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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 7

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

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London to Brighton

London to Brighton

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 6.9

It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroo...

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Carla's Song

Carla's Song

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

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Poor Cow

Poor Cow

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, anoth...

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The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 6.8

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary...

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Letter to Brezhnev

Letter to Brezhnev

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.6

The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Ter...

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Born Equal

Born Equal

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.

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A Boy Called Dad

A Boy Called Dad

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 6.4

When he becomes a father at the tender age of 14, Robbie's life quickly spirals out of control. Feeling angry and neglected by his own dad, he kick-starts a series of events that will catapult him at...

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Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader an...

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Sparrows Can't Sing

Sparrows Can't Sing

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they...

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