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Key Largo
Frank McCloud (Bogart) visits the family of a GI friend killed in the war and finds they have been taken hostage by gangster on the run, Rocco (Edward G. Robinson). A hurricane approaches as McCloud and Rocco face up to each other. In this fourth screen pairing of Bogart and Bacall, the chemistry is still…
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Spirited Away
Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino becomes separated from her family in an abandoned amusement park that turns out to be a portal to the spirit world. This celebrated masterwork from Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki was a huge hit worldwide. It marked a pivotal point both in the growing popularity of Japanese anime and the wider acceptance of…
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Rabbit Proof Fence
Three mixed-race aboriginal girls are removed from their home to be assimilated into white settler culture in an integrationist school on the other side of Australia. The plan is to train them for domestic service. Based on a true events in the 1930s, the film tells the story of their escape and struggle to return…
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Ice Cold in Alex
Captain Anson (Mills) is assigned to escort an ambulance across the Libyan desert to Alexandria in WWII. The German advance starts to surround them will Anson lead his motley band to safety or succumb to self-doubt and whisky.
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Breaking Away
Its the 1970s and Bloomington, Indiana is a campus community with town-and-gown tensions. Four working-class teenage boys leave school and spend one last summer together before making the transition into adulthood and responsibility. Dave (Christopher) is obsessed with becoming an Italian champion bicycle racer and who knows maybe, in the Bloomington Little 500 race, dreams…
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The Colour of Paradise
Its the end of term at the school for the blind in Iran. Mohammed a bright young pupil waits patiently for his father to collect him for the holiday. He waits a long time because his father, a widower, believes having a blind son at home will damage his chances of finding a rich new…
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Yojimbo
Sanjuro (Mifune), a wandering samurai (rōnin), arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy. After proving his skill as a master swordsman by swiftly dispatching three thugs, the two bosses each seek to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard, with a view to eradicating their opponent and securing control of the…
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We Are Together
Pupils at the Agape School for AIDS Orphans form a choir and start to fundraise for their school when a disaster strikes. The film documents the choirs efforts to resuscitate plans to raise money for their cause and at the same time reveals the human stories of the pupils. We Are Together showcases the acapella…
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Caramel
Caramel delightfully weaves together a comedy about the daily lives of five Lebanese women. Each woman has a romantic problem and they play out their dramas against the backdrop of Layal’s (Nadine Labaki) Beirut beauty salon. Will one resolve a relationship with a married man, will another marry while trying to cover up her past,…
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Jules et Jim
To mark the 25 anniversary of Truffaut’s death, WFC brings you Truffaut’s third film, recognised now and then as a defining film of French New Wave cinema. The story tells of a menage a trois. Two young writers, Jules (Werner), an Austrian, and Jim (Serre), a Frenchman, live a decadent lifestyle in pre WWI Europe…
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