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Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Hungary, USA |
Duration | 02:48 |
In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead of night, as their lives intertwine at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind who is hell-bent on revenge.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, family, short |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:15 |
A bereaved headmaster fights a crocodile.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
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: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:26 |
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:37 |
Manchester is a struggling photographer with charm to spare who falls for Noon, a sweet but spunky woman who works as a taxidermist. Noon is also drawn to Manchester, and together they enjoy a wildly enthusiastic sexual relationship that reflects their innocent but deeply passionate love for one another.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:42 |
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:14 |
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India |
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | drama, western |
Country | Republic of Ireland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:36 |
An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Set in the rolling hills of the English countryside, one week of school remains for Kai, an aspiring writer, and his friends. How they choose to spend this time will cost one of them their life and leave them all changed forever.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:46 |
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen tracks him down with a desperate plea for help.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:36 |
Christine is an ambitious 29-year-old news reporter, in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition for a promotion, unrequited love for a coworker and a tumultuous home life lead to a dissolution of self. With ratings in the cellar, the station manager issues a mandate to deliver juicier and more exploitative stories, a story firmly at odds with Christine’s serious brand of issue-based journalism. To accomplish her goals, she must overcome her self-doubt and give the people what they want.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:45 |
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA |
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama |
Country | Bulgaria, United Kingdom |
The real story of the journalist Vesela Toteva (in the role is her daughter -Valentina Karoleva) searching for her own happiness during the dynamic and uncertain 90's in Bulgaria. A tale about drugs, fall, fear and redemption.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, musical |
Country | United Kingdom |
I am aged 7, I fear for my life. I run to a convent door. Cry for my Mother and Father. But they are no more... Now I am 21, locked in a swirling mist. Music is the only key that will unlock. My Lonely Me
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, musical |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Italy |
Duration | 01:33 |
Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama |
Country | USA, Mexico, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:27 |
A camera crew catches up with David Brent, the former star of the fictional British series, "The Office" as he now fancies himself a rockstar on the road.