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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.

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.

The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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Directed by David Silverman. With Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith. After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpson family are declared fugitives.

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

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.

Complete at 125mins inc cast but in LP mode

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.

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.

A Real Summer (2007)
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Directed by Stephen Poliakoff. With Ruth Wilson, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More. It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling.

Magnolia (1999)
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Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Heaven Is for Real (2014)
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Directed by Randall Wallace. With Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Connor Corum. A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.

The Graduate (1967)
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The Graduate: Directed by Mike Nichols. With Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels. A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter

One Day (2011)
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Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Tom Mison. After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.

Billy Liar (1963)
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Directed by John Schlesinger. With Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Grown Ups (2010)
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Directed by Dennis Dugan. With Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Chris Rock. After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Radioactive (2019)
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Radioactive: Directed by Marjane Satrapi. With Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin. The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Maudie (2016)
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Directed by Aisling Walsh. With Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose. An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
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Directed by Spike Jonze. With Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Pepita Emmerichs. Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king.

Surrogates (2009)
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Directed by Jonathan Mostow. With Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike. Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Suffragette (2015)
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Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

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.

8x1 hour episodes. BBC.

The Lady in the Van (2015)
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Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond. A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
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Directed by Mark Herman. With Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Zac Mattoon O'Brien. Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

White Noise 2: The Light (2007)
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Directed by Patrick Lussier. With Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Adrian Holmes. Following the loss of his family, a man attempts suicide only to discover upon waking that he can identify people who are about to die

Parkland (2013)
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Directed by Peter Landesman. With Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti. A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

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.

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 Lady in the Van (2015)
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Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond. A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.

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.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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Directed by David Lean. With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa. After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

Away We Go (2009)
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Directed by Sam Mendes. With John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney, Carmen Ejogo. A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

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.

Limitless (2011)
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Directed by Neil Burger. With Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro. With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100 percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.

Perfect Sense (2011)
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Directed by David Mackenzie. With Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen. A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

Resistance (2020)
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Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. With Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Félix Moati. The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
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Directed by Jim Loach. With Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden, Lorraine Ashbourne. Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

Rory's Way (2018)
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Directed by Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis. With Thora Birch, Brian Cox, Tim Matheson, JJ Feild. Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. He moves in with his estranged son Rory, as he sees his life getting transformed through a newfound bond with his baby grandson.

aka The Etruscan Smile

First Man (2018)
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First Man: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler. A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969

Weirdsville (2007)
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Directed by Allan Moyle. With Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning, Matt Frewer. A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.

The Lake House (2006)
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Directed by Alejandro Agresti. With Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach. A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

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.

MASH (1970)
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Directed by Robert Altman. With Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman. The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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Directed by Sergio Leone. With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci. A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

My Old Lady (2014)
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Directed by Israel Horovitz. With Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Michael Burstin. An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident.

Iron Man Three (2013)
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Directed by Shane Black. With Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Tangled (2010)
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Directed by Nathan Greno, Byron Howard. With Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman. The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

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.

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.

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.

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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Directed by Orson Welles. Fred Fleck, Robert Wise. With Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter. The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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.

Military Wives (2019)
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Military Wives: Directed by Peter Cattaneo. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Emma Lowndes, Gaby French. With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement

The Lego Movie (2014)
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Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis.

The Last Song (2010)
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Directed by Julie Anne Robinson. With Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman. A rebellious girl is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

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.

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.

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.

Papillon (1973)
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Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon. A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

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.

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.

Enid (2009)
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Directed by James Hawes. With Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook. Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, ...

Heaven Is for Real (2014)
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Directed by Randall Wallace. With Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Connor Corum. A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world.

Maudie (2016)
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Directed by Aisling Walsh. With Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose. An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

Nine (2009)
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori. Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Yesterday (2019)
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Directed by Danny Boyle. With Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino, Ellise Chappell. A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed.

Salt (2010)
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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.

Military Wives (2019)
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Military Wives: Directed by Peter Cattaneo. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Emma Lowndes, Gaby French. With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement

Barney's Version (2010)
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Directed by Richard J. Lewis. With Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Macha Grenon. The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Iris (2001)
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Directed by Richard Eyre. With Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville. True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.

The Ides of March (2011)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling. An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

Sea of Love (1989)
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Directed by Harold Becker. With Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker. A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.

La linea (2009)
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Directed by James Cotten. With Ray Liotta, Andy Garcia, Esai Morales, Armand Assante. The unstable new kingpin of a Tijuana drug cartel is targeted by an assassin for elimination.

aka The Line

Creation (2009)
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Directed by Jon Amiel. With Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly, Guy Henry. Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.

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.

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.

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

The Infiltrator (2016)
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Directed by Brad Furman. With Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan. A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

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.

The Imitation Game (2014)
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Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

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.

Far Cry (2008)
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Directed by Uwe Boll. With Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier. An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island.

Gone Girl (2014)
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Directed by David Fincher. With Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry. With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Alice in Wonderland (2010)
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Directed by Tim Burton. With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway. Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.

The Day of the Jackal (1973)
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Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel. A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.

The Ides of March (2011)
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Directed by George Clooney. With Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling. An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

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.

Max Payne (2008)
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Directed by John Moore. With Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris. Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.

The Rainmaker (1997)
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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight. An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent Insurance company.

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.

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.

When in Rome (2010)
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Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. With Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Anjelica Huston, Danny DeVito. Beth is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. However, on a whirlwind trip to Rome, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then aggressively pursued by a band of suitors.

Long Weekend (2008)
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Directed by Jamie Blanks. With Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan, John Brumpton. A vacationing couple in the wilderness learns what happens when they disrespect nature.

Gran Torino (2008)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her. Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

All About Steve (2009)
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Directed by Phil Traill. With Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church, Ken Jeong. Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

Ashes in the Snow (2018)
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Directed by Marius A. Markevicius. With Bel Powley, Sophie Cookson, Jonah Hauer-King, James Cosmo. In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.

The Book of Life (2014)
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Directed by Jorge R. Gutiérrez. With Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Channing Tatum, Ron Perlman. Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart, embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastic worlds where he must face his greatest fears.

Gone Girl (2014)
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Directed by David Fincher. With Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry. With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Joshua (2007)
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Directed by George Ratliff. With Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Jacob Kogan, Celia Weston. The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.

aka The Devil's Child

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.

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 Last Witness (2018)
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Directed by Piotr Szkopiak. With Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon. An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years.

Tormented (2009)
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Directed by Jon Wright. With Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean. A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates.

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.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
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Directed by Mike Newell. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina. A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

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 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.

The Little Mermaid (1989)
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Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Jodi Benson, Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll. A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.

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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
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Directed by Kevin Smith. With Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Gerry Bednob. Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.

Terminator Salvation (2009)
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Directed by McG. With Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood. In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?

Emperor (2012)
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Directed by Peter Webber. With Matthew Fox, Colin Moy, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune. As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Enid (2009)
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Directed by James Hawes. With Helena Bonham Carter, Matthew Macfadyen, Denis Lawson, Claire Rushbrook. Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. Whilst training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers, one of whom, Hugh Pollock,takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny rear them whilst she, ironically, ...