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1000 · 300 mins · English
Directed by
David Yates
Starring
Miranda Otto, Douglas Hodge, Allan Corduner, Richard Cant, Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy

Set in the 1870s, this Victorian saga follows financier Augustus Melmotte as he arrives in London announcing a railway from Salt Lake City to the Gulf of Mexico. His scheme ensnares cash‑poor, land‑rich aristocrats desperate to sell failing estates and draws naïve speculators with promises of wealth, exposing the era’s web of power and corruption.

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