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  • 1999
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    Ratcatcher

    Ratcatcher

    7.10 1999 HD

    James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the...

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  • 1998
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    Get Real

    Get Real

    6.80 1998 HD

    Steven spends his school days longing for all-star athlete John. But John has a gorgeous girlfriend, and Steven is still in the closet. Steven's sole...

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  • 2000
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    Billy Elliot

    Billy Elliot

    7.60 2000 HD

    County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the...

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  • 2000
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    Love's Labour's Lost

    Love's Labour's Lost

    5.50 2000 HD

    The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is...

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  • 1999
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    A Room for Romeo Brass

    A Room for Romeo Brass

    7.00 1999 HD

    Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous...

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  • 1997
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    Metroland

    Metroland

    5.90 1997 HD

    In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an...

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  • 1999
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    Hideous Kinky

    Hideous Kinky

    6.10 1999 HD

    In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and...

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  • 1999
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    An Ideal Husband

    An Ideal Husband

    6.42 1999 HD

    Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London...

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  • 2000
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    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

    6.20 2000 HD

    It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.

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  • 1998
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    The Revengers' Comedies

    The Revengers' Comedies

    5.80 1998 HD

    After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin...

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  • 1999
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    Plunkett & MacLeane

    Plunkett & MacLeane

    6.03 1999 HD

    Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement:...

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  • 2000
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    The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth

    6.20 2000 HD

    In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her...

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  • 2000
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    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

    6.80 2000 HD

    Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new...

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  • 1997
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    Shooting Fish

    Shooting Fish

    6.30 1997 HD

    Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

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  • 1996
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    Blight

    Blight

    6.40 1996 HD

    A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.

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  • 2000
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    The Claim

    The Claim

    6.00 2000 HD

    A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who...

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  • 1998
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    Among Giants

    Among Giants

    5.00 1998 HD

    A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are...

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  • 1999
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    Beautiful People

    Beautiful People

    5.90 1999 HD

    In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from...

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  • 2001
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    Pandaemonium

    Pandaemonium

    5.40 2001 HD

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate...

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  • 1997
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    The Tango Lesson

    The Tango Lesson

    6.40 1997 HD

    On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She...

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