Dear Dictator (2017)
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When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks...
Eliza Graves (2014)
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An Oxford graduate takes up a job in a mental asylum, only to discover that the "revolutionary" new...
Zulu (1964)
7.1
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Enduringly popular British war movie based on the events of the battle of Rorke's Drift. A small...
David McK (3248 KP) rated The Prestige (2006) in Movies
Dec 8, 2020
It's just a pity the film is slow, plodding, and has a 'twist' concerning Christian Bale's character that you can see coming from rather early on (although not so much the one with Hugh Jackman's character)
Awix (3310 KP) rated King of Thieves (2018) in Movies
Oct 10, 2018
Initially this looks like it's going to be a slightly cosy comedy thriller about blokes who are too old be robbers any more, but - very pleasantly - it quite soon acquires some real heft and gravity to it, with the various members of the gang falling out and attempting to double-cross each other - most of these actors are well-known as comedians, but there is some proper meaty drama here and scenes with a definite tension to them.
Not quite as much Caine as you might hope for, but he is still the guv'nor as far as British film acting is concerned, and this is his best role for a while. Everyone else is good too. The film never quite gets the shifts between comedy and gangster thriller right, and the low budget keeps it from being very cinematic, but it's an engaging movie driven by great performances.
Educating Rita
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Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous...
David S. Goyer recommended The Man Who Would Be King (1975) in Movies (curated)
The Prestige (2006)
8.4
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An illusion gone horribly wrong pits two 19th-century magicians, Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and...
Get Carter (2000)
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Crime thriller, based on the 1971 British film of the same name. Gangland enforcer Jack Carter...
The Swarm (1978)
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Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost...