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1) Pin Cushion
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Seeking a fresh start, socially awkward Iona and her cat-obsessed mother Lyn move to a new town. Together the pair put on a brave face, finding and creating comfort as one another’s sole friend. However, life begins to get tricky after the town’s small-minded denizens reveal themselves to be as petty and cruel as those from the town they just fled. At school, Iona finds herself targeted by a trio of mean girls who exploit her naïveté. Across...
2) War requiem
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
British cinema's enfant terrible teams with his muse Tilda Swinton and Laurence Olivier, for a spectacular and moving interpretation of composer Benjamin Britten's 1961 orchestral masterpiece.
3) The Old Oak
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The final film from British master Ken Loach (Sorry We Missed You, Kes), THE OLD OAK is a deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope. The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence...
4) Drift
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo), a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island, where she tries first to survive and then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour-guide (Alia Shawkat) and together they find the resilience to forge ahead.
6) Hamlet
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
In Franco Zeffirelli’s brooding adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Mel Gibson stars as Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, haunted by the ghost of his murdered father. As he seeks vengeance against his scheming uncle Claudius (Alan Bates), who has usurped the throne and married his mother Gertrude (Glenn Close), Hamlet’s descent into madness blurs the line between sanity and obsession. Featuring stunning period visuals and a powerful cast,...
7) And Mrs
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
When a bride-to-be’s fiancé unexpectedly dies, she vows to marry him anyways, but to do so she must overcome the court of public opinion, the court of law, and her loved ones' objections.
9) Sebastian
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
WARNING: This film is not rated and may contain content that could be offensive to some viewers. Viewer discretion is advisedMax is a 25-year-old writer living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. On the cusp of finding success in the local lit scene, by night Max moonlights as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel. What begins as a few furtive meetings soon becomes a secret nocturnal life as his alter ego “Sebastian.”...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Jane Austen's classic story of a young girl whose head is full of romantic and melodramatic notions about the world. Through her adventures, Catherine Morland comes to learn that marriage in the society of her day is determined not by true love but by wealth and social status.
11) Edith
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
A story exploring the heart-breaking inevitability of growing older and processing grief.
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard (Romola Garai) is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill (Michael Gambon), the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife (Lindsay Duncan) and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
When Stanley Windrush leaves the Army, he sees his future as an executive in industry. Unfortunately, Big Business takes the view that it can carry on quite successfully without the contribution of an amiable idiot like Stanley. And so in desperation he seeks the advice of his Uncle Bertram, the head of an arms factory, who is currently planning a shady, get-rich-quick deal. Stanley goes to work for his uncle and unwittingly upsets the elaborate and...
14) Private Peaceful
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Set against the grim backdrop of World War I, this poignant drama follows the lives of two brothers, Tommo (George MacKay) and Charlie Peaceful (Jack O'Connell), as they navigate a childhood of love and hardship in rural England before being thrust into the horrors of the battlefield. Bound by loyalty but torn by the brutality of war, their bond is tested in ways they never imagined. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s acclaimed novel.
15) The Love Punch
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In this British comedy set against the picturesque backdrops of Paris and the French Riviera, divorced couple Richard (Pierce Brosnan) and Kate (Emma Thompson) team up to recover their stolen retirement money. When Richard’s company is sold to a corrupt French businessman, Vincent (Laurent Lafitte), and their pension is lost, they hatch a plan to steal a valuable diamond from Vincent’s fiancée, Manon (Louise Bourgoin).
17) Vanity Fair
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
Thackeray's classic novel of British and European society is set around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Becky Sharp, the penniless, orphaned daughter of an artist and a dancer, and Amelia Sedley, the sheltered child of a rich city merchant are unlikely, but firm friends. Becky, is an irrepressible schemer - one of the most seductive social climbers of all time - who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. While her friend, the meek and mild Amelia,...
18) Oliver Twist
Pub. Date
2025.
Description
This gripping and emotionally powerful adaptation from one of British television's most exciting new writers breathes new life into the popular Dickens story. On a dark and stormy winter's night in a miserable, dank room, lit only by a few candles, Oliver is born into a life of poverty and misfortune. Growing up in a workhouse, watching the suffering and cruelty endured by the boys at the hands of his masters, Oliver decides he wants more and sets...
19) Bolan's Shoes
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A love letter to 70’s glam rock told through the eyes of childhood friends obsessed with singer Marc Bolan in Liverpool. A tragic accident changes their lives forever. BOLAN'S SHOES explores the impact of childhood tragedy and the healing power of music.
20) Middlemarch
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Dramatisation of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate, who arrives at Middlemarch hospital full of idealism and determined to do good works; Dorothea Brooke, who becomes attracted to the scholarly Edward Casaubon and then finds herself trapped in an ill-fated marriage; and Will Ladislaw, a young...
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