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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.

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An act of terrorism leads to one of the most daring rescue missions ever attempted. When a commercial flight is hijacked and diverted to an abandoned airport terminal in Entebbe, Uganda, the terrified passengers become bargaining chips in a deadly political standoff.

As the likelihood of finding a diplomatic solution fades, an elite group of commandos hatch a fearless lightning strike rescue mission to save the 248 hostages before time runs out.

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Overjoyed to learn that they've inherited a cinema in the north of England, Matt (Bill Travers) and Jean (Virginia McKenna) Spenser are subsequently shattered to find it's less of a grand picture palace and more of a fleapit (with three equally decrepit employees).

Can the couple make a go of it or will they be forced to sell up and watch the Bijou Kinema be redeveloped into a car park?

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Hotel Artemis is a secret hospital for criminals run by The Nurse (Jodie Foster) and her orderly Everest (Dave Bautista). After a daring heist, a wounded bank robber (Sterling K.

Brown) checks in while riots rage outside - but finds himself entangled with an arms dealer (Charlie Day), a crime lord (Jeff Goldblum) and a mysterious assassin (Sofia Boutella) whose mission pits all the guests against each other in a deadly game of survival.

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Now that Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly Radner (Rose Byrne) have a second baby on the way, they are ready to make the final move into adulthood: the suburbs.

But just as they thought they'd reclaimed the neighbourhood and were safe to sell, they learn that the new occupants next door are a hard-partying, out-of-control sorority, led by Shelby (Chloe Grace Moretz). Mac and Kelly are forced to team up with their charismatic ex-neighbour and now secret weapon, Teddy (Zac Efron), since the ladies of Kappa Nu aren't going down without a fight.

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When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Colette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and their two children begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited.

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When Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) solves the mystery of a Chinese puzzle box he enters the world of the Cenobites. A world where these cruel sadists thrive on pain. Later, restored to life by the blood of his brother Larry (Andrew Robinson), Frank rises to feed on the life force of others.

When Larry's wife agrees to provide the sacrifices he needs, the spills, chills and thrills are just beginning.