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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
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Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. With Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge. In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

The Guilt Trip (2012)
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Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Julene Renee, Zabryna Guevara. As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride.

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.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
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Directed by Matt Reeves. With Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Andy Serkis, Kodi Smit-McPhee. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.

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

8x1 hour episodes. BBC.

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

The Hunting Party (2007)
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Directed by Richard Shepard. With Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, Gordana Vukres. A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them.

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

Now You See Me (2013)
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Directed by Louis Leterrier. With Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson. An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money.

The Wicker Man (2006)
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Directed by Neil LaBute. With Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Beahan. A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.

This is the second film on this disk - you need to fast forward '300' to get to it...

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

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

Beauty and the Beast (2017)
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Directed by Bill Condon. With Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad. An adaptation of the fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.

Citizen Kane (1941)
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Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead. Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

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.

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

Django Unchained (2012)
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Directed by Quentin Tarantino. With Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington. With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

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.

Twilight (2008)
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Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke. A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.

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

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.

Topsy-Turvy (1999)
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Directed by Mike Leigh. With Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith. After Gilbert and Sullivan's latest play is critically panned, the frustrated team threatens to disband until it is inspired to write the masterpiece "The Mikado".

The Meaning of Life (1983)
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Directed by Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. With John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
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Directed by Werner Herzog. With Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer. Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.

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.

Ultraviolet (2006)
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Directed by Kurt Wimmer. With Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu. A beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hemophages.

Anna Karenina (2012)
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen. In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
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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.

A Christmas Carol (2009)
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine. An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Robin Hood (2010)
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Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow. In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.

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

Suite Française (2014)
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Directed by Saul Dibb. With Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Eric Godon. During the early years of Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.

Solace (2015)
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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.

The Ninth Gate (1999)
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Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner. A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

Selma (2014)
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Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Lorraine Toussaint. A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

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.

My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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Directed by Simon Curtis. With Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond. Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
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Directed by Gabriele Muccino. With Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor.

Made in Dagenham (2010)
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Directed by Nigel Cole. With Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone. A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

The Garden of Words (2013)
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46m On a rainy morning in Tokyo, 15-year-old Takao, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden. This is where he meets Yukari, a beautiful yet mysterious woman. They strike an unlikely friendship.

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

2x1 hour BBC

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

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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.

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.

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

Young Victoria (2009)
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Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. With Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson. A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Chicago (2002)
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Directed by Rob Marshall. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs. Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

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

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.

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

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.

Walk the Line (2005)
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Directed by James Mangold. With Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick. A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
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Directed by Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang. With Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Panward Hemmanee. A hitman who's in Bangkok to pull off a series of jobs violates his personal code when he falls for a local woman and bonds with his errand boy.

Marvellous (2014)
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Directed by Julian Farino. With Toby Jones, Gemma Jones, Tony Curran, Nicholas Gleaves. The life of Neil Baldwin, a man who has shrugged off his perceived limitations to live an incredible life.

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.

On the Basis of Sex (2018)
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On the Basis of Sex: Directed by Mimi Leder. With Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston. The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice

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

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

Complete at 125mins inc cast but in LP mode

Flight (2012)
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman. An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.

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.

Take the Lead (2006)
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Directed by Liz Friedlander. With Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard. The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids.