

Adventureland (2009)
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Directed by Greg Mottola. With Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kelsey Ford. In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.

Adventureland (2009)
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Directed by Greg Mottola. With Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kelsey Ford. In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.

Shakespeare in Italy (2012)
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Shakespeare in Italy: With Francesco da Mosto, Samuel Barnett, Alberto Toso Fei, Susannah Fielding. Francesco da Mosto takes to the Italian road again in search of Shakespeare in Italy

2x1hour episodes. BBC.

Seve the Movie (2014)
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Directed by John-Paul Davidson. With José Luis Gutiérrez, José Navar, Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo. Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought against adversity to become the most spectacular and charismatic golfer to ever play the game.

The Eichmann Show (2015)
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Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman. Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.

Little Voice (1998)
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Directed by Mark Herman. With Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor. A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
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Directed by David Yates. With Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler. The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Julia (2008)
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Directed by Erick Zonca. With Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould. A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.

Fantastic Planet (1973)
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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.

Nebraska (2013)
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Directed by Alexander Payne. With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
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Directed by Steve Pink. With John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke. A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.

Juno (2007)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

A Real Summer (2007)
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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.

Changeling (2008)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Angelina Jolie Pitt, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith. A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day.

Ask the Dust (2006)
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Directed by Robert Towne. With Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins. Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

Panda Makers (2010)
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Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and...

The Children (2008)
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Directed by Tom Shankland. With Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley. A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

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.

Takers (2010)
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Directed by John Luessenhop. With Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy. A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.

Arrival (2016)
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Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world.

The Wipers Times (2013)
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Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Ben Chaplin, Patrick FitzSymons, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Steve Oram. Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from...

Radioactive (2019)
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Radioactive: Directed by Marjane Satrapi. With Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin. The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world

Takers (2010)
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Directed by John Luessenhop. With Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy. A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.

Iron Man Three (2013)
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Directed by Shane Black. With Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

[Rec] 2 (2009)
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Directed by Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza. With Jonathan D. Mellor, Manuela Velasco, Óscar Zafra, Ariel Casas. In order to ascertain the current situation inside, a supposed medical officer and a GEO team step into the quarantined and ill-fated apartment building.

Frankenweenie (2012)
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Directed by Tim Burton. With Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau. Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.

Carmen (2011)
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Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Trevor Scheunemann, Barbara Frittoli, Roberto Alagna, Keith Miller. It's a familiar story: Act 1, boy meets girl, goes to jail for her. Act 2, boy is out of jail, girl rewards him with special favors. Act 3, girl is bored already, moving on. Act 4, boy kills girl for ruining his life. We've all been there. Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Greed (2019)
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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.

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.

Barney's Version (2010)
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Directed by Richard J. Lewis. With Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Macha Grenon. The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Unthinkable (2010)
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Directed by Gregor Jordan. With Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen, Stephen Root. A psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.

The Last Witness (2018)
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Directed by Piotr Szkopiak. With Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon. An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
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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.

Severance (2006)
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Directed by Christopher Smith. With Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens. During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.

Closer to the Moon (2014)
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Directed by Nae Caranfil. With Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser. A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

Ondine (2009)
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Directed by Neil Jordan. With Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan, Alison Barry. An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
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Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Panda Makers (2010)
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Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and...

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.

Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute (2016)
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Directed by John Bridcut. With Prince Charles, Princess Alexandra, Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Clementine Churchill. A unique celebration of the Queen's ninety years as she reaches her landmark birthday in April. Film-maker John Bridcut has been granted special access to the complete collection of Her Majesty's personal ciné films, shot by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen herself, as well as by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Much of it has never been seen publicly before. Various ...

70mins. BBC. 21st April 2016.

Wagner (1981)
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TV series. With Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, John Gielgud. A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
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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.

Dark Waters (2019)
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Dark Waters: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman. A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution

Death at a Funeral (2010)
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Directed by Neil LaBute. With Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Keith David, Loretta Devine. A funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies.

I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
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Directed by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa. With Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro. A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.

Irresistible (2020)
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Directed by Jon Stewart. With Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, Chris Cooper, Brent Sexton. A Democratic strategist helps a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.

Cathedrals: Wells (2013)
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In a series of three films, the acclaimed documentary film maker, Richard Alwyn, goes behind the scenes in three of England's Church of England Cathedrals - Wakefield, Wells and Southwark. Each film explores in different ways the purpose and daily workings of these extraordinary edifices that stud the English landscape. What are they for? What do they do? Who uses them and how? Are they meeting ...

The Special Relationship (2010)
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Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Michael Sheen, Demetri Goritsas, Adam Godley, Marc Rioufol. A dramatization that traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Horrible Bosses (2011)
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Directed by Seth Gordon. With Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Steve Wiebe. Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

Enid (2009)
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Directed by James Hawes. With Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook. Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, ...

Antichrist (2009)
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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.

Beyond the Sea (2004)
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Directed by Kevin Spacey. With Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins. A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin (Spacey) specifically, and his relationship with his wife Sandra Dee (Bosworth).

The War You Don't See (2010)
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Directed by Alan Lowery, John Pilger. With Julian Assange, Tony Blair, Wilfred Burchett, George W. Bush. Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.

Salt (2010)
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Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Angelina Jolie Pitt, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski. A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.

Grown Ups (2010)
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Directed by Dennis Dugan. With Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Chris Rock. After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Frida (2002)
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Directed by Julie Taymor. With Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Mía Maestro. A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

The Colour Room (2021)
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The Colour Room: Directed by Claire McCarthy. With Matthew Goode, Phoebe Dynevor, Rachel Shenton, David Morrissey. Clarice Cliff breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionizes the workplace at a pottery factory in 1920s England

Weathering with You (2019)
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1h 52m Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

The 33 (2015)
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Directed by Patricia Riggen. With Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin. Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.

Humans S1 (2015)
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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.

Enid (2009)
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Directed by James Hawes. With Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook. Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, ...

Max Payne (2008)
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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.

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.

Eye in the Sky (2015)
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Directed by Gavin Hood. With Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi. Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

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.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Risen (2016)
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Directed by Kevin Reynolds. With Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis. In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of an executed Jew rumored to have risen from the dead.

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.

A Real Summer (2007)
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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.

White Noise 2: The Light (2007)
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Directed by Patrick Lussier. With Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Adrian Holmes. Following the loss of his family, a man attempts suicide only to discover upon waking that he can identify people who are about to die

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
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Directed by Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon. With Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Seth Rogen. A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth.

Solomon Kane (2009)
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Directed by Michael J. Bassett. With James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite. A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.

Seeking Justice (2011)
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Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Harold Perrineau. After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return.

aka Justice

Love Happens (2009)
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Directed by Brandon Camp. With Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch. A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.

The Aviator (2004)
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Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly. A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.

Predators (2010)
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Directed by Nimród Antal. With Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga. A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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Directed by Sergio Leone. With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci. A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Grease (1978)
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Directed by Randal Kleiser. With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway. Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

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.

Jonathan Creek (2010)
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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

Adventureland (2009)
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Directed by Greg Mottola. With Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kelsey Ford. In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)
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Directed by Geoffrey Sax. With Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Sophie Okonedo, Sarah Bolger. After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, for a mission which will save millions of lives.

Inside Out (2015)
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Directed by Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen. With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling. After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

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Resistance (2020)
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Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. With Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Félix Moati. The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Young Adult (2011)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Elizabeth Reaser. Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.

Up in the Air (2009)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman. With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham enjoys his life living out of a suitcase, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a new hire and a potential love interest.

Juno (2007)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

Loaded (2008)
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Directed by Alan Pao. With Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley. A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence.

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
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Directed by Robert Altman. With Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly. A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.

The Conspirator (2010)
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Directed by Robert Redford. With Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline. Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

Jonathan Creek (2010)
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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

The Last Witness (2018)
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Directed by Piotr Szkopiak. With Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon. An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years.

Paddington 2 (2017)
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Directed by Paul King. With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

The Rainmaker (1997)
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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight. An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company.

Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (2013)
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Directed by David Trueba. With Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer, Ramon Fontserè. In Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.

Romeo and Juliet (1966)
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The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.

Heat (1995)
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Directed by Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

When in Rome (2010)
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Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. With Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Anjelica Huston, Danny DeVito. Beth is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. However, on a whirlwind trip to Rome, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then aggressively pursued by a band of suitors.

Four Christmases (2008)
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Directed by Seth Gordon. With Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall. A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas.

The 33 (2015)
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Directed by Patricia Riggen. With Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin. Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.

The Book of Eli (2010)
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Directed by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes. With Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Gary Oldman. A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Couples Retreat (2009)
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Directed by Peter Billingsley. With Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman. A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.

Macbeth (2010)
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Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production.

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.

Fantasia (1940)
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Directed by James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr.. With Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Corey Burton, Walt Disney. A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.

Disney

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 American President (1995)
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Directed by Rob Reiner. With Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox. Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway.

The Shining (1980)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Anna Karenina (2012)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen. In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

Chronicle (2012)
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Directed by Josh Trank. With Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly. Whilst attending a party, three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

The White Crow (2018)
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Directed by Ralph Fiennes. With Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos. The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
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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.

Everlasting Moments (2008)
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Directed by Jan Troell. With Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall. In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

Shakespeare in Italy (2012)
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Shakespeare in Italy: With Francesco da Mosto, Samuel Barnett, Alberto Toso Fei, Susannah Fielding. Francesco da Mosto takes to the Italian road again in search of Shakespeare in Italy

2x1hour episodes. BBC.

State of Mind (2017)
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Directed by Jon Avnet. With Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford, Walton Goggins. Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving.

The Mikado (1987)
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Directed by John Michael Phillips. With Eric Idle, Lesley Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard Van Allan. A staging of "The Mikado" set in an English country hotel during the 1920s.

Recorded on Toshiba.

Hitchcock (2012)
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Directed by Sacha Gervasi. With Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston. A love story between the influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959.

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
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Directed by Lynne Ramsay. With Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell. Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

How Wars Begin 1 (1977)
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The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire.

Marvellous (2014)
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Directed by Julian Farino. With Toby Jones, Gemma Jones, Tony Curran, Nicholas Gleaves. The life of Neil Baldwin, a man who has shrugged off his perceived limitations to live an incredible life.

Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
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Directed by Jeff Beesley. With Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley, Greg Bryk. A young man attempts to seek to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster.

Sing Street (2016)
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Directed by John Carney. With Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor. A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
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Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver. The surviving members of the resistance face the First Order once again, and the legendary conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its peak bringing the Skywalker saga to its end.

Gracie (2010)
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Directed by Brian Percival. With Jane Horrocks, Tom Hollander, David Dawson, Ellie Haddington. In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy's entry into the war Monty is in...

Booky's Crush (2009)
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Directed by Peter Moss. With Rachel Marcus, Megan Follows, Stuart Hughes, Dylan Everett. The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. It's September and the new school year has just started. Willa has thoughts of attending medical school after she graduates, despite the family not having the money to send her. Arthur is showing aptitude in ...

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.

Shakespeare.

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.

Selma (2014)
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Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint. A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan: 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.

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New Town Killers (2008)
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Directed by Richard Jobson. With James Anthony Pearson, Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie, Charles Mnene. Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon ...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
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Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer. Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin's descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana la Fée.

Cathy Come Home (1966)
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Cathy Come Home: Directed by Ken Loach. With Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis, Wally Patch. A wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms

Watchmen (2009)
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Directed by Zack Snyder. With Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman. In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.

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 ...

Wilde (1997)
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Directed by Brian Gilbert. With Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle. The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas, nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosie's father, the enraged Marquise of Queensberry, Wilde refused to flee the country and was sentenced to two years at hard labour by the courts of an intolerant Victorian society.

Papillon (1973)
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Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon. A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Night Mail (1936)
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Night Mail: Directed by Harry Watt, Basil Wright. With Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Robert Rae. Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
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Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson. Three decades after the Empire's defeat, a new threat arises in the militant First Order. Defected stormtrooper Finn and the scavenger Rey are caught up in the Resistance's search for the missing Luke Skywalker.

Now You See Me 2 (2016)
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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.

Taking Woodstock (2009)
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Directed by Ang Lee. With Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton. A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
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Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is completely around the twist, but Flora tries to sort everything out...

Sunshine on Leith (2013)
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Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Paul Brannigan, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks. Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives.

Run Lola Run (1998)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Labor Day (2013)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Clark Gregg. Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

Dark Waters (2019)
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Dark Waters: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman. A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution

Loving (2016)
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Directed by Jeff Nichols. With Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford. The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

Then She Found Me (2007)
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Directed by Helen Hunt. With Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick. 39-year-old April Epner's childish husband and school teacher colleague Benjamin/Ben leaves her, but with her biological clock ticking ever more loudly. Her dying bossy adoptive mother is very vocal about her disappointment, while her natural son Freddy, a doctor, is most understanding. Shy but fascinating British author Frank meets April, his doted son Jimmy Ray's teacher, which soon leads to a ...

The Meaning of Life (1983)
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Directed by Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
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Directed by Mark Waters. With Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone, Michael Douglas. While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.

Disturbia (2007)
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Directed by D.J. Caruso. With Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer. A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.