Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has died by suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use both to reinvent her life.Read More »
Samantha Morton
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Lynne Ramsay – Morvern Callar (2002)
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Harmony Korine – Mister Lonely (2007)
Harmony Korine2001-2010ArthouseDramaUnited KingdomIn Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.Read More »
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Cecilia Miniucchi – Expired (2007)
Drama2001-2010Cecilia MiniucchiComedyUSAA turbulent and intriguing love story between two parking officers in the city of Los Angeles.Read More »
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Michael Winterbottom – Code 46 (2003)
Drama2001-2010Michael WinterbottomSci-FiUnited KingdomA fraud investigator falls in love with his suspect, though they may be closer than they think.Read More »
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Julien Temple – Pandaemonium (2000)
1991-2000DramaJulien TempleUnited KingdomThe troubled friendship and occasional rivalry between two of England’s greatest poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, is explored in an unorthodox light in this historical drama from renegade director Julian Temple.
As Coleridge (Linus Roache), Wordsworth (John Hannah), and Lord Byron (Guy Lankester) await the news of who will be Great Britain’s new poet laureate in 1816, Coleridge finds himself thinking back to 1795, when he and Wordsworth were two struggling writers involved in radical politics.Read More »
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Woody Allen – Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
1991-2000ComedyMusicalUSAWoody AllenA comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray’s life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music.Read More »