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Long Lost Comedy Classics is a collection of films from a golden age of British Cinema, remembered for timeless stars and some unique movies that have stood the test of time.

So why not take a trip down memory lane and see how cinema used to be? Bill Harper (James Donald) and Petronilla Brand (Jean Lodge), a young couple on a yachting holiday together, become involved with Tony Rackham (Kenneth More), who is smuggling brandy from France to a respectable London wine merchants. Through various mishaps, Bill and Petronilla find themselves personally responsible for transporting the brandy kegs to London, whilst being pursued by Customs officials...

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Street poet Jackson (Justin Herwick) opens his eyes to a sea of bodies. The naked-cowboy-junkie shooting up in the bathroom confirms that last night was another orgy of fun.

However, for Jackson, the weekend has only begun! Clean-cut Derek (Sean Thibodeau) declares that he loved Jackson from the moment he saw him. Jackson doesn't believe in love at first sight! Sam (Shane Powers), Jackson's best friend, also loves Jackson - the problem is he's straight. Jackson thinks he's in love with Billy (Jonah Blechman), who he met at the orgy. Then Jackson's sexy cousin Jed (B. Wyatt) turns up unannounced. Now Jackson's dilemma is: is it incest to f**k your cousin? Set in a world within the universe that is LA, inhabited by wacky artists, cute alternative boys, rock stars with twisted sexual habits and throbbing to a kick-ass soundtrack featuring Pansy Division, 'Luster' is a wildly entertaining, gritty, charming weekend adventure of fun, lust, sex, tragedy and maybe even love.

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It's been three years since theme parkland luxury resort, Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.

When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

When two hit men (Max Irons and Dexter Fletcher) run into a curious waitress named Annie (Margot Robbie), they discover that she may have more sinister motives than they originally suspected, and it s not long before murderous consequences wildly unravel at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind hell-bent on revenge.

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On his sixteenth birthday Etienne is given a video camera so that he can record his figure skating sessions as he prepaes for the French Cup. Obsessed by his new toy he starts to record every detail of his daily life and of those close to him.

But does Ethienne know what he means when he tells his best friend Ludovic that this will be 'the year of love' and will he be able to find the answer to his own question 'can two men love each other?'.

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"Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr.

Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby...and a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first allelectronic musical soundscape in film history, 'Forbidden Planet' is in a movie orbit all its own.

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An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time.

The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos.

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When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young African-American man, visits his white girlfriend's (Allison Williams) family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation.

At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behaviour as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

Alastair Sim's 'Scrooge' is the all time favourite Christmas family film and a genuine classic of British cinema. 'Scrooge' is the definitive big screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', one of the world's best loved Christmas stories.

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At the end of the First World War, beloved children's author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) creates the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh - which brings him immediate acclaim.

But the books' international success comes at a cost to the author, his young son Christopher Robin (Will Tilston) and his wife Daphne (Margot Robbie), in this beautifully filmed, poignant story about fame and family that also stars Kelly Macdonald.

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Christmas elicits nothing more than "Bah, Humbug!" from Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott), a miser whose sole pursuit of financial success has left him a bitter and lonely old man.

But a Christmas Eve visit from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future ultimately teaches him to open his heart to the spirit of Christmas and to the joys of friends and family.

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Director Steven Spielberg's science-fiction action adventure reveals a chaotic, collapsing world in the year 2045. Salvation lies in the OASIS, a fantastical virtual-reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday.

When Halliday dies, his immense fortune is left to the first person who can find a digital Easter egg hidden in the OASIS. Joining the hunt is unlikely young hero Wade Watts, who is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending quest filled with mystery, discovery and danger.

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The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, an ample belly, and a snowy beard (Edmund Gwenn) is hired as Macy's department store Santa.

He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit - except for his boss, Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), who's raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) to not believe in Santa. But when Kris is declared insane and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test as old and young alike face the age old question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?

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Peter Rabbit, the mischievous and adventurous hero who has captivated generations of readers, now takes on the starring role of his own cute, contemporary comedy with attitude. In the film, Peter's feud with Mr.

McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson) escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door (Rose Byrne). James Corden, with playful spirit and wild charm, voices the character of Peter, alongside Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki and Daisy Ridley voicing the roles of the triplets, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-Tail.

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Miles Walton (Tim Boardman), age 17, is biding his time until he can go away to college in Chicago and study filmmaking. His father passes away unexpectedly, revealing a secret affair with a local girl, which gutted their family savings. Miles can no longer afford to go to college.

Desperate to get out of his small town, Miles finds the only remaining college scholarship in Chicago is to the Men's Volleyball team at Loyola University. Because his high school doesn't have a men's team, Miles tries out for the girl's team and head coach Leslie Wayne (Missi Pyle) accepts him on the team regardless of state regulations. Meanwhile Miles's soft-spoken mother Pam (Molly Shannon) joins a local widow support group where she meets Lloyd O'Brien (Paul Reiser), the new school district Superintendent who fiercely opposes a boy on the girl's volleyball team. Miles' plans of attending College are threatened with suspension and he must fight against to chase his dreams of a better life.