Gloomy weather, vibrant cinema. From Ken Loach to Woody Allen, the UK and Ireland offer the ultimate cinematic backdrop.

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What is the cost of absolute happiness? Cannes award-winning science fiction film of impressive color shades and existential extensions with a riveting leading performance by Emily Beecham.

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A divorced mother and dedicated scientist, specializes in the development of new species of plants on behalf of a company. She has designed a special kind of flower with therapeutic properties. If kept at an ideal temperature, fed with the right ingredients, and people often talk to it, this plant will make its owner happy. But at what cost? Everything gets complicated when, against the company’s policy, the scientist takes a flower home with her…

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Best Actress Award (Emily Beecham) | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

Little Joe

One of the finest Jane Austen adaptations ever made, Joe Wright’s breathtakingly beautiful film feels both modern and timeless, with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen embodying the iconic roles of Elizabeth and Darcy.

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Elizabeth Bennet lives with her mother, father, and sisters in the English countryside. As the eldest daughter, she faces growing pressure from her parents to marry. When Elizabeth meets Mr. Darcy, the two develop strong feelings for each other but despite their undeniable chemistry, Darcy’s reserved and prideful nature threatens to keep them apart.

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Most Promising Newcomer (Joe Wright) | BAFTA Awards | 2006
Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Keira Knightley) | Oscars | 2006
Nomination for Best Original Score | Oscars | 2006
Nomination for Best Achievement in Costume Design | Oscars | 2006

Pride & Prejudice

They may go to therapy together, but they probably learn more about themselves while hanging out at the pub. A razor-sharp comedy about relationships on the brink of collapse, written by Nick Hornby, directed by Stephen Frears, and starring an all-star cast.
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Every week, before their joint therapy session, a couple meets at their local pub. Two characters, two actors, one location, one conversation. Each episode charts the terrain of their relationship through their discussions: what their lives are like, what brought them together, and what pushes them apart.

State of the Union

When Miss Marple mysteries meet a Sunday crossword. An investigation entangles a brilliant yet estranged man who assumes the identity of his missing twin brother. What could possibly go wrong? Starring David Mitchell from the cult favorite Peep Show.
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The life of puzzle creator John “Ludwig” Taylor is thrown into chaos when his identical twin brother, police officer James Taylor, goes missing. John suddenly finds himself forced to interact with far more people than he is comfortable with. And by assuming his brother’s identity, he reluctantly begins a secret investigation to uncover what happened to him.

Ludwig

British cinema of the future is introduced to us with this daring debut from a major directorial talent with influences from Neil Jordan and Andrea Arnold. A stunning performance from newcomer, Stranger Things' Joseph Quinn and a sense of magic that refuses to leave your skin.

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10-year-old Maria lives with her mum in London in 1984, in a house full of rubbish and love. Despite the obsession that defines her life, Cynthia is devoted to her daughter, collecting useless objects to give to her in a sign of total devotion. Until one day Maria is violently uprooted from her dreamy childhood trash heap, only to be delivered into the hands of a loving foster mother and a more normal adulthood. But when an old acquaintance from the past appears, the hidden wounds resurface.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2023
Best Screenplay | Athens Film Festival | 2023
Official Selection | London Film Festival | 2023

Hoard

The most beautiful film ever made, a breathtaking technicolor marvel with Jack Cardiff's mesmerizing photography and the sensational Moira Shearer dancing on the cutting edge. A tribute to the artist who goes to extremes for their art, Powell and Pressberger's masterpiece is an absolute cinematic must-see.

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Young ballerina Victoria Page is poised to become a superstar, but she earns the scorn of her company director, Boris Lermontov, when she falls in love with Julian Craster, composer of The Red Shoes, the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talent. Victoria leaves the company and marries Craster, but is still torn between the demands of Lermontov and those of her heart..

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Best Set Decoration | Oscars | 1949
Best Original Score | Oscars | 1949
Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 1949
Nomination for Best Screenplay | Oscars | 1949
Best Original Score | Golden Globes | 1949
Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 1948

The Red Shoes

What would you do if you could step into the shoes of a heroine and live in the world of novels? The present collides Jane Austen's universe when a woman is suddenly swept into the literary world. Who hasn’t wondered what they'd do if they could suddenly take the lead in their most beloved story?
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Amanda Price is a modern woman dissatisfied with her life, who discovers a portal in her bathroom that leads straight into the world of Jane Austen’s iconic novel Pride and Prejudice. Amanda ends up switching places with Elizabeth Bennet, who suddenly finds herself transported to present-day London.

Lost in Austen

Everyone deserves a chance at redemption. The remarkable Stephen Graham (Adolescence, The Walk In, Boiling Point) stars in a gripping miniseries directed by Shane Meadows (This Is England).
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Joseph, a man battling alcoholism and unresolved trauma, reaches a breaking point after his son moves to Australia. On impulse, he travels to Ireland to confront repressed childhood memories from an abusive institution. This journey forces him into a raw, emotional reckoning with his past, a fragile attempt at reconciling with his estranged sister, Anna, and painful encounters with ghosts from earlier in his life.

The Virtues

Contemporary maestro of comedy Richard Curtis, creator of Love Actually and About Time, delivers a delightful tribute to the art of radio broadcasting, showcasing Britain’s finest in both small and large roles.

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In 1960s Britain, the conservative BBC had banished rock music from its channel, prompting listeners to turn to pirate radio stations to get their essential musical fix. When the Government decides to hunt them down, the most popular pirate station - broadcasting literally from a pirate ship - defies prosecution, sails into international waters, and continues to hold high the banner of rock music.

The Boat That Rocked

Now considered a classic of its genre, this British comedy based on Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name is a tender, bittersweet cinematic lesson on coming of age, accepting responsibility, and the need for connection, with Hugh Grant delivering one of the finest performances of his career.

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An immature, idle bachelor who lives comfortably off his father’s royalties happens to meet a sensitive, socially isolated boy, and their relationship gradually develops into an unexpected bond that transforms them both in ways neither anticipated.

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Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2003
Nomination for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical | Golden Globes | 2003
Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | BAFTA Awards | 2003
Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Toni Collette) | BAFTA Awards | 2003

About a Boy

Sex, drugs and Irish rap. A true tale of man's inner desire for identity and passion for life, the fictionalized version of the genesis of a radical Belfast band is transformed into a thrilling adventure that pulses with hip-hop rhythms. Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

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In post-Troubles Belfast, the turbulent rap trio KNEECAP emerge and set the stage for a revival of the Irish language against the establishment. The band members become political icons and give a defiant voice to Ireland's restless youth. As they struggle to make their mark on the world and the pressures of their families threaten to bring their dreams to an inglorious end, the trio weaves a narrative that transcends music.

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NEXT Audience Award | Sundance Film Festival | 2024

Kneecap

The tropes of rom-coms, coming-of-age movies and buddy comedies are passed through the lens of a sports story in one of the most entertaining comedies of the '00s, the era when Beckham was at his peak. A huge hit that became a benchmark, it introduced us to the then up-and-coming Keira Knightley.

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Jess, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not allowed to play organised football, even though she is 18 years old. When she plays for fun one day, her impressive skills do not go unnoticed by Jules, who persuades Jess to play for her semi-professional team. She begins to use elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.

Bend it Like Beckham

Before putting on the Joker mask, Joaquin Phoenix was the updated and stylized version of the Scorsese Taxi Driver, in Lynne Ramsay's hallucinatory film that hides a lot more behind the revenge story portrayed.

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A traumatized veteran unafraid of violence tracks down missing girls for a living, when a missing girl makes him realize he is on a rescue mission. Corruption and revenge in a vortex of violence that can lead to his redemption.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

You Were Never Really Here

Loosely inspired by Mike Leigh’s childhood environment, this is one of the greatest titles in the director’s filmography, awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival, nominated for 3 Oscars, and with an unforgettable Imelda Staunton in the leading role.

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In 1950s England, 45 year old Vera Drake, a simple and goodhearted woman that works as a cleaner, conceals from her family that she performs illegal abortions, something she considers the humane thing to do for the unfortunate girls, and for which she’s not getting paid. But when one of her patients has post-surgery complications, Vera’s work will be revealed and she will face the law, society and her family.

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Golden Lion | Venice FIlm Festival | 2004
Best Actress (Imelda Staunton) | Venice FIlm Festival | 2004
Best Actress (Imelda Staunton) | BAFTA Awards | 2005
Best Director | BAFTA Awards | 2005
Nomination for Best Leading Actress Best Director and Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2005

Vera Drake

Faithful to his deeply political and human-centered cinema, Ken Loach captures, with his characteristic moral clarity, a world struggling to rediscover the meaning of solidarity.

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In a declining British town, where the mines have fallen silent and hope has run dry, a local pub remains as the last refuge - a gathering place, a lingering trace of community. When refugees from Syria arrive, the already wounded town is tested by fear, poverty, and suspicion.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2023
Nominated for Outstanding British Film of the Year | BAFTA Awards | 2024

The Old Oak

Before "Adolescence", Jack Thorne captivated British audiences with a deeply human story about the fight for life and the bonds of family. Set against the backdrop of the medical and legal systems, this BAFTA-nominated series confronts viewers with the most difficult question of all, what truly is in Marnie’s best interest?
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When Marnie’s health begins to fail, doctors say it’s time to let her go. Her parents, Nicci and Andrew, disagree believing her life is still worth fighting for. As the case heads to court, their once-solid family starts to fracture. With media attention mounting, secrets unravel and loyalties are tested. What begins as a battle for their daughter’s life becomes a fight that could tear them all apart.

Best Interests

The creative team behind "Philomena" presents another gripping true story about historical truth and the persistent search for it. Written by Stephen Frears, with a stunning Sally Hawkins.

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In 2012, after 500 years, the lost remains of King Richard III are uncovered in a Leicester car park. The investigation was organised at the initiative of amateur historian Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), whose unyielding stance was never understood by her circle or by experts and academics.

The Lost King

A building for the persecuted of London becomes the landscape of a general impasse, a series of dialogues where everyone is right and wrong at the same time, in an excellent class observation where the solution to the problems of the characters is ultimately one...cat.

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A family of Bulgarian immigrants living in a multicultural council building in south-east London come into serious conflict with their British neighbors over the ownership of a cat.

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Official Selection | Locarno International Film Festival | 2019

Cat in the Wall

The labyrinthine world of Cold War espionage is exemplarily captured in Thomas Alfredson's already classic adaptation of John Le Carré's book of the same name. BAFTA Award for Best British Film and three Oscar nominations

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At the height of the Cold War, a veteran agent returns to active duty to expose a Soviet spy operating within British intelligence.

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Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2012
Nomination for Best Leading Actor (Gary Oldman) | Oscars | 2012
Best Adapted Screenplay | BAFTA | 2012
Best British Film | BAFTA | 2012

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The film for which Charlie Chaplin won his only competitive Oscar, 20 years after it was produced! He was the victim of intense reactions and boycotts during its initial release but was discussed and reassessed as one of his masterpieces. Buster Keaton takes part.

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Depressed due to her seemingly failed dance career, a dancer tries to commit suicide but a bankrupt, once-famous clown will save her life. He will not only help her improve her health, but he will also redeem his own self-esteem. When the dancer proposes to him, their age difference will scare him and he will have an important decision to make.

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Best Original Music | Oscars | 1973

Limelight

Finding optimism and humanism in the wreckage of World War II, Powell and Pressburger's endlessly inventive and beautiful masterpiece travels through space and time, across the earth and the skies, following a love that knows no boundaries.

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British air force pilot Peter Carter returns to England from a World War II bombing mission in a badly damaged aircraft. Before he abandons the plane and crashes into the ocean, he communicates with June, an Allied radio operator. Peter survives, finds June and they fall in love. The problem? A messenger of the gods comes to Earth to take Peter to heaven - as he accidentally survived the afterlife!

A Matter of Life and Death

Celtic mythology collides with intergenerational trauma in a gripping Irish thriller where imagery, allegory, suspense, and performance intertwine in perfect harmony, and horror. From the director of the cult found-footage thriller "The Devil’s Doorway".

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Shortly after the death of her estranged mother, Sue, a nursing student, is assigned to a remote Irish village to care for Peig, a reclusive elderly woman who lives in fear, haunted by her past in a Catholic asylum. The forest house hides many dark secrets, and Peig’s paranoia slowly begins to seep into Sue, whose own troubled, abusive past resurfaces with disturbing inevitability.

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Best Original Music | Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival | 2024

Frewaka

What if the heroine of a Jane Austen story… were Jane herself? Sometimes fiction pales next to real life in this romantic film inspired by a true episode from the legendary author’s past. With Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy in charming form, it is a must-see for every Austen fan.

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Inspired by an episode in the life of author Jane Austen, the film introduces us to the spirited 20 year old Jane before fame found her, determined to marry for love despite her parents’ plans. When Jane (Anne Hathaway) meets the awkward, arrogant Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), she cannot stand him at first — but soon feels drawn to this poor yet sharp-witted young man. She finds herself at odds with society and its expectations, much like so many of the characters who would later inhabit her work.

Becoming Jane

A moving, but not didactic, debut brings us into the warehouses of the age of algorithm economics, into a world now designed to separate us, to witness one woman's silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection.

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The story of Aurora, a Portuguese immigrant working as a warehouse selector in Edinburgh, Scotland. Trapped between the confines of a huge distribution centre and the loneliness of her own bedroom, Aurora seeks every opportunity to resist the alienation and isolation that threaten her.

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Sutherland Award for Best First Feature | London Film Festival | 2024
Best Director | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2024
Official Selection | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2024

On Falling

The books of British author Julian Barnes, infinitely sharp and rooted in real life, are ideal for the big screen. Here, a magnificent cast breathes life into his homonymous novel, creating a cinematic chamber piece about our unreliable memory and the past that often haunts us.

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A man in his 70s lives a secluded and quiet life, until dark well-kept secrets from his past come to the surface. They force him to reflect upon the mistakes of his youth, the truth about his first love and the consequences of decisions that were made a whole lifetime ago.