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Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Wealthy YouTuber Leah chooses shy youth Benji as the subject of her Brixton documentary. They fall for each other, but the desire for edgy footage leads them down a violent path.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:33 |
An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | Australia, United Kingdom |
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:46 |
Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover what the astronauts encountered on their first of its kind interstellar space journey.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
In the year 2000, 30-year-old Mariah Carey was the most successful female recording artist of all time. In September that year she began filming Glitter, her pet project, a film based on her childhood and her extraordinary rise to fame. But 12 months later she’d suffered a complete emotional and physical breakdown and her career lay in ruins.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Bulgaria, United Kingdom, France |
Cat in the Wall tells the true story of how a cat, stuck in a wall, changes the lives of aspirational migrants, benefit fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Denmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA |
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Case Histories is a British drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie detective novels by Kate Atkinson. It stars Jason Isaacs as Jackson Brodie.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, USA |
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
In the communal area of a block of temporary accommodation, the residents go about their day-to-day routines in the run-up to Christmas. The bonds of love that keep people together are put to the test.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Poland, Portugal, France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda |
Duration | 01:28 |
The extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:39 |
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:46 |
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:26 |
The extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous contemporary scientist, told in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, this is an intimate and moving journey into Stephen's world, both past and present.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, detective |
Country | Thailand, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Norway |
Duration | 01:10 |
In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, and forms a telepathic bond with one of them.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:05 |
Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
In the summer of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, and the city of Berlin turning into a paramilitary war-zone, audacious young prosecutor Hans Litten (Stoppard) chose to summon a star witness to a trial of Nazi thugs. In spite of the risk to his own safety and against the advice of those who love him, Litten forced rising political star Adolf Hitler (Hart) to make a sensational appearance in the witness stand of Berlin's central criminal court. Litten aimed to expose the true character of Hitler and his politics to the German public, to reveal his hypocrisy and his violent ambitions, and in doing so, halt the electoral success of the Nazi Party. In a humiliating and hostile cross-examination, Hitler was forced to account for his political beliefs, his contempt for the law and his desire to destroy German democracy. For a brief moment, Hitler's political future was genuinely in the balance.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Returning to his homeland after years of slavery, a Norman prince seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant. Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his inexorable quest for vengeance. As one by one they are slaughtered in the brutal battle, will the prince sacrifice everything an everyone to fulfil his quest for blood?