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• F (2010) (18) F (2010) (18)
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  An alcoholic teacher is left unable to cope after a violent incident involving a pupil. He is forced to regain his confidence when a gang of violent teenagers invade the school and brutally murder one of his colleagues, leaving him fighting for his own life and that of his daughter. Horror, with David Schofield, Eliza Bennett and Ruth Gemmell
• F Ck For Forest (2012) (18) F Ck For Forest (2012) (18)
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  Documentary about the Berlin-based charity Fuck For Forest, which believes sex will save the world. This group of campaigners raises money for its noble cause by shooting and then selling erotic films online. The documentary follows a lonely soul called Danny as he stumbles into the arms of the charity and becomes embroiled in its mission to buy a swathe of forest and save indigenous peoples by catering to the carnal fantasies of the west.
• F For Fake (1973) (PG) F For Fake (1973) (PG)
  Synopsis
  Orson Welles lectures the audience on truth and falsehood in art and life in this re-release of his 1973 film essay, which blurs the boundary between documentary and fiction. The picture focuses on a number of individuals, who have been less than forthcoming with the truth, including renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and investigative reporter Clifford Irving, who sensationally falsified an apparently authorised autobiography of Howard Hughes.
• F Tipi Film (2012) (12A) F Tipi Film (2012) (12A)
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  Omnibus film comprised of nine shorts shot by Turkish directors. In light of the nationwide hunger protests by prisoners in response to the government's plans for enforced segregation in prisons, the feature explores themes of solitary confinement and state oppression through nine separate narratives linked by their location.
• F*ck (2005) (18) F*ck (2005) (18)
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  Documentary looking at the infamous four-letter expletive: its origins, meaning and effects on society. Through interviews, film and television clips, music, and original animation by Bill Plympton, the film explores the word's lasting impact and the ongoing controversy and taboos that surround it. Interviewees include Hunter S Thompson, Billy Connolly, Alanis Morissette and Ice-T.
• F.A.R.T. - The Movie (2000) (15) F.A.R.T. - The Movie (2000) (15)
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  College senior Artie has a bit of a problem with flatulence. His smelliness does not go against Artie with his fraternity president, who accepts him for what he is, but proves something of a problem when Artie attempts to date Andrea, the girl of his dreams. Can Artie overcome his bowel problem and find true love? Is the answer truly blowing in the wind?
• F.W.Murnau's Faust (1926) (PG) F.W.Murnau's Faust (1926) (PG)
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• Fabalous (2012) (TBC) Fabalous (2012) (TBC)
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  In his flat, filled to the ceiling with the artefacts of his life, Michael J. Howells tells us his story. When he’s not caring for his cat or his MS-stricken wife, he returns to his art, determined to keep depression at bay.
• Fable Of The Fish (2011) () Fable Of The Fish (2011) ()
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• Fables: Streetwise Opera (2010) () Fables: Streetwise Opera (2010) ()
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• Face (1997) (18) Face (1997) (18)
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  Thirty-five-year-old thief Ray (Robert Carlyle) has planned a payroll heist with his partner Dave (Ray Winstone) that will set them up for life. However, after executing the robbery with Stevie (Steven Waddington), Julian (Philip Davis) and Jason (Damon Albarn), cracks appear in the team over the division of the money. Ray is also suffering from a crisis of conscience, having realised he has abandoned the political and social beliefs he once shared with his lover (Lena Headey) and is living a lifestyle…
• Face Addict (2005) (15) Face Addict (2005) (15)
  Synopsis
  Edo Bertoglio revisits the New York art scene in the late 1970s and early 80s, known as the downtown scene, in this documentary based principally around personal reminiscences, archive footage and photographs. Along with his friend, violinist, painter, and one-time Warhol collaborator Walter Steding, Bertoglio explores the art, music and drugs that were central to an artistic community whose key figures included Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jim Jarmusch, Deborah Harry and John Lurie.
• Face Of A Fugitive (1959) (U) Face Of A Fugitive (1959) (U)
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  A man wrongly accused of murder flees from the authorities to start a new life in a Mexican border town. He ends up helping the local sheriff deal with a corrupt rancher's crooked schemes, while falling for the lawman's sister. However, his new-found happiness is threatened when his face starts to appear on wanted posters. Western, starring Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Alan Baxter and James Coburn
• Face of a Stranger (1991) (PG) Face of a Stranger (1991) (PG)
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  A widow struggles to make ends meet when she learns of her late husband's gambling debts. She befriends a homeless woman living outside her apartment building - to the horror of her social-climbing daughter. Drama, starring Gena Rowlands and Tyne Daly
• Face of an Angel (1999) (15) Face of an Angel (1999) (15)
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  Halle Berry takes the lead role in this biopic of Dorothy Dandridge, the first black woman to win a nomination for the Best Actress Oscar. Although she received great acclaim for such films as 'Carmen Jones' and 'Porgy and Bess', both with director Otto Preminger, Dandridge nevertheless found it hard to succeed in Hollywood, her progress impeded by racism and the offer of stereotypical roles. This film tells her whole story, from her early days working the club circuit, through her success in Hollywood…
• Face Of Terror (2003) (15) Face Of Terror (2003) (15)
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  Action-packed horror about a policeman from LA, searching the streets of Barcelona for his missing sister. When Nick Harper (Rick Schroder) discovers that terrorists are using American girls as vehicles for their terror regimes he has to battle to save his sister from this fate before it's too late.
• Face Off (1997) (18) Face Off (1997) (18)
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  FBI agent Sean Archer captures terrorist Castor Troy, the man who killed his son. While Troy is in a coma, Archer has the crook's face surgically grafted onto his own so he can go undercover and locate a ticking bomb planted somewhere in Los Angeles. But then Troy regains consciousness - and in turn takes on Archer's identity. John Woo's action thriller, starring Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon and Dominique Swain
• Face to Face (1967) (12) Face to Face (1967) (12)
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  Western allegory about the rise of European fascism, this spaghetti western follows a New England History teacher travelling to the Frontier to educate the pioneers only to find himself thrust into conflict with a band of outlaws.
• Face To Face (1976) (X) Face To Face (1976) (X)
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• Face Value (1991) (15) Face Value (1991) (15)
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  A glamorous New York model finds being in the limelight has its drawbacks when an obsessive make-up man wages a campaign of terror against her. Fact-based drama, starring Cheryl Pollak, Dale Midkiff, Kirk Baltz and Jack Blessing
• Faceless (2007) () Faceless (2007) ()
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• Faces (1968) (15) Faces (1968) (15)
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  Richard and Maria Forst (John Marley and Lynn Carlin), a middle-aged couple, are both seeking solace outside their sterile 14-year marriage, he with a prostitute (Gena Rowlands), she with a hunk at her local disco (Seymour Cassel). Their behaviour inevitably brings them to the brink of a break-up. John Cassavetes' uncompromising look at modern marriage was nominated for three Oscars.
• Faces In The Crowd (2011) (15) Faces In The Crowd (2011) (15)
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  A woman survives an attack by a serial killer, but the traumatic incident leaves her with a neurological condition that means she can no longer recognise people's faces. She offers to help the police track down the killer, despite being unable to remember his appearance, while the maniac plans to silence her before she can identify him. Thriller, starring Milla Jovovich and Julian McMahon
• Faces In The Dark (1960) (PG) Faces In The Dark (1960) (PG)
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  A devious woman plots with her lover to send her recently blinded husband insane, hoping he will take his own life and leave them free to pursue their illicit affair in peace. Thriller, starring John Gregson, Mai Zetterling, Michael Denison and Nanette Newman
• Facing Ali (2009) (E) Facing Ali (2009) (E)
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  Pete McCormack directs this tribute to legendary heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, based around interviews with his former rivals.
• Facing Mirrors (2011) () Facing Mirrors (2011) ()
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• Facing the Giants (2006) (PG) Facing the Giants (2006) (PG)
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  Religious drama about a Christian high school football coach who uses his undying faith to battle the giants of fear and failure. In six years of coaching, Grant Taylor (Alex Kendrick) has never led his Shiloh Eagles to a winning season. After learning that he and his wife Brooke (Shannen Fields) face infertility, Grant discovers that a group of fathers are secretly organising to have him dismissed as head coach. Devastated by his circumstances, he cries out to God in desperation. When Grant receives…
• Facing Window (2003) (15) Facing Window (2003) (15)
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  Italian drama. Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) is a young woman who has a dead-end job and is trapped in a lifeless marriage. Her life is transformed when her husband brings home an old man who has survived the Holocaust but remains obsessed by events he can't quite remember from 1943. As Giovanna tends to him and tries to help him remember what happened in 1943, she in turn becomes obsessed with the man who lives across the road from her, who she can see everyday from her bedroom window. Eventually…
• Factory Girl (2007) (15) Factory Girl (2007) (15)
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  Drama set in Andy Warhol's 'Factory' New York art scene in the late '60s, specifically from the vantage point of Edie Sedgwick, his glamorous muse. Bostonian heiress Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) eschews her inheritance as a pink-pillow princess and decides to mix with the 'wrong' crowd. Moving to New York, she is drawn, as moth to flame, to the weirdo clan of Warhol's (Guy Pearce) hangers on that is the Factory movement. Unfortunately for her, she also indulges heavily in their substances of choice.…
• Factotum (2005) (15) Factotum (2005) (15)
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  A booze-sodden Los Angeles writer crawls aimlessly from bar to bar while failing to hold down a job, interested only in drinking, gambling and seducing women, while he scrawls sombre and angst-ridden poetry that no one wants to read. Black comedy based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei and Fisher Stevens
• Fade To Black (1980) (18) Fade To Black (1980) (18)
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  A young man's obsession with film swerves out of control when he begins to take on the persona of famous characters. In his different guises, he vows to avenge all the people who have ever treated him badly with horrific consequences.
• Fade To Black (1993) (15) Fade To Black (1993) (15)
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  A college professor is suspected of committing a murder he unwittingly filmed, and realises the only way he can clear himself is by tracking down the real killer. Thriller, starring Timothy Busfield, Cloris Leachman, Heather Locklear and Michael Beck
• Fade to Black (2006) (15) Fade to Black (2006) (15)
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  Modern noir thriller that has the legendary Orson Welles travelling to Rome and becoming embroiled in a murder mystery. In 1948, having just divorced the screen icon Rita Hayworth, director Welles (Danny Huston) escapes Hollywood by flying to Rome for an acting role. Trying to raise money for his next project, Welles' attention is diverted when one of his cast is murdered on-set, leading him into a new role as an amateur sleuth. Helped at every turn by his trusted driver Tommaso (Diego Luna), an…
• Fading of the Cries (2010) (15) Fading of the Cries (2010) (15)
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  Fantasy horror starring Brad Dourif. Jacob (Jordan Matthews), a young man with a troubled past, rescues teenager Sarah (Hallee Hirsh) from the malevolent demons that have been ransacking his hometown for an ancient amulet that belonged to Sarah's Uncle Michael (Thomas Ian Nicholas). Armed with a magical sword and ready to fight to the death, Jacob comes to the realisation that the only way to defeat the demons is to face up to the dark secrets of his past.
• Faeries - The Movie (1999) (U) Faeries - The Movie (1999) (U)
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  Animated family adventure featuring the voices of Kate Winslet and Jeremy Irons. Two young siblings, Nellie (Carley O'Neill) and George (Geoffrey Williams) are sent to the country whilst their parents move house. When exploring the local forest George mysteriously disappears. With the help of a friendly hobgoblin, Nellie is relieved to be reunited with George in Faery land. But having eaten some of the Faery's food, George is bound by Faery law to remain there forever.
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (12) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (12)
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  François Truffaut directs this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's chilling novel. In the not-too-distant future, forbidden volumes of literature are burned regularly by the 'firemen'. Montag (Oskar Werner) is the man in charge of the burnings, but after meeting a revolutionary book-owner, schoolteacher Clarisse (Julie Christie), he begins to have doubts - both about his vocation and his dead marriage to pleasure-seeking Linda (also Christie). Curious about the draw of literature, Montag keeps a forbidden…
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) (15) Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) (15)
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  Probably the most talked-about film of 2004, this controversial documentary by political filmmaker Michael Moore focuses on the administration of George W. Bush and his 'War on Terrorism' agenda. The film explores the government's handling of the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, explores the dubious relationship between both Bush administrations and the bin Laden family, questions the possible role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks, and looks at the fallout of the tragedy and subsequent events…
• Fail Safe (2000) (PG) Fail Safe (2000) (PG)
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  A dedicated US bomber pilot is accidentally ordered to drop his nuclear payload on Russia, while the president and his aides struggle to avert the crisis. Cold War thriller remake, originally broadcast live on American TV, starring George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Richard Dreyfuss and Brian Dennehy
• Fail-Safe (1964) (PG) Fail-Safe (1964) (PG)
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  Sidney Lumet directs this dramatic tale of potential nuclear war, a similar theme to Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' but without the comedy. A computer system, designed to prevent a malfunction that would trigger off a nuclear attack, malfunctions itself and a warhead is accidentally set to destroy Moscow. New York must be destroyed in retaliation. Henry Fonda stars alongside Larry Hagman and Walter Matthau in a non-comic role.
• Failure is Not An Option (2003) (15) Failure is Not An Option (2003) (15)
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• Failure To Launch (2006) (12) Failure To Launch (2006) (12)
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  A thirtysomething man has no intention of leaving the family home, so his exasperated parents respond by hiring a woman who earns her living enticing stay-at-home men to fall in love with her and then encouraging them to fly the nest. Romantic comedy, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey, with Kathy Bates and Zooey Deschanel
• Faintheart (2008) (12) Faintheart (2008) (12)
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  Family man Richard finds solace from his humdrum life in the world of historical battle re-enactments. However, when his hobby sees him spend more time on the battlefield than at home, his wife leaves him for a gym instructor, forcing Richard to reassess his priorities. Romantic comedy, starring Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner, Jessica Hynes, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim Healy and Paul Nicholls
• Fair Game (1986) (18) Fair Game (1986) (18)
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• Fair Game (1988) (15) Fair Game (1988) (15)
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• Fair Game (1995) (15) Fair Game (1995) (15)
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  A brilliant American lawyer stumbles upon the plans of a criminal mastermind and is forced to flee for her life, reluctantly accompanied by a detective assigned to protect her - but it is not long before their hostile relationship turns to romance. Thriller, starring Cindy Crawford and William Baldwin, with Steven Berkoff and Christopher McDonald
• Fair Game (2005) (PG) Fair Game (2005) (PG)
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• Fair Game (2010) (12) Fair Game (2010) (12)
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  Political thriller based on real events, starring Sean Penn as Ambassador Joe Wilson and Naomi Watts as his wife, CIA Agent Valerie Plame. While Plame is leading a covert investigation into the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, her diplomat husband Wilson publishes a controversial article accusing the administration of manipulating intelligence about the weapons to justify the invasion of Iraq. When Plame's identity is subsequently revealed by a journalist, her overseas contacts are…
• Fair Trade (1988) (18) Fair Trade (1988) (18)
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• Fair Wind to Java (1952) (PG) Fair Wind to Java (1952) (PG)
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• Fairfield Road (2010) (PG) Fairfield Road (2010) (PG)
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  A Boston political adviser is devastated to learn his new job in Washington no longer exists and his girlfriend has been unfaithful. Heading for a small town to decide how to salvage his love life and career, he begins working on the local elections - and falls for a bookshop owner. Drama, starring Jesse Metcalfe and Natalie Lisinska