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On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings.

After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous extraordinary challenges: he had to find a way to bypass the WTC’s security; smuggle the heavy steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers; pass the wire between the two rooftops; anchor the wire and tension it to withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings.

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Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) is a 63 year old man who shares his apartment with his three cats. Suffering from pains in his head and stomach he calls an ambulance and whilst he waits, asks his neighbours for some pills.

Though they disapprove of his heavy drinking and the state of his home, they try their best to help. Hindered by a major bus accident the medics eventually arrive and so begins a long and increasingly frustrating night. Shuffled from pillar to post he becomes wearier and weaker in the face of the medical professions bureaucracy and casual inefficiency. A succession of colourful characters permeates the film and the combination of dry humour and 'scalpel sharp' satire make this one of the year's most deeply affecting films.

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The village of Turnbotham Round has had no crime for ten years. The police force consists of Sergeant Dudfoot (Will Hay) and his two assistants, Albert (Graham Moffatt) and the decrepit Harbottle (Moore Marriott).

After a radio interview their Chief Constable suggests that it seems unnecessary to have a police force at all and threatens an investigation. In desperation the trio decide to. create an artificial 'crime wave'. They set a speed trap and arrest the Chief Constable himself and only the intervention of the Squire saves them from disaster! Foiled, they hit on the idea of finding some smugglers. They plant a keg of brandy on the shore, to 'discover' in front of witnesses, but another keg appears! Our heroes begin to suspect that something is wrong....and for once, they're right! A real gang of smugglers is indeed in action in the area. It seems that they are guided by a light from the top of the police station! The gang is led by the Squire himself who locks our unlikely heroes in their own jail! Will they ever escape to save the day?

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Marie-Jeanne and Robert have three children: Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. Over the course of twelve eventful years, we see five key days as seen through the eyes of each one of these characters. Five days are crucial in these lonely, vibrant, frustrated, elated and triumphant lives.

Five days whose consequences reverberate through this eccentric family like thunder and lightening of a gathering storm. These five days are more important then any other day. After you've experienced them, nothing will ever be the same again.

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A sleeper hit of the early 1980's, 'Eating Raoul' is a bawdy, gleefully amoral tale of conspicuous consumption. Warhol superstar Mary Woronov and cult legend Paul Bartel (who also directed) portray a prudish married couple who feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building.

One night, by accident, they discover a way to simultaneously rid themselves of the "perverts" down the hall and realize their dream of opening a restaurant. A mix of hilarious, anything-goes slapstick and biting satire of me-generation self-indulgence, 'Eating Raoul' marked the end of the sexual revolution with a thwack.

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Known as the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's literary eminence was achieved despite having lived in one of the most troubled centuries the world has known, and one particularly fraught for England. Chaucer may have suffered accordingly.

It has been proposed that he was murdered! He was born as England had entered into a war of conquest which was to last over 100 years, he survived the Black Death, and would witness the first revolutionary rising to challenge the status quo to date. He would be a soldier, a prisoner, a spy, a top civil servant, and a courtier. Throughout and despite all this, he would lead what was a brief golden age of English literature. Ultimately, he may have fallen foul of an English Inquisition. Monty Python's Terry Jones, writer, film director, actor and historian contributes an interview to the programme during which he presents his view of Chaucer and his society with wit, charm and passion and vigorously supports his theory that the poet became a victim of the political upheaval caused by the regime change from Richard II to Henry IV.

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When her ex-husband's new wile is murdered, Laurel Vega (Patricia Richardson) emerges as the prime suspect. She laces the death penalty. Her only hope is her brother-in-law, Paul Madriani. But Laurel mysteriously refuses to co-operate - and Paul's investigations raise some disturbing questions.

What has happened to Laurel's neighbours, who have vanished? Is her ex-husband, a powerful US senator, everything he seems? And as Paul begins to expose the truth, how much is he putting his own life in deadly danger?

Working in secret for the Air Ministry at his remote country house laboratory, John Barrington (Leslie Banks) is key to the ongoing war effort against the Nazis. Barrington's household, however, has been infiltrated by enemy agents who plan to take him back to Berlin as prisoner.

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When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the woods. Mark's five-year-old brother Jesse was bothering them, so they told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was never seen again.

Twenty years later, Danny - now a detective - learns that Jesse's DNA has been found at a murder scene. Is Jesse alive? The four friends must reunite to discover the shocking truth. 'The Five' is a thrilling ten-part series with twists, turns and dark secrets.

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Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell and Max von Sydow star in director Steven Spielberg' action-packed foretelling vision of the future.

When Precrime detective John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is identified as a future murderer, he must race against his own specialized police department and time itself to prove his innocence of a crime he has yet to commit.

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Doctor Gemma Foster's life is about to be torn apart. She's a talented family doctor at the heart of her community, a loving wife and mother, a woman people can trust. But her world is fractured the moment she suspects her husband, Simon, of having an affair. Determined to discover the truth.

Gemma (Suranne Jones) unearths dark secrets that threaten everything she loves. As her life and the lives of her patients and family are thrown into chaos, only one thing is certain - Gemma will find herself behaving in ways she could never have imagined...

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After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age.

Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton Walbrook (the Bishop of Beauvais), John Gielgud (Earl of Warwick) and Felix Aylmer (The Inquisitor). Cast as the vacillating Dauphin is Richard Widmark. Graham Greene's screenplay refashions the original Shaw text in the form of a flashback. Seberg eventually became an accomplished actress by virtue of her appearances in such nouvelle vague films as Breathless, but it was too late to salvage Saint Joan, which was figuratively burned at the stake by critics and filmgoers alike.

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Returning after a near-five-year pause, Hyvvel Bennett stars once again as James Shelley, the erudite, philosophically inclined idler who elevated work-avoidance to an art form through an initial, massively popular six-series run in the early 1980's.

These further series (initially titled 'The Return of Shelley') see the graduate and 'freelance layabout' returning to the UK after a stint teaching English abroad. When he left, the social landscape was changing fast -and now he's shocked to see by how much. Middle-aged slobs have been banned from their origins, Yuppiedom is the name of the new game, and the only thing that's 'real' is 'estate'; an unforgiving new world personified by Shelley's frighteningly energetic new landlords, Carol and Graham...Featuring guest appearances from James Grout, John Woodnutt, Stephen Tompkinson, Clive Swift and John Cater among many others, this set contains every episode screened between 1988 and 1992, including the 1991 New Year special.

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Written by award-winning screen-writer and novelist Frederic Raphael, "The Glittering Prizes" is the critically acclaimed series of six teleplays chronicling the changing lives of friends who first meet at Cambridge University.

Tom Conti (Shirley Valentine) stars as would-be novelist Adam Morris with Mark Wing-Davey and Nigel Havers among his college peers. Barbara Kellerman, Malcolm Stoddard, Connie Booth, Miriam Margolyes and Tim Pigott-Smith also feature among the cast. Meeting as undergraduates in the early fifties, the drama explores the hopes and dreams of a group of idealistic young students, following their intertwining lives into the turbulent sixties, and on through the successes and disillusionments of the seventies as they achieve contrasting levels of worldly success.

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Terrorism, kidnap, hijacking and espionage are the daily dangers faced by David Barber (Christian Burgess) and Tom Duffy (Patrick James Clarke), chief operatives for Saracen Systems - a private security firm whose clients are governments, industry and individual contractors worldwide.

Their backgrounds and personalities are radically different: Barber, tall, dark and with typically English reserve, left the SAS when a mission went tragically wrong; the blonde, rugged Duffy is a relaxed, relentlessly charming American trained in the elite Delta Force. Their contradictory qualities make for a volatile friendship but a highly professional partnership. Under Saracen's founder and director, retired army officer Colonel Patrick Ansell (Michael Byrne), the agents take on high-risk tasks too sensitive or unpredictable for other agencies to handle. Recalling the classic action series of the 1970', this fast-paced, no-expense-spared series features exotic locations and breathtaking action sequences...