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Amid the trendy, bohemian scene of London's famed Bloomsbury group, Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson), a talented young artist, first meets bon vivant and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). The two creative souls are instantly attracted, although Strachey's desires clearly lie elsewhere.

The unlikely pair joyously spends colourful days pursuing their arts - and discovering that love works in mysterious ways. But their blissful existence hangs in the balance when Carrington brings home a lover and they suddenly find themselves caught in a bizarre love triangle. As conflicting passions heat to a boiling point, will true love triumph or will Carrington lose her one and only soul mate forever?

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Action legend Bruce Willis comes out with guns blazing in this high-octane fast-paced thriller from the producers of 'The Irishman' and 'Lone Survivor'.

The newest recruit to Homeland Security's criminal surveillance command centre - the 'Wire Room' - gets himself and his boss, a jaded federal agent, entangled with a cartel arms dealer. Chaos soon explodes in the Wire Room as a rogue security guard, corrupt cops and a deadly SWAT team seek to destroy incriminating evidence of a government conspiracy and kill them both.

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From the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, comes a tale of murder, mystery and mistaken identity. When Bobby Jones comes across a dying man and the photograph of a beautiful young woman, his interest is snared; especially when the photograph is later switched for one of someone else.

With the help of his good friend Lady Frances Derwant, Bobby investigates. Following a trail of clues and setting up an elaborate charade in order to insinuate themselves into the Bassington-fffench household, their trail leads them into a world of morphine addiction, psychiatric clinics, enticing inheritances and, of course, murder. But who is the mysterious, trembling young wife of the hard-edged Dr. Nicholson; why is someone out to silence Bobby Jones; and what is the meaning of the dead man's dying words... Why didn't they ask Evans?

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Isabelle Adjani stars as the young West Indian woman who becomes enveloped in a love quadrangle with her husband (Anthony Higgins), on art patron (Alan Bates) and his wife (Maggie Smith).

Featuring luminous cinematography by Pierre Lhomme and a stirring score by Richard Robbins, 'Quartet' captures both the seductive glamor of the time and the dark emotions rumbling underneath.

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Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of a wealthy family in this softcore version of an old British tale.

When the clan patriarch dies, Fanny is ready to marry her lover until she discovers he has been unfaithful, that sets her on a course of erotic adventures that begins in protest and ends in great wealth.

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From the books of Peter Tinniswood comes one of television's greatest comedy families, The Brandons.

There's miserable pessimist Uncle Mort, his sharp-tongued sister Annie who is constantly arguing with husband Les, their laid-back son Carter and his not so laid-back fiancé Pat, and finally old Uncle Stavely who carries his friend's ashes around his neck in a box and only enters the constant bickering with a cry of 'I 'eard that! Pardon?' Pat is desperately trying to turn reluctant Carter into a young executive and march him up the aisle, but she's not being helped by the men of the house who feel it their duty to educate him on the perils of marriage.

Episodes Comprise:
1. Cause For Celebration
2. A Knitter in the Family
3. The Old Tin Trunk
4. After the Ball Was Over
5. Aye...Well...Mm ...
6. Large or Small, Big or Tall
7. The Axe and Cleaver

Tony Aaron (Liam Neeson) is a disgraced ex-policeman scraping a living as a private detective working mainly on falsifying divorce cases. When a supposedly routine case goes wrong and leads to the murder of a client and Aaron's own wife, he is under suspicion of murder.

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Mr. Polly (Sir John Mills) is a sensitive soul. Sacked from his job for daydreaming he despairs of ever finding another when his father's death suddenly brings him a large inheritance, and with it he embarks on a cycling adventure.

Along his travels he meets and falls desperately in love with a young girl, but the relationship turns sour when her friends hear of it. Spumed, he hastily marries his cousin Miriam (Betty Ann Davies), and settles in a sleepy town where he opens a draper's shop. But his beliefs are eroded when, fifteen years on, bad debt and his floundering marriage bring him to a personal crossroads where he must make some major decisions.

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Anarchic Londoner Morgan Delt (David Warner), a working class artist and self-confessed dreamer with a gorilla-fixation tries to regain the affections of his upper-class ex-wife Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave).

Leonie rejects Morgan's attempts at reconciliation and when she informs him of her plans to marry stuffy art dealer, Charles Napier (Robert Stephens), Morgan slips off the mental deep end into a vivid fantasy life. Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in an often hilarious campaign to win Leonie back...

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Experience Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece, 'Touch of Evil', complete and uncut with restored footage for the first time ever! This exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as

part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. A memorable supporting cast including Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy underworld leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy complete this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini.

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Micky (Tuppence Middleton), a young woman suffering from amnesia, begins a tormented road to recovery, having survived a house fire that took her childhood friend's life. Left with terrible injuries, Micky struggles to regain her memories and piece together what happened.

Soon she discovers that the fire may not have been an accident and that a sinister obsession may have cost her more than she knows.

After thirty years of no contact, Norval (Elijah Wood) visits his estranged father (Stephen McHattie) at his remote cabin by the sea. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a disapproving alcoholic, he also has a shady past that is rushing to catch up with him.

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London, 1953. Mr. Williams, played by Bill Nighy, is a veteran civil servant, a cog in the city's stifling bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild following WWII. After a shattering health diagnosis, it dawns on him he has not been living his life to the full.

Amidst the fog of his paperwork, and his loneliness at home, he yearns to find fulfilment before it's too late. He is encouraged in his search by two younger colleagues - the vibrant Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood) and idealistic new recruit Peter (Alex Sharp) - and a hedonistic stranger, Sutherland (Tom Burke), encountered during a desperate trip to the seaside.

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30-something man living comfortably in New York balancing a busy job and active social life. When the wayward Sissy (Carey Mulligan), turns up at his apartment unannounced, Brandon's carefully managed lifestyle spirals out of control.

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Schoolteacher Brian (Alan Bates) and his wife Sheila (Janet Suzman) are the parents of young Jo (Elizabeth Robillard), a child afflicted with cerebral palsy. Caring for Jo threatens to overwhelm their lives, and to stay sane they rely on dark humour.

But while Sheila tries to ensure that her daughter has some quality of life, Brian is increasingly obsessed with the idea that she might be better off dead... Their bleak lives are further complicated by friends Freddie (Peter Bowles) and Pam (Sheila Gish) and Brian's dotty mother Grace (Joan Hickson) - each of whom have their own views on what would be best for Jo...