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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 ...

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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.

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

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.

Wonder Woman (2017)
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Directed by Patty Jenkins. With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

The Reader (2008)
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Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain. Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Chicago (2002)
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Nina (2016)
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Directed by Cynthia Mort. With Zoe Saldana, David Oyelowo, Kevin Mambo, Ronald Guttman. The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.

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.

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.

Green Street 2 (2009)
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Directed by Jesse V. Johnson. With John Bariamis, Nicola Bertram, Matt Candito, Lonnie Cayetano. Following the deadly climax of "Green Street Hooligans," several members of the West Ham firm and numerous members of Millwall end up in jail. The GSE quickly discover the brutality of life on the inside, as they are constant targets of the superior numbers and better-financed Millwall crew.

The Reader (2008)
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Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain. Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Amazing Grace (2006)
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Directed by Michael Apted. With Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai. The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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Directed by David Lean. With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger. The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

The Merchant of Venice (2004)
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Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.

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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.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
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Directed by David Slade. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Xavier Samuel. As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.

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.

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 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.

Deliverance (1972)
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Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
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Directed by Robert Rodriguez. With Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali. A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.

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".

Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
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Directed by Declan O'Brien. With Tom Frederic, Janet Montgomery, Gil Kolirin, Christian Contreras. When their transfer bus crashes in a West Virginia forest, a group of convicts and a corrections officer meet a rafter who is on the run from cannibalistic hillbillies who have murdered her friends.

Pan Am: Ich Bin Ein Berliner (2011)
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Directed by Alex Graves. With Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse. When the crew gets a flight taking journalists to Berlin to cover an important speech by President Kennedy, Maggie, who campaigned for him, is determined to meet JFK no matter what. Meanwhile, when her contact's safety is compromised, Kate tries to help the young woman escape East Germany; and painful memories of World War II force Colette to face her tragic past.

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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
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Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson. Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy.

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.

The Island (2005)
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Directed by Michael Bay. With Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi. Lincoln Six Echo is just like everyone else - he's waiting to go to the Island, the only place left in the world to actually live a life. Thousands of people stay at a facility waiting to go to the Island. It all sounds like paradise, but Lincoln Six Echo soon discovers that there's actually a sinister purpose going on at that facility and that he must escape - but not before stopping the ...

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.

Chalet Girl (2011)
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Directed by Phil Traill. With Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields. Former skateboard champion Kim wants to make more money after her mother's tragic death. She joins the elite posh servicing company, which sends her off to Austria.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
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Directed by Karel Reisz. With Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker. A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
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Directed by Matt Brown. With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi. The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.

Shrek (2001)
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Directed by Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson. With Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow. After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, an ogre agrees to rescue a princess for a villainous lord in order to get his land back.

The Reader (2008)
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Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain. Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
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Directed by Werner Herzog. With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer. Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
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Directed by Neal Brennan. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, David Koechner, James Brolin. Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event.

Extract (2009)
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Directed by Mike Judge. With Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, Mila Kunis. Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.

Heartless (2009)
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Directed by Philip Ridley. With Jim Sturgess, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy, Justin Salinger. Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.

In Bruges (2008)
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Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington. Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)
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Directed by Niki Caro. With Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Timothy Radford. The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion.

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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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
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Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Bonneville, Georgie Glen. Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960's, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.

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.

Skyfall (2012)
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Directed by Sam Mendes. With Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench. Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. Whilst MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
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Directed by Mira Nair. With Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

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.

The Coming War on China (2016)
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Directed by John Pilger. With Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher. The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war. Pilger's film is a warning and an inspiring story of resistance.

Sightseers (2012)
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Directed by Ben Wheatley. With Alice Lowe, Kenneth Hadley, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies. Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

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.

Mic Macs (2009)
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Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Yolande Moreau. A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.

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.

Dune (2021)
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Dune: Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa. A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future

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.

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.

The Unborn (2009)
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Directed by David S. Goyer. With Odette Annable, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good. A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

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.

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.

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.

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
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Directed by Mike Leigh. With Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin, Elliot Cowan. A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colourful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

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.

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.

Wag the Dog (1997)
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Directed by Barry Levinson. With Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary. Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

War Book (2014)
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Directed by Tom Harper. With Phoebe Fox, Adeel Akhtar, Ben Chaplin, Shaun Evans. Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.

To Walk Invisible (2016)
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Directed by Sally Wainwright. With James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie. A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.

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.

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.

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.

Heartless (2009)
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Directed by Philip Ridley. With Jim Sturgess, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy, Justin Salinger. Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.

Step Up 3D (2010)
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Directed by Jon M. Chu. With Sharni Vinson, Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Alyson Stoner. A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown.

Noah (2014)
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson. A man is chosen by his world's creator to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

The Dressmaker (2015)
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Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook. A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.

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.

The Experiment (2010)
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Directed by Paul Scheuring. With Adrien Brody, Cam Gigandet, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace. 26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fighting (2009)
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Directed by Dito Montiel. With Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Luis Guzmán, Zulay Henao. In New York City, a young counterfeiter is introduced to the world of underground street fighting by a seasoned scam artist, who becomes his manager on the bare-knuckling brawling circuit.

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
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Directed by Mike Leigh. With Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin, Elliot Cowan. A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colourful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

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 ...

Fracture (2007)
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Directed by Gregory Hoblit. With Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike. An attorney, intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute.

Ready Player One (2018)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.

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

Paddington (2014)
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Directed by Paul King. With Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent. A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

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.

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.

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009)
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Directed by Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson. With Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, David Tennant, Talulah Riley. The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate.

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.

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.

Frozen Planet (2011)
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With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

2x 1 hour episodes. BBC.

Amélie (2001)
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Amélie: Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta. Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love

The 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.

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).

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
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Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell. Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

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.

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.

Harry Brown (2009)
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Directed by Daniel Barber. With Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Charlie Creed-Miles. An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Glorious 39 (2009)
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Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo. The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II.

Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

The Final Cut - released in 2019.

Ready Player One (2018)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.

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.

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.

Decoding Annie Parker (2013)
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Directed by Steven Bernstein. With Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones. Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.

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

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
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Directed by Wes Anderson. With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody. The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
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Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Julie Walters, Alun Armstrong, Hugh Bonneville, Georgie Glen. Documents the rise of Mary Whitehouse during the 1960's, and the relationship between her and Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, the Director General of the BBC.

Taken (2008)
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Directed by Pierre Morel. With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser. A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

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.

The International (2009)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen. An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.

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.

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

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."

See also: #554

The International (2009)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen. An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring.

The Sting (1973)
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Directed by George Roy Hill. With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning. Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

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.

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.

City Island (2009)
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Directed by Raymond De Felitta. With Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer. The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.

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.

Dunkirk (2017)
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Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Duplicity (2009)
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Directed by Tony Gilroy. With Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti. Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
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Directed by Marielle Heller. With Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson. Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.

No Country for Old Men (2007)
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Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

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

Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest. A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

The Final Cut - released in 2019.

Victor Frankenstein (2015)
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Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott. Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.

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.

Ultraviolet (2006)
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Directed by Kurt Wimmer. With Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu. A beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hemophages.

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.

Being Shakespeare (2011)
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Directed by John Wyver. With Simon Callow.

The Train (1964)
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Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn. With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon. In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.

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.

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.

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

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
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Directed by Oliver Stone. With Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin. Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.

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.

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
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Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú. In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Virus (1999)
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Directed by John Bruno. With Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula. When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

*3rd of 3 items in 'single file' disk*

Big Fat Important Movie (2008)
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Directed by David Zucker. With Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins. An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

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.

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.

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.

Le moine (2011)
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Directed by Dominik Moll. With Vincent Cassel, Déborah François, Joséphine Japy, Sergi López. Madrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word...

aka The Monk

My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
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Directed by Howard Deutch. With Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin. Tank faces the ultimate test of friendship when his best friend hires him to take his ex-girlfriend out on a lousy date in order to make her realize how great her former boyfriend is.

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.

Belfast (2021)
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Belfast: Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan. A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s

Shutter Island (2010)
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Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. In 1954, a U.S. marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.

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.

The Greatest Showman (2017)
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Directed by Michael Gracey. With Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya. Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

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.

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.

Noah (2014)
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson. A man is chosen by his world's creator to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
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Directed by Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang. With Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Panward Hemmanee. A hitman who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs violates his personal code when he falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.

Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
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Directed by Harvey Glazer. With Jonathan Bennett, Kristin Cavallari, Kurt Fuller, Steve Talley. Van Wilder starts his freshman year at Coolidge College and embarks on an adventure to land the campus hottie and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction.

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.

Solaris (2002)
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Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis. A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

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.

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
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Directed by Peter Webber. With Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Ghost Town (2008)
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Directed by David Koepp. With Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Jordan Carlos. Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

Chicago (2002)
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
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32mins. BBC. Follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home.

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 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.

The Wolfman (2010)
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Directed by Joe Johnston. With Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Simon Merrells. Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.

Spartacus (1960)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

Whisky Galore (2016)
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Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With James Cosmo, Sean Biggerstaff, Eddie Izzard, Naomi Battrick. Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Mamma Mia! (2008)
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Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.

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.

Motherhood (2009)
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Directed by Katherine Dieckmann. With Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver, David Schallipp. In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
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Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell. Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

The Dressmaker (2015)
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Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook. A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.

The History Boys (2006)
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Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson. An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

Cloud Atlas (2012)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski. With Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving. An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Best Possible Taste (2012)
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Directed by James Strong. With Oliver Lansley, Katherine Kelly, Perry Millward, Glenn Wild. Schoolboy Maurice Cole,growing up in 1960s Liverpool,is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes,one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station,changing his name to Kenny Everett.Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and...

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.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
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Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6.

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.

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.

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
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Directed by Jee-woon Kim. With Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee, Woo-sung Jung, Je-mun Yun. The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.

Frost/Nixon (2008)
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Directed by Ron Howard. With Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell. A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

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.

Date Night (2010)
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Directed by Shawn Levy. With Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson. In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
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Directed by Samuel Bayer. With Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy. The spectre of a dead child rapist haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams.

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.

Get Him to the Greek (2010)
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Directed by Nicholas Stoller. With Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne. A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater.

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.

The Queen (2006)
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings. After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.

An Unfinished Life (2005)
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Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Jennifer Lopez, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas. Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds.

Zorba the Greek (1964)
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Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. With Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova. An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

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.

Antz (1998)
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Directed by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson. With Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone. A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves.

The Informant! (2009)
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Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll. The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.

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

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.

Date Night (2010)
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Directed by Shawn Levy. With Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson. In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.

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.

The Weather Man (2005)
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Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Caine. A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.

The Greatest Showman (2017)
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Directed by Michael Gracey. With Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya. Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Unrelated (2007)
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Directed by Joanna Hogg. With Kathryn Worth, Harry Kershaw, Emma Hiddleston, Henry Lloyd-Hughes. A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.

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.

The Hot Potato (2012)
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Directed by Tim Lewiston. With Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston, David Harewood. London's East End 1969. Based on real events. Two chancers 'find' a lump of Uranium and crisscross Europe to find a buyer. Accompanied by Danny's girl, the lovely Carole. They encounter a diverse cast of bizarre characters, all trying to steal the 'Hot Potato', but a deal agreed inside the Vatican has the co-conspirators confounding each other. The story twists and turns to an exciting and ...

Shakespeare's Globe: Henry IV, Part 1 (2010)
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Directed by Dominic Dromgoole. With Roger Allam, Jamie Parker.

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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Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009)
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Directed by Tim Matheson. With Joe Manganiello, Ken Anderson, Channon Roe, Yancey Arias. Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

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

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.

You, Me and Dupree (2006)
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Directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. With Kate Hudson, Owen Wilson, Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas. A best man (Wilson) stays on as a houseguest with the newlyweds, much to the couple's annoyance.

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
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Directed by Marc Webb. With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Irrfan Khan. After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to solve the mystery of his parent's mysterious death.

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.

Midnight in Paris (2011)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller. While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.

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 ...

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.

The Incredibles (2004)
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Directed by Brad Bird. With Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee. A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.

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.

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.

The Informant! (2009)
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Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll. The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.

Shine (1996)
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Directed by Scott Hicks. With Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd. Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

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.

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.

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

Life Is Beautiful (1997)
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Directed by Roberto Benigni. With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano. When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015)
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Directed by Simon Lloyd. With Michael Cockerell, Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy, Edna Healey. An intimate portrait of Labour politician Denis Healey by political journalist Michael Cockerill. Shown as an obituary and a tribute following his death at the age of 98 on 3 October 2015.

Dread (2009)
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Directed by Anthony DiBlasi. With Jackson Rathbone, Hanne Steen, Laura Donnelly, Jonathan Readwin. Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.

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.

'High'

Up (2009)
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Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. With Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer. Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

The Way (2010)
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Directed by Emilio Estevez. With Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen. A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself.

Papillon (2017)
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Directed by Michael Noer. With Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank, Jason Ryan. Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

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.

Observe and Report (2009)
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Directed by Jody Hill. With Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta, Michael Peña. Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective, is recruited to close the case.

Garden State (2004)
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Directed by Zach Braff. With Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
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Directed by Marc Webb. With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Irrfan Khan. After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to solve the mystery of his parent's mysterious death.

The One Show (2022)
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30mins. BBC. 31st May 2022 in which Bradford is announced as City of Culture 2025.

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.

aka 13 minutes

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter. Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
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Directed by Wes Anderson. With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody. The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

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.

Jeremy Irons in a tour de force.

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.

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
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Directed by Patrick Tatopoulos. With Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Steven Mackintosh. An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.

Avatar (2009)
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Directed by James Cameron. With Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez. A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

The Wolfman (2010)
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Directed by Joe Johnston. With Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Simon Merrells. Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.

The Omen (2006)
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Directed by John Moore. With Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, David Thewlis. A remake of the horror classic The Omen (1976), an American official realizes that his young son may literally be the devil incarnate.

Zorba the Greek (1964)
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Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. With Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova. An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen. A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Taken (2008)
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Directed by Pierre Morel. With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser. A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

Big Fat Important Movie (2008)
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Directed by David Zucker. With Kevin P. Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen, Trace Adkins. An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011)
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Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as the creature sets out to discover the world and the meaning of life.

In the Loop (2009)
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Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Harry Hadden-Paton. A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.

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 Riot Club (2014)
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Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay. Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.

Secret State (2012)
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With Gabriel Byrne, Ralph Ineson, Charles Dance, Jamie Sives. Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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Directed by Edgar Wright. With Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill. Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.

The History Boys (2006)
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Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson. An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

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

Chicago (2002)
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Wonder Woman (2017)
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Directed by Patty Jenkins. With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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Directed by Edgar Wright. With Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill. Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.

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.

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.

Struck by Lightning (2012)
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Directed by Brian Dannelly. With Chris Colfer, Rebel Wilson, Christina Hendricks, Dermot Mulroney. A high schooler recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
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Directed by John Ford. With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin. A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

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.

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.

In Bruges (2008)
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Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington. Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.