An award winning film full of baroque splendour. The talented composer Antonio Salieri found himself in competition with Mozart, a genius, and he couldn't understand why God favored such a vulgar creature to be his instrument. Salieri turned into a hate-filled monster, whose aim in life became to ruin his colleague, but he emerges as a tragic and sympathetic character. He alone could appreciate the perfection of Mozart's music and, perhaps, he speaks up for all of us whose talents fall short of
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AMADEUS ( DVD VERSION ) (1984)
CertificationPG Our Rating
An award winning film full of baroque splendour, featuring the life, loves and eventual destruction of Wolfgang Mozart. Powerful drama that must be seen.
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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1984)
Certification15 Our Rating
A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky....
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AWAKENINGS (1990)
Certification15 Our Rating
In a New York hospital Dr Malcolm Sayers finds a group of "forgotten" coma patients, seemingly oblivious to the world and beyond help. Through sheer dedication he discovers a spark of life in his charges and a long suppressed capacity for love in himself. A beautiful and uplifting true story.
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FINDING NEVERLAND (2004)
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James M Barrie is a lonely man, in a failing marriage, and a playwright whose work has seen better days. When Barrie meets a group of children in the park he finds himself enchanted, and it is not long before he has settled deep within the bosom of their family life, a loving matriarchy held together by the children's young widowed mother. Finding Neverland is based on the play by Allan Knee, and is a tender, deeply moving interpretation of Barrie's inspiration for "Peter Pan". Beautifully perf
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FOXCATCHER (2014)
Certification15 Our Rating
When wealthy John du Pont invites Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz to move to his estate and help form a wrestling team for the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Mark sees a way to step out of the shadow of his charismatic and revered
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HATCHI: A DOGS TALE (2009)
CertificationU Our Rating
When middle-aged university professor Parker returns to his small town commuter home one evening he comes across a stray (Akita) puppy in the railway station. So begins an engaging sentimental tale of both the relationship between man and his favourite beast and the emotional fall out of death.
Based round a true story of a Japanese dog, who faithfully waited every day for years at the station his dead master had commuted from, and transplanted to modern New England this is highly recom
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HILARY AND JACKIE (1999)
Certification15 Our Rating
Bittersweet biopic of the tragic, legendary cellist, Jaqueline du Pre. Bristol-trained Oscar nominee Emily Watson ("Breaking the Waves") is frighteningly intense in her portrayal of tortured genius Jackie, whose phenomenally successful career - and life - was nipped in the bud by a particularly vicious bout of MS. Rachel Griffiths is equally excellent as Jackie's gentle, long-suffering sister Hilary.
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IN MY COUNTRY (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
Essentially an interacial love story betwixt two journalists set against the backdrop of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa. There's enough dirt about police murders and torture in the apartheid state to keep whites squirming uncomfortably and enough healing and forgiveness to leave you feeling that race problems dissipate with a bit of a hug. Nevertheless Boorman is a skilled film maker and he manages the finer aspects of this well scripted movie without teet
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INNOCENT VOICES (2004)
Certification12 Our Rating
Eleven-year-old Chava lives a hand-to-mouth existence with his destitute family in a shanty town caught in the middle of the Salvadorian civil war and he is old enough to be turned into a child soldier by the army.
Powerful, touching, charming and tragic 'Innocent Voices' is based on the experiences of co-screenwriter Oscar Torres and provides an emotional reminder of the terrible fates that the rich can force on the poor.
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