Based on the prize-winning novel by Monica Ali, this is the story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Nazneen's mother always told her she was a survivor, but feeling trapped in a loveless relationship with her husband, the middle aged Chanu, she struggles to accept her lot, a situation not helped by the arrival of hot-headed young Karim. Set against the changing backdrop of multi
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OF GODS AND MEN (2011)
Certification12 Our Rating
In a monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers, but, when a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse and a battle of wills ensues regarding whether to stay or flee. While low on laughs, or levity of any kind for that matter, this brilliant and provocative drama is based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibh
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SHOOTING DOGS (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days, a Catholic priest and an idealistic young English teacher are caught, both literally and morally, in the midst of the horror. How can they help the thousands of refugees who flee to their school, where the pathetic (Belgian) UN troops are billetted, in the hope of surviving the bloodthirsty Hutu mobs engaged in the wholesale massacre of the Tutsi minority? Like Hotel Rwanda this is a fully engaging and emotionally disturbing account of the horrors that humans ca
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THE KITE RUNNER (2007)
Certification12 Our Rating
Two little boys in 1970s Afghanistan are the best of friends, but the circumstances of class, war and childhood betrayal will tear them apart. Years later, as an adult and in an act of redemption, ex-rich man's son Amir returns from his new American home to atone for his earlier behaviour and fulfill his loyalty dues. Adapted from the best selling novel of the same name. Classy.
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