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Red Road Red Road
Red Road and Restless Natives
The Cranes Are Flying (Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1957; Director: Mikhail Kalatozov; Writer: Viktor Rozov, Viktor Rozov; Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Svetlana Kharitonova, Konstantin Kadochnikov, Valentin Zubkov, Antonina Bogdanova, Boris Kokovkin, Ekaterina Kupriyanova, Valentina Ananina, Olga Dzisko, Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova, Leonid Knyazev, Georgiy Kulikov)
A tragic love story set across the background of impending war.
Presented by Kevin Macdonald
Go (Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Doug Liman; Writer: John August; Stars: Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, Suzanne Krull, Desmond Askew, Nathan Bexton, Robert Peters, Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant, Jodi Bianca Wise, William Fichtner)
A sex-drugs-and-rave-till-you-cave flick?
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Presented by Nia DaCosta
The Man In The White Suit (Country: UK; Year: 1961; Director: Alexander Mackendrick; Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker)
A young chemist is determined to create a stain-proof invention but fouls foul of factory workers afraid he'll put them out of business.
Red Road (Country: UK/Denmark; Year: 2006; Director: Andrea Arnold; Writer: Andrea Arnold; Stars: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Nathalie Press, Andrew Armour, Paul Higgins)
A psychological thriller from Glasgow's heart of darkness.
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Presented by Andrea Arnold
Restless Natives (Country: UK; Year: 1985; Director: Michael Hoffman; Writer: Ninian Dunnett; Stars: Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally, Ned Beatty, Robert Urquhart, Bernard Hill, Mel Smith, Bryan Forbes, Nanette Newman, Ann Scott-Jones, Rachel Boyd, Iain McColl, Dave Anderson, Eiji Kusuhara, Ed Bishop)
Two friends start holding up tour buses.
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Silent Scream (Country: UK; Year: 1990; Director: David Hayman; Stars: Iain Glen, Andrew Barr, Kenneth Glenaan)
A murderer unravels through flashbacks of his youth revealing what set him on the path to violence.
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