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Two more baffling cases for the famous Baker Street sleuth.

The Golden Pince-Nez

The case begins with the discovery of a dead body, with no apparent clue except a pair of golden pince-nez glasses clutched in the corpse's hand. Scotland Yard seeks the assistance of Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) to solve a mystery which stretches as far as the war-torn city St. Petersburg...
The Red Circle
A friend of the faithful Mrs. Hudson (Rosalie Williams) implores Holmes (Jeremy Brett) to investigate the strange business of an Italian lodger who has not left his room at the top of her house for two weeks. Holmes and Watson (Edward Hardwicke) soon find themselves embroiled in the dangerous web of the Red Circle, a secret political society whose evil claws stretch to Italy and New York. Holmes has to tread a precarious path between murder and violence.

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The film paints the relationship between L.S. Lowry (Timothy Spall), one of Britain's most iconic artists, and his mother Elizabeth (Vanessa Redgrave), with whom he lived until her death. We see Lowry in the beginnings of his career, as he yearns for his work to be appreciated in London.

However, his disdainful mother actively tries to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions. At the same time, the film explores how Elizabeth is the very reason Lowry paints anything at all, as he desperately seeks to create something, anything, which will make her happy. This powerful yet humorous story imagines the impact this obsessive mother and son relationship had on the great artist.

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John Thaw (Inspector Morse, Goodnight Mr Tom) is Kavanagh Q.C, one of the most respected criminal advocates in London. From a northern working-class background, James Kavanagh has climbed to the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law.

But his dedication to work, the long hours and difficult cases, have taken their toll on life at home with his wife and two teenage children. In this first series Kavanagh Q.C takes on a variety of difficult and sometimes controversial cases including a student accused of rape, an alleged victim of a police attack, a child custody battle and a prostitute accused of murdering a wealthy businessman.

On a winding desert highway eight vacation-bound motorist share an experience that alters their plans and their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the loot and the most side-splitting laugh fest in history.

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Is there such a thing as 'good' and 'bad' twins? Psychobiologist Dr. Jeannie Ferrami (Kelly McGillis) thinks she's found living proof in the form of 'good guy' Steve Logan (Jason Gedrick) and his twin Dennis, who's in jail for murder.

As her boss tries to discredit her research, Jeannie digs deeper - only to be brutally attacked by a man who looks just like Steve. Could this attractive, likeable man be a rapist and killer? Or could the Logan brothers have what should be a biological impossibility: a 'third' twin?

"Legend" is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London's most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance.

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Murdoch and Ogden travel to Victoria to visit Murdoch's brother, RCMP officer Jasper Linney (Dylan Neal).

There, they investigate a murder connected to an archaeologist (Megan Follows) who has uncovered an ancient Indigenous settlement, leading to a trek through the rugged beauty of British Columbia and encounters with the Songhees and Haida nations. Meanwhile, the Brackenreids are offered a surefire investment opportunity that may not be all it seems, and Crabtree and Higgins plan a ski chalet holiday with their gal pals Nina and Ruth, but learn it may be more dangerous than expected.

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Bruce (Malcolm McDowell) is a lively young man with an irrepressible sense of fun and a sharp eye for a pretty girl. Returning home slightly the worse for wear after a wedding, Bruce suddenly collapses in the lift of the block of flats in which he lives.

When Bruce wakes up in hospital, he finds that he is unable to walk and the doctors cannot diagnose his problem. When his family is unable to house him, Bruce is forced to move to a convalescence home. Here he becomes bitter about his situation and resents the intrusion of the other inmates upon his melancholy state. After a while Bruce strikes up a friendship with fellow inmate Jill (Nanette Newman) and under her influence, he begins to enjoy life again. Falling deeply in love, Bruce and Jill decide to get married against the wished of the home's owners. Faced with the prospect of having to move out of the home and seek work, will Bruce and Jill's love survive?

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Performing live in London's West End, legendary comic Dawn French delivers her very first solo show. Directed by theatrical visionary Michael Grandage, 'Dawn French Live' is comedy with a dramatic and emotional flourish. It tells the story of Dawn's 30 million minutes on earth - and counting.

Cancer scares, her father's suicide, and romantic relationships are all explored. Dawn opens up to her audience, tickles their funny bones and touches their hearts.

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'The Joy Luck Club' tells the epic story of four families whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, richness and magic.

From the war-torn fields of early-century China to the streets of modern-day San Francisco, the hopes, dreams and triumphs of two generations are revealed through the startling events that shaped their lives.

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In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a 50-something woman, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently manoeuvres the honeycomb without netting or gloves.

Back at her homestead, Hatidze tends to her handmade hives and her bedridden mother, occasionally heading to the capital to market her wares. One day, an itinerant family installs itself next door, and Hatidze's peaceful kingdom gives way to roaring engines, seven shrieking children, and 150 cows. Yet Hatidze welcomes the camaraderie, and she holds nothing back - not her tried-and-true beekeeping advice, not her affection, not her special brandy. But soon Hussein, the itinerant family's patriarch, makes a series of decisions that could destroy Hatidze's way of life forever.

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James Norton reprises his role as Sidney Chambers, the charismatic, charming, crime-fighting clergyman, and Robson Green returns as his partner in crime, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, in the second series of Grantchester.

It's 1954 and having lain his wartime past to rest, Sidney Chambers is in a good place. Booze and self-doubt have taken a back seat to his duties and congregation. He's growing up, and trying to lead a good life. But things are never easy and when Sidney finds himself wrongly accused of a crime, his unmasking of the real culprit will send shockwaves through the entire village. Sidney and Geordie's unlikely friendship has blossomed - they will do anything for one another - but as the story unfolds they will find that loyalty tested to the limit. A vicar keeps people's confidences. A copper is hell bent on exposing them. Will allegiance to the institutions they work for ultimately be Sidney and Geordie's undoing?

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Jill Gascoine stars as tough, no-nonsense female cop Maggie Forbes.

Made at a time when there were very few ranking female officers in the police force, 'The Gentle Touch' not only showed police procedure within a Metropolitan Police CID unit but also allowed insight into how a woman might cope with such a role in what was very much a man's world. The first police series to show a woman at Detective Inspector level, The Gentle Touch ran for five years and co-starred William Marlowe as Maggie's jaded, world-weary boss and Derek Thompson (Casualty) as D.S.Jimmy Fenton. Maggie Forbes' joy at being promoted to Detective Inspector is smashed to pieces when her Police Constable husband is shot dead by criminals. Ignoring direct orders to avoid any involvement in the case, she is determined to bring her husband's murderers to justice...

1. Killers
Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes and her husband, RC. Ray Forbes, reach a crossroads in their lives.
2. Recoil
Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes cannot bear the waiting, and breaches discipline to try and help find her husband's murderer.
3. Help
Maggie tries to help her friend Susan and her daughter, but doesn't realise that her own son has started to drink heavily.
4. Shock
When a woman is found dead in a love nest and Maggie Forbes is assigned to the case, several people are in for a shock.
5. Blade
D.I. Maggie Forbes' efforts to solve a murder are not made any easier by conflict with one of her colleagues.
6. Rogue
Maggie meets a charmer and is torn between her attraction to him and her position as a Detective Inspector.
7. Melody
Maggie and her team investigate the mysterious murder of a glamorous call girl called Melody.

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In 1958, in the state of Virginia, the idea of interracial marriage was not only considered to be immoral to many, it was also illegal. When Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga) fall in love, they are aware of the eyes staring at them and the words said behind their backs.

It is when they get married, however, that words and looks become actions, and the two are arrested. The couple decide to take their case all of the way to the Supreme Court in order to fight for their love.

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"My Dinner with Andre" is a passionate, volatile and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner.

Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theatre director and playwright in search of life's meanings and spiritual revelations. His friend, Wally Shawn, is an actor and playwright living in New York who is more preoccupied with the search for his next meal. As Andre recounts his global journeys involving esoteric theatrical experiments and mystical adventures, Wally listens with more skepticism, as his attitudes shift through wonder, puzzlement, admiration, and anger. What finally emerges is a sensitive portrait of a friendship that survives and transcends beliefs of love, death, art, and man's continuing quest for self-fulfillment.