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Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Bill Owen, Fella Edmonds, Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Edward Underdown, Honor Blackman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Sidney James and Sam Kydd
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
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The Reeds (2010)
Director: Nick Cohen
Starring: Anna Brewster, Geoff Bell, Daniel Caltagirone, Emma Catherwood, Will Mellor, Scarlett Alice Johnson and O.T. Fagbenle
A weekend boating party in the Norfolk Broads turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
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Director: John Madden
Starring: Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Richard Gere, Ronald Pickup, Lillete Dubey, Penelope Wilton, Diana Hardcastle, Tina Desai, David Strathairn, Shazad Latif and Tamsin Greig
Two hopeful new arrivals at The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful quickly learn that there is only a single room left to rent.
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A Second Chance (2015)
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Maria Bonnevie and Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine - until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.
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The Secret of Kells (2009)
Directors: Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey
Starring (voices): Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally and Christen Mooney
A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.
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Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Directors: Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
Starring (voices): Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili and Richard Webber
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
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Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro and Jon Bernthal
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
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Song of the Sea (2014)
Director: Tomm Moore
Starring (voices): Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Lisa Hannigan, Lucy O'Connell, Jon Kenny, Pat Shortt, Colm Ó'Snodaigh, Liam Hourican, Kevin Swierszcz, Will Collins and Paul Young
Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the faeries and save the spirit world.
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Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Jesper Christensen, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Andrew Scott and Dave Bautista
A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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The Signal (2014)
Director: William Eubank
Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Laurence Fishburne, Lin Shaye and Robert Longstreet
On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness - only to find himself in a waking nightmare.
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Directors: Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth , Hunter Parrish, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken, Erin Maya Darke and Victoria Cartagena
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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The Tree (2010)
Director: Julie Bertucelli
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morgana Davies, Marton Csokas and Christian Byers
After the sudden loss of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn: her father whispers to her through the leaves of the magnificient fig tree by their house. Simone is convinced that he’s come back to protect her family. Soon, Simone’s three brothers and Dawn also take comfort in the reassuring tree. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts dating George. Simone moves into the treehouse and refuses to come down. With branches infiltrating the house and roots destroying the foundations, the tree seems to be siding with Simone. Dawn refuses to let the tree take control of her family.
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All Creatures Big and Small (2015)
Directors: Toby Genkel and Sean McCormack
Starring: Dermot Magennis, Callum Maloney, Tara Flynn, Ava Connolly, Paul Tylak, Alan Stanford, Aileen Mythen, Patrick FitzSymons and Carla Becker
It's the end of the world. A flood is coming. Luckily for Dave and his son Finny, a couple of clumsy Nestrians, an Ark has been built to save all animals. But as it turns out, Nestrians aren't allowed. Sneaking on board with the involuntary help of Hazel and her daughter Leah, two Grymps, they think they're safe. Until the curious kids fall off the Ark.
Now Finny and Leah struggle to survive the flood and hungry predators and attempt to reach the top of a mountain, while Dave and Hazel must put aside their differences, turn the Ark around and save their kids. It's definitely not going to be smooth sailing.
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The Two Faces of January (2014)
Director: Hossein Amini
Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Daisy Bevan and David Warshofsky
After he kills a detective, a con artist and his wife must trust a potentially dangerous stranger to help them get out of Greece.
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Unbroken (2014)
Director: Angelina Jolie
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Finn Wittrock, Takamasa Ishihara, John Magaro and Alex Russell
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
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Director: Scott Frank
Starring: Liam Neeson, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Mark Consuelos, Sebastian Roché, Ruth Wilson and Purva Bedi
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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Yellowbird (2014)
Director: Christian De Vita
Starring (voices): Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jim Rash, Christine Baranski, Brady Corbet, Elliott Gould, Richard Kind, Joey King, Jadon Sand, Cedric Yarbrough, Tara Strong, Jamie Denbo, Zachary Gordon and Ryan Lee
A hero's journey with a most unlikely hero. Yellowbird is a teeny tiny orphaned bird that has never left the nest, has no family, yet desperately wants one - That is, until he finds himself leading a flock on their migration to Africa.
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Zodiac (2007)
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chloë Sevigny and Anthony Edwards
A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.
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More films viewed by me for the first time in 2015.
They are listed in alphabetical order.
List #1 may be viewed here: www.listal.com/list/films-viewed-kathy-2015