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Kes Kes
Kes and Trainspotting
Kes (Country: UK; Year: 1969; Director: Ken Loach; Writer: Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett; Stars: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover)
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
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A Matter Of Life And Death (Country: UK; Year: 1946; Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Writer: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger; Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano, Joan Maude, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Robert Atkins, Bob Roberts)
A wartime aviator begs a celestial court to let him escape death so he can be with the woman he loves. Out on re-issue in cinemas.
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Rio Escondido (Hidden River) (Country: Argentina; Year: 1999; Director: Mercedes Garcia Guevara; Writer: Mercedes Garcia Guevara; Stars: Paola Krum, Juan Palomino, Pablo Cedrón, María José Gabín, Laura Melillo, Inés Baum, Matías Del Pozo, Rafael Alaniz, Luis Alcaíno, Elías Carrasco, Mirta Ceballos)
A woman heads to her husband's home town after she begins to suspect he is cheating on her.
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Sexy Beast (Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Jonathan Glazer; Writer: Louis Mellis, David Scinto; Stars: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, Cavan Kendall, Julianne White, James Fox)
A gangster finds his retirement in Spain cut short when a brutal bloke from the past comes to call.
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Trainspotting (Country: UK; Year: 1996; Director: Danny Boyle; Writer: Irvine Welsh, John Hodge; Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch)
Black comic drama about the Edinburgh drugs scene. On re-release.
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