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Certification12 Our Rating

John Nash is a brilliant, though socially awkward, mathematician and with his latest work he has achieved the acclaim that he so needed, but John is also prone to delusional behaviour, and when a mysterious stranger asks him for his help to thwart a conspiracy against the Stars and Stripes, John becomes increasingly obsessive, a state of mind that begins to push away all those he holds dear, even his loving wife. Very loosely adapted from a true story "Beautiful Mind" is the bog standard slickly find out more...
BIRDY (1985)

Certification15 Our Rating

Two soldiers return from Vietnam, one mentally scarred, the other physically. We flashback to their childhood and the fascination the slightly crazy one has with flying. So maybe after the horror of war it's a more logical decision to be a bird! A brilliant film about disillusionment, growing up and existential madness. find out more...
BRONSON (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Michael Peterson was born in 1952 into a well off Luton family, "As a boy he was a lovely lad. He was obviously bright and always good with children. He was gentle and mild-mannered, never a bully – he would defend the weak" (comments from his aunt). Somehow something went seriously wrong and he has spent 34 years incarcerated at Her Majesty's pleasure, 30 of them in solitary confinement. He has renamed himself Charles Bronson and is proud of the one thing he has in his life: his reputation as t find out more...
REQUIEM (2006)

Certification12 Our Rating

An epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, and decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing. Based on the tragic true story of Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old student, who endured an exorcism in Miltenberg, Germany in 1976, Requiem is a powerful and sad dramatisation of a misguided attempt for salvation. find out more...

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It's the early 70s and America is in the throes of cultural and political turmoil, the Vietnam War still rages and ‘Tricky Dicky' still clings to power at the White House. In the middle of this confusion sits Samuel J. Bicke, a failed salesman, a failed husband and a failed father. Bicke is one of life's losers, a person incapable of doing himself any favours but determined in his belief that someone else must be to blame. To this end, Bicke becomes obsessed that the president is the cause of al find out more...

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Meet Pippa Lee; a kind, beautiful woman with a handsome family, a devoted husband and an all-round contented, privileged life. Soon though, Pippa fears for her sanity and becomes increasingly entwined in the dark, dense fabric of her past, confusing and complicating her relationships in the present. 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee', based upon Rebecca Miller's novel of the same name, is a subtle, well observed portrait of a single yet multitudinous woman. find out more...

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When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.

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