Movies found: 12, viewing from 1 to 12
The Road to Guantanamo
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Year: 2006
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross
Starring: Jacob Gaffney, Mark Holden, Riz Ahmed, Adam James, Jason Salkey, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui
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In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantl...
9 Songs
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciaran, The Dandy Warhols, Elbow, Franz Ferdinand
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Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall--London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
24 Hour Party People
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography
Year: 2002
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Andy Serkis, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Martin Hancock, Ron Cook
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Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to...
The Claim
Genres: Romance, Drama, Western
Year: 2000
Country: UK, Canada, France
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Sean McGinley, Julian Richings, Shirley Henderson, Milla Jovovich, Tom McCamus
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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.divX In 2 part!
The Killer Inside Me
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Bill Pullman, Kate Hudson, Brent Briscoe, Ned Beatty, Jessica Alba, Elias Koteas, Casey Affleck
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A West Texas deputy sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.
Jude
Year: 1996
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: James Nesbitt, Kate Winslet, Christopher Eccleston, Rachel Griffiths, Liam Cunningham, Lorraine Hilton, Mark Lambert
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A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricked him into marriage and she is married to an abusive nobleman. Living out of wedlock, the two are rejected by the townspeople leaving them to struggle in abject poverty. With Swedish Subtitles !!!
A Summer in Genoa
Genres: Drama
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Colin Firth, Kieran O'Brien, Perla Haney-Jardine, Catherine Keener, Demetri Goritsas, Hope Davis, Dante Ciari
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A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
The Trip
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2010
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Kerry Shale, Margo Stilley, Claire Keelan, Paul Popplewell, Rebecca Johnson
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When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Trishna
Genres: Drama
Year: 2011
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Freida Pinto, Roshan Seth, Kalki Koechlin, Anurag Kashyap, Harish Khanna, Aakash Dahiya
Available Quality: Hi Def
Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education....
A Mighty Heart
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Year: 2007
Country: USA, UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Dan Futterman, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed
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On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a caf
Code 46
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama
Year: 2003
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Togo Igawa, Bruno Lastra, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Tim Robbins, Sarah Backhouse
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Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papelles," a special travel permit issued by the totalitarianistic government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without papelles forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help bu...
Genova
Genres: Drama
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Colin Firth, Kieran O'Brien, Perla Haney-Jardine, Catherine Keener, Demetri Goritsas, Hope Davis, Dante Ciari
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.