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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.

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.

Casablanca (1942)
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Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. A cynical nightclub owner protects an old flame and her husband from Nazis in Morocco.

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?

Robots (2005)
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Directed by Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha. With Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams. In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspiration's company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management.

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.

Mama (2013)
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Directed by Andrés Muschietti. With Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse. A young couple take in their two nieces only to suspect that a foreboding evil has latched itself to their family.

The Wrestler (2008)
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis. A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

We Bought a Zoo (2011)
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Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning. Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
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Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell. The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Election (1999)
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Directed by Alexander Payne. With Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell. A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.

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

Live! (2007)
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Directed by Bill Guttentag. With Eva Mendes, David Krumholtz, Rob Brown, Katie Cassidy. A mockumentary following an ambitious TV network executive trying to produce a controversial reality show where contestants play Russian Roulette.

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.

Cop Out (2010)
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Directed by Kevin Smith. With Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Juan Carlos Hernández, Cory Fernandez. Jimmy's rare baseball card is robbed. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his cop partner Paul to track down the robber, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.

Let Me Go (2017)
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Directed by Polly Steele. With Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May, Lucy Boynton, Karin Bertling. Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga's life of being abandoned by her mother, Traudi in 1941 when she was just four years old. The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.

Believe (2013)
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Directed by David Scheinmann. With Jack Smith, Brian Cox, Natascha McElhone, Anne Reid. A young, gifted football player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.

2012 (2009)
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Directed by Roland Emmerich. With John Cusack, Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet. A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.

American Beauty (1999)
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Directed by Sam Mendes. With Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley. A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

La musica del silenzio (2017)
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Directed by Michael Radford. With Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian, Luisa Ranieri. Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.

aka The Music of Silence

Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
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Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.

The Full Monteverdi (2007)
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Directed by John La Bouchardiere. With Matthew Brook, Anna Crookes, Mark Denham, Samantha E. Hunt. Six couples meet in a restaurant. Over the course of the meal and the following morning, they break up, leaving six abandoned lovers. Sung throughout to Claudio Monteverdi's compete fourth book of madrigals.

Robin Hood (2010)
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Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow. In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Directed by Frank Capra. With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell. An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

Restless (2012)
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Directed by Edward Hall. With Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon. A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.

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.

Page Eight (2011)
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Directed by David Hare. With Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Tom Hughes, Michael Gambon. Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced ...

First in the Worricker Trilogy

Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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Directed by Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes. The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

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.

The Boxtrolls (2014)
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Directed by Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi. With Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade. A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.

Fanboys (2009)
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Directed by Kyle Newman. With Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Sam Huntington. Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release.

Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
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Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. With Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge. In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

Joker (2019)
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Directed by Todd Phillips. With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy. In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker.

The Joneses (2009)
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Directed by Derrick Borte. With Demi Moore, David Duchovny, Amber Heard, Benjamin Hollingsworth. A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.

Tamara Drewe (2010)
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam. A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.

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 Lone Ranger (2013)
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Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson. Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
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Directed by Ron Howard. With Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover. During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.

The Pacific (2010)
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With James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Sebastian Bertoli. The intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.

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Case 39 (2009)
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Directed by Christian Alvart. With Renée Zellweger, Ian McShane, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper. A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.

La musica del silenzio (2017)
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Directed by Michael Radford. With Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian, Luisa Ranieri. Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.

aka The Music of Silence

Cold War (2018)
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Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza. In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

War Horse (2011)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch. Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.

Belle (2013)
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Directed by Amma Asante. With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson. The mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral is raised by her aristocratic great-uncle in 18th century England.

Doubt (2008)
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Directed by John Patrick Shanley. With Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis. A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.

Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (2016)
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Directed by Simon Godwin. With Paapa Essiedu, Tanya Moodie, Clarence Smith, Ewart James Walters. Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world.

Centurion (2010)
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Directed by Neil Marshall. With Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski. A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack.

Eddie the Eagle (2016)
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Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello, Jo Hartley. The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Evan Welch. Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

Adulthood (2008)
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Directed by Noel Clarke. With Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Adam Deacon, Raleigh Ritchie. Six years after KIdULTHOOD, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on, others are stuck with the repercussions of his actions that night, but one thing's for certain - everyone has been forced to grow up. Through his journey Sam struggles ...

The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
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Directed by Seth Grossman. With Chris Carmack, Rachel Miner, Melissa Jones, Kevin Yon. Sam Reide uses his power to time travel to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's death.

Green Zone (2010)
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Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Igal Naor. Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.