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This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Jim Broadbent

An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amir El-Masry

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gemma Arterton

Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Jonsson

An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in...

Genre: History

Cast: Rory Kinnear

Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tim Roth

A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Domhnall Gleeson

Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max Irons

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Liev Schreiber

12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nykiya Adams

Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler...

Genre: War

Cast: Amandla Stenberg

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

Genre: War

Cast: Asa Butterfield

London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Rose Williams

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jessie Buckley

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jack O'Connell

An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saoirse Ronan

When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's...

Genre: Action

Cast: James McAvoy

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw