Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Excellent Cadavers (2005)- Dir. Marco Turco
- The hush–hush war between Sicily’s mafia and the prosecutors who slept with the fishes is recounted in this fascinating documentary, an ideal…
Girl in the Cafe, The (2005)- Dir. David Yates
Feat. Bill Nighy, Kelly MacDonald - Richard Curtis (LOVE ACTUALLY) penned this second–chances romance with a mild political streak, where an aging civil servant strikes up an…
Interpreter, The (2005)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener… - A topical thriller embroiled in the thorny issues of African politics (with obvious allusions to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe), this is a slick,…
Munich (2005)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz… - Compelling, if occasionally muddily–overearnest thriller based around the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich…
Sometimes in April (2005)- Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Debra Winger, Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero - A worthy HBO dramatisation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which around one million ethnic 'Tutsis' were slaughtered by ethnic 'Hutu' military and…
State of Play (TV Mini-series) (2005)
- Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Morrissey, John Simm, Bill Nighy… - Politics, journalism and murder collide in this dynamic British thriller, which snowballs from two seemingly unrelated deaths into a riveting,…
Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter & Friends and Crocodiles (2005)- Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson - Two BBC dramas from commended writer–director Stephen Poliakoff – 'Friends and Crocodiles' confronts the changing power balance between a…
Street Fight (2005)- Dir. Marshall Curry
- Director Marshall Curry's (IF A TREE FALLS) first film is this Oscar–nominated political documentary detailing the 2002 mayoral campaign of…
Syriana (2005)- Dir. Stephen Gaghan
Feat. George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright… - Fierce and dense exploration of the machinations and consequences of the global oil industry in the form of a multiple–storyline drama (from…
Thick of It, The (TV Series) (2005)- Dir. Armando Iannucci
Feat. Chris Langham, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison… - Coruscating political satire examines the bumbling drones who work inside government as they blunder their days away under the watchful eye of the…
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