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You'll love Cool Runnings - the outrageously funny comedy hits inspired by the true story of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team. They were four unlikely athletes with one impossible dream. Now, with the help of ex-champion as their coach (John Candy), four Jamaicans leave their sunny island home and enter the chilly winter Olympics to complete for the gold in a sport they know nothing about bobsled racing! - Director:
- Jon Turteltaub
- Cast:
- John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug
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Your Name. (2016)Kimi no na wa.
Mitsuha and Taki have never met, but when the frustrated country girl wishes of a life in the big city, they will forge a connection both unexplainable and unforgettable. In their dreams, the two swap lives, cultures and genders as they learn more about, and grow closer to, each other. What was once a shock becomes a joy-filled double life, but what will happen when they discover the red string of fate tying them together? - Director:
- Makoto Shinkai
- Cast:
- Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita
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Mads Mikkelsen gives a tour de force performance as a pilot whose plane has crashed in a remote corner of the Arctic. Stranded in the wilderness he uses his ingenuity to survive. When about to receive his long-awaited rescue, an explosive accident means his opportunity is lost and the dire situation further complicated. The tragic turn of events, involving another crash survivor forces the pilot to make a perilous choice between the relative safety of his camp and a deadly trek into the unknown. - Director:
- Joe Penna
- Cast:
- Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir, Tintrinai Thikhasuk
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Power, Politics, Money... in this provocative, bitingly funny drama series about a dysfunctional dynasty led by the ageing and ailing - Logan Roy (Brian Cox), whose four grown children (Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck) challenge his waning dominance while others in their orbit position themselves for the looming post-Logan world. - Director:
- Adam McKay
- Cast:
- Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox
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Backstabbing, Blackmail and Betrayal...it's all in the family when you're a Roy. Blending high drama with dark humour, the acclaimed HBO series 'Succession' explores themes of power, politics and money played out within a filthy rich, dysfunctional dynasty led by aging media tycoon Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children: Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Connor (Alan Ruck). In Season 2, Kendall deals with fallout from his hostile-takeover attempt, Shiv is poised to enter the upper echelons of the company, Roman reacquaints himself with the business from the bottom up, and Connor launches an unlikely bid for president. There's plenty of juicy intrigue as this scheming, emotionally challenged family navigates a rapidly changing media landscape and the looming question of who will take over in a post-Logan world. - Director:
- Mark Mylod
- Cast:
- Christian Carrigan, Dagmara Dominczyk, Drew Gehling
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Career con man Roy (Ian McKellen) sets his sights on his latest mark, recently widowed Betty (Helen Mirren), who's worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two grow closer, what should have been another simple swindle becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in this suspenseful drama about the secrets people keep and the lies they live. - Director:
- Bill Condon
- Cast:
- Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Russell Tovey
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Based on the infamous 1941 true story, Whisky Galore! is a charming and heart-warming tale of a close-knit Scottish island community who mischievously relieve a sinking cargo ship of cases of whisky during wartime scarcity. The ensuing merriment is threatened when Excise Men try to spoil the party by catching the crafty locals, red handed, with the bottled loot. After enduring a 'dry' period, the shipwreck and its amber cargo was like manna from heaven to the islanders, to whom whisky was part of the very life blood of their Island! - Director:
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Cast:
- Ellie Kendrick, James Cosmo, Eddie Izzard
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Through Lotte's Lens (2018)Through Lotte's Lens: The Story of the Hitler Émigrés
"Through Lotte's Lens" tells the extraordinary story of the 'Hitler Emigres'; the refugees, mainly Jewish, who escaped the Nazi regime in the 1930's and found refuge in the UK. Despite many of them being interned on the Isle of Man after war broke out. they brought a richness of endeavour and achievement to this country that still resonates today. Musicians, actors, artists, architects, publishers, scientists, historians shared a belief in the power of democracy and a loyalty to the country that had welcomed them. Told through the portal of Austrian emigre portrait photographer; Lotte Meitner-Graf, the story unfolds through interviews with eminent commentators, dramatic reconstructions and musical performances. - Director:
- Tony Britten
- Cast:
- Julian Forsyth, Mary Lincoln, Lotte Meitner-Graf
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When Marnie Was There (2014)Omoide no Mânî
When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion and a mysterious young girl, Mamie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh House again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding her strange new friend. - Director:
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Cast:
- Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
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Christopher Lloyd leads the cast in a family drama about two outcasts who dream of escaping to a better life Abner is a widower living a reclusive life in a coastal town. Having alienated his family and withdrawn from the small, tight-knit community, he spends his days building a sailboat in his yard. When neglected 9-year-old orphan Rick hides on Abner's property, the irascible old sea captain reluctantly agrees to protect the lonely boy from a gang of local bullies on one condition: that he help him finish his half-built boat. Both have found themselves on the periphery. Abner's daughter Katherine wants him to move to a residence for seniors, or "a garbage dump for old trash'', according to Abner; while Rick's uncle plans to send him to a children's home. The pair gradually forge an unlikely bond as the boat becomes their one chance to escape from the seaside village that harbours their misery. - Director:
- Arnold Grossman
- Cast:
- Christopher Lloyd, Jane Kaczmarek, Jeffrey Weissman
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The Bachelors (2017)The Whole New Everything
"The Bachelors" follows a mourning father (J.K. Simmons) who moves across the country with his teenage son (Josh Wiggins) for a private school teaching job, after the early death of his wife. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women (Julie Delpy), who help them embrace life and love again. - Director:
- Kurt Voelker
- Cast:
- Odeya Rush, J.K. Simmons, Jean Louisa Kelly
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Struggling photographer Sean Falco (Robert Sheehan), who funds his lifestyle with a sideline in burglary, thinks he has hit the jackpot when he breaks into the luxurious home of the wealthy Cale Erendreich (David Tennant). Things go wrong when Sean discovers a woman chained up in the house. Unable to free her before Cale returns, Sean reluctantly goes to the police to explain what he's seen. By the time they investigate, Cale has covered his tracks, and the police tell Sean to stop harassing him. Sean soon realises Cale will stop at nothing to shut him up - permanently. - Director:
- Dean Devlin
- Cast:
- David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon
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Father Figures (2017)Bastards / Who's Your Daddy?
Owen Wilson and Ed Helms play twin brothers whose eccentric mother (Glenn Close) raised them to believe their father died when they were young, which they later discover to be a lie, prompting them to set out to find their real father. On the way they discover more about their mother than they ever wanted to know. J.K. Simmons, Katt Williams, NFL Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw as himself, Ving Rhamesand Christopher Walken co-star in this outrageous and heartwarming comedy. - Director:
- Lawrence Sher
- Cast:
- Robert Jon Mello, Ed Helms, Retta
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Fallen Women? Does it mean they've hurt their knees? After a decade of soul saving in Africa, Charles Fortescue is asked to minister to the ladies of the night in 1906 London. So Fortescue feeds them, shelters them and not infrequently provides them a bed - his! A naive man of the cloth becomes a man of the sheets in this playfully naughty yet always tasteful comedy that stars Monty Python's Michael Palin as Fortescue and features a colourful array of cockeyed characters: a blissful airhead (Phoebe Nicholls), a lusty mission sponsor (Maggie Smith), a bewildered butler (Michael Hordern), an earthy bishop (Denholm Elliott), a cantankerous John Bull (Trevor Howard) and more. - Director:
- Richard Loncraine
- Cast:
- Michael Palin, John Fortune, Maggie Smith
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Nobody said being President of the United States would be easy, but Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) never backs down from a challenge. Taking on modern-day issues like election hacks, information leaks, and drone warfare, as well as international dilemmas she specialised in as Secretary of State, President McCord must also play the political game and defend her good name with the entire world watching. Bring home every episode of the groundbreaking final season of 'Madam Secretary' in this set as McCord makes history, right to the end. - Director:
- Eric Stoltz
- Cast:
- Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Patina Miller
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