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Psychoville - BLU-RAY Version
(2 discs)
(2009)
Starring: Reece Shearsmith, Dawn French, David Bamber
Director: Matt Lipsey
Certificate: 
From the creators of cult classic television series THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMAN comes this surreal comedy that centres on a letter writer who contacts five seemingly disparate characters—a misguided wife, a hook-handed entertainer, a dwarf with telekinetic powers, a murder-fixated manchild and a blind ..read more »
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71%
from 229 members
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Psychoville
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Amanda Abbington, George Asprey, Eileen Atkins
Director: Matt Lipsey
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From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen, this bizarre gothic comedy sees a chain of events triggered when a mysterious letter writer contacts five seemingly disparate characters with the chilling message: 'I know what you did'.
An embittered hook-handed clown, a desperately ..read more »
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77%
from 429 members
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Last Chance Harvey
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins
Director: Joel Hopkins
Certificate: 
New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else...read more »
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66%
from 587 members
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Ballet Shoes
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Marc Warren, Lucy Boynton, Eileen Atkins
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Certificate: 
"We three Fossils vow to put our name in the history books, because it is ours, and ours alone, and nobody can say it's because of our grandfathers". With these words, three orphans embark on an exhilarating journey through the world of show business... Set in 1930s London, Ballet Shoes tells ..read more »
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72%
from 1,260 member
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Evening
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Lajos Koltai
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A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
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57%
from 4,072 members
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Cranford - Complete BBC Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Director: Simon Curtis
Certificate: 
This is the DVD of the lavish BBC costume drama, Cranford, based on three of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels including Cranford itself. The cast boasts some of Britain's best-loved and most experienced actresses, including Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis. The ..read more »
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85%
from 2,388 members
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Cranford - BLU-RAY Version
(2 discs)
(2007)
Starring: Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Director: Simon Curtis
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Set in a 1840s Cranford - a small, idyllic Northern English town - where the residents are coping with a sea of change that includes a new railway network that threatens to unleash a tide of immigrant workers that the locals fear will reduce their town to lawlessness...
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78%
from 87 members
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Scenes Of A Sexual Nature
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville, Ewan McGregor
Director: Ed Blum
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Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. The film is a comedic and erotically charged look at what makes us tick, and it seems that ..read more »
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52%
from 10,354 members
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Ask The Dust
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland
Director: Robert Towne
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In the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression Era novel, Hayek plays the fiery Mexican beauty Camilla who hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. This is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing ..read more »
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49%
from 1,507 member
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Cold Mountain
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Directed by Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT), this Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Far more than a simple love story, Minghella's film captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left ..read more »
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65%
from 44,070 members
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What A Girl Wants
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston
Director: Dennie Gordon
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Teenager Daphne Reynolds (Amanda Bynes) dreams of one day dancing with her father at her wedding. Her dream is complicated by the fact that she has never met her dad, Lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth), a British politician to whom her mother, singer Libby (Kelly Preston), was married seventeen ..read more »
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63%
from 8,207 members
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Bertie And Elizabeth
(2002)
Starring: James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates
Director: Giles Foster
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A portrayal of the life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, focusing on her courtship with the future George VI, the abdication crisis, the birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret and the war years finally leading to Bertie's early death in 1952.
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61%
from 227 members
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Madame Bovary
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Eileen Atkins
Director: Tim Fywell
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The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes frustrated and bored herself. As a result she embarks on a series of affairs in her quest for real sexual fulfilment. In the process she bankrupts her husband and starts along the route to her own self-..read more »
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57%
from 921 members
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Jack And Sarah
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench
Director: Tim Sullivan
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In this charming British romantic comedy, Jack (Richard E, Grant), a recently widowed father, quickly learns that his yuppie lifestyle and workaholic ways don't mesh too well with a new baby's needs. Overwhelmed by the responsibilities of caring for his infant daughter, he hires Amy (Samantha ..read more »
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69%
from 6,000 members
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Let Him Have It
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell
Director: Peter Medak
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Two teenagers are surprised by police during a break-in. One, epileptic with the mental age of 11 and IQ of 66 is arrested, the other, a gun-toting hood refuses to give up his weapon. Shouting Let Him Have It! to his friend, he fires, wounding one officer and killing another. Both boys face the ..read more »
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68%
from 1,174 member
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The Dresser
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
Director: Peter Yates
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THE DRESSER is Peter Yates' intriguing look behind the scenes of a touring stage company in war-torn England, based on Ronald Harwood's play. Albert Finney stars as Sir, the ageing manager and lead actor of the troupe who begins to come undone from the pressure of touring in bombed-ravaged England. ..read more »
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68%
from 777 members
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Smiley's People
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins
Director: Simon Langton
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John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
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80%
from 2,892 members
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Equus
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Lumet directed this film version of Peter Shaffer's dramatic play, transforming theatrical symbolism into cinematic realism. Richard Burton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Martin Dysert, a psychiatrist determined to unravel the disturbed mind of ..read more »
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62%
from 952 members
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Titus Andronicus
on DVD
Starring: Trevor Peacock, Eileen Atkins, Edward Hardwicke
Director: Jane Howell
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Having subdued ..read more »
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63%
from 96 members
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Eileen Atkins facts
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What a disappointment. 4 August 2008
...film. With a cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Eileen Atkins, amongst others, who wouldn't? Sadly, a great cast is the best thing about thi...
Simply superb 16 February 2008
London RomCom with a difference 6 June 2009
