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Spring and Autumn: Series 1 (1973)Spring & Autumn
Not every widowed seventy-year-old is lucky enough to have a daughter willing to provide him with a home in his declining years, and not every daughter is unlucky enough to have a father as awkward, cantankerous and mischievous as Tommy Butler... Comedy veteran Jimmy Jewel stars as Tommy, a retired railway worker who goes to live with his long-suffering daughter Vera (June Barry) when his home is demolished. While his son-in-law Brian (Larry Martyn) hardly welcomes the new domestic arrangement, Tommy, having left all his old friends behind, feels particularly lost - until he strikes up an unlikely friendship with twelve-year-old tearaway Charlie Harris (Charlie Hawkins). This warm, touching sitcom was written by the hugely successful team of Vince Powell and Harry Driver, and originally ran from 1973 to 1977. This set includes the pilot play from 1972 alongside all six episodes from series one. - Director:
- Stuart Allen
- Cast:
- Jimmy Jewel, Charlie Hawkins, Gaye Brown
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The marriage of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) and Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's (Stella Gonet)'s Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. 'Spencer' is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days. - Director:
- Pablo Larraín
- Cast:
- Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Nielen
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In 1943, two intelligence officers from the Royal Navy (Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng) attempt to pull off the most daring espionage mission of the Second World War. The Allies are about to invade Sicily - but the Germans must be convinced that their real target is Greece. A briefcase containing plans for the fake invasion is attached to a body dressed as a British major and given an elaborate false identity. The 'man who never was' is then left at sea for the Germans to find. However, Nazi intelligence believes that the find may be just too good to be true - and a desperate cat-and-mouse game begins in the heart of war torn London... - Director:
- Ronald Neame
- Cast:
- Peter Sellers, Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame
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The Great Museum (2014)Das große Museum
This feature documentary portrays one of the most important museums in the world: Vienna's Museum of Art History or the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. It presents a unique look behind the scenes of this fascinating institution and encounters a number of charismatic protagonists and their working fields unfolding the museum's special world - as an art institution as well as a vehicle for stately representation. - Director:
- Johannes Holzhausen
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"Citizenfour" is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill and Glenn Greenwald's encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA). Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name "Citizenfour", in January 2013. He reached out to her because he knew she had long been a target of government surveillance, stopped at airports numerous times, and had refused to be intimidated. When Snowden revealed he was a high-level analyst driven to expose the massive surveillance of Americans by the NSA, Poitras persuaded him to let her film. "Citizenfour" places you in the room with Poitras, MacAskill, Greenwald, and Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging outside, forced to make quick decisions that will impact their lives and all of those around them. "Citizenfour" not only shows you the dangers of governmental surveillance - it makes you feel them. After seeing the film, you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again. - Director:
- Laura Poitras
- Cast:
- Edward Snowden, Robert Tibbo, Glenn Greenwald
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Doctor in Love (1960)Dr. H. - Der Blinddarmkiller
A raucous tale of two young doctors enthusiastically tackling the most common ailment known to man – the love bug! Right from the start it’s romance and laughter all the way with Dr Richard Hare (Michael Craig) and his partner Dr Tony Burke (Leslie Phillips) adapting to life at St. Swithin’s Hospital; a country practice and wonderfully entitled ‘Foulness Anti-Cold Research Clinic. In the process, they encounter sultry night nurses, two out of work strippers – Dawn & Leonora (Joan Sims & Liz Fraser) a flirtatious receptionist (Carole Lesley) and luscious Locum Dr Barrington (Virginia Maskell). Needless to say, heartbeats and pulse – rates rush skywards, as love becomes the prescribed tonic. Even the retired surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice) gets involved and all in spite of a grumbling appendix. - Director:
- Ralph Thomas
- Cast:
- Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, Leslie Phillips
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Myra Breckinridge (1970)Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge
One of the most notorious films ever made, 'Myra Breckinridge' caused an outcry on its release, prompting one reviewer to call it 'a pornographic remake of Charley's Aunt'. Since then this over-the-top comedy of excess has built a huge cult following. Based on the novel by Gore Vidal, the story follows Myron, who has a sex change, becomes Myra and travels to Hollywood to claim an inheritance, though her real mission is "the destruction of the American male in all its particulars". - Director:
- Michael Sarne
- Cast:
- Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch
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Laurel Canyon (2002)Лавровий каньйон
Laurel Canyon, a street that runs through the heart of the Hollywood Hills, has for decades been a sort of Greenwich Village of the West, home to many musicians, actors, artists and other bohemian types. Among its current residents is Jane (Frances McDormand), a veteran record producer, trying to come up with a hit single for a British band whose lead singer Ian (Alessandro Nivola) is her much younger lover. Jane's son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fianc Alex (Kate Beckinsale) are both recent graduates of Harvard medical school. Conservative and serious, the couple move to Los Angeles to complete their studies. Sam and Alex begrudgingly agree to stay at Jane's house until they can find an alternative place to live. Once in the house, however, Sam and Alex's tight control over their lives begins to unravel... - Director:
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Cast:
- Frances McDormand, Alessandro Nivola, Christian Bale
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Back to Burgundy (2017)Ce qui nous lie
Jean (Pio Marma'O left his family and his birthplace of Burgundy ten years ago to tour the world. Learning of his father's imminent death, he returns to his childhood home. There, he reunites with his sister Juliette (Ana Girardot), and his brother Jeremie (Francois Civil) when their father passes away just before the harvest begins. Over the course of a year, in sync with the rhythm of the seasons, the three young adults rediscover and reinvent their familial bonds, maturing and blossoming along with the wine they are making. - Director:
- Cédric Klapisch
- Cast:
- Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, François Civil
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Geoffrey Carter (Michael Gough) - a highly strung author suffering from writer's block - petulantly insists to his wife (Patricia Roc) that they flee their annoying neighbours and move somewhere more peaceful. They find a delightfully remote woodland cottage which the owner - a melancholic, widowed artist with a Larry Adler fixation - is happy to rent them at a pittance. All too soon they realise that something is not quite right with their landlord and, much to Geoffrey's horror, he realises that the plot of his new murder mystery is being played out for real... - Director:
- Maxwell Munden
- Cast:
- Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc, Michael Gough
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When Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband is having an affair, she seeks refuge with her estranged, bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie). As a fish out of water, Sandra is at odds with her sister's free-spirited lifestyle, until she is persuaded to join Bif's dance class. Here, Bif and her friends Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman) show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love. - Director:
- Richard Loncraine
- Cast:
- Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley, Imelda Staunton
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In the docks of Jimmy McGovern's BAFTA Award winning second series of Accused stands a sensational ensemble of British acting talent. They are the innocent, the guilty and the somewhere in between. Starring Olivia Colman, Sean Bean, Sheridan Smith, Anne Marie Duff, Anna Maxwell Martin and Stephen Graham, 'Accused Series 2' is directed by David Blair and Ashley Pearce. These modern-day morality plays are fraught with emotion as they delve into the tangled issues of gender stereotypes, a mother's unconditional love, familial grief and paranoia, as well as challenging the justice system itself. With cases of gang violence, murder, sexual assault and crimes of passion, are these everyday defendants the guilty or the victims? - Director:
- Ashley Pearce
- Cast:
- Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, Michael Maloney
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??? with touch of the macabre, 'Tales of the Unexpected' holds, at its heart, a core of black humour that makes each story both compelling and surprising, with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country. This complete sixth series, first transmitted to great critical acclaim in 1983, features fourteen outstanding episodes showcasing powerful performances from a glittering international cast including Colin Blakely, Judy Geeson, Hayley Mills, Stuart Wilson, David Cassidy, Darren McGavin, Sheila Gish, Peter Cushing, Gayle Hunnicutt and Sharon Gless. - Director:
- Graham Evans
- Cast:
- Bryan Marshall, George Sewell, Charles Keating
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Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy) have been married for 29 years and live in a small seaside town called Hope Gap. During a visit from their son Jamie (Josh O'Connor) Edward informs them both that he plans to leave Grace and walks out the door that very same day. With the whole family knocked into disarray, Grace has to find a way through this new life which she least expected and, with the help of her son, achieve hope once again. 'Hope Gap' tracks the emotional unravelling of a tight knit family going through divorce and walking the thin line between love and hate. - Director:
- William Nicholson
- Cast:
- Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, Josh O'Connor
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The Fortune Cookie (1966)Por dinero, casi todo
Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) is one lucky guy! When he's accidentally clobbered by a 220-pound halfback, all Harry suffers is a slight concussion. All, that is, until Whiplash Willie (Walter Matthau) — a legal scoundrel of the first order — arrives on the scene! For if Harry follows shyster Willie's advice and feigns a crippling injury, the two charlatans can split a cool million in phoney insurance claims. But can Willie's world-class finagling dispel those ominous words that lie within the fortune cookie on Harry's hospital plate: You can't fool all of the people all of the time? - Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Cast:
- Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich
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