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Mall Cop (2005)
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Directed by David Greenspan. With Derek Cecil, Kathleen Robertson, Nick Searcy, Jennifer Morrison. An indie comedy where a mall cop befriends her predecessor, who's back on the job after he failed to put the kibosh on a major burglary.

12 Rounds (2009)
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Directed by Renny Harlin. With John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris. Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
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Spider-Man: No Way Home: Directed by Jon Watts. With Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon. With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
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Directed by John Schlesinger. With Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp. Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

Meet Joe Black (1998)
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Directed by Martin Brest. With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber. Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth and in the process he falls in love with his guide's daughter.

Coraline (2009)
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Directed by Henry Selick. With Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders. An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

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

The Castle (1997)
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Directed by Rob Sitch. With Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe. A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.

Ghost in the Shell (2017)
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Directed by Rupert Sanders. With Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche. In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Man on Wire (2008)
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Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

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Argo (2012)
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Directed by Ben Affleck. With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin. Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

Twilight (2008)
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Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke. A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
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Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. With Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford. As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Sparkle (2007)
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Directed by Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter. With Lesley Manville, John Shrapnel, Bob Hoskins, Peter Gordon. Sam is a charming, young chancer who moves to London. His best laid plans for success suffer a real setback when true love turns his world upside down in the most unexpected of circumstances.

Ted (2012)
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Directed by Seth MacFarlane. With Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale. John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.

The Soloist (2009)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander. A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.

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.

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.

Alexander (2004)
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Directed by Oliver Stone. With Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie Pitt. Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

Argo (2012)
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Directed by Ben Affleck. With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin. Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

Now Is Good (2012)
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Directed by Ol Parker. With Dakota Fanning, Josef Altin, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine. A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.

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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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.

Luxo Jr. (1986)
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Directed by John Lasseter. A larger lamp watches while a smaller, younger lamp plays exuberantly with a ball but doesn't pick up the knack of correct handling.

The Ipcress File (1965)
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Directed by Sidney J. Furie. With Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd. In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.

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Meet Joe Black (1998)
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Directed by Martin Brest. With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber. Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth and in the process he falls in love with his guide's daughter.

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.

Calamity Jane (1953)
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Calamity Jane: Directed by David Butler. With Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey. The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok

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, ...

Manchester by the Sea (2016)
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Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges. A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

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.

Saw VI (2009)
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Directed by Kevin Greutert. With Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell. Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by jigsaw.

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.

Margin Call (2011)
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Directed by J.C. Chandor. With Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany. Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.

The Art of Eric Gill (9999)
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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

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

Book of Blood (2009)
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Directed by John Harrison. With Jonas Armstrong, Sophie Ward, Clive Russell, Paul Blair. A paranormal expert discovers a house that is at the intersection of so-called "highways" transporting souls in the afterlife.

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.

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.

Yes Man (2008)
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Directed by Peyton Reed. With Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins. A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year.

Ghost in the Shell (2017)
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Directed by Rupert Sanders. With Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche. In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

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.

Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
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Directed by Franck Khalfoun. With Cuba Gooding Jr., Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Keitel, Alex Meneses. A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.

The Shape of Water (2017)
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Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones. At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

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.

Ted (2012)
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Directed by Seth MacFarlane. With Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale. John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
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Directed by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. With Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson. A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.

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

The Blind Side (2009)
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Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head. The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

The Best Offer (2013)
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Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland. In the world of high-end art auctions and antiques, Virgil Oldman is an elderly and esteemed but eccentric genius art-expert, known and appreciated by the world. Oldman is hired by a solitary young heiress, Claire Ibbetson, to auction off the large collection of art and antiques left to her by her parents. For some reason, Claire always refuses to be seen in person. Robert aids Oldman in ...

aka Deception

From Paris with Love (2010)
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Directed by Pierre Morel. With John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden. In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city.

Surveillance (2008)
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Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Caroline Aaron. Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell.

Jour de fête (1949)
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70mins. A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk. Directed by Jaques Tati

Solitary Man (2009)
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Directed by Brian Koppelman, David Levien. With Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny DeVito. A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

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.

The Founder (2016)
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Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini. The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.

The Death of Stalin (2017)
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Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly thirty years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

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.

Apocalypto (2006)
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Directed by Mel Gibson. With Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Rudy Youngblood. As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.

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.

Bottle Shock (2008)
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Directed by Randall Miller. With Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Hal B. Klein. The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
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Directed by Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason. With Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Richard Atwill. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

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

27 Dresses (2008)
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Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Brian Kerwin. After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.

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.

Children of Men (2006)
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Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

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.

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.

Burn After Reading (2008)
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Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich. A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.

My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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Directed by Simon Curtis. With Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond. Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

The Invention of Lying (2009)
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Directed by Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson. With Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K.. A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.

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.

Zodiac (2007)
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Directed by David Fincher. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards. A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.

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).