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Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:39 |
Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to see the blonde bombshell, while Olivier is struggling to meet her many demands and acting ineptness, and Colin is intrigued by her. Colin's intrigue is met when Marilyn invites him into her inner world where she struggles with her fame, her beauty and her desire to be a great actress.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 02:42 |
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, crime, biography |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:09 |
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, China |
Duration | 02:26 |
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:05 |
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Australia |
Duration | 01:58 |
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, family |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
From their first encounter as teenagers in high school, Scott and Sid seem unlikely friends. Scott is a shambolic dreamer, intent on carving out his own path in life and holding up a metaphorical middle finger to anyone who tries to stop him. He is a quintessential troubled teen: on his fifth high school by the age of fifteen, alienated from his peers, crippled by recurring nightmares and disliked by his own foster parents. Sid, on the other hand, wants nothing more than to be liked. An unconfident, awkward recluse through circumstance, Sid's impoverished and dysfunctional background leave him no time for friends and no money for hobbies.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:22 |
For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn't easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn't know she's bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can't understand why she doesn't tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too ADD to focus on her for more than a second. Following a family announcement of her brother's betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of bisexual escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France |
Duration | 02:21 |
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | drama, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:22 |
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, adventure, family, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France |
Duration | 02:06 |
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Nikko is a twenty-something man with good friends, a passion for birdwatching, and self-destructive tendencies. When he falls back into a relationship with Stevie—his seductive, aggressive environmental activist ex-girlfriend he first encountered on a suicide website—his stable existence takes a turn towards chaos once again.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:48 |
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:39 |
A chilling real-time thriller featuring a teenager, Casey, battling with an anonymous cyber-stalker.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, Pakistan |
A woman who takes care of her aging parents and their land is joined by her sister when their parents' health worsens.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Canada, United Kingdom, USA, India |
Duration | 02:26 |
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.