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Let others select the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth.

When Miss Marple auditions for a spot in a repertory company, she lets rip with The Shooting of Dan McGrew! She gets the job (the manager thinks she has cash to invest in this floundering troupe), but she’s not giving up sleuthing for grease-paint and applause. She’s convinced one of her fellow actors is playing the part of murderer for real.

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Imagine your husband died suddenly and you found out he'd been having an affair.

Would you want to know more? Could you bear to know more? When Kate Morris's (Liv Ullmann) husband Richard dies away from home, she soon realises that he's been having an affair with his young assistant Josie (Amanda Redmond). Now she must reconsider their whole life together. Did he really love her? Driven by an overwhelming desire to find out more about the affair, Kate confronts Josie - and soon finds that her feelings about Josie are a lot more complicated than simple hate. A lot more complicated. Intelligent, passionate and controversial (at the time) for its frank depiction of a lesbian relationship, Frederic Raphaels screen adaptation of his own novel for Southern Television is an unforgettable story with an unexpected and heartbreaking secret to reveal...

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After just a year of marriage, the immaculate life Georgina (Julia Stiles) has quickly become intoxicated by is blown apart when her art collector husband Constantine is killed in an explosion aboard the yacht of a Russian oligarch.

Believing there to be more to the tragedy, she sets out to uncover what happened. Dark truths about Constantine's dealings emerge and, as she begins to realise who she was really married to, Georgina enters a spiral of moral descent as she becomes immersed a world of lies, double-dealing and criminality. In order to maintain the Clios' legendary Cote d'Azur mansion and protect the family and its fortune, she will have to learn to adapt, survive and ultimately thrive in her dangerous new reality. But as she first proved back in her days as a fine art scholar in the US, she's an A-plus student...

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From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece 'The Witch', comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890's.

As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored.

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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters.

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

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Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney). On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes.

The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go farther out into the terrifying expanse of space.

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When a group of heavily armed and meticulously trained extremists launch a daring daylight ambush on the White House, the President (Aaron Eckhart) and his staff are taken hostage inside an impenetrable underground bunker. Only former U.S.

Secret Service agent, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is left in the besieged building to do the job he has trained for all his life: to protect the President - at all costs. Acting President (Morgan Freeman) must rely on Banning to rescue the President before the terrorists can unleash their ultimate terrifying plan.

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Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public.

But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiance demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait (Naunton Wayne) and his servant Spankforth's (Charles Heslop)'s answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

Paddington Station. Next stop…murder! Dozing in her train seat, elderly English gentlewoman Miss Jane Marple awakens just in time to witness a dreadful strangulation aboard a passing train. ‘Murder’, cries truth, even if it means uncovering an extra body or two!

'Locke' is the story of one man's life unravelling in a tension-fuelled race against time. Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has the perfect family, his dream job, and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career. But one phone call will force him to make a decision that will put it all on the line.

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Forced to live by his wits in order to survive, Zain's life in Beirut reaches a turning point when his parents make an unforgiveable deal that will see his younger sister (Haita 'Cedra' Izzam) married off.

Left distraught by this terrible turn of event he takes to the road and whilst looking for work at a fairground, befriends a young woman who is working as a cleaner and helps to look after her adorable baby Jonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole). Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) and Jonas form a touching bond but things are about to get much more complicated when a set of circumstances force Zain to make choices that will have huge ramifications. 'Capernaum' is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit - a battle cry for the forgotten, the unwanted and the lost that offers hope in the most unexpected of places.

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Unexpectedly made redundant, Catherine Durrell has a more agreeable surprise in store when she learns that by the inexplicable whim of a drowned man she has been left a fortune in Norway.

Who was this man - and why was she chosen as beneficiary? To find the answer, Catherine travels to Alesund, the beautiful capital of the Sunnmore region. Here, against a background of contemporary Norwegian life but paralleled by myth and legend, Catherine becomes deeply involved in the affairs of the Jordahl family and, more and more, her parentage is called into question as she probes the mysterious life and background of Hjalmar Jordahl. She embarks on a passionate, stormy and potentially tragic relationship, which places her life in even greater danger. Catherine pursues her investigations until, finally, on Midsummer's Eve and with the Pagan Nordic celebrations at their height, the last piece of the jigsaw falls into place, and she comes face to face with her own would-be killer. And the Maelstrom into which she has been inexorably drawn threatens to engulf her...

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When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for! Shaun's mischief inadvertently leads to The Farmer being taken away from the farm, to the Big City...

Join Shaun, Bitzer and The Flock on their hilarious, action-packed, big screen adventure as they make plans to rescue the missing Farmer.

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Tom Stoppard's ingenious comedy twist on Shakespeare's Hamlet sees the focus of attention switch to two minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gary Oldman and Tim Roth).

A comic double act with a routine based on verbal rather than physical sparring, they stumble blindly through the action, desperately trying to make sence of it as they go, completely unaware of the fate that is in store for them.

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In a frantic and wryly comic battle of wits, two Western art collectors - one a wealthy American, the other an eccentric, titled Englishwoman - must vie with a Maharaja and his sister (and each other) to secure a fabulous prize: a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings.

Blessed with a superb cast, headed by Academy Award-winner Peggy Ashcroft, Merchant Ivory Productions' 1978 feature "Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures" is itself a detailed and subtle miniature portrait of the manners and mores of two very different cultures. As events unfold, Western high-mindedness (mixed with Western acquisitiveness) clashes with Indian history and feudal tradition (also both high-minded and acquisitive). A seeming catastrophe forces the two sides to reconcile their differences and the story concludes in a surprising harmony as the protagonists evaluate and rethink their politely grasping natures. Once again, the Merchant Ivory team has produced a delightful and often very funny film that captures to perfection the exoticism of Indian culture and the pure magic of the miniatures themselves as well as the land that produced them.