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A raucous tale of two young doctors enthusiastically tackling the most common ailment known to man – the love bug! Right from the start it’s romance and laughter all the way with Dr Richard Hare (Michael Craig) and his partner Dr Tony Burke (Leslie Phillips) adapting to life at St.

Swithin’s Hospital; a country practice and wonderfully entitled ‘Foulness Anti-Cold Research Clinic. In the process, they encounter sultry night nurses, two out of work strippers – Dawn & Leonora (Joan Sims & Liz Fraser) a flirtatious receptionist (Carole Lesley) and luscious Locum Dr Barrington (Virginia Maskell). Needless to say, heartbeats and pulse – rates rush skywards, as love becomes the prescribed tonic. Even the retired surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice) gets involved and all in spite of a grumbling appendix.

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One of the most notorious films ever made, 'Myra Breckinridge' caused an outcry on its release, prompting one reviewer to call it 'a pornographic remake of Charley's Aunt'. Since then this over-the-top comedy of excess has built a huge cult following.

Based on the novel by Gore Vidal, the story follows Myron, who has a sex change, becomes Myra and travels to Hollywood to claim an inheritance, though her real mission is "the destruction of the American male in all its particulars".

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Laurel Canyon, a street that runs through the heart of the Hollywood Hills, has for decades been a sort of Greenwich Village of the West, home to many musicians, actors, artists and other bohemian types.

Among its current residents is Jane (Frances McDormand), a veteran record producer, trying to come up with a hit single for a British band whose lead singer Ian (Alessandro Nivola) is her much younger lover. Jane's son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fianc Alex (Kate Beckinsale) are both recent graduates of Harvard medical school. Conservative and serious, the couple move to Los Angeles to complete their studies. Sam and Alex begrudgingly agree to stay at Jane's house until they can find an alternative place to live. Once in the house, however, Sam and Alex's tight control over their lives begins to unravel...

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Jean (Pio Marma'O left his family and his birthplace of Burgundy ten years ago to tour the world. Learning of his father's imminent death, he returns to his childhood home.

There, he reunites with his sister Juliette (Ana Girardot), and his brother Jeremie (Francois Civil) when their father passes away just before the harvest begins. Over the course of a year, in sync with the rhythm of the seasons, the three young adults rediscover and reinvent their familial bonds, maturing and blossoming along with the wine they are making.

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Geoffrey Carter (Michael Gough) - a highly strung author suffering from writer's block - petulantly insists to his wife (Patricia Roc) that they flee their annoying neighbours and move somewhere more peaceful.

They find a delightfully remote woodland cottage which the owner - a melancholic, widowed artist with a Larry Adler fixation - is happy to rent them at a pittance. All too soon they realise that something is not quite right with their landlord and, much to Geoffrey's horror, he realises that the plot of his new murder mystery is being played out for real...

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When Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband is having an affair, she seeks refuge with her estranged, bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie). As a fish out of water, Sandra is at odds with her sister's free-spirited lifestyle, until she is persuaded to join Bif's dance class.

Here, Bif and her friends Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman) show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love.

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In the docks of Jimmy McGovern's BAFTA Award winning second series of Accused stands a sensational ensemble of British acting talent. They are the innocent, the guilty and the somewhere in between.

Starring Olivia Colman, Sean Bean, Sheridan Smith, Anne Marie Duff, Anna Maxwell Martin and Stephen Graham, 'Accused Series 2' is directed by David Blair and Ashley Pearce. These modern-day morality plays are fraught with emotion as they delve into the tangled issues of gender stereotypes, a mother's unconditional love, familial grief and paranoia, as well as challenging the justice system itself. With cases of gang violence, murder, sexual assault and crimes of passion, are these everyday defendants the guilty or the victims?

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??? with touch of the macabre, 'Tales of the Unexpected' holds, at its heart, a core of black humour that makes each story both compelling and surprising, with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country.

This complete sixth series, first transmitted to great critical acclaim in 1983, features fourteen outstanding episodes showcasing powerful performances from a glittering international cast including Colin Blakely, Judy Geeson, Hayley Mills, Stuart Wilson, David Cassidy, Darren McGavin, Sheila Gish, Peter Cushing, Gayle Hunnicutt and Sharon Gless.

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Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy) have been married for 29 years and live in a small seaside town called Hope Gap. During a visit from their son Jamie (Josh O'Connor) Edward informs them both that he plans to leave Grace and walks out the door that very same day.

With the whole family knocked into disarray, Grace has to find a way through this new life which she least expected and, with the help of her son, achieve hope once again. 'Hope Gap' tracks the emotional unravelling of a tight knit family going through divorce and walking the thin line between love and hate.

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Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) is one lucky guy! When he's accidentally clobbered by a 220-pound halfback, all Harry suffers is a slight concussion.

All, that is, until Whiplash Willie (Walter Matthau) — a legal scoundrel of the first order — arrives on the scene! For if Harry follows shyster Willie's advice and feigns a crippling injury, the two charlatans can split a cool million in phoney insurance claims. But can Willie's world-class finagling dispel those ominous words that lie within the fortune cookie on Harry's hospital plate: You can't fool all of the people all of the time?

Complete final series of the 1970's police drama, about a group of hard, no-nonsense, London cops operating against a gritty, urban background. George Sewell plays Detective Chief Inspector Craven, while Dennis Waterman makes a guest appearance.

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A stellar cast including Jane Seymour, Leo McKern, John McEnery and Leslie Dunlop star in this classic BBC adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels. A story about two women, both vainly seeking happiness and fulfilment: Lizzie Hexam and Bella Wilfer.

Lizzie is the subject of intense romantic interest from two ardent suitors, a class conscious triangle which culminates in tragedy - in addition her father is suspected of murder. Meanwhile Bella enters into an arranged marriage with the owner of a refuse recycling firm - a circumstance linked to Lizzie's plight.

In 2006, having toured the world over, Sigur Ros return home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts in Iceland. Heima is a unique record of that tour, filmed in 16 locations across the island, taking in the biggest and smallest shows of the band's career.

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Laura (Penelope Cruz) and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past.

Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.

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The 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or winner from Nuri Bilge Ceylan is set in the hilly landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia. A former actor, Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), owns a small hotel cut into the hillside, which he runs with his younger wife Nihal (Melisa Sozen).

He has also inherited local properties, but leaves the business of rent collection to his agent. When a local boy, resentful of his father's humiliation by Aydin's agent, throws a stone at a jeep whilst Aydin and his agent are driving in it, Aydin ducks out of any responsibility or involvement. As the film progresses, the cocoon in which this self-satisfied man has wrapped himself is gradually unravelled. In a series of magnificent set-pieces, Aydin is exposed in his encounters with his wife, sister, and the family of the stone-throwing boy. He is finally brought face-to-face with who he truly is.