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The Artist (2012) 
It is the late 1920s. George Valentin (Dujardin) is a silent-movie legend whose stardom rubs off on a budding starlet named Peppy Miller (Bejo) after a chance encounter at a premiere. At first he finds Peppy’s fame-by-association cute, but the arrival of sound turns her into a serious rival…
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Hugo (2011)
Paris, 1931. Young Hugo (Butterfield) maintains the clocks of a great railway station while avoiding a guard (Baron Cohen) intent on sending him to an orphanage. Aided by Isabelle (Moretz), Hugo gets an automaton left by his late father working. It draws a picture, which prompts the children to delve into the mystery of an unhappy shopkeeper (Kingsley) at this very station.
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
A lion cub is fooled by his ambitious uncle, who is next in line to the throne, that he has killed the Lion King, his father and flees their land in shame. As an adult he is persuaded to return to try and claim the throne that is rightfully his.
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Melancholia (2011)
At her own wedding reception, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) is overcome by depression and alienates everyone, including her new husband (Alexander Skarsgard) and her devoted sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg). When a new planet, Melancholia, appears in the sky, Justine knows it will destroy Earth.
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Warrior (2011)
After 14 years, ex-Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns to Pittsburgh to prepare for the world’s biggest mixed martial arts tournament, reconnecting with his father, Paddy (Nolte), who will train him. Meanwhile, his estranged brother, Brendan (Edgerton), realises he has to return to his old fighting ways if he has any hope of saving his family from insolvency.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
London, the 1970s: After a fiasco of a covert operation, British Intelligence spymaster Control (Hurt) and his right-hand man George Smiley (Oldman) are sacked. Then shocking but persuasive information that a Soviet mole has penetrated to the heart of the secret service prompts the Whitehall wallahs to task Smiley with spying on the spies.
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EMPIRE ESSAY: West Side Story (2011)
In a musical reworking of Romeo And Juliet, 2nd in command for the Jets gang Tony falls in love with the sister of rival gang the Sharks' leader. Nobody approves, but nothing is going to keep these two apart. You just know it's going to end in tears.
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Kind Hearts And Coronets (2011)
Louis Manzzini's mother belongs to the aristocratic family D'Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by the D'Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next Duke of the family. Murdering every potential successor is clearly the safest way to achieve his goal...
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The Guard (2011)
Gerry Boyle (Gleeson), an unconventional policeman in the west of Ireland, investigates a seemingly random murder. FBI agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle) arrives in Galway to mount a large-scale operation against a well-organised drug-smuggling ring. At first irritated by Gerry's manner, Everett is surprised by the garda's canniness as he connects the murder to the drug case.
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The Lavender Hill Mob (2011)
Meek bank clerk Henry Holland (Guinness) is hiding a dark secret. With the help of a couple of accomplices, he plans to steal gold from under the noses of his own employers.
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The Tree Of Life (2011)
On the anniversary of his brother's death, troubled architect Jack O'Brien (Penn) ponders his place in the universe, leading inevitably to powerful memories of his turbulent '50s childhood in Waco, Texas - in particular, his formative relationship with his ethereal mother (Chastain) and disciplinarian father (Pitt).
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Apocalypse Now (2011)
Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to Vietnam to track down and retrieve a US army commander who has gone AWOL and set up a commune and army of his own deep in the Cambodian jungle.
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The Battleship Potemkin (2011)
When the sailors of Russian battleship The Potemkin are given rotten meat by the ship's quartermaster, it's the final straw for the abused crew. Mutiny follows and before long St. Peterburg is in full-scale revolt.
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True Grit (2011)
After hired hand Tom Chaney (Brolin) kills her farmer father and flees, indomitable 14 year-old Mattie Ross (Steinfeld) hires tough, one-eyed US Marshal and heavy-drinking reprobate Reuben J. ‘Rooster’ Cogburn (Bridges) — a man with “true grit” — to bring him in. Joined by Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Damon), the odd posse head into Indian territory on their manhunt.
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The Fighter (2011)
The true tale of the early years of legendary fighter 'Irish' Micky Ward (Wahlberg), who triumphed over a complex family situation, including a crack-addict brother/trainer (Bale), to become a welterweight boxing champ in the 1980s.
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