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LISTEN portrays the tireless battle of Portuguese immigrant parents in the UK against the law to keep their family together.
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The incredible true story of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth) who competes in a historic race to sail around the world. Leaving behind a loving wife (Rachel Weisz), he embarks on a harrowing journey and risks everything.
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Dramatisation of one of history's most unusual love stories. Queen Victoria is grieving over her husband's death and finds herself unable to carry out public duties. John Brown is summoned from Balmoral to walk the Queen's pony in the hope that she will start to become herself again. The confident Highlander displays a distinct lack of respect for court protocol and quickly becomes the Queen's most trusted companion.
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Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott Stein, **Village Voice***
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A docudrama about the effects of a nuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield, England as the fabric of society unravels. In 1984, it was aired on the BBC and shocked tens of millions of UK viewers. Four months later, it was broadcast in America and became the most watched basic cable program in history. It remains one of the most acclaimed made-for-television movies ever. Nominated for seven prizes, winner of four awards, including Best Single Drama at the **BAFTA Awards**. *"It's the accumulation of horrific detail that appalls and truly scares us - not just the putrefying bodies but the severing of civilization's entire network, modern man trapped in modernity's ashes." - Rick Groen, **Globe and Mail***
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Jack 'One Round' Sanders is a young boxer traveling the country with a boxing booth in a fair. After his ex wife dumps him for the reigning champion, he falls in love with the beautiful cashier, his only goal being to beat all challengers, in and off the ring. *"Arguably the finest of Hitchcock's silent films." Geoff Andrew, **Time Out***
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Joe (Daniel Craig) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton). Jed (Rhys Ifans), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they've both witnessed. Jed soon becomes as inescapable to Joe as his guilt, and both men find themselves hurtling towards a final, terrifying choice driven by the destructive nature of obsession or the true endurance of love. Based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, ENDURING LOVE is a psychological thriller about how fate shapes our relationships, how accidents can change our lives forever and how meaning is unraveled from sheer chaos.
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In this silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock early in his career, the daughter of a millionaire disagrees with her father over a love affair, whereupon he pretends to have lost all his money, making it necessary for her to earn her own living. She gets work in cabaret, where her job is to sell the champagne out of which her father made his fortune.
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Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), laboratory dishwasher at a textile mill, is secretly at work on the invention of a new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. After many trials, the invention succeeds and it is brought to the notice of his employer, who invests money and facilities to develop it. However, when the news of Stratton's invention breaks, industry is threatened with chaos. The trade unions and the mill owners find themselves in an artificial alliance, both determined that the fabric must never go on the market. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Screenplay. Nominated for a **BAFTA** for Best British Film.
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The touching story of two older people (Bette Davis and Michael Redgrave) whose lives are linked when they become lodgers in the same seedy boarding house in London. Both are down on their luck. James has been wrongfully dismissed from his post at a British public school. Good-hearted Wanda is a cello player driven to busk on the streets. They find sympathy and understanding as they share their misfortunes. "*...a compelling and often heartbreaking drama.*" - Phil Hall, ***Film Threat***
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"Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom - RAY AND LIZ, as they have come to be intimately known - were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late '90s exhibition Sensation." - Elizabeth Fullerton, British art critic. One of Britain's most celebrated artists, Billingham has made an autobiographical debut feature that immerses the viewer in his Midlands childhood of loveless squalor and parental obliviousness. Despair is laced with humor and boredom with cruelty. RAY & LIZ stands in stark contrast to Ken Loach's quasi-heroic working class stories. But because this film is made by a first-rate artist, there is a strange beauty that shines through the rampant horror that suffuses everything we see and hear. Billingham is an original. Nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer at the **BAFTA Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"Stunningly shot on Super 16mm by Daniel Landin, RAY & LIZ dreamily unfolds as a triptych, fictionalized re-enactments of everyday rituals and details that defy chronology as if jutting forth from memory itself" - Andrea Picard, **Cinema Scope Mag***
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In this film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, follows The Hillcrests, a wealthy family who have held their country estate for many generations. They cherish the traditions of the landed gentry and regard their neighbors, the Hornblowers, as new money; trades people who have fought their way up from the lowest section of society. The Hillcrests believe themselves the moral leaders of the community, and upon learning that the Hornblowers seek to dispossess the Jackman family after thirty years of tenure, they enter a battle over land ownership in the Jackman's defense.
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