The Grey Zone is based on the true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. As the rebellion is about to commence a group from the unit discovers a 14-year-old girl who has miraculously survived a gassing. A catalyst for their desperate attempt at personal redemption the men become obsessed with saving this one child even if doing so endangers the uprising which could save thousands.
Shakespeare In Love (Dir. John Madden) (1998): When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! Marie Antoinette (Dir. Sofia Coppola) (2006): A decadently imaginative interpretation of the life of France's iconic teenage queen Marie Antoinette from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI aged 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the termination of her royal tenure and ultimately the fall of Versailles in the French Revolution... Vanity Fair (Dir. Mira Nair 2004): Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women. She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) and aims to find a rich husband.
Written by David Leland and directed by Alan Clarke, Made in Britain is a slice of horrible but not inaccurate life from 1982. It holds a terrific early performance from Tim Roth as a skinhead with a swastika caste-mark tattoo, who constantly bares shark-like teeth as he spits embittered, articulate defiance at caring social workers and truncheon-wielding policemen alike. Sixteen-year-old Trevor (Roth) is remanded to an assessment centre before sentencing, but remains determined to disobey the rules imposed on him by any authority figures and spends the whole 73-minute play challenging the system to smack him back down, by vandalising the Job Centre, using his case-file as a toilet, stealing cars, victimising members of the "immigrant community" and shouting bile at people. The cycle that will lead him to an adult life in prison is explained to him with blackboard diagrams, but he believes he's better off keeping his hatred burning than toeing the line to end up as a no-hoper in a society that prizes obedience over conscience. It was originally televised as one of four Leland-filmed dramas about different aspects of the British education system, which made it seem less monomaniacal in its focus on an extreme case. There's no denying that it's an honest portrait of a monster calculated to terrify even the most concerned liberals which still manages to celebrate his self-destructive defiance. A film for television rather than a TV play, it has very strong language but the violence is all in Roth's face.On the DVD: No extra features here, but it does come with optional English sub-titles, and the theme song by the Exploited over the menu. --Kim Newman
Charlotte Gray Cate Blanchett stars as a young Scottish woman recruited by the Secret Service who ends up risking her life to find the man she loves. Based on Sebastian Faulks' best selling novel. The Land Girls The comical and heart-warming tale of three young women who encounter tragedy passion and love during wartime.
The Hooligan Factory tells the story of Danny (Jason Maza) who wants something more from life. Expelled from school and living in his grandfather's flat he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father 'Danny Senior'. Meanwhile legendary football hooligan Dexter (Nick Nevern) is about to be released from ShowerShank prison and is on a quest of his own one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader 'The Baron'. But when Danny's and Dexter's paths cross they embark on a journey as old as hooliganism itself. The Hooligan Factory is a hilarious take on the football hooligan genre you've seen Foot soldier you've seen Football Factory and you saw Green Street but you have never seen anything like this. Special Features: 1 Hour Making of
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison has been transferred to Manchester and finds herself in a world she does not know surrounded by people she cannot trust and invloved with a man she cannot have. Her latest case is destined only to make things worse...
What's New Scooby Doo? Space Ape At The Cape A scary extraterrestial monkeys around with an important rocket launch. There's No Creature Like Snow Creature The gang investigates suspicious behavior at a way-cool snowboarding contest. 3-D Struction A fearsome Giganotosaurus jumps off a movie screen and goes on a mysterious rampage in Costa Rica. Big Scare In The Big Easy The Mystery Inc. crew unearths spooky doings at a haunted New Orleans cemetery.
A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
James Cameron's debut feature is a thrill-a-minute terror ride where scuba divers investigating a sunken wreck at a plush Caribbean resort unwittingly unleash a shoal of mutated piranha which are as deadly in the air as under water!
Legendary social club owner Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars are determined to make Phoenix Club a success no matter what. Not even a racist folk band an unforeseeable psychic or a drunken horse will get in the way of their dream that 'Clubland will never die'.
The hilarious and loveable puppet porkers have been given their own live TV show full of crazy stunts and mad games. The show is brash loud messy and frequently out of control. Pinky and Perky is funny and fast paced new CGI series for six to twelve-year-olds.
Two escaped convicts (Zahn, Northam) steal a Winnebago motorhome owned by two gay men who are headed to Happy, TX to choreograph a beauty pageant for little girls.
More intrigue suspense weirdness and laughs in the return of the cliff-hanging comedy thriller... After the explosion at Ravenhill Hospital Mr Jelly Joy David and Maureen Sowerbutts Mr Lomax and Robert just want to get on with their twisted mad and sad lives. But the shadowy if technologically-deprived Grace Andrews and the enigmatic detective Finney are tracking them down - one by one - in search of Nurse Kenchington's locket. Meanwhile we meet some new but equally bizarre Psychoville characters: Jeremy Goode a librarian tortured by a silent singer as he hunts for 50 Great Coastal Walks of the British Isles Volume 2; Peter Bishop whose toy shop Hoyti Toyti has a very strange basement and a desperate and dateless overworked make-up artist Hattie. What could they all have to do with the mystery - and why is it truly a matter of life and death?
Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952 Philomena (Judi Dench) was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a fallen woman. When her baby was only a toddler he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him but with no success.Then she met Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) a world-weary political journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story. Together they set off to America on a journey that would not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son but also create an unexpectedly close bond between Philomena and Martin.The film is a compelling narrative of human love and loss that ultimately celebrates life showing that there is laughter even in the darkest places.
It's better than the 1994 remake starring Kim Basinger and husband Alec Baldwin, but this 1972 thriller relies too heavily on the low-key star power of Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and the stylish violence of director Sam Peckinpah, reduced here to a mechanical echo of his former glory. McQueen plays a bank robber whose wife (MacGraw) makes a deal with a Texas politician to have her husband released from prison in return for a percentage from their next big heist. But when the plan goes sour, the couple must flee to Mexico as fast as they can, with a variety of gun-wielding thugs on their trail. MacGraw was duly skewered at the time for her dubious acting ability, but the film still has a raw, unglamorous quality that lends a timeless spin to the familiar crooks-on-the-lam scenario. As always, Peckinpah rises to the occasion with some audacious scenes of action and suspense, including a memorable chase on a train that still grabs the viewer's attention. Getaway is not a great film, but a must for McQueen and Peckinpah fans. --Jeff Shannon
Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani write and star in this sharp satire of contemporary sexual politics. Cameron, an acclaimed film producer, needs to detoxify his latest movie or face ruin. Bobby, an ambitious feminist filmmaker, has what he needs to get woke' and stay relevant. As Bobby and Cameron bounce between gender tension and creeping attraction, their encounters with a star-studded line up including Wanda Sykes, Sienna Miller, Paul Rudd and Peter Mullan gives them the nagging feeling that they are just pawns in the studio's secret agenda. All they need to do is reshoot an inappropriate sex scene. How hard can it be? Product Features Featurette
The locals of Royston Vasey head to the big screen in this movie based on the cult TV series.
The film that incriminates its audience. The most notorious band in the world. In ten simple lessons manager Malcom McLaren tells their fabulous story. A dramatised history of the Sex Pistols the notorious band who began the new wave of rock. A humorous cynical look at the music industry. Tunes include: Anarchy in the UK God Save the Queen Pretty Vacant Who Killed Bambi and My Way...
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