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Small Island (2009)

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 19:06

Genres:	Drama
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Delroy Atkinson \| Peter Brooke \| Benedict Cumberbatch \| Mark David \| Damien Devaney \| Michael Elwyn \| Terence Frisch \| Jonathan Harden \| Karl Johnson \| Bentley Kalu \| Eoin Macken \| David Oyelowo \| Shaun Parkes \| Teddy Price \| Hugh Quarshie
Directors:	John Alexander
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As adapted from the bestselling 2004 novel of the same name by Andrea Levy, the miniseries Small Island observes the experiences of two very different married couples - one Jamaican, the other British - whose lives intersect at a point in post-WWII England when the relationship between their parent countries is about to irrevocably change. David Oyelowo and Naomie Harris star as Gilbert and Hortense, Jamaican immigrants who wed in a marriage of convenience and must battle bigotry and intense social rejection from the British on a daily basis. All that they really want is to be proud and happy subjects at the United Kingdom, when it would be easy to feel resentment and fury given the circumstances: many of their fellow countrymen are the descendants of Jamaicans who had been forcibly enslaved to the British Empire in an earlier era. Meanwhile, the couple's married English landlords, Bernard (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Queenie (Ruth Wilson) are still rebounding from the experience of a lengthy wartime separation. Queenie projects an unusual attitude toward Gilbert and Hortense, given her lack of bigotry and unquestioning acceptance, but this ironically threatens to create more problems than it solves.

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The Claim (2000)

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 16:06

Genres:	Drama \| Romance \| Western
Countries:	Canada \| France \| UK
Actors:	Peter Mullan \| Milla Jovovich \| Wes Bentley \| Nastassja Kinski \| Sarah Polley \| Shirley Henderson \| Julian Richings \| Sean McGinley \| Randy Birch \| Tom McCamus \| Frank Zotter \| Artur Ciastkowski \| Barry Ward \| Karolina Muller \| David Lereaney
Directors:	Michael Winterbottom
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Based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Claim follows the story of Daniel Dillon, who traded his wife and newborn daughter for a gold mine. 20 years later he is thrown into a kind of hell in the prospecting city he controls is being surveyed as potential railroad route and the wife and daughter that he hocked for his riches show up as well.

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Dark Nature (2009)

Monday, June 28th, 2010 20:06

Genres:	Thriller
Countries:	UK
Actors:	James Bryce \| Tom Carter \| Niall Greig Fulton \| Len McCaffer \| Callum Warren-Brooker \| Vanya Eadie \| Doreen McGillivray \| Joanna Miller \| Jane Stabler \| Imogen Toner
Directors:	Marc de Launay
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A family holiday turns into a fight for survival in the inhospitable wilderness of remote Scotland.

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The Day of the Jackal (1973)

Monday, June 28th, 2010 20:06

Genres:	Drama \| Thriller
Countries:	France \| UK
Actors:	Edward Fox \| Terence Alexander \| Michel Auclair \| Alan Badel \| Tony Britton \| Denis Carey \| Adrien Cayla-Legrand \| Cyril Cusack \| Maurice Denham \| Vernon Dobtcheff \| Jacques François \| Olga Georges-Picot \| Raymond Gérôme \| Barrie Ingham \| Derek Jacobi
Directors:	Fred Zinnemann
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When President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group and make attempts at De Gaulle and fail. When several of their key members are killed or caught and eventually executed, the three top members decide to hire a professional assassin to take out De Gaulle. The man that they chose agrees to do it on the condition that he be alllowed complete autonomy. He also advises them to go into hiding until the job is done. And they do. When the French Security force learns that they have shut themselves off from the rest of world are curious what they are doing. So they abduct their errand boy, and once interrogated all he says is the assassin's code name, "The Jackal", they hypothesize that they have hired an assassin to go after DE Gaulle. Once De Gaulle is informed he refuses to alter his plans and will not allow extra security added. So his ministry decides that they should find the Jackal before he makes his move. They appoint the best detective in France, Claude Lebel to find him. Lebel plan is to contact every police department in the world and see if the Jackal comes from their country and if so to provide him with a description and/or a photo. Now Scotland Yard has a small lead but unfortunately they miss him but they have his passport so assuming that he is out of the country, they try and find the passport that he is using. Now when they think that they have him, he discards the identity that he is using and assumes another one. Can they find him before he gets De Gaulle?

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The Collector (1965)

Monday, June 28th, 2010 20:06

Genres:	Drama \| Horror \| Thriller
Countries:	UK \| USA
Actors:	Terence Stamp \| Samantha Eggar \| Mona Washbourne \| Maurice Dallimore \| Gordon Barclay \| William Bickley \| David Haviland \| Kenneth More \| Allyson Ames \| Edina Ronay
Directors:	William Wyler
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Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.

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The Colditz Story (1955)

Monday, June 28th, 2010 19:06

Genres:	Drama \| History \| War
Countries:	UK
Actors:	John Mills \| Christopher Rhodes \| Lionel Jeffries \| Bryan Forbes \| Guido Lorraine \| Witold Sikorski \| A. Blichewicz \| B. Dolinski \| Anton Diffring \| Richard Wattis \| Ian Carmichael \| Eric Portman \| Frederick Valk \| Leo Bieber \| Denis Shaw
Directors:	Guy Hamilton
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Colditz castle was used by the Nazis to hold the "bad boys", (those who regularly tried to escape from other camps). At all times the guards outnumbered the prisoners and, because some political prisoners were also held there they were *very* strictly monitored. But if you put all those people in one place and they're all trying to escape, well ...

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Tipping the Velvet (2002)

Monday, June 28th, 2010 17:06

Genres:	Drama
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Rachael Stirling \| Keeley Hawes \| Anna Chancellor \| Jodhi May \| Hugh Bonneville \| Johnny Vegas \| Alexei Sayle \| John Bowe \| Sally Hawkins \| Louis Alderton \| Nick Bartlett \| Carl Chase \| Edward Clayton \| Benedict Cumberbatch \| Ray Donn
Directors:	Geoffrey Sax
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Dramatised from Sarah Waters' acclaimed debut novel, "Tipping the Velvet" tells the story of Nancy Astley (Rachael Stirling), a young girl who works as cook and waitress in her Father's seaside restaurant - that is until she witnesses the extraordinary performance of a new-to-town male impersonator - Kitty Butler (Keeley Hawes) - and begins to undergo a complete life transformation. Suddenly whipped up - and quickly flung down - by her love affair with Kitty, she experiences both euphoria and deep disillusion as she embarks on a seven-year journey of self-discovery - finally realizing that a life of sensation just isn't enough.

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S.N.U.B! (2010)

Sunday, June 27th, 2010 19:06

Genres:	Horror \| Thriller
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Gary Mavers \| Jonathan Moore \| Harriet Thorpe \| Claire Spence \| Ben Rowe \| Alice Henley \| Sara Lloyd-Gregory \| Zoe Robinson \| Charlie Watts \| Tom Cotcher \| Paul Bryant \| Danny Tennant \| Magda Rodriguez \| Joseph Millson \| John Adams
Directors:	Jonathan Glendening
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A junior minister in the British Government discovers a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device in London. Putting self-preservation first, he flees with a young American political advisor to a re-commissioned Secret Nuclear Underground Bunker - S.N.U.B. They find themselves entombed in the bunker with a disparate group of individuals caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The terrorist bomb is found, but attempts by bomb disposal experts fail to prevent it exploding, destroying central London and contaminating the surrounding countryside. As a result of the blast a group of dangerous convicts break out from a local high security prison, but are contaminated with radiation and start to mutate. The mutants infiltrate the bunker and one by one the occupants endure a horrible, grisly death. Eventually one of the survivors escapes from the bunker to make contact with the outside world and a rescue helicopter is organised. But inside the S.N.U.B. the mutants are closing in. Not everyone will make it...

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Silver Dream Racer (1980)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 20:06

Genres:	Drama \| Sport
Countries:	UK
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A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike to challenge for the world championship at Silverstone.

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One Night in Turin (2010)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 12:06

Genres:	Documentary
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Elliot Francis \| Elliott Francis
Directors:	James Erskine
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Before the Premier League and multi-million pound salaries, in England 'football' was a dirty word. The game was in disgrace, the fans, hooligans, the nation, it seemed, were all played out. Then there was Italia '90 - The World Cup - a shot at redemption. But this was no ordinary World Cup and no ordinary time. The manager, Sir Bobby Robson, was under intense media scrutiny, and his team described as 'donkeys'. Yet over six short weeks, through their heroic exploits they united a nation, coming within a heart beat of reaching the World Cup Final. Narrated by Gary Oldman, featuring match action - from Platt's last-gasp winner against Belgium to the silky skills of Gazza and the cool finishing of Linekar - and previously unseen footage, this is the definitive story of England's greatest footballing adventure on foreign soil....so far.

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Bathory (2008)

Monday, June 14th, 2010 16:06

Genres:	Drama \| Fantasy \| History
Countries:	Czech Republic \| Hungary \| Slovakia \| UK
Actors:	Anna Friel \| Karel Roden \| Vincent Regan \| Hans Matheson \| Deana Horváthová \| Franco Nero \| Antony Byrne \| Bolek Polívka \| Jirí Mádl \| Monika Hilmerová \| Lucie Vondrácková \| Jaromír Nosek \| Marek Majeský \| Andrew Tiernan \| Marek Vasut
Directors:	Juraj Jakubisko
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Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and wealth.

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Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic (2007)

Monday, June 14th, 2010 14:06

Genres:	Documentary \| Drama \| History \| War
Countries:	Germany \| UK
Actors:	John Hannah \| Kenneth Cranham \| Florian Panzner \| Michael Feast \| Graham Hopkins \| Madeleine Garrood \| Frances Marek \| Adrian Topol \| Martin Le Maitre \| Kevin Otto \| Karen Haacke \| Dean McCoubrey \| Andre Weideman \| Ronald France \| Steven Jennings
Directors:	Christopher Spencer
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The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff.

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Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)

Monday, June 14th, 2010 14:06

Genres:	Comedy
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Paddy Considine \| Richard Graham \| Seamus O'Neill \| Dean Palinczuk \| Olivia Colman
Directors:	Shane Meadows
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An improvised comedy, shot over five days by Shane Meadows, devised with and starring Paddy Considine. Rock roadie and failed musician, Le Donk has lived, loved and learned. Along the way he's lost a girlfriend but he has found a new sidekick in up-and-coming rap prodigy Scor-zay-zee. With Meadows' fly-on-the-wall crew in tow, Donk sets out to make Scor-zay-zee a star...with a little help from the Arctic Monkeys... This low-budget rockumentary follows Le Donk and Scorz on their journey of a lifetime; it's an unpredictable, irrepressible ode to spontaneous filmmaking - and to a burgeoning UK rap talent

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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)

Monday, June 14th, 2010 12:06

Genres:	Comedy \| Sci-Fi
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Chris O'Dowd \| Marc Wootton \| Dean Lennox Kelly \| Anna Faris \| Meredith MacNeill \| Ray Gardner \| Nick Ewans \| Arthur Nightingale \| Paul Adams \| Dario Attanasio \| John Snowden \| John Warman
Directors:	Gareth Carrivick
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The script, written by Jamie Mathieson, follows three social outcasts — two geeks and a cynic — as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.

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A Handful of Dust (1988)

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 04:06

Genres:	Drama \| Romance
Countries:	UK
Actors:	James Wilby \| Kristin Scott Thomas \| Rupert Graves \| Anjelica Huston \| Judi Dench \| Alec Guinness \| Richard Beale \| Jackson Kyle \| Norman Lumsden \| Jeanne Watts \| Kate Percival \| Richard Leech \| Roger Milner \| Tristram Jellinek \| Pip Torrens
Directors:	Charles Sturridge
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We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, lord and lady, live on his enormous estate with their young son. Tony's not much for parties, and Brenda joins London society, on the arm of a penniless man, John Beaver, a hanger-on at Tony's club. John is encouraged by his entrepreneurial mother, who sees a quid in Tony and Brenda. Brenda and John become lovers, Brenda spends more and more time in London, and Tony's without a clue. Then, bringing things to a head are tragedy, law suits, greed, and what should be a few-months' expedition to Brazil. We are each of us merely a handful of dust.

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44 Inch Chest (2009)

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 03:06

Genres:	Crime \| Drama
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Ray Winstone \| Ian McShane \| John Hurt \| Tom Wilkinson \| Stephen Dillane \| Joanne Whalley \| Melvil Poupaud \| Steven Berkoff \| Edna Doré \| Andy de la Tour \| Derek Lea \| Ramon Christian \| Dave Legeno
Directors:	Malcolm Venville
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Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife's infidelity. However, he has friends who do more than stand by — they kidnap the wife's French lover and hold him prisoner so that Colin can restore his manhood with revenge. A kangaroo court takes place and as the situation escalates Loverboy's life hangs in the balance as Colin wrestles with revenge, remorse, grief and self pity, all the while egged on by his motley crew of friends who just want him to get on with it so they can get down the pub.

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Richard III (1995)

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 02:06

Genres:	Drama \| War
Countries:	UK \| USA
Actors:	Ian McKellen \| Annette Bening \| Jim Broadbent \| Robert Downey Jr. \| Nigel Hawthorne \| Kristin Scott Thomas \| John Wood \| Maggie Smith \| Jim Carter \| Edward Hardwicke \| Adrian Dunbar \| Dominic West \| Tres Hanley \| Roger Hammond \| Tim McInnerny
Directors:	Richard Loncraine
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This film adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play is set into a hypothetical 1930's Europe. As sneering, leering Richard of Gloucester's ruthless machinations bring him ever nearer the throne of England, royal blood is mercilessly spilt. Finally, only one foe remains to challenge his grasping claim—valiant Richmond! Will he prevail? Heavy Nazi-like pageantry and iconography color this modern adaptation of a classic Shakespearean History.

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The Last Station (2009)

Saturday, June 12th, 2010 21:06

Genres:	Biography \| Drama \| History
Countries:	Germany \| Russia \| UK
Actors:	Kerry Condon \| John Sessions \| Christian Gaul \| Paul Giamatti \| Maximilian Gärtner \| Wolfgang Häntsch \| Patrick Kennedy \| Nenad Lucic \| David Masterson \| James McAvoy \| Christopher Plummer \| Tomas Spencer \| Anne-Marie Duff \| Helen Mirren
Directors:	Michael Hoffman
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In 1910, acclaimed Russian novelist 'Leo Tolstoy' (qv), in the later stage of his life, works rather than a writer but as the leader of the Tolstoyan Movement, whose basic tenets are brotherly love and world peace through pacifism, and a denouncement of material wealth and physical love. His chief follower is Vladimir Chertkov, who does whatever he requires to advance the cause. Chertkov hires a young man named Valentin Bulgakov to be Tolstoy's personal secretary in carrying out this work. Once ensconced in the life on the estate where much of the work is taking place, Bulgakov quickly learns that many there take from the movement only what he/she wants/believes. Also chief amongst the movement's wants is the deeding of all Tolstoy's writings to the people so that after his death it will become public domain. Tolstoy's wife, the Countess Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy, believes that her husband's writings are rightfully hers after he passes, as she wants and believes she deserves the monetary benefits derived from such. This places a strain between those in the movement, especially Chertov and the Tolstoy's daughter Sasha, and the Countess. Bulgatov acts as the mediator between the parties, he who feels he needs to do what is truly in Tolstoy's heart regardless of what Tolstoy may say or do.

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Exam (2009)

Saturday, June 12th, 2010 21:06

Genres:	Thriller
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Luke Mably \| Chris Carey \| John Lloyd Fillingham \| Chukwudi Iwuji \| Jimi Mistry \| Colin Salmon \| Adar Beck \| Gemma Chan \| Nathalie Cox \| Pollyanna McIntosh
Directors:	Stuart Hazeldine
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Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, an Invigilator gives them eighty minutes to answer one simple question. He outlines three rules they must obey or be disqualified: don't talk to him or the armed guard by the door, don't spoil their papers and don't leave the room. He starts the clock and leaves. The candidates turn over their question papers, only to find they're completely blank. After the initial confusion has subsided, one frustrated candidate writes 'I believe you should hire me because...,' and is promptly ejected for spoiling. The remaining candidates soon figure out they're permitted to talk to each other, and they agree to cooperate in order to figure out the question: then they can compete to answer it. At first they suspect the question may be hidden in their papers like a security marker in a credit card, and they figure out ways to change their environment to expose the hidden words. But light, liquids and other plans all come to naught. Soon enough, the candidates begin to uncover each other's background, prejudices and hidden agendas. Tensions rise as the clock steadily descends towards zero, and each candidate must decide how far they are willing to go to secure the ultimate job...

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The Big I Am (2010)

Saturday, June 12th, 2010 20:06

Genres:	Crime \| Drama \| Thriller
Countries:	UK
Actors:	Leo Gregory \| Vincent Regan \| Michael Madsen \| Robert Fucilla \| Steven Berkoff \| Paul Kaye \| Beatrice Rosen \| MC Harvey \| Philip Davis \| Terry Stone \| Bronagh Gallagher \| Jâms Thomas \| Dyfrig Morris \| Danai Amatyakul \| Scott Bailey
Directors:	Nic Auerbach
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A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.

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Archive for the ‘UK’ Category

Small Island (2009)

The Claim (2000)

Dark Nature (2009)

The Day of the Jackal (1973)

The Collector (1965)

The Colditz Story (1955)

Tipping the Velvet (2002)

S.N.U.B! (2010)

Silver Dream Racer (1980)

One Night in Turin (2010)

Bathory (2008)

Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic (2007)

Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)

A Handful of Dust (1988)

44 Inch Chest (2009)

Richard III (1995)

The Last Station (2009)

Exam (2009)

The Big I Am (2010)