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Goldfinger (1964)
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Goldfinger: Directed by Guy Hamilton. With Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton. While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve

Ace in the Hole (1951)
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Directed by Billy Wilder. With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

The 39 Steps (1959)
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The 39 Steps: Directed by Ralph Thomas. With Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones. In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

Fame (2009)
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Directed by Kevin Tancharoen. With Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally, Kay Panabaker. An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.

Show Boat (1951)
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Directed by George Sidney. With Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown. The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
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Directed by Banksy. With Banksy, Space Invader, Mr. Brainwash, Debora Guetta. The story of how an eccentric French shop-keeper and amateur film-maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

Aladdin (2019)
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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.

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.

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...

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
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Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell. With the '70s behind him, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

Humans S1 (2015)
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With Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Carless, Gemma Chan, Tom Goodman-Hill. In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.

8x50min episodes. C4.

Vera Drake (2004)
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Directed by Mike Leigh. With Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham. Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Will (2011)
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Directed by Ellen Perry. With Damian Lewis, Bob Hoskins, Rebekah Staton, Kieran Wallbanks. An orphan journeys across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.

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.

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 Danish Girl (2015)
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Directed by Tom Hooper. With Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Brassed Off (1996)
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Directed by Mark Herman. With Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

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The Silent Child (2017)
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Directed by Chris Overton. With Rachel Fielding, Philip York, Rachel Shenton, Maisie Sly. A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

Short film - 20 mins.

Flawless (2007)
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Directed by Michael Radford. With Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker. Set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire caretaker convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.

The Scandalous Lady W (2015)
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Directed by Sheree Folkson. With Natalie Dormer, Aneurin Barnard, Shaun Evans, Oliver Chris. An eighteenth century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley.

Save the Cinema (2022)
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Save the Cinema: Directed by Sara Sugarman. With Louisa Cliffe, Krrish Patel, Jonathan Pryce, Beatie Edney. The story of Liz Evans, who lives in Carmarthen South West Wales, who starts a campaign in the 90s to save the Lyric Cinema.

Cars (2006)
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Directed by John Lasseter, Joe Ranft. With Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Larry the Cable Guy. A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.

Disney

The Special Relationship (2010)
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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.

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
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Directed by Don Chaffey. With Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Duncan Macrae. Scotland, 1865. An old shepherd and his little Skye Terrier Bobby go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars Kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh ...

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.

Command Performance (2009)
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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.

To Olivia (2021)
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Directed by John Hay. With Hugh Bonneville, Bobby O'Neill, Eve Prenelle, Michael Jibson. The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl.

Doctor Thorne (2016)
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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.

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A Bug's Life (1998)
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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

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.

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 Fourth Kind (2009)
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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.

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.

Wrong Side of Town (2010)
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Directed by David DeFalco. With Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, Lara Grice, Edrick Browne. In order to save his kidnapped daughter, an ex-Marine is forced to take on a gang of killers when an accident leaves the brother of a malicious criminal dead.

Cathedrals: Wells (2013)
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In a series of three films, the acclaimed documentary film maker, Richard Alwyn, goes behind the scenes in three of England's Church of England Cathedrals - Wakefield, Wells and Southwark. Each film explores in different ways the purpose and daily workings of these extraordinary edifices that stud the English landscape. What are they for? What do they do? Who uses them and how? Are they meeting ...

Kes (1969)
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Kes: Directed by Ken Loach. With David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland. A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.

The Third Man (1949)
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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.

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.

Royal Shakespeare Company: Macbeth (2018)
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Directed by Robin Lough. With Eve Hatz, Lauren Heaps, Elizabeth Kaleniuk, Aleksandra Penlington. Shakespeare's psychological thriller marks Christopher Eccleston's RSC debut and Niamh Cusack's return to the Company.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
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Directed by George Lucas. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness. Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

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.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

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.

The Lucky One (2012)
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Directed by Scott Hicks. With Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner, Riley Thomas Stewart. A Marine travels to North Carolina after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.

Seve the Movie (2014)
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Directed by John-Paul Davidson. With José Luis Gutiérrez, José Navar, Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo. Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought against adversity to become the most spectacular and charismatic golfer to ever play the game.

The Proposal (2009)
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Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson. A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.

Panda Makers (2010)
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Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and...

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
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Directed by Don Chaffey. With Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Duncan Macrae. Scotland, 1865. An old shepherd and his little Skye Terrier Bobby go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars Kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh ...

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.

6 Souls (2010)
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Directed by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein. With Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy. A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

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Miliband of Brothers (2010)
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Directed by Richard Curson Smith. With Samantha Morton, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Katherine Kanter. Charting the rise of the Miliband brothers, from their left-wing upbringing to their University days, using dramatized scenes and interviews with people who knew them.

Crank (2006)
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Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo. Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.

Of Time and the City (2008)
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Directed by Terence Davies. With Terence Davies. A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.

4.3.2.1. (2010)
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Directed by Noel Clarke, Mark Davis. With Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, Ophelia Lovibond, Shanika Warren-Markland. 4 girls out on a 3 days trip in to 2 cities, if they survive. While Jo is working in a supermarket, her 3 friends are all out on their adventures. A chance encounter with diamond thieves sends them on a collision course with fate itself.

Flame and Citron (2008)
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Directed by Ole Christian Madsen. With Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind. A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
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The Adventures of Robin Hood: Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains. When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
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Directed by Carlos Saldanha. With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott. Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.

Great British Railway Journeys: York to Frizinghall (2018)
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30 mins. BBC. Series 9. Armed with his Edwardian Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo conducts important research in an historic tea room, built by an Edwardian immigrant to the city of York. Research of a more sombre kind leads Michael to the roots of our modern welfare state in the work of an early 20th-century Quaker investigator, whose family manufactured chocolate.

My Sister's Keeper (2009)
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Directed by Nick Cassavetes. With Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Walter Raney. Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive.

National Theatre Live: Amadeus (2017)
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Directed by Michael Longhurst. With Sarah Amankwah, Hammed Animashaun, Geoffrey Beevers, Karla Crome. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world - and he's determined to make a splash.

Maria by Callas (2017)
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Directed by Tom Volf. With Fanny Ardant, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Callas, David Frost. An intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, as told in her own words.

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.

Friends with Money (2006)
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Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack. After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.

Royal Shakespeare Company: Macbeth (2018)
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Directed by Robin Lough. With Eve Hatz, Lauren Heaps, Elizabeth Kaleniuk, Aleksandra Penlington. Shakespeare's psychological thriller marks Christopher Eccleston's RSC debut and Niamh Cusack's return to the Company.

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.

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

Tube Tales (1999)
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Directed by Gaby Dellal, Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins. With Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Kelly Macdonald, Denise Van Outen. Nine stories based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers.

Keeler, Profumo, Ward and Me (2020)
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1 hour. BBC.

In 1962, Tom Mangold was newly arrived at the Daily Express – and his first big assignment was the John Profumo/Christine Keeler scandal. It would culminate in the evening of 30 July 1963, when Tom visited Stephen Ward, the man at the centre of the affair. The next day, Ward was scheduled to hear whether he was guilty of living off the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davies. Ward handed Mangold a suicide letter, which Tom has retained for more than 55 years. He will reveal its full contents for the first time on television.

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

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.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
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Directed by George Seaton. With Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

Presto (2008)
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Directed by Doug Sweetland. With Doug Sweetland. A stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats.

The Band Wagon (1953)
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Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray. A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.

The Oxford Murders (2008)
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Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

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.

season 1 episode 3. 50 mins.

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.

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.

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.

Horse Feathers (1932)
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Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley University, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against the rival Darwin University.

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.

Definitely, Maybe (2008)
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Directed by Adam Brooks. With Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin, An Nguyen. A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.

Moana (2016)
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Directed by Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker. With Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison. In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right.

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.

La Fille du Regiment (2008)
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Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli. Marie, lost as a baby, was found and raised by the local regiment. Tonio loves her, she loves him, but when her aunt recognizes her, it seems they will never be allowed to be together.

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Cathedrals: Wells (2013)
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In a series of three films, the acclaimed documentary film maker, Richard Alwyn, goes behind the scenes in three of England's Church of England Cathedrals - Wakefield, Wells and Southwark. Each film explores in different ways the purpose and daily workings of these extraordinary edifices that stud the English landscape. What are they for? What do they do? Who uses them and how? Are they meeting ...

The Return (2003)
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Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.

Macbeth (2010)
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Directed by Rupert Goold. With Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden. Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production.

La Luna (2011)
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Directed by Enrico Casarosa. With Krista Sheffler, Tony Fucile, Phil Sheridan. A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his ...

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.

My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
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Directed by Julian Kemp. With Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, Kelly Adams, Cécile Cassel. Duncan navigates the unsteady world of romance and relationships, going through five girlfriends in four years. Unfortunately, none of them turn out well.

The Road to Coronation Street (2010)
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Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Ann Aris, Lynda Baron, Steven Berkoff, David Dawson. The story of how the 22-year-old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street (1960).

Splinter (2008)
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Directed by Toby Wilkins. With Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Charles Baker. Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
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Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. With Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys. Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily ...

Song of the Sea (2014)
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Directed by Tomm Moore. With David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan. Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.

Verdi: Aida (2009)
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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.

Henry V (1989)
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Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War in 1415, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

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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.

National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)
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Directed by Benedict Andrews, Nick Wickham. With Gillian Anderson, Clare Burt, Lachele Carl, Branwell Donaghey. As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

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.

Jennifer's Body (2009)
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Directed by Karyn Kusama. With Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons. A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

Upside Down (2012)
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Directed by Juan Solanas. With Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma. Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love.

Letters to Juliet (2010)
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Directed by Gary Winick. With Amanda Seyfried, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Marcia DeBonis. Sophie dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the "Secretaries of Juliet".

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.

The Shining (1980)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Green Book (2018)
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Green Book: Directed by Peter Farrelly. With Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco. A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
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Directed by George Seaton. With Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

Ambassadors (2013)
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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

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.

In a Better World (2010)
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Directed by Susanne Bier. With Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard, Wil Johnson. The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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.

Anonymous (2011)
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Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto. The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

The Oxford Murders (2008)
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Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

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.

The Dam Busters (1955)
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Directed by Michael Anderson. With Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney. The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.

Whiplash (2014)
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Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Boychoir (2014)
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Directed by François Girard. With Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Eddie Izzard, Kevin McHale. Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.

aka The Choir

Cathy Come Home (1966)
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Cathy Come Home: Directed by Ken Loach. With Carol White, Ray Brooks, Winifred Dennis, Wally Patch. A wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms

The Wrong Box (1966)
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Directed by Bryan Forbes. With John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook. In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other... or can be made to have seemed to do so!

Bedazzled (1967)
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Directed by Stanley Donen. With Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch. A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Directed by David Lean. With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins. The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Pinocchio (2019)
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Directed by Matteo Garrone. With Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo, Massimo Ceccherini. Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.

Literary Analysis

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.

On a single disk

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.

Severance (2006)
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Directed by Christopher Smith. With Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens. During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.

The Secret Life of Chaos (2010)
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1 hour. BBC. Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.

Attack the Block (2011)
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Directed by Joe Cornish. With John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones. A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

The Return (2003)
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Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.

Splinter (2008)
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Directed by Toby Wilkins. With Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Charles Baker. Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

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.

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.

Cathedrals: Wells (2013)
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In a series of three films, the acclaimed documentary film maker, Richard Alwyn, goes behind the scenes in three of England's Church of England Cathedrals - Wakefield, Wells and Southwark. Each film explores in different ways the purpose and daily workings of these extraordinary edifices that stud the English landscape. What are they for? What do they do? Who uses them and how? Are they meeting ...

On Expenses (2010)
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1 hour. BBC. Drama about American journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses under the Freedom of Information Act, resulting in one of the defining political scandals of the decade.

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.

Frozen Planet 2 (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.

2x1 hour. The Last Frontier, On Thin Ice.

The Snowman (1982)
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Directed by Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami. With David Bowie, Raymond Briggs. On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Santa Clause.

V for Vendetta (2005)
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Directed by James McTeigue. With Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea. In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.

World on Fire (2019)
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With Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Helen Hunt, Sean Bean. WWII drama centered on the lives of ordinary people affected by the war.

BBC. Series 1. 7x1 hour episodes.

Brüno (2009)
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Directed by Larry Charles. With Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu. Flamboyant and gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.

The Beauty of Diagrams (2010)
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60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design.

The Return (2003)
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Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.

The Kite Runner (2007)
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Directed by Marc Forster. With Khalid Abdalla, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub. After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.

Weathering with You (2019)
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1h 52m Set during a period of exceptionally rainy weather, high-school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his troubled rural home to Tokyo and befriends an orphan girl who can manipulate the weather.

Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute (2016)
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Directed by John Bridcut. With Prince Charles, Princess Alexandra, Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Clementine Churchill. A unique celebration of the Queen's ninety years as she reaches her landmark birthday in April. Film-maker John Bridcut has been granted special access to the complete collection of Her Majesty's personal ciné films, shot by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen herself, as well as by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Much of it has never been seen publicly before. Various ...

70mins. BBC. 21st April 2016.

The Guns of Navarone (1961)
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Directed by J Lee Thompson. With David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle. A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.

A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti (1980)
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With Luciano Pavarotti. The famed tenor performs holiday classics in this program at Notre Dame Cathedral in Montréal, joined by a boys choir, Les Petits Chanteur du Mont-Royal, and an adult choir, Les Disciples de Massenet.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Directed by David Lean. With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins. The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Mirrors (2008)
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Directed by Alexandre Aja. With Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce. An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

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.

Rendition (2007)
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Directed by Gavin Hood. With Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin. A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US.

Horizon: What Happened Before the Big Bang? (2010)
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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.

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.

Astaire and Rodgers Sing George and Ira Gershwin (2010)
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From BBC Four. A compilation of classic songs from the Great American Songbook written by brothers George and Ira Gershwin for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

The Uninvited (2009)
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Directed by Charles Guard, Thomas Guard. With Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn. Anna Ivers returns home to her sister Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother. Her dismay quickly turns to horror when she is visited by ghastly visions of her dead mother.

Bambi (1942)
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Directed by James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand. With Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn. The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

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Mo (2010)
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Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam.

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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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.

Poseidon (2006)
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Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. With Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas. On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.

The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl (2016)
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Directed by Andrew Thompson. With Robert Lindsay, Quentin Blake, Winston Churchill, Chantal Coady. Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. From crashing his plane over Africa to hobnobbing in Hollywood and his remarkable encounters with everyone from Walt Disney to President Roosevelt - this is the story of his greatest adventures and how his real-life escapades find expression in his most famous books, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to ...

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Runaway (2009)
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Directed by Cordell Barker. With Richard Condie, Muriel Hogue, Leonard Waldner. A train runs into a cow on the tracks; with the captain nowhere to be found, the fireman is forced to desperately improvise in order to keep the train going.

The Black Stallion (1979)
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1h 58m After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.

The Scouting Book for Boys (2009)
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Directed by Tom Harper. With Thomas Turgoose, Holliday Grainger, Ruth Wellman, Ewen MacIntosh. When David discovers that his best friend Emily is being forced to leave their caravan park home, he agrees to help her to run away. But after their plan starts to unravel, secrets come to light that transform his life in ways he never imagined.

Lady and the Tramp (1955)
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Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. With Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson. The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

76 mins. Disney

The Great Escape (1963)
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Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Needful Things (1993)
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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.

Death Warrior (2009)
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Directed by Bill Corcoran. With Hector Echavarria, Tanya Clarke, Nick Mancuso, Keith Jardine. Five of the best mixed martial arts champions from around the world are forced to play a deadly game, a game to the death.

In the Electric Mist (2009)
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Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. With Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen. A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
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The Matrix Resurrections: Directed by Lana Wachowski. With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff. Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more

The Trouble with Tolstoy (2011)
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BBC 2 x 1 hour episodes: 1 At War with Himself, 2 In Search of Happiness.

The Firm (2009)
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Directed by Nick Love. With Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab, Daniel Mays, Doug Allen. Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team.

Mr. Jones (2019)
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Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

Moana (2016)
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Directed by Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker. With Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison. In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right.

A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)
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Directed by Andy Cadiff. With Burt Reynolds, Alexandra Weaver, Elesia Marie, Sarah Goldberg. A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.

Brüno (2009)
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Directed by Larry Charles. With Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu. Flamboyant and gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.

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.

Just Mercy (2019)
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Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. With Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Charlie Pye Jr.. World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

Ophelia (2018)
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Ophelia: Directed by Claire McCarthy. With Daisy Ridley, Mia Quiney, Calum O'Rourke, Nathaniel Parker. A reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective

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.

Panda Makers (2010)
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Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and...

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.

The Grinch (2018)
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Directed by Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones, Pharrell Williams. A grumpy Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville.

The Night of the Generals (1967)
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Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence. In 1942, a Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice despite the ongoing atrocities committed during WWII.

42 (2013)
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Directed by Brian Helgeland. With Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie. The story of Jackie Robinson from his signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1945 to his historic 1947 rookie season when he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

The Pianist (2002)
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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.

Wrong Side of Town (2010)
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Directed by David DeFalco. With Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, Lara Grice, Edrick Browne. In order to save his kidnapped daughter, an ex-Marine is forced to take on a gang of killers when an accident leaves the brother of a malicious criminal dead.

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

Animal Farm (1954)
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Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas. With Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham. A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012)
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With Matthew Rhys, Freddie Fox, Tamzin Merchant, Rory Kinnear. An exploration of Charles Dickens' unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined.

2x1 hour BBC

Paranormal Activity (2007)
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Directed by Oren Peli. With Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong. After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

The Oxford Murders (2008)
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Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Needful Things (1993)
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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.

Disturbia (2007)
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Directed by D.J. Caruso. With Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss, Sarah Roemer. A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.

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.

Whiplash (2014)
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Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Monkey Business (1931)
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Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.

Safety Last! (1923)
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Safety Last!: Directed by Fred C Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young. A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures

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Run Lola Run (1998)
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri. After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

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

Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? (2010)
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Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us.

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.

Black Swan (2010)
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder. A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity.

La Fille du Regiment (2008)
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Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli. Marie, lost as a baby, was found and raised by the local regiment. Tonio loves her, she loves him, but when her aunt recognizes her, it seems they will never be allowed to be together.

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Monty Python Live (2014)
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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.

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.

Miliband of Brothers (2010)
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Directed by Richard Curson Smith. With Samantha Morton, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Katherine Kanter. Charting the rise of the Miliband brothers, from their left-wing upbringing to their University days, using dramatized scenes and interviews with people who knew them.

The Shining (1980)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

The Beauty of Diagrams (2010)
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60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design.

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.

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.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
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Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Whip It (2009)
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Directed by Drew Barrymore. With Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Habel. In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
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Directed by Ivan Reitman. With Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson. When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.

Runaway (2009)
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Directed by Cordell Barker. With Richard Condie, Muriel Hogue, Leonard Waldner. A train runs into a cow on the tracks; with the captain nowhere to be found, the fireman is forced to desperately improvise in order to keep the train going.

Star Trek (2009)
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Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Commander Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Loving (2016)
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Directed by Jeff Nichols. With Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford. The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.

X-Men: First Class (2011)
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Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon. In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start World War III.

Fair Game (2010)
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Directed by Doug Liman. With Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong. CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Mongrels (2010)
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With Dan Tetsell, Rufus Jones, Katy Brand, Lucy Montgomery. A look into the dysfunctional lives of a group of friends, in a typical American sitcom. But, there's a twist. It is a sort-of spoof of The Muppets, with HBO, UNCENSORED humor, with a lot pop-culture references. If South Park had a kid with Friends and The Muppets, this is it.

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The Last House on the Left (2009)
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Directed by Dennis Iliadis. With Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen. After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
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FairyTale: A True Story: Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey, Peter O'Toole, Lara Morgan. In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies

Mary Poppins (1964)
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Directed by Robert Stevenson. With Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns. A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family.

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Mo (2010)
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Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam.

Brief Encounter (1945)
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Brief Encounter: Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband

The Secret in their Eyes (2009)
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Directed by Juan José Campanella. With Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo. A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
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Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath. With Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith. The animals try to fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African wildlife refuge, where Alex is reunited with his parents.

Tannhäuser (2008)
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Directed by Patrick Buttmann. With Robert Gambill, Camilla Nylund, Waltraud Meier, Roman Trekel.

Opera. Wagner. Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

That Day We Sang (2014)
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Directed by Victoria Wood. With Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton, Christopher Jordan, Conleth Hill. Musical set in 1969, with flashbacks to 1929. A middle-aged couple find love after meeting on a TV programme about a choir they both sang in as children.

Detachment (2011)
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Directed by Tony Kaye. With Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu. A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

The Trouble with Tolstoy (2011)
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BBC 2 x 1 hour episodes: 1 At War with Himself, 2 In Search of Happiness.

Mr. Jones (2019)
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Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.