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Father, grandfather, policeman, widower. In a remote Icelandic town, Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurdsson), an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife.

Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.

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Starring Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, 'The Man Who Invented Christmas' tells the magical true story of the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim, and The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future.

As they come to life in his head, Dickens begins to write the masterpiece that inspired the Christmas we know and love today.

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Set in London's world of high-class call girls, Virginie (Hafsia Herzi), a French working girl falls in love with the mysterious Rupert (Ash Stymest), while she is working her trade in London. As they get to know each other he becomes increasingly determined to save her from her secret life.

He is intrigued by her life and bulletproof demeanour, but his confused chivalry complicates their relationship and changes both of their lives forever.

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The Fugue Quartet has performed together for over 25 years, attracting worldwide acclaim.

But when one member admits that time may have finally caught up with him the group finds itself faced with an uncertain future of shifting dynamics and strained relationships, echoed by the complexities of their swansong piece - Beethoven's notoriously difficult String Quartet No. 14.

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Starring Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz, alongside Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott - "Denial" is the gripping and inspirational story of a relentless fight for justice.

When writer Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) speaks out against the lies of Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) she is faced with a high-stakes battle to uncover one of the darkest deceptions in history. Passionate, fiery and independent she decides she must face him in court to fight the battle for the truth, even though the odds are solidly stacked against her.

The game of conquest is underway. Anything goes when a predatory, wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer). But this time, a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love - with tragic results.

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The charismatic Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his alluring younger wife Colette (Kirsten Dunst) are in Athens during a European vacation.

Whilst sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter Rydal (Oscar Isaac), a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide, scamming female tourists on the side. Drawn to Colette's beauty and impressed by Chester's wealth and sophistication, Rydal gladly accepts their invitation to dinner. But, all is not as it seems with the MacFarlands as Chester's affable exterior hides darker secrets. When Rydal visits the couple at their exclusive hotel, events take a more sinister turn and he finds himself compromised and unable to pull free...

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In Guest In The House, Anne Baxter stars as the unhinged, psychotic Evelyn Heath, who needs a quiet place to relax and recuperate.

Her doctor, Dan Proctor (Scott McKay) lets her use his house in Maine, where she proceeds to manipulate his happily-married brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy) into falling in love with her. Her cruel campaign to convince everyone in the house that she is the poor innocent party causes a major rift and when she is told to get professional help, she responds by trying to lure poor Dan into marriage and a final showdown results in death and redemption.

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Award-winning actress Lucy Lawless stars in this contemporary Australian mystery series as retired police officer Alexa Crowe.

With her old boss (Bernard Curry) regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst (Ebony Vagulans) eager to be mentored - whether Alexa wants to or not - Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime. Tenacious and unapologetic, Alexa brings her dry wit and brash style as she contends with a suspicious death at a competitive culinary school, a murder in an exclusive cycling club, a woman who fell from the balcony of a male escort's apartment, a locked-room mystery, and more.

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29 Acacia Avenue (1945)

The Robinsons (Gordon Marker and Betty Balfour) are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children (Jimmy Hanley and Carla Lehmann) the free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr and Mrs Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early...

Operation Cupid (1960)
When three bumbling conmen win a dating agency in a rigged card game they think their luck has finally changed. When they take charge of the business though, they discover that the con is on them and that the agency is in debt, the furnishings are all on credit and the staff" haven't been paid! Salvation appears in the form of a millionaires client who is searching for a suitable husband and one of the conmen pretends to also be a millionaire. But who is conning who?

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off M16 and the KGB against each other.

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Detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon), a cunning Major Crimes detective for the St. John's Police Department, teams up with an unusual partner - Rex (Diesel vom Burgimwald), a former-K9 German Shepherd, whose heightened senses keep Charlie hot on the trail of his suspects.

Together, they investigate puzzling crimes, from a kidnapping which reveals a much larger conspiracy at play to an art theft murder which runs deep into the world of high society. With Charlie's deft detective work and Rex's keen canine senses, this crime-fighting pair is unstoppable.

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Since the summer of 1955, the ITV network has entertained the nation with some of the most memorable programming ever created for British television.

This collection celebrates those six decades with an outstanding, specially selected collection of superb dramas, hilarious comedies and thought-provoking documentaries - some of which haven't been seen since their original transmission. With each of them themed to provide an "evening's entertainment", this dip into the archives provides a trip down 'Memory Lane' as well as a timely reminder of some of the best television of the last sixty years. This mixture of both classics and rarities (including some programmes thought lost forever) will appeal to everyone! So spoil yourself settle down for a great night in and join us for a journey through the decades!

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In a southern town in 1954 India, British and Anglo-Indian identities blur in this psychological tale of misplaced trust, envy and power. The troubled Macintosh household deteriorates further when Lily (Greta Scacchi) gives birth to a sickly baby girl.

Cotton Mary (Madhur Jaffrey), an Anglo-Indian hospital worker, seizes the opportunity and takes over the infant's care. She becomes indispensable to the suffering mother and is asked to join the household, where she assumes more and more duties, playing on the mother's fatigue and problems with her husband. How long can Mary sustain her rule before Lily stands on her own feet and regains control?

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Clarke (Dustin Hoffman) and Rogers (Warren Beatty) are two inept songwriters, down on their luck and desperate for money. Taking the advice of their shifty agent, the duo are whisked off on a tour of the mystical republic of Ishtar.

On their arrival, our heroes are separately recruited into spying for opposing sides of a planned revolution, while simultaneously vying for the attention of a gorgeous female freedom fighter (Isabelle Adjani). But Clarke and Rogers make worse spies than they do songwriters, and soon they're left stranded in the desert with only a blind camel and several CIA assassins for company...