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Set in Edinburgh, Michael is a young local astronomer caught up in experiments to break down the barriers between space and time. An encounter with Caroline, an enigmatic French photographer, soon develops into an obsessive love affair.

However, Michael's experiments have turned everything into a kind of claustrophobic dreamscape where all sense of reality has been lost. In a series of flashbacks, Michael's mental state collapses like the black stars he's observing, as he struggles to work out if he is a ghost or if it is Caroline who has left the world.

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"Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr.

Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby...and a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first allelectronic musical soundscape in film history, 'Forbidden Planet' is in a movie orbit all its own.

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.

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"The Boys from Brazil" is a terrifying film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers, based on Ira Levin's thrilling book of the same title. In the setting of 1970's South America, a notorious Nazi War criminal, Dr.

Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a covert project to establish a Fourth Reich. But when famed Nazi-hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) is enlightened to Mengele's bone-chilling scheme - to clone 94 young Hitlers and cause horror on a global scale - he attempts to unravel the conspiracy.

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Sally Gilmartin (Charlotte Rampling) can t escape the secrets of her past. Born Eva Delectorskaya (Hayley Atwell), the WWII-era spy was forced into hiding after a critical mission ended with a deadly betrayal.

Three decades on, Sally recruits her unsuspecting daughter (Michelle Dockery) to discover the truth of what happened those many years ago.

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In the Academy Award-nominated classic, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire join forces, lending their song and dance talents to the timeless musical.

When a fashion magazine mogul (Kay Thompson) and her head photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) scout out a bookstore for their next photo shoot, Dick discovers the unique face of bookseller and amateur philosopher Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Whisked off to Paris, Jo is soon transformed into a global supermodel...and finds herself falling for the photographer who first noticed her sunny, funny face.

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Mel Smith is best known for 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' and 'Alas Smith and Jones'. In this much loved 1980s BBC sitcom, the late comedian plays an aspiring writer stuck in a soul destroying day job.

Depressed Colin Watkins (Mel Smith) works for the British Rail Passenger Relations Office, otherwise known as the complaints department. He doesn't like his job much and has dreams of becoming a full-time writer, toiling late into the night trying to realise his ambitions. Distracting him are his girlfriend Jenny, best friend Des, and the obnoxiously happy couple Richard and Sarah. He takes a step towards achieving his ambition when one of his short stories is accepted for publication in "The Langley Book of Horror". In Series 2, a famous film producer offers Colin the chance of adapting his short story for a film. Colin jumps at the chance but disruptions in various guises continue to derail him, and keep him tied to the desk job.

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Set in 1920's Toronto, 'Frankie Drake Mysteries' follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on the cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention.

The Drake Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties of the city's elite. Frankie (Lauren Lee Smith) and Trudy's (Chantel Riley) fearless sense of adventure gets them into all kinds of trouble, but they always manage to find a way out. They are new detectives for a new world - but is the world ready for them?

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Based on the international bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman and nominated for 2 Oscars (including Best Foreign Language Film), 'A Man Called Ove' is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and a wonderful reminder that life is sweeter when it's shared.

An ageing retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the quintessential angry old man next door. Having entirely given up on life, his days are spent in a constant monotony of enforcing housing association rules and visiting his wife Sonja's gravesite. But when a boisterous young family moves into the neighbourhood, immediately incurring his wrath, things take an unexpected turn. Pregnant Parvaneh (Bahar Pars) and her lively children are the complete antithesis of what ill-tempered Ove thinks he needs -and yet, from this inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship blooms and Ove's past happiness and heartbreaks come to light.

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Known for his unique rasping voice and his elaborate way of expressing his hostility towards children and all mankind, W.C.

Fields had the special gift of making anything seem funny, and at the same time, had audiences believe that underneath all his humour he was not really kidding and that the grumpiness was genuine.

Shorts Comprise:
- The Dentist (1932)
- The Pool Shark (1915)
- The Pharmacist (1933)
- The Barber Shop (1933)
- The Golf Specialist (1930)
- The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)

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The unlikely detective duo return in this quirky crime drama, packed with corpses, comedy and cracking mysteries. Frank (Mark Benton) and Lu (Jo Joyner) are not alike. Frank is a talented but decidedly grumpy detective. Lu is an ex-hairdresser with masses of charm and a keen sense of trouble.

The two shouldn't work together yet, somehow, they do. The highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detective duo are back on the case in pretty tourist town Stratford-Upon-Avon. Foul play festers at the local tennis club and a pedigree pooch is held for ransom. Fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft and corruption lurk beneath the town's idyllic surface. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard - where fact is stranger than fiction and low-life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama.

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Bruce Willis is Eddie "The Hawk" Hawkins, the world's most famous cat burglar, who, after 10 years in prison, is ready to go straight. But it's not going be easy for the Hawk.

The mob and the CIA have conspired to blackmail Eddie and his partner (Danny Aiello) into stealing three da Vinci masterpieces from the most heavily guarded museums in the world. Sounds simple, right? Wrong! While trying to steal the goods, Hawk falls in love with a beautiful but schizophrenic nun (Andi MacDowell) and is relentlessly pursued by the greedy and powerful Minerva and Darwin Mayflower (Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant), who want the artworks as part of their twisted plot to ruin the world's economy. It's wall-to-wall action os the wisecracking Hawk saves the world, wins the girl and gets the last laugh!

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Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield returns to his family's farm to sell out to his brother Angus, unaware that something baaaad is going on: Angus' reckless genetic engineering program.

When a pair of inept activists release a mutant lamb from Angus' laboratory onto the farm, thousands of sheep are turned into bloodthirsty predators. Along with farmhand Tucker and greenie girl Experience, Henry finds himself stranded deep on the farm as his worst nightmare comes to life.

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Stalin Is Dead! And with The Soviet Union's top job now up for grabs, the men in Stalin's council are about to enter an 'interview' process unlike any other.

With the prospect of absolute authority over the nation within grasp, in the days that follow, devious plotting and farcical backs tabbing are fair play, and one man will emerge with supreme power over the USSR. The question is: who?

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Hidden deep beneath the burning city of Berlin in the final days of World War Two, three German generals embarked on an audacious plan to correct the wrongs perpetrated by the Nazi party.

A sacred pact was signed, funds allocated and events put into motion that, 40 years later, would see the first sons of the three generals head a foundation "The Holcroft Covenant" now worth $4.5 billion. Such a vast sum of money is bound to attract some unwanted attention. Murder, conspiracy and danger are at the heart of this compelling thriller based on the novel by best-selling author Robert Ludlum.