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• Ferry to Hong Kong (1961) (U) Ferry to Hong Kong (1961) (U)
  Synopsis
  Film adventure starring Orson Welles as the captain of a ship that reluctantly takes down-and-out drifter Mark Conrad (Curd Jurgens) aboard. Conrad is ejected from Hong Kong for his criminal behaviour, and it is only through a lucky game of cards that he wins the right to stay on board. Whilst wooing beautiful passenger Liz (Sylvia Syms), Conrad is offered the chance to become a hero when the boat is hit by a series of calamities, such as a raging typhoon engulfing the vessel, and a gang of pirates…
• Ferry Up The Amazon (2001) (PG) Ferry Up The Amazon (2001) (PG)
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• Fertile Ground (2010) (18) Fertile Ground (2010) (18)
  Synopsis
  Adam Gierasch directs this supernatural suspense horror. Expecting their first child, young couple Emily (Leisha Hailey) and Nate Weaver (Gale Harold) have moved to the countryside to start their family. But when they take up residence in Nate's remote ancestral home, they soon discover that the house is gripped by a malevolent curse that is bent on destroying them and their unborn baby.
• Festen (1998) (15) Festen (1998) (15)
  Synopsis
  Premiere. A man agrees to give a speech at his father's 60th birthday party, so writes two versions - one honest, the other polite. Before making his speech, he lets his unwitting father choose which one without telling him the contents - and when the speech containing the truth is chosen, family secrets are exposed. Drama, made under the Dogme manifesto, starring Ulrich Thomsen and Henning Moritzen. In Danish, German and English
• Festival (1996) () Festival (1996) ()
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• Festival (2005) (18) Festival (2005) (18)
  Synopsis
  Black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has…
• Festival Express (2004) (15) Festival Express (2004) (15)
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• Festival! (1967) (PG) Festival! (1967) (PG)
  Synopsis
  Director Murray Lerner's documentary compiles Newport Folk Festival footage between 1963 and 1966. Featuring interviews and performances by folk stalwarts including Joan Baez, Pete Seeger and Peter, Paul and Mary, as well as Bob Dylan's controversial first electric performances
• Fetih 1453 (2012) (15) Fetih 1453 (2012) (15)
  Synopsis
  All-action Turkish historical drama portraying the Ottoman Empire's siege on Constantinople in 1453. When 18-year-old Faith Mehmed (Devrim Evin) succeeds his father to become Sultan Mehmed II, leader of the Ottomans, his eyes are fixed firmly on one prize - Constantinople. Driven by his belief in the Muslim prophecy that Constantinople will one day fall to a holy conqueror, Mehmed leads a huge contingent of soldiers, which includes Ulubatli Hasan (Ibrahim Celikkol), to the city and prepares to launch…
• Fetishes (1996) (18) Fetishes (1996) (18)
  Synopsis
  Filmed at Pandora’s Box, the luxurious S&M parlour in New York, Fetishes reveals in both a humorous and informative manner the full range of fetishes, from rubber and infantilism, to asphyxiation and mummification. From award-winning British documentary maker Nick Broomfield. ‘Fascinating, horrifying, funny and sad’ - Roger Ebert.
• Fever (1999) (15) Fever (1999) (15)
  Synopsis
  Psychological thriller. Struggling atrist Nick Parker (Henry Thomas) pays the bills by giving drawing classes to the elderly. Living in a squalid Brooklyn apartment, Nick avoids contact with his family, including his estranged sister Charlotte (Teri Hatcher). When the murder of Nick's landlord sets off a disturbing chain of events, Nick begins to question whether these events are actually real, or whether they are a product of his psychological breakdown, brought about by his poverty and isolation.
• Fever (1991) (18) Fever (1991) (18)
  Synopsis
  Recently released from gaol, a man looks forward to starting afresh with his girlfriend and their child. However, one of his enemies in prison has other ideas and kidnaps the family. Armand Assante, Sam Neill and Marcia Gay Harden star.
• Fever Lake (2000) (15) Fever Lake (2000) (15)
  Synopsis
  Years after a young son witnessed the murder of his mother in their house on Lake Placid, a group of friends rent the property for the weekend. All goes well for the holiday-makers until supernatural forces come into play, forcing them to re-live the terror of the house's past; what exactly happened to the child who saw his mother slain, and how can they battle the evil which pervades the house?
• Fever Pitch (1985) (15) Fever Pitch (1985) (15)
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• Fever Pitch (1997) (15) Fever Pitch (1997) (15)
  Synopsis
  A football obsessed teacher is forced to choose between his love of the game and his attraction to a female colleague.
• Fezeka's Voice (2009) (PG) Fezeka's Voice (2009) (PG)
  Synopsis
  Born and raised in South Africa during apartheid, Phumi Tsewu watched with pride in 1994 when Nelson Mandela walked free from prison. For the past 12 years, he has devoted his life to The Fezeka High School Choir comprising 77 under-privileged children, who overcome poverty and disease every day to sing with one voice. This documentary follows the choir as it prepares for a performance at Salisbury International Arts Festival in England.
• Fida (2004) (15) Fida (2004) (15)
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• Fiddler On The Roof (1971) (U) Fiddler On The Roof (1971) (U)
  Synopsis
  A poor Jewish milkman is set on finding good husbands for his three eldest daughters while coming to terms with the pressures of village life in Ukraine under Tsarist rule. Unfortunately, his well-meaning plan is hampered by the girls' obstinate insistence on making their own marital choices. Norman Jewison's musical, starring Topal, Norma Crane, Paul Michael Glaser and Leonard Frey
• Fiddlers Three (1944) (PG) Fiddlers Three (1944) (PG)
  Synopsis
  A couple of sailors (Tommy Trinder and Sonnie Hale) are on shore leave and decide to visit Stonehenge. Whilst there they rescue a damsel in distress (Frances Day) and all three get struck by lightning at midnight. This transports them back in time to ancient Rome and they find themselves slaves who very soon are on their way to the arena and the mouth of a lion...
• Fidel (2002) (15) Fidel (2002) (15)
  Synopsis
  Television drama by David Attwood chronicling the 1959 Cuban Revolution in which Fidel Castro and Che Guevara toppled General Batista's regime. The film stars Victor Huggo Martin as Castro and Gael Garcia Bernal as Che Guevara, a role he would later reprise in Walter Salles' 'The Motorcyle Diaries' (2004).
• Fido (2006) (15) Fido (2006) (15)
  Synopsis
  Quirky comedy horror set in 1950s era small town America. When the Earth passes through a mysterious cloud of space dust, the massed ranks of the dead arise from their graves with a craving for human flesh. Just when it seems the human race is doomed, scientists at the aptly named ZomCom Corporation create a collar that takes away the zombies primal urges, allowing them to be tamed and used as domestic help. When Helen Robinson (Carrie-Anne Moss) decides to purchase one of the zombies to impress…
• Field Of Dreams (1989) (PG) Field Of Dreams (1989) (PG)
  Synopsis
  A farmer hears a mysterious voice inspiring him to mark out a baseball pitch in a cornfield - which, to his surprise, is visited by the ghost of the star player of the 1919 Chicago White Sox team, whose career was cut short by scandal. It later dawns on him the pitch has a greater purpose - to give people who have sacrificed important parts of their lives a second chance. Fantasy, starring Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster and James Earl Jones
• Field of Fire (1991) (15) Field of Fire (1991) (15)
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• Field of Honor (1986) (18) Field of Honor (1986) (18)
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• Field of Honour (1996) (12) Field of Honour (1996) (12)
  Synopsis
  In 1945 there existed two baseball leagues in America; the major league for the white players, and another for the black. The owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers determined to make history by bringing talented black players into the major league. Jackie Robinson, Saitchel Paige and Josh Gibson, the best black players, attracted the attention of the talent scouts. Given the chance to take their rightful place, they had to battle not only resistance to change but also their personal demons.
• Fielder's Choice (2005) (PG) Fielder's Choice (2005) (PG)
  Synopsis
  A selfish executive is forced to put his career on hold and consider someone else for a change when his sister dies, leaving him to take care of his autistic eight-year-old nephew. Drama, starring Chad Lowe, K'Sun Ray, Marin Hinkle and George Segal
• Fiend (1980) (18) Fiend (1980) (18)
  Synopsis
  Low-budget horror directed by Don Dohler. When an evil spirit enters a graveyard and re-animates a corpse, it brings the decaying body back to life as 'Mr Longfellow' (Don Leifert). In order for him to stay alive, he needs to absorb the life energies out of the living by wrapping his hands around his victims' throats. But when he moves to a Maryland suburb, his new neighbours begin to suspect that something is rather unusual about the strange and creepy Mr Longfellow.
• Fiend Without A Face (1958) (PG) Fiend Without A Face (1958) (PG)
  Synopsis
  Considered one of the goriest horror films to come out of the 1950s, Arthur Crabtree's sci-fi/horror film now has cult status. A long-range radar installation and its surrounding Canadian wilderness becomes the host to something deadly. At first, when military personnel and civilians are struck down, the leaders suspect murder. But the autopsies reveal that each victim has had its spinal fluids sucked dry through a hole in the skull. Eventually the finger of guilt points to Professor Walgate, who…
• Fierce Creatures (1997) (12) Fierce Creatures (1997) (12)
  Synopsis
  When media baron Rod McCain (Kevin Kline) buys Marwood Zoo in England, he sends over his son Vince (also Kline) and the sexy Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) to ensure that it turns over a 20% profit. The zoo is being run by McCain employee Rollo Lee (John Cleese), who has instigated a policy that only fierce creatures should be on display. When Vince sets up advertising hoardings and arranges bogus celebrity sponsorship, the zookeepers, led by insect specialist 'Bugsy' Malone (Michael Palin), revolt.…
• Fierce People (2005) (15) Fierce People (2005) (15)
  Synopsis
  An ensemble drama focusing on the gulf between the classes. As young New Yorker Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin) faces the long summer ahead, he dreams of teaming up with his estranged archaeologist father, studying lost tribes in South America. But his dreams evaporate when he's caught buying cocaine for his addicted mother Liz (Diane Lane), a masseuse. Trying to put things right, Liz sets the two of them up in the home of former client (and possible lover), the ageing billionaire Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald…
• Fiesta (1995) (15) Fiesta (1995) (15)
  Synopsis
  Compelling study of the seductive powers of fascism and violence, directed by Pierre Boutron. The film looks at the deeply disturbing world of the Spanish Civil War and follows a young military cadet who is ordered to join the firing squad.
• Fiffty Fiffty (1981) (15) Fiffty Fiffty (1981) (15)
  Synopsis
  Bollywood comedy drama starring Rajesh Khanna. After being switched as a young child by his father Bihari (Om Shivpuri), Kishan Singh (Khanna) grows up within a poor household and is forced to live a life of crime to make ends meet. When he teams up with Mary (Tina Munim), another burglar, the two decide to work together and split all the profits they make 50-50. That is, until Mary decides to ditch Kishan in the hopes of attaining the treasure of Chandpur for herself...
• Fifteen And Pregnant (1998) (12) Fifteen And Pregnant (1998) (12)
  Synopsis
  A lonely teenager gets pregnant in a misguided effort to bring meaning into her life, little suspecting how her decision will affect both herself and those around her. Drama, starring Kirsten Dunst, Park Overall, David Andrews and Margot Demeter
• Fifth Day of the Peace (1969) (TBC) Fifth Day of the Peace (1969) (TBC)
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• Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) (15) Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) (15)
  Synopsis
  Thriller loosely based on the autobiography by Martin McGartland, former undercover informant to the British police on the activities of the IRA. Set in Belfast in the late 1980s, the film shows how McGartland led a double life for four years while still in his early twenties, revealing nothing of his position even to close friends and family, until his cover was blown in 1991 and he was kidnapped and tortured by the IRA. Ben Kingsley co-stars as Fergus, McGartland's British 'handler'.
• Fifty Fifty (1992) (15) Fifty Fifty (1992) (15)
  Synopsis
  Two bickering mercenaries are hired by a shady CIA agent to overthrow a South East Asian dictator. Action thriller, starring Peter Weller, Robert Hays, Charles Martin Smith and Ramona Rahman
• Fig Tree (2010) () Fig Tree (2010) ()
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• Fight Club (1999) (18) Fight Club (1999) (18)
  Synopsis
  A disillusioned office worker grows weary of his humdrum existence, but after meeting the mysterious Tyler Durden he finds fulfillment in establishing a club where similarly frustrated men come to vent their anger in bouts of bare-knuckle fighting. Satirical drama directed by David Fincher, starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf and Jared Leto
• Fight Club - Members Only (2006) (12A) Fight Club - Members Only (2006) (12A)
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• Fight for Freedom (1990) (PG) Fight for Freedom (1990) (PG)
  Synopsis
  Set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, this is the story of a family's struggle for survival, and economic tragedy, against all the odds.
• Fight for Glory (1981) (18) Fight for Glory (1981) (18)
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• Fight for Justice - The Nancy Conn Story (1995) (15) Fight for Justice - The Nancy Conn Story (1995) (15)
  Synopsis
  Based on a true story of revenge. Nancy Conn (Marilu Henner) is unaware that Richard Ellard (Doug Savant) is obsessed with her, until he forces her and her cousin into his car at knife point. He tries to kill them both but Nancy survives, and her evidence later helps put Ellard behind bars. Nancy attempts to rebuild her life, but when Ellard is allowed out on parole he seeks revenge.
• Fight for Life (1986) (PG) Fight for Life (1986) (PG)
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• Fight Night (2004) (18) Fight Night (2004) (18)
  Synopsis
  Violent thriller about life in the underground world of bare knuckle boxing. Three fighters, LG (C.J. Aker), Jeremy (Jeremy McCurdy) and Conrado (Conrado Martinez), see participation in the fights as the only way to escape poverty and support their families, as well as helping to preserve the only traditions they have, but for Napoleon (Jonas Moscartolo), the man who profits from the fights via his gambling website, the fighters are entirely expendable.
• Fight Night (2008) (15) Fight Night (2008) (15)
  Synopsis
  Drama set in the seedy world of illegal prizefighting. Chad Ortis stars as Michael Dublin, a professional con man who earns a patchy living working the underground boxing circuit. When he meets Katherine Parker (Rebecca Neuenswander), a female fighter with the skills to take down a man twice her size, Dublin concocts a hustling scam guaranteed to cash in on Katherine's talents, and the two hit the road to work fights in dingy basement bars, abandoned warehouses and backwoods county fairs. But when…
• Fight to Win (1988) (15) Fight to Win (1988) (15)
  Synopsis
  A karate student is defeated by his rival and must regain both his honour and a priceless statue. He enlists Cynthia Rothrock to help him in his mission.
• Fighter (2007) (15) Fighter (2007) (15)
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  Danish drama. Aicha (Semra Turan) is a second-generation Turkish immigrant whose conventionally-minded parents expect her to do well in her studies and go on to medical school like her older brother Ali (Nima Nabipour). But Aicha's real passion is kung fu, and rather than applying herself at school, she starts secretly training at a professional martial arts club where she meets and falls in love with Emil (Cyron Bjorn Melville). Aicha soon discovers, however, that the rules of life are not as straightforward…
• Fighter in the Wind (2004) (15) Fighter in the Wind (2004) (15)
  Synopsis
  Korean martial arts action. In the 1930s, young Choi Baedal (Yang Dong-geun) travels from his native Korea to Japan, in the hope that he can join the Japanese airforce and train to become a pilot. Experiencing prejudice in Japan because of his Korean background, Choi is shocked to find that he is not allowed to compete in any of the local martial arts tournaments. His determination sees him retreat into the mountains, where for two years he trains until he feels he is ready. Taking on the best fighters…
• Fighter Squadron (1949) (U) Fighter Squadron (1949) (U)
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• Fighting (2009) (15) Fighting (2009) (15)
  Synopsis
  Action film starring Channing Tatum as Shawn MacArthur, a young small-time criminal who is introduced to the dangerous world of underground street fighting by seasoned scam artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard). Boarden goes on to become MacArthur's manager on the bare knuckle brawling circuit.