7.2

Never Let Me Go

2010, UK, USA

• Actors: Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Izzy Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Kate Bowes Renna, Hannah Sharp, Christina Carrafiell, Oliver Parsons, Luke Bryant, Fidelis Morgan, Damien Thomas, Nathalie Richard, Huggy Leaver, Charles Cork, Sylvie Macdonald, David Sterne, Andrea Riseborough, Domhnall Gleeson, Kate Sissons, Amy Lennox, Anna Maria Everett, John Gillespie, Rachel Boss, Lydia Wilson, Monica Dolan, Chidi Chickwe
• Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Mark Romanek
• Available languages:
  • English English.

As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits them.

  4.2

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

2009, UK, Hungary

• Actors: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour, Richard E. Grant, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Shirley Henderson, Aaron Michael Drozin, Charlie Rowe, Peter Elliott, Daniel Peacock, Alan Cox, Hugh Sachs, Africa Nile, Jonathan Coyne, Stuart Hopps, Ferenc Elek, Attila Kalmár, György Honti, Gergo Brummel, Fernanda Dorogi, Kriszta Dorogi, Béla Gados, Verner Gresty, Jason Harris, Jácint Hergenröder, Zoltán Hetényi, Barna Ilyes, Lilla Karolyi, László Keszég
• Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Andrey Konchalovskiy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Bothered by bratty brother Max and neglected by well intentioned, but distracted, parents, she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll. Later that night, Mary's imagination brings the doll to life. Introducing himself as "NC," he takes her on a wondrous journey through a stunning dimension where toys assume human form and everything appears ten times larger. But danger lurks. An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King and his devious mother, has unleashed a plot to overthrow humanity. When NC is captured and placed under a paralytic spell, Mary, Max and a spirited band of toy sidekicks must rescue him from the Rat King's clutches and thwart his wicked plans to 'ratify' the world.

  7.4

The Boat That Rocked

2008, UK, Germany, USA, France

• Actors: Michael Hadley, Charlie Rowe, Lucy Fleming, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Ian Mercer, Bill Nighy, Will Adamsdale, Tom Brooke, Rhys Darby, Nick Frost, Katherine Parkinson, Chris O'Dowd, Ike Hamilton, Stephen Moore, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Thomas, Bohdan Poraj, Sinead Matthews, Tom Wisdom, Gemma Arterton, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Rhys Ifans, Talulah Riley, Olegar Fedoro, Duncan Foster, January Jones, Emma Thompson, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Richard Curtis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

"The Boat That Rocked" is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music. It's about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. The Count, a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin, the boss of Radio Rock -- a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs; Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who has just returned from his drug tour of America to reclaim his rightful position; Dave, an ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny co-broadcaster; and a fearsome British government official out for blood against the drug takers and lawbreakers of a once-great nation.

  6.2

The Golden Compass

2006, USA, UK

• Actors: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Ian McShane, Sam Elliott, Christopher Lee, Kristin Scott Thomas, Edward de Souza, Kathy Bates, Simon McBurney, Jack Shepherd, Magda Szubanski, Derek Jacobi, Clare Higgins, Charlie Rowe, Steven Loton, Michael Antoniou, Mark Mottram, Paul Antony-Barber, Jason Watkins, Jody Halse, Hattie Morahan, John Bett, John Franklyn-Robbins
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Chris Weitz
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- found only in the vast Artic expanse of the North -was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle...