The Tango Lesson

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Year:1997
Director:Sally Potter
Written by:Sally Potter (Writer)

Script Synopsis:On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.
*5495

Orlando

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Year:1992
Director:Sally Potter
Written by:Sally Potter (Screenplay), Virginia Woolf (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The story begins in the Elizabethan era, shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I. On her deathbed, the Queen promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it, along with a generous monetary gift. But Elizabeth will bequeath it to him only if he assents to an unusual command: Do not fade. Do not wither. Do not grow old...
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The Man Who Cried

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Year:2001
Director:Sally Potter
Written by:Sally Potter (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
*5497

Marathon Man

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Year:1976
Director:John Schlesinger
Written by:William Goldman (Novel), William Goldman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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United 93

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Year:2006
Director:Paul Greengrass
Written by:Paul Greengrass (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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The Emperor’s Club

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Year:2002
Director:Michael Hoffman
Written by:Ethan Canin (Writer), Neil Tolkin (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
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In Good Company

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Year:2004
Director:Paul Weitz
Written by:Paul Weitz (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
*5489

Sylvia

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Year:2003
Director:Christine Jeffs
Written by:John Brownlow (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
*5490

Swept from the Sea

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Year:1998
Director:Beeban Kidron
Written by:Joseph Conrad (Novel), Tim Willocks (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.
*5491

Romance and Cigarettes

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Year:2005
Director:John Turturro
Written by:John Turturro (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges.
*5492