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MGM Plus
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7.3
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3.8
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cc age 17+

24 Hour Party People (2002)
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
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75
7.3
/4520/
66
/45/
62
/53/
3.6
/1402/
89
/62/
88
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75
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In This World (2003)
Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
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74
6.7
/13582/
64
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61
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3.5
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88
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66
/1016/
80
/35/

A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
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Kanopy
74
7.0
/24039/
67
/630/
66
/306/
3.7
/25344/
89
/106/
70
/647/
82
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cc age 15+

The Trip (2011)
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
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71
6.6
/28661/
65
/457/
64
/350/
3.2
/5123/
79
/191/
70
/5365/
74
/38/
cc age 16+

A Mighty Heart (2007)
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
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Kanopy
71
6.6
/6689/
69
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65
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3.6
/10083/
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63
/53/
66
/31/
cc age 15+

The Trip to Spain (2017)
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
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71
7.1
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/36/
64
/34/
3.7
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62
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84
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Wonderland (1999)
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
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Kanopy
71
6.6
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65
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/251/
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/275/
75
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cc age 15+

The Trip to Italy (2014)
Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.
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70
6.9
/11636/
64
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3.4
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68
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Jude (1996)
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
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Kanopy
67
6.6
/5057/
63
/257/
62
/42/
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88
/120/
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/27/
69
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cc age 15+

The Trip to Greece (2020)
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their travelogue series with a visit to Greece.
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Hoopla
67
6.3
/2223/
64
/32/
62
/35/
3.4
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/16/
60
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61
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Butterfly Kiss (1995)
Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly searching for an unknown woman named Judith. She spares the life of lonely but kind-hearted gas station cashier Miriam, who abandons her dismal life to follow her damaged new lover. While attempting to hide the evidence of her multiple crimes, Miriam tries to understand Eunice's bizarre quest.
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Hoopla
67
6.7
/8072/
67
/163/
64
/118/
3.4
/2313/
80
/35/
74
/138/
72
/24/

Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
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Amazon Prime Video
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66
7.4
/11648/
68
/130/
68
/123/
3.6
/1808/
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The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
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6.3
/1014/
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/1371/
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cc age 15+

Shoshana (2024)
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv. With British control over Palestine precarious and conflict inevitable, everyone is forced to choose a side.
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6.3
/7057/
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/85/
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62
/28/
cc age 18+

The Claim (2000)
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
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Kanopy
63
6.0
/3428/
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/78/
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/52/
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/1123/
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/93/
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/96/
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/22/
cc age 17+

Trishna (2011)
When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
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Kanopy
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7.0
/1426/
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/79/
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3.3
/476/
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/40/
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/15/
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The Emperor's New Clothes (2015)
An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist following his 2014 book Revolution, where he railed against “corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility, and economic inequality".
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MGM Plus
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6.1
/21693/
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/662/
61
/381/
3.1
/5758/
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/102/
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/542/
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/33/
cc age 18+

Code 46 (2003)
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
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The Shock Doctrine (2009)
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.
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Kanopy
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/906/
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/11401/
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cc age 18+

The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
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Kanopy
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5.8
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/394/
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2.8
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/25/
cc age 16+

The Wedding Guest (2019)
Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.
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Kanopy
55
6.0
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/221/
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/2618/
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/20/
cc age 17+

The Look of Love (2013)
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
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5.8
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/150/
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Greed (2019)
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
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Amazon Prime Video
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6.0
/6959/
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/111/
56
/110/
3.1
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/43/
41
/250/

Genova (2009)
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
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44
4.8
/25170/
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/987/
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43
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9 Songs (2004)
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
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43
6.0
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3.1
/854/
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I Want You (1998)
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.
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The Roku Channel
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4.6
/5382/
50
/282/
51
/189/
2.4
/2070/
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/50/
10
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/17/
cc age 17+

The Face of an Angel (2014)
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
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Kanopy
58
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6.2
/862/
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/28/
55
/15/
3.3
/502/
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/34/
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55
/13/

Everyday (2012)
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
28
7.1
/1330/
55
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63
/17/
3.4
/302/
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74
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Go Now (1995)
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
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5.9
/254/
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3.2
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/20/
25
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On the Road (2016)
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs and daily life backstage.
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10
6.1
/924/
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/7/
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/15/
3.2
/224/
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With or Without You (1999)
Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?
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10
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Rosie the Great (1989)
The British Government wants to ruin the island of Longsea with a military base that they’re pushing forward with even after the Island’s council democratically voted to stop it - but Longsea’s past is unclear, and when an American journalist comes to town, their investigations might muddy the international waters…
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?
7.8
/83/
27
/4/
78
/2/

Eleven Days in May (2022)
Over the course of 11 days in May 2021, more than 60 children were killed in Gaza. They should never be forgotten. Narrated by Kate Winslet and with music by Max Richter, this film is a diary of those days. Through archive and personal testimony, the film tells the story of each child as an individual boy or girl, with much the same hopes and dreams and ambitions of children everywhere.
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?
7.0
/76/
50
/2/

Under the Sun (1992)
Kate Hardie plays a shy 19-year-old bookworm setting out on a world trip, only to be stranded at Málaga after her companion goes off with a local lothario. When her belongings are stolen, Ellie starts learning independence.
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?
6.7
/29/
70
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Isolation (2021)
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic. Among them, “Two Fathers”, directed by Julia von Heinz (20’). After the death of his father, Hans-Michael von Heinz, the director finds out the truth about her parent true sexual identity. In order to know more, she starts emailing persons who got to know him over the last years, among them his closest friend, director Rosa von Praunheim.
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?
7.5
/26/
10
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Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern (1988)
The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.
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?
7.9
/74/
10
/1/

Forget About Me (1990)
Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.
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Gaza Year Zero
A 13-year-old boy and his family try to survive in a country destroyed by war.
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A Farewell to Arms
A volunteer ambulance driver, Frederic Henry, is wounded and falls in love with his nurse in Italy during World War One.


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