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The Pianist (2002) #2 Remove Directed by Roman Polanski. With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox. A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. |
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The Bounty Hunter (2010) #285 Remove Directed by Andy Tennant. With Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Gio Perez, Joel Marsh Garland. A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure. |
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I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) #297 Remove Directed by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa. With Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro. A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #1399 Remove An American Werewolf in London: Directed by John Landis. With Joe Belcher, David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, David Schofield. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists 16:9 Good version. |
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Brave (2012) #449 Remove Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell. With Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters. Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. Disney |
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) #511 Remove Directed by Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason. With Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Richard Atwill. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. |
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Barbarella (1968) #279 Remove Directed by Roger Vadim. With Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea. In the distant future, a highly sexual woman is assigned with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way, she encounters various unusual people. |
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The Great British Year (2013) #572 Remove With Joseph Fiennes. 2x1 hour. Winter, Spring. BBC. |
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Risen (2016) #949 Remove Directed by Kevin Reynolds. With Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis. In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of an executed Jew rumored to have risen from the dead. |
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Amour (2012) #483 Remove Directed by Michael Haneke. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud. Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested. |
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (2016) #1284 Remove 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. |
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Of Time and the City (2008) #688 Remove Directed by Terence Davies. With Terence Davies. A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England. |
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Great Expectations (2011) #358 Remove With Douglas Booth, Jack Roth, Ray Winstone, David Suchet. The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor. 3x1hour BBC |
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Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? (2010) #689 Remove Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. | |
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The Train (1964) #4 Remove 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. |
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The Third Man (1949) #1424 Remove The Third Man: Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. |
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Romeo and Juliet (1966) #620 Remove The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan. |
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) #43 Remove Directed by Ken Loach. With Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald. Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces. |
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An American in Paris (1951) #157 Remove Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary. Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. |
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The Fourth Kind (2009) #315 Remove Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi. With Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim. A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up. |
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Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? (2010) #689 Remove Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. | |
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The Avengers (2012) #236 Remove Directed by Joss Whedon. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner. Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity. aka Avengers Assemble |
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The Castle (1997) #278 Remove Directed by Rob Sitch. With Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe. A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion. |
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Mr Bates v The Post Office (2024) #1524 Remove Mr Bates vs. The Post Office: With Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Will Mellor. One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system. |
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Risen (2016) #949 Remove Directed by Kevin Reynolds. With Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis. In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of an executed Jew rumored to have risen from the dead. |
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Fitzcarraldo (1982) #168 Remove 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. |
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Aladdin (2019) #1237 Remove Directed by Guy Ritchie. With Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari. A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. |
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Carols from Kings (2010) #612 Remove A solo chorister singing Once In Royal David's City begins this traditional celebration of Christmas from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. The story of the Nativity is told in the familiar words of the King James Bible together with Christmas poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland, WH Auden and Charles Causley. The famous Chapel choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, sings carols old and new, including such favourites as The Sussex Carol, In Dulci Jubilo, Ding Dong Merrily On High, The First Nowell, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Bethlehem Down and O Come, All Ye Faithful. | |
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Aladdin (1992) #1077 Remove Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. |
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The Pirates of Somalia (2017) #1109 Remove Directed by Bryan Buckley. With Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi. In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them. |
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The Great British Year (2013) #572 Remove With Joseph Fiennes. 2x1 hour. Winter, Spring. BBC. |
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Zodiac (2007) #23 Remove 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. |
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Fantasia 2000 (1999) #1049 Remove Directed by James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi. With James Levine, Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones. An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music. |
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Ida (2013) #1309 Remove Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela. A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation. |
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Tracker (2010) #369 Remove Directed by Ian Sharp. With Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Gareth Reeves, Mark Mitchinson. An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he's innocent of the crime. When faced with the life changing decision to turn him in or set him free only one man will walk away alive. |
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Apocalypto (2006) #287 Remove Directed by Mel Gibson. With Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Rudy Youngblood. As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate. |
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Sorry We Missed You (2019) #1398 Remove Sorry We Missed You: Directed by Ken Loach. With Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Mcgowan, Katie Proctor. Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation |
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Barbarella (1968) #279 Remove Directed by Roger Vadim. With Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea. In the distant future, a highly sexual woman is assigned with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way, she encounters various unusual people. |
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The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019) #1238 Remove With Sophie Cookson, James Norton, Ellie Bamber, Emilia Fox. Story of Christine Keeler, who found herself at the heart of a political sex scandal that rocked British government in the 1960s. 6x1 hour episodes. BBC. |
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A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) #1095 Remove Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship. |
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Carols from Kings (2010) #612 Remove A solo chorister singing Once In Royal David's City begins this traditional celebration of Christmas from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. The story of the Nativity is told in the familiar words of the King James Bible together with Christmas poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland, WH Auden and Charles Causley. The famous Chapel choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, sings carols old and new, including such favourites as The Sussex Carol, In Dulci Jubilo, Ding Dong Merrily On High, The First Nowell, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Bethlehem Down and O Come, All Ye Faithful. | |
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La Femme Nikita (1990) #63 Remove Directed by Luc Besson. With Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière. Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin. |
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Verdi: Aida (2009) #604 Remove Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Violeta Urmana, Johan Botha, Dolora Zajick, Carlo Guelfi. Pharoah's daughter loves Radames, leader of the Egyptian army. So does slave-girl, Aida, who happens to be (unknown to anyone) Princess of Ethiopia. Aida must choose either her country or Radames. The outcome leaves both gasping for breath. Opera. The Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
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The Phantom of the Open (2021) #1450 Remove The Phantom of the Open: Directed by Craig Roberts. With Mark Rylance, Ian Porter, Tommy Fallon, David Mara. Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, manages to gain entry to the 1976 British Open Golf Championship qualification round despite being a complete novice |
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Horizon: What Happened Before the Big Bang? (2010) #688 Remove They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer - a big bang some 14 billion years ago. | |
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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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A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) #1190 Remove Directed by Nick Park. With Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay, Melissa Collier, Sarah Laborde. Wallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case. |