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Certification15
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A Chinese soldier's tale; Guzidi was a child of poverty who became a successful guerrilla soldier and then officer in the Liberation Army. After a fierce battle with the KMT Guzidi and his remaining 46 troops are sent to a front line defensive position, where they are abandoned by the main army corps to a fight to the death. After a heroic act in the Korean War Guzidi, riddled with guilt and loss of meaningful identity, fights a long battle to atone for the loss of his company by gaining recogni
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Certification15
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During a hot and sultry 1935 summer an embryonic relationship between rich Cambridge graduate Celia (Knightly) and the housekeeper's son Robbie (McEvoy) is left in tatters when Celia's precocious sister falsely accuses James of molesting another young girl. The accusation, based on the misperceptions and childish hurts of a fevered imagination, leads to James's arrest and imprisonment. As the movie progresses, from an English manor house to the war-ravaged wastes of northern France and to bli find out more...
Certification12
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It is 1941 and English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, inherits a ranch in the Australian outback, but when cattle barons plot to take her land, she is forced, reluctantly at first, to team up with a rough-hewn cattle driver. Together with a young aboriginal orphan the unlikely band must take 1500 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land only to face the Japanese forces on their arrival in Darwin. Australia is Baz Luhrmann's (‘Moulin Rouge', ‘Romeo and Juliet
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Certification15
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Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in the small town in Sicily where he was born. We see a number of important historical events through the eyes of young Peppino, watching the fortunes of his town and his family rise and fall. While open to accusations of nostalgia, superficiality and indulgence the film is something of a feast for the senses.
A rambunctious family saga the kind they don't, and probably shouldn't, make any more. find out more...
A rambunctious family saga the kind they don't, and probably shouldn't, make any more. find out more...
CertificationPG
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In the middle of the Second World War teenage Alyosha is commended for destroying two German tanks, but, rather than take a medal, he requests a four day pass to visit his mother. Ballad of a Soldier is about this journey and the life enhancing encounters therein. Nominated at the 1962 Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, this classic of post-war Soviet Realism won many international film awards on its release, most notably a BAFTA Award for Best Film.
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Certification15
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Part 1- Currahee: Young lads in Georgia begin training for America's newest military faction - paratroopers and soon become an elite and known as Easy Company. A rivalry breaks out between Lt Sobel and Lt Winters. Part 2 - Day of Days: D-Day arrives, and the paratroopers come under heavy fire. They get lost, lose their weapons and their supplies and hook up with Winters to find their units. Winters loses his first man after a German attack.
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Certification15
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Part 3 - Carentan: Easy Company is sent to take Carentan but Blithe and some others have trouble adjusting to combat. After 36 days in Normandy Easy heads back to England only to be told they will ship out again. Part 4 - Replacements: Some green paratroopers come to help out Easy Co as they prepare to drop on Holland. Originally met with little resistance, the group is crippled by a well-prepared German force. The Allies plan to end the war by Christmas.
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Certification15
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Part 5 - Crossroads: Winters is promoted after a successful raid on a Dutch dike. He learns of a massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest and sends in an ill-equipped Easy Company. Part 6 - Bastogne: In the bitter weather of Belgium the boys of Easy try to hold the line alone. The medic befriends a Belgian nurse as the crew spends Christmas in the trench and is asked to surrender.
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Certification15
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Part 7 - The Breaking Point: After succeeding at Bastogne Easy is sent to capture Foy. Fierce shelling ensues and the Co takes a few casualties under the incompentant leadership of Lt Dike. Part 8 - The Last Patrol: Easy is ordered to take care of POWs after arriving in Haguenau. Lt Jones, fresh from West Point, takes command and another life is lost, causing Winters to disregard a recommendation to send another troop the next day.
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Part 9 - Why We Fight: FInally in Germany the crew takes it easy for the first time. Another troop finds an abandoned concentration camp still occupied by emaciated prisoners and news arrives that Hitler is dead. Part 10 - Points: Entering Berchtesgarten Easy Co takes control of 'Eagle's Nest', Hitler's hilltop fortress. Preparing to go to the Pacific the men try to compare points to see who gets to go home. When the Japanese surrender everyone gets to go home...to very different circumstances.
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