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This landmark film by the virtuosic Mikhail Kalatozov was heralded as a revelation in the post-Stalin Soviet Union and the international cinema community alike.

It tells the story of Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova) and Boris (Alexei Batalov), a couple who are blissfully in love until World War II tears them apart. With Boris at the front, Veronica must try to ward off spiritual numbness and defend herself from the increasingly forceful advances of her beau's draft-dodging cousin.

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On the very first day of the new century, a baby boy is found on the passenger ship, Virginia. The orphan is brought up in secret by the ship's coal room worker, hidden from the world and never knowing any other life than the belly of the ship. He is known as "1900".

When the boy's father is killed in an accident, 1900's identity becomes known to the rest of the ship when he wanders into first class and proves to be a prodigy on the grand piano. 1900 stays on board the ship, entertaining the world, 2000 people at a time. Three decades later, The Virginian is a rusted hull, due for demolition. Just one man remembers the former beauty of the ship, the legend that was 1900, and the strange fact that the pianist just disappeared when the ship was taken out of business. He suspects that 1900 may still be on board the doomed ship. And so the search begins.

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Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Emma Thompson) Quangel receive the news that their only son has lost his life in the battlefield and decide to resist the Nazi regime in their very own way.

Soon their campaign comes to the attention of the Gestapo and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins.

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In 1981, four Polish builders arrive in London to renovate the home of a rich fellow Pole, with only the foreman, Nowak (Jeremy Irons), speaking English.

Whilst the military crackdown by the communist regime is underway in Poland, a string of disasters is unravelling for the builders, who are unaware of the turmoil back at home as Nowak keeps events hidden from them in order to get the job finished.

Playing the eponymous Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers), a poor, provincial French schoolteacher slowly corrupted by big business, Sellers is at the peak of his powers. This melancholy character comedy...

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India 1947. The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

Starring Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson as Lord and Lady Mountbatten, and set against an exotic Indian backdrop at the time of the Raj, 'Viceroy's House' tells the incredible true story of the final months of British rule in India, and of the resilience of the human spirit.

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A Yale graduate, a transplanted son of Texas, a one-time drunk and a religious convert; how did this improbable character transform himself from reprobate and well-known black sheep of his esteemed family into Leader of the Free World? W. follows Bush Jr.

’s journey to The White House and in the process reveals the struggles, achievements and malapropisms of the man who would become the 43rd President of the United States of America…all the while trying to escape the shadow of his ‘Poppy’, George Bush Senior.

At the end of WW I, a Belgian soldier travels to America as assistant to a strong man, hoping to track down his beloved penfriend.

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Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs.

When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O'Donnell), each recognizes something in the other that no one else ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie's fellow outlaws, who aren't about to let him go straight, they realize there's nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider's sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundly romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrillers to come.

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Robert Duvall gives yet another Academy Award winning performance as Mac Sledge, a self-destructive alcoholic and country singer who finds redemption in a deserted motel in Texas.

Mac discovers a new meaning to life through his burgeoning relationship with motel owner, Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), and her son Sonny (Allan Hubbard); which he is forced to question when his ex-wife, Dixie (Betty Buckley) and daughter, Sue Anne (Ellen Barkin), come to town.

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Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbour across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu.

When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father has just sold to a small country at war.

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Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel is the legendary power broker whose disarming charm and elegant good looks hide a violent and dangerous personality. Virginis " The Flamingo" Hill is a stunning glamorous starlet with a wise guy wit and tough past.

Their attraction is magnetic – together they are driven by sex, risk and danger to fight their underworld bosses and builds their dream of a city in the desert – Las Vegas.

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Patrick McGoohan stars in this hip, cool reworking of Shakespeare's Othello, set amongst the jazz clubs of the early 1960's.

A steamy tale of jealousy, passion and brooding menace, McGoohan gives a strong performance as the manipulative, treacherous Johnny Cousin - a talented drummer who wields music as a weapon in his quest to draw a jazz diva out of her retirement. Directed by the BAFTA-winning Basil Dearden and with strong support from Keith Michell, Betsy Blair and Richard Attenborough, 'All Night Long' also showcases premiere jazz musicians of the fifties and sixties, including Dave Brubeck, Johnny Scott, Johnny Dankworth, Tubby Hayes and the legendary Charles Mingus. In London's East End the high, blank walls of warehouses tower on either side, giving the street an air of menace. But from one warehouse comes the cool sounds of jazz, the clink of glasses and the buzz of intelligent conversation. It's a party and the occasion is the first wedding anniversary of famous Jazzman Aurelius Rex and his wife Delia, who abandoned a highly successful singing career when she married him. Demon drummer John Cousin arrives, complete with drum kit, and he has ideas about Delia's retirement...

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"Wendy and Lucy" is the story of Wendy (Oscar-nominated Michelle Williams), who is driving to Alaska in hope of a summer of lucrative work and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy.

When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart and she finds herself desperately searching for her only true friend. Starring Kelly Reichardt's own beloved dog as Lucy.

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They were known simply as "The Lost Boys". Orphaned during the Sudanese Civil War, a group of young refugees are given the opportunity to leave their camp and resettle in America.

Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with an employment counsellor (Reese Witherspoon) who becomes involved in their plight. Together they experience heartbreak as well as hope in the challenges of their new life.