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Call the Midwife: Series 2
2012 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsFollow Jenny and the other midwives as they continue to deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. Series 2 finds Jenny helping at a hospital in London, Cynthia facing legal scrutiny and Chummy making big plans.
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Call the Midwife
2012 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsSet in the 1950s, this period drama based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth follows new midwife Jenny Lee and the other midwives and nuns working in a nursing convent in an impoverished section of London's East End.
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Call the Midwife: Series 1
2012 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsYoung midwife Jenny Lee is given a trial by fire as she's immersed in situations both disturbing and comical in Series 1 of this drama series set in a nursing convent in gritty 1950s East London.
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Shakespeare Uncovered
2013 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsBehind every Shakespeare play there is a story of its conception, its staging and its influence over the centuries. Combining history, analysis and performance, this series explores six of his greatest works and how they helped shape modern theater.
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Shakespeare Uncovered
2013 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsBehind every Shakespeare play there is a story of its conception, its staging and its influence over the centuries. Combining history, analysis and performance, this series explores six of his greatest works and how they helped shape modern theater.
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The House of the Spirits
1993 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEsteban vows to marry Rosa, a rich man's daughter. But when Rosa dies before he can save enough money to do so, he instead marries her younger sister. Years later, when their daughter falls for a revolutionary, the family is thrown into turmoil.
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Animals United
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen their water disappears, a group of animals in the African savannah sets out on an incredible journey to find a new source. Soon, they discover that humans are hoarding the water to use at a luxury resort.
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The Whistleblower
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsSent to Bosnia in the aftermath of civil war, an American policewoman uncovers evidence that U.N. peacekeepers are covering up sex trafficking. But when she brings her findings to light, she learns that her foes are more powerful than the law.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn an Oscar-nominated performance, Vanessa Redgrave shines as Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland. Returning from France to assume the throne, Mary finds her ascension challenged by her brother, her husband and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I (Glenda Jackson). Timothy Dalton, Patrick McGoohan and Ian Holm co-star in this lavish production from director Charles Jarrott and producer Hal B. Wallis, creators of Anne of the Thousand Days.
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Mission: Impossible
1996 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect.
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How About You
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen the manager of a retirement home in the Irish countryside asks her younger sister, Ellie (Hayley Atwell), to run the facility during the holidays, four mischievous residents take advantage of the power vacuum and turn the place upside down. As Ellie learns to take charge, the residents also come to terms with their own troubles. Anthony Byrne directs this heartwarming comedy-drama co-starring Joss Ackland and Vanessa Redgrave.
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Miral
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAfter rescuing children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, a Palestinian woman establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children. But the success of her institution is tested when a pupil gets a taste of radical politics.
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Yanks
1979 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAcclaimed director John Schlesinger stages this epic romance against the dramatic backdrop of World War II. Stationed in England at the end of the war, three American soldiers (Richard Gere, William Devane and Chick Vennera) find romance with three local women (Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave and Wendy Morgan). Jazz fans should keep an eye out for singer Annie Ross in a brief role as a Red Cross worker.
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Mother's Boys
1994 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAfter abandoning her family, Jude Madigan (Jamie Lee Curtis) abruptly returns home three years later to discover another woman (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) has taken her place. Obsessed with reclaiming her former life, Jude will let nothing stand in her way. No matter that her husband (Peter Gallagher) wants to finalize their divorce, Jude is no longer after reconciliation but revenge. Luke Edwards co-stars in this tense psychodrama.
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Eva
2010 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhile engaging in an on-and-off relationship with Tudor (Vincent Regan) -- her one true love who has a heartbreaking history of vanishing mysteriously -- Eva (Amy Hayes) explores romances with other men, becomes pregnant and experiences more than her fair share of tragedy. Set in Romania during World War II, this drama also features Michael Ironside, Patrick Bergin, Dustin Milligan and Vanessa Redgrave.
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Evening
2007 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWith her daughters by her bedside, a terminally ill matriarch recounts a passionate and all-consuming romance that took place 50 years in the past yet steered the course and defined the rest of her life.
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A Month by the Lake
1995 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhile vacationing on Lake Como in pre-World War II Italy, a middle-aged English woman develops an interest in a fellow guest, a stuffy major in the British army. Before she can make her move, the arrival of a young nanny complicates her plans.
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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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Shades of Fear
1993 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsMystery lurks in the shadowy corners of a luxurious ocean liner as a young woman traveling on her own enters into a romantic liaison with a handsome stranger who may be an accomplished art forger and a cold-hearted killer. Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt and Jonathan Pryce star.
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The Trojan Women
1971 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsAn all-star cast backs this film based on the Greek tragedy by Euripides, a gloomy tale of war-ravaged Troy and the women who lived through those times. Hecuba (Katharine Hepburn), Queen of Troy, heads up a faction of women who are protesting the war around them. Among them are widow Andromache (Vanessa Redgrave) and troubled Cassandra (Genevieve Bujold). Although not part of the competition, this film was shown at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsAfter the mysterious death of the reclusive Rosalind Leigh, her estranged son, Leon, arrives at her house to take stock of his inheritance. But there's more to this house than dark corners and dusty antiques.
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