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Four Lions
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Christopher Morris
Year:
2009
Duration:
101
Summary:
This well researched film follows a group of young Muslim men living in Sheffield, UK, who have become radicalised and decide to become suicide bombers.
Rough Aunties
Country:United Kingdom, South Africa
Director:Kim Longinotto
Year:
2008
Duration:
103
Summary:
A remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa.
Moon
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Duncan Jones
Year:
2009
Duration:
92
Summary:
This impressive debut by son of David Bowie tells of Sam Bell, the sole employee based on an industrial lunar station to harvest helium-3. With little human contact, he is beginning to hallucinate.
The Damned United
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Tom Hooper
Year:
2009
Duration:
94
Summary:
Based on a script of Peter Morgan, writer of the Last King of Scotland, it draws from the annals of the notorious Brian Clough’s 44 day reign as the coach of Leeds United.
Lord of the Flies
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Peter Brook
Year:
1963
Duration:
90
Summary:
A group of boys are marooned on an island after their plane crashes. With no adult survivors, they create their own micro-society. But a bitter rivalry develops.
M’Zungu
Country:United Kingdom, Uganda
Director:Nikolas Galanski
Year:
2010
Duration:
15
Summary:
After locking himself out of his house on Christmas day, an aid worker undergoes an unexpected journey to collect the spare set of keys.
The Bed Sitting Room
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Richard Lester
Year:
1969
Duration:
88
Summary:
Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, bizarre characters are wandering through a surrealistic landscape and prone to transitional mutation into a parrot, a cupboard.
Pressure
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Horace Ove
Year:
1976
Duration:
120
Summary:
This film deals with institutional racism and police brutality. A British born son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Katalin Varga
Country:United Kingdom, Romania
Director:Peter Strickland
Year:
2009
Duration:
82
Summary:
In the otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is travelling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her.
Divorce Iranian Style
Country:United Kingdom, Iran
Director:Longinotto and Hosseini
Year:
1998
Duration:
76
Summary:
Hilarious & tragic look at an Iranian divorce court following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16-year-old trying to divorce her 38-year-old husband; and Maryam, trying to gain custody of her daughters.
