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Certification15
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Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation.
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Certification18
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Two London based Irish hitmen await orders in Ye Olde Bruges of picturesque canals, churches and towers in this clever tragicomedy. Ken does the tourist bit while Ray chases skirt and rues the accidental killing of a child on his first and last job. Then Ken gets the word, and it's not what he expected. Meanwhile back in Blighty their gangland boss, Harry, has problems with his anger, his language and keeping his honour. A dark unpredictable tale, original and savvy.
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Certification12
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Christopher McCandless is a bright, likable, precociously perceptive, young middle-class college graduate, who, tortured by his dysfunctional childhood, is determined to find a simpler, purer and more harmonious life. He gives away all that he has and sets out across North America, his ultimate goal the perfect isolation of the Alaskan wilderness. Based on real events 'Into The Wild' is beautifully judged, paced and performed; an epic, gloriously visualised road trip and also a moving and though
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Certification15
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Leonard Shelby's wife has been brutally murdered, and he is obsessed by the need to find out why and exact revenge; But Shelby's search is impeded by his short term memory loss, never really knowing whom he can trust, or indeed who he knows, and having to resort to the desperate measure of tattooing his body with clues as the only reliable way of holding onto any evidence he's garnered. 'Memento' is an awesome psychological thriller, riddled with deceit and betrayal, your chances of guessing the
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CertificationPG
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Ingmar is a mischievous boy growing up in Sweden in the 1950s. Life for him doesn't improve when his mother becomes bedridden and he is farmed out to rural relatives, but, by using his imagination, he successfully learns to cope with his quirky, open-eyed optimism intact. A witty, touching and perceptive rites of passage movie.
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Certification15
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Robin Williams plays the most convincing reason to start developing your own holiday snaps. Williams plays a lonely and disturbed photo technician who becomes obsessed with an idyllic young family while developing their pictures. One Hour Photo is a deeply scary thriller held together by an awesome performance by Robin Williams who excels as the deeply twisted protagonist.
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Certification18
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In a sleazy underworld in the near future (actually 1999) ex-cop Lenny deals in clips of real life experiences taped directly from the cerebral cortex to be lived by other people. When he receives a 'snuff' disc recording the feelings of someone murdering somebody he happened to know he is drawn deeper into a corrupted power hungry world where life is cheap. A frightening vision of an all too possible future set against the backdrop of an LA descending into racial conflict. Original and challeng
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Certification18
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A disenchanted Vietnam vet becomes a New York taxi driver and lets the violence and squalor around him explode in his mind. One of the most atmospheric films ever made about urban alienation. Foster's first film and the one which almost resulted in Ronald Reagan's assassination when he was President - it must be good!
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Certification15
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Andrea steps off a bus into a strange city, with no memory of how he got there. It all seems familiar; people are polite, go to work, have dinner parties, go out and have sex, but no one seems to connect or enjoy themselves. It isn't long before Andreas marries attractive interior designer Anne Britt and as the pair settle into a comfortable, if emotionally vacant, routine, the newly arrived citizen starts to question why everyone and everything seems so superficial; an observation that has not
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Certification12
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On December 7 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the French editor-in-chief of fashion magazine Elle. Three weeks later, after a massive stroke, Bauby awakes from a coma, an active mind trapped inside a dead body, his only contact and communication with the world the ability to blink his left eyelid. Adapted from Bauby's memoirs, "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly" is an extraordinary flight of the imagination rooted firmly in the realities of the narrator's new world. Beautifully filmed you are ove
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