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Tragic romance, based on Kevin Sampson's book about Tranmere Rovers hooligans in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
A disillusioned writer confronts his slippery agent.
Addiction to a wonder drug has mind-altering side-effects.
As the Wehrmacht retreat on the Eastern Front, two German soldiers are locked in a futile personal conflict.
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An alien comes to Earth to find out whether human civilisation is dangerously hostile or deserving of a chance.
The infamous director Werner Herzog visits the Antarctic, determined not to make a movie about penguins.
Discovering photography provides an abused woman with a new way of experiencing life.
In a foreign city, a young girl begins to catch glimpses of the mother she lost in a car crash.
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The life and times of notorious Italian politician Guilio Andreotti.
An elderly magician reluctantly entering a retirement home bonds with an inquisitive young boy and persuades him life is for living.
In the early days of World War Two, thousands of captured Polish officers are handed over to the Soviet authorities – and vanish.
A touching story of first romance... with a side-serving of horror.
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A mother caught up in a custody battle becomes obsessed with another woman's child.
Story about an eccentric who is the black sheep of her family.
A case of mistaken identity and false accusation sees an innocent man go on the run from the CIA and a criminal gang.
An injured IRA man goes on the run in the forbidding back streets of Belfast.
A group of workers try to take over their music hall when it's threatened with closure, but the arrival of a beautiful new singer leads to tragedy.
The most famous hangman in Britain goes about his business.
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Comedian Bill Maher champions scepticism in an age of rising religious fundamentalism.
Close-up and personal view of the slums using hidden cameras and brilliant editing.
Twenty-four hours in the life of a Muslim crack dealer and a friend from his past.
Spiritual fulfilment meets simple-minded satisfaction in a clash of ideologies.
A terrorist inveigles himself into a conspiracy to commit a large-scale attack on America, but whose side is he really on?
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An experimental directorial quartet taking on the four ages of a single character's life.
Musical transposes the story of Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of New York.
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