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- Audio Description (AD) available for Love & Friendship, Churchill, Flawless, Charlie & Boots, Children of Men, The Sound of Silence, Journey’s End, Snatch, The Doors, On a Clear Day, Hope Gap, Brideshead Revisited and This Beautiful Fantastic
- Closed Captions (CC) available for Love & Friendship, Churchill, Charlie & Boots, Children of Men, The Doors, Brideshead Revisited and Black Book
- This week’s SBS World Movies channel premieres include Layer Cake, On a Clear Day, Hope Gap, Benedetta, Bad Tales and Reckless
WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER
Love & Friendship
5:50pm
PG, AD, CC
UK, USA, 2016
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Language: English
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Tom Bennett, Stephen Fry
What’s it about?
From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon (Beckinsale) visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colourful rumours of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy (Samuel) and wealthy Sir James Martin (Bennett), severely complicate her plans. An acerbic take on Austen from Whit Stillman, writer-director of Metropolitan & The Last Days of Disco.
Churchill
7:30pm
PG, AD, CC
UK, 2017
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring: Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Julian Wadham
What’s it about?
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill (Cox, of HBO’s Succession). Behind the iconic figure and rousing speeches: a man who has faced political ridicule, military failure and a speech impediment.
Flawless
9:30pm
M, AD
UK, Luxembourg, 2007
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker, Shaughan Seymour
What’s it about?
In this classy, swinging-’60s heist thriller, a janitor (Caine) convinces a disgruntled executive (Moore) to help him knock-off the diamond company they work for. She agrees to help, but soon finds herself in over her head. Directed by Michael Radford (1984, Il Postino).
THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER
Charlie & Boots
7:35pm
M, AD, CC
Australia, 2009
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Dean Murphy
Starring: Shane Jacobson, Paul Hogan, Morgan Griffin, Roy Billing
What’s it about?
After a family tragedy, estranged brothers Charlie (Hogan) and Boots (Jacobson) try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime – from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula – they overcome many challenges to reach their dream – to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
Layer Cake
9:30pm
MA15+
UK, 2004
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Language: English
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Tom Hardy, Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon, Sally Hawkins
What’s it about?
An unnamed drug-dealer (Craig) has always had his priorities straight: he wants to quit while he’s ahead. But before he can enjoy the fortune he has made from selling ecstasy and cocaine, he has to oblige his boss Jimmy Price (Cranham) for two last requests. The junkie-daughter of crime lord Eddie Temple (Gambon) has gone missing and Price wants the dealer to find her. Directed by Matthew Vaughn (the Kingsman series).
Children of Men
11:30pm
MA15+, AD, CC
UK, 2006
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine, Danny Huston
What’s it about?
This sci-fi epic from Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity, Roma) imagines a future world that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population that has made humankind face the likelihood of its own extinction. Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence, the film follows an unlikely champion of Earth’s survival: Theo (Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who is forced to face his own demons and protect the planet’s last remaining hope for a future generation.
FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER
The Sound of Silence
5:55pm
M, AD
USA, 2019
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Michael Tyburski
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones, Tony Revolori, Austin Pendleton, Kate Lyn Sheil
What’s it about?
Peter, a successful New York ‘house tuner’, studies the ambient sounds in people’s homes and helps modify them to create a soothing effect for the residents. However, he faces a challenge when nothing seems to work for Ellen, a difficult client.
Journey’s End
7:30pm
M, AD
UK, 2017
Genre: Drama, War
Language: Spanish
Director: Saul Dibb
Starring: Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Tom Sturridge, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham
What’s it about?
March, 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches in northern France led by Captain Stanhope (Clafin). A German offensive is imminent, and the officers and their cook distract themselves in their dugout with talk of food and their past lives. Stanhope, meanwhile, soaks his fear in whisky. A young new officer, Raleigh (Butterfield), has just arrived, abuzz with the excitement of his first real posting. Each man is trapped, the days ticking by, the tension rising and the attack drawing ever closer.
Snatch
9:30pm
MA15+, AD
UK, 2000
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jason Statham, Vinnie Jones, Stephen Graham, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt
What’s it about?
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight amongst themselves to track down a priceless stolen diamond, in writer and director Guy Ritchie’s smash-hit follow-up to 1998’s cult favourite Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
The Doors
11:25pm
MA15+, AD, CC
USA, 1991
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Wincott
What’s it about?
After a psychedelic experience in the California desert, Jim Morrison (Kilmer) and his bandmates in The Doors begin performing in Los Angeles and quickly become a sensation. However, when Jim begins ditching his musical responsibilities and his girlfriend, Pamela (Ryan) in favour of his dangerous addictions and the affections of the seductive, occult-obsessed Patricia (Quinlan), the band starts to worry. Directed by Oliver Stone (JFK, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July).
SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER
On a Clear Day
6:35pm
PG, AD
UK, 2005
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Gaby Dellal
Starring: Peter Mullan, Billy Boyd, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Jodhi May
What’s it about?
After losing his job at a Glasgow shipyard, 50-year-old Frank (Mullan) has few prospects and little hope. A casual remark by a buddy (Boyd) inspires him to find a new purpose – to swim the English Channel. Accompanied by his closest friends, Frank sets forth on a training regimen that will help him achieve his goal.
Hope Gap
8:30pm
M, AD
UK, 2019
Genre: Drama, Romance
Language: English
Director: William Nicholson
Starring: Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, Josh O’Connor, Aiysha Hart, Nicholas Burns
What’s it about?
Grace (Bening) lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband (Nighy) of 29 years tells her he’s leaving her for another woman. Through stages of shock, disbelief and anger, Grace ultimately regains her footing while learning it’s never too late to be happy.
Elle
10:25pm
MA15+
Belgium, France, Germany, 2016
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Language: French
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling
What’s it about?
When Michèle (Huppert, in her first Oscar nominated performance), the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker. Directed by Paul Verhoeven (Black Book, Basic Instinct).
SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER
Brideshead Revisited
6:05pm
PG, AD, CC
UK, 2008
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Anna Madeley, Michael Gambon
What’s it about?
In 1925 at Oxford University, Charles Ryder (Goode) is befriended by the flamboyant Sebastian Flyte (Whishaw), son of Lord and Lady Marchmain (Gambon and Thompson). Sebastian takes Charles under his wing and when he’s invited to Brideshead, the Flyte family’s magnificent ancestral home, Charles becomes infatuated with Julia, Sebastian’s beautiful sister Julia (Atwell) as well as everything the family represents.
Benedetta
8:30pm
MA15+
Belgium, France, Netherlands, 2021
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Language: French, Latin
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
What’s it about?
A 17th-century nun (Efira) becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice (Patakia). But it is Benedetta’s shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core. From legendary Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, the provocateur behind modern Hollywood classics Robocop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct, and who made a triumphant return to European production with 2006’s Black Book and 2016’s Elle.
Black Book
10:55pm
MA15+, CC
Netherlands, 2006
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Language: Dutch, German
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Carice van Houten, Christian Berkel, Sebastian Koch, Michiel Huisman
What’s it about?
Rachel Stein (Houten) is hiding in rural Holland in the final stages of the war. When her foster home is destroyed by a bomb, she is rescued by a Resistance fighter and she meets Mr Smaal (Vries) a lawyer helping rich Jews escape. But the planned escape ends in slaughter, including Rachel’s family. She joins the Resistance and becomes involved with a high ranking SS officer Ludwig Muntze (Koch), hoping to gather useful information. From Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Elle.
MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER
Into the White
7:30pm
MA15+
Norway, Sweden, 2012
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Language: German, English
Director: Petter Næss
Starring: Stig Henrik Hoff, Lachlan Nieboer, Rupert Grint, Florian Lukas, David Kross
What’s it about?
High above the harsh Norwegian wilderness, English and German pilots shoot each other to the ground after a violent chance encounter. Isolated, they must fight to survive the brutal winter. Though war has made them enemies, antagonism is hard to maintain as days go by. Through mutual need, unlikely friendships bloom. Somehow, they become comrades.
Bad Tales
9:30pm
MA15+
Italy, Switzerland, 2020
Genre: Drama
Language: Italian
Director: Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo
Starring: Elio Germano, Tommaso Di Cola, Giulietta Rebeggiani, Gabriel Montesi
What’s it about?
In a small family suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, everything seem normal, but it’s an illusion – the place hides the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the desperation of the children.
TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER
This Beautiful Fantastic
6:10pm
PG, AD
UK, USA, 2016
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Language: English, Irish
Director: Simon Aboud
Starring: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine
What’s it about?
A contemporary fairy tale revolving around the most unlikely of friendships: between a reclusive, agoraphobic young woman (Finday) with dreams of being a children’s book author and a curmudgeonly old widower (Wilkinson), set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London.
Madame
7:50pm
M
France, 2017
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Language: English, French
Director: Amanda Sthers
Starring: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy de Palma, Michael Smiley, Tom Hughes
What’s it about?
Anne (Collette) and Bob (Keitel), a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
Reckless
9:30pm
MA15+
Italy, 2018
Genre: Comedy, Action
Language: Italian
Director: Marco Ponti
Starring: Lorenzo Richelmy, Matilda De Angelis, Eugenio Franceschini, Antonio Gerardi
What’s it about?
When a young mechanic, deep in debt, has his bank loan rejected, a series of unfortunate events turns into an unplanned bank robbery. Along with his best friend, a former rally driver, and a miserable teen superstar as their hostage, they start on a crazy race across Italy.
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