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HOWARD'S END (1992)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Encounter of three social classes in England at the beginning of the century; the capitalists, the Wilcoxes, whose only god is money, consider themselves as aristocrats, the enlightened bourgeois Schlegels and the proletarian Basts. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts. Essentially the same story as Room With A View, nobody marries beneath their station and class is everything, but with a distinct el find out more...
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)

CertificationU Our Rating

 Frank Capra's classic bittersweet drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), a small town businessman who has long considered himself a failure. Things come to a head one Christmas Eve in 1946, when facing financial ruin and arrest he contemplates suicide. Standing on a bridge and ready to jump George's fate now rests in the hands of an Angel eager to earn his wings. It's a Wonderful Life is widely considered to be one of the finest films ever made, it is certainly one of the greatest f find out more...

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LIMELIGHT (1952)

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Chaplin's last American film is a masterful meditation on the highs and lows of fame. Set in London in the summer of 1914, Limelight begins with washed-up pantomime performer Calvero (Chaplin) saving young ballerina Thereza (Bloom) from committing suicide and, by the time the credits roll, Chaplin's taken us on a self-flagellating trawl through the highs and lows of success, failure, old age and celebrity. Tackling the sad business of being funny with an unflinching, often sentimental, gaze, Cha find out more...
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MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004)

Certification12 Our Rating

Maggie Fitzgerald knows that she's got to make a boxing career for herself now or lose her chance for ever. Frankie Dunn has been coasting along, running his boxing gym and keeping everyone at an arm's length. Frankie's days as a boxing manager seem to be fading and the last thing that he thinks he needs is a talented but raw girlfighter to train. After a prodding from gym keeper Eddie, Frankie agrees to take Maggie on, forging a strong bond between the two, further magnified by Frankie's estran find out more...
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NOW VOYAGER (1942)

CertificationPG Our Rating

This is a real ten Kleenex weepie; the story of a repressed woman's rebellion and the ill-fated love affair which completes her painful metamorphosis. It all ends on that most memorable of Hollywood lines, "Let's not ask for the moon - we have the stars ".

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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)

Certification15 Our Rating

Spielberg continues to weave his magic over movie audiences with this WW2 blockbuster, being both a harrowing portrayal of the horrors of war, and a heartfelt, if unlikely, human drama. Matt Damon plays the young soldier, destined to almost certain death, who's unaware his three brothers have all been killed in battle in the past few days. Hanks and Sizemore are the caring Captain and battle-hardened Sergeant who are dispatched to find distraught Mother Ryan's only remaining son, and bring him h find out more...
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SPARTACUS (1960)

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Huge epic, set during the heyday of Republican Rome, in all its ostentatious glory. The story details the purchase and selection of slaves, the harsh discipline and routine of the gladiators' school, the new comradeship balked by the realisation that a gladiator must kill or be killed. Then the film really comes into its own with the superbly staged revolt and escape, led by the slave who, with his unlikely army, holds the Roman army at bay for four years. Magnificent, masterful....a classic! find out more...

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

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Made almost contemporaneously with the 1930s setting, this authentically portrays the poverty and repression of the migrant 'Okies', evicted from their dustbowl farms and treated like slaves in California. Adapted from Steinbeck's book, often called 'THE Great American Novel' and with outstanding performances coming from Henry Fonda (Tom Joad) and John Carradine (John Casey) a preacher with a fondess for vice, but a true heart... fantastic. find out more...
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THREE COLOURS BLUE (1993)

Certification15 Our Rating

The first part of Kieslowski's acclaimed allegorical delve into the French psyche. Binoche plays a woman with a tortured soul, her husband and daughter having died in a tragic car accident. Beautifully directed, with an incredibly lyrical and melancholy feel, Binoche's performance is outstanding. find out more...
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WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

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A modern day, (well it was when it was made), version of Romeo and Julliet except this one includes dance routines and rumbles. Won Best Picture at 1961 Academy Awards. find out more...