In the summer of 2006, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott), a smart suited homicide detective and his partner Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) are dispatched to investigate a child's murder, and find a community caught between old and new Ireland. On an altar lies the body of a local teenage girl, the talented Katy Devlin. Her body is found in the middle of an archaeological site, threatened by local developers aiming to build a shiny new motorway. The neighbouring estate, Knocknaree, has never quite got its share of the 'Celtic Tiger' and has been blighted by poverty arid unemployment for generations. Moreover, this is the not the first time a child of Knocknaree has been lost - twenty-one years earlier, in a very different Ireland, three children went missing, and only one came back alive. Memory runs deep in this part of the world* and locals, press and the Dublin Garda soon begin to worry that the cases are linked.
Same missions are not a choice. On a dangerous assignment to recover stolen plutonium, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chooses to save his team over completing the mission, allowing nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of a deadly network of highly-skilled operatives intent on destroying civilisation. Now, with the world at risk, Ethan and his IMF team (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson) are forced to become reluctant partners with a hard-hitting CIA agent (Henry Cavill) as they race against time to stop the nuclear fallout.
From Michel Gondry's acclaimed producer comes 'Moonwalkers', a hilarious, high-concept action comedy, that asks the question, 'what if Apollo 11 never actually made it?' What if, instead, the legendary Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, working for the US government? This is the premise of a perfectly plausible conspiracy theory that takes us to swinging sixties London, where a stubborn CIA agent (Ron Perlman) is forced to team up with the lousy manager of a seedy rock band (Rupert Grint) to develop the biggest con of all time, in this riotous, high-tempo action-comedy!
Melissa McCarthy is masterful in the captivating account - based on a true story - of a down-and-out writer who resorts to lies, deceit and outright crime to get back on top.
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have long been regarded as Britain's most successful comedy writing partnership, having created and written the long-running series 'Hancock's Half Hour' and 'Steptoe and Son'. Turning their hand to one-off stories, 'The Galton and Simpson Playhouse' consisted of seven individual comedy plays, with the stand-alone format allowing for a wide variety of characters and story-lines. The high calibre of the scripts attracted the cream of comedy actors from 1970's television, including Arthur Lowe, Leonard Rossiter, Richard Briers, John Bird, Frances de la Tour, Patricia Hayes and Warren Mitchell.
1. Car Along the Pass
Henry Duckworth is living proof that the English take their holidays very seriously indeed.
2. Swap You One of These for One of Those
Henry Fairlane's invite to a colleague's party has one big condition...
3. Cheers
Peter and Charles'long friendship is jolted by Peter's marriage plans.
4. Naught for Thy Comfort
An airline steward whose wife has left him finds no comfort in friends.
5. Variations on a Theme
The eternal triangle can have more than one outcome...
6. I Tell You It's Burt Reynolds
A film and TV know-all goes to absurd lengths to prove his knowledge.
7. Big Deal at York City
A man attracts attention travelling home from a day at York races.
'The Trial of Christine Keeler', takes a fresh look at one of the most iconic and infamous scandals in British history: the chain of events in the 1960's that became known' as 'The Profumo Affair' and forced the resignation of Prime Minister Macmillan. A scandal of sex, spies and lies, it dominated British media in 1963, rocked its government, and Ied to the trial and imprisonment of 19-year-old Christjne Keeler (Sophie Cookson). It also led to the resignation of the British War Minister John Profumo (Ben Miles) and the tragic trial and death of London socialite, Dr. Stephen Ward (James Norton). Starring Sophie Cookson (Kingsman), James Nlorton (Grantchester) and Ellie Bamber (Les Miserables), this dramatisation, based on real events, is set at the height of the Cold War in a fascinating era of shifting class, gender and racial politics. Taking us behind the headlines of this ground-breaking British scandal, the story is told through the lives of its key characters with flashbacks to the infamous affair.
The mysterious Michael Rimmer (Peter Cook) appears at a small advertising agency and soon takes over from the hapless employees, including the bumbling Pumer (John Cleese), skiving boss Ferrett and sexy secretary Tanya. Rimmer rises through the ranks of the agency, creating saucy marketing campaigns for Graham Chapman, before turning the firm into a successful polling company and moving into politics. With chicanery, manipulation, and relentless opinion polls, the Machiavellian Rimmer becomes MP for Budleigh Moor and acquires a trophy wife before rapidly working his way up, with charismatic deception, to even greater heights.
Two brothers return to the hometown they left eight years earlier, to find it still run by the same game of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs. Their purpose, it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge - a quest of particular significance for Richard (Paddy Considine), the leader of the two, whose obsessive desire to even the score will lead them into dangerous territory.
1715 - The Golden Age of Piracy. New Providence Island is a lawless territory, controlled by history's most notorious pirate captains. The most feared is Captain Flint. As the British Navy returns to redeem their land and exterminate Flint and his crew, another side of him emerges. He allies himself with Eleanor Guthrie, daughter of the local kingpin, to hunt the ultimate prize and ensure their survival. Many opponents stand in their way: rival captains, jealous of Flint's power; Eleanor's ambitious and intrusive father; and a young sailor recently recruited onto Flint's crew, John Silver, who constantly undermines his captain s agenda.
Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular television series 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'. With her trademark wit, impeccable style, and trusty pearl-handled revolver, Phryne fights injustice on an international scale in this globe-trotting adventure. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne rescues a young Bedouin girl held captive after a village massacre and reunites her with her uncle at a stately English manor. But then a man claiming to have information for the girl is shot, leaving behind a mysterious pendant. Vowing to find the truth, Phryne enlists the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson (Nathan Page) to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse.
There's $2 million dollars in a suitcase on a desk in an apartment in Chicago...Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) launders money for the mob. Violet (Jennifer Tilly) is his alluring Mafia Moll. Corky (Gina Gershon) is an ex-con who just got out of the joint. What's the last thing that could come between a sleazy wise guy like Caesar and all that money? A couple of women with bodies to die for and brains to match. They become engulfed in a physical attraction that spurs them to relieve Violet's boyfriend of the $2 million in cash. Corky and Violet are about to learn the meaning of trusting someone with your life. And Caesar? He's about to learn a little something about women. In the end, it all comes down to one question…Who can you trust?
After seducing and marrying the already betrothed Sir Ralph Skelton (Denholm Elliott), Lady Barbara Skelton (Faye Dunaway) finds life very dull, despite her wealth and good fortune. Desperate for excitement and danger she is thrown into the arms of infamous highwayman Jerry Jackson (Alan Bates). Every evening she slips away from home to join him in his criminal exploits. But how long before her perilous nighttime escapades are discovered?
"Greed" tells the story of self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan), whose retail empire is in crisis. For 30 years he has ruled the world of retail fashion but after a damaging public government investigation, his image is tarnished. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back with a highly publicised and extravagant party celebrating his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos. A satire on the grotesque inequality of wealth in the fashion industry, the film sees McCreadie's rise and fall through / the eyes of his biographer, Nick (David Mitchell).
In 1930s Korea, during Japanese occupation, Sookee (Tae-ri Kim) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on an enchanting and lavish estate with her domineering uncle. Yet Sookee has a secret, she has been recruited by a swindler posing as an illustrious Count to spy on the Lady so he can eventually seduce her and steal her fortune. However, this swindler is not the only one with a desire to seduce.
When struggling publisher Tom Duval (Stanley Weber) discovers that his only successful author Jane Lockhart (Karen Gillan) has writer's block he knows he has to unblock her or his company will go bust. But with her newfound success, Jane has become too damn happy to write, meaning Tom will have to make her life a misery if he's going to get her to finish the novel. With the help of his best friend Roddy (Iain De Caestecker), Tom sets about trying to dismantle Jane's happiness. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he's in love with her...
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