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AMAZING GRACE
Release date: March 23
Cert: PG
This historical epic follows the early life of anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce. Ioan Gruffudd plays Wilberforce, a man born into the age of Empire when Britain's global influence was at its most powerful. It was also a time when reformers faced an uphill struggle to be heard. Wilberforce was a friend of England's Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbatch), and was elected to the House of Commons at just 21.
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AWAY FROM HER
Release date: April 27
Cert TBC
A moving love story about the many twists in a life-long marriage. Fiona (Julie Christie), suffering the onset of Alzheimer's, moves to a retirement home. Her husband Grant (Gordon Pinsent) is eventually allowed to visit but finds she has no memory of him and has grown attached to a resident, Aubrey (Michael Murphy). When Aubrey leaves, Fiona is devastated and Grant must make a huge act of sacrifice to guarantee his wife's final happiness.
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BECOMING JANE
Release date: March 9
Cert: PG
Becoming Jane presents a fresh and surprising view of the young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) and shows how a little-known love affair with the brilliant, roguish young Irishman, Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), played an influential part in the shaping of her work. The film shows Jane's determination to succeed in an era when independent thought for women was not encouraged and women's choices were severely limited.
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CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
Release date: April 13
Cert: 15
The most expensive Chinese film ever made, this is an epic costume drama examining the folly of war and the disintegration of one family. Militaristic King (Chow Yun Fat) unexpectedly returns home to a decaying kingdom. While his absence has given rise to love affairs, dangerous alliances and malicious conspiracies, the biggest threat of all is the King's own dark secret.
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DAYS OF GLORY
Release date: March 30
Cert: TBC
Although they have never set foot on French soil, Saïd (Jamel Debbouze), Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila), Messaoud (Roschdy Zem) and Yassir (Sammy Naceri) enlist into the French Army along with 130,000 other African soldiers to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. The friends battle through Italy, Provence and the Vosges before finding themselves alone to defend an Alsatian village against a German battalion.
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EDMOND
Release date: May TBC
Cert: 18
A controversial and savage black comedy, David Mamet's Edmond traces one man's brutal descent into a contemporary urban hell. A chance encounter with a fortune-teller leads businessman Edmond (William H. Macy) to confront the emptiness of his life. Appalled, he flees into the vortex of the city's underbelly, where he meets waitress, Glenna (Julia Stiles.) Conflict leads to murder and with nothing to lose Edmond spirals towards disintegration and a terrible redemption.
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LIGHTS IN THE DUSK
Release date: April 6
Cert: PG
Finnish film Lights in the Dusk concludes Aki Kaurismäki's so-called Loser Trilogy which includes Drifting Clouds and The Man Without a Past. It's a story of a man upholding old-fashioned virtues in a world where there appear to be none. However, far from being depressing, Lights in the Dusk is wonderfully droll. A cinematic black humour treat.
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NANHE JAISELMER
Release date: June 1
Cert: TBC
Nanhe lives with his mother, sister and camel, earning a living as a tourist guide arranging safaris. As a baby, he appeared in a film with actor Bobby Deol and grows up idolising him. Illiterate Nanhe keeps Deol up to date on his life through letters he asks his sister to write each day. When Deol arrives in town for a film shoot he changes not only the young boy's outlook but also his entire life.
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PROVOKED
Release date: April 6
Cert: 15
Based on true events, Provoked tells the story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who suffered 10 years of abuse at the hands of her husband. In a desperate act, she set fire to her tormentor and ended up with a life sentence for murder. The film reveals how Kiran's case changed women's rights in Britain. Starring Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane and Naveen Andrews.
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REIGN OVER ME
Release date: April 20
Cert: 15
Former college roommates Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) and Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) meet by chance on a Manhattan street corner. Five years after losing his family in the 9/11 disaster, Charlie has retreated from his life and Alan is stunned to see the changes in his friend. Alan – who should be enjoying his beautiful wife, children and career – is overwhelmed by his responsibilities. Their rekindled relationship becomes a lifeline for the two men.
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TEN CANOES
Release date: June 1
Cert: TBC
A thousand years ago in the north of Australia, ten tribesmen head into a forest to harvest bark. Soon it transpires Dayindi is besotted with the youngest wife of his older brother. With tribal law in danger of being broken, he is told a story from the mythical past; a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, mayhem and revenge gone wrong. A film unlike any other you've seen before.
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THE PAINTED VEIL
Release date: April 27
Cert: 12A
Based on Somerset Maugham's classic novel, this love story is set in the 1920s. A young English couple Walter (Edward Norton) and Kitty (Naomi Watts) marry and move to Shanghai, where she promptly has an affair. On discovering her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, Walter accepts a job in a village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship.
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THIS IS ENGLAND
Release date: April 27
Cert: 18
School is out and 12-year-old loner Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) faces an aimless summer holiday. His father has died fighting in the Falklands War and the youngster finds new male role models when a skinhead gang takes him in. Shaun discovers a world of parties and Dr Martin boots. But when they start harassing the local ethnic minorities, Shaun is hurled from innocence to experience.
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