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The Silent Child

The Silent Child

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

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Peter & the Wolf

Peter & the Wolf

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.5

An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather

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A House in Bayswater

A House in Bayswater

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The building is demolished to make way for an unattractive a...

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The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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We Are the Lambeth Boys

We Are the Lambeth Boys

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.

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One of the Missing

One of the Missing

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing preca...

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Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine

Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Ready to leave her UK boarding school and enter the working world, a young Black woman faces pressure to change her name and natural hairstyle.

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The Girl Chewing Gum

The Girl Chewing Gum

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.6

At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects.

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Amelia and the Angel

Amelia and the Angel

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 6.5

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the...

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Poacher

Poacher

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A desperate farmer runs into trouble after he steals a stash of blood ivory from a gang of international terrorists.

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