When ‘Lady’ Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband of forty years (John Sessions) is having an affair with her best friend (Josie  Lawrence) she seeks refuge in London with her estranged, older sister Bif (Celia Imrie). Bif drags her along to a community dance class, where
gradually she starts finding her feet and romance.  Also starring Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley and David Hayman. A light hearted, happy, uplifting film

• Director: Richard Loncraine
• Certificate: 12A
• Running time: 111 minutes
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In Paris, before WWI, two
friends, Jules (Austrian)
and Jim (French) fall in
love with the same woman,
Catherine. But Catherine
loves and marries
Jules. After the war,
when they meet again in
Germany, Catherine
starts to love Jim…
This is the story of three
people in love, a love
which does not affect
their friendship, and
about how their relationship
evolves with the
years.

• Director: Francois Truffaut
• Certificate: PG
• Running time: 105 minutes
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A darkly comic drama in which Mildrid Hayes (Frances McDorman), whose daughter was murdered and no culprit found, decides to paint three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at the town’s revered chief of police (Woody Harrelson).  When his second-in-command
(Sam Rockwell), a violent, immature mother’s boy gets involved, battle with Mildred is joined.

• Director: Martin McDonagh
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 104 minutes
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• Agnes Varda teams up with a renegade travelling companion, muralist and installation artist, J.R., on a whimsical tour across the French countryside.  The duo visits isolated villages, vast farms and small communities with an unquenched thirst to meet people and their amazing stories, which become part of an ever-growing mosaic of memories through massive, blackand-white posters plastered to walls.

• • • Director: Agnes Varda
    • Certificate: 12A
    • Running time: 89 minutes
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In 1979, James Baldwin started to write Remember This House, a personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his friends-  Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.  He only completed 30 pages.  In his documentary, Raoul Peck envisions the book that Baldwin never finished. The result is a journey into Black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.

• Director: Raoul Peck
• Certificate: 12A
• Running time: 93 minutes
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In Loveless,  Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-yearold son Alyosha.  Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

• Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 128 minutes
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Master story teller, Guillermo del Toro gives us The Shape of Water,  an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War America 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she discovers a secret classified experiment and forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature held in captivity.

• Director: Guillermo del Toro
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 123 minutes
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Claire is a humane and helpful midwife, dedicated to her patients. Her hospital about to close and she does not want to work in the new modern
“baby factory” hospital; her student son Simon is starting to leave home.  At this stressful time, Claire’s late father’s former mistress, Béatrice,
reappears. She is Claire’s exact opposite in character, the last kind of person Claire needs to mix with.  But Béatrice suffers from brain cancer
and has nobody else to turn to.

• Director: Martin Provost
• Certificate: 12
• Running time: 117 minutes
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This is the story of three Palestinian women living in Israeli society who, because of their lifestyles, struggle to be accepted.  Lalia likes to party after work, Salma, faces a difficult time when coming out as gay and Nur, a college student who observes Islamic tradition and moves in with them to be
close to the university.  All three women must learn how to accept themselves in the face of mounting pressure from their loved ones.

• Director: Maysaloun Hamoud
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 103 minutes
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Set in the 1970s and based on the memoirs of  Liverpudlian Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) this is his love story with ageing Hollywood star Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening). What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a
deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort when faced with events beyond her control.
Nominated for 3 BAFTA’s in 2018.

• Director: Paul McGuigan
• Certificate: 15
• Running time: 105 minutes
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