BBC Films
201) My son the fanatic
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Parvez, a cab driver who left Pakistan in search of a better life, must choose between his friendship with a woman not his wife, and his son, who has adopted increasingly traditional beliefs.
202) Code 46
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In the near future, previlged classes live and work "Inside" cities, while non-citizens scratch out a miserable existence "Outside" in a vast desert. People cannot leave their designated zones without special visas known as "papelles". When fraudulent papelles surface, Seattle fraud investigator William Geld travels to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit and meets Maria Gonzalez ... a woman with whom he has a passionate affair, but breaks one of society's...
203) NW
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Twenty years after they grew up in a public housing complex in mulicultural Northwest London, Natalie and Leah hardly recognize each other. Catapulted out of urban poverty by ambition and hard work, Natalie has won the success she craves, while Leah stayed close to friends and family, cherishing her working-class life. Can the women's friendship survive a looming crisis in the complex world beteween fortune and failure, culture and class?
204) Code 46
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In the near future, privileged classes live and work "Inside" cities, while non-citizens scratch out a miserable existence "Outside" in a vast desert. People cannot leave their designated zones without special visas known as "papelles." When fraudulent papelles surface, Seattle fraud investigator William Geld travels to Shanghai to ferret out the culprit and meets Maria Gonzalez ... a woman with whom he has a passionate affair, but breaks one of society's...
205) RKO 281
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Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script...
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"In the BBC film, Kings of Infinite Space, Charles Jencks debated with Michael Graves and Philip Johnson the merits of Pre-Modern and Post-Modern architecture. This 'book of the film' fills out the whole debate in much greater detail showing the work of the two great American architects--Frank Lloyd Wright and Michael Graves--and connects this up with their sometimes chaotic private lives."--Book cover.
207) The mercy
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Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor competes in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.
208) The first grader
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A heartwarming and inspiring true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
209) Pride
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U.K. gay activists work to assist miners during their extended strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
210) Mansfield park
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This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealth, secret passions, and mischievous women put love to the test, with delightfully surprising results! When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!
211) Regeneration
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In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.
212) Bullet boy
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"In one of East London's most volatile neighborhoods, pride, rivalry and revenge are the only codes on the street. ... Fresh out of jail, 18-year-old Ricky and his 12-year-old brother, Curtis, struggle to walk the straight and narrow when a minor street clash escalates into an all-out neighborhood war. For Ricky and Curtis, friendships, family and loyalty will be tested to the extreme in a world where guns are a fact of everyday life and boys try...
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Okwe is an illegal immigrant living in London. He was a doctor in his homeland and now works two jobs - during the day as a taxi driver, at night as a hotel desk clerk. When a prostitute tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. Using his previous knowledge of medicine, he begins to solve the case of where the heart came from and soon delves into the world of body organ black-markets. He finds...
214) The face of an angel
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Journalist Simone Ford and filmmaker Thomas Lang lose themselves in a notorious murder case they are covering. Caught up in the city₂s seedy underbelly and the media frenzy surrounding the horrific murder, Thomas begins to question the motives of the people around him as the mystery proves greater than he imagined.
215) Alan Partridge
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Alan Partridge, the famous local radio DJ and TV host, finds himself at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he's getting fired when the new owners decide to convert the station to talk radio.
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The good wife (97 min.) : A bored young wife in rural, depression-era Australia, becomes involved with the town's new bartender.
The claim (120 min.) : A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another gold...
217) Edward II
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Director Derek Jarman's controversial adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play portrays the weak-willed monarch as neglecting his kingdom for his commoner male lover.
218) Sweet sixteen
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In Greenock, Scotland, Liam is trying to make money. When he refuses to use his imprisoned mom as a drug mule, his criminal stepfather, Stan, and bitter grandfather kick him out of the house. He moves in with his level-headed older sister who has no love for their mother. Liam decides to buy a trailer for himself and his mom when she gets out of prison on the day before his 16th birthday. He comes up with a plan to steal Stan's drug stash and sell...
219) Just Jim
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This is the story of a loner. Jim, 16, has no friends and is a bit weird. His childhood friend, Michael has left him for the cooler crowd and Jim is pushed to the edge when his dog dies. Jim's life changes dramatically when Dean moves next door. Dean is older, American and on the run he has movie star good looks and is everything Jim would like to be cool. Jim finally realizes that he is being taken to the dark side. All Jim wants is for something...
220) My hero: Season two
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Health food shop owner George Sunday is the alter ego of the world's most famous superhero, Thermoman! He is a down-to-earth superhero in love, and he's back for another series of out-of-this-world comedy adventures.