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Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage WarMrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War (2000) Recommended
Dir. Ian Sharp
Feat. Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi
Pauline Collins (SHIRLEY VALENTINE) plays an elderly widow who is shunted into a resthome by her money grubbing offspring, who don’t count on her…
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (2000)
Dir. Paul Seed
Feat. Ian Richardson, Robin Laing, Charles Dance
A rather fascinating speculation which dramatises the real–life relationship between "Sherlock Homes"–author Arthur Conan Doyle (Laing)…
My Family (TV Series)My Family (TV Series) (2000-2006)
Feat. Zoe Wanamaker, Robert Lindsay
Sturdy British sitcom with Zoe Wanamaker and Robert Lindsay at the head of middle–class family whose dysfunctions range from the petty…
My Mother FrankMy Mother Frank (2000)
Dir. Mark Lamprell
Feat. Sinead Cusack, Sam Neill, Sacha Horler
Sober comedy with an 'it's never too late' theme, is nicely done despite some rather convenient plotting. Mother and widow Sinead Cusack decides…
Nicholas Nickleby (TV Series) (2000)
Dir. Stephen Whittaker
Feat. James D'Arcy, Charles Dance
An ITV version of Charles Dickens’ saga of family misfortune. Young Nicholas (James D’Arcy) must fight his malevolent uncle (Charles Dance) to…
NurembergNuremberg (2000)
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox
This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
OO (Othello) (2000) Recommended
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles
Continuing recent trends, this ‘updating’ of Shakespeare’s ”Othello” transfers the dialogue and setting into the US schoolyard, where Josh…
One Hundred Steps, TheOne Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)
Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
PhantomPhantom (Fantasma, O) (2000)
Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues
Feat. Ricardo Meneses
This plunge into Portugal’s gay underground concerns an alienated garbage collector who seeks out anonymous sexual encounters in Lisbon’s…
PlatformPlatform (Zhantai) (2000) Recommended
Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…

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