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Based on Clive Cussler's best-selling novel, this gripping adventure follows a team of scientists on a historic and potentially deadly mission to recover valuable raw material from the depths of the doomed passenger liner.

Following a discovery in northern Siberia, US intelligence learns that in April 1912 a raw mineral now vital for the development of a new defensive weapons system was loaded onto RMS Titanic by an unknown American. As scientists join the US Navy to try to salvage the sunken vessel, a Russian crew is also heading to the scene, equally desperate to reach its vital cargo...

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From the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes 'Ant-Man and the Wasp'. Still reeling from the aftermath of 'Captain America: Civil War', Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is enlisted by Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) for an urgent new mission.

He must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside the Wasp as they join forces to uncover secrets from the past.

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Peter Sellers plays both Sir John Kennaway and the tragic-comic trade union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then-burning issue of industrial relations.

Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr. Kite (Irene Handl) is only too keen to make capital.

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Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) now assesses security for skyscrapers. He's on assignment in China when he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he's been framed for it.

A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building, above the fire line.

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When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) to drive to another airport.

The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.

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The famous symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia and finds himself the target of a manhunt. Langdon teams up with Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones), a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories.

Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.

Based on the best-selling novel, Lily James plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII.

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Director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight.

A visceral, intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective and based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues, and the nation itself for one of the most dangerous missions in history.

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A Neapolitan bank clerk (Robert Beatty), much bullied by his English wife (Jean Kent) and mother in law (Margaret Rutherford), is the double of Leo L'Americano, a gang leader.

The gangster kidnaps the clerk, intending to use the masquerade as an opportunity to rob the bank, and the result is a wild confusion of mistaken identities.

Helen is called on to lead a campaign to bring Supers back, and Bob must juggle the day-to-day heroics of home life. But when a new villain emerges with a brilliant and dangerous plot, the Parrs meet the challenge together - with Frozone by their side.

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The Drossmouth repertory company have been given the arduous task of performing the play 'Tarnished Gold'.

Even to Derwent Blacker (Robert Morley) the producer, the play seems impossible, but they must at least try! What alters the proceedings is the arrival of the author Catherine Beckwith (Margaret Rutherford), who brings with her some very specific and impractical ideas on how she wishes her masterpiece to be performed. Blacker struggles to direct dress rehearsals as the interfering author, tempermental actors and mocking stagehands combine to undermine his efforts and as the company near the first performance who will have the final say?

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Arriving in London in search of fame, fortune, and more cultural stimulation than Essex could provide, beautiful but naive Jim finds himself jobless, penniless and renting a cardboard box from a homeless man.

Jim catches the eyes of The Raconteurs, a troupe of high-class male escorts specialising in cultural, post-coital conversation. Jims got the looks, he's got the charm, but to reach his true potential he must learn absolutely everything about art There's just one problem; when Jim sees a real masterpiece he is overwhelmed, he faints. Undeterred, Jim takes the neon drenched streets of Soho by storm, attaining the ultimate in objectification - he becomes a muse. Paul, a mysterious figure from the Raconteurs' past spots potential in Jim's art affliction. His ability to immediately determine genuine art from fake is a precious commodity, just waiting to be exploited.

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A U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission.

There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince a Northern Alliance General to join forces with them to fight their common adversary: the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. In addition to overcoming mutual distrust and a vast cultural divide, the team - accustomed to state-of-the-art warfare - must adopt the rudimentary tactics of the Afghani horse soldiers, combining ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat.

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"Theo and Hugo" encounter each other in a sex club, where their overwhelming desire creates an unexpected intimacy. Leaving the club, they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris, but reality suddenly confronts them in an unexpected way.

Do they want to know more about each other? Can their trust be rewarded? Will love m come with the dawn of a new day? Told in real time, this authentic tale of love and intimacy is Ducastel and Martineau's (Cockles and Muscles, Drole de Felix, Ma Vie, Born in '68) most ambitious film to date and a candid insight into 21st century gay life.

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Years after Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) fought his way out of the escape-proof prison, he's organised a new top-notch, for-hire security force, that includes some of the best in the business.

However when one of Breslin's team goes missing, he must go back into the secret lock-up to save his friend. To attempt this near impossible mission, Breslin enlists his old friend Trent Derosa (Dave Bautista) and the returning surveillance expert Hush (Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson), to help him return from the gauntlet with both his friend and his life.