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"Annie" is the story of everyone's favourite plucky, red-haired orphan! One day. Annie (Aileen Quinn) is chosen to stay for a week with famous billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks (Albert Finney).

One week turns into many, and the only person standing in the way of Annie's fun is Miss Hannigan, the tyrannical ruler of the orphanage (played to hilarious perfection by Carol Burnett). Will Miss Hannigan's zany attempts to kidnap the irrepressible Annie succeed? Sing along to the unforgettable songs and experience the beloved musical like never before!

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Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Genevieve Emery (Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop.

On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, the pair share a passionate night. Genevieve becomes pregnant and then must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an attractive offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel).

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"Life After Flash" explores the life of actor Sam J. Jones since his iconic performance as Flash Gordon in the 1980 classic, and the aftermath when he went up against one of Hollywood's biggest producers, Dino De Laurentiis.

From award-winning director Lisa Downs, 'Life After Flash' is an inspiring and moving feature documentary that, celebrates what makes that Mike Hodges enduring classic so iconic with audiences to this day, and looks at the real man behind the heroic mask: his successes, his battles, and his ultimate struggle for redemption.

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Spanning two decades at the start of the 20th century, "Jules and Jim" follows the lives of two inseparable friends - timid German, Jules (Oskar Werner), and gregarious Parisian, Jim (Henri Serre) - and their shared love of the beautiful, capricious Catherine, played in mesmerising, luminous style

by Jeanne Moreau. Overcoming the destructive rift of World War I the trio create a new life for themselves, away from the structures imposed by society. But as the idyllic menage a trois begins to succumb to jealousy and rivalry their idealised existence finds itself slowly buckling under pressure. Frequently hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, "Jules and Jim" is a dazzling, boldly original tale of love, friendship and the vagaries of history that combines romance, comedy and tragedy in breathtaking, near-perfect dramatic harmony.

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The enigmatic samurai in Yojimbo is played by the great Toshiro Mifune as a scruffy, scratching, itinerant warrior who wanders into a strange town and right into the middle of two warring clans.

Showing his skills with the samurai sword within minutes of his arrival, he soon has the town's rival factions competing for his services.Kurosawa's genius for storytelling combines with thrilling swordplay, a healthy dose of black humour, a soundtrack every bit as atmospheric and amusing as Ennio Morricone's, and a towering performance from Mifune, to make 'Yojimbo' an irresistible widescreen action movie.

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This triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston (Naomi Ackie) is the untold story of the complex and multifaceted woman behind The Voice.

From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, follow the inspirational, poignant - and so emotional - journey through Houston's trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon's most beloved hits as you've never heard them before.

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'Signs' is the gripping story of an ordinary family as they encounter the possibility that Earth is being invaded by creatures from another planet. When Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family awaken to find a 500-foot crop circle in their backyard, they're told extraterrestrials are responsible.

As they watch with growing dread, news reports tell of similar "signs" suddenly appearing all over the world!

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Josh has failed at being a musician in NYC. Josh has failed at being a booking agent. Josh's life is pretty much in the toilet. When he tries to figure out where it all went wrong he comes up with an idea that would be a small, yet life-changing victory.

He decides to purchase a 1985 Lazy Boy on EBay, just like the one from his childhood living room, and deliver it cross-country to his father as a surprise birthday gift. Things immediately get complicated when his girlfriend Emily wants to come, especially when she wants to have the "where do we stand" in their relationship conversation. When his pseudo-granola brother, Rhett, begs to join them on their adventure it quickly becomes three very different people and a giant purple puffy chair in a too-small van and one of them has to go before the trip's end. Things immediately get complicated when his girlfriend Emily wants to come, especially when she wants to have the "where do we stand" in their relationship conversation. When his pseudo-granola brother, Rhett, begs to join them on their adventure it quickly becomes three very different people and a giant purple puffy chair in a too-small van and one of them has to go before the trip's end.

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Fire investigator Sean McCaffrey (Joe Anderson), son of the late Steven "Bull" McCaffrey, is now working at the same Chicago firehouse along with his uncle Brian (William Baldwin).

When Sean is assigned to investigate a deadly fire, he and partner Maggie (Alisha Bailey) soon realize that they are dealing with something much more than a routine fire. The clues they discover lead them down a treacherous path of arson, murder, and international terrorism. Sean must use his intuition, along with the help of infamous jailed arsonist Ronald Bartel (Donald Sutherland), in a race to find out who is behind the fire and stop them from accomplishing their devious plans.

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Based on the best-selling novel, The Nanny Diaries. Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation) is Annie, a young college grad from working-class Jersey who becomes a nanny for Manhattan socialite and mother-from-hell "Mrs. X" (Laura Linney).

As Annie balances her boss's demands with her attraction to "Harvard Hottie" (Chris Evans), she learns all about life, love and surviving in the urban jungle.

In this CG-animated movie, one sausage leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store.

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken (Ryan Gosling).

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A group of delightful and very human people meet up with some very bizarre and not-so-human beings, who are visitors from a distant galaxy. They have come to Earth on a rescue mission to retrieve a secret which has laid hidden on the ocean floor for thousands of years.

They share a more wondrous adventure of love and friendship than they could ever have imagined.

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Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson bring to life the untold true story about the origins of one of the most treasured Disney classics of all time. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) directs this acclaimed film, which reveals the surprising backstory behind the making of Mary Poppins.

Determined to fulfill a promise to his daughters, Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) tries for twenty years to obtain the rights to author P. L. Travers' (Emma Thompson) beloved book. Armed with his iconic creative vision, Walt pulls out all the stops, but the uncompromising Travers won't budge. Only when he reaches into his own complicated childhood does Walt discover the truth about the ghosts that haunt Travers, and together, they set Mary Poppins free!

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Santiago de Chile, 1978. As Pinochet's oppressive dictatorship continues to stamp down hard on civil liberties, Raul Peralta escapes the tedium of everyday life by leading a small group of dancers and obsessing about Tony Manero, John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever.

He lives for Saturday nights, when he unleashes his passion for the film's music by imitating his idol. His dream of becoming a successful showbiz star takes a step closer to reality when the national television station announces a Tony Manero impersonation contest. But it's a rocky road to fulfilling his dreams. Prepared to go to any lengths to win, the sociopathic Raul's urge to become Tony Manero drives him to commit a series of crimes while his dancing partners - who are involved in clandestine activities against Pinochet's regime - continue to be persecuted by the government's secret police...