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A collection of films by Liverpudlian filmmaker Terence Davies. 'The Terence Davies Trilogy' comprises three short films: 'Children' (1976), 'Madonna and the Child' (1980) and 'Death and Transfiguration' (1983). Taken together, the three films trace the life of Robert Tucker, the director's alter ego, from childhood to the grave. 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' (1988) looks back on Davies's working class upbringing in post-war Liverpool. Told in flashback, the films begins and ends with family weddings, held several years apart, and is scored with songs from the period. 'The Long Day Closes' (1992) traces moments in the childhood of Bud (Leigh McCormack), a Liverpudlian schoolboy in 1955. Plucked from his cosy home when he is sent to his new Catholic school, the film looks at his loneliness as teachers and pupils pick on him and his increasing isolation at home as he hovers between childhood and adolescence. His beloved film idols and screen stories keep him company in his imagination but in the real world he feels increasingly like a misfit. 'Of Time and the City' (2008) is a highly personal portrait of Davies's native city, Liverpool, and shares his musings on his relationship with the place where he was born and lived until his late twenties. Composed largely of atmospheric archive footage accompanied by Davies's lyrical narration and a melancholy, nostalgic soundtrack, the film seamlessly intersperses Davies's personal memories and experiences with observations about the history and culture of this iconic city.
Emotional drama starring Kathryn Worth as Anna, an upper-middle class English woman who feels she has always lived her life on the periphery of events. Childless and in a deteriorating marriage, she takes refuge with an old school friend's family on holiday in Tuscany. Over the course of a hot summer's fortnight, sexual tensions simmer - and Anna believes she may have found a second chance at happiness. But as events slowly unravel, and the strains within the affluent bourgeois clique are revealed, she is finally forced to confront her inner turmoil and sadness.
Based on one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Kite Runner is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after 20 years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right...
Where's Gene Kelly when you need him? Robert Carlyle stars in this doomsday tale, where the meeting of a powerful storm and dangerously high seas results in a tidal surge of biblical proportions sweeping down the east coast of England en route for London. With the Thames Barrier breached and panic mounting, marine defence expert Rob (Carlyle) has to think fast if the capital is to avoid ultimate catastrophe.
Three young high school friends come up with a plan to free themselves from the attentions of George (Josh Peck), the school bully, in this dark coming-of-age American drama. Taking George with them on a boat trip to celebrate Sam's (Rory Culkin) birthday, the group plan a brutal prank that will humiliate George and finally put him in his place. But when Sam begins to understand that George is merely lonely and confused, and desperate for friendship, he begins to have misgivings. Despite these misgivings, events have been put in motion that none of the boys can stop.
Musical drama based on the life and career of Bobby Darin. After a string of hits as a rock & roll singer, Bobby Darin (Kevin Spacey) takes a gamble, and with the help of manager Steve Blauner (John Goodman) he reinvents himself as a supper-club vocalist in the manner of Frank Sinatra. After topping the charts with his swinging version of 'Mack the Knife' he sets his sights on acting and on the set of his first movie, he meets Sandra Dee (Kate Bosworth), who he eventually weds. But after a string of successful movies for Dee and hit records and an Oscar nomination for Darin, the shifting tastes of the 1960s throw their careers off-track.
Drama set in Reykjavik, Iceland, directed by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson. Keith Carradine stars as Simon, an American man with a dubious past who returns to Iceland after some 30 years' absence. His intention is to put an end to his criminal past by taking his own life - but when he meets a young woman, Dua (Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir), who he suspects may be his daughter, his puts his plans on hold to help her out. She is in trouble with the police, and together she and Simon run away to Hamburg, illegally smuggling Dua's valuable Icelandic falcon with the intention of selling it to rich Arabs.
Scathing black comedy about love, sex, family, murder, incest and revenge, based on the 17th-century play by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Middleton and transposed by subversive British director Alex Cox to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. After ten years in hiding, Vindici (Christopher Eccleston) returns to destroy the Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered Vindici's wife on their wedding day. During his absence, Vindici's family fell into poverty - while the Duke, Duchess and their decadent sons acquired wealth and power, ruling over their court obsessed with transient beauty, money, inherited privilege and power. Determined to exact his revenge, Vindici sets out to gain the confidence of the Duke and his villainous heir, Lussurioso (Eddie Izzard). The film was screened at the 2002 Locarno Film Festival.
Cold War is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate — an impossible love story in impossible times. (Academy Award nominations for: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography)
The entire fourth series of the award-winning ITV costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an English stately home. It's 1922, and six months after a tragic car accident, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) is still trying to come to terms with her loss. Meanwhile, as mass unemployment, political upheaval and economic crisis threaten the social order of the day, the family and staff of Downton Abbey try to adjust to life in a changing world.
When a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man and no idea what happened — her entire life changes in one night. Starring Kaley Cuoco as Cassie Bowden, THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT is a dark comedic thriller based on the novel by New York Times best-selling author Chris Bohjalian.
Drama directed by Sophie Barthes and starring Ezra Miller, Mia Wasikowska and Paul Giamatti. Emma Bovary (Wasikowska) lives in a small town in the country with her doctor husband, but both the locale and the marriage leave her bored and restless. She decides to seek a life of passion and excitement, despite what it may cost her.
A previously thought lost episode of the 1960s medical drama starring Bill Simpson and Andrew Cruickshank. Set in a medical practice in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae, the series follows the experienced and mildly conservative Dr Cameron (Cruickshank) and his adventurous and enquiring junior partner Dr Finlay (Simpson). In this episode, tensions between Cameron and Finlay reach breaking point as Cameron questions Finlay's commitment to the job when he requests a leave of absence.
The critically acclaimed ITV drama series returns for a second season. The story begins with the discovery of a body; this time the perfectly preserved remains of a middle-aged man found in a sealed suitcase in the silt of the River Lea in North East London. As Cassie and Sunny begin the complicated task of trying to identify the victim, we will meet four unconnected people who we suspect are linked in some way to the victim.
Brian Cox and Emilia Fox star in this comedy drama co-written and directed by János Edelényi. The film follows retired Shakespearean actor Sir Michael Gifford (Cox), who's battle with a form of Parkinson's disease has left him confined to a wheelchair at his country estate. After alienating a number of former caregivers with his prickly and quarrelsome attitude, Gifford's strong-willed daughter Sophia (Fox) forces him to accept Hungarian refugee and aspiring actress Dorottya (Coco König) as his new carer. Despite a difficult start, the pair soon begin to form a strong bond which could prove beneficial for both of them.
Brady Corbet directs this war drama loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story. Tom Sweet stars as a young American boy living with his parents in France just after the end of the Second World War. As he witnesses his father (Liam Cunningham)'s part in peace negotiations and the creation of the Treaty of Versailles, the boy begins to develop an angry personality, having temper outbursts at anyone who questions or challenges him. As his mother (Bérénice Bejo) tries to control her son with love and affection, it soon becomes clear that no amount of discipline can restrain him. The cast also includes Yolande Moreau, Stacy Martin and Robert Pattinson.
Brady Corbet directs this war drama loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story. Tom Sweet stars as a young American boy living with his parents in France just after the end of the Second World War. As he witnesses his father (Liam Cunningham)'s part in peace negotiations and the creation of the Treaty of Versailles, the boy begins to develop an angry personality, having temper outbursts at anyone who questions or challenges him. As his mother (Bérénice Bejo) tries to control her son with love and affection, it soon becomes clear that no amount of discipline can restrain him. The cast also includes Yolande Moreau, Stacy Martin and Robert Pattinson.
All eight episodes of the BBC miniseries starring James Nesbitt and Frances O'Connor. When Tony and Emily Hughes (Nesbitt and O'Connor) travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver (Oliver Hunt), their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears into the crowd of a busy French street. As the frantic father loses patience with the police and their lack of motivation to search for Oliver, Tony takes matters into his own hands and begins to form a private investigation. The cast also includes Tchéky Karyo and Anastasia Hille.
All eight episodes from the first series of the French supernatural drama, where the inhabitants of a mountain village are confronted by the reappearance of a number of dead people. In an Alpine village dominated by a huge dam, a confused group of men, women and children begin to mysteriously appear. Not realising that they are in fact dead, having met their end years earlier in a variety of ways, the group set about trying to reclaim their past lives. But their arrival throws the small community into chaos as the affected families struggle to come to terms with what is happening. To make matters worse, history seems to be repeating itself, as, several years after a serial killer terrorised the small community, there is a spate of similarly gruesome murders. The episodes are: 'Camille', 'Simon', 'Julie', 'Victor', 'Serge et Toni', 'Lucy', 'Adèle' and 'La Horde'.
All 38 episodes from the first four seasons of the TV crime drama following an ex-con who assumes the identity of a sheriff in the fictional town of Banshee, Pennsylvania. Having served 15 years in prison following a diamond heist, the unnamed man posing as Sheriff Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) and his crime partner and ex-girlfriend Carrie (Ivana Milicevic) risk having their dark pasts and real identities publicly exposed by the threat of old enemies. Season 1 episodes are: 'Pilot', 'The Rave', 'Meet the New Boss', 'Half Deaf Is Better Than All Dead', 'The Kindred', 'Wicks', 'Behold a Pale Rider', 'We Shall Live Forever', 'Always the Cowboy' and 'A Mixture of Madness'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Little Fish', 'The Thunder Man', 'The Warrior Class', 'Bloodlines', 'The Truth About Unicorns', 'Armies of One', 'Ways to Bury a Man', 'Evil for Evil', 'Homecoming' and 'Bullets and Tears'. Season 3 episodes are: 'The Fire Trials', 'Snakes and Whatnot', 'A Fixer of Sorts', 'Real Life Is the Nightmare', 'Tribal', 'We Were All Someone Else Yesterday', 'You Can't Hide from the Dead', 'All the Wisdom I Got Left', 'Even God Doesn't Know What to Make of You' and 'We All Pay Eventually'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Something Out of the Bible', 'The Burden of Beauty', 'The Book of Job', 'Bloodletting', 'A Little Late to Grow a Pair', 'Only One Way a Dogfight Ends', 'Truths Other Than the Ones You Tell Yourself' and 'Requiem'.
All 24 episodes from the seventh season of the spin-off crime drama starring Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J. Set in the Office of Special Projects, a crack team of government agents operating outside the military chain of command, the series follows the team as they assume false identities and utilise the most advanced technology to investigate international crimes from murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines. The episodes are: 'Active Measures', 'Citadel', 'Driving Miss Diaz', 'Command and Control', 'Blame It On Rio', 'Unspoken', 'An Unlocked Mind', 'The Long Goodbye', 'Defectors', 'Internal Affairs', 'Cancel Christmas', 'Core Values', 'Angels and Daemons', 'Come Back', 'Matryoshka', 'Matryoshka, Part 2', 'Revenge Deferred', 'Exchange Rate', 'The Seventh Child', 'Seoul Man', 'Head of the Snake', 'Granger, O.', 'Where There's Smoke...' and 'Talion'.
In 1943, with Rome occupied by the Nazis, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) does all he can to help Allied POWs, providing them with hiding places and assisting them in their flight from the Germans. Gestapo Chief Colonel Herbert Kappler (Christopher Plummer) grows suspicious of O'Flaherty, but is frustrated by the priest's diplomatic immunity. Finally, he issues an order that O'Flaherty either be captured or shot if he is ever seen outside the walls of the Vatican.
Orson Welles stars in this 1950s crime drama based on the novel by Meyer Levin, which in turn is based on a real legal case that took place in 1920s Chicago. Two wealthy law students, Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) and Arthur Strauss (Bradford Dillman), decide that they can get away with committing the perfect murder. They kidnap and kill the teenage son of a millionaire, but a pair of spectacles left at the crime scene leads to them being identified as the murderers. Their families hire America's top lawyer Jonathan Wilk (Welles) - a known opponent of the death penalty - to defend them in their trial, and Wilk goes on to make American legal history by successfully arguing in favour of a life sentence rather than the pair's execution. |
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