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In a New York hospital Dr Malcolm Sayers finds a group of "forgotten" coma patients, seemingly oblivious to the world and beyond help. Through sheer dedication he discovers a spark of life in his charges and a long suppressed capacity for love in himself. A beautiful and uplifting true story. find out more...

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October 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia and a force of elite American troops, under the banner of the UN, are sent into the city to abduct a warlord's henchmen. But the carefully laid plan quickly goes belly up and the soldiers are left fighting for their lives with little support and vastly out numbered. Black Hawk Down is a relentless slab of action and though based on true events, no attempt is made to explain the why or the wherefore beyond "badman" versus "goodman" and heroic stereotypes abound. A find out more...

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Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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Frank W Abagnale Jr is a young man with a talent, an ability for the sort of balls out blag most of us can only dream of. Passing himself off as a teacher, lawyer, doctor and pilot it is not long before Frank attracts the attention of the FBI and one particularly dogged agent. Catch Me If You Can is based on the true adventures of Mr Abagnale and plays heavily on the humour of his antics. Perfectly cast and effortlessly put together this is slick, light and clever entertainment.

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Erin Brockovich is an unemployed, single mum with little education or prospects only her gift for the gab and no bullshit attitude keep her above water. Having blagged her way into a law firm she stumbles across a cover up which has left a small community poisoned. The further Erin digs the more obsessed she becomes, and dragging her initially reluctant law firm in with her she prepares to do battle for one of the largest direct-action settlements in American legal history. Similar in style, and find out more...

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Colin Briggs is serving a sentence for murder when he meets fellow inmate Fergus, the old-timer introduces Colin to the passion of gardening and so impressive is their work that the prison governor and local gardening author, Georgina Woodhouse, encourage the idea of a prison show garden. Greenfingers is a very likeable comedy drama based on a true story, an amiable tale of the highly improbable becoming the possible. find out more...

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A remarkably moving drama that avoids being over-sugary. Nolte and Sarandon play a couple whose son devolps ALD, a rare and incurable nerve disease. Leaving behind the medical establishment they race against time searching for a cure. A powerful tale of a successful struggle against the odds. find out more...
PAPILLON (1973)

Certification18 Our Rating

The tale of two men banged up for years in the notorious French penal colony Devil's Island. Two escape bids by one of them results in years of solitary confinement but make him simply more determined to flee, even as old age approachs. The ultimate prison escape movie loosely based on a true story. find out more...

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Seabiscuit is a race horse with little promise, fortunately for Seabiscuit however he's also the horse that a disparate group of men have decided to pin all there hopes to and so begins an unlikely journey to achieve the seemingly impossible, to create a winner from a no hoper. Seabiscuit is a classic tale of triumph over adversity and particularly against the odds; beautifully atmospheric and performed by a class cast this is at heart old fashioned dramatic cinema in the finest sense of the tr find out more...