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Le Maitre Musique (1988)The Music Teacher
A mix of 'Amadeus', 'Diva', 'Dangerous Liasons' and 'A Room with A View', 'Le Maitre De Musique' (The Music Teacher) is an Operatic delight. A battle of good and evil for the soul and voice of an Opera singing protege (Anne Roussel). Set against the backdrop of the romantic, opulent world of Grand Opera in the fading light of Europe on the brink of World War I, this sumptuous film features the cream of popular arias from Verdi, Mozart, Offenbach, Puccini and the haunting music of Mahler caressing the images throughout. - Director:
- Gérard Corbiau
- Cast:
- José van Dam, Dinah Bryant, Jérôme Pruett
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Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of Josie's hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer, which sees his life changed forever. A landmark in Irish cinema. Garage is a beautifully portrayed cinematic drama interspersed with razor sharp shards of black humour, with acutely observed characters that leave a lasting impression. - Director:
- Lenny Abrahamson
- Cast:
- Pat Shortt, John Keogh, George Costigan
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)Sanger fran andra vaningen
Set at the dawning of the new millennium, this hilarious masterpiece is from the brilliantly offbeat worldview of Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson, director of the acclaimed 'You, the Living'. Described by critic J. Hoberman as 'slapstick Ingmar Bergman', this witty yet resonant film unfolds as a series of comic inter-connected vignettes that portray scenes from an urban world which has ground to a halt and whose citizens teeter on the brink of madness. - Director:
- Roy Andersson
- Cast:
- Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson
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The Returned (2013)Retornados
Kate works at the hospital in the Return Unit, helping those who have been infected by a virus that turns people into zombies, including her husband Alex, by administering crucial doses of Return Protein. The doses keep the virus at bay but much of the public are still fearful of those who have been 'returned'. After various brutal and prolific attacks at the hands of Anti-Retum groups and rumours that stores of the crucial drug are running low, the government request that all Returned report to official medical facilities for their own safety. But Kate and Alex instead decide to flee along with the stash she's been stockpiling. Though it tuns out the real threat is a lot closer than they think... - Director:
- Manuel Carballo
- Cast:
- Emily Hampshire, Mark Schardan, Kris Holden-Ried
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Happily ever after never seemed so far far away when a trip to meet the in-laws turns into another hilariously twisted adventure for Shrek and Fiona. With the help of his faithful steed Donkey, Shrek takes on a potion-brewing Fairy Godmother, the pompous Prince Charming, and the famed ogre-killer, Puss In Boots, a ferocious feline foe who's really just a pussycat at heart! - Director:
- Andrew Adamson
- Cast:
- Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
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The sleepy staff of Macpherson's traditional Scottish tweed firm get a rude awakening when young Macpherson (Robert Morley) hires feisty American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings). She advocates new-fangled horrors like automation and - ghastliest of all - 'synthetic fibre'. Can nothing stop her? Nothing, perhaps, but meek accountant Mr Martin (Sellers). Beneath that placid surface, still waters run deep; to balance the books, he decides, he must erase the 'error'... - Director:
- Charles Crichton
- Cast:
- Sam Wanamaker, Peter Sellers, Robert Morley
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An American in Paris (1951)Un americano en París
Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and loves even more an alluring (but engaged) perfume-shop clerk. Dance sequences spun around Gershwin songs accent Kelly's romantic pursuit. And the final 17-minute ballet - combining the title symphony. Impressionist set stylings and Kelly's unique talent for telling a story in dance - lifts this winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture into the ether of timelessness. Love Is Here To Stay Kelly sings. So is An American In Paris. - Director:
- Vincente Minnelli
- Cast:
- Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
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Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky (Julian Dennison) gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the grumpy Uncle Hec (Sam Neill), and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options: go out in a blaze of glory or overcome their differences and survive as a family. - Director:
- Taika Waititi
- Cast:
- Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata
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Starring Sean Bean, 'The Frankenstein Chronicles' is a thrilling and terrifying reimagining of Mary Shelleys classic novel that follows a detective investigating a series of horrific experiments. London, 1827: when a mutilated corpse is discovered by the edge of the River Thames, Inspector John Marlott (Sean Bean) sets off on a hunt for the most deranged of killers, which takes him to the darkest comers of Geoigian London - an underworld of prostitution, drug smuggling, bodysnatching and murder for profit But as his investigation deepens,only one tiling is for certain: an evil which defies reason is at work, attempting to reanimate the dead. - Director:
- Benjamin Ross
- Cast:
- Sean Bean, Sean Hanrahan, Shaun Blaney
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Jack Taylor: Collection One (2011)The Pikemen / The Magdalen Martyrs / The Guards
Jack Taylor is an Irish ex-cop, on the wrong side of forty who has become a finder with a sharp tongue and a soft heart. He takes on the cases The Guards won't touch, no matter how hopeless. He's pig stubborn. He defends the lost and the broken. He's good because he looks where no one else looks, talks to the people no one else talks to. Moreover, he knows every back street in his hometown, Galway, knows the seed and breed of everyone in it. But small towns have big memories, and like Jack they are quick to anger and slow to forgive. - Director:
- Stuart Orme
- Cast:
- Iain Glen, Ralph Brown, Tara Breathnach
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Perfect Strangers (2003)El extraño
On a girl's night out, Melanie (Rachacl Blake) meets a handsome stranger (Sam Neill). Seduced by his charms, when the evening draws to a close she agrees to go back to his boat, moored in the town's harbour. The next morning Melanie wakes and is stunned to discover they're at sea and bound for the stranger's home - a rundown shack on a remote island. Cut off from the world she knows, the shocking truth begins to dawn.... she's been kidnapped. But why? As all too quickly her captor's desire becomes obsession, Melanie can only be certain of one thing... she has to escape. - Director:
- Gaylene Preston
- Cast:
- Rachael Blake, Robyn Malcolm, Madeleine Sami
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The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Playing golf early one morning, Jack Harrington hears a cry, "Murder! Help!" from a nearby cottage. He runs up to find a beautiful French girl, Felise, placidly weeding the garden, oblivious to any disturbance. When the Jack hears the same cries for many days he begins to think he might be mad. But are more sinister forces at work?
The Red Signal
Dermot West is invited to dinner at the home of Jack and Claire Trent. The first is his best friend, the second, the woman he loves. During the evening the conversation turns to the supernatural; Dermot admits he frequently gets what he calls 'the red signal' to warn him of impending danger. He neglects to mention that he is getting the signal strongly that night!- Director:
- Cyril Coke
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- Carol Drinkwater, Christopher Cazenove, Isabelle Spade
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Rosemary, a beautiful disturbed murderer at the centre of this powerful cocktail of family saga and crime drama which spans nearly thirty years. The story opens in London in the present day with a tense kidnap drama which leads to tragedy. Gradually a dark past and a childhood surrounded by people who could have saved her or stopped her earlier is revealed - and we witness the terrible consequences of their choices. Each episode rewinds back a decade earlier in this haunting tale of the making of a murderer - from adult, to teenager to toddler. David Byfield, an Anglican vicar and Rosemary's father; he blames himself for her evil, but must learn that he was not the only one to contribute to her nurture as she grew up. Family friend Wendy holds the key to the roots of Rosemary's problems and the very beginning of her descent into murder. Only by tracing events backwards through time can the truth be pieced together. A gripping and unsettling journey ensues, as we strip away layer after layer of a sociopath's history to discover the truth inside Rosemary's twisted mind and her sick soul. - Director:
- David Drury
- Cast:
- Charles Dance, Clare Holman, Barbara Wilshere
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Fred has fallen on hard times and finds himself living in his car with little hope of improving his situation. That all changes when he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal, a dope-smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, and his new 'neighbour' in the Dublin car park they call home. Cathal is determined to help Fred sort his life out. He modifies his car, helps him sign on the dole and make a friend in Jules, an attractive music teacher. But as Fred struggles with his pride to tell Jules about his 'home', and Cathal's drug habit spirals out of control, their friendships are tested as their lives change forever. - Director:
- Darragh Byrne
- Cast:
- Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth
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A funny, intelligent and delighfully adult fairytale set in Edwardian England, Dean Spanley will be unlike anything else that you've seen lately. Peter O'Toole delivers a mesmerising performance as a misanthropic curmudgeon who cannot come to terms with his elder son's death, and has little time or affection for his younger son (Jeremy Northam). But when the pair visit an eccentric mystic, they start a strange journey that eventually allow the old man to find his heart. - Director:
- Toa Fraser
- Cast:
- Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown
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