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Mary Hilton (Diana Dors), beautiful and discontented, falls in love with feckless charmer Jim Lancaster (Michael Craig). Embarking on a passionate affair with him, she abandons her husband in favour of her lover, only to discover her feelings are not reciprocated.

Wracked with jealousy of Jim's new lover, embittered as she becomes entangled in a web on complex relationships, Mary's mind falls to violent revenge. Condemned to death for her crime, Mary spends her days in prison subject to a strict routine, building relationships with the wardens who will become part of her final hours. Drifting from daydreams to reality, she awaits her fate at the hands of the legal system.

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Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighbourhood schemes.

One terrible drunken decision however dominoes into another and soon their lives plunge into absolute chaos and they find themselves kidnapped, homeless and locked in a prison cell.

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Scott (Pete Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven.

He's now reached his mid-20's having achieved little, living with his mother (Marisa Tomei) and spending his days hanging with his buddies and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley). When his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter Ray (Bill Burr), it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

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Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters

union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history...

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Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy, retiring man who works as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a maker of souvenirs.

Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle them into France. Soon after, they gain the services of professional criminals Lackery (Sidney James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass) and the four plot what they believe will be the perfect crime - which turns out to be anything but!

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Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we've all experienced - road rage - to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion.

Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged.

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Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy) have been married for 29 years and live in a small seaside town called Hope Gap. During a visit from their son Jamie (Josh O'Connor) Edward informs them both that he plans to leave Grace and walks out the door that very same day.

With the whole family knocked into disarray, Grace has to find a way through this new life which she least expected and, with the help of her son, achieve hope once again. 'Hope Gap' tracks the emotional unravelling of a tight knit family going through divorce and walking the thin line between love and hate.

Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney (Mark Ruffalo) uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his career, his livelihood, and his family - to expose the truth.

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Combining thrills, suspense and breath-taking cinematography, 'Blood and Money' stars acting legend and Emmy winner Tom Berenqer as a retired veteran who, whilst hunting in the snowy outback of Nortnern Maine, discovers a dead body and a bag full of cash.

In an already stark and deadly wilderness, a murderous game of cat and mouse quickly ensues when the hardened criminals in search of the loot, turn the hunter into the hunted. Caught in a web of deceit and murder, this chilling thriller is a tense trip that will leave you at the edge of your seat.

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Whilst on holiday, young timid ladies companion (Joan Fontaine) meets handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) whose wife Rebecca has recently died in a boating accident. The two fall in love and marry.

However, her joy is short lived when she returns to the de Winter estate and soon discovers that Rebecca still has a strange, unearthly hold over everyone there.

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Inspired by a true story - tree young men with disabilities (Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, Ravi Patel) flee their overbearing parents on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal that caters to people with disabilities, in order to lose their virginity and embrace their independence Gabourey Sidibe

stars as their jaded nurse driver, Janeane Garofalo and C.S. Lee also star as concerned parents hot on their trail.

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When tech billionaire Donovan Chalmers (Bruce Willis) hires a team of mercenaries to protect a lethal piece of technology, security expert Derek Miller (Jesse Metcalfe) finds himself in a deadly showdown with an old enemy.

The mission becomes even higher risk when Chalmers' daughter (Lala Kent) is kidnapped by a terrorist group who will stop at nothing to obtain the tech. Miller and his team must race against the clock to save her and protect the fate of the human race before it is too late.

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14 years after Captain Jean-Luc Picard retired from StarFleet, Patrick Stewart is back to reprise his iconic role. After the destruction of the Planet Romulus, we follow Picard as he tracks down a series of mysteries about his past.

From co-creators Alex Kurtzman, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, and renowned 'Star Trek' novelist Kirsten Beyer, 'Star Trek: Picard' sets out on a new adventure against a legion of dangerous Foes, with the help from a few returning characters - Data, Riker, and Seven of Nine - and a whole new crew.

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Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a 'Little Women' that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life.

In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women each determined to live life on their own terms - is both timeless and timely. Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothee Chalamet as their neighbour Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.

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When a German U-Boat torpedoes a British supply ship, the survivors manage to swim to the surfacing German vessel. Among the survivors are Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) a young allied soldier and a young biologist Lisa Clayton (Susan Penhaligon).

They dock the vessel at a strange island inhabited by deadly beasts, dinosaurs and a savage indigenous tribe. When Lisa is kidnapped by one of the tribesmen, Bowen must set out to save her and get back to the Submarine before the island is engulfed in lava from an erupting volcano.