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Diego Maradona (2019)Maradona
The third film from the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning team behind 'Senna' and 'Amy', 'Diego Maradona' is constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from Maradona's personal archive with the full support of the man himself. On the pitch, Diego Maradona was a genius. Off the pitch, he was treated like a God. The charismatic Argentine loved a fight against the odds and led Napoli to their first-ever title. It was the stuff of dreams. But there was a price...Diego could do as he pleased while performing miracles on the pitch but, as time passed, darker days closed in. - Director:
- Asif Kapadia
- Cast:
- Diego Armando Maradona, Gianni Minà, Corrado Ferlaino
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The Keeper (2018)Trautmann
"The Keeper" tells the incredible true story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalkeeper at Manchester City, and in doing so becomes a footballing icon. Struggling for acceptance by those who dismiss him as the enemy, Bert's love for Margaret (Freya Mavor), an Englishwoman, carries him through and he wins over even his harshest opponents by winning the 1956 FA Cup Final, playing on with a broken neck to secure victory. But fate will soon twist the knife for Bert and Margaret, when their love and loyalty to each other is put to the ultimate test. - Director:
- Marcus H. Rosenmüller
- Cast:
- David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw
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It's been 22 years since the public was first hooked on 'The Beiderbecke Affair' - the first instalment in what was to become Alan Plater's award winning trilogy of comedy-thrillers starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. They play Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne, two reluctant teachers drawn into a web of intrigue when Trevor is paid a mysterious visit by a dazzlingly beautiful platinum blonde. Since that moment 'The Beiderbecke Trilogy' has held its position as one of the nation's favourite television shows, with its easy-going plots, dryly humorous dialogue, deftly-drawn characters and superb Jazz score by Frank Ricotti and legendary trumpeter Kenny Baker.
The Beiderbecke Affair (1985)
All Trevor Chaplin wants is a set of Bix Beiderbecke records. All Jill Swinburne wants is to stand for the council as an independent candidate. So where does the slightly tarnished platinum blonde come in...?
The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987)
Dragged into the murky world of national security, Jill and Trevor find themselves pursued and threatened by sinister grey men. But all Trevor wanted was a tape of Bix Beiderbecke music!
The Beiderbecke Connection (1988)
Trevor and Jill are back - this time with a baby in tow! Taking their family addition for a walk they bump into Big Al, who asks them for a favour...- Director:
- Brian Parker
- Cast:
- James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dominic Jephcott
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Claire Denis' first English-language feature sees a group of convicts assigned to a difficult space mission with the belief they will be freed if they are successful. The film follows Monte (Robert Pattinson), one of the convicts aboard the mission a few years after its launch as he raises his daughter in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards it's final destination... - Director:
- Claire Denis
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- Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
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Rory's Way (2018)The Etruscan Smile
Based on the bestselling novel by José Luis Sampedro, "Rory's Way" stars acclaimed British actor Brian Cox as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson. - Director:
- Oded Binnun
- Cast:
- Brian Cox, JJ Feild, Thora Birch
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Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings but Reggie prefers poetry to cricket. And when he is offered the opportunity to read his poetry to England's greatest playwright Alexander Whitehead (Robert Morley) on the last day of the test, the relationship between father and son is tested to the limit. As Sam prepares for his final knock, the conflict with his son weighs heavily on his mind, but he is also upset over England's young batsman and ladies-man, Syd Thompson (George Relph), dating the woman whom he hope to marry. - Director:
- Anthony Asquith
- Cast:
- John Arlott, Jack Warner, Robert Morley
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Yesterday (2019)All You Need Is Love
Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter...but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack (Himesh Patel) discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie (Lily James) - the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all. - Director:
- Danny Boyle
- Cast:
- Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino
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Based on Brendan Behan's acclaimed autobiography and directed by Peter Sheridan, Borstal Boy is a hard-hitting, rites-of-passage story where the harsh realities of prison life are revealed. Brenden is a teenage Republican, going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during World War II. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in England. Locked in closed quarters Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those who perceives as the enemy. - Director:
- Peter Sheridan
- Cast:
- Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eamon Glancy
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The Mercy (2018)Deep Water
Academy Award winner Colin Firth portrays the incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare (Rachel Weisz) and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron. - Director:
- Jamie Marsh
- Cast:
- Rachel Weisz, Colin Firth, David Thewlis
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When Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), he charms her with his self-deprecating humour and his memories of her youthful idealism. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly. - Director:
- Jonathan Levine
- Cast:
- Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael
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A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Danny Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he's pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes the ultimate fish out of water as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who w value friendship and community over fame and A fortune. As he's drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he's forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means. - Director:
- Chris Foggin
- Cast:
- Tuppence Middleton, James Purefoy, Daniel Mays
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Crooked House (2017)Agatha Christie's Crooked House
In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward (Max Irons) has returned from Cairo to London to become a private detective. When Aristide Leonides (Gino Picciano), a wealthy and ruthless tycoon, is poisoned in his own bed, Detective Hayward is invited to solve the crime. - Director:
- Gilles Paquet-Brenner
- Cast:
- Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close
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Set against a background of deceit and wife swapping in the 1970s, The Ice Storm is acclaimed director Ang Lee's extraordinary tale of sexual jealousy. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having an affair with his neighbour Janey (Sigourney Weaver). His wife (Joan Allen) is fast losing patience with his clumsy lies.Meanwhile his daughter Wendy (Christina Ricci), is finding new games to play with boys next door and son Paul has escaped to the city to try and seduce an alluring rich girl. As night falls and the members of the family embark on their separate sexual odysseys, an ice storm hits the East Coast, the worst in 30 years.The events of that night, both comic and tragic, force the Hood family to come face to face with the harsh realities that exist in their lives. - Director:
- Ang Lee
- Cast:
- Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver
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Divided We Fall (2000)Musime Si Pomahat
Oscar nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the winner of five prestigious Czech Lions Awards, 'Divided We Fall' is a delicious black comedy which deftly deals with the compromises forced upon ordinary people during wartime. Based on real life events in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, Divided We Fall tells the tale of childless couple josef and Marie Cizek, who offer refuge to David, a young Jew fleeing from his persecutors. However when a Nazi official also takes up residence in their spare room their lives become more complicated than they ever dreamed possible... - Director:
- Jan Hrebejk
- Cast:
- Bolek Polívka, Karel Hermánek, Csongor Kassai
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When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even west Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. - Director:
- Ethan Coen
- Cast:
- Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
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