Los Angeles, 1928; Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, Christine Collins says goodbye to her son Walter and leaves for work. When she comes home she discovers he has vanished. A fruitless search ensues, and months later, a boy claiming to be her nine-year-old lad is returned. Dazed by the swirl of police, reporters and her conflicting emotions, Christine allows him to stay overnight, but in her heart she knows he is not Walter. As Christine pushes the authorities to keep looking, she swi
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MONGOL THE RISE TO POWER OF GENGHIS KHAN (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o
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RABBIT PROOF FENCE (2002)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Australia's dark secret of institutionalist eugenics gets an impressive and heartfelt celluloid airing in this adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara's book, a story based around the astonishing real life journey of three young girls, removed from their true Aboriginal families and transplanted to a boarding school/prison to be trained as domestic servants (from whence it was hoped they would quietly blend into white society), and their 1,500 mile trek home with only a rabbit proof fence to gui
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THE ABDUCTION CLUB (2002)
Certification12 Our Rating
Among the 18th Century Irish aristocracy the entire wealth of the family passed to the eldest son, a gutting situation when you were not him and you face a career as a soldier or priest. In order to combat this outrage a society known as the 'Abduction Club' kidnaps young women of a healthy financial persuasion and attempts to persuade them to marry these unfortunate males. Byrne and Strang are two such men and the Kennedy sisters are two such women, but when the lads abduct the two young girls
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THE BEGUILED (1970)
Certification15 Our Rating
A chillingly awesome film, one of Clint's best. A dark sexual brooding drama set during the American Civil War. A wounded soldier is taken in by a crumbling girls' school and proceeds, through their sexual confusion and frustration, to manipulate the women. Their retribution is blood curdling.
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THE NEW WORLD (2005)
Certification12 Our Rating
Set at the beginning of the end for the native peoples of North America, we follow the first white settlers to the land of the new Eden, and in particular the relationship between Pocahontas, the beautiful headstrong daughter of an Indian chief and Captain John Smith, a new arrival to her rich homeland. This being a Terence Malick film the sheer visual beauty is almost overwhelming, the story itself never clear cut or finite, focusing as it does on the machinations of individuals and their causa
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