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• W (2008) (15) W (2008) (15)
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  Premiere. Oliver Stone's biopic of former US President George W Bush, including his turbulent youth and his difficult relationship with his father. At the age of 40, Bush became a born-again Christian before embarking upon a political career which saw him elected as Governor of Texas and, in 2001, being sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States. Starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, Noah Wyle, Ioan Gruffudd and Richard Dreyfuss. Includes National Lottery Euromillions, RTÉ News, Marine…
• W.C. Fields Four Classic Comedy Shorts (1933) (PG) W.C. Fields Four Classic Comedy Shorts (1933) (PG)
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• W.E. (2011) (15) W.E. (2011) (15)
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  A 1990s New Yorker finds herself obsessed with the love story between Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) and King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy) in this drama directed by Madonna. Unhappily married Wally (Abbie Cornish) is fascinated by the life of Simpson, the American divorcee Edward VIII gave up the English throne for. While visiting a Sotheby's auction of the Windsor's estate, Wally realises that the couple's life together was not all sweetness and light. However, she also learns of the sacrifices…
• W.M.D. (2009) (TBC) W.M.D. (2009) (TBC)
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  British political drama based on the investigation into the existence of weapons of mass destruction by allied forces in Iraq in 2002. Simon Lenagan stars as Alex Morgan, an MI6 desk officer who uncovers deliberate flaws in the evidence being used to support the invasion of Iraq by Britain and America. He must now decide whether to risk his career and his own safety to expose the truth.
• Waah..! Tera Kya Kehna (2002) (12A) Waah..! Tera Kya Kehna (2002) (12A)
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• Waaris (1988) (15) Waaris (1988) (15)
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  Bollywood drama. Dulla (Amrish Puri) and Gajjan (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) are two brothers whose sibling rivalry takes a fatal turn, when inheritance becomes the bone of contention.
• Wacko (1981) (15) Wacko (1981) (15)
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  Detective Dick Harbinger (Jon Don Baker) has one hell of a criminal in his sights, the pumpkin headed Lawnmower Killer, in this comedy spoof of various late 70s movies. As Dick attempts to track down the killer he is eventually lead back to the High School Pumpkin Prom where the murderer first struck some 13 years before. On the way we're treated to a variety of 'Airplane!'-style spoofs of other movies including 'Saturday Night Fever', 'Grease', 'Alien' and more.
• Wade In the Water, Children (2011) Wade In the Water, Children (2011)
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  Through a passionate mixture of private videos, uncensored interviews and school-day adventures, the children of New Orleans notoriously violent Central City neighborhood have created a riveting portrait of childhood at the heart of an ongoing American cr
• Wadjda (2012) (Tc) Wadjda (2012) (Tc)
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  A rebellious Saudi Arabian girl hatches a plan to get her hands on the bicycle she craves in this coming-of-age story from first time director Haifaa Al-Mansour. Living within a conservative suburb of Riyadh, fun-loving eleven-year-old Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) has her heart set on a green bicycle so that she can beat the boys in their neighbourhood races. But when her mother (Reem Abdullah) forbids it, anticipating a reaction from a society that disapproves of women riding bicycles, an enterprising…
• Wag The Dog (1997) (15) Wag The Dog (1997) (15)
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  A spin doctor for the US President hires a flamboyant Hollywood producer to orchestrate false reports of war in Albania to divert public attention from a scandal threatening to reveal his boss's illicit sexual escapades. Barry Levinson's political satire, starring Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche and Woody Harrelson
• Wages Of Fear (1978) (AA) Wages Of Fear (1978) (AA)
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• Wagner (1983) (15) Wagner (1983) (15)
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  Exhaustive TV biopic of the German composer with Richard Burton in the title role. Recognised early in his career for his groundbreaking talents, Wagner is feted by European society until his scandalous and radical political views force him into exile in Zurich. There he meets the young Nietzsche (Ronald Pickup), and has a major influence on the philosopher. At the same time, Wagner begins a scandalous relationship with the composer Liszt's illigitimate daughter. Reactionary, anti-semitic and obsessed…
• Wagner's Dream (2012) (U) Wagner's Dream (2012) (U)
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  This documentary by Susan Froemke follows theatre director Robert Lepage as he takes on opera's most monumental challenge: a back-to-back production of Wagner's epic Ring cycle, the four-part, 16-hour work that the composer first presented in 1876. The film follows the turbulent five-year journey taken by Lepage and the New York Metropolitan Opera as they set about trying to realise Wagner's dream of a perfect Ring.
• Wagonmaster (1950) (PG) Wagonmaster (1950) (PG)
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  Two itinerant cowboys help guide a Mormon wagon train on its dangerous journey west in search of the promised land, crossing paths with travelling entertainers, rowdy gunfighters, cut-throat natives and a fugitive band of ruthless outlaws. John Ford's Western, starring Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Ward Bond, Harry Carey Jr and Charles Kemper
• Wagons East (1994) (PG) Wagons East (1994) (PG)
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  Comedy starring John Candy as drunk wagonmaster James Harlow, who is employed by the unhappy inhabitants of a town called Prosperity to lead them back to their homes in the East. When the group discovers that Harlow was a member of the infamous Donner family (who ended up eating each other when stranded on a mountain in the West) the railroad company gets worried and tries to turn the party back West - it's bad publicity for Westerners to return East and let it be known that it is not paradise.…
• Wagons West (1952) (U) Wagons West (1952) (U)
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  Jeff Curtis, a travelling wagon-master agrees to lead a pioneer train from Joplin, Missouri to the Oregon territories. When the train begins to encounter trouble with well-armed Native tribes, Jeff is forced to consider the prospect that one of the convoy's members is selling weapons to the enemy, and suspicion falls on the mean-spirited nephew of the train's captain. Western, starring Rod Cameron
• Wah Do Dem (2009) (15) Wah Do Dem (2009) (15)
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  Low-budget independent drama written and directed by Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner. Sean Bones stars as Max, a young Brooklyn-based musician who wins two tickets for a cruise trip to Jamaica. When his girlfriend Willow (Norah Jones) breaks up with him shortly before they are set to leave, Max decides to take the trip alone. After having his passport stolen and missing the boat home, he makes his way to the embassy in Kingston, falling into various colourful encounters and experiences along the way.
• Wah Wah Ramji (2003) (PG) Wah Wah Ramji (2003) (PG)
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  Bollywood drama. Ramprasad (Paresh Rawal) is a popular crime novelist who becomes redundant because the choice of the readers has shifted from thrills and chills to mushy love stories. So Ramprasad takes up the challenge of penning a mushy masterpiece and looks around for a romantic couple that could become the basis of his story. Vishal (Amar Upadhyaya) and Priyanka (Reema Sen) are that couple.
• Wah-Wah (2005) (15) Wah-Wah (2005) (15)
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  Heart-warming comedy-drama from director Richard E. Grant. In Swaziland in 1969, the British ex-pat community is thrown into turmoil by the impending arrival of Independence, signalling the end of their pampered decadent lifestyles. Meanwhile, Ralph Compton (Zac Fox/Nicholas Holt) is stuck in the middle of a messy divorce. His father's re-marriage to a brash ex-airhostess and Ralph's lead role in a production of Camelot take centre stage.
• Waisa Bhi Hota Hai: Part 2 (2004) (15) Waisa Bhi Hota Hai: Part 2 (2004) (15)
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  Dark Bollywood comedy in which an unlikely friendship develops between Puneet (Arshad Warsi), a copywriter who is dissatisfied with life, and Vishu (Prashant Narayanan), a relentless hitman, whose life Puneet reluctantly saves. Puneet, who hates violence, manages to bring two rival gangs down without firing a single shot, then escapes to Mumbai with a heap of cash. This is the directorial debut of Shashanka Ghosh, who has been described as the Indian Tarantino.
• Waist Deep (2006) (15) Waist Deep (2006) (15)
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  Hood drama follows single dad trying to retrieve abducted son. Former gang-banging single dad O2 (Tyrese Gibson) is suddenly plunged into a do-or-die situation; trying to go straight for his son, Junior's sake, this recently paroled ex-con is forced to go back outside the law after his son is kidnapped in a carjacking. The resulting chase and shootout have left Junior in the hands of Meat (The Game), the vicious leader of the Outlaw Syndicate. O2's shady cousin Lucky (Larenz Tate) tries to mediate,…
• Wait And See (1929) () Wait And See (1929) ()
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• Wait And See (1998) () Wait And See (1998) ()
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• Wait Until Dark (1967) (15) Wait Until Dark (1967) (15)
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  A blind woman is terrorised by three conmen who insinuate themselves into her home on the bogus grounds that they are investigating her absent husband on a murder charge - but what they really want is a doll stuffed with smuggled narcotics that has accidentally fallen into her possession. Psychological thriller, starring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Jack Weston and Efrem Zimbalist Jr
• Waiting (2005) (18) Waiting (2005) (18)
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  The employees in a downtown branch of a restaurant chain struggle to get through the working day as they contend with boredom, obnoxious customers, a control-freak manager and an eccentric head chef. Meanwhile, a waiter fears life is passing him by, and the boss is consumed with lust for an employee who is not yet 18. Comedy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Luis Guzman and Justin Long. Includes Mini Movie Moment
• Waiting (1992) (15) Waiting (1992) (15)
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• Waiting for Dublin (2007) (Tc) Waiting for Dublin (2007) (Tc)
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• Waiting For Forever (2010) (12) Waiting For Forever (2010) (12)
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  Premiere. Childhood friends Will and Emma drift apart as she pursues an acting career. He remains madly in love with her from afar, and secretly follows her to Hollywood. When she goes back to their home town to visit her sick father and take a break from a failing relationship, he also returns, intending to finally tell her how he feels. Romantic drama, with Tom Sturridge and Rachel Bilson
• Waiting For Guffman (1996) (15) Waiting For Guffman (1996) (15)
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  Theatre director Corky St Clair, fresh from his dazzling production of 'Backdraft - The Musical', is hired to orchestrate the 150th birthday celebrations of the small town of Blaine, Missouri. Unfortunately, his potential cast - the local dentist, Keanu Reeves-wannabe Johnny, Dairy Queen employee Libby Mae - combine star-struck ambition with pint-sized talent. However, in the grand Broadway tradition, the show must go on, no matter what cost to the dignity of those involved.
• Waiting For Happiness (2002) (U) Waiting For Happiness (2002) (U)
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  Abdallah returns to an isolated village on the edge of the Mauritian desert to reconnect with his people, where his elderly yet wise mother Soukeyna struggles to help him adapt. He befriends orphan boy Khatra, the apprentice of the village electrician Maata, who busily ensures all of the houses have the light they need, often travelling long distances to deliver lightbulbs to his customers.
• Waiting for Superman (2010) (PG) Waiting for Superman (2010) (PG)
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  Davis Guggenheim, director of Al Gore's influential global warming documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth', explores the pitfalls of the American public education system in this revealing political documentary. The film traces the stories of five children from under-privileged backgrounds whose parents are desperate to secure a decent education for them by getting them into one of the country's sought-after high-performing charter schools. But admission to these schools is allocated by lottery, and…
• Waiting for the Clouds (2003) Waiting for the Clouds (2003)
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  Waiting for the Clouds opens with census clerks who arrive early one morning in the small port town of Tirebolu in the Black Sea region of Turkey. But the streets are empty and silent—not everyone can afford to be counted as questions about one’s past can open up dangerous wounds. Ayse, the daughter of a Greek family evacuated from the region in 1916, has kept silent about her true identity, but secretly considers Greece her homeland. When she sets foot in Greece for the first time, both she…
• Waiting for the Light (1990) (PG) Waiting for the Light (1990) (PG)
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  Set in America in 1962 against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, `Waiting for the Light' stars Teri Garr as a single mother from Chicago who inherits a diner in the Pacific Northwest. She, her two kids and her eccentric aunt (Shirley MacLaine) set about transforming the place but their plan to scare off a neighbour with a 'ghostly apparition' sparks off rumours of divine visitations after he mistakes the ghost for an angel.
• Waiting to Exhale (1995) (15) Waiting to Exhale (1995) (15)
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  Four women use their close-knit friendship to withstand the tests their lives bring them and help them in their search for true love. Savannah and Robin are successful businesswomen but their love lives have suffered. Bernadine thought she had found the real thing until her husband left her for another woman, while Gloria is a divorcee whose interest in men is reignited by a handsome neighbour.
• Waiting Women (1952) (12) Waiting Women (1952) (12)
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  Classic Ingmar Bergman drama. The wives of four brothers relate to each other the stories of their marriages as they sit in a summer cottage and wait for their husbands to return, stories that include infidelity, light-hearted romance, and the difficulties of raising children. While they talk, one of the women's young sister, Maj (Gerd Andersson), is planning to elope without her sister's knowledge.
• Waitress (2007) (12) Waitress (2007) (12)
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  A small-town waitress resolves to leave her controlling husband for good, and enters a national pie-baking contest, confident the prize money will be more than enough to set herself up on her own. However, her plans are complicated by an unexpected pregnancy and an affair with a married doctor. Romantic drama, starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines and the late Andy Griffith
• Waitress! (1982) (18) Waitress! (1982) (18)
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  A high class restaurant is the setting for this comical caper. The staff are all a little strange and do everything you hope won't happen to you in a foodie situation.
• Wajahh (2004) (15) Wajahh (2004) (15)
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  Dr Aditya Bhargava (Satish Kaushik) is a well-known neurosurgeon who falls in love with and marries the beautiful Trishna. However, his job restricts the amount of time he spends with his new wife which leads to an indecent atmosphere at home. In fact, Dr. Aditya has a very unpredictable nature. No one knows exactly what he will do next. Trishna has been dreaming of someone trying to kill her and when Raj, a mutual friend of Aditya who knows palm reading predicts that Trishna will be murdered by…
• Wajood (1998) (PG) Wajood (1998) (PG)
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• Wake (2009) (12) Wake (2009) (12)
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  A lonely woman seeks solace from her troubles in attending strangers' funerals. At one such ceremony, she begins to fall in love with a man mourning his fiancee, and is inspired by the experience to confront her past and seek out her estranged mother. Romantic comedy drama, with Bijou Phillips, Ian Somerhalder and Jane Seymour
• Wake (2003) Wake (2003)
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• Wake Island (1942) (A) Wake Island (1942) (A)
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• Wake Me When The War Is Over (1969) (12) Wake Me When The War Is Over (1969) (12)
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  American comedy directed by Gene Nelson. When Lieutenant Roger Carrington (Ken Berry) falls from a plane over Germany during the war, luck seems to be on his side as he is found by sympathetic baroness Marlene (Eva Gabor). Vowing to protect him during wartime, she keeps him hidden at her home and soon falls in love with him as their time together passes. When the war ends, she decides not to tell him, knowing that he will leave but Roger becomes determined to go out and fight. Will he discover the…
• Wake Of Death (2004) (18) Wake Of Death (2004) (18)
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  Action starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Ben Archer (Van Damme) is an ex-mob enforcer seeking revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.
• Wake Of The Red Witch (1949) (PG) Wake Of The Red Witch (1949) (PG)
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  A ship owner and his embittered captain engage in a battle of wills as they fight for the love of the same woman and embark on a quest for a treasure chest of pearls hidden in the den of an octopus in the South Seas. Romantic seafaring adventure, starring John Wayne, Luther Adler, Gig Young, Gail Russell and Adele Mara
• Wake the Witch (2010) (15) Wake the Witch (2010) (15)
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  Low-budget indie horror. When two models and a photographer head out into the woods for a photo shoot, they unwittingly unleash the spirit of a long-dead witch from her forest grave. Before long all hell breaks loose as the curse takes hold, infecting the trio and those close to them with all kinds of sinister symptoms.
• Wake Up Sid (2009) (15) Wake Up Sid (2009) (15)
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  Bollywood romcom about a slacker ex-student whose life takes a sudden change when he meets a new girl in town. After coasting through university, 20-something Sidarth Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor) carries on his carefree approach in the workplace. With no responsibilities, Sid's world revolves around his friends, his camera, his car, and his X-box. But when he chances to meet the ambitious and driven Aisha (Konkona Sen Sharma) on her first day in Mumbai, the unlikely pair soon become firm friends. Now,…
• Wake Up World (2006) () Wake Up World (2006) ()
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• Wake Wood (2011) (18) Wake Wood (2011) (18)
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  A couple whose daughter has died move to a remote Irish village, having heard that the locals can perform a pagan rite to resurrect the dead - but only for three days. The ritual seems to be a success, but it soon becomes clear there is something horribly wrong with the revived child. Horror, with Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle and Timothy Spall
• Waking Life (2002) (15) Waking Life (2002) (15)
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  Writer-director Richard Linklater returns to the terrain of his debut feature, 'Slacker', with another series of loose meditations on various philosophical topics voiced by a disparate series of young Americans. Shot on digital video and then processed using a technique known as rotoscoping, which makes the 'live' images look like an animation, the film follows an unnamed character as he has a series of dreams within dreams and encounters a variety of different people discussing many different subjects.…