It's New York in the 1860s and the neighbourhood of Five Points is the last stop before hell. Bill the Butcher rules this den of lawless desperation with a ferocious brutality that is at its most intense when focused towards the ever increasing number of immigrants, in particular the Irish. Into this harsh world comes Amsterdam Vallon, a young man who quickly manages to win the confidence of Bill, but whose revenge driven agenda is known only to himself. Gangs Of New York is a raw gripping epic,
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1998)
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Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha
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THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
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A man deformed by a rare illness is taken up and patronised by fashionable London society - another freak show for the elephant man to be exhibited in. David Lynch's highly individual style here perfectly complements the film's material. A dark and brooding, yet sympathetic and sentimental film.
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