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Julian Jarrold directs this British comedy drama following the future Queen of England and her sister as they go out on the town to celebrate the end of the Second World War. On VE Day, 8th May 1945, Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) and her younger sister Princess Margaret (Bel Powley) beg their parents King George VI (Rupert Everett) and Queen Elizabeth (Emily Watson) to let them leave Buckingham Palace for the night so they can join in the celebrations. The King and Queen give their consent and Elizabeth and Margaret head out incognito but their night takes some unexpected turns...
Dev Patel and Hugh Jackman star in this action thriller written and directed by Neill Blomkamp. When revolutionary scientist Deon (Patel) awakens his latest creation, a robot with artificial intelligence and the ability to think and feel like a human, his dreams and his nightmares all quickly become his reality. As the robot, Chappie (voice of Sharlto Copley), begins to develop in the same ways a human would, society around him finds it increasingly difficult to accept him into their lives. After Chappie is kidnapped by South African gangsters who wish to do him harm, Deon puts all his efforts into finding his creation and proving to the world that Chappie is not dangerous but merely provides evidence of the next generation of thinking.
Action thriller sequel to 'Taken' (2008) and 'Taken 2' (2012) starring Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen. When former CIA agent Brian Mills (Neeson) discovers his wife Lenny (Janssen)'s dead body in their bedroom, he quickly realises that he is being framed for her murder and goes on the run. As he works to clear his name and battles against relentless police inspector Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker) he must fight to protect the one last thing he has left in the world: his daughter. The cast also includes Dougray Scott, Maggie Grace and Jon Gries.
Academy Award-winning historical drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. The film follows Turing from his teenage years to his wartime work and the trouble he later faced in his private life. Along with his friend and colleague Joan Clarke (Keira Knightly) and the rest of his team at the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park, Turing races against time to decipher the Nazi's Enigma machine during World War II. Despite playing a significant role in helping Britain defeat Germany, Turing is later convicted of homosexual acts and suffers greatly in his personal life as a result. The cast also includes Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode and Rory Kinnear. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cumberbatch) and Best Director, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Forest Whitaker and Anthony Mackie star in this psychological thriller directed by Philippe Caland. When life coach and best-selling author Thomas Carter (Mackie) gets a request for a one-to-one session from a fan (Whitaker) whose years of dark thoughts have plagued him over his mother's untimely death, Thomas seizes the opportunity to get into the mind of a troubled man and takes the job. When he gets to his new patient's home for his first session he begins to realise that the distressed man needs a lot more than life coaching.
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton plays an actress who takes a visiting Italian film crew on a tour of London, recounting horrifying events which occurred just two years previous in which two teenagers from Oxford travelled to London, driven by delusions with the intent to kill. This retelling of the horiffic true story recounts how the pair mercilessly murdered an innocent motorist who just happened to be passing by.
Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac star in this thriller adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel by Hossein Amini, who makes his directorial debut. In 1962 wealthy married couple Chester and Colette MacFarland are in the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, when they meet shady tour guide Rydal. Rydal is immediately taken with the beautiful Colette and doesn't hestitate when the couple invite him to dine with them. Later in the evening, however, he begins to realise that Chester is hiding a dark secret and soon finds himself embroiled in murder. Rydal helps the MacFarlands evade the authorities but his feelings for Colette cause tension between him and Chester, making the already precarious situation even more dangerous.
Tom Hardy, Ruth Wilson and Olivia Colman star in this thriller from writer and director Steven Knight. Ivan Locke (Hardy) is the head of a successful construction company and is happily married to Katrina (Wilson) with whom he has two sons, Eddie (Tom Holland) and Sean (Bill Milner). However, he must risk it all to 'do the right thing' when he faces the consequences of a past mistake. He learns that Bethan (Colman), a woman he had a one-off encounter with some months ago, is pregnant and he decides to leave Birmingham and drive down to London so he can be at the birth of his child. The film follows Locke in his car through the whole journey as he has phone conversations with his wife, children and colleagues and talks to his father as though he is there with him. Will his decision cost him the life he has worked so hard to obtain? The cast also features Andrew Scott, Ben Daniels, Danny Webb and Alice Lowe.
1950s British film noir starring Adrienne Corri and William Russell. Fed up with living his mundane life, travel agency employee Bill Anderson (Russell) siezes his opportunity for a change when a customer returns tickets to Panama. Bill decides to take the tickets and go to Panama himself. While at the airport, however, he is distracted by the alluring Diana Maxwell (Corri). When the flight is delayed until the following day, Diana manages to get Bill involved in all manner of misadventures. Will he be glad of this change from the humdrum of his daily existence?
Abduction thriller starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano. Well-to-do family man Keller Dover (Jackman) is thrown into a world of paranoia and suspicion when his daughter and her friend go missing. With the only lead being a run-down RV which was parked outside the house, Detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) heads an investigation into the disappearance, tracks down the vehicle and arrests the driver (Dano), but a lack of evidence pointing to the man's guilt leads to him being released from custody. Feeling that justice will be a long time coming and that his daughter's life may be in danger, Keller takes matters into his own hands and begins a desperate search to find the two girls...
Kathryn Bigelow directs this Academy Award-nominated military action thriller about the mission by American special operations forces to capture or kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Shining a light on the secretive processes behind the world's greatest manhunt, the film details the work done by the intelligence team responsible for finally tracking down bin Laden, graphically documenting the unfolding ten-year intelligence hunt through the eyes of CIA analyst Maya (Jessica Chastain), whose initial minor role assumes ever-greater importance as a crack US Navy Seal team readies itself for its most important mission ever. Chastain won a Golden Globe Award for her role in the Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama category.
Dark comedy thriller following a man who becomes entangled in the manipulative plots of two women. After going the wrong way on a country road, Sam Bailey (Paul Burke) encounters a farmer's wife (Paula Davis) who is determined to get her hands on her husband's life insurance. He becomes embroiled in her plans for a better life and when his wife, Jan (Anastasia Bondarenko), finds out, she decides to up the stakes, making the situation even more complicated for Sam.
Mallory Kane is a highly-trained black ops commando working for an international government security firm. After successfully completing her latest mission of freeing a Chinese journalist who had been held hostage, Mallory is betrayed and left for dead by a fellow agent. Realising that she is now the prime target of a band of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must turn the tables and get to the truth if she is to have any hope of staying alive.
Action thriller starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. Rookie CIA agent Matt Weston (Reynolds) is assigned to manage a South African safe house for renegade former operative Tobin Frost (Washington). The two men are forced to go on the run, however, when the house is attacked by mercenaries. Now, these unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to figure out exactly who it is that's trying to kill them.
Supernatural thriller starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts. Writer Will Atenton (Craig) and his wife, Libby (Weisz), move with their two young daughters from Manhattan to a small town in New England. Unfortunately, after a series of strange occurrences they discover that their idyllic new home was once the site of a horrific crime - and that their new neighbour, Ann Patterson (Watts), appears to know more than she is willing to tell them.
Low-budget revenge Western. Dustin Leighton stars as Frank Harden, a man on the run who rescues a lost Mexican girl forced to work as a prostitute. It soon transpires, however, that our hero is harbouring some dark secrets of his own...
Gritty crime thriller, from director Stuart St Paul, about a group of Russian criminals operating a sex trade in the heart of Northern England. Led by the ruthless Cristi (Danny Midwinter), the gang kidnaps and traffics a group of Eastern Europeans to Leeds, forcing the men into illegal fighting and the women into the sex industry. When they capture local businessman Gabe Taylor (Billy Murray)'s daughter, however, things turn ugly, and it's a race against time to get her back alive in time for her wedding.
Remake of the 1970s British thriller of the same name. When two American girls, Stephanie (Amber Heard) and Ellie (Odette Yustman), head off on a cycling tour in rural Argentina, they become separated from the rest of their group and end up drowning their sorrows in the local bar, where they soon attract the attention of every man in the vicinity. When Ellie subsequently disappears, Stephanie turns to the police for help - only to find that the local authorities already have their hands full with a string of unsolved kidnappings targeting young female tourists.
Nick Nevern writes, directs and stars in this low-budget British thriller. When aspiring director Charlie Ruez (Ian Duck) decides to make a documentary on low-life drug dealer Terry Jones (Nevern), he soon finds himself far out of his depth as he becomes immersed in a terrifying world of sex, drugs and violence.
Remake of writer Mario Giordano's 'Das Experiment' (2001), starring Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker. The film is based on the Standford Prison Experiment of 1971, which examined the psychological impact of prison life on both inmates and wardens. To earn a sum of money, Travis (Brody) decides to participate in the experiment which requires 26 subjects, one of whom is Barris (Whitaker). The men are divided into two groups and separated into the roles of prisoners and wardens. They are warned that if violence is used, the experiment will be over, but soon a mutiny breaks out and the men on both sides must fight for their survival.
British director Tom Harper's debut feature is a coming-of-age drama/thriller. Teenagers David (Thomas Turgoose) and Emily (Holly Grainger) have grown up together in a caravan park on the windswept Norfolk coast. When it emerges that Emily is to be sent away against her will to live with her father, David agrees to help her hide out in a remote cave on the beach. But as fears grow that Emily has been kidnapped and a large-scale police search gets underway, David finds himself swept up in a situation out of his control and resorts to drastic measures to protect his friend. Steven Mackintosh and Rafe Spall co-star.
Erotic psychodrama directed by Atom Egoyan, based on Anne Fontaine's 2003 film 'Nathalie'. Amanda Seyfried stars as Chloe, a young prostitute who is hired by gynaecologist Catherine (Julianne Moore) to test the loyalty of her husband David (Liam Neeson), whom she suspects of infidelity. Desire and jealousy intermingle as Chloe becomes increasingly involved in Catherine's life, setting her sights beyond David and onto the couple's wayward teenage son, Michael (Max Thierot).
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An all-star cast are featured in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. A masterpiece adventure, The Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of - a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love. |
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