Roger Deakins

Roger Deakins

Roger Alexander Deakins, CBE, ASC, BSC (born May 24, 1949) is an English cinematographer. Often cited as one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers of all time, he is known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve. He is the recipient of five BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography, and two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography from sixteen nominations. His best-known works include The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Fargo (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Skyfall (2012), Sicario (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and 1917 (2019), the last two of which earned him Academy Awards.

  • Title: Roger Deakins
  • Popularity: 2.0138
  • Known For: Camera
  • Birthday: 1949-05-24
  • Place of Birth: Torquay, Devon, England, UK
  • Homepage: https://www.rogerdeakins.com
  • Also Known As: Sir Roger Deakins, Roger A. Deakins
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Roger Deakins Movies

  • 2009
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    The Rules of Film Noir

    The Rules of Film Noir

    6 2009 HD

    Matthew Sweet explores his rules of 1940s and 50s American film noir thrillers.

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  • 1998
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    In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

    In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

    6.5 1998 HD

    In Search of Kundun, a “making-of” documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco,...

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  • 2002
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    Making " The Man Who Wasn't There"

    Making " The Man Who Wasn't There"

    1 2002 HD

    Making of "The Man Who Wasn't There".

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  • 2006
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    Cinematographer Style

    Cinematographer Style

    6.8 2006 HD

    110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.

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  • 2006
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    Who Needs Sleep?

    Who Needs Sleep?

    7 2006 HD

    A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work, focusing on the American film industry.

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  • 2000
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    The Coen Brothers

    The Coen Brothers

    7.5 2000 HD

    During the promotional campaign for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" in 1999, BBC broadcast a documentary about the Coen brothers, mainly concerning...

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  • 2006
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    Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

    Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

    7.1 2006 HD

    Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing...

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  • 2006
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    The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

    The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

    7.8 2006 HD

    An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon."

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  • 2020
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    Allied Forces: Making 1917

    Allied Forces: Making 1917

    6.5 2020 HD

    Learn how the one shot, 360-degree format was executed and the pivotal role Academy Award® winner Roger Deakins served in bringing Sam...

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  • 2010
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    A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

    A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

    5.5 2010 HD

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  • 2005
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    Jarhead

    Jarhead

    6.669 2005 HD

    Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his...

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  • 2000
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    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    7.32 2000 HD

    In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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  • 1998
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    The Big Lebowski

    The Big Lebowski

    7.838 1998 HD

    Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a...

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  • 1996
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    Fargo

    Fargo

    7.855 1996 HD

    Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife...

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  • 1994
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    The Shawshank Redemption

    The Shawshank Redemption

    8.71 1994 HD

    Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison,...

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  • 1991
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    Barton Fink

    Barton Fink

    7.459 1991 HD

    A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

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  • 2001
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    A Beautiful Mind

    A Beautiful Mind

    7.854 2001 HD

    From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician,...

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  • 1995
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    Dead Man Walking

    Dead Man Walking

    7.318 1995 HD

    A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

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  • 1999
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    The Hurricane

    The Hurricane

    7.437 1999 HD

    The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

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  • 2008
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    Revolutionary Road

    Revolutionary Road

    6.987 2008 HD

    A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their...

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  • 2001
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    The Man Who Wasn't There

    The Man Who Wasn't There

    7.522 2001 HD

    A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but...

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  • 2007
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    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    7.037 2007 HD

    Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous...

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  • 2003
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    Levity

    Levity

    6.2 2003 HD

    Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at...

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  • 2004
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    The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers

    6.131 2004 HD

    An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting...

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  • 1999
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    Anywhere but Here

    Anywhere but Here

    6.048 1999 HD

    Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful...

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  • 1993
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    The Secret Garden

    The Secret Garden

    7.42 1993 HD

    A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's...

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  • 2003
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    House of Sand and Fog

    House of Sand and Fog

    7.2 2003 HD

    Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college....

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  • 2008
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    The Reader

    The Reader

    7.469 2008 HD

    The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only...

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  • 2004
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    The Village

    The Village

    6.48 2004 HD

    When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will...

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  • 1990
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    Air America

    Air America

    5.821 1990 HD

    Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for...

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  • 2007
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    In the Valley of Elah

    In the Valley of Elah

    6.782 2007 HD

    A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of...

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  • 2007
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    No Country for Old Men

    No Country for Old Men

    7.945 2007 HD

    Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for...

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  • 2001
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    Dinner with Friends

    Dinner with Friends

    5.6 2001 HD

    A husband and wife reevaluate their marriage after their closest friends, another couple decide to split up after twelve years.

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  • 1994
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    The Hudsucker Proxy

    The Hudsucker Proxy

    7.077 1994 HD

    A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

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  • 2003
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    Intolerable Cruelty

    Intolerable Cruelty

    5.943 2003 HD

    A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

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  • 1992
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    Thunderheart

    Thunderheart

    6.3 1992 HD

    A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

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  • 1984
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    6.8 1984 HD

    George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

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  • 2009
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    A Serious Man

    A Serious Man

    6.723 2009 HD

    It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving...

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  • 1998
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    The Siege

    The Siege

    6.296 1998 HD

    The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent...

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  • 2008
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    Doubt

    Doubt

    7.192 2008 HD

    In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.

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  • 1987
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    White Mischief

    White Mischief

    6 1987 HD

    A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as...

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  • 1981
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    Towers of Babel

    Towers of Babel

    7 1981 HD

    A BAFTA award nominated black comedy about life and death in a London tower block.

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  • 2010
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    True Grit

    True Grit

    7.308 2010 HD

    Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S....

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  • 1983
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    Another Time, Another Place

    Another Time, Another Place

    5 1983 HD

    Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war...

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  • 1990
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    Mountains of the Moon

    Mountains of the Moon

    6.4 1990 HD

    The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen...

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  • 2013
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    Prisoners

    Prisoners

    8.098 2013 HD

    Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as...

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  • 2022
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    Empire of Light

    Empire of Light

    6.654 2022 HD

    The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of...

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  • 1986
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    Sid and Nancy

    Sid and Nancy

    6.753 1986 HD

    January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental...

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  • 2014
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    Unbroken

    Unbroken

    7.427 2014 HD

    A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

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  • 2015
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    Sicario

    Sicario

    7.412 2015 HD

    An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and...

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  • 1984
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    The House

    The House

    5 1984 HD

    Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an...

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  • 1991
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    Homicide

    Homicide

    6.2 1991 HD

    A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

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  • 2007
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    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    7.037 2007 HD

    Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous...

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    Mountains of the Moon

    Mountains of the Moon

    6.4 1990 HD

    The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen...

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  • 1986
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    Defence of the Realm

    Defence of the Realm

    6.5 1986 HD

    A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a...

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  • 2015
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    Sicario

    Sicario

    7.412 2015 HD

    An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and...

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  • 2017
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    Blade Runner 2049

    Blade Runner 2049

    7.579 2017 HD

    Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge...

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  • 1990
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    The Long Walk Home

    The Long Walk Home

    7.622 1990 HD

    Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin...

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  • 1997
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    Kundun

    Kundun

    6.8 1997 HD

    The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist...

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  • 2016
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    Hail, Caesar!

    Hail, Caesar!

    5.924 2016 HD

    When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

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  • 2010
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    The Company Men

    The Company Men

    6.531 2010 HD

    Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and...

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  • 2012
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    Skyfall

    Skyfall

    7.249 2012 HD

    When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to...

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  • 2011
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    In Time

    In Time

    6.971 2011 HD

    In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for...

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  • 2013
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    Prisoners

    Prisoners

    8.098 2013 HD

    Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as...

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  • 1977
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    Before Hindsight

    Before Hindsight

    1 1977 HD

    Newsreels from the '30s constitute the bulk of this fascinating documentary, clearly illustrating that the public was fed an extremely biased view of...

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  • 1976
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    Empty Hand

    Empty Hand

    1 1976 HD

    Financed by Paul McCartney, showcasing Wings' drummer Geoff Briton karate skills.

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  • 2009
    imgMovies

    A Serious Man

    A Serious Man

    6.723 2009 HD

    It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving...

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    6.8 1984 HD

    George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

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  • 1981
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    Of Muppets & Men

    Of Muppets & Men

    8 1981 HD

    Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show.

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  • 1996
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    Courage Under Fire

    Courage Under Fire

    6.504 1996 HD

    A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female...

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  • 1988
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    Pascali's Island

    Pascali's Island

    6.4 1988 HD

    1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who...

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  • 1992
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    Passion Fish

    Passion Fish

    6.8 1992 HD

    After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest...

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  • 1985
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    Shadey

    Shadey

    4.4 1985 HD

    A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the...

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  • 1988
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    Stormy Monday

    Stormy Monday

    5.796 1988 HD

    When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his...

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  • 1987
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    Personal Services

    Personal Services

    6.1 1987 HD

    The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows...

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  • 1988
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    The Kitchen Toto

    The Kitchen Toto

    6.6 1988 HD

    The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.

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  • 1984
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    Return to Waterloo

    Return to Waterloo

    6.7 1984 HD

    A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.

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  • 1977
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    Cruel Passion

    Cruel Passion

    3.8 1977 HD

    Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive...

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  • 1985
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    The Innocent

    The Innocent

    10 1985 HD

    A young Yorkshire boy struggles to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a...

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  • 2014
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    Unbroken

    Unbroken

    7.427 2014 HD

    A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

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  • 2010
    imgMovies

    True Grit

    True Grit

    7.308 2010 HD

    Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S....

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  • 1980
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    Blue Suede Shoes

    Blue Suede Shoes

    5 1980 HD

    This documentary shows the revival of British rock n' roll as it follows a weekend pilgrimage of Teddy Boys, Rockabilly Rebels and Rockers. Bands...

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  • 1981
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    Van Morrison in Ireland

    Van Morrison in Ireland

    1 1981 HD

    The first official video by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, showing footage of the band whilst touring in Ireland and images of...

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  • 2019
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    The Goldfinch

    The Goldfinch

    7.153 2019 HD

    A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he...

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  • 1984
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    The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

    The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

    1 1984 HD

    A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984.

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  • 2012
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    Skyfall

    Skyfall

    7.249 2012 HD

    When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to...

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  • 2019
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    1917

    1917

    7.988 2019 HD

    At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on...

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  • 2007
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    No Country for Old Men

    No Country for Old Men

    7.945 2007 HD

    Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for...

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  • 1987
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    Personal Services

    Personal Services

    6.1 1987 HD

    The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows...

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  • 1978
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    Around the World with Ridgway

    Around the World with Ridgway

    1 1978 HD

    Documentary film of a British yachtsman John Ridgway's 57-foot ketch, English Rose VI, in the 1977-78 Whitbread Round the World Race. It captures the...

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  • 2011
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    Rango

    Rango

    6.872 2011 HD

    When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he...

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  • 2019
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    1917

    1917

    7.988 2019 HD

    At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on...

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  • 1980
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    Box On

    Box On

    6 1980 HD

    This is a movie about the alternate boxing circuit. Fighters who have lost their licences to box professionally mainly through injury carry on...

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  • 1979
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    Steppin' Out

    Steppin' Out

    1 1979 HD

    Short documentary film on the fashionable nightclubs and the trendy pop culture scenes that were famous in London on the late 70's. Released as a...

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  • 2020
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    Esther's Choice

    Esther's Choice

    1 2020 HD

    Esther, a film composer going through a dry spell, moves in with her boyfriend Michael only to find out that he still keeps his Ex-girlfriend's...

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  • 1983
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    Alan Bush: A Life

    Alan Bush: A Life

    1 1983 HD

    About the life and work of the composer, which includes an interview in which he discusses his musical ideas and important events in his life....

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  • 1978
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    Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe

    Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe

    1 1978 HD

    A documentary covering the Second Chimurenga, the Zimbabwean War of Liberation.

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  • 1976
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    Welcome to Britain

    Welcome to Britain

    1 1976 HD

    Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.

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  • 2020
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    Cursed Films

    Cursed Films

    7.3 2020 HD

    A documentary series exploring the myths and legends behind some of Hollywood’s notoriously “cursed” horror film productions. From...

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  • 2015
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    Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

    Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

    5.7 2015 HD

    Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    6.9 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 1970
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    6 1970 HD

    A black policeman is promoted to the CID and battles the drug trade in London's East End.

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