Kerry Fox
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The Dressmaker tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong....
2) Downriver
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English
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Sometimes the path to redemption is paved in sin.. James, 18, has been released from juvenile detention after serving time for his involvement in the suspected drowning of a young boy in a river years earlier. Ravaged with uncertainty, dealing with an estranged family and forced to face the dead boy's mother, James is set upon a journey of self discovery, shocking revelations and danger as questions surrounding the boy s death brim to the surface....
3) Little Joe
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English
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Alice (Emily Beecham) has engineered a special flower that makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Alice takes one home to her son. As their plant grows, so does Alice's suspicion that her new creation may not be as harmless as they thought.
4) Storm
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Film Movement volume 8, film 1
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English
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"Storm" : Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, but Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness' burial in Sarajevo and meets...
6) Mr. Pip
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English
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Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people...
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Criterion collection volume 616
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English
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When three friends find their new roommate dead and a suitcase full of money under his bed, they have no trouble deciding how to dispose of the cash- but the body is a different story. Their troubles are compounded when they meet the men who come to retrieve the money.
9) Intimacy
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English
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In this provocative film, what starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a divorced man (Mark Rylance) and a married woman (Kerry Fox) turns into a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need. Winner of three prizes at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Official selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"INTIMACY is a raw, wounding, powerfully acted film, and you cannot look away from it." - Roger Ebert, **Chicago Sun-Times***...
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English
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For eight years, the old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad--veteran detectives Jack Halford (James Bolam, The Beiderbecke Affair), Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong, Garrow's Law), and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman, The Sweeney)--have been a close-knit team. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman, Sexy Beast)their beautiful, younger boss, they have solved cold cases with classic policing skills and easy camaraderie....
11) Falcón
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English
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Falcón is a detective whose home and work life is compromised of secrets from his past.
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Criterion collection volume 301
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English
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"The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, international literary fame"--Container.
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In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, doctors, nurses, and volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches of WWI. The hospital is a frontier: between the battlefield and home front but also between the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions, and a new way of thinking.
14) Bright star
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Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge kilings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between Hollywood...
16) Holding the man
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English
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The love story of two high school boys, one the hunky captain of the football team and the other sensitive drama student. After a sweet courtship, the two fall madly in love and traverse an enduring relationship over fifteen years.
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English
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Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the files of more cold cases. A spectral leader calling himself 'The Shepherd' is inciting vulnerable women to commit murder; a sadomasochistic killer is counting off his victims, leaving the word 'sorry' carved into their skin; and the discovery of an unexploded bomb threatens to bring unforeseen upheaval to the team.
18) Little Joe
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English
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Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe.
19) Mayhem
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English
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When a corporate law office is quarantined after exposure to a dangerous virus that makes the infected lose their inhibitions, a recently fired employee and a wronged client must battle their way to the executive level before time runs out.
20) The Gathering
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English
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An American backpacking in rural England has her life taking a turn for the worse after a car accident. During recovery, she is befriended by a researcher studying a buried 1st Century church embedded with images of Christ's crucifixion. She begins to have horrific visions of the townspeople and their deaths.