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ABHIMAAN (1973)

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Amitabh Bachchan plays Subeer, a pop singer who dominates India's music scene. He meets Uma, a country girl with a beautiful singing voice, and brings her back to the city to make her a star. However, as Uma's career begins to eclipse Subeer's their relationship becomes increasingly tense. Lots of melodrama, lots of music, nice. find out more...

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Warren Schmidt has retired after many years with Woodman Worldwide Insurance. He and his wife, Helen, had planned to travel around the country in their new Winnebago but, when Helen suddenly dies, Schimdt begins to wonder if his life had ever meant anything at all. As his daughter's wedding approaches, he tries to get reconnected with her as he takes the Winnebago on the road, solo. Meeting his new in-laws as well as some other trailer travellers, Schmidt begins to learn that his preconceived find out more...

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Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in an old Indian dwelling. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth - until things go terribly wrong.
Billy Wilder's blacker-than-night dissection of modern American society is find out more...


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Charlie Kaufman is a screen writer struggling to adapt Susan Orlean's best selling novel "The Orchid Thief". As he tries to get to grips with his work Charlie must also deal with his twin brother/alter ego(?) Donald, a problem compounded by the gradual but seamless blending of reality and fiction. A surreal tale which defies the imagination of us mere mortals, Adaptation is an intelligent, crackingly performed, hilarious and perceptive flick, Spike Jonze's second feature lacks the "you what!!?" find out more...
ADRIFT (2006)

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A group of visually attractive young things go for a weekend cruise, jump into the sea for a dip, realise they forgot to lower the boarding ladder and quickly begin to demonstrate their less than attractive personalities. Based on a pretty tenuous premise, ie that that many people could be quite so dim, Adrift is still a visually imaginative tense psychological thriller as old friendships rapidly collapse to be replaced by the overwhelming desire for simple survival. find out more...
AFTERSUN (2022)

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The stunning debut from Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells, 'Aftersun' juxtaposes a hopeful coming-of-age story with a poignant, intimate family portrait that leaves an indelible impression. At a fading vacation resort in the late 1990's, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a wo find out more...


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A photo-journalist, returning from a fruitless trip to the States, has a small child, Alice, dumped on him in a New York airport. The pair journey across Germany searching for her home town, whose name and address Alice can't remember, the only clue they have is a photograph of her grandmother's front door with no house number and no one in the shot. Full of low-key charm, an eminently watchable road movie that closely foreshadowed "Paris Texas". find out more...

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Barbara Stanwyck plays a wayward mother who returns home to a hostile town, marvellous as the struggling actress who yearns for her old life. Though set in the past, the evocation of rural small-town life - a seeming idyllic little world poisoned with gossip, social prejudice, and double standards - isn't all that far from the modern suburbia of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. find out more...

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Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a well-to-do widow gradually re-entering a social life amongst her mostly dull country club peers. Her only apparent enjoyment in life comes from weekend visits from her college-age children. Cary then meets a handsome younger man, Ron (Rock Hudson), who owns a small landscaping business. Ron is a follower of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, and "hears a different drummer", enjoying a life focused on nature; he is deliberately uninterested in the gossipy opinions of ot find out more...


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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...