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84
7.8
/52311/
76
/1317/
75
/652/
3.9
/31700/
91
/35/
88
/550/
80
/8/
cc age 14+

The Day of the Jackal (1973)
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Netflix
79
7.4
/241229/
76
/11356/
73
/5422/
3.5
/256144/
84
/310/
83
/1500/
75
/50/
cc age 13+

Darkest Hour (2017)
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
7.2
/103427/
74
/2687/
69
/1429/
3.4
/40381/
77
/163/
78
/2966/
62
/35/
cc age 13+

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
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Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/6820/
66
/102/
66
/112/
3.6
/4329/
82
/74/
76
/64/
68
/19/

A Dry White Season (1989)
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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71
6.9
/1798/
75
/24/
59
/16/
3.3
/331/
83
/6/
76
/5/

Eleni (1985)
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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Fandango at Home Free
70
7.4
/70352/
74
/1517/
73
/1500/
3.7
/49627/
63
/30/
87
/1800/
55
/18/
cc age 14+

The Mission (1986)
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
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66
6.5
/12043/
68
/341/
63
/193/
3.2
/3327/
67
/21/
56
/101/
64
/14/

The Fourth Protocol (1987)
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
6.8
/73652/
69
/2100/
71
/1920/
3.1
/209775/
69
/26/
75
/964/
46
/17/
cc age 17+

Lolita (1997)
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
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64
6.3
/6209/
68
/271/
62
/186/
3.1
/4394/
71
/136/
51
/38/
64
/26/
cc age 10+

The Happy Prince (2018)
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
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Netflix
63
6.1
/77104/
66
/3166/
60
/1560/
2.7
/46876/
71
/55/
38
/1248/
68
/15/
cc age 14+

Never Say Never Again (1983)
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
poster
59
6.5
/37540/
68
/1828/
64
/753/
3.1
/15800/
67
/183/
59
/649/
51
/36/
cc age 12+

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
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Criterion Channel
70
58
7.0
/3405/
63
/42/
66
/44/
3.7
/4130/
75
/8/
77
/35/

Mahler (1974)
Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.
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The Roku Channel
61
57
6.7
/8232/
68
/252/
61
/109/
3.3
/2739/
50
/8/
61
/144/

Zulu Dawn (1979)
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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66
56
6.7
/6110/
66
/102/
63
/54/
3.2
/2010/
73
/55/

Ivanhoe (1982)
Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.
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Disney Plus
55
6.5
/316021/
66
/11179/
62
/7030/
2.6
/167174/
37
/227/
58
/13503/
50
/38/
cc age 13+

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
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72
52
7.8
/6342/
71
/123/
71
/76/
3.6
/1492/
70
/13/

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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76
51
7.8
/4448/
75
/42/
72
/39/
3.6
/1195/
86
/24/

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.
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57
42
6.1
/3938/
59
/94/
57
/119/
3.0
/1232/
48
/29/

Evilenko (2004)
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.
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65
39
6.7
/1571/
69
/27/
62
/23/
3.3
/987/
65
/32/
64
/4/

Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
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Plex
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38
6.6
/3132/
67
/44/
67
/39/
3.3
/1052/
53
/18/

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...
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36
4.4
/7255/
55
/196/
49
/144/
2.3
/1686/
19
/519/

Dark Floors (2008)
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
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29
6.7
/1299/
65
/14/
51
/25/
3.5
/643/
80
/24/

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the first of three parts, we follow Luper through three distinct episodes: as a child during the First World War; as an explorer in Mormon Utah; and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism.
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Fandango at Home Free
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25
6.1
/1528/
59
/30/
58
/41/
3.0
/646/
52
/10/

Jekyll & Hyde (1990)
Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that he has tested on himself, changing him into an uninhibited brute who seeks violent and undignified pleasures. Jekyll quickly becomes addicted to the sordid freedom induced by the drug. He can commit the most enjoyably revolting deeds, then return to his laboratory and use an antidote to change back to his original form, so that his lofty persona remains untarnished.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
24
6.1
/1303/
66
/86/
50
/34/
3.0
/336/
18
/22/
47
/17/
34
/5/

The Time of Their Lives (2017)
Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Île de Ré, former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her London retirement home with help of repressed English housewife Priscilla and they hit the road together in a race to get to the funeral on time.
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Kanopy
59
24
6.5
/1396/
64
/64/
57
/38/
3.1
/414/
52
/10/
cc age 8+

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.
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22
3.8
/1966/
47
/52/
42
/50/
22
/32/

Supernova (2005)
A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears. Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to keep the information from the public. While a full-blown supernova does not occur, explosions on the sun cause massive damage in Australia, and is shown often in Sydney and in various other cities and countries of the world.
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The Roku Channel
61
19
6.3
/728/
56
/20/
54
/16/
3.2
/209/
71
/23/

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (2005)
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
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54
19
6.5
/893/
62
/15/
48
/19/
3.3
/353/
50
/8/
33
/3/

Nijinsky (1980)
A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who seeks to draw him away from his domineering lover.
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55
17
6.4
/1065/
63
/23/
54
/25/
3.1
/400/
36
/7/

A Murder of Quality (1991)
At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.
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Amazon Prime Video
56
12
6.2
/719/
63
/13/
53
/17/
3.2
/382/
39
/3/

Camille (1984)
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
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11
6.8
/508/
51
/7/
49
/15/
3.5
/293/
68
/4/

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2005)
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional prisoner Tulse Luper. Born in 1911 Newport and last heard of in 1989, Luper’s life is pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered across the globe. In the final installment, Luper continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and the Cold War.
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Hoopla
53
9
5.6
/709/
54
/5/
48
/11/
3.1
/219/
45
/7/

Joseph Andrews (1977)
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
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Kanopy
55
8
6.3
/550/
56
/9/
38
/10/
3.4
/249/

Three Sisters (1970)
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
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Amazon Prime Video
45
8
5.3
/593/
52
/9/
41
/10/
36
/9/

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)
Marla Darland is blessed with the voice of an angel, a singing legend. But when her agent, Marty Starr, finds his agency in trouble, he concocts a sinister plot to bring up her record sales. Amazed at the posthumous record sales of Elvis and Jimi Hendrix, Marty becomes determined to arrange a similar fate for Marla, staging the perfect tragic demise. But he didn't count on Marla not being quite ready to go.
poster
63
?
63
/33/
63
/25/

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1988)
Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.
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60
?
56
/30/
64
/9/

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (1990)
Eustace is sent to a horrible school and finds a friend in Jill Pole, who's also running from bullies and looking for a place to hide. The two of them are magically transported from the garden shed into the magical world of Narnia, where they are entrusted with a task by Aslan: to rescue the king's stolen son, Prince Rilian. Together with Puddleglum the Marshwiggle, they must travel north across the mountains, dodge giants, and journey down into the earth itself to rescue Rilian from the mysterious evil that holds him bound there.
poster
59
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7.0
/2625/
61
/55/
54
/12/
3.1
/1438/

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989)
Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
poster
?
10
/1/

Romeo and Juliet (1967)
BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.
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?
6.2
/38/
37
/4/
60
/1/

Milner (1994)
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes. Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.
poster
?
7.0
/65/
10
/1/
55
/2/

Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
poster
Kanopy
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5.2
/63/
30
/2/
10
/2/

Puccini (1984)
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
4.5
/55/
50
/5/

End of Term (2021)
A group of students are tormented by the lingering menace of Garth Stroman, an artist who had a disturbing vision fifty years prior. The pupils discover that true art can only be achieved through suffering and pain.
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?
6.3
/80/
70
/2/

Cherished (2005)
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidence about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death Syndrome) which has since been discredited.
poster
?
7.9
/29/

A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (2014)
A writer of crime fiction is suffering from writer's block. Haunted by dreams of his wife and child, he seeks solace in a Hitchcock Festival at his local cinema as well as regular sessions with his therapist. A disturbance outside his flat leads to a strange encounter, blurring the line between reality and fantasy.
poster
?
6.8
/75/

The Philanthropist (1975)
The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters.
poster
?
5.5
/12/

...but the clouds... (1977)
A woman left behind by a man. Based on a script by Samuel Beckett.
poster
?
7.8
/15/

The Golden Years (1992)
The ancient Aztec world inadvertantly welcomes its doom in the form of the Conquistadors.
poster
?
10
/1/

Ladies' Night (1986)
A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night." One member resents the intrusion of women so much, he resorts to murder.


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