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Blindsight
United Kingdom, 2006, 104 min.
This insightful documentary follows a group of blind Tibetan teenagers—outcasts in their culture—as they attempt to hike up the 23,000-foot summit of Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest with the aid of a dedicated, mountaineering dream team. Director Lucy Walker captures the monumental land... more
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The Line of Beauty
United Kingdom, 2006, 180 min.
Adapted from Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel, this richly textured gay coming-of-age story penetrates deep under the skin of ’80s Britain. Amidst the euphoria of first love, sex and high society parties, a young graduate witnesses scandal, deception and hypocrisy when he moves in with... more
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Nina's Heavenly Delights
United Kingdom, 2006, 92 min.
Nina, a feisty young Indo-Scottish woman, discovers her father had lost 50 percent of the family curry house in a bet to the local bookie, whose daughter Lisa now runs it. Trying to take charge, Nina finds herself falling for Lisa in comedy about the search for cultural and sexual identity.... more
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Provoked
United Kingdom, 2006, 110 min.
After ten years of brutal physical and mental abuse, Kiran (Aishwarya Rai) a Punjabi housewife living in England sets her husband (Naveen Andrews) on fire. Her story inspired a landmark case that changed British law regarding battered women.... more
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Severance
United Kingdom, 2006, 90 min.
In this hilarious horror film, a British sales team who have traveled to the wilds of Hungary for an off-site team building excursion, find that their executive skills provide little defense against the blood-thirsty locals out to massacre them.... more
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Someone Else
United Kingdom, 2006, 78 min.
David is a London photographer who leaves his girlfriend of three years to be with a woman who, as it turns out, is already seeing someone. Like the very best British comedies, Someone Else is able to be charming, smart, funny and in the end, emotionally real.... more
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Venus
United Kingdom, 2006, 95 min.
The incomparable Peter O’Toole returns to the screen as 70-something actor who gains a new lease on life when he meets and falls in love with a 19-year-old girl. Venus transforms an edgy, even squeamish story, into a profound and moving film going experience.... more
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