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Churchill's Secret is a TV movie starring Michael Gambon, Romola Garai, and Lindsay Duncan. British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a...

Viceroy's House is a movie starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, and Manish Dayal. The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with...

The Zookeeper's Wife is a movie starring Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, and Daniel Brühl. Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.

The Gaelic King is a movie starring Alasdair Blair, Simon DeSilva, and Peter Cosgrove. Set in war-torn 800AD Scotland, The Gaelic King tells the story of warrior-king Alpin mac Eachdach. When his young brother is captured, Alpin...

Sweet Country is a movie starring Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, and Ewen Leslie. Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a...

We go in at Dawn is a movie starring Samantha Coughlan, Kelvin Fletcher, and Christos Lawton. When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission...

Chappaquiddick is a movie starring Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, and Ed Helms. Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

Mientras dure la guerra is a movie starring Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, and Santi Prego. Writer Miguel de Unamuno faces himself and his ideals after the 1936's military coup d'etat.

Jesters: The Game Changers is a movie starring Jin-woong Cho, Son Hyun-joo, and Seul-gi Kim. Deok Ho and his gang make ends meet by racketeering around the country. Han Myeong Hoe, King Sejo's right-hand man, thinks highly of their...

Das schweigende Klassenzimmer is a movie starring Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, and Lena Klenke. A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two...

Ansisung is a movie starring In-Sung Jo, Joo-Hyuk Nam, and Seol-Hyun Kim. A historical film about the siege of Ansi Fortress and the epic eighty-eight day battle that Yang Man-chun and his Goguryeo troops fought against 500,000...

Stan & Ollie is a movie starring Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, and Shirley Henderson. Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song - a...

Draug is a movie starring Elna Karlsson, Thomas Hedengran, and Ralf Beck. In the 11th century a missionary goes missing somewhere in the huge forests bordering the northern parts of Sweden. Among the rescue party chosen to find him...

Christmas at the Royal Hotel is a movie starring Harry Oram, Lydia Lee Tang, and Ashley Leung. In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies. With the sudden attack by Japanese...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a movie starring Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, and Geoffrey Rush. A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada,...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a movie starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, and Sam Shepard. Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri...

Persepolis is a movie starring Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, and Gena Rowlands. A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Breach is a movie starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, and Dennis Haysbert. FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.

Nightwatching is a movie starring Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, and Eva Birthistle. An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a...

Die Fälscher is a movie starring Karl Markovics, August Diehl, and Devid Striesow. The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII.

Mongol is a movie starring Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, and Khulan Chuluun. The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

21 is a movie starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, and Kevin Spacey. "21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in...

Changeling is a movie starring Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, and Amy Ryan. Grief-stricken mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) takes on the L.A.P.D. to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her...

Frost/Nixon is a movie starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, and Kevin Bacon. A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

10,000 BC is a movie starring Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, and Marco Khan. In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh...

The Duchess is a movie starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, and Dominic Cooper. A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Bathory is a movie starring Anna Friel, Karel Roden, and Vincent Regan. Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary...

Man on Wire is a movie starring Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, and Jean-Louis Blondeau. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's...

My Name Is Sara is a movie starring Zuzanna Surowy, Konrad Cichon, and Pawel Królikowski. Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her...

Max Manus is a movie starring Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, and Nicolai Cleve Broch. The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.

Jiang shan mei ren is a movie starring Kelly Chen, Donnie Yen, and Leon Lai. After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.

The Countess is a movie starring Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, and William Hurt. A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.

The Cove is a movie starring Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, and Hardy Jones. Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both...

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School is a movie starring Ruby Dee. For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was...

The Age of Stupid is a movie starring Pete Postlethwaite, Jehangir Wadia, and Alvin DuVernay. A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a movie starring Werner Herzog, Jean Clottes, and Julien Monney. Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations...

Holy Rollers is a movie starring Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, and Danny A. Abeckaser. In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israeli drug...

Yip Man chin chyun is a movie starring Yu-Hang To, Yi Huang, and Biao Yuen. Yip Man's resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters.

Yip Man 2 is a movie starring Donnie Yen, Xiaoming Huang, and Sammo Kam-Bo Hung. Centering on Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.

The Way Back is a movie starring Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, and Colin Farrell. Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.

Beneath Hill 60 is a movie starring Brendan Cowell, Harrison Gilbertson, and Steve Le Marquand. In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive...

Zhao shi gu er is a movie starring You Ge, Xueqi Wang, and Xiaoming Huang. To save the only child of the Zhao family, whose entire clan was massacred at the hands of a nefarious minister, a doctor sacrifices his own son; after the...

The Bang Bang Club is a movie starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, and Taylor Kitsch. A Drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.

Robin Hood is a movie starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, and Matthew Macfadyen. In twelfth century England, Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising...

Miral is a movie starring Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, and Willem Dafoe. A Drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli War who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

Burke and Hare is a movie starring Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, and Michael Smiley. A black Comedy about two nineteenth century grave robbers, who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.

The King's Speech is a movie starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter. The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the...

Storming Juno is a TV movie starring Benjamin Muir, Kevin Walker, and Craig Cyr. DocuDrama retelling the Canadian assault of Juno Beach on D-Day, as told via reenactment and through interviews with those who were there.