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Val Kilmer plays suave espionage hero Simon Templer - aka The Saint - and Elisabeth Shue co-stars in this atmospheric mix of bold adventure and grand romance. An array of sophisticated gadgetry is at Templar's command as he plunges into a cloak-and-dagger netherworld of move and countermove.

Cool, too, is Templar's knack for coming up with the right disguise at the right time. Now you see him. Now you don't...or do you? Each close-call escape is a breathless miracle - and no one knows a miracle better than a saint.

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London's clubland - a twilight hidden world, as seductive as it is decadent, where prostitution, drugs and even murder are part of the game in the smoky atmosphere of the Baron Club.

"Hussy" is a dramatic and compelling love story centred on Beaty (Helen Mirren), a self destructive woman whose experience of life has encompassed drugs, sexual encounters and a dangerous gangster lover. At the London nightclub where she works as a hostess, she meets and almost against her will, falls in love with a mysterious young American, Emory (John Shea), who works the spotlights. Emory finds that he must accept both Beaty's decadent existence and her murderous ex-lover when he returns from prison. Yet even he has a secret past of his own and he too becomes involved in the dealings of the underworld...an involvement which leads to violence, drug smuggling, and ultimately, death...

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Timothy Spall plays Peter, a Bank worker living a mundane, routine life in Manchester. After an unexpected early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in sunny Benidorm, only to discover that he has disappeared.

As Peter searches for clues, his encounters with an eclectic cast of characters only lead to further confusion. In looking for his brother, can he ultimately rediscover himself?

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A once-powerful and feared gangland legend ricochets between the present and the past in Capone, inspired by the last days of Al Capone. After serving 11 years for tax evasion, the notorious mobster (Tom Hardy) returns to life with his wife Mae (Linda Cardellini) at their opulent Florida estate.

But the man who once ruled Chicago's rackets with an iron fist and a gold-plated Tommy gun now suffers from rapidly advancing dementia caused by untreated syphilis. Haunted by memories of his violent past, he slips into a hallucinatory dream world as FBI agents positioned outside the gates of his lavish compound listen in, convinced Capone's increasingly bizarre behavior is all an act.

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A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California.

Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown.

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With the imminent arrival of the Queen, Britannia Hospital couldn't be any less prepared. With striking workers only allowing patients near to death into the hospital, the kitchen staff refusing to prepare food until union leaders are bought off with promises of O.B.E.

's, and the head surgeon conducting, with public funds, expensive, deranged experiments, like inventing a modern Dr. Frankenstein - there is nothing short of anarchy! With Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) hot on their heels as the undercover investigative TV reporter catching all this bedlam on film, this energetic black comedy is a very bleak insight into the wrongs of modern Westernised culture.

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When Gerda (Alicia Vikander) asks her husband Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) to fill in as a portrait model, Einar's long-repressed feelings surface and she begins living her life as a woman.

Embarking on a groundbreaking journey that's only made possible by the unconditional love of her wife, Einar fights to become the person she's meant to be, transgender pioneer Lili Elbe.

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Cult favorite "The Pet" is a shocking dramatization, based on actual events, by director D. Stevens. The film follows a young woman who, in an emotional and financial crisis, succumbs to the charm of an aristocratic benefactor.

Their relationship develops from her desire to be loved and his desire to overcome the loss of his beloved setter, a loyal and devoted pet. She agrees for a considerable sum of money to become his human pet, to sleep in a cage, never wear clothes, and to be led on a leash for a period of six-months. His desire to showcase his beautiful new pet, and to have her market value appraised, prompts him to place her on the Global Slave Market.

The drama-documentary "Dunkirk" tells the stories of the miraculous evacuation of thousands of servicemen from France...

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The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) finds the body of his friend and small-time supplier of narcotics, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care.

Everyone in town is too self obsessed to worry about anyone else but themselves and most are on some form of drug just to get themselves through the day. But as Troy's death is concealed so too is his stash and the supply chain dries up. Local drug dealers (Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Lou Taylor Pucci) at the school soon run out and kidnap Dean's brother, threatening to kill him unless he finds Troy's stash, but they've grabbed the wrong kid...

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

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Francis 'Pope' Silva (Robert De Niro) is a popular, soon to be retiring casino owner and feared mafia boss.

When one of his employees, Luke Vaughn (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) desperately needs cash for his daughter's much needed operation, he teams up with a shady, unpredictable colleague Cox (Dave Bautista) for an ambitious and risky heist of Pope's casino. But all hell breaks loose when the criminals highjack a city bus during their escape, taking hostages with the cops in close pursuit, leading to an explosive showdown in the desert.

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"Promising Young Woman" is a bold new vision that has ignited a debate starring Academy Award Nominee Carey Mulligan as 'Cassie': a wickedly smart but singularly focused woman, who in order to overcome events from her past lives a double life by night. Following an unexpected encounter.

Cassie is given the chance to right the wrongs of the past.

When a manipulative carnival man (Bradley Cooper) teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940's New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet.

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Frank loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, NY. However, Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act.

He starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponser, and a job in a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel. But when an upstart Irish gang threatens the family business back in Buffalo, Frank is forced to return home, and with unlikely assistance from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.