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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.

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.

27 Dresses (2008)
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Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Brian Kerwin. After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.

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

We Bought a Zoo (2011)
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Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning. Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

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

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
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Directed by Michael Bay. With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson. Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

Awakenings (1990)
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Directed by Penny Marshall. With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

The Whistleblower (2010)
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Directed by Larysa Kondracki. With Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn. A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.

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.

National Theatre Live: This House (2013)
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Directed by Jeremy Herrin. With Reece Dinsdale, Charles Edwards, Phil Daniels, Julian Wadham. This House is a play by James Graham, based on true events that occurred in the 1970s British Parliament.

Empire of the Sun (1987)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Furry Vengeance (2010)
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Directed by Roger Kumble. With Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ricky Garcia, Eugene Cordero. In the Oregon wilderness, a real-estate developer's new housing subdivision faces a unique group of protestors: local woodland creatures who don't want their homes disturbed.

Logan (2017)
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Directed by James Mangold. With Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook. In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X, somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world, and his legacy, are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
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Directed by David Fincher. With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond. Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
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Directed by Travis Knight. With Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes. A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.

The Bounty Hunter (2010)
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Directed by Andy Tennant. With Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Gio Perez, Joel Marsh Garland. A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure.

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.

Legion (2010)
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Directed by Scott Stewart. With Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black. When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope.

Arrival (2016)
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Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world.

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
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Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)
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Directed by Mat Whitecross. With Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy. A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.

300 (2006)
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Directed by Zack Snyder. With Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West. King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

Labor Day (2013)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Clark Gregg. Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

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.

Eye in the Sky (2015)
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Directed by Gavin Hood. With Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi. Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare.

Management (2008)
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Directed by Stephen Belber. With Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Margo Martindale. A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.

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.

Bottle Shock (2008)
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Directed by Randall Miller. With Chris Pine, Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Hal B. Klein. The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".

17 Again (2009)
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Directed by Burr Steers. With Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon. Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he meets a janitor near a bridge.

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.

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 Hurt Locker (2008)
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Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce. During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Four Christmases (2008)
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Directed by Seth Gordon. With Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall. A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas.

Unthinkable (2010)
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Directed by Gregor Jordan. With Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen, Stephen Root. A psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
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Directed by Robert Altman. With Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly. A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.

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.

The Pirates of Somalia (2017)
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Directed by Bryan Buckley. With Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi. In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.

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

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.

Moneyball (2011)
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Directed by Bennett Miller. With Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
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Directed by Simon Godwin. With Adam Best, Oliver Chris, Claire Cordier, Imogen Doel. Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love.

Bronson (2008)
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Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. With Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews, Katy Barker. A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.

Black Earth Rising (2018)
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With Michaela Coel, John Goodman, Noma Dumezweni, Lucian Msamati. Kate Ashby was rescued as a child from the Rwandan genocide by her renowned international lawyer adopted mother Eve. Living in London and working for barrister Michael Ennis, Kate's mother takes on a case involving an African militia leader which will upend both their lives forever.

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Hidden Figures (2016)
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Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

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.

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.

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
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Directed by Roger Michell. With Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West. The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

Battle of the Sexes (2017)
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Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris. With Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman. The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

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.

Horrible Bosses (2011)
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Directed by Seth Gordon. With Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Steve Wiebe. Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

Doubt (2008)
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Directed by John Patrick Shanley. With Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis. A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.

Awakenings (1990)
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Directed by Penny Marshall. With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

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.

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.

Sparkle (2007)
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Directed by Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter. With Lesley Manville, John Shrapnel, Bob Hoskins, Peter Gordon. Sam is a charming, young chancer who moves to London. His best laid plans for success suffer a real setback when true love turns his world upside down in the most unexpected of circumstances.

Viceroy's House (2017)
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Directed by Gurinder Chadha. With Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi. The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

Zodiac (2007)
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Directed by David Fincher. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards. A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.

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

aka The Monk

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.

PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021)
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PAW Patrol: The Movie: Directed by Cal Brunker. With Tyler Perry, Ron Pardo, Will Brisbin, Kingsley Marshall. Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of chaos

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

Her (2013)
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Directed by Spike Jonze. With Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara. A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly-purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.

Fanboys (2009)
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Directed by Kyle Newman. With Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Sam Huntington. Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release.

The Duchess (2008)
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Directed by Saul Dibb. With Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling. A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
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Directed by Mike Newell. With Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson. In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.

Cherry Tree Lane (2010)
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Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin. A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son.

Storks (2016)
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Directed by Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland. With Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston. Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby.

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.

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 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin. A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

The Wrestler (2008)
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis. A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

Victoria & Abdul (2017)
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard. Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

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.

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Four Christmases (2008)
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Directed by Seth Gordon. With Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenburgen, Robert Duvall. A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas.

The Colour Room (2021)
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The Colour Room: Directed by Claire McCarthy. With Matthew Goode, Phoebe Dynevor, Rachel Shenton, David Morrissey. Clarice Cliff breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionizes the workplace at a pottery factory in 1920s England

La Femme Nikita (1990)
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Directed by Luc Besson. With Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière. Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.

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

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.

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
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Directed by David O. Russell. With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver. After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
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Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is completely around the twist, but Flora tries to sort everything out...

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 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.

Mall Cop (2005)
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Directed by David Greenspan. With Derek Cecil, Kathleen Robertson, Nick Searcy, Jennifer Morrison. An indie comedy where a mall cop befriends her predecessor, who's back on the job after he failed to put the kibosh on a major burglary.

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 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.

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

Manchester by the Sea (2016)
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Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges. A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

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

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
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Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes. Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."

Frantz (2016)
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Directed by François Ozon. With Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber. In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.

Lincoln (2012)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.

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.

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.

City of Ember (2008)
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Directed by Gil Kenan. With Saoirse Ronan, Toby Jones, Bill Murray, David Ryall. For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.

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.

Manchester by the Sea (2016)
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Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges. A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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Directed by Ronald Neame. With Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin. A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

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.

Big Eyes (2014)
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Directed by Tim Burton. With Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter. A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

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.

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

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.

12 Rounds (2009)
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Directed by Renny Harlin. With John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris. Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
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Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked, Kristin Scott Thomas. A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

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

National Theatre Live: This House (2013)
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Directed by Jeremy Herrin. With Reece Dinsdale, Charles Edwards, Phil Daniels, Julian Wadham. This House is a play by James Graham, based on true events that occurred in the 1970s British Parliament.

City of Ember (2008)
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Directed by Gil Kenan. With Saoirse Ronan, Toby Jones, Bill Murray, David Ryall. For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing ... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.

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.

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.

Antigone at the Barbican (2015)
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Directed by Ivo van Hove. With Juliette Binoche, Obi Abili, Patrick O'Kane, Kirsty Bushell. Antigone is the story of the daughter of Oedipus

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
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Directed by George Lucas. With Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd. Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory.

A Man for All Seasons (1966)
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Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern. The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Waterloo (1970)
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Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. With Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins. Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.

Greed (2019)
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Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Caroline Flack, Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher. Satire about the world of the super-rich.

Thought (by me at least) to be about Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) - the British businessman who is the chairman of Arcadia Group, a retail company that includes Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit. The defunct BHS chain was also part of the group.

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.

Dolan's Cadillac (2009)
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Directed by Jeff Beesley. With Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley, Greg Bryk. A young man attempts to seek to avenge his wife's death after she is murdered by a Las Vegas mobster.

Empire of the Sun (1987)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

Thought to be the best copy.

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

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Evan Welch. Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

Pocahontas (1995)
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Directed by Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg. With Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Irene Bedard. An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.

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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.

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
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Directed by Bridget Caldwell, Gregory Doran, Robin Mason. With Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Akala, Richard Atwill. A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

The Debt (2010)
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Directed by John Madden. With Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds. In 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them.

Paddington 2 (2017)
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Directed by Paul King. With Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins. Paddington (Ben Whishaw), now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Taking Woodstock (2009)
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Directed by Ang Lee. With Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton. A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

The Theory of Everything (2014)
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Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Love Happens (2009)
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Directed by Brandon Camp. With Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch. A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.

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.

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

The Finest Hours (2016)
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Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana. The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
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Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver. The surviving members of the resistance face the First Order once again, and the legendary conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its peak bringing the Skywalker saga to its end.

Surveillance (2008)
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Directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. With Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Caroline Aaron. Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell.

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

The Wolverine (2013)
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Directed by James Mangold. With Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima. When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.

Jersey Boys (2014)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood. With John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza. The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.

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...

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.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Evan Welch. Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

Burning Man (2011)
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Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Matthew Goode, Rachel Griffiths, Bojana Novakovic, Essie Davis. An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.

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

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.

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.

Toy Story 2 (1999)
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Directed by John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer. When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting.

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

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.

A Few Good Men (1992)
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Directed by Rob Reiner. With Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon. Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.

Love Happens (2009)
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Directed by Brandon Camp. With Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch. A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.

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.