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  • The Big Lebowski

    18 rating

    Arguably one of the greatest comedies of modern times; the Coen brothers’ deconstructed film noir following slacker hero ‘The Dude’ (Jeff Bridges).

    Rent for £3.50

    The Matrix

    15 rating

    Hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) is drawn into a burgeoning underground rebellion against the machines that enslave humanity, in the hugely influential action sci-fi.

    Rent for £3.50

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    Reservoir Dogs

    18 rating

    Quentin Tarantino explodes onto the screen with his debut feature following a jewellery heist gone horribly, violently wrong.

    Rent for £3.50

    Pulp Fiction

    18 rating

    Quentin Tarantino’s crackling crime classic still retains its swagger as one of the great American films of recent decades.

    Rent for £3.50

    Back to the Future

    PG rating

    The beloved 1980s classic transports Marty McFly back to the 1950s, where he has to ensure his parents fall in love and get himself back to the future.

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    Fahrenheit 11/9

    Michael Moore paints a fiery portrait of life in Trump’s America. Populist, provocative and piercingly captivating, this is Moore’s clarion call to action.

    • Documentary
    • 2018
    • 128 mins
    • Michael Moore

    Currently unavailable

    The Matrix

    Hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) is drawn into a burgeoning underground rebellion against the machines that enslave humanity, in the hugely influential action sci-fi.

    • Science Fiction
    • 1999
    • 136 mins

    Leaving soon

    Arcadia

    £3.50

    A folk horror wrapped up in an archive film, set to a soundtrack by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp).

    • Documentary
    • 2018
    • 79 mins
    • Paul Wright

    Currently unavailable

    Of Love & Law

    Two gay lawyers living in Osaka pioneer the first LGBTQ+ law firm in Japan.

    • Documentary
    • 2019
    • 94 mins
    • Hikaru Toda

    The Immigrant

    £3.50

    Marion Cotillard plays a Polish immigrant struggling to survive in 1920s New York, in this acclaimed drama from James Gray (We Own the Night).

    • Drama
    • 2013
    • 117 mins
    • James Gray

    Nina

    £3.50

    When a couple experiencing conception problems find a potential surrogate mother they're overjoyed, until Nina falls in love with her...

    • Romance
    • Drama
    • 2018
    • 124 mins
    • Olga Chajdas

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    The Miseducation of Cameron Post

    Chloë Grace Moretz is the girl who finds her tribe with fellow ‘sinners’ at a religious camp where they are told to pray the gay away.

    • Drama
    • 2018
    • 92 mins
    • Desiree Akhavan

    Boys on Film 19: No Ordinary Boy

    £14.50

    The Boys on Film series reaches the end of its teenage years with another compilation celebrating male desire in all its forms.

    • Anthology
    • 2018
    • 137 mins
    • Leon Lopez and Marco Alessi

    Anchor and Hopee234 zen

    £3.50

    Sweetly swaying houseboat comedy about a couple whose river-bound existence is upended by the arrival of an old friend.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • 2018
    • 113 mins
    • Carlos Marques-Marcet

    Postcards from London

    A stylish, sensuous film about a young man’s journey into an unusual form of escort work.

    • Drama
    • 2018
    • 89 mins
    • Steve McLean

    A Moment in the Reeds

    The world’s troubles recede, at least for a moment, in this intimate drama about an affair between a Finnish man and a Syrian immigrant.

    • Romance
    • Drama
    • 2017
    • 107 mins
    • Mikko Mäkelä

    Mario

    £3.50

    On the pitch Mario and Leon are teammates; off the pitch they are becoming so much more.

    • Drama
    • Sport
    • 2018
    • 119 mins
    • Marcel Gisler

    Snowpiercer

    £3.50

    After a global catastrophe launches the world into a new ice age, the last of humanity are trapped on a high-speed train that circles the globe infinitely.

    • Science Fiction
    • 2013
    • 126 mins
    • Bong Joon Ho

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    Room

    £3.50

    Brie Larson’s Oscar-winning performance is the beating heart of Lenny Abrahamson’s extraordinarily moving drama.

    • Thriller
    • 2016
    • 118 mins
    • Lenny Abrahamson

    On Chesil Beach test

    £3.50

    Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle play a young, married couple struggling to physically connect in this sensitive adaptation of Ian McEwan’s acclaimed novel.

    • Drama
    • 2018
    • 110 mins
    • Dominic Cooke

    Lady Macbeth

    Florence Pugh shines in this exceptional British debut of a young wife's need for freedom, whatever the cost.

    • Period drama
    • 2017
    • 89 mins
    • William Oldroyd

    The Handmaiden

    Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue.

    • Period drama
    • Crime
    • 2016
    • 146 mins
    • Park Chan-wook

    The Diary of a Teenage Girl

    £3.50

    The US indie hit tells the bold, bawdy and hilarious story of a teenager's sexual awakening after she sleeps with her mother’s boyfriend.

    • Drama
    • 2015
    • 102 mins
    • Marielle Heller

    Apocalypse Now

    £3.50

    Transplanting Joseph Conrad’s colonial-era novel Heart of Darkness to Vietnam, Coppola created a mesmerising fantasia on the spectacle of war.

    • War
    • 1979
    • 141 mins
    • Francis Ford Coppola

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    Elle

    Isabelle Huppert gives an unforgettable performance in Paul Verhoeven’s provocative thriller about one woman’s response to a violent attack.

    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • 2015
    • 131 mins
    • Paul Verhoeven

    Custody

    £3.50

    Myriam (Drucker) has recently left husband Antoine (Ménochet). She doesn’t want her youngest, Julien (Gioria), to see a father she claims is violent. But the judge rules otherwise, and the boy becomes a pawn in a bitter parental conflict…

    • Drama
    • 2016
    • 94 mins
    • Xavier Legrand

    Pierrot le Fou

    £2.50

    Godard’s stunning, colour widescreen account of the wild journey of ‘the last romantic couple’, Pierrot (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his lover Marianne (Anna Karina).

    • Crime
    • 1965
    • 110 mins
    • Jean-Luc Godard

    Disorder

    £3.50

    A broken soldier guards a tycoon's family in this involving thriller with hints of Taxi Driver, starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger.

    • Thriller
    • 2015
    • 98 mins
    • Alice Winocour

    The New Girlfriend

    Ruth Rendell provides the source novel for this delicious tale of deception and identity, from the master of mischievous melodrama, François Ozon.

    • Melodrama
    • 2014
    • 108 mins
    • François Ozon

    Currently unavailable

    Bastards

    Claire Denis’ moody and atmospheric thriller about an absent brother returning to the fold to investigate his family’s murky secrets.

    • Drama
    • 2013
    • 100 mins
    • Claire Denis

    Oscars

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    BlacKkKlansman

    Spike Lee's stunning crime drama tells the stranger-than-fiction true story of an African-American police officer who infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s.

    • Drama
    • Crime
    • 2018
    • 135 mins
    • Spike Lee

    Currently unavailable

    Double Indemnity

    Barbara Stanwyck is the housewife who dupes an insurance salesman into a devious murder plot, in this giant of American cinema - the archetypal Film Noir.

    • Crime
    • Film noir
    • 1944
    • 108 mins
    • Billy Wilder

    RBG

    £3.50

    Revelatory documentary on an unexpected hero - former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    • Biopic
    • Documentary
    • 2018
    • 99 mins
    • Julie Cohen and Betsy West

    Currently unavailable

    Moonlight

    Winner of the 2017 Oscar for Best Picture (eventually!), Barry Jenkins’ intoxicating drama follows the furtive life of a gay black boy through 80s Miami.

    • Drama
    • 2016
    • 111 mins
    • Barry Jenkins

    The Florida Project

    Anora director Sean Baker's visionary portrait of life in America’s underbelly, featuring an Oscar-nominated turn from Willem Dafoe.

    • Drama
    • 2017
    • 112 mins
    • Sean Baker

    Currently unavailable

    The Lady Eve

    A female con artist falls in love with her target in Preston Sturges’s comedy, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • 1941
    • 94 mins
    • Preston Sturges

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    The Party

    £3.50

    Following some unexpected revelations, a celebration quickly takes a turn for the worse in Sally Potter's razor-sharp comedy.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • 2017
    • 71 mins
    • Sally Potter

    Currently unavailable

    Lucky

    Harry Dean Stanton gives the performance of a lifetime as an irascible nonagenarian maverick grappling with his mortality.

    • Comedy
    • Drama
    • 2016
    • 88 mins
    • John Carroll Lynch

    Ghost Stories

    £3.50

    Being scared has never been this much fun, as Martin Freeman, Andy Nyman and Paul Whitehouse bring the chilling London stage play to the screen.

    • Horror
    • 2018
    • 98 mins
    • Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

    Beast

    The hunt for a Jersey serial killer sparks a dangerous awakening in a young woman in this astonishing psycho-sexual thriller.

    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • 2018
    • 106 mins
    • Michael Pearce

    You Were Never Really Here

    £3.50

    Lynne Ramsay journeys with Joaquin Phoenix into the mind of an ex-soldier gun-for-hire whose own demons are as brutal as the actions of his adversaries.

    • Thriller
    • 2017
    • 90 mins
    • Lynne Ramsay

    The Post

    £3.50

    Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed, gripping and timely drama about the publishing of the Pentagon Papers, featuring Tom Hanks and an Oscar-nominated performance from Meryl Streep.

    • Drama
    • 2017
    • 116 mins
    • Steven Spielberg

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