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Claire Foy stars in a new Dragon Tattoo story as Lisbeth Salander, the highly-skilled vigilante from the acclaimed Millennium book series.

Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber-criminals and corrupt government officials, as they race to rescue a dangerous program capable of global destruction held by shadowy figures linked to Lisbeth's past.

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Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house.

Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection in the heat of the Finnish summer. Viewing Finland from both the perspectives of an immigrant and an emigrant, the film casts the long-marginalised voices of sexual and ethnic minorities centre-stage in a story about the search for freedom, acceptance and a place to call home.

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When Leon (Aaron Altaras) joins Mario's football club, an immediate tension brews between them; both players are talented, driven and prepared to fight for their spot on the first team. When the pair are moved into a flat with one another, the competitive tension turns sexual.

As their relationship intensifies, Mario (Max Hubacher) and Leon become inseparable, yet Mario is desperate to hide their love from his teammates. As rumours of their relationship begin to circulate, the boys are forced to make a choice; their careers, or each other.

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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.