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When Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband is having an affair, she seeks refuge with her estranged, bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie). As a fish out of water, Sandra is at odds with her sister's free-spirited lifestyle, until she is persuaded to join Bif's dance class.

Here, Bif and her friends Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman) show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love.

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From master storyteller, Guillermo del Toro, comes 'The Shape of Water', an otherworldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden, high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation.

Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.

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"I, Tonya" tells the outrageous and at times hilarious true story of one of the biggest scandals in sporting history. Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) was a champion figure skater who's rebel attitude pushed the sport to new heights.

However, as Olympic pressure mounted, her life began to unravel - culminating in an alleged attack on her fiercest rival, un-paralleled press attention and a legacy no one would wish for.

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Academy Award winner Colin Firth portrays the incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping.

With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare (Rachel Weisz) and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.

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When nerdy Adam meets Evelyn, a sexy and confrontational art student, his predictable life seems to change over night. But when Adam's brash best friend, Phil, and his fiancee, Jenny, meet Evelyn, the sparks begin to fly.

Phil doesn't like the new Adam, while Jenny seems a little too interested in Adam's new look. Soon everyone is caught in a circle of passion, temptation and betrayal that is totally unexpected.

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Join anatomist Dr Alice Roberts in a new series that reveals how your body tells the story of human evolution. The way you look, think and behave, is a product if a 6 million year struggle for survival that transformed us from forest dwelling apes to the most successful species on the planet.

In Bones Alice looks at how our body has been shaped by the evolutionary journey of our ancestors as they stood, walked and ran for survival. It's given us back-pain, narrow waists, the shape of our bottoms and our naked skin. In Guts she charts how our ancestors hunt for food has driven the shape of our face, the size of our brain and even the way we attract the opposite sex. And in Brains Alice explores how living till old age and learning from another has shaped our large clever brain - and looks at why we are the only one of our kind still living today.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples' game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother (Kyle Chandler) plans a murder mystery party that turns out to be more than they bargained for.

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Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin) are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations.

Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page - even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov). Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

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Charlie (Liam Neeson) is a legendary undercover DEA agent who has been involved in more drug busts then he cares to remembered, except that his instinct for danger, cool composure and nerves of steel have failed him.

In this, his final assignment, a number of larger than life characters are drawn together in a comic story of drug deals. The combination of inept, trigger-happy Mafia hit man "Fulvio Nesstra" (Oliver Platt) and cocky Columbian drug barons leaves Charlie in too deep. In an attempt to pull off his last mission, before losing the plot completely, Charlie seeks a hilariously funny self-help therapy group, and the aid of sexy nurse Judy (Sandra Bullock) in this comical gangster movie.

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Burke And Hare is a comedic take on the true story of the Edinburgh body-snatchers William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis).

These two Irish entrepreneurs, spurred on by a chance meeting with a gorgeous actress (Isla Fisher), discover that a dead body can fetch a hefty price when the demands of the leading medical professors Dr. Knox (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr. Monroe (Tim Curry) reach beyond that of the local supply.

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Christian (Claes Bang), a respected curator of a contemporary art museum in Stockholm, is gearing up to launch a new show, 'The Square', a daring installation examining altruism and our duty to help others.

However, Christian's own views on social responsibility are put to the test when he becomes the victim of scam, forcing him to question the world around him and his place in it.

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Scarlett Johansson is terrific in the visually stunning 'Ghost in the Shell', an action-packed adventure set in a future world where people are enhanced with technology.

Believing she was rescued from near death, Major (Johansson) becomes the first of her kind: a human mind inside an artificial body designed to fight the war against cyber crime. While investigating a dangerous criminal, Major makes a shocking discovery -the corporation that created her lied about her past life in order to control her. Unsure what to believe, Major will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery of her true identity and exact revenge against the corporation she was built to serve.

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Cult filmmaker Takeshi Kitano's dazzling new film is a thrilling tale of swordplay and adventure set in 19th Century Japan. Zatoichi is a blind wanderer whose humble facade disguises his prodigious skills as a master swordsman, gifted with a lightning fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision.

Arriving in a remote mountain town, he finds its people terrorised by the ruthless Ginzo gang and their mighty samurai ronin Hattori (Tadanobu Asano), who mercilessly dispose of all who get in their way. With his legendary cane sword at his side, Zatoichi's path is destined for many violent confrontations...

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As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the caslte, but Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching.

Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defenses and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), Hermione (Emma Watson) and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.

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Based on J.K. Rowling's first novel, this film weaves a magical tale. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life.

But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard - with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There, he uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths...and about the villain who's to blame.