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Certification15 Our Rating

In the build-up to the 1972 US elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward investigated what seemed to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters, the editor of the Post was prepared to run with the story and assigned Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. Their painstaking research found the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party and, eventually, into the White House itself and led to the downfall of Nixon. An intelligent and exciting dramatic reconstruction.< find out more...


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Three working-class friends rob the local trade union safe but all they get away with is a set of books. The brightest works out their meaning........ A superb thriller full of references to the atomisation of the working class by institutional means. find out more...

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A landmark in the history of the cinema; it was ranked Number 1 in the American Film Institute's 100 greatest films of all time in two polls (1998 and 2007) of more than 1,500 film industry movers and shakers and again by UK directors in a BFI poll. "Citizen Kane" narrates the rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon driven by a childhood obssession and is loosely based round the life of William Randolph Hurst, who tried to have it banned, but incorporates elements from the lives of other fat cats il find out more...

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A highly acclaimed and bucolic attack on the attitudes and views that each sex holds so dear. Four men gather to cook a meal, and chat about their sex lives, whilst their wives and partners do the same at their health club. Their revelations come as a shock when finally they meet. Hilarious satire. find out more...
DOGVILLE (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Grace is on the run, and in the small backwater town of Dogville it would seem she has found some safety. But the town's inhabitants are not so understanding when the Mob turn up looking for the errant outsider and as Grace's former saviours begin to turn against her she sets in motion a string of events that may leave the townsfolk of Dogville rueing the day she ever entered their lives. Dogville is the latest from the master of mainstream experimental, Lars Von Trier, a dark, hypnotic, visuall find out more...
DOWNFALL (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Germany 1945; in a bunker complex buried deep within the bowels of Berlin find out more...

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Alan (Boys From the Blackstuff) Bleasdale's utterly riveting epic TV series about politics, corruption, obsession and madness. When a headteacher refuses to join in the city-wide strike organised by the Council, the scene is set for a spectacular confrontation which will change their destinies. find out more...

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Alan Bleasdale's epic series continues; it is beginning to emerge that neither Jim Nelson nor his council adversary are entirely sane, and the confrontation that continues at the school gates is hardly helping matters. Meanwhile sinister forces are emerging. If you're not hooked yet, why not? find out more...

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Alan Bleasdale's story continues; Michael Murray's family has deserted him, but all he cares about is finding Eileen Critchley and he's beginning to lose control. Without a doubt he's being manipulated - but by whom and to what end? And will it all end in tears? Doesn't it just grow on you? find out more...