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Math savant Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is more comfortable with numbers than people, working as a freelance accountant for the world's most dangerous criminal organisations.

With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division closing in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where a clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it's the body count that starts to rise.

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Now an ex-cop on the run, Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) turns to outlaw street-racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back, O'Conner's no-rules, win-or-die skills are unleashed against an international drug lord.

With his velocity-addicted buddy (Tyrese Gibson) riding shotgun, and a drop-dead gorgeous undercover agent (Eva Mendes) dialling up the heat, '2 Fast 2 Furious' accelerates the action into a desperate race for survival, justice... and mind-blowing, jaw-dropping speed!

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Churchill follows Britain's iconic Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days before the infamous D-Day landings in June 1944.

As allied forces stand on the south coast of Britain, poised to invade Nazi-occupied Europe, they await Churchill's decision on whether the invasion will actually move ahead. Only the unflinching support of Churchill's brilliant, unflappable wife Clementine (Miranda Richardson) can halt the Prime Minister's physical and mental collapse and help lead him to greatness. Also starring John Slattery as General Eisenhower. Supreme Commander of the Allied D-Day operations, and Julian Wadham as British military commander Field Marshal Montgomery.

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At NASA's Mission Control the first manned space flight manned space flight to Mars is about to blast off. Bit as its three astronauts (James Brolin, O.J Simpson and Sam Waterston) await their historic journey a mysterious man enters the craft and insists they leave.

He explains that the spacecraft is dangerously flawed. The mission, however, must be seen to go ahead, otherwise the Government will stop funding the space programme. In a television studio the astronauts are coerced, through threats and bribery, to make broadcasts as if they were on the Red Planet. Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould), a journalist becomes interested in the Mars mission when a technician friend becomes suspicious and sets out to investigate.

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Nat Hearn (Norman Wooland) returns from serving in the RAF in World War 2 to his seaside home to find his job at the local paper has been taken by Sally (Sarah Churchill). As Nat is reinstated Sally decides to stay on as his assistant and a romance develops.

On the death of the newspaper owner, Nat is offered a partnership and full editorial control of the newspaper however Sally is less than impressed and their relationship becomes strained. Nat seizes the opportunity to develop a social conscience for the paper and his first task is to address the discrimination faced by returning War veterans. However his new editorial approach causes upset amongst advertisers and when he uncovers corruption amongst local councillors he falls out with his partner Gerald (Cyril Cusack). His struggle to reveal the corruption can only be won however if he can get the creaking newspaper presses working!!

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All ten episodes from the second season of the HBO comedy drama following the lives and loves of three gay men in San Francisco. Patrick (Jonathan Groff), Agustín (Frankie J.

Álvarez) and Dom (Murray Bartlett) are best friends who help each other navigate their way through the trials of their professional and private lives. In this season, Patrick has an affair with Kevin (Russell Tovey) while there is some startling news for Doris (Lauren Weedman).

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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.

K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Tearing up the streets of London, Detective Inspector Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) and his partner George Carter (Ben Drew) from the Flying Squad have their own way of operating, and when an old enemy makes a re-appearance on the London crime scene, they will do whatever it takes to get the job done.

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The fun, the fashion, the friendship: 'Sex and the City 2' brings it all back and more as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) come together to take another bite out of The Big Apple - and beyond - in a hilarious sequel.

What happens after you say "I do?" Life is everything the ladies ever wished it would be, but it wouldn't be Sex and the City if life didn't hold a few more surprises. After all, sometimes you just have to get away with the girls.

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'Snowden' is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarising figures of the 21st century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in U.S. intelligence history.

'Snowden' opens the door on the untold story of Edward Snowden, examining the forces that turned a conservative young patriot eager to serve his country into a historic whistle-blower and posing provocative questions about which liberties we are willing to give up in order for our government to protect us.

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Pecker (Edward Furlong) works in a sandwich shop and takes photos of his loving but peculiar family and friends on the side. Nobody thinks much of Pecker's 'ugly photographs of everyday life' until an art dealer from New York discovers his work and turns him into a star.

But though success brings money, fame begins to ruin everything. Will Pecker lose his friends and Shelly (Christina Ricci) the girl he loves? All he ever wanted to do was take your picture.

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Frankie (Harris Dickinson), an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer. He escapes the bleakness of his home life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online.

When his chatting and webcamming intensify, he finally starts hooking up with guys at a nearby cruising beach while simultaneously entering into a cautious relationship with a young woman. As Frankie struggles to reconcile his competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward irreparable consequences.

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The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself.

As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

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Bruce Willis stars as Hartigan, a cop with a vow to protect a stripper, Nancy (Jessica Alba); Mickey Rourke as Marv, the outcast misanthrope on a mission to avenge the death of his one true love; and Clive Owen as Dwight, the clandestine love of Shellie (Brittany Murphy), who spends his night

defending Gall (Rossario Dawson) and her Old Town girls from Jackie (Benicio Del Toro), a tough guy with a penchant for violence.

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The Doors were a distillation of their time. The Music they made was raw yet poetic, angry yet seductive. The stage show at its best was dramatic, brilliant theatre - artistic expression transcending all form.

Jim Morrison's sensual stage presence, charged with strength and energy, capable of projecting a sense of danger, spoke to young audiences' fantasies and became a catalyst for an era. Their songs have kept The Doors in that rare pantheon of groups whose music evokes the memory of the turbulent 60's and continues to make fans not only of those who lived during that time but also of following generations as well. This is their story.