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Kirsty is a young woman living with her sister and widowed mother. Prior to his untimely death, Kirsty's father had encouraged her to seek a life beyond the island, and when romance burgeons between her and local lad Murdo, the opportunity to see the world seems within reach. When the young men must leave the island for the war, a road dance is held in their honour, and on that night Kirsty's life takes a dramatic and tragic turn. - Director:
- Richie Adams
- Cast:
- Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher, Mark Gatiss
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Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, must make an agonising choice: repair his leaking luzzu - the traditional wooden fishing boat that has been in his family for generations - or decommission it and give in to the temptation of illicit dealing on the black market. Featuring a Sundance Film Festival award-winning lead performance from Jesmark Scicluna - a non-professional actor and real life fisherman - Alex Camilleri's acclaimed debut feature takes inspiration from Italian Neorealist filmmakers and offers a glimpse into the beauty of an island rarely portrayed in cinema. - Director:
- Alex Camilleri
- Cast:
- Jesmark Scicluna, Marlene Schranz, David Scicluna
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The disappearance of a vulnerable young man draws Perez into the troubled history of a family recently arrived from Glasgow. The missing man embraced life in Shetland and the community took him to its heart. Have the vengeful ghosts of the past caught up with him, or did an intense, new relationship turn sinister? Something about this elusive figure is not as it seems. When a breakthrough in the case reveals a danger greater than anyone could have feared, it falls on Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) to save Shetland from an unimaginable threat. - Director:
- Fiona Walton
- Cast:
- Shonagh Price, Douglas Henshall, Alison O'Donnell
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The Burning Sea (2021)North Sea / Nordsjøen
After fifty years of prosperous offshore drilling in one of the world's largest oil fields, a seismic rift rips through the ocean floor of the North Sea, causing an oil rig to collapse. A team of researchers, including submarine operator Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp), immediately begin the search for the missing and to locate the cause of the destruction. What they discover is just the start of a potentially apocalyptic catastrophe... - Director:
- John Andreas Andersen
- Cast:
- Kristine Kujath Thorp, Henrik Bjelland, Rolf Kristian Larsen
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Who is the man who hides his scarred face behind a mask? Hero or madman? Liberator or oppressor? Who is V - and who will join him in his daring plot to destroy the totalitarian regime that dominated his nation? Natalie Portman stars as Evey, a working-class girl who must determine if her hero has become the very menace she's fighting against. Hugo Waving plays V - a bold, charismatic freedom fighter driven to exact revenge on those who disfigured him. And Stephen Rea portrays the detective leading a desperate quest to capture V before he ignites a revolution. The Stakes rise. The tension electrifies. The action explodes. - Director:
- James McTeigue
- Cast:
- Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves
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From Emmy Award-winning executive producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman in association with HBO and Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Herzog, 'The Movies' explores American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution. Combining archival footage and interviews with leading actors, directors, producers, critics and historians, the series showcases the most pivotal moments in film that have stirred the imagination and influenced our culture. - Director:
- Various
- Cast:
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Edgar Wright, Brad Bird
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The Quiet Girl (2022)An Cailín Ciúin
CoIm Bairead's beautifully understated feature debut finds a young girl coming to terms with loss and the importance of family in rural Ireland. Cait (Catherine Clinch), a quiet, neglected young girl, is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. At first intimidated by her new environment, she quickly blossoms in the care of Eibhlin (Carrie Crowley) and her farmer husband, Sean (Andrew Bennett). As this new home becomes an idyll for her, Cait senses that something is plaguing her new foster parents - an unspoken pain that Eibhlin and Sean never discuss, which Cait's youthful curiosity begins to uncover. - Director:
- Colm Bairéad
- Cast:
- Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
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Desire (1936)The Pearl Necklace
Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper star in this comedic drama about a crime spree that leads to love. In the most elaborate jewel heist in European history, the beautiful and conniving "Countess" Madeline (Dietrich) embezzles a small fortune in pearls. As she makes her getaway to Spain to deliver the hot goods, her escape is thwarted by car trouble, until a handsome and likeable young tourist (Cooper) helps her out. She shows her gratitude by leaving the unsuspecting good Samaritan in the dust - literally! But when he accidentally ends up with the pearls, she must feign romantic interest to get them back. The charade soon turns into the real thing however; and Madeline realises that her only hope of happiness is to clean up her act - no matter what the cost - or lose the man she loves. - Director:
- Frank Borzage
- Cast:
- Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday
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Charles Chaplin's Limelight is a glimmering homage to what was, a proud look at a bygone entertainment era and a bittersweet tale of an artist passing the torch to a new generation. Chaplin portrays Calvero (the "tramp comedian" per an old theatrical poster in his room), who rescues a distraught ballerina from suicide and mentors her to success. Among the film's comedy highlights is a musical routine that's anything but routine in the hands of legend Chaplin and stoney-faced Buster Keaton. The extraordinary score by Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell earned the screen legend his only competitive Oscar. - Director:
- Charles Chaplin
- Cast:
- Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce
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Here is one of the screen's most famous and beautiful love stories. Set in Hong Kong at the time of the Korean War, it tells the story of an American war correspondent (William Holden) and his love for a beautiful Eurasian doctor (Jennifer Jones). As their love grows, problems arise to mar their happiness. He has a wife at home, and she meets with disapproval from her family and friends - and fate is waiting to take a hand in their tangled affair. All the exotic splendours of Hong Kong are brilliantly captured by Leon Shamroy's beautiful photography, and the film's Oscar winning-score and title song are among the finest ever written for the screen. Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing is truly a high point in Hollywood's great tradition of romantic movies. - Director:
- Henry King
- Cast:
- Philip Ahn, William Holden, Jennifer Jones
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"Marriage" follows married couple Ian (Sean Bean) and Emma (Nicola Walker) as they negotiate the ups and downs of their 30-year marriage. We see them dealing with the insecurities, the ambiguities, the hopes and the fears that are part of all marriages, as the drama explores the risks and the gifts of a long-term intimate relationship. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, always revealing. - Director:
- Stefan Golaszewski
- Cast:
- Sean Bean, Nicola Walker, Henry Lloyd-Hughes
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In the House (2012)Dans la maison
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, and finds himself strangely compelled as the boy becomes more dangerously involved with his class-mate's attractive mother. However, as the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred, the boy's intrusion unleashes a series of uncontrollable events. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer
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Sent to the city by his stuffy father to reign in the womanising ways of his cousin Keith (James Ellison), young university professor Peter Morgan (James Stewart) falls in love with nightclub performer Francey Brent (Ginger Rogers) and marries her after a whirlwind romance. When he goes back home, he can't bring himself to tell his conservative, ultra-respected family or his bitchy ex-fiancee Helen, about it. To avoid revealing the news abruptly to his ailing mother (Beulah Bondi), Peter passes her off as Keith's girl, and stashes her at his cousin's apartment. At a college dance where the professor intends to introduce Francey to all, Helen (Frances Mercer), who's sniffed out the truth, initiates a vicious cat fight, and anarchy reigns. Stewart and Rogers make an appealing couple, and the supporting cast is outstanding, with amusing turns by Bondi and Grady Sutton. - Director:
- George Stevens
- Cast:
- Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison
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The Outfit is a gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor (Mark Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.
- Director:
- Graham Moore
- Cast:
- Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, Mark Rylance
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"Shogun" is one of the most famous and award-winning television events in history. From best-selling author James Clavell comes the sweeping story of love and war, set against the brutal background of feudal Japan at the beginning of the 17th century. Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, a sailor shipwrecked off the coast of Japan. Rescued, he becomes an eyewitness to a deadly struggle involving Toranaga, a feuding warlord intent on becoming 'Shogun' - the supreme military dictator. Blackthorne is irresistibly drawn to the magnificent Lady Mariko, the married confidant to Toranaga, while at the same time vying to become the first-ever foreigner to be made a samurai warrior. For the first time on Blu-ray", this landmark television event is packed with fascinating special features that take you inside the spectacular world of 'Shogun'. - Director:
- Jerry London
- Cast:
- Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada
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