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The Bridge: Series 2 (2013)Bron/Broen
An old tanker veers off course, heading straight for the Oresund Bridge, the scene of the now-infamous crime that first united detectives Saga Noren (Sofia Helin) and Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia). The Malmo Coast Guard urgently contacts the tanker but there is no reply, the call just echoes eerily across the bridge of the ship. When the Coast Guard finally board the ship they discover there is no crew present but find three Swedish and two Danish youths chained below deck. Saga Noren H of Malmo County Police is immediately put in charge of the case but, as Danish victims are involved, she contacts her previous case-collaborator, Martin Rohde, and they embark on investigating the mysterious and complex case. - Director:
- Morten Arnfred
- Cast:
- Sofia Helin, Kim Bodnia, Dag Malmberg
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In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Gepetto (Roberto Benigni), fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio (Federico Ielapi), who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways. - Director:
- Matteo Garrone
- Cast:
- Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo
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During the long hot summer of 1947 Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson) is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. Hundreds Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, but it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how terrifyingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own. - Director:
- Lenny Abrahamson
- Cast:
- Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Ruth Wilson
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I Wish (2011)Kiseki
In the wake of their parent's divorce, 12-year-old Koichi (Koki Maeda) and his younger brother Ryunosuke (Ohshiro Maeda, Koki's real life brother) have been split up against their will. Koichi lives with his mother and grandparents in Kagoshima, in the shadow of a constantly rumbling volcano. Ryunosuke lives a comparatively spirited life with his rock-musician father in Fukuoka. But when Koichi discovers that a new bullet train line is due to open connecting the two towns, he determines that the intense energy generated by two trains passing in opposite directions will work a miracle, and their wish to be reunited will come true. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Kôki Maeda, Ôshirô Maeda, Hiroshi Abe
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Ash (Ben Cross) and Anjuli (Amy Irving) are two star-crossed lovers, caught up in this passionate and haunting love story. Based on the best selling novel by M. M. Kaye, The Far Pavilions is set in the India of the British Raj at the end of the 19th Century against the spectacular and epic sweep of battle, treachery and intrigue. An all star cast including Omar Sharif, Sir John Gielgud, Christopher Lee, Rossano Brazzi, Robert Hardy, Saeed Jaffery and Rupert Everett feature in this stunning and lavish production which was first seen on Channel Four. - Director:
- Peter Duffell
- Cast:
- Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee
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Parasite (2019)Gisaengchung
Kim Ki Taek's (Song Kang Ho) family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son, Ki Woo, gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle, but as their deception unravels events begin to get increasingly out of hand in ways you simply cannot imagine. - Director:
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. His memories have vanished and even his beautiful wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly) has become estranged from him. So begins a quest to unravel the mysteries of his pact; a quest that will take him into a fiendish underworld where he is relentlessly pursued by the police and a gang of shadow-like beings known as the Strangers and where only the sinister Doctor Schreber (Keifer Sutherland) is able to help him. - Director:
- Alex Proyas
- Cast:
- Rufus Sewell, Anita Kelsey, Kiefer Sutherland
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Slow Motion (1980)Sauve Qui Peut: La Vie
Godard's superbly acted and inventive parody of modern life revolves around three characters who are all at turning points in their lives. The all-star cast features Isabelle Huppert as a country girl who comes to the city to become a prostitute; Nathalie Baye as a woman who decides to give up her city job to pursue an idyllic life in the country: and Jacques Dutronc as a television director, separated from his wife and daughter, and at the end of his tether. 'Slow Motion' marked Godard's return to the cinema and was rapturous reception, reaffirming the director's place at the forefront of innovative film-making. - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye
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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers - Blake's own brother among them. - Director:
- Sam Mendes
- Cast:
- Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
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Rufus Sewell stars as the classic Italian detective, Aurelio Zen in three feature length dramas based on the best-setting books by Michael Dibdin. Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking follow the charismatic Zen around Rome as he investigates murder and kidnapping, whilst negotiating the constantly shifting political terrain of his job, his country and of course, his romantic life. - Director:
- John Alexander
- Cast:
- Rufus Sewell, Callum Blue, Caterina Murino
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Three Brothers (1981)Tre Fratelli
Three Brothers (Tre Fratelli) explores similarly knotty social and political territory through the seemingly straightforward story of three siblings returning to their native southern Italy to pay homage to their late mother. However, their various professions - a judge in Rome (Philippe Noiret), a spiritual counsellor in Naples (Vittorio Mezzogiorno), a factory worker in Turin (Michele Placido) - have a profound effect on their response to this reunion. - Director:
- Francesco Rosi
- Cast:
- Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
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Fresh from an unceremonious dumping by her boyfriend of 10 years, Paula (Laetitia Dosch) finds herself wandering the streets of Paris - jobless, homeless, and single - who no idea of what life holds for her next. At 31 years old, with little to show for it but a kidnapped cat and a sense of adventure, she sets out to reinvent herself - new job, new friends, new life - and finds that these things never do come easily. - Director:
- Léonor Serraille
- Cast:
- Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon
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During One Night (1961)Night of Passion
This Second World War drama from Sidney J. Furie was bold in its day for exploring the then taboo topics of virginity and impotence. Don Borisenko plays a USAF pilot whose buddy is castrated during a mission, leading him to go AWOL in an attempt to lose his virginity. Reduced to impotence through trauma, he eventually finds hope in his quest in the form of a young Susan Hampshire, but not before a brutal encounter with the military police. - Director:
- Sidney J. Furie
- Cast:
- Don Borisenko, Susan Hampshire, Sean Sullivan
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The Bridge: Series 1 (2011)Bron/Broen
During a blackout, the body of a woman is found in the middle of the Øresund Bridge, between Sweden and Denmark. Half of it belongs to a Swedish politician, the other half to a Danish prostitute. Trapped in the no-man's land between two countries, a bi-national investigatory team is put together to solve the murders. Martin, laid-back family man from Denmark, and Saga, socially awkward singleton from Sweden, soon realise they are chasing a dangerous killer with a series agenda. - Director:
- Charlotte Sieling
- Cast:
- Sofia Helin, Lennart R. Svensson, Kim Bodnia
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Platform (2000)Zhantai
Jia Zhang Ke's ambitious film follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history, from 1979 to 1989. In the small town of Fenyang, in the remote western province of Shanxi, the teenage members of a state theatre troupe stage propaganda plays in praise of Mao. But as the country opens up to the free market and implements wide-ranging reform, their lives are irrevocably changed as the world around them is transformed by the music, fashions and other cultural influences of the West. Named after a hit 80's Chinese pop song, Platform gives a vivid insight into modern China and absorbingly documents the sweeping social changes experienced by its people. - Director:
- Jia Zhang-ke
- Cast:
- Wang Hong-wei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jing-dong
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