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This film was based on the play by Willy Russell, who adapted it for the big screen in 1983. Although the film isn't explicit about its location, the accents are Scouse and the play is set in Liverpool. The film starred Julie Walters as the Rita of the title, a hairdresser who wants to improve her education. She signs up to take a literature course via the Open University, a real life educational organisation set up to help those who want to gain a degree to do so in their own time.

Rita is assigned to a tutor named Frank Bryant, played by Michael Caine, who is cynical, bored with his life and addicted to alcohol. Rita's enthusiasm for learning helps Frank to fall in love with literature again while Rita learns that people can be just as unkind and superficial even with a good education.

This 1941 film concentrated on a mining family in the valleys of South Wales and was based on the novel of the same name written by Richard Llewellyn. Roddy McDowall played Huw Morgan, the main character in the film, with Walter Pidgeon portraying the pastor of the local chapel.

The film was directed by John Ford in an area rather different from the westerns for which he is better known, but it was certainly worthwhile as he won the Best Director Oscar for it. The film was also chosen as the Best Film with Donald Crisp picking up the Best Supporting Actor award for his role as Huw's father.

Notting Hill is an area of London and the setting of the 1999 romcom of the same name. Written by the prolific writer in the genre, Richard Curtis, the film starred Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.

Grant plays William Thacker, who runs a bookshop in London (Notting Hill, if you haven't guessed) where he meets Anna Scott (Roberts) a famous actress who just happens to go shopping there. The two of them meet again, and a relationship develops between them. In true romcom fashion, various problems and obstacles get in the way, but love prevails eventually.

Starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in dual roles, this 1981 film was based on the novel of the same name by John Fowles. It covers two timelines, with the part of the story set in the Victorian era using Lyme Regis, in Dorset to good effect.

The film centres around two love affairs, with the modern day events centring around two actors, Mike and Anna, who are portraying the earlier couple, Sarah and Charles. As mentioned, Irons and Streep play both the early and modern roles. In the early version, the action is set in Lyme Regis where Sarah meets and falls in love with Charles. The actors playing them also embark on an affair, although both are married. The outcomes are rather different in the two eras.

Mel Gibson was the prime mover behind this epic film about the real life Scottish hero William Wallace, who he portrayed. While some of the historic events did take place, the depiction of them in the film bears little resemblance to reality. The clothes worn by the Scots are wrong, the woman with whom Wallace is shown having an affair was three years old and living in France at the time, and Wallace was executed two years before the death of King Edward.

The plot involves the Scottish rebellion against the English with King Edward I (Patrick McGoohan) carrying out various atrocities. Wallace (Gibson) is shown as a hero, winning a battle at Stirling Bridge (the map shows this location) which is based on history, although King Edward wasn't present. Edward returned to lead his troops in the Battle of Falkirk, won by the English, and the rather gruesome execution of Wallace is true enough.

This 2014 film is about the earlier years of British scientist Stephen Hawking and his time at Cambridge University. While there, the first symptoms of his motor neurone disease became noticeable and he received his diagnosis. Eddie Redmayne stars as Hawking with Felicity Jones as his wife, Jane, with her book about her time with Stephen forming the basis of the film.

The film begins with Stephen trying to find a topic for his thesis, while coping with the early signs of his, as yet, undiagnosed condition. He finds his focus, despite finding out more of what ails him and ignoring the prognosis that he might have only two years left to live. He marries Jane, and the couple have three children. The film strikes a balance between Hawking's work and personal life and is sympathetically handled (both main characters were alive at the time, as Hawking did not die until 2018). Other actors in the film include David Thewlis and Maxine Peake.

The location of the film is primarily Cambridge, indicated on the map.

Released in 2003, the film 'Calendar Girls' was based on a real story about a group of women of mature age who decide to created a calendar of themselves in discreetly nude poses. The event struck a chord with the public and received much press attention. It has been much copied since.

The film was set in Yorkshire, as it should have been since that's where the real life events took place. The story begins with the husband of a Women's Institute member being diagnosed with terminal cancer. One of the women is inspired to create a calendar to raise funds and the film depicts her overcoming the resistance of other members and the hierarchy of the Women's Institute.

The film has actresses of the calibre of Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton and Celia Imrie in it, while Philip Glenister plays the photographer and John Alderton is the husband who dies.

'Hot Fuzz' is a British film from 2007 set in the fictional town of Sandford in Gloucestershire, in the west of England. The film parodies 'cop buddy' films and has a plot about a series of bizarre murders in what would normally be a quiet, rural area - itself something of a nod to certain television programmes which have unusually high rates of murder.

Simon Pegg, who also part wrote the script in collaboration with director Edgar Wright, is moved from London to Gloucestershire when he is promoted.to sergeant. He finds himself partnered with Danny Butterman (Nick Frost who is Pegg's comedy partner) as they investigate the suddenly high number of murders which have taken place. Although suspicion falls on a local supermarket owner, played by Timothy Dalton, the real villains are rather more surprising, as are their motives. To say more would spoil the film for those who haven't yet seen it.

There's not much love around in this film, released in 1996, which follows the lives of heroin addicts in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Irvine Walsh wrote the novel which was adapted by John Hodge with Danny Boyle directing the film.

The actors included Ewan McGregor as 'Rent Boy', or Mark Renton, Jonny Lee Miller as 'Sick Boy', Robert Carlyle as 'Franco' Begbie and Ewen Bremner as 'Spud' Murphy. Escaping from addiction proves problematic for the group, with only one, possibly two, of them showing any signs of improving their lives.

Charles Dance, better known as an actor himself, adapted 'Ladies in Lavender' from a short story written by William J Locke and also directed the film, which arrived in cinemas in 2004. Dance was able to attract stars such as Judi Dench and Maggie Smith to play lead roles and the film was a success with critics and at the box office.

Set in 1930s Cornwall, the plot involves sisters Ursula (Dench) and Janet (Smith) who find a shipwrecked young Polish man, Andrea Marowski (Daniel Brühl) on the beach near their home. As they tend him and restore his health, they discover he is a talented musician while Ursula, much older than he is, develops a romantic attachment. By chance (what would films be without coincidences) a visiting tourist hears the young man playing his violin - the tourist's brother just happens to be a world famous violinist himself. Andrea is whisked off to London and his career is set in motion, with the sisters being invited to his first public performance.