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Ladies In Lavender(2004)   DVD 12
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Charles Dance
Judi Dench;  Maggie Smith;  Natascha McElhone;
Two sisters find a young man on their Cornish beach in 1936. The man is nursed back to full health by the sisters and their doctor. The man's presence...

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Apollo 13 - Special Edition(1995)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > Historical
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks;  Kevin Bacon;  Bill Paxton;
Drama based on the events of the Apollo 13 space flight which saw three American astronauts stranded in a crippled spacecraft miles from earth.

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Erin Brockovich(2000)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Steven Soderbergh
Julia Roberts;  Aaron Eckhart;  Albert Finney;
Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother who cannot find a job and her bad luck even extends to a failed lawsuit following a car accident. She m...

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Hotel Rwanda   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Terry George
Don Cheadle;  Sophie Okonedo;  Nick Nolte;
Tells the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, the man who refused to ignore the atrocities suffered by the people of Rwanda. As the violence escalated an...

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Schindler's List(1993)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > Historical
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson;  Ralph Fiennes;  Caroline Goodall;
The war finds businessman Oskar Schindler joining the Nazi party to make a profit. His dedication to the cause and his generous bribes see him rewarde...

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Trainspotting(1995)   DVD 18 This title is part of a series, if you have other titles from this series in your list they will be sent in order.
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4 Stars
Drama > General
Danny Boyle
Ewan McGregor;  Jonny Lee Miller;  Kevin McKidd;
A story about a group of friends and their downward spiral into drugs and crime.

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Titanic   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > Romantic
James Cameron
Kate Winslet;  Leonardo DiCaprio;  Billy Zane;
A fortune hunter searching for a lost diamond near the wreck of the Titanic brings something else to the surface... a story from the past in which the...

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Gosford Park(2001)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Robert Altman
Michael Gambon;  Kristin Scott-Thomas;  Camilla Rutherford;
The action takes place in an old country house in England in the 1930s where friends have been invited for a shooting weekend by the man of the house ...

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Brideshead Revisited(2008)   DVD 12
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Julian Jarrold
Ben Whishaw;  Jonathan Cake;  Hayley Atwell;
Though director Julian Jarrold's adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel BRIDESHEAD REVISITED spans decades and continents, it's a taut film that never d...

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Elegy(2008)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Isabel Coixet
Penelope Cruz;  Ben Kingsley;  Peter Sarsgaard;
MY LIFE WITHOUT ME director Isabel Coixet draws excellent performances from a great cast in this moving drama. Ben Kingsley stars as a professor who f...

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28 Days   DVD 15
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Betty Thomas
Sandra Bullock;  Dominic West;  Viggo Mortensen;
This is the story of a successful New York writer, Gwen Cummings, and her struggle with alcohol abuse. After one particular drunken outburst at her si...

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Million Dollar Baby(2004)   DVD 12
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4 Stars
Drama > General
Clint Eastwood
Hilary Swank;  Clint Eastwood;  Morgan Freeman;
Having had his career marred by an injury to one of his fighters, former boxing manager Frankie Dunn runs a small gym in Los Angeles. When Maggie Fitz...

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8MM(1999)   DVD 18
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Joel Schumacher
Nicolas Cage;  Joaquin Phoenix;  James Gandolfini;
Tom Welles is a surveillance specialist with a modest business and he deals with nothing which is too dangerous or too threatening. One day his life i...

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Notebook, The(2004)   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Nick Cassavetes
Rachel McAdams;  Ryan Gosling;  Gena Rowlands;
Teenagers Allie and Noah's whirlwind romance is disrupted by her upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn't right for her. When they meet several ...

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Miss Potter   DVD PG
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4 Stars
Drama > General
Chris Noonan
Ewan McGregor;  Bill Paterson;  Emily Watson;
A remarkable film about the extraordinary life of British children’s writer Beatrix Potter; Miss Potter is an absolute diamond of a movie – a perfect ...

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Air I Breathe, The(2008)   DVD 15
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Jieho Lee
Forest Whitaker;  Clark Gregg;  Andy Garcia;

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Dark Blue(2003)   DVD 15
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Ron Shelton
Kurt Russell;  Brendan Gleeson;  Scott Speedman;

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Elizabeth - The Golden Age(2007)   DVD 12
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Shekhar Kapur
Cate Blanchett;  Clive Owen;  Jordi Molla;
Reuniting director Shekhar Kapur, writer Michael Hirst (The Queen) and stars Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush from 1998’s Elizabeth; Elizabeth: The Go...

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Meet Joe Black(1998)   DVD 12
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4 Stars
Drama > General
Martin Brest
Brad Pitt;  Anthony Hopkins;  Marcia Gay Harden;
A wealthy tycoon whose life is orderly and happy finds his household disrupted by the arrival of a young man called Joe Black. His daughter falls for ...

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Forrest Gump(1994)   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > Comedy
Robert Zemeckis
Tom Hanks;  Sally Field;  Gary Sinise;
The story of Forrest Gump, an innocent and childlike man, who found himself present for many of the most memorable events in American history from the...

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