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12 Years a Slave-Chiwetel Ejiofor
Award-winning historical slave-narrative drama directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film follows the experience of Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), an African-American living with a wife and two children in Saratoga, New York, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery by men claiming to offer him work as a circus musician. Transported by ship to New Orleans, it isn't long before he is given a new name and sold to William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), a relatively empathetic slave owner. But confrontations with the cruel and violent overseer John Tibeats (Paul Dano) leads to Solomon being passed on by Ford to the extremely abusive and alcoholic planter Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), who rules his slaves with a whip in one hand and a Bible in the other. Believing the only hope of regaining his freedom is to remain passive for the time being, Solomon ceases fighting against the illegitimacy of his situation until salvation is offered to him by a kindly labourer named Bass (Brad Pitt). The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won three including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong'o). It also won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama and BAFTAs for Best Leading Actor (Ejiofor) and Best Film.
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13-Sam Riley
High stakes drama starring Sam Riley, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke and Ray Winstone. The family of Vince Ferro (Riley) are in grave need of money to pay medical bills. When Vince hears of the death of a man who was due to start a well paid job, he steals a letter addressed to the man and heads to New York to try and assume his identity. The ploy works and Vince is taken to the place of his employment but the 'job' is unusual to say the least. Vince finds himself forced to participate in a game of Russian roulette where the winner takes home a fortune and the losers go home in a body bag. Wealthy men, such as Jasper (Statham) - who has entered his less fortunate brother, Ronald (Winstone), into the event - bet on the outcome. Can Vince find a way to survive the horrifying game?
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21 Grams
Award-winning film by the director of 'Amores Perros', Alejandro González Iñárritu. Shot mainly with a hand-held camera, and following a non-linear plot line, the film captures the immediacy and confusion of the moments before, during and after a horrific accident that causes the lives of three disparate people to become interwined. Sean Penn plays Paul Rivers, a mathematics teacher facing up to his pending death from a heart problem, while his distant wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg) hopes to become pregnant from artificial insemination. Naomi Watts is Cristina, mother of two little girls who has overcome a drug-dependent past to achieve a stable, happy marriage and family life. Benicio del Toro plays Jack Jordan, an ex-criminal who has now found Jesus and is struggling to provide for his wife and their two children in a poor area of the town. When tragedy strikes, all three characters must re-evaluate their lives in the face of death. The title refers to the 21 grams a person loses at the moment of death, thought to be the weight of the human soul.
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3 Women
Off-beat drama from acclaimed director Robert Altman. In a dusty, isolated and small California town, shy and impressionable Pinky Rose (Sissy Spaceck) takes a job as a nursing home attendant, where she soon falls under the spell of the vivacious nurse Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), a devotee of glamorous fashion magazines. When Millie invites Pinky to live at her apartment block, Pinky's fascination for Millie soon turns into something a lot more sinister, and a lot more unpredictable. £22.99 -
360-Anthony Hopkins
Drama loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play 'La Ronde' and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Ben Foster. Set in various cities around the world, the film follows a number of people who are all linked by their sexual encounters, unbeknown to them. Among them are businessman Michael Daly (Law) who considers hiring a prostitute; his wife, Rose (Weisz), who decides it's time to end the affair she has been having; an elderly man (Hopkins) recovering from a drinking problem who goes in search of his estranged daughter; and sex offender Tyler McGregor (Foster) who struggles to resist temptation when he is released on parole.
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44 Inch Chest
British gangster drama penned by the writers of 'Sexy Beast', featuring an ensemble cast that includes Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Joanne Whalley and Tom Wilkinson. Ray Winstone stars as Colin Diamond, a London gangster who enlists the help of his friends to kidnap his wife's young French lover (Melvil Poupaud) in the hope of restoring his damaged ego.
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45 Years-Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay star as an aged couple in this British drama written and directed by Andrew Haigh. In the run-up to their 45th wedding anniversary, Kate (Rampling) and Geoff Mercer (Courtenay) are rocked by the news that the body of Geoff's former fiancée has been discovered in the Swiss Alps, 50 years after she disappeared on a walking holiday with Geoff. Although Kate knew of Geoff's first love he kept their engagement a secret. As Geoff reminisces about his past and debates whether to fly to Switzerland to formally identify the body, his wife is left to re-evaluate their long relationship. As Kate finalises preparations for their anniversary party, she begins to delve deeper into her husband's past and makes new discoveries that threaten to spell the end for their 45-years of marriage. Rampling was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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54
A fictionalised account of the rise and fall of the infamous 1970s New York nightclub, Studio 54. Controversial owner Steve Rubell (Mike Myers) recognises star potential in young Shane O'Shea (Ryan Philippe) and gives him a job behind the bar. Shane's good looks and charm ensure the dancefloor remains full, but Rubell's empire is threatened by the decadence and corruption that runs through it.
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8 Mile
This gritty, urban drama, starring controversial white rapper Eminem in his film debut, sparked a media debate on release and broke box-office records. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), aka Rabbit to his friends, has grown up on the wrong side of 8 Mile Road in the industrial city of Detroit. After being dumped by his girlfriend, Rabbit has to move back with his mother (Kim Basinger) and her new boyfriend but gets on with neither of them. His only solace is rapping with the group of DJs and MCs who go under the name of Three One Third. But he is a white boy in a predominantly African-American music culture and there are many who do not like it. Convinced that this is his only hope of getting out of the dead-end life he could end up living, Rabbit perseveres with rapping and is backed up by a new girlfriend (Brittany Murphy) and his friends.
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9 Songs
Controversial and sexually explicit drama from director Michael Winterbottom. Matt (Kieran O'Brien) meets Lisa (Margo Stilley), an American student studying in London, at a rock concert at the Brixton Academy. Winterbottom explores the nature of their relationship through a specific focus on their sex life, juxtaposing this with footage of the bands the couple go and see in concert.
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A Belfast Story-Colm Meaney
Contemporary Irish drama starring Colm Meaney and Malcolm Sinclair. Although the city of Belfast has been enjoying a period of relative peace and the car bombs and killings which were once a part of daily life have become less frequent, a number of murders of former IRA members ignites the suspicions of a city police detective (Meaney). With the body count rising, it seems whoever is responsible is determined to settle the score once and for all and he is forced to confront the horrors of his own past while seeking out the vigilante killers.
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A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick's controversial film triggered copycat violence on its initial release and as a result the director withdrew the film from circulation in Britain, keeping it suppressed right up to his death in 1999. The film follows sadistic punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) as he takes his gang on a rape and murder spree, showing absolutely no mercy to any of his victims. When he is eventually captured, the authorities subject him to a series of experiments designed to rid him of his violent tendencies. £7.99 -
A Clockwork Orange Steelbook
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Its power still entices, shocks and holds us in its grasp.
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A Late Quartet-Christopher Walken
Music-based drama directed by Yaron Zilberman in which a world-renowned string quartet from New York must come to grips with the thought of losing one of their members. After being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Peter (Christopher Walken), the eldest of the group, expresses his wish to leave. As his departure threatens the future of the quartet, so does the breakdown of Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Juliette (Catherine Keener)'s marriage. Tensions increase further when Robert becomes dissatisfied with his position as second violinist, while first violinist Daniel (Mark Ivanir) becomes involved with Alexandra (Imogen Poots), Robert and Juliette's much younger daughter.
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A Little Chaos-Kate Winslet
Alan Rickman directs and stars in this British period drama alongside Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts. Landscape architect Sabine De Barra (Winslet) is selected to design a garden in the grounds of King Louis XIV's new Palace of Versailles. As she develops a professional relationship with the king's principal gardener André Le Nôtre (Schoenaerts), romance gradually blossoms between the two. Meanwhile, Sabine faces challenges in her new position within the palace and must defy the limits of her gender and class. The cast also includes Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory and Jennifer Ehle.
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A Room With a View
Merchant-Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. At the turn of the century, Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter) has her passions stirred by young George Emerson (Julian Sands) while on holiday in Italy. On her return to Surrey she tries to put George behind her, but becomes increasingly disillusioned with her dull fiancé, Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis). Nominated for eight Oscars, with long-time Merchant-Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala taking home the statuette for her screenplay.
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A Single Man
Former fashion impresario Tom Ford directs this drama based on a short story by Christopher Isherwood. In a BAFTA-winning performance, Colin Firth stars as George Falconer, a middle-aged English professor in 1960s Los Angeles, who is grieving the recent death of his long-time partner Jim (Matthew Goode). The relationship between the two men is traced in a series of flashbacks. Meanwhile, over the course of a single day, George dwells on his past and his seemingly bleak future; seeks consolation from his closest friend, Charley (Julianne Moore); has an unexpected encounter with a Spanish prostitute (Jon Kortajarena); and is stalked by over-enthusiastic student Kenny (Nicholas Hoult). £8.99 -
A Thousand Times Good Night-Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau star in this drama about a war photographer and the stresses her job puts on her family. Photojournalist Rebecca (Binoche) is passionate about capturing images of war, which often leads her into dangerous situations. On one of her assignments she is photographing a suicide bomber when the explosive goes off early, leaving Rebecca severely wounded. She returns home to her husband Marcus (Coster-Waldau) and daughters, who, tired of constantly worrying about her safety, urge Rebecca to choose between them and her job. She decides to put her family first but when daughter Steph (Lauryn Canny) shows an interest in humanitarian work, Rebecca suggests that she travels with her to a Kenyan refugee camp. When the camp faces a violent attack, Rebecca instinctively takes out her camera instead of seeking safety. Will she survive the life-threatening situation?
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About a Boy
Hugh Grant takes the lead role as aimless, commitment-shy, thirtysomething Will in this adaptation of Nick Hornby's bestseller. Living on the royalties of a hit song his father wrote 40 years ago, Will drifts through life, moving from one relationship to the next with little lasting effect. But when he hits upon the new idea of dating single-mothers, he soon finds himself entangled with the suicidal Fiona (Toni Colette) and her 12-year-old-son Marcus (Nicholas Hoult). As he and Marcus gradually develop a friendship, Will begins to reassess the selfish life he has been living.
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Age of Kill-Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp stars in this British thriller directed by Neil Jones. Former black ops sniper Sam Blake (Kemp) is blackmailed by a terrorist known as Jericho. Jericho's orders are that Sam must kill six seemingly random people in six hours or the death toll across London will be far greater. As leverage to ensure the task is completed correctly, Jericho kidnaps Sam's daughter and holds her hostage until the job is done. The cast also includes Phil Davis, Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran.
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