6.7

Killer Elite

2011, USA, Australia

• Actors: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Yvonne Strahovski, Ben Mendelsohn, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Whiteley, Matthew Nable, Lachy Hulme, Firass Dirani, Nick Tate, Bille Brown, Stewart Morritt, Grant Bowler, Michael Dorman, Daniel Roberts, Rodney Afif, Jamie McDowell, Dion Mills, Andrew B. Stehlin, Simon Armstrong, Richard Elfyn, Chris Anderson, Brendan Charleson, Sandy Greenwood, Boris Brkic, Riley Evans, Sofia Nikitina
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Gary McKendry
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on a true story, Killer Elite pits two of the worlds' most elite operatives - Danny, an ex-special ops agent (Jason Statham) and Hunter, his longtime mentor (Robert De Niro) - against the cunning leader of a secret military society ('Clive Owen' ). Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse - where the predators become the prey.

  7.1

Made in Dagenham

2010, UK

• Actors: Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Lorraine Stanley, Nicola Duffett, Geraldine James, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Aubrey, Daniel Mays, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Phil Cornwell, Karen Seacombe, Thomas Arnold, Sian Scott, Robbie Kay, Andrew Lincoln, Rosamund Pike, Joseph Mawle, Kenneth Cranham, Gina Bramhill, Rupert Graves, Marcus Hutton, Miranda Richardson, Joseph Kloska, Miles Jupp, Frank Baker, Philip Perry, Richard Schiff, Peter-Hugo Daly, Simon Armstrong
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
• Director(s): Nigel Cole
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1968, the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the United Kingdom. In addition to the thousands of male employees, there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied, the women, represented by the shop steward and Rita O'Grady, work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better deal. However, Rita learns that there is a larger issue in this dispute considering that women are paid an appalling fraction of the men's wages for the same work across the board on the sole basis of their sex. Refusing to tolerate this inequality any longer, O'Grady leads a strike by her fellow machinists for equal pay for equal work. What follows would test the patience of all involved in a grinding labour and political struggle that ultimately would advance the cause of women's rights around the world.

  6.2

The Edge of Love

2007, UK

• Actors: Simon Armstrong, Ben Batt, Geoffrey Beevers, Rachel Bell, Paul Brooke, Huw Ceredig, Richard Clifford, Richard Dillane, Joel Dommett, Rachel Essex, Craig Gallivan, Callum Godfrey, Simon Kassianides, Keira Knightley, Anne Lambton, Raymond Llewellyn, Alastair Mackenzie, Neville Malcolm, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Acacia Pattison Biggs, Bethany Towell, Jonathan Phillips, Kyle Redmond-Jones, Matthew Rhys, Leo Robertson, Olivia Robertson, Jenny Runacre, Camilla Rutherford, Lisa Stansfield
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
• Director(s): John Maybury
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She's working as a singer whilst he's churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin indulges in her own infidelities, and recognises a similar adventurous spirit in her husband. But she knows his connection with Vera is something different, not to mention dangerous. Romantic turmoil continues in Vera's life. She marries her devoted admirer William Killick, but she can't deny the chemistry between herself and Dylan, nor does she want to - even if this means betraying Caitlin. When William is posted abroad, and a pregnant Vera returns to Wales with her married friends, the battle between her heart and head becomes more intense. William returns a changed man, but neither is Vera the carefree cabaret girl he married. Neighbourhood gossip fuels her husband's jealousy towards his rival. Enraged, William stages a violent attack on Dylan - an attack that forces Vera to choose between the men in her life and the friend that she loves. Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside.