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The One Show (2022)
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30mins. BBC. 31st May 2022 in which Bradford is announced as City of Culture 2025.

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...

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
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32mins. BBC. Follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home.

Finding Nemo (2003)
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Directed by Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich. With Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe. After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

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The Help (2011)
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Directed by Tate Taylor. With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard. An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

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

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.

Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009)
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Directed by Tim Matheson. With Joe Manganiello, Ken Anderson, Channon Roe, Yancey Arias. Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

The King's Speech (2010)
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Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi. The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

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.

To Walk Invisible (2016)
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Directed by Sally Wainwright. With James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Jonathan Pryce, Chloe Pirrie. A chronicle of the Brontë sisters' battle to overcome obstacles and publish their novels, which would become some of the greatest in the English language.

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.

After Life (1998)
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Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. With Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô. After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022)
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32mins. BBC. Follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy's search for home.

Mark Lawson talks to Tracey Emin (2011)
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1 hour. BBC. Mark Lawson talks to the enfant terrible of the British art world, Tracey Emin, famed for her unmade bed and the tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with. The 1990s wild child talks in detail about her unconventional childhood and the traumatic adolescent experiences which inspired much of her controversial work.

Blade Runner (1982)
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Blade Runner: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator

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.

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.

Year One (2009)
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Directed by Harold Ramis. With Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, Oliver Platt. After being banished from their tribe, two hunter-gatherers encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom.

Coraline (2009)
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Directed by Henry Selick. With Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders. An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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Directed by Edgar Wright. With Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill. Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.

The Hot Potato (2012)
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Directed by Tim Lewiston. With Ray Winstone, Colm Meaney, Jack Huston, David Harewood. London's East End 1969. Based on real events. Two chancers 'find' a lump of Uranium and crisscross Europe to find a buyer. Accompanied by Danny's girl, the lovely Carole. They encounter a diverse cast of bizarre characters, all trying to steal the 'Hot Potato', but a deal agreed inside the Vatican has the co-conspirators confounding each other. The story twists and turns to an exciting and ...

The Color Purple (1985)
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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.

West Side Story (1961)
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Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Courtesy of The Daily Mail.

Castles in the Sky (2014)
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Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp.

90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes.

Romeo and Juliet (1966)
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The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.

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.

Pan (2015)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara. 12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be forever known as Peter Pan.

Denial (2016)
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Directed by Mick Jackson. With Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott. Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

Aladdin (1992)
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Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.

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

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 History Boys (2006)
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Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson. An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

West Side Story (1961)
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Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Courtesy of The Daily Mail.

Gifted (2017)
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Directed by Marc Webb. With Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer. Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Aladdin (1992)
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Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.

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.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
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Directed by Dave Filoni. With Matt Lanter, Nika Futterman, Tom Kane, Ashley Eckstein. After the Republic's victory on Christophsis, Anakin and his new apprentice Ahsoka Tano must rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. Political intrigue complicates their mission.

Robson Green and the Pitmen Painters (2011)
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ITV. The story of the Pitmen Painters, a group of Northumbrian miners who decided to study art appreciation in their spare time and developed into a group of untrained but powerfully expressive artists, has been documented in a book by William Feaver and a play by Lee Hall. Robson Green's particular interest in the story stems from the fact that he's a miner's son, brought up in Dudley, a few miles south of the pitmen's hometown of Ashington.

Chocolat (2000)
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Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
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Directed by Tony Richardson. With Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen. A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.

500 Days of Summer (2009)
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Directed by Marc Webb. With Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz. An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.

Unrivaled (2010)
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Directed by Warren P. Sonoda. With Hector Echavarria, Steven Yaffee, Nicholas Campbell, Jordan Madley. The best fighter in the world works two jobs. The only problem... he doesn't know he's the best. Ringo Duran, the son of Gracie Duran, a famous Argentinian kick boxer, works two jobs to make ends meet. His passion, full contact fighting. His goal, fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a professional fighter. Ringo has put off attempts at a professional career for so long he has nearly succumbed to...

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.

Ida (2013)
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Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela. A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.

Mark Lawson talks to Tracey Emin (2011)
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1 hour. BBC. Mark Lawson talks to the enfant terrible of the British art world, Tracey Emin, famed for her unmade bed and the tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with. The 1990s wild child talks in detail about her unconventional childhood and the traumatic adolescent experiences which inspired much of her controversial work.

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
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Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.

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?

Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009)
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Directed by Tim Matheson. With Joe Manganiello, Ken Anderson, Channon Roe, Yancey Arias. Navy SEALS mount an attack on Colombian special forces to clear their names and rescue a hostage.

Mark Lawson talks to Tracey Emin (2011)
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1 hour. BBC. Mark Lawson talks to the enfant terrible of the British art world, Tracey Emin, famed for her unmade bed and the tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with. The 1990s wild child talks in detail about her unconventional childhood and the traumatic adolescent experiences which inspired much of her controversial work.

Being There (1979)
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Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.

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.

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

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.

Mark Lawson talks to Tracey Emin (2011)
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1 hour. BBC. Mark Lawson talks to the enfant terrible of the British art world, Tracey Emin, famed for her unmade bed and the tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with. The 1990s wild child talks in detail about her unconventional childhood and the traumatic adolescent experiences which inspired much of her controversial work.

The Castle (1997)
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Directed by Rob Sitch. With Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe. A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Apocalypto (2006)
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Directed by Mel Gibson. With Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Rudy Youngblood. As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.

Braveheart (1995)
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Directed by Mel Gibson. With Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen. When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.

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.

Spartacus (1960)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

Les Misérables (2012)
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Directed by Tom Hooper. With Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter - the decision changes their lives forever.

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Mark Lawson talks to Tracey Emin (2011)
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1 hour. BBC. Mark Lawson talks to the enfant terrible of the British art world, Tracey Emin, famed for her unmade bed and the tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with. The 1990s wild child talks in detail about her unconventional childhood and the traumatic adolescent experiences which inspired much of her controversial work.

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.

Juno (2007)
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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
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Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.

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.

Takers (2010)
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Directed by John Luessenhop. With Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy. A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.

Man on Wire (2008)
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Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."

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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.

Adulthood (2008)
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Directed by Noel Clarke. With Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Adam Deacon, Raleigh Ritchie. Six years after KIdULTHOOD, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on, others are stuck with the repercussions of his actions that night, but one thing's for certain - everyone has been forced to grow up. Through his journey Sam struggles ...

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.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
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Directed by Dave Filoni. With Matt Lanter, Nika Futterman, Tom Kane, Ashley Eckstein. After the Republic's victory on Christophsis, Anakin and his new apprentice Ahsoka Tano must rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. Political intrigue complicates their mission.

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.

It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
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Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. With Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Dana DeVestern. A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
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Directed by Miranda July. With John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff. A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.

Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
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Directed by Emily Young. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Florencia Lozano. After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.

Spartacus (1960)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

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.

Antichrist (2009)
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Directed by Lars von Trier. With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm. A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
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Directed by Terence Davies. With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams. The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning ...

The Surprise (2015)
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Directed by Mike van Diem. With Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman. After both signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and have to find a way to get out of their binding contracts.

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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

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.

Watchmen (2009)
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Directed by Zack Snyder. With Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman. In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.

Circle of Eight (2009)
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Directed by Stephen Cragg. With John Bishop, Kirk Bovill, Ryan Doom, Austin Highsmith. Jessica moves into a loft on the eighth floor of a Los Angeles apartment building called The Dante. The other tenants all seem friendly at first, but when she starts witnessing horrible deaths, she must team up with her neighbor Evan (Doom) to solve the mystery -- and uncover her own connection to the place.

The Snowman: The Film That Changed Christmas (2022)
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C4. 45 mins. Forty years after The Snowman was first broadcast on Channel 4, the story of how Raymond Briggs' classic tale was made and became a festive British institution.

Mystic Pizza (1988)
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Directed by Donald Petrie. With Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio. Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.

Amour (2012)
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Directed by Michael Haneke. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud. Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

The Falklands Play (2002)
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The Falklands Play: Directed by Michael Samuels. With Patricia Hodge, James Fox, John Standing, Michael Cochrane. On April 2, 1982, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. This movie is a gripping account of how Prime Minister Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since the Suez Canal. It tells the story of how Argentina, an ally of the British, fought the Conservative government and invaded the Falklands. This play charts the backroom maneuverings between Thatcher's government and the military, between the British and the Americans, and the Americans and the Argentinians that led to a breakdown in diplomacy, to war, and to Britain's eventual victory

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
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Directed by Terence Davies. With Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams. The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning ...

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.

The Hill (1965)
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Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch. In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

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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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.

Mass (2021)
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Mass: Directed by Fran Kranz. With Breeda Wool, Kagen Albright, Michelle N. Carter, Martha Plimpton. Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways

Life During Wartime (2009)
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Directed by Todd Solondz. With Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Michael Kenneth Williams. Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

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.

What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
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Directed by Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin. With Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller. Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability... Find out how the rest of the family cope and see if the holiday will ever end.

Billy Elliot (2000)
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Directed by Stephen Daldry. With Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven. A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

The Ugly Truth (2009)
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Directed by Robert Luketic. With Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter. A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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Directed by Edgar Wright. With Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill. Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.

Jonathan Creek (2010)
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With Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha. Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
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Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy. Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

Carols from Kings (2010)
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A solo chorister singing Once In Royal David's City begins this traditional celebration of Christmas from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. The story of the Nativity is told in the familiar words of the King James Bible together with Christmas poems by Kevin Crossley-Holland, WH Auden and Charles Causley. The famous Chapel choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, sings carols old and new, including such favourites as The Sussex Carol, In Dulci Jubilo, Ding Dong Merrily On High, The First Nowell, I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Bethlehem Down and O Come, All Ye Faithful.

The Hill (1965)
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Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch. In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.

The Secret of the Grain (2007)
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Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche. At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his ...

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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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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.

Jonathan Creek (2010)
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With Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha. Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

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Spartacus (1960)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Directed by Milos Forman. With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco. A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Life During Wartime (2009)
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Directed by Todd Solondz. With Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Michael Kenneth Williams. Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

Loaded (2008)
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Directed by Alan Pao. With Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley. A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence.

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 Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
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Directed by Chris Weitz. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Christina Jastrzembska. Edward leaves Bella after an attack that nearly claimed her life, and in her depression she falls into yet another paranormal relationship - this time with werewolf Jacob Black.

Grease (1978)
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Directed by Randal Kleiser. With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway. Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

Loaded (2008)
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Directed by Alan Pao. With Jesse Metcalfe, Corey Large, Monica Keena, Nathalie Kelley. A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence.

To Rome with Love (2012)
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Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page. The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.

Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015)
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Directed by Simon Lloyd. With Michael Cockerell, Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy, Edna Healey. An intimate portrait of Labour politician Denis Healey by political journalist Michael Cockerill. Shown as an obituary and a tribute following his death at the age of 98 on 3 October 2015.

Grease (1978)
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Directed by Randal Kleiser. With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway. Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

Bridge of Spies (2015)
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Spartacus (1960)
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Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton. The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

The Nativity (2010)
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With Andrew Buchan, Peter Capaldi, Al Weaver, Jack Shepherd. Explores the troubled times of turn of the millennium Judea, bringing legend to vibrant life, but rooting the action in a world we can all recognise & understand.

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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
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Directed by Karel Reisz. With Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker. A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.

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.

Last of the Proms 2007 (2007)
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Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
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Directed by Franck Khalfoun. With Cuba Gooding Jr., Miguel Ferrer, Harvey Keitel, Alex Meneses. A small-time crime boss kills a drug dealer without realizing that the drug dealer works for the biggest crime boss in the country.

Carriers (2009)
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Directed by David Pastor, Àlex Pastor. With Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp. Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.

Romeo and Juliet (1966)
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The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.

David Gilmour at the Albert Hall (2006)
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First Night (2010)
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Directed by Christopher Menaul. With Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Mía Maestro, Julian Ovenden. Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help ...

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