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The very best depiction of the Holocaust in any media is the 1997 film The Grey Zone, directed and written by Tim Blake Nelson.

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 A young man, Victor (Sbaraglia), arrives in Paris where his family have gathered around his seriously ill father Max (Fernán Gómez), a former mogul now deteriorating physically and mentally. Max begins to behave very strangely, as his memories and those of Spain's past begin to cloud his mind.

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There are some films which open you up to an entire way of life you’d never even thought about.
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Visually, the dystopian streetscapes of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men were apparently inspired by the film of A Clockwork Orange, but the newer film- based on PD James's novel of the same name - owes more to 1984.
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Moving, vibrant and shot through with the kind of energy that isn’t quite like anything else, City of God is not only a gripping, indecently entertaining thriller and a coming-of-age story but an intimate look at life in a Brazilian favela where children both reign over their world and are crushe

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Film about the Oxford writer Iris Murdoch, based on the memoirs of her husband, John Bayley. Touching performances by Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent as the older couple; Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville the younger.

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A historical fiction drama based on the real life of Eugene Allen, a slave that ends up being a White House butler for 34 years.  This movie offers the interesting perspective of two different generations, both battling the injustices of racism and discrimination.  The timeline follows black hist

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I don't ususally recommend police procedurals, but this Coen Brothers film is unique in several respects.  Officer Marge Gunderson (Frances Macdormand) has to solve a twisted, messy murder case despite experiencing one of the most distracting of conditions: she's extremely pregnant.

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Shot in black and white, Spielberg’s cinematic rendering of Thomas Keneally’s novel Schindler’s Ark does a fine job of bringing the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler to life.

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