Arts Council of England

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    Another Life (2001)

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    Another Life (2001)

    A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn’t really love him and he feels it every day. He’s also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister’s one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Base on a true story.

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    The Claim (2000)

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    The Claim (2000)

    A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man’s daughter.

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    It Was an Accident (2000)

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    It Was an Accident (2000)

    An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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    Esther Kahn (2000)

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    Esther Kahn (2000)

    A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

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    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)

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    There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)

    Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother’s new boyfriend. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed and leads his school football team towards the final of the local schools cup.

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    Billy Elliot (2000)

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    Billy Elliot (2000)

    Set against the background of the 1984 Miner’s Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes!

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    Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

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    Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)

    An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love’s Labour’s Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It’s love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men’s highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.

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    Janice Beard 45 WPM (1999)

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    Janice Beard 45 WPM (1999)

    Janice Beard is a dreamer who can’t seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.

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    Plunkett & MacLeane (1999)

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    Plunkett & MacLeane (1999)

    Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen’s agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett’s criminal know-how and Macleane’s social connections, they team up to be soon known as “The Gentlemen Highwaymen”. But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson’s coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both: The Gentlemen Highwaymen and Rebecca, who, needless to tell, don’t want to get any closer to him. But Plunkett still has a thing to sort out with Chance, and his impulsiveness gets all of them in a little trouble.

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    Hideous Kinky (1998)

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    Hideous Kinky (1998)

    In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

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    Among Giants (1998)

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    Among Giants (1998)

    A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray’s crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others’ advice, who don’t want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve’s jealous; Ray’s ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won’t stay around. Plus, there’s pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.

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    The Revengers' Comedies (1998)

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    The Revengers’ Comedies (1998)

    After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell (Sam Neill) and Karen Knightly (Helena Bonham Carter) plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) who married Karen’s boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man (Steve Coogan) who took Henry’s job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone’s guess.

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