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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
IMDb: 8.8
178 min

A lost ancient Ring has been discovered and given to Frodo, a tiny Hobbit. Frodo is forced to embark on an epic journey to the Cracks to defeat the One…

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
IMDb: 9.0
201 min

Final confrontation of forces of good and bad fighting to control the future Middle-earth. Frodo, Sam and Sam travel to Mordor on their mission to destroy The One Ring. Aragorn…

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
IMDb: 7.8
169 min

Bilbo Baggins finds himself drawn into an adventure to recover the Dwarf Kingdom, Erebor from Smaug the Dragon. Bilbo is approached by Gandalf, the grey wizard, and offered to join…

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
IMDb: 8.7
179 min

Frodo’s ongoing quest to find the One Ring and his Fellowship. Frodo, Sam and the Fellowship discover that they are being tracked by the Gollum. Gimli, the Dwarf and Aragorn…

X-Men

X-Men

X-Men
IMDb: 7.4
104 min

Marie (also known as Rogue) runs from her home in a world that is hostile to both Mutants as well as Humans and rides along with Logan, also a mutant…

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
IMDb: 7.4
144 min

The people of Laketown are aware that the Dragon has left the Lonely Mountain. People, Orcs and dwarves prepare for war. Bilbo notices Thorin becoming insane and offers his help….

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
IMDb: 7.8
161 min

Thorin and Company have successfully crossed the Misty Mountains. Now they must find help from an unknown force before they can face the dangerous Mirkwood Forest without their Wizard. Once…

X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past
IMDb: 8.0
132 min

The Sentinels are powerful robotic robots that will kill mutants and their helpers. Professor Xavier and Wolverine and Magneto and Storm meet in a Chinese monastery. Xavier explains how the…

Cats (2019)

Cats (2019)

Cats (2019)
IMDb: 2.8
110 min

The Jellicles are a tribe of cats that decide each year which cat will go to the Heaviside Layer.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
X2

X2

X2
IMDb: 7.4
134 min

Several months passed since Magneto was defeated by the X-Men and Magneto was imprisoned in an impregnable, plastic cell. Nightcrawler, a mutant, attempts to assassinate President Obama. This sets off…

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X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand
IMDb: 6.7
104 min

There is outrage in the mutant community when a cure is proposed, that can transform any mutant into “normal” humans. Although some mutants like Rogue’s idea of a cure, others…

The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code
IMDb: 6.6
149 min

This suspense thriller by Ron Howard brings to life Dan Brown’s controversial bestseller about a secretive power that has been hidden for many thousands of years. When one of Paris’…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass

The Golden Compass
IMDb: 6.1
113 min

For a girl of her age, it was not a normal life. She lived amongst scholars at Jordan College while sauntering through Oxford’s streets in search for adventure. Lyra would…

The Good Liar

The Good Liar

The Good Liar
IMDb: 6.7
109 min

Roy Courtnay, a career con artist (Sir Ian McKellen), can’t believe his luck after he met Betty McLeish (Dame Helen Mirren). Roy finds himself enamored with Betty’s home and her…

Genre: Crime
Flushed Away

Flushed Away

Flushed Away
IMDb: 6.6
85 min

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy…

The Keep

The Keep

The Keep
IMDb: 5.7
96 min

Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.

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Genre: Horror
Mr. Holmes

Mr. Holmes

Mr. Holmes
IMDb: 6.8
104 min

The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees of Separation
IMDb: 6.8
112 min

The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Animal Crackers (2017)

Animal Crackers (2017)

Animal Crackers (2017)
IMDb: 5.8
105 min

A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.

All Is True

All Is True

All Is True
IMDb: 6.3
101 min

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his…

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Genre: Drama, History
Infinitum: Subject Unknown

Infinitum: Subject Unknown

Infinitum: Subject Unknown
IMDb: 5.9
86 min

Infinitum Subject Unknown was shot on an iPhone by a remote crew in London’s first lockdown. It is mind-bending British science fiction. Jane (Tori Butler Hart) wakes up in an…

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McKellen: Playing the Part

McKellen: Playing the Part

McKellen: Playing the Part
IMDb: 7.4
92 min

Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen’s life, from early childhood into a demanding career that placed…

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The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout

The Magic Roundabout
IMDb: 5.2
78 min

A shaggy, candy-loving puppy named Dougal along with a group of friends embarks on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor — the evil ice sorcerer ZeeBad…

Genre: Animation, Family
Restoration

Restoration

Restoration
IMDb: 6.6
117 min

An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King’s court…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Asylum (2005)

Asylum (2005)

Asylum (2005)
IMDb: 6.1
99 min

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband’s inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Plenty

Plenty

Plenty
IMDb: 6.0
121 min

Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Neverwas

Neverwas

Neverwas
IMDb: 6.5
103 min

A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters…

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Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm
IMDb: 7.2
105 min

In England in the early 1930s, twenty-year-old Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), recently orphaned, and left with only one hundred pounds sterling a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters
IMDb: 7.4
105 min

1957. Long having retired, James Whale, arguably most famous for directing Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) among some other 1930s horror classics, has burned his bridges with the…

Genre: Drama
Bent

Bent

Bent
IMDb: 7.2
105 min

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay, and gets a yellow label (the one…

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Swept from the Sea

Swept from the Sea

Swept from the Sea
IMDb: 6.8
115 min

The film tells the story of Russian émigré, and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall, and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters…

Genre: Drama, Romance
King Lear

King Lear

King Lear
IMDb: 7.5
156 min

Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and…

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Genre: Drama
Hating Peter Tatchell

Hating Peter Tatchell

Hating Peter Tatchell
IMDb: 8.2
91 min

From Executive Producers Elton John and David Furnish, Hating Peter Tatchell is the powerful and inspiring true story of the controversial human rights campaigner whose provocative acts of civil disobedience…

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Genre: Documentary
Priest of Love

Priest of Love

Priest of Love
IMDb: 6.3
125 min

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they…

Genre: Romance
A Touch of Love

A Touch of Love

A Touch of Love
IMDb: 6.4
107 min

Rosamund (Sandy Dennis), a young "bookish" girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the…

Genre: Drama
Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.4
110 min

William Shakespeare's classic play is brought into the present with the setting as Great Britian in the 1930s. Civil war has erupted with the House of Lancaster on one side,…

Genre: War
The Ballad of Little Jo

The Ballad of Little Jo

The Ballad of Little Jo
IMDb: 6.7
121 min

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid nineteenth century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being…

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Genre: Romance, Western
Muse of Fire

Muse of Fire

Muse of Fire
IMDb: 7.5
83 min

Two young London actors set out together to face the greatest challenge in the world of acting – Shakespeare.

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Genre: Documentary