What we're watching
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Last Swim
It's results day and Ziba (a stunning Deba Hekmat, Hoard) has a meticulous plan for her school friends to carouse in the summer streets of London. But her secrets and fears are never far away. Sasha Nathwani follows up his impressive shorts and music videos with an astute, confident and freewheel...
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Vera Drake
Mike Leigh’s acclaimed story of a selfless woman who helps ladies with unwanted pregnancies – in 1950s Britain when abortion was illegal – is both an affecting drama and vital slice of social history.
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The Onion Field
In 1963 LA, two officers were kidnapped in a real-life hostage ordeal that ended with the brutal execution of one in a desolate onion field. Though the other cop escapes, he is forever marked by the traumatic event. As the two assailants appeal their death sentences, they find themselves entangle...
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Série Noire
Franck, a door-to-door salesman married to Jeanne, is looking for a customer who owes money when he meets Mona, a teenager forced into prostitution by her rich and hateful aunt. Franck's wife leaves and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. Mona pays back the money and suggests he kill her ...
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud
Young and beautiful, Nelly is a spirited 25-year-old seeking refuge from her mounting debts and decaying marriage. Lost, she finds her way into the life of an older gentleman, Mr Arnaud, as he clears her debts and offers her work writing his memoirs. Shortly after, she divorces her leeching husba...
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Maléfique
A devoted family man, Carrère’s life takes a crushing turn when he is arrested for financial fraud. Confined to a grimy cell with inmates guilty of far darker crimes, he soon discovers they all share a single desire: to escape. Hope emerges when the group uncover a book of black magic once wielde...
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Human Resources
Business graduate Franck returns to his hometown to take up an internship at the factory where his father works. However, his attempts to introduce an initiative intended to empower the workforce backfire when his manager uses it as an excuse to restructure and cut jobs. As tensions simmer on the...
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Bloody Mallory
On her wedding night, Mallory discovers her new husband is a demon – and promptly kills him with an axe. Years later, Mallory leads a rogue government commando unit: Vena Cava, a drag queen and explosives expert; Talking Tina, a pre-teen telepath; and Durand, a hardened government agent making up...
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Sci-Fi & Horror
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Few genres stretch like science fiction, a marketplace for idle prediction, utopia, apocalypse and wonder. Meanwhile, tales of terror have been embraced by cinema since its birth.
From chilling gothic horror to strange dystopian worlds this collection showcases genre defining examples of sci-fi ... -
Tony
Tony (Peter Ferdinando) cuts an odd figure. Wandering the streets of his East London neighbourhood, he quietly observes the people around him, occasionally inviting an unlucky few back to his flat for some squash. Asking a prostitute for a cuddle or reeling off his extensive VHS collection, he is...
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Mr. Blake at Your Service!
Recently widowed Andrew Blake decides to leave his business in England and return to France, the country where he first met his late wife. Hoping to reconnect with his past, he takes a job as a butler in a grand but eccentric estate. What begins as an attempt to escape his grief soon turns into s...
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Evil under the Sun
Peter Ustinov stars as Agatha Christie's immortal detective, Hercule Poirot, in this star-studded murder-mystery. Poirot is tying up some loose ends on a shimmeringly beautiful Adriatic island when he's dragged into the case of an actress' strangling. In typical Christie style, everyone on the be...
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Farewell my Concubine
Spanning 50 years and a lifelong relationship amidst the violence and upheaval of national civil unrest, this unflinching epic balances intimate romance and devastating scale to heartbreaking effect. Adapted from the novel by Lilian Lee (author of Rouge), the tale of Dieyi and Xiaolou carries us ...
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Bully
Based on real events, Larry Clark's chilling follow up to Kids features brave, raw performances of his young cast playing a group of disaffected teenagers who decide to murder a domineering and violent high school bully. The friends become capable of an act none of them would be willing to commit...
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The Third Man
One of the greatest British films, Carol Reed's classic very consciously emphasises its time and place - post-war Vienna - yet its resonant themes around loss of innocence and a fall from grace render it timeless. Joseph Cotten plays the writer searching the Austrian capital for his missing frien...
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Documentaries
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Documentaries can be as expressive, surreal and experimental as any work of fiction, with British directors such as John Grierson and Humphrey Jennings paving the way for documentary in the early twentieth century. This collection explores a world made up of people and places, capturing the bread...
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Alphaville
In Godard's dystopian sci-fi, detective Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels to the soulless technopolis of Alphaville on a secret mission to capture the dictatorial Professor Von Braun and destroy the Alpha 60 computer that has outlawed human emotions. Love comes to his aid in the form of ...
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The Lion in Winter
Christmas 1183. An elderly King Henry the Second (Peter O'Toole) is torn over naming his successor. He wants the young Prince John (Nigel Terry), one of his three sons, to take over, however, his wife Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katherine Hepburn) wants another of his sons, Prince Richard the Lio...
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Audrey
Frustrated Ronnie lives out her theatrical ambitions vicariously through Audrey, her spoilt, domineering teenager. When Audrey falls into a coma, Ronnie and her browbeaten family spy an opportunity to improve life at home. Natalie Bailey’s pitch-black satire skewers Main Character Syndrome, tox...