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  • Drama
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    Journey's End

    £3.50

    Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany and Asa Butterfield bring R C Sherriff’s acclaimed First World War play to the screen, in this new adaptation from director Saul Dibb.

    • Drama
    • War
    • 2018
    • 108 mins
    • Saul Dibb

    Currently unavailable

    Look Back in Anger

    Richard Burton’s portrayal of the archetypal ‘angry young man’ sparked a new wave of 'kitchen-sink' drama and cinematic social realism.

    • Drama
    • 1959
    • 100 mins
    • Tony Richardson

    After the Storm

    £3.50

    As typhoons buffet Tokyo, Hirokazu Koreeda examines a broken family and the father’s dogged attempts to glue it back together.

    • Drama
    • 2016
    • 118 mins
    • Hirokazu Koreeda

    Beach Rats

    Gripping account of repressed sexual desire in a masculine environment, with British newcomer Harris Dickinson as a virulently macho Brooklyn teen.

    • Drama
    • 2017
    • 98 mins
    • Eliza Hittman

    Currently unavailable

    Shadow of a Doubt

    Hitchcock’s personal favourite from his own films is a brilliantly suspenseful drama about a teenage girl whose uncle may be a murderer.

    • Drama
    • 1943
    • 108 mins
    • Alfred Hitchcock

    Currently unavailable

    Summer 1993

    An outstanding debut feature charting the emotional journey of a six-year old girl in the aftermath of her mother’s death in early 1990s Spain.

    • Drama
    • 2017
    • 98 mins
    • Carla Simón
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    Comedy
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    The Death of Stalin

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    Chaos and comedy ignite in Armando Iannucci’s acerbic satire, as Soviet officials frantically react to the passing of their glorious leader.

    • Comedy
    • Historical drama
    • 2017
    • 107 mins
    • Armando Iannucci

    Currently unavailable

    Duck Soup

    The Marx Brothers' lunatic satire of international relations finds Groucho in his his most memorable role as Rufus T. Firefly - leader of Freedonia. A comic masterpiece.

    • Comedy
    • 1933
    • 69 mins
    • Leo McCarey

    Adult Life Skills

    £3.50

    Anna (Jodie Whittaker) is an emotionally stunted 30-year-old living in her mum’s shed, learning to confront adult reality, in Rachel Tunnard’s quirky debut.

    • Comedy
    • 2016
    • 96 mins
    • Rachel Tunnard

    Currently unavailable

    Bridesmaids

    Much more than a girls-being-bad comedy, this matrimonial farce finely captures female friendship in all its glory.

    • Comedy
    • 2011
    • 125 mins
    • Paul Feig

    Currently unavailable

    Monty Python's the Meaning of Life

    Mr. Creosote, live organ transplants, salmon mousse... The Python's cinematic swansong contains some of the troupe's most notorious and hilarious sketches.

    • Comedy
    • 1983
    • 107 mins
    • Terry Jones
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    Horror
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    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

    A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    £3.50

    If you only see one Iranian vampire western this year, make sure it’s this one. A female vampire stalks a ghost town in Ana Lily Amirpour’s arresting debut.

    • Horror
    • 2014
    • 101 mins
    • Ana Lily Amirpour

    Let the Right One In

    A twelve-year-old boy befriends a mysterious girl with a dark secret, in Tomas Alfredson’s grownup tale of childhood vampirism.

    • Horror
    • 2008
    • 115 mins
    • Tomas Alfredson

    Currently unavailable

    The Thing

    Twelve men at an Antarctic research station battle a shape-shifting alien that hides in human form, in John Carpenter’s ground-breaking sci-fi horror.

    • Horror
    • Science Fiction
    • 1982
    • 109 mins
    • John Carpenter

    Currently unavailable

    Psycho

    Blood! Blood! Hitchcock’s masterpiece was his most successful film; a sensation in its time that continues to terrify.

    • Horror
    • Thriller
    • 1960
    • 109 mins
    • Alfred Hitchcock

    Currently unavailable

    Dracula (1958)

    Hammer's 1958 version of Stoker's Gothic novel was the most exciting to date, boasting lavish costumes and sets, a vibrant score and red, red blood.

    • Horror
    • 1958
    • 82 mins
    • Terence Fisher
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    Science Fiction
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    Silent Running

    Douglas Trumbull’s ecological sci-fi, eulogised by Mark Kermode as the best science fiction film ever made.

    • Science Fiction
    • 1972
    • 89 mins
    • Douglas Trumbull

    The Endless

    £3.50

    Two brothers who escaped a cult are drawn back in by a mysterious message… Acclaimed directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Spring) return with another hybrid piece of raging intensity.

    • Horror
    • Science Fiction
    • 2017
    • 112 mins
    • Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson

    Currently unavailable

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    This adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel follows Billy Pilgrim’s journeys in time as he flits between WWII Dresden and a future on planet Tralfamadore.

    • Comedy
    • Science Fiction
    • 1972
    • 103 mins
    • George Roy Hill

    Currently unavailable

    The Andromeda Strain

    Veteran director Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s sci-fi novel is an alien virus epic with superb special effects and a suspenseful climax.

    • Science Fiction
    • 1971
    • 131 mins
    • Robert Wise

    Currently unavailable

    Frankenstein

    The gothic horror that ushered in a wave of cinematic terror, starring Boris Karloff as the reconstructed monster with a human soul.

    • Horror
    • Science Fiction
    • 1931
    • 70 mins
    • James Whale

    The Lobster

    £3.50

    Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw and Rachel Weisz star in this bleakly hilarious dystopian drama from Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).

    • Science Fiction
    • 2015
    • 118 mins
    • Yorgos Lanthimos
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    Romance
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    Théo and Hugo

    A brief encounter at a naked sex club in Paris seems to be going well for Theo and Hugo, but a sudden realisation changes everything.

    • Romance
    • 2016
    • 97 mins
    • Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau

    The Big Sick

    £3.50

    The hilarious, breakout indie comedy about a Pakistan-born comedian and his culture-clash relationship with an American grad student.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • 2017
    • 120 mins
    • Michael Showalter

    Currently unavailable

    All That Heaven Allows

    Hollywood’s master of melodrama, Douglas Sirk, is at his most devastating crafting this deceptively simple story of class-crossing romance into a florid explosion of style.

    • Melodrama
    • Romance
    • 1955
    • 89 mins
    • Douglas Sirk

    Hidden Away

    £3.50

    A chance encounter between a Moroccan boy and a Spanish teen alters the course of their lives.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • 2014
    • 92 mins
    • Mikel Rueda

    Gregory's Girl

    The ultimate depiction of coming-of-age awkwardness, Bill Forsyth’s comedy about a teen who falls for the new female footballer on the school team.

    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • 1981
    • 92 mins
    • Bill Forsyth

    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
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    Documentary
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    My Generation

    £3.50

    Michael Caine takes us back to swinging London in this engaging documentary on the 1960s cultural revolution, featuring over 50 interviews with the key players.

    • Documentary
    • 2018
    • 86 mins
    • David Batty

    Human Flow

    £3.50

    Acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei artfully captures the bewildering breadth of the global migration crisis in this haunting and shocking documentary.

    • Documentary
    • 2017
    • 141 mins
    • Ai Weiwei

    Currently unavailable

    Elstree 1976

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, ten actors landed small roles in a mysterious project called Star Wars. This is the story of how their lives changed forever.

    • Documentary
    • 2015
    • 101 mins
    • Jon Spira

    Currently unavailable

    Dressed as a Girl

    An in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at London’s finest drag performers. Warning: extreme use of make-up and glitter.

    • Documentary
    • 2015
    • 101 mins
    • Colin Rothbart

    Generation Revolution

    £3.50

    This urgent, impassioned documentary follows a new generation of Black activists as they fight for social and political change in London and beyond.

    • Documentary
    • 2016
    • 72 mins
    • Usayd Younis and Cassie Quarless

    Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

    £3.50

    Fascinating documentary about the glamorous Hollywood star who was also a genius inventor of military technology.

    • Documentary
    • 2017
    • 89 mins
    • Alexandra Dean
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    Thriller
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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

    The Third Murder

    £3.50

    A clear-cut murder case is revealed to be much more layered than it first appears, in this gripping and intelligent crime drama from Palme d'Or-winning director Hirokazu Koreeda.

    • Crime
    • Thriller
    • 2017
    • 125 mins
    • Hirokazu Koreeda

    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

    Currently unavailable

    Charade

    Charm is the byword in the screwball thriller that pits Cary Grant on the trail of Audrey Hepburn and her late husband’s missing millions.

    • Thriller
    • Comedy
    • 1963
    • 113 mins
    • Stanley Donen

    Revenge

    £3.50

    Coralie Fargeat's gloriously bloody tale of one woman's retribution; a razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller.

    • Thriller
    • Action and Adventure
    • 2017
    • 108 mins
    • Coralie Fargeat

    Brighton Rock

    £3.50

    Richard Attenborough’s unforgettably sinister turn as ‘Pinkie’ pervades this classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel.

    • Thriller
    • 1948
    • 93 mins
    • John Boulting
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    Crime
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    The Ghoul

    A British indie crime film of great style and ingenuity, executive produced by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Meeten and Alice Lowe.

    • Thriller
    • Crime
    • 2017
    • 82 mins
    • Gareth Tunley

    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

    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

    Heli

    £3.50

    Amat Escalante won Best Director at Cannes 2013 for his visceral Mexican crime drama about an honest man drawn into a dispute with a vicious local drugs cartel.

    • Drama
    • Crime
    • 2013
    • 105 mins
    • Amat Escalante

    Currently unavailable

    The Killers

    Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner star in Robert Siodmak’s gritty and muscular film noir, adapted from Hemingway’s short story.

    • Crime
    • Film noir
    • 1946
    • 102 mins
    • Robert Siodmak

    Free Fire

    £3.50

    Ben Wheatley’s (High-Rise, Sightseers) all-guns-blazing bullet opera, starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer.

    • Action and Adventure
    • Crime
    • 2017
    • 90 mins
    • Ben Wheatley
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    Biopic
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    Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

    £3.50

    Grace Jones is laid bare in this intimate and electrifying insight into the fascinating world of a pop-cultural phenomenon.

    • Documentary
    • Biopic
    • 2017
    • 115 mins
    • Sophie Fiennes

    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

    £3.50

    Annette Bening and Jamie Bell bring to life the true story of the love affair between Gloria Grahame and young, Liverpudlian actor Peter Turner.

    • Biopic
    • 2017
    • 106 mins
    • Paul McGuigan

    A Quiet Passion

    £3.50

    Terence Davies' elegant and deeply moving biopic of poet Emily Dickinson, played with sensitivity and rebellious spirit by Cynthia Nixon.

    • Biopic
    • 2017
    • 125 mins
    • Terence Davies

    Hockney

    £3.50

    A portrait of the beloved British artist, drawing on his own home-movie footage and with revealing contributions from his friends and colleagues.

    • Documentary
    • Biopic
    • 2014
    • 108 mins
    • Randall Wright

    Sid and Nancy

    £3.50

    A raw and unnerving depiction of the short, incendiary life and times of Sex Pistols punk rockstar Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

    • Biopic
    • 1986
    • 113 mins
    • Alex Cox

    Currently unavailable

    Dread Beat and Blood

    Vibrant documentary portrait of dub poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson, fighting racism with the spoken word on the streets of 1970s Brixton.

    • Biopic
    • 1979
    • 44 mins
    • Franco Rosso
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