Films of the Week: 7–13 July
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2023
Thriller
Horror
18
A twisted one-night stand devolves into a serial killer's vicious killing spree and a cat-and-mouse chase. Writer/director JT Mollner's thriller, starring Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty and Barbara Hershey
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2007
Drama
Romance
15
Period romantic drama starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Romola Garai. At a magnificent country house in 1935, sisters Cecilia and Briony Tallis clash over Cecilia's affair with servant's son Robbie Turner, leading to a life-changing flashpoint that cruelly splits up the young lovers. As Turner goes to war, eventually finding himself stranded on Dunkirk beach, Cecilia must live in hope that one day they will be reunited.
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1995
Documentary
Drama
PG
Award-winning drama based on the life of George III, starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren and Ian Holm. After almost 30 years as king, George III has become increasingly eccentric, and is unpopular with his subjects, causing concern about his fitness to rule.
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2020
Comedy
Drama
12A
Comedy drama starring Mads Mikkelsen. Facing a midlife crisis, morose schoolteacher Martin embarks on an experiment with his three similarly disenchanted friends. They make a pact to maintain a controlled percentage of alcohol in their bloodstream at all times, in the hope that they will feel more confident in daily life. However, their intake levels soon increase, with disastrous results.
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1973
Horror
Mystery
X
Classic horror starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee. When a policeman receives an anonymous letter suggesting that a girl has mysteriously disappeared from a small island community, he sets out to investigate. On his arrival, the villagers deny any knowledge of the girl, and he soon discovers that life on the island is not all that it seems.
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1973
Horror
Fantasy
X
Nicolas Roeg's supernatural thriller, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's short story, starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. Following the tragic drowning of their young daughter, John and Laura Baxter go to Venice - he to work, she to recuperate. There they meet two sisters, one of whom claims to be able to communicate with the dead child. Caught up in the bizarre events that follow, the Baxters are drawn inexorably toward a mysterious and forbidding fate.
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1980
Horror
Drama
X
Stanley Kubrick's chilling horror, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance takes on the job of winter caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel, despite a warning about the psychological strain the long months of isolation can cause. Jack's wife Wendy only hopes that Jack will finally find the time to write, but his psychically gifted son Danny has visions of a terrifying ordeal for the family.
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1961
Horror
Drama
X
Horror, based on Henry James's short story The Turn of the Screw, starring Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave and Peter Wyngarde. A young governess comes to believe that the angelic-seeming children in her charge are possessed by the evil spirits of two dead lovers. But is the mysterious country mansion they inhabit truly haunted or is the children's strange behaviour a fantasy of her own imagination?
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1992
Drama
Romance
PG
Period drama adapted from EM Forster's novel, starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter. Helen Schlegel, who lives in London with her sister Margaret and brother Tibby, is invited to stay at Howards End, the country home of the affluent Wilcox family whom she has recently met. She falls in love with their younger son Paul, but it is the friendship that later develops between Margaret and the ailing Mrs Wilcox which has far-reaching consequences for both families.
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1985
Comedy
Drama
15
Drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke. After his shady uncle makes him manager of a neglected London launderette, Omar, an eager Asian youth, seeks the help of his old school friend Johnny who has links with a racist gang. Against a background of racial tension in the area, Omar and Johnny set about giving their new business a facelift.
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