6.4

West Is West

2010, UK

• Actors: Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh, Thomas Russell, Jimi Mistry, Vanessa Hehir, John Branwell, Yograj Singh, Vijay Raaz, Karamjit Anmol, Sanjeev Attari, Raj Bhansali, Dhanalaxmi Padmakumar, Sheeba Chaddha, Ila Arun, Emil Marwa, Nadim Sawalha, Kamal Arora, Sunil Soni, Kalra Chander, Zita Sattar, Sujata Kumar, Enid Dunn, Lesley Nicol
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Andy De Emmony
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Salford, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.

  7.7

The Reader

2007, USA, Germany

• Actors: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain, Susanne Lothar, Alissa Wilms, Florian Bartholomäi, Friederike Becht, Matthias Habich, Frieder Venus, Marie-Anne Fliegel, Hendrik Arnst, Rainer Sellien, Torsten Michaelis, Moritz Grove, Joachim Tomaschewsky, Barbara Philipp, Hans Hohlbein, Jürgen Tarrach, Kirsten Block, Vijessna Ferkic, Vanessa Berthold, Benjamin Trinks, Fritz Roth, Hannah Herzsprung, Jacqueline Macaulay, Volker Bruch, Karoline Herfurth
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Stephen Daldry
• Available languages:
  • English English.

THE READER opens in WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.

  6.4

Cass

2007, UK

• Actors: Nonso Anozie, Natalie Press, Leo Gregory, Gavin Brocker, Tiggy Allen, Helen Anderson, Gemma Baker, Nick Bartlett, Linda Bassett, Geoffrey Beevers, Jack Bence, Che Conroy, Mario Demetriou, Joe Egan, Winston Ellis, Sarah Finigan, Robbie Gee, Tamer Hassan, Ralph Ineson, Rory Jennings, Jack Johnson, Daniel Kaluuya, Paul Kaye, Jamie Kenna, Gary Lawrence, David Lea, Kane Manera, Johnny Palmiero, Verelle Roberts, Brandon Robinson
• Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Jon S. Baird
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent up anger came out in a violent burst. CASS found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life, saw him shot three times at point blank range. His inner strength somehow managed to keep him alive but he was left with a dilemma; whether to seek vengeance as the street had taught him, or renounce his violent past.

  6.7

East Is East

1998, UK

• Actors: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson, Jimi Mistry, Raji James, Ian Aspinall, Lesley Nicol, Emma Rydal, Ruth Jones, Ben Keaton, Kriss Dosanjh, John Bardon, Gary Damer, Albert Moses, Jimmi Harkishin, Rosalind March, Kaleem Janjua, Gary Lewis, Roger Morlidge, Ralph Birtwell, Madhav Sharma, Saikat Ahamed, Bruce McGregor, Margaret Blakemore, Thierry Harcourt, Leena Dhingra, Tallat Nawaz
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Damien O'Donnell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

  6.2

Haunted

1995, UK, USA

• Actors: Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews, John Gielgud, Anna Massey, Alex Lowe, Geraldine Somerville, Victoria Shalet, Linda Bassett, Liz Smith, Peter England, Alice Douglas, Hilary Mason, Edmund Moriarty, Emily Hamilton
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Lewis Gilbert
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon makes him a good choice to set her mind at ease and convince her she is just tired and stressed. But soon after arriving David too begins to doubt his senses, and watching the odd behavior of the three grown Mariell children doesn't make his task any easier. In fact, he begins to think Nanny Tess isn't really just tired and stressed out after all.