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  • 1983
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    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

    5.30 1983 HD

    An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the...

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  • 1999
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    Vanished! A Video Seance

    Vanished! A Video Seance

    1 1999 HD

    Vanished! A Video Seance is a true story. In 1932 elderly parents and their young daughter came to live in isolation on a windswept hill on the west...

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  • 1998
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    The Governess

    The Governess

    5.90 1998 HD

    When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in...

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  • 1998
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    Immortality

    Immortality

    5.80 1998 HD

    A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

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  • 1998
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    The Revengers' Comedies

    The Revengers' Comedies

    5.80 1998 HD

    After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin...

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  • 1986
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    The Dream Machine

    The Dream Machine

    4.40 1986 HD

    A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke...

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  • 2000
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    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

    6.10 2000 HD

    It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.

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  • 2000
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    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse

    4.80 2000 HD

    A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only...

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  • 1996
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    Blight

    Blight

    6.40 1996 HD

    A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.

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  • 2000
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    The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth

    6.20 2000 HD

    In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her...

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  • 2000
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    It Was an Accident

    It Was an Accident

    6.60 2000 HD

    An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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  • 1996
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    5.60 1996 HD

    A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which...

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  • 1995
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    Cedar Wood & Silk

    Cedar Wood & Silk

    1 1995 HD

    Differing opinions about fashion spark a vibrant, insightful exploration of the tender relationship between a Jamaican mother and her British-born...

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  • 1999
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    A Room for Romeo Brass

    A Room for Romeo Brass

    6.95 1999 HD

    Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous...

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  • 2023
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    Solitude

    Solitude

    1 2023 HD

    Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the...

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  • 1970
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    The Governesses

    The Governesses

    1 1970 HD

    Three rebellious governesses upend the household they work in - inspiriting the minds of the males in their care, igniting the imaginations of the...

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  • 2001
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    Pandaemonium

    Pandaemonium

    5.00 2001 HD

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate...

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  • 2000
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    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

    6.80 2000 HD

    Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new...

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  • 1998
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    Among Giants

    Among Giants

    5.00 1998 HD

    A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are...

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  • 1999
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    Captain Jack

    Captain Jack

    5.00 1999 HD

    Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung...

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