Peter Capaldi
1) Riverwoods
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Riverwoods shines a light on the perilous state of Scotland's salmon and tells the compelling story of an inextricable and extraordinary relationship between fish and forest.
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Richard Adams's Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in the Hampshire Downs in Southern England, an idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of "suspense, hot pursuit, and derring-do" (Chicago Tribune) follows a band of rabbits in flight from the incursion of man and the destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they travel forth from their native Sandleford warren through...
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Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as...
4) Benediction
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The story of decorated WW1 hero and renowned British poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden), who became one of the “Bright Young Things” of London society in the 1920s. Haunted by war and put off by the decadent behavior of his contemporaries including renowned composer Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), he remained determined that the legacy of the young men with whom he served would not be forgotten.
5) Local Hero
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Peter Riegert and Academy Award winner Burt Lancaster star in Bill Forsyth's charming, offbeat comedy about Texas oilmen seduced by the charms of a tiny Scottish village -- LOCAL HERO.Oil billionaire Felix Happer's (Lancaster--Field of Dreams) company has struck oil in the North Sea, but it needs a port out of which to base its drilling operations. The perfect harbor is found in a seaside village, and Happer sends Mac (Riegert) to buy then entire...
6) In the Loop
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During an interview, British Cabinet Minister Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) delivers an off-the-cuff remark that war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable." Profane political spin doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) tries to cover up Foster's faux pas, but the ill-conceived comment is picked up by a warmongering American official. Foster is invited to Washington, D.C., where a war of words brews as politicians maneuver, manipulate and deceive each...
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Inspector Jack Whicher is part of the newly formed Scotland Yard detective department and travels to Rode, Wiltshire, to investigate a murder at a country house. With no material evidence and only an inept local police force to help, he faces the unenviable task of solving a case in which members of the grieving family are the main suspects.
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U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.
10) In the loop
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When Britain's Secretary Of State For International Development Simon Foster states, in the midst of a radio interview, that a war in the Middle East in "unforeseeable, " it doesn't follow his government's "line" on events. The problem is that war is not unforeseeable, what with America itching to invade somewhere in the Middle East and the British government loyally following. Unfortunately, Foster suspects nothing about the firestorm to follow....
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A one-of-a-kind story of heart, humor, and finding one’s place in the universe.
Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family out in the country.
Prez is still learning to fit in at his new home when
12) The Fifth estate
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg team up to become underground watchdogs of the very powerful. They create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society, and...
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Set in the mist of Victorian London and featuring the real-life detective who inspired the first generation of crime writers, including Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher are gripping murder mysteries full of twists and turns and unexpected journeys starring Paddy Considine as Jack Whicher, the most celebrated detective of his day. When three-year-old Saville Kent is found brutally murdered at the...
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Devil's Mistress volume 2
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Angelica Fanshawe continues on her journey of the heart and mind through seduction and betrayal in the sexy continuation set during the English Civil War. Stars Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Andrea Riseborough.
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Devil's Mistress volume 1
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The English Civil War is seen through the eyes of a resourceful, manipulative, and desperate 17-year-old girl who'd do anything to survive. Stars Michael Fassbender, Dominic West and Andrea Riseborough.
17) Modigliani
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The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.
18) House of Nine
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Nine strangers, with no apparent connection between them are abducted: drugged, kidnapped and sealed in a house together.