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Syriana

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Syriana (2005)

R 128 min - Drama, Thriller - 23 November 2005
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The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

Director:  Stephen Gaghan
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Fast Food Nation

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Fast Food Nation (2006)

R 116 min - Drama, Comedy - 16 May 2006
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A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

Director:  Richard Linklater

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The Help

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The Help (2011)

PG-13 146 min - Drama - 9 August 2011
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Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

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Green Book

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Green Book (2018)

PG-13 130 min - Drama, Comedy - 16 November 2018
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Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Director:  Peter Farrelly
Writers:  Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly
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Wonder

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Wonder (2017)

PG 113 min - Drama, Family - 13 November 2017
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The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Director:  Stephen Chbosky
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Deepwater Horizon

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Deepwater Horizon (2016)

PG-13 107 min - Thriller, Drama, Action - 29 September 2016
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A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Director:  Peter Berg

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Our Brand Is Crisis

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Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)

R 108 min - Drama, Comedy - 11 September 2015
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A feature film based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Director:  David Gordon Green

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Spotlight

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Spotlight (2015)

R 128 min - Drama, History, Thriller - 6 November 2015
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The true story of how The Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Director:  Tom McCarthy
Writers:  Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer

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Bridge of Spies

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Bridge of Spies (2015)

PG-13 141 min - Thriller, Drama - 15 October 2015
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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

Director:  Steven Spielberg
Writers:  Ethan Coen, Matt Charman, Joel Coen
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Snitch

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Snitch (2013)

PG-13 112 min - Thriller, Drama - 22 February 2013
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Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

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