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A dreary prison cell is shared by two men who, in terms of lifestyle, could not be further apart. Molina (William Hurt) is a homosexual convicted for obscene behaviour, the other, Valentin (Raul Julia), is a revolutionary who has been continually tortured by the same totalitarian authorities.

As the minutes slowly pass, Molina invents a story based on the glamorous cinema of yesteryear - a Nazi propaganda film involving an unlikely love affair. At first, this extravagant display of personality doesn't bode well for the cellmates' relationship but as time and the story progresses a new kind of friendship begins to blossom.

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In a rural community of grinding economic and spiritual poverty, where poaching and delivering bootleg liquor supplement meagre incomes and love is absent, Mouchette is endlessly abused.

She cares selflessly and without thanks for her family as her mother slowly dies, whilst she is humiliated by a teacher for singing out of tune, is called a slut by a shopkeeper and even, as she is about to speak to a young man who smiled at her on the dodgems, is slapped by her harsh, judgemental father. Finally, having sought to help the epileptic poacher Arsene, she is raped by him. Even then, she later protects him. Mouchette may not understand all that she experiences but nor is she a helpless victim. She cares for her mother and especially for her infant sibling. Ostracised by her cruel classmates, she retaliates, throwing mud at them. She also avenges herself against the woman who speaks with pious reverence of the dead and who offers Mouchette a funeral shroud for her mother and a dress for herself.

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An unique one-off collage of famous voices and faces, intercut with evocative imagery inspired by the play presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales to celebrate the centenary year of the poet's birth.

Alongside Sir Tom Jones as Captain Cat the cast includes: Michael Sheen, Matthew Rhys. Aimee-Ffion Edwards. Griff Rhys Jones, John Rhys Davies. Andrew Howard. Rakie Ayola (Voice1&2), Jonathan Pryce. Sian Phillips (Mr and Mrs Pugh). Aneurin Barnard. Tom Rhys Harries. Karl Johnson (Drowned). Nia Roberts (Rosie Probert), loan Gruffudd (Mog Edwards). Kimberley Nixon (Myfanwy Price). Bryn Terfel (Rev Eli Jenkins). Katherine Jenkins (Polly Garter). Steffan Rhodri (Mr Waldo). Charlotte Church (Mrs Ogmore Pritchard). Aneirin Hughes (Mr Pritchard). Tom Ellis (Mr Ogmore), Robert Pugh (Butcher Beynon). Suzanne Packer (Mrs Beynon). Eve Myles (Lily Smalls). Iwan Rheon (Evans The Death). Alexandra Roach (Mae Rose Cottage), Craig Roberts (Nogood Boyo), Sharon Morgan (Mary Ann Sailors). Mark Lewis Jones. Richard Harrington. Sophie Evans, Melanie Walters (Neighbours). Owen Teale (Dai Bread). Di Botcher (Mrs Dai Bread One). Sian Thomas (Mrs Dai Bread Two), and Jon Tregenna (Sinbad Sailors).

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Davy Chou's 'Return to Seoul', which premiered in Cannes 2022's Un Certain Regard, is an unpredictable and refreshingly authentic story of a young woman's search for identity. Park Ji-Min delivers a revelatory performance as Freddie, an adoptee who was born in South Korea and raised in France.

Freddie is magnetic, spirited and hard to pin down; never in one place, or with one person, for long enough to get attached. At 25 years old, she visits Seoul for the first time since her adoption, in an attempt to reconnect with her biological parents and the culture she had to leave behind.

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A collection of sixteen short films from British filmmakers.

Tracklisting:
1. About a Girl - Brian Percival
2. Boy and Bicycle - Ridley Scott
3. Dear Phone - Peter Greenaway
4. Doodlebug - Christopher Nolan
5. Eight - Stephen Daldry

6. Gasman - Lynne Ramsay
7. Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith
8. Home - Morag McKinnon
9. Joyride - Jim Gillespie
10. Inside Out - Tom and Charles Guard
11. Je T'aime John Wayne - Toby Macdonald
12. The Sheep Thief - Asif Kapadia
13. The Short and Curlies - Mike Leigh
14. Telling Lies - Simon Ellis
15. UK Images - Martin Parr
16. Who's My Favourite Girl? - Adrian J. McDowall

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Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Sir Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid disguises, in this killingly funny black comedy gem.

The villains plot to kill the old lady who discovers their robbery. But the pensioner is not as harmless as she seems! A rare colour film from Ealing in the '50s, it was premiered in 1955 at the end of the Ealing Green period.

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Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants.

But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom... blood red.

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It's 1981, the start of a new decade and Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Roscoe (Omari Douglas) and Colin (Callum Scott Howells) begin a new life in London.

Strangers at first, these young gay lads, and their best friend Jill (Lydia West), find themselves thrown together, and soon share each other's adventures. But a new virus is on the rise, and soon their lives will be tested in ways they never imagined. As the decade passes, and they grow up in the shadow of AIDS, they're determined to live and love more fiercely than ever.

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A vain sports reporter (Leon Niemczyk) and his beautiful but frustrated wife are on their way to the lake, for a days sailing, when they nearly run over a young hitch-hiker (Zygmunt Malanowicz).

The couple invite the hitch-hiker to join them on their boat which triggers a battle of wits between the two men as they jostle for superiority. But will the hitch hikers obession with his knife cause the tension to end in tragedy...

Alastair Sim's 'Scrooge' is the all time favourite Christmas family film and a genuine classic of British cinema. 'Scrooge' is the definitive big screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', one of the world's best loved Christmas stories.

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Year Zero in a divided Germany. With his father too ill to work, his soldier brother terrified of being arrested as a war criminal and his sister reduced to cadging cigarettes off occupying troops, 12 year-old Edmund scours Berlin for any work he can find.

However, a meeting with his disgraced teacher, who still clings to his Nazi ideals, suggests a hideous solution to his problems.

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Jina (Gong Seung-yeon) is the top employee at a call center, but despite talking to customers all day, she has shut out the world beyond her headset; she lives alone, eats alone, sleeps alone, and her cell phone is her constant companion.

When one day she's tasked with training a friendly and naïve new hire (Jung Da-eun), her icy armor is threatened. At the same time, she must navigate an incessantly ingratiating new neighbor, and increasingly urgent phone calls from her father, leaving Jina teetering on the edge of an existential crisis, forcing her to confront why she has isolated herself all these years.

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Abbas Kiarostami is indubitably one of the most important film-makers in the world, and this, his second made outside Iran, is set in Japan.

A student moonlighting as an escort goes to visit a client who is more interested in talking, and who the next day takes on the role of her grandfather when confronted by her jealous boyfriend.
It pays homage to the tradition of Ozu, but is very much a typical Kiarostami work with its oblique narrative, mistaken and assumed identies, and masterful sleights-of-hand upending the audience's assumptions.

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Includes the original Play for Today as well as the complete BBC TV series that swept the awards board in 1982 and has been talked about ever since.

Alan Bleasdale's chronicles of the lives of a group of tarmac layers - Chrissie (with a powerful performance by Julie Walters as his wife, Angie), Loggo, Dixie, George and Yosser - bitterly dramatised the frustrations suffered by a fruitless search for work and an antagonistic social security system. Though harrowing and uncompromising, the stories, laced with scouse wit and humour became a seminal series.

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F. W. Murnau, Germany's finest director, was imported to Hollywood in July 1926. William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation promised and gave him complete artistic freedom. Fox told Murnau to take his time, spend whatever he had to, and make any film he wished to make.

The film that resulted was Sunrise, made entirely without studio interference. Sunrise, a psychological thriller from the silent movie era, begins when the pleasant and peaceful life of a naive country Man (George O'Brien) is turned upside down when he falls for a cold-blooded yet seductive Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston). She persuades him to drown his virtuous Wife (Janet Gaynor) in order to be with her. This is one of the most moving stories ever told on screen - a tale of temptation, reconciliation, reconsecration, and redemption, told with a lyrical simplicity that gives it the timeless universality of a fable.