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Ancient Worlds: The Republic of Virtue (2011) #809 Remove How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? In the fifth programme of the series, archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. | |
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Needful Things (1993) #776 Remove Directed by Fraser C. Heston. With Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer. A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected. |
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Julie & Julia (2009) #290 Remove Directed by Nora Ephron. With Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci. Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. |
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Life Is Beautiful (1997) #219 Remove 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. |
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Nebraska (2013) #256 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk. An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. |
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Life Is Beautiful (1997) #219 Remove 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. |
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Salt (2010) #21 Remove Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Angelina Jolie Pitt, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski. A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. |
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Ultraviolet (2006) #180 Remove 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. |
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Don Giovanni (2008) #624 Remove Directed by Robin Lough. With Simon Keenlyside, Kyle Ketelsen, Eric Halfvarson, Ramón Vargas. | |
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Night Mail (1936) #1456 Remove 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 |
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Command Performance (2009) #24 Remove Directed by Dolph Lundgren. With Dolph Lundgren, Melissa Molinaro, Hristo Shopov, Dave Legeno. When the Russian Premier is taken hostage at a rock concert in Moscow, it's up to a drummer, an ex-biker, to save him. |
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) #1093 Remove 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. |
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Solomon Kane (2009) #295 Remove 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. |
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State of Mind (2017) #1352 Remove Directed by Jon Avnet. With Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford, Walton Goggins. Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving. |
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Atonement (2007) #521 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. |
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Doctor Thorne (2016) #455 Remove With Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Harry Richardson, Rebecca Front. The life of penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her Uncle, Dr Thorne, and her relationship with the family at nearby Greshamsbury Park estate. 3x1 hour |
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A Bug's Life (1998) #445 Remove Directed by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton. With Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere. A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe. Disney |
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Labor Day (2013) #241 Remove Directed by Jason Reitman. With Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Clark Gregg. Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited. |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (2016) #782 Remove 90mins. BBC. Directed by David Kerr. With Nonso Anozie, John Hannah, Matt Lucas, Maxine Peake. A modern re-telling of the classic fantasy drama by William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream holds a star-studded cast with euphoric effects and melodramatic storytelling. |
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The Pillars of the Earth (2010) #689 Remove With Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell. Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart. Episodes 1 and 2 of 9 |
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) #1235 Remove Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee. Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. |
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Monty Python Live (2014) #560 Remove Directed by Eric Idle, Aubrey Powell. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The reunion of the Monty Python team on stage for the first time in over 30 years, and for the last time ever. |
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Anna Karenina (2012) #410 Remove 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. |
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The Special Relationship (2010) #543 Remove Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Michael Sheen, Demetri Goritsas, Adam Godley, Marc Rioufol. A dramatization that traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. |
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Jellyfish (2018) #1221 Remove Directed by James Gardner. With Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri, Angus Barnett. A young carer discovers an unlikely talent for stand-up comedy. |
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The Shape of Water (2017) #1156 Remove Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones. At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. |
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Emily Young. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Florencia Lozano. After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live. |
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The Hot Potato (2012) #83 Remove 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 ... |
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Ambassadors (2013) #558 Remove With David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Susan Lynch, Amara Karan. The adventures and politics of a British ambassador to a fictitious Asian country called Tajbekistan. 3x1hour. Episodes 1,2,3 |
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Frozen Planet 2 (2011) #593 Remove With David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Ted Giffords. Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic. 2x1 hour. The Last Frontier, On Thin Ice. |
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Night Mail (1936) #1456 Remove 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 |