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Unemployed labourers get their kits off for cash.
Lucky Break (2001)
British cons plan an escape by staging a prison musical.
Military Wives (2019)
Comedy drama about singing spouses on a military base.
The Penguin Lessons (2024)
An Englishman in Uruguay adopts a penguin, smuggles it back to his home in Argentina, and gradually wakes up to the political violence going on around him.
The Rocker (2008)
The original drummer of an Eighties hair metal band gets a second chance at stardom when his nephew’s group makes it big.
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