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Delve deeper into the dastardly deeds of history's greatest blockbuster rulers as this entertaining big-screen outing for the CBBC television series focuses on ancient Rome and its attempt to crush the Boudicca uprising in far-off uncivilised Britain.
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A heart-warming comedy inspired by the true story of a group of brave women who bare all for charity and in doing so, gain international notoriety.
When Annie’s (Julie Walters) husband is diagnosed with cancer, Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) and the other ordinary members of the Women's Institute - a prim and proper ladies' club in ... more |
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Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humoured look at the mental decline of King George III of England. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his helpless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the time. Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales ... more |
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In 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the richest men in Russia, began a ten-year sentence for tax evasion. Many believed his downfall was challenging the newly elected president Vladimir Putin. During his decade in a Siberian prison, Khodorkovsky became a world-famous dissident. Today, exiled in London, he continues to battle Putin’s ... more |
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In this extraordinary mix of wickedness, energy, humour and folly, Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) plays Mick Travis, a tenacious and determined young man. Starting off as a coffee salesman, Mick is soon promoted within his company. But then a series of bizarre obstacles occur: fatal car accidents, crooked cops, a stint as a laboratory ... more |
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Inspired by former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s searing eulogy for Geoffrey Tozer, music educator Richard Gill explores the remarkable and tragic story of Australia’s greatest ever, and perhaps most overlooked, pianist.
Born in India but raised in Victoria, the late Geoffrey Tozer was a child prodigy who played with the ... more |
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A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences.
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Festival audiences are destined to fall for this charming boarding-school comedy set in the 80s, where unspoken crushes and social battles rule supreme.
An excellent Alex Lawther (Netflix’s The End of the F***ing World) stars as Amberson, a gawky, arty boy who has been at ... more |
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Ken Loach returns after his Palme D’Or-winning I, Daniel Blake (BFF16), with another brilliant study of a struggling working-class couple caught in a hopelessly exploitative system.
Ricky (Kris Hitchen) is a former construction worker in Newcastle, UK, who lost both his building work and his chance of a mortgage after ... more |
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A stellar cast including Kiera Knightly and Ralph Fiennes shines in Oscar-winning director Gavin Hood’s (Tsotsi, Eye in the Sky) superb true-life political thriller about an accused British whistle-blower who leaked information about the Iraqi invasion.
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Based on Henry James’s 1888 novella, this compelling period drama tells of Morton Vint (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an ambitious American editor obsessed with the famous late Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern.
Determined to obtain the letters Aspern wrote to his lover and muse Juliana ... more |
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After many years of prescription medications failed her a suicidal woman turns to underground healers to try and overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine like magic mushrooms and iboga.
Adrianne’s first dose of psilocybin mushrooms catapulted her into an ... more
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Straight from its huge box office success in the US and also being awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, (and Best film at Sydney Film Festival) renowned Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to Okja is a thrilling, satirical take on income inequality as told through two families.
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Angus Macfadyen reprises the role he played so memorably in Braveheart as Scottish leader Robert the Bruce in this retelling of the legendary story which premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
It’s 1306 and King Robert’s forces have been decimated. His slaying of ... more |
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Inspired by incredible true events, The Aeronauts combines the powers of Amazon Studios and Imax, with the leading talents of Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones.
In 1862 England, a wealthy young widow Amelia Wren (Jones, On The Basis of ... more |
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The true story of two families' spectacular escape from East Germany during the Cold War, BALLOON is a big screen adventure set on the border of a divided nation.
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Yuli
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The story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend of the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles.
YULI is based on the rags-to-renown international career of Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta, and on his 2007 memoir No Way Home. Starring Acosta himself, as well as the ... more |
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Acting powerhouses Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore star in this powerful human drama.
As if driven by an inescapable force, Isabel (Michelle Williams) has devoted her life to running an orphanage in a Calcutta slum. With funds running dry, a potential donor, who requires she travel from India to New York, to deliver a ... more |
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Featuring a stellar Australian-Italian cast, including Antoniette Iesue, Paul Mercurio and Tina Arena, this is a romantic drama that is certain to hit home.
In Melbourne in 1953, five-year-old Robert (Daniel Berini) and newborn Angela (Antoniette Iesue) are promised in marriage by their fathers, Sal (Mercurio) and Joe. Against the ... more |
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Australian actress Samara Weaving (Hugo Weaving's niece) stars in the deliciously diabolical READY OR NOT, which brilliantly fuses thrills, satire, laughs and horror.
READY OR NOT follows a young bride (Samara Weaving) as she joins her new husband's (Mark O'Brien) rich, eccentric family (Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell) in a ... more |
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At a time of daily earth-shattering revelations, THE PORTAL addresses the question of: What can I do to help? The answer is simple— MEDITATE.
THE PORTAL is an immersive, cinematic experience of transformation on a personal scale, with global implications that follow six people (and a robot) who transform their own lives, ... more |
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Inspired by a 2015 New York Magazine article that went viral, HUSTLERS follows a savvy crew of former strippers who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. Starring Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, and Julia Stiles.
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