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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) #359 Remove 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 |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #1233 Remove Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) #1261 Remove Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as the creature sets out to discover the world and the meaning of life. |
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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) #223 Remove 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 ... |
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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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Ethel & Ernest (2016) #956 Remove Directed by Roger Mainwood. With Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway, Pam Ferris. This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events. |
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The Boxtrolls (2014) #480 Remove Directed by Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi. With Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade. A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. |
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Interstellar (2014) #478 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy. A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. |
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Australia (2008) #197 Remove Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo. Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand. |
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The Walk (2015) #554 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Philippe Petit, Charlotte Le Bon, Guillaume Baillargeon, Émilie Leclerc. In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. See also #685 |
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) #635 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead. DVD issue. |
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The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words (2020) #1240 Remove 1 hour. BBC. The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere. In the year that marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust, this powerful documentary, which accompanies the BBC Two drama, The Windermere Children, reveals a little-known story of 300 young orphaned Jewish refugees, who began new lives in England’s Lake District in the summer of 1945. |
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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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Forrest Gump (1994) #1113 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
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Alice in Wonderland (2010) #33 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway. Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. |
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Forrest Gump (1994) #1113 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
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The Spirit of '45 (2013) #425 Remove Directed by Ken Loach. With Winston Churchill, Tony Benn, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan. A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. |
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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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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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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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Valkyrie (2008) #328 Remove Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II. |
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The Prestige (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine. Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. |
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Flawless (2007) #222 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker. Set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire caretaker convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation. |
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Margin Call (2011) #92 Remove Directed by J.C. Chandor. With Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany. Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. |
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Bee Movie (2007) #304 Remove Directed by Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith. With Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton. Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them. |
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Animal Farm (1954) #1272 Remove Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas. With Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham. A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. |
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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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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) #47 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. |
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Angels & Demons (2009) #176 Remove Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican. |
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The Martian (2015) #451 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara. An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. |
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Gladiator (2000) #195 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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Red Joan (2018) #1359 Remove Directed by Trevor Nunn. With Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes. The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy. |
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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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Pawn Sacrifice (2014) #1267 Remove Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. |
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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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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) #396 Remove Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell, James Caan. A local scientist is often regarded as a failure until he invents a machine that can make food fall from the sky. But little does he know, that things are about to take a turn for the worst. |
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) #531 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead. Shakespeare. |
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Flight (2012) #387 Remove 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. |
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Winter's Bone (2010) #286 Remove Directed by Debra Granik. With Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone. An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. |
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The Tempest (2010) #349 Remove Directed by Julie Taymor. With Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand. Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female. |
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The Danish Girl (2015) #797 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw. A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. |
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Brigsby Bear (2017) #1125 Remove Directed by Dave McCary. With Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Jane Adams, Greg Kinnear. After being freed from his life in an underground bunker, a man sets out to make a movie of the only TV show he has ever known. |
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Spotlight (2015) #1133 Remove Directed by Tom McCarthy. With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. |
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The Young Victoria (2009) #155 Remove 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. |
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Quantum of Solace (2008) #467 Remove Directed by Marc Forster. With Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench. James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. All the while, he still tries to seek revenge over the death of his love. |
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Angels & Demons (2009) #176 Remove Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican. |
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Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) #1255 Remove Directed by Jon Watts. With Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. |
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I, Daniel Blake (2016) #1162 Remove Directed by Ken Loach. With Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann. After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance. |
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Invictus (2009) #402 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng. Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. |
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993) #1154 Remove Directed by Nora Ephron. With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rita Wilson. A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. |
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The Fourth Protocol (1987) #1297 Remove Directed by John Mackenzie. With Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy. John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries. Courtesy of The Daily Mail |
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Valkyrie (2008) #328 Remove Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II. |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) #1261 Remove Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as the creature sets out to discover the world and the meaning of life. |
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Denial (2016) #1192 Remove 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. |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #1233 Remove Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. |
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The Night of the Generals (1967) #501 Remove 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. |
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Henry V (1989) #532 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War in 1415, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France. Shakespeare. |
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Adventureland (2009) #217 Remove Directed by Greg Mottola. With Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kelsey Ford. In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world. |
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Pan (2015) #551 Remove 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. |
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Choke (2008) #324 Remove Directed by Clark Gregg. With Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Kathryn Alexander. A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death. |
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Henry V (1989) #532 Remove Directed by Kenneth Branagh. With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War in 1415, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France. Shakespeare. |
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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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Invictus (2009) #402 Remove Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng. Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. |
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Fame (2009) #215 Remove 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. |
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La Luna (2011) #449 Remove Directed by Enrico Casarosa. With Krista Sheffler, Tony Fucile, Phil Sheridan. A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his ... |
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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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The Last Station (2009) #701 Remove Directed by Michael Hoffman. With Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti. A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. |
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The Informant! (2009) #310 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll. The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) #239 Remove 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. |
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Animal Farm (1954) #1272 Remove Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas. With Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham. A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. |
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) #1236 Remove Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson. Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. |
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The Oxford Murders (2008) #372 Remove Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols. |
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V for Vendetta (2005) #45 Remove Directed by James McTeigue. With Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea. In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman. |
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Forrest Gump (1994) #1113 Remove Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field. The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993) #1154 Remove Directed by Nora Ephron. With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rita Wilson. A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. |
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Brassed Off (1996) #1002 Remove 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. Best copy. |
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Chocolat (2000) #543 Remove 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. |
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V for Vendetta (2005) #45 Remove Directed by James McTeigue. With Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea. In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman. |
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Enid (2009) #193 Remove 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, ... |
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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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Valkyrie (2008) #328 Remove Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II. |
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Tolkien (2019) #1276 Remove Directed by Dome Karukoski. With Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Derek Jacobi. The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. |
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All the King's Men (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. |
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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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Great British Railway Journeys: York to Frizinghall (2018) #1102 Remove 30 mins. BBC. Series 9. Armed with his Edwardian Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo conducts important research in an historic tea room, built by an Edwardian immigrant to the city of York. Research of a more sombre kind leads Michael to the roots of our modern welfare state in the work of an early 20th-century Quaker investigator, whose family manufactured chocolate. |
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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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Friends with Money (2006) #53 Remove Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack. After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. |
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Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) #1132 Remove Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order. |
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Monkey Business (1931) #1270 Remove Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. |
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Awakenings (1990) #287 Remove 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. |
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Mr. Jones (2019) #1283 Remove Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. |
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The Informant! (2009) #310 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll. The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. |
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) #224 Remove 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. |
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Dark Shadows (2012) #80 Remove Directed by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter. An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. |
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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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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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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) #47 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) #359 Remove 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 |
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Robin Hood (2010) #291 Remove 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. |
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) #326 Remove Directed by Robert B. Weide. With Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Kelan Pannell. A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City. |
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Choke (2008) #324 Remove Directed by Clark Gregg. With Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Kathryn Alexander. A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death. |
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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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Storks (2016) #1015 Remove 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. |
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Shrink (2009) #35 Remove Directed by Jonas Pate. With Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer, Joe Nunez. Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients. |
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The Island (2005) #190 Remove Directed by Michael Bay. With Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi. Lincoln Six Echo is just like everyone else - he's waiting to go to the Island, the only place left in the world to actually live a life. Thousands of people stay at a facility waiting to go to the Island. It all sounds like paradise, but Lincoln Six Echo soon discovers that there's actually a sinister purpose going on at that facility and that he must escape - but not before stopping the ... |
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The Boat that Rocked (2009) #160 Remove Directed by Richard Curtis. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley. A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. Radio Caroline - Pirate Radio |
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Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) #1132 Remove Directed by Rian Johnson. With Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order. |
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) #1119 Remove Directed by Charles Crichton. With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass. A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. |
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) #61 Remove Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen. A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity. |
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) #1405 Remove The Diary of Anne Frank: With Kate Ashfield, Geoffrey Breton, Ron Cook, Tim Dantay. During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands 5 x 30 minute episodes. BBC, |
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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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Magnolia (1999) #59 Remove Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman. An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley. |
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Garden State (2004) #1032 Remove Directed by Zach Braff. With Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. |
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Black Swan (2010) #404 Remove 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. |
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The Help (2011) #332 Remove 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. |
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The Prestige (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine. Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. |
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Mary Poppins Returns (2018) #1227 Remove 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 |
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The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) #1405 Remove The Diary of Anne Frank: With Kate Ashfield, Geoffrey Breton, Ron Cook, Tim Dantay. During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands 5 x 30 minute episodes. BBC, |
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) #61 Remove Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen. A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity. |
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Elvis (2022) #1468 Remove Elvis: Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson. The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. |
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) #61 Remove Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen. A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity. |
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Toy Story 4 (2019) #1251 Remove Directed by Josh Cooley. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale. When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy. |
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Suffragette (2015) #552 Remove Directed by Sarah Gavron. With Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. |
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) #376 Remove 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. |
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) #75 Remove 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. |
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Toy Story 4 (2019) #1251 Remove Directed by Josh Cooley. With Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale. When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy. |
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The Kid (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Nick Moran. With Rupert Friend, Natascha McElhone, Ioan Gruffudd, Alfie Allen. About Kevin Lewis who grew up in poverty but survived to make a better life for himself and his family. |
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Take the Lead (2006) #64 Remove 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. |
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Mr. Jones (2019) #1283 Remove Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle. A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #1233 Remove Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. |
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Nine (2009) #313 Remove Directed by Rob Marshall. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori. Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother. |
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Management (2008) #149 Remove 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. |
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The Ipcress File (1965) #1298 Remove Directed by Sidney J. Furie. With Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd. In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. Courtesy of The Daily Mail |
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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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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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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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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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Mo (2010) #463 Remove Directed by Philip Martin. With Julie Walters, Emma Cambridge, David Haig, Lucy Boynton. A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam. |
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All the King's Men (2006) #466 Remove Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. |
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Billy Elliot (2000) #272 Remove 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. |
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The Nativity (2010) #612 Remove 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. 4x30min. BBC |
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Bridge of Spies (2015) #687 Remove 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. |
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A Prairie Home Companion (2006) #325 Remove 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. |
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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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Monkey Business (1931) #1270 Remove Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx. On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. |
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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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Attack the Block (2011) #346 Remove Directed by Joe Cornish. With John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones. A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. |
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Flight (2012) #387 Remove 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. |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) #1261 Remove Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as the creature sets out to discover the world and the meaning of life. |
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) #1261 Remove Directed by Danny Boyle. With Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andreea Paduraru, Ella Smith. Created by Victor Frankenstein, the one known only as the creature sets out to discover the world and the meaning of life. |
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The Windermere Children (2020) #1239 Remove Directed by Michael Samuels. With Iain Glen, Romola Garai, Thomas Kretschmann, Tim McInnerny. This is the stark, moving ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future. |
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The Pirates of Somalia (2017) #1109 Remove 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. |
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The White Crow (2018) #1345 Remove Directed by Ralph Fiennes. With Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos. The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. |