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British cinema: 2000s

Atonement (2007)
Joe Wright

England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia...   [More...]

Billy Elliot (2000)
Stephen Daldry

In the mid-1980s, coal mining is no longer a profitable industry in the UK and the Conservative government is at war with the miners' union over pit closures...   [More...]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Tim Burton

Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory...   [More...]

Clean (2004)
Olivier Assayas

Emily Wang and Lee Hauser have been in a relationship for many years. He is a 40-something rock singer who is past his prime; she is his promoter, and is finding it increasingly difficult to find him work...   [More...]

Embrassez qui vous voudrez (2002)
Michel Blanc

After a stressful year, Elizabeth Lannier is looking forward to her holiday in Le Touquet. When she learns that her best friend Véro will be staying in the same town, she suggests they spend their holiday together...   [More...]

Espion(s) (2009)
Nicolas Saada

With his qualifications, Vincent could easily get himself a well-paid job with a respectable firm, but instead he prefers to work as an airport baggage handler...   [More...]

Gosford Park (2001)
Robert Altman

England, 1932. Sir William McCordle, a wealthy industrialist, welcomes an assorted gathering at his stately country mansion, Gosford Park, for a hunting party...   [More...]

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Terry George

Early in the spring of 1994, the African country Rwanda descends into tribal anarchy as the Hutu controlled government attempts to put down an uprising by Tutsi rebels...   [More...]

Joyeux Noël (2005)
Christian Carion

24th December 1914. Five months into World War I, regiments of French and Scottish troops face off their German opponents in the muddy, snow-covered wastes of No Man's Land...   [More...]

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Joel Coen

In 1949, Ed Crane works as a barber in a small American town, in a shop belonging to his brother-in-law. He is married to Doris, a bookkeeper at a department store owned by Big Dave Brewster...   [More...]

La Môme (2007)
Olivier Dahan

In 1959, an internationally renowned singer falls ill during her highly publicised tour of America. In the early 1920s, a young girl lives through the most harrowing of childhoods, rejected by her mother, reared in a brothel, and then earning a meagre crust by singing in the streets of Paris...   [More...]

The Pianist (2002)
Roman Polanski

Warsaw, September 1939. Wladyslaw Szpilman is making a comfortable living as a virtuoso pianist in Poland when the Nazis invade his country and begin their systematic persecution of its Jewish population...   [More...]

Swimming Pool (2003)
François Ozon

Sarah Morton is a successful writer of crime fiction. Feeling the time has come for her to attempt a more serious novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher, John Bosland, to work at his holiday home in the South of France...   [More...]

Tsotsi (2005)
Gavin Hood

Barely into adulthood, Tsotsi is a hardened criminal who lives in a shanty district of post-Apartheid South Africa. He scrapes a living by brutal thievery with his mates Butcher, Boston and App...   [More...]

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