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Ghosts(2005)

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Girl, Interrupted(1999)

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Nimic(2020)

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Beautiful Boxer(2003)

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Lost and Delirious(2001)

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The Fence(2022)

The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys it. Teaming up with his scoundrel friends he desperately tries to track it down before it's gone for good.

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