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The Color Purple (1985) #1315 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. |
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Gandhi (1982) #524 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed. |
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Deliverance (1972) #352 Remove Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. |
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Robots (2005) #192 Remove 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. |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) #386 Remove Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6. |
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Bambi (1942) #446 Remove 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. Disney |
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Kes (1969) #1400 Remove 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. |
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Republic of Virtue (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Tim Dunn. With Richard Miles, Simon Russell Beale, Vittorio Colombo, Pierfrancesco Vecchio. How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey ... |
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Boychoir (2014) #1083 Remove 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 |
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Agora (2009) #30 Remove Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. |
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The Other Man (2008) #137 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney, Romola Garai. The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life. |
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Captain Phillips (2013) #266 Remove Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. |
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The Scandalous Lady W (2015) #475 Remove 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. |
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Quartet (2012) #490 Remove Directed by Dustin Hoffman. With Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. |
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Mr. Turner (2014) #945 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey. An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life. |
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Ophelia (2018) #1388 Remove Ophelia: Directed by Claire McCarthy. With Daisy Ridley, Mia Quiney, Calum O'Rourke, Nathaniel Parker. A reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective |
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Deliverance (1972) #352 Remove Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. |
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) #227 Remove Directed by Robert Schwentke. With Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Michelle Nolden. A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage. |
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War and Peace (2016) #1055 Remove With Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson. As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever. BBC. 6 Episodes. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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Upside Down (2012) #1051 Remove 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. |
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The Theory of Everything (2014) #470 Remove 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. |
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1917 (2019) #1429 Remove 1917: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth. April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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Antz (1998) #164 Remove Directed by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson. With Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone. A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. |
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Schindler's List (1993) #541 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans. |
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One Chance (2013) #253 Remove Directed by David Frankel. With James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters, Colm Meaney. The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britain's Got Talent (2007). |
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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) #1231 Remove 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. |
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The Butler (2013) #255 Remove Directed by Lee Daniels. With Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda. As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) #299 Remove Directed by Wes Anderson. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman. An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. |
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Arrival (2016) #1336 Remove 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. |
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All Is True (2018) #1219 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Nonso Anozie. A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. |
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Munich (2005) #62 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds. Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. |
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Risen (2016) #949 Remove Directed by Kevin Reynolds. With Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis. In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of an executed Jew rumored to have risen from the dead. |
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) #311 Remove Directed by Robert Redford. With Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill. A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy. |
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Zombieland (2009) #312 Remove Directed by Ruben Fleischer. With Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. |
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Motherhood (2009) #215 Remove 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. |
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111 Remove Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
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Solace (2015) #555 Remove Directed by Afonso Poyart. With Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell. A psychic works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer. |
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Transsiberian (2008) #345 Remove Directed by Brad Anderson. With Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, Kate Mara. A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers. |
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Deliverance (1972) #352 Remove Directed by John Boorman. With Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. |
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Dumbo (2019) #1225 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green. A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer. |
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Paddington 2 (2017) #1288 Remove 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. |
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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Captain Phillips (2013) #266 Remove Directed by Paul Greengrass. With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. |