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A beautifully realised World War II-set love story spanning two continents, 'Nowhere in Africa' is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment for a remote farm in Kenya.

Torn from her comfortable life in Germany, the shy five-year-old Regina (Karoline Eckertz / Lea Kurka) embraces her new life discovering the magic in the wilderness or the sun-burnt African plains and the initially strange African people who live there. Her parents however find it harder to leave their European roots behind and to adjust to the poverty and isolation of their new home.

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When Bill Hixon (Rob Lowe) lands in Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14-year-old daughter Kelsey (Aloreia Spencer) in tow, he's hoping they can flee their painful recent past. Whip-smart, acerbic and unstoppable, Bill is very good at what he does.

America's Top Metropolitan Police Chief three years running is the ideal candidate to make his mark on the Force as its new Chief Constable. From the outset, Bill isn't about making friends. He's here to get the job done and get the hell out as quick as his spin-class-toned legs will carry him. Bill soon discovers that the people of this unfamiliar community are just as smart-mouthed, cynical and dificult to impress as he is. They don't suffer fools, authority or algorithms gladly. And as Bill, a man who's spent his life keeping the messiness of human intimacy at arm's length, is reluctantly propelled into front-line policing, the result will be as funny as it is dangerous.

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When Uncle Charlie comes to visit his relatives in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa, the foundation is laid for one of his most engaging and suspenseful excursions.

Joseph Cotten stars as the charming Uncle Charlie, a beguiling killer who travels from Philadelphia to California just one step ahead of the law. But soon his unknowing niece and namesake, "Young Charlie" (Teresa Wright), begins to suspect her uncle of being the Merry Widow murderer, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins. As his niece draws closer to the truth, the psychopathic killer has no choice but to plot the death of his favourite relative in one of Hitchcock's most riveting psychological thrillers.

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Four women from the North of Dutch town Breda are sick of their poor life.

Lot (Susan Visser) is divorced and has two little kids; her friend Sam (Monic Hendrickx) has a busy family life and an unemployed husband; Reneetje (Georgina Verbaan) has a little daughter (and always a sniff of coke in her pocket); teacher Kers (Monique van de Ven) has had trouble making ends meet after her husband died. They boldly decide to rob a bank in the neighborhood and to their surprise they get away with it easily. The women are extremely happy with the success of their moves, but life has gotten nowhere near easy! Kers is being harassed by the school principal Zeger (Pierre Bokma) who has feelings for her. Sam's husband Najib (Ergun Simsek) finds her cash in a kitchen drawer and is getting quite suspicious. Reneetje is spending money like water and, worse of all, Lot falls in love with Achilles, a police officer. Tighter and tighter, the women are getting trapped. They decide to make one last big hit, but that robbery gets terribly out of hand...

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Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best barroom brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde.

Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, two sneaky off-duty cops and legendary brawler Tank Murdock (Walter Barnes).

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Martin Clifford (Spencer Banks) lives in a quiet English village and is busy studying for his 'A' levels when he suddenly finds himself at the centre of a dangerous international espionage plot.

Beneath the outwardly calm surface of Redlow lies an intricate network of spies and counterspies, with the focus of attention the USAF base nearby - soon to become the communications centre for top-secret NATO exercises. Martin, commissioned by British Intelligence to help uncover enemy agents in the village, finds his life balanced precariously on a tightrope; one false move on either side, and he could fall to his death.

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Series three of this outstanding police procedural drama sees the role of Chief Constable passing from John Stafford (played by Tim Pigott-Smith) to former Metropolitan Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Cade (Martin Shaw). This release contains all six episodes, originally transmitted in 1993.

As John Stafford takes up a new position with Europol, Alan Cade replaces him as Chief Constable at Eastland, East Anglia; Anne Stewart continues as Cade's deputy. While Cade is every bit as capable as his predecessor, he finds that the challenge of front-line policing continues to be eclipsed by the pressure to manage ever-tighter budgets and justify expenditure. Sharing Stafford's tolerant but scrupulous approach, he also faces ongoing conflict with his superiors, and certain local politicians whose cavalier attitudes towards issues of civil liberties contrast sharply with his own.

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An outbreak of a mutated virus results in a zombie epidemic that brings chaos and fear to the country. As civilisation collapses around them, a father battles through hostile territory in a fight to rescue his only son.

Fans of '28 Days Later', 'World War Z' and 'Train to Busan' will appreciate this post COVID 19 horror which speaks to man's shortcomings in the face of impossible calamities.

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Geoffrey Carr (Peter Barkworth), a major player in the emerging computer industry, is newly married to the impetuous Frances (Harriet Walter), a much younger woman with a wilful daughter from a previous marriage.

He’ll go to any lengths to make her happy and stretches his finances to buy a crumbling Georgian estate in County Wicklow where Frances spent part of her childhood. Aside from commitments on the new house, Geoffrey's continuing control of the company depends on an uncertain research deal with a visiting Japanese consortium. Frank Crossan (Derek Thompson) is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities in the North, and from his own commanders. Seeking refuge with old flame Kate (Aingeal Crehan), he hatches a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a hefty ransom to fund a major arms deal. The two worlds collide when Frances and daughter Clare are brutally snatched and removed to a bleak hideaway. Geoffrey’s immediate impulse is to cave in to the kidnappers’ demands - but nothing is straightforward when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance, and the full glare of the media.

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Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, lie creates a modern masterpiece.

It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as lie moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta, who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed Doctor Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves is Jonathan Harker who is forced to fight the dark forces of Dracula for the love of Mina. Visually stunning, passionately seductive and utterly irresistable, this is Dracula as you've never seen him before - a powerful and poignant vampire whose yearning for human love ultimately proves his undoing.

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Poised, determined, and possessed of a sharp intellect and a keen eye, Jemima presents Megalith Television's 'Jemima Shore Investigates'.

But in her spare time, she uses her connections to pursue her own investigations - and her relentlessly inquiring mind uncovers crime and intrigue of every sort, particularly within the rarefied world of the wealthy and the privileged...

A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; 'Touch' follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.

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Four ageing men live together in a secluded house on a windswept Chilean coastline. Each has been sent there to purge sins of the past, adhering to a strict regime under the watchful eye of a female caretaker.

This fragile stability is disrupted by the arrival of a newly disgraced companion - bringing with him the past they thought they had left behind...

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"My Rembrandt" is set in the world of the Old Masters and offers a mosaic of gripping stories in which unrestrained passion for Rembrandt's paintings leads to dramatic developments and unexpected plot turns.

While art collectors such as Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo, the American Thomas Kaplan and the Scottish Duke of Buccleuch show us their special connection with 'their' Rembrandt, French baron Eric de Rothschild puts two Rembrandts up for sale, triggering a hard political battle between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre. The film also follows aristocratic Dutch art dealer Jan Six as he seems to be on the trail of not just one but two 'new' Rembrandt paintings. This nerve-wracking journey of discovery seems to be the realisation of his biggest boyhood dream.

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As Yorkshire detective Ronald Craven (Bob Peck) investigates the murder of his daughter, the story spirals into a gripping eco-thriller of political conspiracy, secret service machinations and even shady medieval societies.

As he draws closer to the dangerous inner sanctums of organised environmental protests and nuclear power interests, he discovers the ultimate truths at the heart of our society.