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This Sci-Fi / horror classic features legendary cult figure Lon Chaney Jr. as the criminal brought back to life after being sent to the gas chamber for a number of murders. He is quickly back to his old ways, seeking revenge against those men responsible for sentencing him to death.

Robert Shayne plays the scientist hoping to make a breakthrough with his experiments.

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Former elite agent Kitty Galore plans to unleash a diabolical device designed to not only bring her canine enemies to heel but also to take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post.

Cats and dogs must now join forces for the first time ever to prevent a global cat-astrophe.

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Determined to prove that he's a true artist, has-been movie superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) risks everything to finance a Broadway show.

Now, as he grapples with inner and outer critics, a deranged alter ego, his estranged daughter (Emma Stone) and a temperamental stage star (Edward Norton), Thomson aims to soar above mediocrity.

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In one of the year's best-reviewed films, pampered pet mouse Roddy St. James thinks he's got it made ... until he's literally flushed away to a bustling underground world of ninja frogs, hench-rats and singing slugs.

This outrageously inventive comedy-adventure is a flood of fun for both kids and grown-ups.

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Ellen Barkin, who plays the trailer-trash, beer-swilling mother of Amber (Kirsten Dunst), and the homicidally ambitious mother (Kirstie Alley) of spoilt rich bitch Becky (Denise Richards) will stop at nothing to ensure their daughters win the Mount Rose teen beauty pageant.

Underneath the fresh-faced all-American faade of Mount Rose's contest to find the best, brightest and most beautiful, lie two roads to greatness: high hopes and homicide. In this game there can only be one survivor and it's all out war.

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Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset.

Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, (Alan Bates) a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch) and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.

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'Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters' is the definitive retrospective documentary, charting the making of 'Ghostbusters', featuring Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Ivan Reitman.

The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made by the filmmakers working in the photo-chemical era. It reveals a story of ingenuity, innovation and emphasizes just how ambitious an undertaking the making of 'Ghostbusters' really was. 46 insightful, entertaining and heartfelt cast and crew interviews accompany a wealth of never before seen archive material. The documentary demonstrates how the filmmakers collectively defied adverse time constraints and all manner of technical challenges to make 'Ghostbusters', the movie that inadvertently changed the film industry forever.

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Deep in a forest near the coast of Washington State lies a grotesque Gothic mansion used as a special psychiatric hospital for the military. Those who know of its existence and the nature of project Freud refer to it as 'Center Eighteen'.

Confined to the centre are high-ranking military officers undergoing treatment for mental breakdowns, which are unaccountable by their services experiences. Determined to establish the true nature and origin of the men's mental illness, the Pentagon enlist Colonel Hudson Kane (Stacey Keach), a brilliant, yet strangely unorthodox psychiatrist. Typical of the patients is Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who aborted a space probe. He is convinced that God is a fraud. His fellow inmates are similarly consumed with inner torments - they fear the evil within themselves and are afraid that, with a Godless universe, man leads a purposeless existence. Slowly through the love he possesses for his fellow man, Colonel Kane is able to break down the lunatic facade of the inmates and of Captain Cutshaw in particular. But as he leads the way back to a world of reality the dividing line between sanity and madness assumes an increasingly vague definition, so much so that Kane's colleagues pose with real urgency the question of who is therapist to whom.

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A hilarious parody of the cult classic 'The Exorcist', 'Repossessed' stars the master of comedy spoofs Leslie Nielsen and the original star of 'The Exorcist', Linda Blair.

The devil possesses Nancy's body via her television set while she is watching a religious program, and there follows a side-splitting battle to exorcise the demon with many jokes and gags along the way.

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"In Search of Lawrence of Arabia" is an epic desert adventure following in the footsteps of one of Britain's most iconic figures. In this Bafta award-winning documentary, English explorer and biographer, Michael Asher, retraces T.E.

Lawrence's footsteps across Jordan, around Aquaba, Wadi Rum arid Egypt. Asher recreates Lawrence's amazing camel ride across the Sinai desert as immortalised s in his famous book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. After -the journey Michael Asher returns to London and discovers Lawrence's real experiences in Sinai, recorded in his unpublished pocket diary and now preserved by the British Museum. Consequently Michael Asher's expedition confronts him with the truth behind the greatest claims of Lawrence of Arabia, his desert hero.

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Behind the Scenes

Cecil B. de Mille closed his epic movie-making career with a blockbuster spectacle based on the story of Moses and the Exodus. This 1956 film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, won the Oscar for Best Special Effects, and remains De Mille's masterpiece. This special edition presents a behind the scenes look at the making of 'The Ten Commandments', featuring an introduction to the film by De Mille himself, De Mille on location in Egypt, and newsreel footage of the movie's premiere. Also included in this special edition are detailed biographies of 'The Ten Commandments' two biggest stars, Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. These programmes feature an in depth look at the life and careers of two of Hollywood's larger than life stars.
Show 2: Hollywood Looks at the Bible
When Hollywood makes movies based on stories from the Bible, the results are bound to be spectacular! You can directly access a selection of film clips from some of the best Biblical motion pictures made during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Here is the behind the scenes story of the making of the epic 1962 film, 'Lawrence of Arabia', about the British officer T.E. Lawrence who aids the Arab revolt against the Turks during the First World War.

This special edition programme features rare footage that brings you behind the camera to watch the cast and crew prepare for the filming of this monumental production. This acclaimed movie won numerous awards, including the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, and is on the American Film Institute's list of 100 all-time greatest films. Also included are filmography profiles of Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif featuring movie clips from their acting careers.

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Welcome to Delos, the futuristic resort where, for $1,000 a day, wealthy vacationers can live out their wildest fantasies in hyper-realistic theme parks.

In the Old West zone, friends Peter (Richard Benjamin) and John (James Brolin) saddle up for adventure, unaware that their dream holiday is about to turn into a nightmare. When a malfunction sends the park's android hosts off script, the Gunslinger (Yul Brynner, in his iconic black-clad role) begins a relentless pursuit, obliterating the line between simulation and survival.

What's a Yuppie ghost couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) to do when their quaint New England home is overrun by trendy New Yorkers? Hire a freelance "bio-exorcist" to spook the intruders, of course.

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An epic musical on the pitfalls of love, fame and fortune from visionary filmmaker Leos Carax (Holy Motors), starring Adam Driver (Marriage Story) and Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose).

The glamorous lives of a seemingly perfect celebrity couple - a provocative stand-up comedian and an internationally renowned opera singer - take an unexpected turn when their daughter Annette is born with a mysterious gift. An unabashedly unique and unforgettable spectacle, this Cannes Best Director prize winner co-stars Simon Helberg and features an original story and music by Sparks, one of pop's best-loved and most influential cult bands.