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The Gentlemen follows American expat Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) who built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him. - Director:
- Guy Ritchie
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- Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery
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Featuring all-star casts, Mark Gatiss presents four ghost stories for Christmas inspired by the short stories of M.R. James.
The Tractate Middoth (2013)In search of a very particular book, John Eldred (John Castle) arrives at a university library. Here, an unassuming student called Garret (Sacha Dhawan) is about to have his life turned upside down by a family feud and the lost will of the terrifying Dr. Rant (David Ryall)…
The Dead Room (2018)
Veteran presenter Aubrey Judd pines for the good old days of radio horror and especially the 'rules' of the genre as set out by the master - M.R. James! But he soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he had hoped…
Martin's Close (2019)
1684. John Martin (Wilf Scolding) is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys (Elliot Levey). However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case. For the hapless victim has been seen walking after her death…
The Mezzotint (2021)
"For sale: Interesting mezzotint: View of a manor-house, early part of last century". In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams (Rory Kinnear) receives an engraving of an unknown country house. An imposing facade. A sweeping lawn. And, just perhaps, something else...?- Director:
- Mark Gatiss
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- Peter Capaldi, Mark Gatiss, Elliot Levey
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Based on the best selling book series by Tom Holt, you are invited into a world of fantasy and madness. Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) and Sophie Pettingel (Sophie Wilde) are the lowly, put-upon interns at the mysterious London firm J.W. Wells & Co. who become steadily aware that their employers are anything but conventional. Charismatic CEO Humphrey Wells (Christoph Waltz), and middle manager Dennis Tanner (Sam Neill) are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices, and Paul and Sophie discover the true agenda of the vast corporation where they work. - Director:
- Jeffrey Walker
- Cast:
- Christoph Waltz, Bruce Hughes, Patrick Gibson
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Cruella (2021)Cruella de Vil
Emma Stone stars as one of cinema's most notorious and stylish villains, Cruella de Vil. Determined to become a successful fashion designer, a creative young grifter named Estella (Stone) teams with a pair of mischievous thieves to survive on the London streets. But when her flair for fashion catches the eye of the legendary designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), Estella rises to become the raucous, revenge-bent "Cruella". - Director:
- Craig Gillespie
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- Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry
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This box set contains all 12 episodes from Season 1.
- Director:
- Susan Seidelman
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- Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis
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With his career on the slide, a massive tax bill caused by his useless accountant, and a wife who's divorcing him, the showbiz actor has no choice but to open his doors to a film crew 24/7. Maybe living his life like an open wound will get him back on top? The film crew charts Warwick's every move as he tries to maintain his pride and self-respect in some very unusual situations. - Director:
- Ricky Gervais
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- Warwick Davis, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
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Andy Millman (Ricky Gervals) is a struggling actor with ambition and a script. Darren Lamb (Stephen Merchant) is Andy's useless agent and Maggie (Ashley Jensen) is his air-headed best friend. After getting his comedy script accepted by the BBC, things are looking up for Andy. However, Andy's dreams of becoming a respected auteur are roundly demolished and Andy must claw back what little self-respect he can. - Director:
- Stephen Merchant
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- Rob Brydon, Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen
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A civilian oil-rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface, where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world - or destroy it. - Director:
- James Cameron
- Cast:
- Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn
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Meet Andy Millman, Actor. Never forgets his lines because he never gets any. Andy (Ricky Gervais) is a desperate man. He's been an actor for five years but thanks to his useless agent (Stephen Merchant), he's never done any acting. Instead he's just a lowly film extra, walking around in the background while the stars do their lines. Andy's only friend in the world is Maggie (Ashley Jenson), a fellow extra and a hopeless romantic. While Maggie pursues the man of her dreams, Andy decides he'll do whatever it takes to get himself noticed. - Director:
- Stephen Merchant
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- Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen, Boris Boscovic
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Set in Florence and the English countryside, the film tells the story of a young English couple, Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) and George Emerson (Julian Sands), who encounter passion whilst on holiday in Italy. Defying the Victorian conventions of their elders they dare to be true to their feelings, each other and true love. - Director:
- James Ivory
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- Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott
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Late 19th Century life in the small Oxfordshire hamlet, Lark Rise, and its neighbouring market town, Candleford, continues to throw up secrets, confrontations and romance in a heart- warming second series that includes a feature- length Christmas special and 11 new episodes. Rich, enterprising and worldly, one-time Lark Rise boy James Dowland arrives from London intending to put Candleford on the map. However, it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited, yet suddenly flustered, Dorcas and stirring up emotions among the Lark Rise tenants. Candleford's post office is still at the centre of many of the towns' stories with the arrival of a hapless new maid, Minnie, Head Postman Thomas Brown's obstacle-strewn courtship of Miss Ellison and Laura's confused feelings for the clock maker, Fisher Bloom. As James Dowland continues in his aim of modernising Candleford, he finds himself entangled in its trials and tribulations and is drawn ever closer to the town's charming postmistress... - Director:
- Alan Grint
- Cast:
- Linda Bassett, Sarah Lancashire, Claudie Blakley
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Set in the Oxfordshire countryside at the end of the 19th Century, this rich, funny and emotional series follows the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry in two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, the small hamlet, gently holding on to the past and Candleford, the neighbouring market town, bustling into the future. When the young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the local post office in Candleford, it feels as if she is departing to a different country. Her new life under the wing of the independent and effervescent post-mistress, Dorcas Lane, is eye-opening and exciting, but as Laura witnesses the scandals, feuds and struggles of the villagers and townsfolk, she realises that she too has to face the future. Having turned her back on her childhood hamlet, she must find her own path to womanhood... - Director:
- Charles Palmer
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- Linda Bassett, Sarah Lancashire, Claudie Blakley
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When Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband is having an affair, she seeks refuge with her estranged, bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie). As a fish out of water, Sandra is at odds with her sister's free-spirited lifestyle, until she is persuaded to join Bif's dance class. Here, Bif and her friends Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman) show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love. - Director:
- Richard Loncraine
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- Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley, Imelda Staunton
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)A Quiet Place: Part III
When Samira (Lupita Nyong'o) returns home to New York City, her simple trip turns into a harrowing nightmare when mysterious creatures that hunt by sound attack. Accompanied by her cat Frodo and an unexpected ally (Joseph Quinn), Samira must embark on a perilous journey through the city that has suddenly gone silent, where the only rule is to stay quiet to stay alive. - Director:
- Michael Sarnoski
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- Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff
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Keeping Mum (2005)Una Loca Familia
Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson), the well meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop, is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to his wife Gloria's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor Lance (Patrick Swayze); neither does he notice that his daughter Holly has a different boyfriend every week, and his young son Petey is the whipping boy for the school bullies. Gloria feels her life is spiralling out of control. She is sick of the incessant barking of the dog next door, her loveless marriage and her adolescent kids' escapades - she prays every night for salvation. Enter Grace (Maggie Smith), the answer to the family's prayers: a sweet grey haired old lady, the charming and discreet new housekeeper, who has her own unique definition of keeping house - and a very unusual way of solving problems. - Director:
- Niall Johnson
- Cast:
- Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Maggie Smith
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