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Based on the best-selling book which details the events of the battle of LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. (Paramount)

Documentary about the music group The Beatles featuring in-studio footage that was shot in early 1969 for the 1970 feature film 'Let It Be' (imdb.com).

Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered. (imdb)

A gaunt tale weaves marital discord & surveillance paranoia. Government functionary spends sleepless night wondering if he'll be arrested before dawn, with disfunctional marriage adding to tension as he & his wife argue & vacillate, it's no wonder that The Ear waited for Czech premiere till 1989; wonder is that it was made at all. It's said director's offsider, Jan Procházka, had political connections that helped, plus his inside knowledge making suggestions adding to the plot.

A couple meets up with another couple while on vacation in Mexico, but their friendship takes an awkward turn when they get back home.

Director Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist) invokes memories of Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati in his first live-action film, about a mute, sweet-natured man-child whose reawakened childhood memories unleash marvellous musical fantasies. (tiff.net)

Terence Davies looks back at his working-class upbringing in post-war Liverpool, centring on a household torn in two by a violent father (Peter Postlethwaite) who lurches from being loving to brutal within the blink of an eye... (channel4.com)

Nominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people. As if a forced confession weren't enough injustice, the police work to implicate Conlon's father (Pete Postlethwaite) in the same crime. Emma Thompson plays the lawyer who worked for years to uncover the truth.

This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this film was made. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. (imdb)

The Work of Director Chris Cunningham offers a feast of visual ingenuity, with Cunningham involving you in his nightmares. From the urban monstrosities of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" to the limb-shattering weirdness of Leftfield's "Afrika Shox," Cunningham's music videos emphasize the freakish and the bizarre