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Ricky (Kris Hitchen) and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point. - Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone
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Let the Sunshine In (2017)Un beau soleil intérieur / Bright Sunshine In / Dark Glasses
Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a stylish and accomplished artist living in Paris. Divorced and looking to find true love at last, she meets a handsome, kind and intelligent younger man who she thinks might finally be the one. But when he calls their affair a mistake and returns to his wife, Isabelle must again face the issue of mid-life loneliness. Sifting through former lovers, new admirers, jealous friends and chance encounters, will she find a fulfilling match? Or will she discover a new path to happiness along the way? - Director:
- Claire Denis
- Cast:
- Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine
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Suburban mother Tara's (Gemma Arterton) life is outwardly perfect. But she's deeply unhappy and unfulfilled in her life of routine with her husband Mark (Dominic Cooper) and their children. These feelings become so overwhelming, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Through a series of risky and incendiary encounters, she discovers the woman she really is and the life she really wants. - Director:
- Dominic Savage
- Cast:
- Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Marthe Keller
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Ten-year-old Lucie (Troian Bellisario) flees from the isolated warehouse where she has been held prisoner. Deeply traumatized, she is plagued by awful night terrors at the orphanage that takes her in. Her only comfort comes from Anna (Bailey Noble), a girl her own age. Nearly a decade later and still haunted by demons, Lucie finally tracks down the family that tortured her. As she and Anna move closer to the agonizing truth, they find themselves trapped in a nightmare - if they cannot escape, a martyr's fate awaits them… - Director:
- Kevin Goetz
- Cast:
- Troian Bellisario, Karly Rothenberg, Bailey Noble
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Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. - Director:
- Ari Aster
- Cast:
- Florence Pugh, Linnea Larsdotter, Jack Reynor
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This is the award winning documentary, exploring the numerous hidden meanings discovered within Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, 'The Shining'. 'Room 237' uncovers a guided tour of recurring symbols scattered throughout the master filmmaker's work and a study on the nature of human obsession. Equal parts illuminating, mind-bending, eerie and oddly comic, 'Room 237' draws us into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends... many ways in, but no way out. - Director:
- Rodney Ascher
- Cast:
- Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns
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"All Is True" explores the human story behind a dark and little known period in the life of William Shakespeare (Kenneth Branagh). The year is 1613, Shakespeare is the greatest writer of the age. When his beloved Globe Theatre is burned to the ground, he decides to return to his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. There he faces his neglected family. Still haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend broken relationships with his wife, Anne (Judi Dench) and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as an absent husband and father. In the search for peace, he must also finally confront the dark heart of his family's secrets and lies. - Director:
- Kenneth Branagh
- Cast:
- Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen
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A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there. In 'Stalingrad', directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, the scale of the battle contrasts dramatically with the human drama of the Russian soldiers, the few remaining civilians and their invaders into Stalingrad. - Director:
- Fedor Bondarchuk
- Cast:
- Mariya Smolnikova, Mariya Sittel, Yanina Studilina
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The Bookshop (2017)La Librería
Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), is a free-spirited widow in 1950's England. Moving on from the death of her husband, she puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop - the first in a sleepy seaside town. Facing considerable local opposition, most notably from wannabe doyenne of the arts scene Mrs. Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), Florence finds a kindred spirit in Mr. Brundish (Bill Nighy), himself sick of the town's stale atmosphere. When Florence refuses to bend to Gamart's will, they begin a struggle not just for the bookshop but for the very heart and soul of the town. - Director:
- Isabel Coixet
- Cast:
- Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Hunter Tremayne
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This video is an invaluable guide to understanding Shakespeare's tragedies. With the expert knowledge and interpretation of Professor Stanley Wells of the Shakespeare Institute, and Dr. Robert Smallwood of the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, the central themes of two of Shakespeare's works are examined.
Macbeth
- How does the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change?
- Is there anything to admire in the character of Macbeth?
- How would audiences of Shakespeare's time have reacted to the depiction of witchcraft?
King Lear
- Why is King Lear such a universal tragedy?
- What is the importance of the play's subplot?
- How do the characters counterbalance good and evil?- Director:
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- Cast:
- Dr. Robert Smallwood, Professor Stanley Wells
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Gulag: Forgotten Prisoners of WWII (2018)Eternal Winter / Örök tél
Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young woman with German origins away from their villages and transport them to one of the most brutal Soviet labour camps. Here they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhumane conditions. One of the women, Irén (Marina Gera), meets Rajmund (Sándor Csányi) who teaches her how to survive this hell on earth. She is determined to stay strong and one day return home to her daughter and family. But a different fate awaits her in this multi-award winning film based on an incredible true story. - Director:
- Attila Szász
- Cast:
- Marina Gera, Sándor Csányi, Laura Döbrösi
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Parasite (2019)Gisaengchung
Kim Ki Taek's (Song Kang Ho) family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son, Ki Woo, gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle, but as their deception unravels events begin to get increasingly out of hand in ways you simply cannot imagine. - Director:
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
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Born in London to poor Irish parents, brutalised at home and hardened on the streets by the age of 7, John Healy is consumed by alcoholism as a teenager. A promising career as a boxer is destroyed by drink as he enters the 'grass arena', a savage community of vagrant alcoholics, ruled by psychopaths and peopled by beggars - who will do anything to quench their thirst. They have nothing to lose. Ending up in prison, he faces a certain death until a fellow inmate shows him how to play chess, for which he displays a natural instinct. One addiction is about to replace another... - Director:
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Cast:
- Mark Rylance, Pete Postlethwaite, Lynsey Baxter
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Ted (Zac Efron): handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. Liz (Lily Collins): a single mother, cautious, but smitten. A picture of domestic bliss, the two seem to have it all figured out, that is until Ted is arrested and charged with a series of increasingly grisly murders. As concern turns to paranoia, Liz is forced to consider how well she knows the man she shares a life with and, as the evidence piles up, decide if Ted is truly a victim, or actually guilty as charged. - Director:
- Joe Berlinger
- Cast:
- Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan
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Gloria Davies (Lorraine De Selle) is writing a thesis and she believes, unlike most people, that cannibalism is merely a myth which has been invented by whites. In order to test her theories she sets out for the jungle of the Amazon River, with her brother Rudy (Danilo Mattei) and friend Pat (Zora Kerova). They go as far as Panaguaya in a Range Rover, and then proceed on foot. What they then experience is too terrifying to imagine but you can be sure is enough to chill the spine! - Director:
- Umberto Lenzi
- Cast:
- Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Lewis E. Ciannelli, Lorraine De Selle
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