Helena Bonham Carter
61) Cinderella
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English
Description
A live-action feature inspired by the classic fairy tale, ?Cinderella? brings to life the timeless images from Disney?s 1950 animated masterpiece as fully-realized characters in a visually dazzling spectacle for a whole new generation.
64) Fight club
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English
Appears on list
Description
A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
65) Mighty Aphrodite
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Language
English
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Description
When a sportswriter tries to track down the mother of his adopted son, he discovers she is a prostitute and pornographic film star.
67) The heart of me
Language
English
Description
Socialite Madeleine invites her bohemian sister Dinah to stay with her and her husband, Rickie. Rickie and Dinah find themselves unable to control their desire for each other. What starts as a momentary affair spirals into decades of deception.
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English
Description
Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling and learns more about the dark past of the boy who grew up to become Lord Voldemort. There was a time when Hogwarts was thought of as a safe haven, but thanks to Voldemort's tightening grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, that simply isn't the case anymore.
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English
Description
A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
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English
Description
Set in the early 1900's. "[The film] tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)." -- Container.
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English
Description
"As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing a bride for Prince Charles, who is still unmarried at 30. As the nation begins to feel the impact of divisive policies introduced by Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, tensions arise between her and the Queen which only grow worse as Thatcher leads the country into the Falklands...
75) Night will fall
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English
Description
The story of the incredible efforts made by British cameramen to film and document the unbelievable atrocities the Allies encountered during the Liberation of the German Concentration camps in 1945 at the end of World War II.
76) Merlin
Language
English
Description
A world where dreams come true and magic is real. The legendary wizard Merlin allies himself with young King Arthur pledging his mystic skills to Arthur's visionary cause of peace and justice.
79) Francesco
Language
Italiano
Description
Depicting the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi and the rise of the Franciscan order that he founded. Following his death, Francis₂ devoted followers recall the saint₂s life and chart his transformation from the pampered son of an aristocrat into a selfless man of faith devoted wholly to a life of apostolic poverty.
80) Howards End
Series
Criterion collection volume 488
Language
English
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.