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Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey (James Stewart) finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge - but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him. Shocked by what he sees and at the unfore...

When Jacinda Ardern became leader of the Labour Party in New Zealand, and then Prime Minister, she rode a wave of heady popularity dubbed “Jacindamania”. She became the world’s second leader to give birth in office, and grappled with national crises including the country’s worst terror attack, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Prime Minister reflects her time in office with raw and disarming honesty. ...

Starring Ralph Fiennes, this heart-soaring period drama from director Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett tells the story of young men raising their voices in song under the shadow of WWI. A Yorkshire village’s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war. With the annual performance looming, the society is forced to change its entry rules to enlist some unlikely teens and the mu...

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, as the world grapples with the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust, U.S. Army psychiatrist Lt. Col. Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) is assigned the task of assessing the mental state of Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe), the notorious former Reichsmarschall and Hitler’s second in command, along with other high-ranking Nazi officials As the Allies – led...

Helen Mirren stars as an ill yet quick-witted mother who orchestrates a final farewell on her own terms in Kate Winslet's moving directorial debut. It’s nearly Christmas when an unexpected turn in their mother’s health thrusts four adult siblings, and their exasperating father, into chaos as they navigate messy family dynamics in the face of potential loss. But their quick-witted mother, June, ...

And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend … Last year’s global cinematic cultural sensation, which became the most successful Broadway film adaptation of all time, now reaches its epic, electrifying, emotional conclusion in Wicked: For Good. Directed once again by award-winning director Jon M. Chu and starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the...

On Christmas Eve, tough New York detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) arrives in Los Angeles with the aim of reconciling with his estranged wife, Holly at the Christmas party of her employer, the Nakatomi Corporation. When the party is disrupted by a group of heavily armed criminals led by the charismatic Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman)McClane evades capture and begins a one-man war against the hosta...

This life-affirming 1940 film is a festive classic. Set during the run-up to Christmas, two clerks in a department store (James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan) battle in person without realizing they’ve been carrying on a lonely-hearts romance by mail. “Twice remade (as the Judy Garland musical In the Good Old Summertime , then as the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan vehicle You’ve Got Mail ), Lubitsch’s 1...

Jacques Demy’s all-sung tale of first love is a ravishing mix of music, romance and fertile cinematic invention. An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shippe...

Mistaken identities, forbidden love, and one very inconvenient corpse turn the grand English manor of Fackham Hall, into total bedlam in this comedy of class, romance, manners, and mischief. From the director of Catastrophe Jim O’Hanlon, and written by Jimmy Carr, the hilarious story of a pickpocket (Ben Radcliffe) who blags his way into service at the grand Fackham Hall, only to fall for the L...