UK movies

Dead Man Running (2009)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Tamer Hassan | Danny Dyer | 50 Cent | Viv Weatherall | Jeff Stewart | Trevor Byfield | Rupert Degas | Glenn Doherty | Joe Egan | Blake Ritson | Adam Saint | Robert Stone | Bronson Webb | Scot Williams | Esmé Bianco
Directors: Alex De Rakoff
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A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it’s too late for them both.

The Dead Outside (2008)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Alton Milne | Sandra Louise Douglas | Sharon Osdin | Vivienne Harvey | John Erskine | Phylis Douglas | Robin Morris | Max Adair | Cheryl Easton | Mona Thomson | Moyra McWhirter | Peter Lochburn | Sharon MacLaughlan | Ralph Berger | David Sibley
Directors: Kerry Anne Mullaney
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A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. April, a secretive young girl, and Daniel, a man desperate and bereaved, come together on an isolated farm. When a mysterious stranger turns up, they are confronted with a new enemy even deadlier than the one beyond the perimeter.

Little Buddha (1993)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Italy | Liechtenstein | UK
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Ruocheng Ying | Chris Isaak | Bridget Fonda | Alex Wiesendanger | Raju Lal | Greishma Makar Singh | Sogyal Rinpoche | Ven. Khyongla Rato Rinpoche | Ven. Geshe Tsultim Gyelsen | Jo Champa | Jigme Kunsang | Thubtem Jampa | Surekha Sikri | T.K. Lama
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they journey to Bhutan where the three children must undergo a test to prove which is the true reincarnation. Interspersed with this, is the story of Siddharta, later known as the Buddha. It traces his spiritual journey from ignorance to true enlightenment.

Reign of Fire (2002)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Matthew McConaughey | Izabella Scorupco | Gerard Butler | Scott Moutter | David Kennedy | Alexander Siddig | Ned Dennehy | Rory Keenan | Terence Maynard | Doug Cockle | Randall Carlton | Chris Kelly | Ben Thornton | Alice Krige
Directors: Rob Bowman
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In present-day London, twelve-year-old Quinn watches as his mother, a construction engineer, inadvertently wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its century-long slumber. Twenty years later, much of the world has been scarred by the beast and its offspring. As a fire chief, Quinn is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a community alive as they eke out a meager existence. Into their midst come a hotshot American, Van Zan, who says he has a way to kill the beasts and save mankind - a way Quinn’s never seen done. Fuses a medieval past with a post-apocalyptic future in this exciting tale of adventure and survival.

North & South (2004)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
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This series operates on many levels. At the heart of the series is the tempestuous relationship between Margaret Hale, a young woman from a southern middle class family who finds herself uprooted to the north, and John Thornton, a formerly poverty-stricken cotton mill owner terrified of losing the viability of his business. Around them are class struggles between the workers and mill owners and ideological struggles between the industrial North and the agrarian South. After moving North, Margaret’s father befriends his student Mr. Thornton. Margaret has already formed her opinion of Mr. Thornton independently after seeing him treat his workers harshly. As the series progresses, she and we the audience begin to learn that his strict treatment is due to an overarching concern for his mill and by extension, his employees. John Thornton, on the other hand, is attracted to Margaret’s independence and position in society as a well-educated Southerner. As in “Pride and Prejudice” the marriage proposal comes in the middle of the series and is rejected by Margaret. Contrary to “Pride and Prejudice” it is mirrored in social upheaval as the entire town is brought to its knees by a strike. The latter half of the series is an unraveling of the former misunderstandings ending in a romantic reconciliation which is again mirrored by reconciliation between workers and mill owners.

Withnail & I (1987)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Richard E. Grant | Paul McGann | Richard Griffiths | Ralph Brown | Michael Elphick | Daragh O'Malley | Michael Wardle | Una Brandon-Jones | Noel Johnson | Irene Sutcliffe | Llewellyn Rees | Robert Oates | Anthony Wise | Eddie Tagoe
Directors: Bruce Robinson
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London: The Sixties. Two down-on-their-luck actors (Withnail and Marwood) find solace in drink and other substances. Seeking respite from their uneventful lives they escape up north to Penrith to Withnail’s uncle’s stone cottage. Faced with no modern conveniences, a bunch of oddball locals, and a surprise visit from an amorous “Uncle Monty”, their wits are tested, along with their friendship.

The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Frances McDormand | Michael Badalucco | James Gandolfini | Katherine Borowitz | Jon Polito | Scarlett Johansson | Richard Jenkins | Tony Shalhoub | Christopher Kriesa | Brian Haley | Jack McGee | Gregg Binkley | Alan Fudge | Lilyan Chauvin
Directors: Ethan Coen
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1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It’s a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law’s shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen.

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Genres: Documentary | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Lynch | Mick Jagger | Brian Jones | Keith Richards | Charlie Watts | Bill Wyman | Anne Wiazemsky | Iain Quarrier | Frankie Dymon | Danny Daniels | Illario Pedro | Roy Stewart | Linbert Spencer | Tommy Ansah | Michael McKay
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
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In the 60’s, having as the background the rehearsal and recording of “Sympathy for the Devil” in the classic album “Beggar’s Banquet” by the revolutionary bad boy Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones - plus Marianne Faithful, Godard discloses other contemporary revolutionary and ideological movements - the Black Power through the Black Panthers, the feminism, the communism, the fascism - entwined with the reading of a cheap pulp political novel divided in the chapters: “The Stones Rolling; “Outside Black Novel”; “Sight and Sound”; “All About Eve”; “The Heart of Occident”; “Inside Black Syntax”; and, “Under the Stones the Beach”.

The Go-Between (1970)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Julie Christie | Alan Bates | Margaret Leighton | Michael Redgrave | Dominic Guard | Michael Gough | Edward Fox | Richard Gibson | Simon Hume-Kendall | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Amaryllis Garnett | Keith Buckley | John Rees | Gordon Richardson
Directors: Joseph Losey
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Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo turns 13. He’s the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus’s twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a forest-green suit, takes him on walks, and asks him to carry messages to and from their neighbor, Ted Burgess, a bit of a rake. Leo is soon dissembling, realizes he’s betraying Hugh, but continues as the go-between nonetheless, asking adults naive questions about the attractions of men and women. Can an affair between neighbors stay secret for long? And how does innocence end?

Permissive (1970)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Maggie Stride | Gilbert Wynne | Gay Singleton | John Allen | Stuart Cowell | Robert Daubigny | Stuart Francis | Alan Gorrie | Bill Hilbert | John Lee | Onnie McIntyre | Tony Priestland | C. Reeves | Eric Simpson | N. Tathan
Directors: Lindsay Shonteff
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