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Last updated March 26, 2023
The Way
2010 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsWhen his son dies while hiking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, a grieving father flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child's life, he decides to complete the 500-mile trek to Spain.
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Waking Ned Devine
1998 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAfter discovering that lucky local Ned Devine croaked from the shock of hitting the jackpot in the national lottery, two men mastermind a scheme to impersonate him and collect his prize money.
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Occupation
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this BBC drama series, Lee Hibbs (Warren Brown), Danny Ferguson (Stephen Graham) and Mike Swift (James Nesbitt) are three soldiers from the same regiment -- each affected differently by the British invasion of Iraq -- who return to Basra for money, love and to connect to the war's mission. The story focuses on the five years after their 2003 raid, during which the men find it very difficult to take control of their lives.
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Occupation
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis gripping drama series follows three troubled British soldiers who feel compelled to return to Basra -- the town in Iraq where their regiment saw combat five years prior -- to make sense, each in his own way, of their wartime experiences.
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Bloody Sunday
2002 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsOn Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, in a Catholic district of Northern Ireland, 13 unarmed civilian demonstrators were shot and killed by members of the British Parachute Regiment. Director Paul Greengrass's documentary-style drama depicts the massacre.
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Welcome to Sarajevo
1997 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn Michael Winterbottom's heartbreaking film about war-torn Bosnia, Stephen Dillane stars as English reporter Michael Henderson, one of many journalists dispatched to cover the mayhem in the Sarajevo. When Michael observes the countless children left orphaned by the war, he risks his life to help spirit an orphan named Emira (Emira Nusevic) out of the country -- even as he competes with an American journalist (Woody Harrelson) to get the story.
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Jude
1996 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWith intensity and resolve, stonemason Jude Fawley (Christopher Eccleston) aspires to get a college education, but circumstances work against his bookish ambitions in director Michael Winterbottom's haunting adaptation of Thomas Hardy's final novel, &NFi;Jude the Obscure&NFi_;. Kate Winslet co-stars as the lovely liberated cousin Jude falls in love with, and Rachel Griffiths plays the farmer's daughter who tricks him into matrimony.
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Jekyll
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsIn modern-day London, Dr. Jekyll's last living descendant believes he can control his dark side, but a secret society that's followed the Jekyll family line for a hundred years has plans for both halves of his personality.
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Jekyll
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsIn modern-day London, Dr. Jekyll's last living descendant believes he can control his dark side, but a secret society that's followed the Jekyll family line for a hundred years has plans for both halves of his personality.
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Five Minutes of Heaven
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsFrom acclaimed director Oliver Hirschbiegel and starring Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, Five Minutes of Heaven is a story inspired by two extraordinary lives, which explores the challenges of coming to terms with Northern Ireland's troubled past.
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Coriolanus
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsActor Ralph Fiennes makes his directorial debut with this modern update of Shakespeare's tale about the arrogant general who is banished by the republic he has protected at all costs, provoking him to ally with former foes and wreck a bloody revenge.
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