Apartheid is over, ex-police torturer Hendricks is serving a long sentence but thinks he can get an amnesty from the True and Reconciliation Commission by appearing to confess to all. Hilary Swank plays an idealistic young lawyer returning from New York to represent Alex Mpondo, an ANC politician, who was tortured by Hendriks when arrested in the 1980s, and the parents of Steve Sizela, co-arrested with Mpondo, but never seen alive again. The truth of what happened may not be as simple as it appe
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SOPHIE SCHOLL (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Sophie Scholl was a member of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group based in Munich University, 1943. Sophie and her brother are captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by a Gestapo officer quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, di
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VERA DRAKE (2004)
Certification12 Our Rating
Vera Drake, is one of the kindest, most selfless individuals any right thinking person could hope to meet, the mother of two grown up children, the wife of a loving husband, she works as a cleaner and is the epitome of a warm hearted decency. Vera is not just devoted to her family however, in the little spare time available to her she helps young girls terminate unwanted pregnancies and, though she takes no payment, this is 1950s Britain and the consequences for her actions, should she be discov
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