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A well known WW2 classic; the story of a group of women POWs forced to trek across the Malay jungle by their Japanese captors, none of whom see the care of women as within their duties, and the women's friendship with a gritty Aussie who regales them with tales of his home town, Alice Springs.
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From director Amma Asante (Belle), starring David Oyelowo (Selma) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and set against the breath-taking backdrops of the African savannah and period London, A United Kingdom celebrates the inspiring real-life romance of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. One of find out more...
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Gentle, sumptuously filmed romance with Keanu as a G.I who returns to less than a hero's welcome from his wife. Taking to the road in search of some meaning in his life, he winds up playing good samaritan to the beautiful, and pregnant,Victoria. Good old fashioned, heartwarming lurve stuff.
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Juliane is a true Arian mother while Maria is a politically and socially staunch Jewess, the two unlikely friends become lovers, a striking mismatch of ideologies even today but this takes place at the height of Nazi Germany, and the consequences of their affair coming to light will cause an outrage that will cost them their lives. Aimee and Jaguar is a deeply moving and beautifully performed drama, which deservedly won a number of awards at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival.
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An intense observation of an idealistic man's descent into temptation and corruption adapted from Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, loosely based round the career of populist Louisiana governor Huey Long, and with a selection of pretty much the best actors Hollywood has to offer. Perhaps on occasion just too worthy, All The Kings Men is a still a powerful dramatic tragedy.
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John Grady Cole and his friend Lacey Rawlins are two young men in search of adventure, heading south into Mexico the two men find work as horse wranglers, but, when John begins an affair with the ranch owner's daughter, events take a dark and potentially tragic turn. All The Pretty Horses is a fine and, at heart, old fashioned tale, directed by Billy Bob Thornton and taken from Cormac McCarthy's bestselling novel.
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