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Winner of the Best New Director award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Benedikt Erlingsson's critically acclaimed debut feature 'Of Horses and Men' is a darkly comic country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human.

Set in the stunning Icelandic countryside, love, death and sex become interlaced in this playful, affectionate yet unflinching portrait of a remote valley community as seen from the horses' perspective.

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Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie (Zoé Félix) has been feeling depressed for a while.

To please her, Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad), a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell...

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All seven one-off episodes of the BBC anthology comedy series, starring Ronnie Barker.

Open All Hours
This was our first sight of Arkwright, the miserly Northern shopkeeper who victimises his delivery boy and nephew (played by David Jason).
Prisoner and Escort

Fletcher, the career criminal, became Barker's most famous character. In this episode he meets future guards MacKay and Barrowclough.
My Old Man
Barker plays retired and embittered engine-driver Sam Cobbett, the last tenant to leave his house in a road condemned by the council.
Spanner's Eleven
This Roy Clarke scripted comedy revolves around Albert Spanner, hot dog seller and team coach for the dismal Ashfield Athletic Football Club.
Another Fine Mess
This excellent homage to Laurel and Hardy finds Barker as Ollie teamed with Roy Castle as Stan.
One Man's Meat
Barker, under the pseudonym Jack Goetz, wrote this story of a man desperate to escape a starvation diet imposed by his wife.
I'll Fly You for a Quid
This Clement and La Frenais story finds Barker as gambling Welshman Evan Owen determined to retrieve his late father's winning betting slip.

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Set in 1903. Tracker is a tense action thriller in which Arjan (Ray Winstone), a guerrilla survivor of the South African Boer War. lands in colonial New Zealand and is promised a huge bounty to capture Kereama (Temuera Morrison), a Maori seafarer accused of killing a British soldier.

What should be a simple job for Arjan, a master tracker, turns into a gripping and dangerous game of cat and mouse as Kereama repeatedly escapes and is recaptured - all the while insisting on his innocence. As each man gains and loses the upper hand, they gradually get to know and respect one another. Culminating in an emotional and high risk showdown, they find they have more in common than a mutual hatred of the British...

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This haunting and poetic tale of a suicidal American who meets a free-spirited girl is directed by cult film-maker Fridik Thor Fridriksson’s. When an ex-con returns to Iceland - the land of his mother’s birth - he meets an eccentric artist, called Dúa, whom he believes may be his daughter.

After a close scrape with the law, the pair flee Iceland for Hamburg with a rare Icelandic falcon and a plan that they hope will set them on the road to riches. This lyrical and visually stunning film explores the nature of freedom and the complexities of relationships which captures the beauty of the Icelandic countryside, and and the unexpected ways that it may occur.

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In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from New Zealand to Tonga with a four man crew on board. After a freak wave capsizes the boat and turns it upside down the men had to survive for 119 days before reaching the Great Barrier Reef.

'Stranded' tells a true story of courage and survival in some of the most hostile seas on the planet.

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Left bewildered and numb, untouched by a virus that had swept across the world destroying all but a random selection of desperate souls, these are the 'lucky ones' left alive when so many died.

This lonely few now have to step into a strange new world where everything that was once safe and familiar is now strange and dangerous. Among those struggling for survival are Abby, a devoted mother with a missing son; Greg, a loner, hiding the pain of his past; Anya, a doctor who has seen too much; Al, a playboy who becomes surrogate father to Najid; and Tom Price, handsome, dangerous and a high security prisoner before the virus hit. In the ghost cities and empty fields, power, water and food supplies are scarce. Just to stay alive they will have to band together, utilise their talents and learn new skills. But can they all be trusted? And what new trials await those trying to rebuild a dead civilisation?

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In 1982, Andre Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka's death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate.

A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and led him to accuse Kalinka's stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka's justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.

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Karl Urban and James Marsden star in the tense psychological thriller, 'The Loft'. Five married men conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city - a place where they can indulge in their deepest extramarital fantasies.

But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved. Paranoia seizes them as everyone begins to suspect one another. Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned and marriages crumble as the group is consumed by fear, suspicion and murder in this relentless thriller.

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When Saajan (Irrfan Khan), an ill-tempered Mumbai office worker nearing retirement, is delivered the wrong lunch he is pleasantly surprised by the improvement in his food. The lunchbox had been intended for young housewife Ila's emotionally indifferent husband in an attempt to win back his favour.

When he fails to respond to her efforts, Ila decides to enclose a note in the next meal and Saajan, his taste-buds tickled and his interest piqued, decides to write back...

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Elizabeth Olsen stars as a rookie FBI agent tasked with solving the brutal murder of a young woman in a Native American reserve. Enlisting the help of a local hunter (Jeremy Renner) to help her navigate the freezing wilderness, the two set about trying to find a vicious killer hidden in plain sight.

The closer they get to the truth the greater the danger becomes with a town full of explosive secrets ready to fight back.

When a horrific incident causes a family to flee a desolate southern New Zealand farmhouse, two cynical scientists and a young psychic are sent to investigate their claims of a haunting. There they encounter a powerful spirit that will protect the house's secrets at all costs.

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Maisie Williams stars as Abbie in this offbeat comedy about father-daughter relationships and figuring out how far you're willing to push the limits to achieve your dreams. Driven by her ambitious step-dad coach (James Nesbitt), Abbie dreams of making it big as a long-distance runner.

But her life takes an unexpected turn when her estranged father of ten years, Ray (David Wilmot), shows up on her doorstep wanting to re-connect with his daughter and ex-wife. Causing chaos and upheaval with every day he stays, Ray learns that being a father again isn't as simple as he first thought!

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When a dead body is fished out of the Thames reporter Michael Billing (Robin Bailey) is assigned to the story. Whilst at first the story seems bland and unimportant Billing soon discovers that the body was that of a high profile Egyptian diplomat.

This leads Billing to the Egyptian Embassy where he is greeted by a receptionist, the late diplomat's fiancée. Overcome with grief, she is replaced by undercover reporter Jenny Drew (Susan Shaw). Jenny quickly uncovers a web of illegal activity and with the help of Inspector Corcoran (Liam Redmond) the two reporters are drawn deeper into the conspiracy. Up against high profile suspects can they crack the case?

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The contemporary comedy about an inner city London vicar returns for a third series that asks big questions of the Reverend Adam Smallbone as he and his wife Alex adjust to life as new parents.

How will Adam deal with parenthood on top of his small but demanding Church congregation? The new series brings a host of new characters to meet St Saviour's band of lost but loveable misfits as Adam is pushed to the limit by the dilemmas of modern priesthood: is the popular local Imam friend or foe? Should he stick to the Church of England's ban on gay marriage against his own better judgment? And with his Church in imminent financial peril can he continue to fight the good fight against indifference, the worst aspects of his institution and his own tendency towards temptation?