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Cannes Best Actor
Certification15
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Certification18
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The British film which should have won an Oscar. Bob Hoskins is an ex-con who is given the task of minding Cathy Tyson a high class whore. Against his better judgement he agrees to help her find her best friend, a junkie turning tricks in Kings Cross. A brilliant look at London low life. Watch it!
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Certification18
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David Thewlis delivers an incredible performance as the clever and sarcastic Johnny. On the run from reality he turns up at his old girlfriend's house in London, where he proceeds to cause havoc. An inspired mix of script and improvisation with masterful direction, Leigh has taken a dark and inward look at life on Britain's bottom rung. Superb.
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Certification12
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Twelve-year-old Akira is head of his family, two younger sisters and a brother. Dad has never featured in their lives and mum, well she has a tendency to come and then go. Left to their own devices the children have to adapt to survive and in doing so they observe the grown-up world with a wonder and resignation that breaks the heart and blows the mind. Based on a true story, which was reported in the Japanese news in 1988, and shot in a semi-documentary style "Nobody Knows" is a deeply moving a
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Certification12
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Mija lives in a small city by the Han River with her teenage grandson. When she discovers her grandson's part in the gang-rape and suicide of a Catholic school girl, Mija takes up poetry classes to explore her inner world while her outer world quietly implodes. Poetry is a raw, unsentimental but also hauntingly beautiful film with an intensely moving performan find out more...
Certification15
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Ann (MacDowell) is not happy: her husband John (Gallagher) is a lawyer who, unbeknownst to her, is having an affair with her virtually estranged sister (San Giacomo). The deception only comes to light with the arrival of John's old friend Graham (Spader), a shy, impotent eccentric who gets his kicks from watching interviews he has taped with women about their sexual experiences. Soderbergh's first feature is less concerned with actions per se than with the gulf between deed and motivation, betwe
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Certification12
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Having left the city, Alex and Vera set up home with their children in a remote but idyllic-seeming country house. But then one day Vera makes a shocking confession, setting in motion a chain of events that will lead to tragedy. The Banishment is a powerful and atmospheric portrait of an unravelling marriage loosely based on a short story by American novelist William Saroyan. A stunningly shot film about male pride, morality and betrayal.
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CertificationU
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An ageing classics teacher disliked by both pupils and staff, cuckolded by a colleague and denied a decent pension, is forced into retirement by ill health. We follow his last few working days, realise his feelings of inadequacy and failure in this powerful and faithful, bar a tacked on upbeat farewell speech, adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play, whose title bears an oblique reference to the Greek tragedy Agamemnon.
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CertificationPG
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Three of Hollywood's most famous liberals team up to explore the horrific possibity of a nuclear meltdown. Fonda and Douglas play TV news reporters latching onto a scare about falsification and negligence of safety regulations. Well scripted and genuinely tense. Tinseltown gets a conscience!
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Certification18
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Private Kang is a South Korean soldier fanatically dedicated to his duty, patrolling the shores at night to prevent North Korean spies from entering the country. One night while on patrol Kang mistakes a civilian couple for enemies and kills the man, from that moment forward, his fate seems linked to that of the woman, as both slowly lose their minds from guilt and paranoia. A powerful and haunting indictment of the schism between North and South Korea from acclaimed director Kim Ki-Duk.
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