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PRIDE OF MANCHESTER SELF ISOLATION CINEMA CLUB |
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THE KEEPER  |
| A decent, old-fashioned love story, from 2018, this warm, if corny retelling of the extraordinary hard-to-believe true story of Bert Trautmann, the former German prisoner of war who became a successful goalkeeper for Manchester City. |
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| DENNIS VIOLLET: A UNITED MAN |
| Made by his daughter, Rachel, this documentary about footbaler Dennis Viollet is an interesting portrait of a Manchester City fan from Fallowfield who would survive the Munich Air Crash and go on to be Manchester United's record goalscorer, and later play an influential role in the development of North American soccer. A great watch, even if you don't like football, with many memories of Manchester in the 50s, 60s and 70s. |
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| SHERLOCK HOLMES |
| Filmed in Manchester's Northern Quarter and the Town Hall, Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law & Mark Strong star in Guy Ritchie's fun, action-packed 2009 reintroduction to Conan Doyle's classic characters. A caricatured comedy adventure that may trouble Holmes purists. |
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GAME OF SHADOWS  |
| Whilst not filmed in Manchester, Guy Ritchie's 2011 sequel is bigger, better and funnier than the original without stretching the joke. |
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| ALFIE |
| Michael Caine's iconic blue-collar womanising Londoner of the '60s, is freshly reinvented for this 2004 version which sees Jude Law as a sharp-suited cheeky cockney heartbreaker in New York, with many scenes filmed in Manchester's Northern Quarter. |
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ALFIE  |
| Michael Caine has rarely bettered his performance than in the original 1966 five Oscar-nominated version of the film, set in Swinging London, |
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| THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE |
| One of the most vilified 'video nasty' titles of the early 1980s, Manchester, The Lakes and The Peak District get an extreme gore zombie makeover in this 1975 high-level Spanish shocker from splatter-maestro Jorge Grau. Also known as"Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue" and "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" |
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| BAD NEIGHBOURS |
| Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne star in this comedy as a couple with a newborn baby forced to live next to a fraternity house, lead by Zac Efron. |
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| BAD NEIGHBOURS 2 |
| Whilst still not much more than a loose assembly line of jokes, the 2016 sequel is a surprising entrant to that very exclusive club of movie sequels that are better than the original, |
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| THE IRON LADY |
| Partly filmed in Manchester Town Hall, Meryl Streep produces perhaps her best ever Oscar-winning performance in a remarkable impersonation of arguably the most controversial Englishwoman in history - Margaret Thatcher. Sadly, defanged, declawed, depoliticised and hysterically inadequate at holding her politics to count but still worth a watch. |
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| STEP BROTHERS |
| Declared the 4th funniest comedy of all time by The Telegraph, Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly star in this comedy about two aimless middle-aged losers, still living at home and forced against their will to become roommates when their parents marry. |
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| SPIKE ISLAND |
| Emilia Clarke, Elliott Tittensor and Nico Mirallegro star in Chris Coghill's nostalgic fictional drama about five 16-year-old lads from Manchester who try to attend The Stone Roses' legendary 1990 gig at Spike Island in Widnes. |
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| THE LOVERS! |
| Hardly hilarious, but rather sweet, this romantic comedy - a spin off from the popular Granada TV series - is a perfect time capsule of Manchester in 1972. Starring Richard Beckinsale & Paula Wilcox as two unlikely lovebirds - a Manchester United mad bank clerk and a romantically minded secretary - who try to carry on a relationship despite being the most mismatched couple imaginable. |
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