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Aden, 1965. The men of the British Royal Military Police are battling a fierce insurgency. Tensions are heightened in the heat of the desert; any lapse in luck or judgement means death. But life and love must continue. The '60s are starting to swing: sexual liberation, seductive new music and outrageous fashions have hit the sun loungers of the glamorous BP Club. Isolated in this unknown country, nothing is certain, and relationships are tested as pressure and passions intensify. This bitter war brings danger and betrayal, and will question the code these dedicated soldiers live by. - Director:
- Miranda Bowen
- Cast:
- Jeremy Neumark Jones, Jessie Buckley, Ben Miles
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Cycling with Moliere (2013)Alceste à bicyclette
Once-great actor Serge Tanneur (Fabrice Luchini) spends his days alone, painting second-rate portraits and cycling through the windblown landscape of France's Ile de Re. One day his old friend Gauthier (Lambert Wilson), a famous TV star, arrives unexpectedly to coax him into a return to the stage, promising him a role in Moliere's classic play, 'The Misanthrope'. At first Serge dismisses the idea but slowly, as the pair's relationship begins to echo the play itself, he finds himself being inextricably drawn in... - Director:
- Philippe Le Guay
- Cast:
- Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson, Maya Sansa
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A Pedigree of the Highest Degree...From Dick Wolf and the team behind the 'Law and Order' franchise comes an eye-opening new procedural drama. The series follows the inner workings of the FBI, bringing to bear all the Bureau's skills, intellect and mind-blowing technology to keep New York and the country safe. - Director:
- Niels Arden Oplev
- Cast:
- Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Ebonee Noel
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My Brilliant Friend: Series 2 (2020)My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name
Based on the internationally bestselling Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, the critically acclaimed global smash hit returns for a second season. Lila (Gaia Girace) and Elena (Margherita Mazzucco), now 16, are on the cusp of womanhood. Lila is just married but worries that she has lost her identity in taking her husband's name; Elena is a model student but acknowledges that while she no longer belongs in the neighborhood she is yet to find her place in the outside world. During a holiday in Ischia, the two girls reconnect with their childhood acquaintance Nino (Francesco Serpico), an encounter that will forever change the nature of their bond, propelling the girls onto two completely contrasting paths, threatening their close connection with jealousy and betrayal as they follow, lose and find each other again. - Director:
- Saverio Costanzo
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- Margherita Mazzucco, Gaia Girace, Giovanni Amura
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Family for Rent (2015)Une Famille À Louer
Paul-Andre is a shy and introverted 40-something. He's rich but alone, fed up with life, and decides that what he needs is a family. Violette is also in her 40s and full of life, but money troubles mean that she could lose her home and even her family. Paul-Andre offers her a crazy deal - he rents her family in return for paying off her debts. He will finally be able to test out the true joy of family life...for better or worse! - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Améris
- Cast:
- Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira, François Morel
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When the most important friend in her life seems to disappear without trace, Elena Greco, an elderly woman living in a house crammed with books, switches on her PC and starts writing her own story, and that of Lila. She tells the tale of their friendship, which started at school in the 1950's. Set in a dangerous but fascinating Naples, it is just the start of a story spanning sixty years of life. A tale that attempts to unveil the mystery of Lila, Elena's brilliant friend. Her best friend, and her worst enemy. - Director:
- Saverio Costanzo
- Cast:
- Valentina Acca, Antonio Buonanno, Gennaro Canonico
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After just a year of marriage, the immaculate life Georgina (Julia Stiles) has quickly become intoxicated by is blown apart when her art collector husband Constantine is killed in an explosion aboard the yacht of a Russian oligarch. Believing there to be more to the tragedy, she sets out to uncover what happened. Dark truths about Constantine's dealings emerge and, as she begins to realise who she was really married to, Georgina enters a spiral of moral descent as she becomes immersed a world of lies, double-dealing and criminality. In order to maintain the Clios' legendary Cote d'Azur mansion and protect the family and its fortune, she will have to learn to adapt, survive and ultimately thrive in her dangerous new reality. But as she first proved back in her days as a fine art scholar in the US, she's an A-plus student... - Director:
- Hans Herbots
- Cast:
- Julia Stiles, Iwan Rheon, Adrian Lester
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Set in the glamour of 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by the scariest curse of all...love. And so begins a Gothic Romance of twists, turns and power struggles of "pure, delicious pleasure" that is "devilishly funny and luxuriantly sensuous". - Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville
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Certified Copy (2009)Copie Conforme
He (William Shimell) is a British author in town to talk about his new book. She (Juliette Binoche) is a French gallery owner in search of originality. Together they tour the local galleries, cafes and museums and discover that nothing is quite what it seems and truth, like art, is always open to interpretation. Captivating and hugely entertaining, this acclaimed romantic tale playfully and provocatively blurs the lines between reality and imagination. - Director:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast:
- Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière
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15th Century Florence. The House of Medici, one of the most powerful Florentine families and bankers to the Pope. Cosimo (Richard Madden), who has long abandoned his dreams of becoming an artist, inherits the bank when his father Giovanni (Dustin Hoffman) mysteriously collapses. Harbouring the dangerous secret that his father was murdered, Cosimo must fight to protect all his family has worked so hard to attain. As head of the Signoria, with attacks coming from all sides and war looming, he needs to decide whether to side with the nobility, as Giovanni would have done, or to step out from his father's shadow. Full of intrigue and suspense, 'Medici: Masters of Florence' follows the twists and turns through war, plague and even exile as the family attempts to hold on to power. - Director:
- Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
- Cast:
- Richard Madden, Stuart Martin, Annabel Scholey
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The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)Le chagrin et la pitié
Marcel Ophuls' four-and-a-half hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest documentaries ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' in its value not just as a film but as an essential historical record in its own right - not least since its interviewees are all long dead. Describing the fall of France and the rise of the Resistance, with the aid of newly-shot interviews and eye-opening archive footage including newsreels and propaganda films, Ophuls painstakingly crafts a complex, nuanced picture of what really happened in France over this period. He also demolishes numerous self-serving national myths to such an extent that, although he made the film for French television, they wouldn't show it for over a decade. But, as he demonstrates again and again, the overwhelming majority of French citizens during this period weren't heroes, villains or cowards, but simply ordinary people trying to make the best of an impossible situation. And it's Ophuls' portrayal of these people, their hopes, their fears and their appalling moral quandaries, that remains unmatched in film history. - Director:
- Marcel Ophüls
- Cast:
- Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
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When Alice Guy-Blache completed her first film in 1896 Paris, she was not only the first female filmmaker, but one of the first directors ever to make a narrative film. In 'Be Natural', Pamela B. Green acts as a detective, revealing the real story of Alice Guy-Blache and highlighting her pioneering contributions to the birth of cinema and her acclaim as a creative force and entrepreneur in the earliest years of movie-making. - Director:
- Pamela B. Green
- Cast:
- Jodie Foster, Alice Guy, Richard Abel
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Beneath the sombrero - a man like no other. Beneath the sun - a land like no other. Often considered one of Robert Mitchum's best and most overlooked performancesfthe legendary actor stars as Martin Brady, a hired gun man who fled to Mexico as a child having killed his father's murderer. En route to Texas to broker an arms deal for his boss Governor Castro, Brady falls from his beloved horse Lagrimas, and breaks his leg. While he recuperates in Texas, Brady's arms shipment is stolen and to complicate matters further, he begins to fall for the wife of a local army major, played by Julie London... - Director:
- Robert Parrish
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- Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill
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The world's most renowned fictional lawyer is back on the case in this exciting HBO series that tells the origin story of master criminal defence attorney Perry Mason. Set in 1931 Los Angeles, this edgy, noirish update puts a new spin on the iconic character created by Erle Stanley Gardner and made famous by the classic TV show that ran from 1957 to 1966. Through eight twisty cliff-hanger episodes, Mason (Matthew Rhys) is determined to do what's right - even when it's not necessarily legal - as he digs into a controversial and politically loaded case, exposing a fractured city and a possible police cover-up. - Director:
- Timothy Van Patten
- Cast:
- Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk
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From the brilliant creative mind of Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water' and 'Sicario') and starring Academy Award Winner Kevin Costner, 'Yellowstone' revolves around the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Costner), who controls the largest ranch in the U.S. that is under constant attack by those it borders: land developers, an Indian reservation and America's first National Park. This is a world where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both. The impressive cast also includes Wes Bentley, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Danny Huston, Gil Birmingham, Brecken Merrill, Jefferson White, David Annable, and many more. - Director:
- Taylor Sheridan
- Cast:
- Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly
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