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A Matter Of Life And Death

Love, Life, Death. If ever a film was to restore your faith in love, this is it.

A Matter Of Life And Death on DVD (1946)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Bonar Colleano, Bob Roberts
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise hit of 1946. David Niven stars as Peter Carter, a World War II RAF pilot who is forced to bail out of his crippled plane without a parachute. He wakes up to find he has ..read more »
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A classic on so many levels. Best watched on a Sunday afternoon with a steaming pot of tea and endless supply of biscuits. Everyone should be able to quote at least one line form this film. Me? Oh, dozens! And yes I will get you my pretty, and your little dog too..

The Wizard Of Oz on DVD (1939)
Starring: Jack Haley, Clara Blandick, Billie Burke
Director: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
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Classic musical adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. A tornado whisks Dorothy (Garland) and her house from Kansas to Munchkin City, squashing the Wicked Witch of the East upon landing. The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) ..read more »
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The Goonies

Classic children's film. You'll all be doing the truffle shuffle after you've seen this!

The Goonies on DVD (1985)
Starring: Mary Ellen T, Sean Astin, Josh Brolin
Director: Richard Donner
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The Goonies are a bunch of misfit kids who take on some greedy property developers and try to save their neighbourbood by finding the lost treasure map of a 17th century pirate.
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The Woodsman

A film you won't necessarily want to watch but one you definitely should watch. As a viewer, your journey is as traumatic as the protagonist's as you empathise with someone you naturally want to despise and hate for their blight on society and childrens' innocence.

The Woodsman on DVD (2004)
Starring: David Alan Grier, Eve, Mos Def
Director: Nicole Kassell
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Thought-provoking drama starring Kevin Bacon as Walter, a convicted paedophile who has served his sentence for his previous crimes and is determined not to relapse. Taking a job in a lumber yard, he starts a relationship with a local woman and, although he lives in fear of his past crimes being ..read more »
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An Affair To Remember

I defy you not to shout at the TV at *that* part! Grant and Kerr are electric. A girls' night in must see!

An Affair To Remember on DVD (1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning
Director: Leo McCarey
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during ..read more »
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Pan's Labyrinth

A beautiful film, undoubtedly magical and engrossing.

Pan's Labyrinth on DVD (2006)
Starring: Sergi Lopez, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Spanish fantasy story directed by Guillermo del Torro ('Cronos') with stunning sets, shocking scenes and effects - set in the mind's eye of a lonely young girl. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) is a young girl in a remote mountain village in Spain in 1944 after Franco's ascension to power. To escape the ..read more »
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Rear Window

Rear Window on DVD (1954)
Starring: Thelma Ritter, James Stewart, Georgine Darcy
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock playfully explores the role of the voyeur in one of his best-loved suspense thrillers. After breaking his leg during a shoot, photo-journalist L.B. 'Jeff' Jeffries (James Stewart) is forced to spend a humid summer recuperating in his Greenwich Village apartment. The wheelchair-..read more »
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It's A Wonderful Life

But only once you've watched this film. A Christmas family classic.

It's A Wonderful Life on DVD (1946)
Starring: Frank Faylen, Charles Lane, Charles Williams
Director: Frank Capra
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The Terminal

The Terminal on DVD (2004)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta Jones, Stanley Tucci
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg-directed comedy starring Tom Hanks set almost entirely in an airport terminal. Viktor Navorski (Hanks) always planned to emigrate from his Eastern European homeland to the USA - but his plans were swiftly accelerated by the outbreak of war, and he finds himself on a plane headed ..read more »
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A Place In The Sun

Montgomery and Taylor sizzle in this classic summer film.

A Place In The Sun on DVD (1951)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Raymond Burr
Director: George Stevens
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a ..read more »
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