UK movies

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Streep, Meryl | Schwartzman, Jason | Murray, Bill | Wolodarsky, Wallace | Anderson, Eric Chase | Gambon, Michael | Dafoe, Willem | Wilson, Owen | Cocker, Jarvis | Duffy, Karen | Hurlstone, Robin | Guinness, Hugo | McCrory, Helen
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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It is the story of one Mr. Fox and his wild-ways of hen heckling, turkey taking and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try “just one more raid” on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Boggis, Bunce and Bean. It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends.

Last Hangman, The (2005)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Armstrong, Simon | Bell, Ann | Blane, Nicholas | Brunt, Clive | Clerkin, Cavan | Corden, James | Critchley, Marie | Fitzmaurice, Neil | Flynn, Keiran | Francis, Clive | Fulford, Christopher | Shergold, Frances | Hopley, Elizabeth | Jonfield, Peter | Kay, Bernard
Directors: Shergold, Adrian
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Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following his father’s footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion, rising to become ‘the best in the land’. From the early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed some 608 people including the ‘Beasts of Belsen’ (war criminals) for which he earned the gratitude of a nation. But by the time he hanged Ruth Ellis, the last women to be executed in Britain, public sentiments had changed….and so had Pierrepont.

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | McGregor, Ewan | Bridges, Jeff | Spacey, Kevin | Lang, Stephen | Patrick, Robert | Zuaiter, Waleed | Root, Stephen | Morshower, Glenn | Offerman, Nick | Griffin, Tim | Mader, Rebecca | Browne, Jacob | La Tourrette, Todd | Grunberg, Brad
Directors: Heslov, Grant
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A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.

Precious (2009)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Sci-Fi | Short
Countries: UK
Actors: Sidibe, Gabourey 'Gabby' | Mo'Nique | Patton, Paula | Kravitz, Lenny | Carey, Mariah | Shepherd, Sherri | Gordon, Nealla | Andujar, Stephanie | Robinson, Amina | Layne, Chyna | Roquemore, Xosha | Zambrana, Angelic | Fraser, Nia | Benton, Ephraim | Bralow, Matthew
Directors: Daniels, Lee
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In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

Hogfather (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Jason, David | Warren, Marc | Dockery, Michelle | Warner, David | Robinson, Tony | Planer, Nigel | Guinness, Peter | Marcus, Stephen | Conway, Craig | Meilir, Rhodri | Matthews, Sinead | Richardson, Ian | Pearson, Neil
Directors: Jean, Vadim
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It’s Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.

The Plague (2006)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Anoyke, Samuel | Ash, Nick | Bonnick Jr., David | Burnside, Mike | Campbell, Jake | Campbell, Richie | Chambers, Christopher | Clargo, Adrian | Clift, Matt | Davis, Iain | Douglas, Thaddaeus | Drake, Jeremy | Duma, Tony | Ewulo, Isaac | Fain, James G.
Directors: Hall, Greg
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An adrenaline filled weekend of party’s, drugs, and violence seen through the eyes of four multicultural friends living in the melting pot that is Londons’ inner city estates.

Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gonet, Stella | Havill, Andrew | McGrath, Henry | Mitchell, Hugh | Rogers, Poppy | Roberts, Jessie Lou | Hunnam, Charlie | Garai, Romola | Courtenay, Tom | Plummer, Christopher | Hathaway, Anne | Broadbent, Jim | Curran, Angela | Bell, Jamie | Stevenson, Juliet
Directors: McGrath, Douglas
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After the death of his financially replete father, Nicholas Nickleby and his family travel to London to seek assistance from his father’s older brother Ralph. Taking an immediate dislike to his nephew, Ralph employs Nicholas under the sadistic Mr. Squeers and his interminable wife, owners of a boys’ school in northern England. In the meantime, Ralph seeks to use Nicholas’ beautiful sister Kate as a ploy to influence his investors. Discourse forces Nicholas to flee the school with the crippled Smike, an orphan with no memories of his former life before he was brought to Dotheboys’ Hall. On their journey back to London they meet up with Vincent Crummles and his acting troupe, befriend Ralph’s good-hearted secretary Newman Noggs, and ultimately rise over adversity.

Chasing Liberty (2004)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Moore, Mandy | Sands, Stark | Jayawardena, Tony | Piven, Jeremy | Sciorra, Annabella | Glassco, Briony | Tello, Lily | Barnfield, Tyla | Ellis, Sam | Maynard, Terence | Harmon, Mark | Hancock, Lewis | Hagon, Garrick | Benoir, Zac | Goodman, Jan
Directors: Cadiff, Andy
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The President’s daughter (Moore), unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger (Goode), who also happens to be working undercover for her father (Harmon). A modern-day homage to ROMAN HOLIDAY.

Hunger (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Fassbender, Michael | Graham, Stuart | Cowan, Larry | Cunningham, Liam | Hogg, B.J. | McAleer, Des | McCambridge, Dennis | McMahon, Liam | Milligan, Brian | Mullen, Rory | Peel, Ben | Roddy, Lalor | Scott, Thomas James | Bereen, Helena | Madden, Helen
Directors: McQueen, Steve
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Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Savage, John | Walken, Christopher | Streep, Meryl | Dzundza, George | Aspegren, Chuck | Stoler, Shirley | Alda, Rutanya | Segui, Pierre | Kaplan, Mady | Wright, Amy | Haenel, Mary Ann | Kuss, Richard | Grifasi, Joe
Directors: Cimino, Michael
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Michael, Nick, and Steven are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton, Penn.They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying weekends of deer-hunting. Michael and Nick are also both in love with Linda, who seems to juggle both of the men. But their placid life is soon to be changed after they are enlisted in the airborne infantry of Vietnam. So they all celebrate a goodbye at Steven’s wedding and they leave to Vietnam, where they are captured by the enemy and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette. They escape and return home, but their lives are forever changed. Nick stays in Vietnam, Michael returns to Linda, and Steven is handicapped after losing a leg in the war.