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The legendary partnership of George Cole and Dennis Waterman play Arthur Daley, a man synonymous with dodgy goods and shady deals, and Terry McCann, Arthur's 'Minder' who protects him from small-time crooks, in this hugely successful ITV series. Drinking in the Winchester Club, driving the Capri and chatting up the ladies, catch up with Arthur and Terry's escapades in this classic series... - Director:
- Roy Ward Baker
- Cast:
- Dennis Waterman, George Cole, Glynn Edwards
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The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)La Balada De La Isla
"The Ballad of Wallis Island" follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig. - Director:
- James Griffiths
- Cast:
- Tim Key, Tom Basden, Steve Marsh
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Wilde Alliance: Series (1978)Coppia in giallo
The Wildes are a partnership as well as a marriage: Rupert (John Stride), an amateur detective who is also a best-selling crime novelist, and Amy (Julia Foster) - artist, designer, fellow sleuth and virtual PA for Rupert. The Wildes' extravagant tastes - not to mention regular Income Tax demands - mean they occasionally struggle to make ends meet amid the elegance of their apartment in a manor house in York. The baffling cases that come their way, however, help keep their thoughts far from such concerns... - Director:
- Derek Bennett
- Cast:
- John Stride, Julia Foster, John Lee
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Who am I now that everything has changed? With her son leaving the nest, her father's memory failing, and a boyfriend confronted by his own push and pull with death, Coroner Jenny Cooper (Serinda Swan) continues to speak for the dead to protect the living. Jenny must trust her instincts, as the aftermath of a devastating fire leads to her toughest case yet. Everybody has a story - and this season, Jenny must figure out the story her own body is telling. - Director:
- Adrienne Mitchell
- Cast:
- Serinda Swan, Roger R. Cross, Éric Bruneau
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A Certain Justice (1998)A Certain Justice (Adam Dalglish Mystery)
A brilliant QC is found dead in her chambers, killed by a single knife wound to the heart - but chillingly drenched in a colleague's blood...Ambitious, forthright, cold and aggressive, Venetia Aldridge (Penny Downie) has made many enemies both inside and outside the legal profession. When Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) is called in to investigate, he finds no shortage of potential suspects - colleagues whose careers she's endangered, an ex-lover who's also an M.P. and even the office cleaner. At the same time, Venetia's teenage daughter is dating a known psychopath. Could he have murdered her mother? As Adam Dalgliesh closes in on the answer he discovers that the law may not be enough to close the case...and that the best he can hope for is 'A Certain Justice'... - Director:
- Ross Devenish
- Cast:
- Roy Marsden, Rikki Harnet, Britta Smith
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Six Degrees of Separation (1993)Шість ступенів відчуження
The ultimate movie about the New York cult of class, this rich and challenging cinematic treat is both a laugh-out-loud comedy and a biting social commentary about the separation between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'. Will Smith gives a mightily impressive debut and Donald Sutherland and Oscar nominated* Stockard Channing are brilliant in a story that's all the more amazing... .because it's true! Posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, "Paul" (Smith) deftly penetrates the world of art-dealing urbanites Ouisa and Flan Kittredge (Channing and Sutherland). But as Paul's web of dropped names and near fame begins to unravel, he provides his hosts with much more than just the ultimate cocktail party anecdote - he sets in motion a series of events that will alter the course of their lives forever. - Director:
- Fred Schepisi
- Cast:
- Will Smith, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland
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The Cat and the Canary (1979)House of the Cat and the Canary
When an elderly, rich curmudgeon dies he postpones the reading of his will until twenty years to the hour after his death. He believes all of his potential heirs are no good leeches, with a predilection for insanity. In order to collect the inheritance, his nervous family must spend the night in an old dark house. As the family retire for the evening, a psychiatrist arrives to alert them of an escaped killer. Naturally, no one gets much sleep and some won't make it through the night... - Director:
- Radley Metzger
- Cast:
- Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox
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Dracula (1974)Bram Stoker's Dracula / Dan Curtis' Dracula
Jack Palance stars in this made-for-TV dramatization of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. From his mountain castle, the Prince of Darkness Count Dracula summons the servants of the night to feast on human blood. But after he attacks Lucy Westenra (Fiona Lewis) her fiancé Arthur (Simon Ward) calls in famed vampire hunter Van Helsing (Nigel Davenport) to investigate, threatening Dracula's reign. - Director:
- Dan Curtis
- Cast:
- Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport
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Collection of two crime dramas.
Freedom to Die (1961)Raul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.
You Pay Your Money (1957)
Written and directed by Maclean Rodgers this 1956 butchers production tells the story of a financier who smuggles valuable manuscripts. Trouble stars when a fanatical group want a couple of the books. Sidekick Bob (Hugh McDermott) is left to deal with the situation which becomes complicated when his wife (Honor Blackman) is kidnapped by the fanatics...- Director:
- Francis Searle
- Cast:
- Honor Blackman, Felicity Young, Jane Hylton
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Meet Monroe (James Nesbitt). A flawed but brilliant neurosurgeon. The stakes are always high in brain surgery and Monroe has no choice but to play the odds, faced every day with life or death decisions which cut across the lives of staff, patients and relatives. Monroe's rival, Jenny Bremner (Sarah Parish), is a straight laced heart surgeon who refuses to be charmed by Monroe's "twinkly self-regard". His anaesthetist, Lawrence Shepherd (Tom Riley), provides him with support, friendship, clinical judgement and, best of all, a punch line to all his jokes. Monroe would be the first to admit that the demands of his job mean his home life has suffered. But what he doesn't know is that's about to become a whole lot worse... - Director:
- Paul McGuigan
- Cast:
- James Nesbitt, Luke Allen-Gale, Tom Riley
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Prime Suspect 2 (1992)Principal sospechoso: Operación Nadine
A year after proving that she can handle a murder enquiry as well as any man, D.C.I. Tennison is launched back into battle at Scotland Yard. The body of a young girl is discovered in a shallow grave in the back garden of a terraced house in an Afro-Carribean neighbourhood of London. The difficult job of identifying the body and finding the murderer is only made worse when the controversial subject of racism rears its ugly head. Having to contend with prejudice and misunderstanding from both the locals and from within her own team, and dealing with a boss who has one eye on his own promotion, D.C.I. Tennison has to use her powers of ingenuity, courage and compassion as she faces the political disapproval of the public and her colleagues. - Director:
- John Strickland
- Cast:
- Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield
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"127 Hours" is the incredible true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a falling boulder crashes on to his arm trapping him in an isolated canyon in Utah. With only a day's worth of water, a blunt penknife and an unwavering will to survive Aron does everything he can to make it out alive. - Director:
- Danny Boyle
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- James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara
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The Omega Man (1971)La última esperanza
Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. And makes damn sure he gets undercover before sundown, when other 'inhabitants' emerge. The Omega Man adapts Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend into a high-impact high-tension saga of a fate not so far removed from reality. Charlton Heston is Neville, fending off attacks by The Family, sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He also becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa (Rosalind Cash), another uninfected survivor - and guardian of some healthy children representing our species' hope. - Director:
- Boris Sagal
- Cast:
- Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
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Dangerous Lady (1995)Martina Cole: Dangerous Lady
Adapted from the best-selling novel by Martina Cole, 'Dangerous Lady' is set in the gangland world of London in the 50's and 60's. It charts the rise to fame and notoriety of the Ryans, a poor Irish family, who become one of the foremost crime families in London, and is the story of the youngest daughter, Maura (Susan Lynch), who becomes the "dangerous lady" of the title. Maura is shielded from the criminal activities of her seven brothers. But after a failed love affair with a policeman, Terry (Owen Teale), and, as her adored eldest brother, Michael (Jason Isaacs), starts to lose his grip on the family, she is forced to take the destiny of the Ryans into her own hands, much to the concern of her mother, Sarah (Sheila Hancock). No one thinks a twenty-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's criminal underworld, but together, Maura and Michael are unbeatable: the King and Queen of organised crime. But Maura's most difficult challenge comes as she grows disillusioned by the cycle of bloody revenge around her and resolves to change both her life and that of her family. - Director:
- John Woods
- Cast:
- Sheila Hancock, Jason Isaacs, Susan Lynch
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When threatening letters arrive at his fashionable London home, prominent Government Minister Sir Paul Berowne (Bosco Hogan) calls his old friend Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) for assistance. Berowne's own household is a challenge. His exquisite wife (Wendy Hiller) makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter (Fiona Fullerton), deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush. Dalgliesh has barely started on the case when a series of bizarre deaths turn the informal investigation into an urgent assignment. With characteristic determination Scotland Yard's enigmatic star detective pursues every possibility, ruthlessly exposing dark secrets and ugly emotions as the case proceeds toward its terrifying and bloody conclusion. - Director:
- John Davies
- Cast:
- Roy Marsden, Wendy Hiller, Fiona Fullerton
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