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When a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whiskey runs aground, the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation to replenish their depleted supplies. Only an English Home Guard captain stands in their way.

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Determined to fulfil her late mother's dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, 19-year-old Clarissa (Shannon Tarbet) enlists the help of her mother's best friend Isabella (Shelley Conn) and her eccentric estranged grandmother Mimi (Celia Imrie).

Three generations of women will need to overcome grief, doubts and differences to honour the memory of their beloved Sarah (Candice Brown) while embarking on a journey to establish a London bakery filled with love, hope and colourful pastries from all over the world.

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H.G. Wells' fantastic account of life on the moon is vividly brought to the screen by special effects master Ray Harryhausen in this amazing sci-fi epic featuring extraterrestrial creatures. The film begins with a team of United Nations astronauts planning an upcoming moon mission.

The astronauts are both confused and intrigued by a man (Edward Judd) who claims he, his fiancee and a scientist journeyed to the moon 65 years ago and were attacked by "Selenites", grotesque, human-like ant forms that live in immense crystal caverns. Now it's up to the U.N. team to attempt a lunar landing that could be more horrifying than ever believed possible.

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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.