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  • 2012
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    London: The Modern Babylon

    London: The Modern Babylon

    6.50 2012 HD

    London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

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  • 2023
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    Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

    Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

    6.40 2023 HD

    The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his...

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  • 2007
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    Daphne

    Daphne

    6.00 2007 HD

    Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband...

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  • 2020
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    Strasbourg 1518

    Strasbourg 1518

    5.80 2020 HD

    Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over five hundred years ago, this film is a...

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  • 2021
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    The Birth of the Telephone

    The Birth of the Telephone

    1 2021 HD

    Originating from footage of Thomas Watson relating the conception of the telephone, Birth of the Telephone distorts and challenges the simplicity of...

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  • 2021
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    Fruity

    Fruity

    10.00 2021 HD

    A lonely lesbian plagued with thoughts of fruit whenever she attempts to masturbate begins to develop her own sexual prowess.  Everything changes...

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  • 2015
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    Fear Itself

    Fear Itself

    6.10 2015 HD

    A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us –...

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  • 2021
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    Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story

    Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story

    6.20 2021 HD

    In 1968, Jackie Collins published her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men to remarkable success and immediate scandal. Over the next...

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  • 2013
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    M.R. James: Ghost Writer

    M.R. James: Ghost Writer

    8.70 2013 HD

    Mark Gatiss steps into the mind of M.R. James, the enigmatic English master of the supernatural story. How did this donnish Victorian bachelor,...

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  • 2019
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    This Camera is Broken

    This Camera is Broken

    1 2019 HD

    An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her...

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  • 2022
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    Prisoner C33

    Prisoner C33

    7.00 2022 HD

    Reading Gaol, England, 1896. Prisoner C33, starving and thin, unable to wash properly, is a brilliant writer, husband and father of two, once the...

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  • 2009
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    The Real Cabaret

    The Real Cabaret

    10.00 2009 HD

    Few musicals can claim to capture the mood of a historical period as well as the 1972 classic Cabaret. Liza Minnelli's unforgettable portrayal of...

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  • 2014
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    The Man Who Fought the Planners: The Story of Ian Nairn

    The Man Who Fought the Planners: The Story of Ian Nairn

    1 2014 HD

    Profile of architecture critic Ian Nairn who led a blistering attack on the soulless destruction of Britain by shoddy post-war planners, but who was...

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  • 2023
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    8.00 2023 HD

    The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a live soundtrack in this premier stage adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes thriller.

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  • 2014
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    War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme

    War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme

    9.50 2014 HD

    The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its bloodshed and its limited territorial gains. What is...

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  • 2021
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    Voodoo in My Heart

    Voodoo in My Heart

    1 2021 HD

    Emily’s boyfriend has turned into a zombie overnight. She has successfully tied him to the bed frame with a phone charger, but not before he...

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  • 2016
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    Being the Brontes

    Being the Brontes

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2014
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    Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain

    Dan Cruickshank and the Family That Built Gothic Britain

    1 2014 HD

    As good as any Dickens novel, this is the triumphant and tragic story of the greatest architectural dynasty of the 19th century. Dan Cruickshank...

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  • 2017
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    Gluck - Who Did She Think He Was?

    Gluck - Who Did She Think He Was?

    8.00 2017 HD

    The story of Gluck - Britain's cross-dressing high society painter of the 1930s - who staged 'one-man shows', had relationships with women and...

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  • 2006
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    Giselle

    Giselle

    7.00 2006 HD

    Giselle is the quintessential Romantic ballet. Its title role, one of the most technically demanding and emotionally challenging in the classical...

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