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Growing mistrust between the British, American and Iranian Governments culminates in a series of high-risk operations at home, pushing the Section to its very limits.

As Iran's race to become a nuclear power impacts on British and American security, the distinction between friend and foe becomes ever more blurred. Harry and his team start to question exactly whose agenda they're working to and who they can trust - both on and off the Grid. The electric atmosphere between Adam and Ros comes to a head but things are complicated further by Adam's ongoing and dangerous affair with a key asset inside the Iranian Embassy. Harry gains a new friend on the grid when he recruits old MI5 colleague Connie as desk officer. Clever, with plenty of old-school tricks up her sleeve, she might just be able to fill the void left by Ruth's departure. Contains Spooks Season 6 Episodes 1-10 uncut.

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Tape (2001)

The nature of memory and truth, the bonds between old friends and lovers are examined with jagged intensity as John arrives at a motel expecting to see old friend Vince but is stunned to be also facing ex girlfriend Amy, and his past. Steeped in venom, deception and manipulation, Tape is a super-taut and superbly acted thriller.
Chelsea Walls (2001)
Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Crumb, Brendan Behan, Bob Dylan and Sid and Nancy lived (and in some cases died) there. Stories have been set in it. Plays have between written about it. Photographers and painters have recorded its seasons. This is Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel where a novelist, a dancer, a painter, a poet, an aged jazz singer, and a young troubadour have holed up to live a few moments of their lives within its walls.
Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Excitement, anticipation, passion, dread, confusion, boredom, loneliness, curiosity, need. An awkward blind date, a plane ride with a strangely attractive Cuban, a chance meeting with an old boyfriend: stories of peculiar intimacy as ten woman with ten very different experiences impart emotionally and psychologically explicit encounters with love. Kathy Baker, Elizabeth Pena, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Radha Mitchell and Alicia Witt are among those offering a moving, honest examination that grows in scope and breadth with each monologue, plucking moments out of time.
Final (2001)
Disoriented and distraught, Bill wakes in an isolated ward at a secure facility in Connecticut, doctors assessing and assimilating details of exactly how he got here. He himself is none the wiser. But he has a suspicion that he's been out for more than a short while, that he's been cryogenically frozen and only now been woken in his final hours to be administered a lethal injection. As he jostles wills with Ann, his sympathetic doctor, he desperately tries to discover what in his memory is real, what is imagined and, finally, what is the truth.

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Classic tale of lust and lace set in Edwardian England. A young country girl Fanny (Cheryl Dempsey) sets off for London to seek her fortune, but soon finds herself on a slippery slope from prim innocence to total sexual degradation.

Fanny lured into one of London's most outrageous brothels and her search for true love amid a maze of courtesans and corsets, bosoms and breeches, petticoats and perversion.

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When wealthy Swiss architect Phil Emmenthal (John Standing) takes financial control of a group of Pachinko game parlours in Japan, and puts his strange son Storey (Matthew Delamare) in charge, his life takes on a new meaning.

For, in the wake of his wife's death, Storey leads his shattered father into a self-revelatory journey of erotic discovery and spiritual lust. As the pair travel between Tokyo and Geneva acquiring exotic lovers on the way, their Geneva home becomes a high class brothel where nothing is forbidden and everything is explored for maximum understanding of their own male sexuality and humanity.

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Murphy (Karl Glusman), an American living in Paris, wakes up on New Year's Day to a frantic phone call. His ex-girlfriend, Electra (Aomi Muyock), has been missing for months and her mother fears the worst.

This brings back the memories he has of his relationship with her and their exploration of sex together as well as with others.

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Paz de la Huerta turns up the body heat in this wickedly entertaining story of a fatal attraction. By day, nurse Abby Russell (Paz de la Huerta) lovingly attends to the patients at All Saints Memorial Hospital; by night, Abby prowls nightclubs, luring unfaithful men into dangerous liaisons.

After Danni - a young, sensitive nurse - joins the hospital staff, Abby pursues her friendship. However, when the friendship turns to obsession, Danni spurns Abby, unleashing Abby's fury and a rampage of terror.

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In 1989, filmmaker Barry J. Gillis and friends renewed the world's faith in Canada with the horror brainbomb known as 'Things'. But that was only the beginning. Virtually unseen until now, 'Wicked World' is not only Gillis' 1991 follow-up to 'Things' - it's also a new form of genre anarchy.

Grant Ekland (Gillis) is a cop who is haunted by the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a psychotic slasher named Harold. When Harold is released from an asylum, there's only one option for Ekland: revenge! Filled with metal riffage, gnarly ultra-violence, and experimental techniques, 'Wicked World' feels like what would happen if Salvador Dali injected acid directly into his brain while staring at a Cannibal Corpse LP cover. This is a highly personal treatise on the toxicity of society from one of the most singular fi lmmakers in trash horror history. If you survive 'Wicked World', you'll never forget it.

Dogging is the new filthy sex craze to sweep Britain. Strangers meeting outdoors and engaging in spontaneous hard-sex acts.

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Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of a wealthy family in this softcore version of an old British tale.

When the clan patriarch dies, Fanny is ready to marry her lover until she discovers he has been unfaithful, that sets her on a course of erotic adventures that begins in protest and ends in great wealth.

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Re-live all the excitement and drama with the high-octane, lycra-busting 'Dancing on Ice' Series 5 highlights, all from the comfort of your own sofa! Olympic skate legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean return to put 14 celebrities through their paces to see who can cut it on the ice.

Risking life and limb for your entertainment are Emmerdale's Hayley Tamaddon, TV hottie Gary Lucy, ex-Eastender star Danniella Westbrook, Boyzone's Mikey Graham, Hollyoaks' Kieron Richardson, Coronation Street heart-throb Danny Young, GMTV's silver fox Dr. Hilary Jones, charity activist Heather Mills, The Inbetweeners' star Emily Atack, thespian Jeremy Sheffield, Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies, 80's pop diva and Simon Cowell's best mate Sinitta, actor and entertainer Bobby Davro and cooking queen and wife of Gordon, Tana Ramsay. Watch your favourite celebrities, in all their glitz and glamour, battle it out to become Dancing On Ice Champion 2010!

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Famous puppeteers Judy (Mia Wasikowska) and her husband Punch (Damon Herriman) live in the town of Seaside. A strange place that is located nowhere near any sort of coastline, the town and its inhabitants are in thrall to a frenzy of witch hunts and superstition.

But while the townspeople revel in the drama of the various trials and punishments, 'Judy and Punch' provide welcome distraction with their magical puppet show. However, temptation can be found in every dark corner of Seaside, and the charismatic Punch succumbs to the women, the ale and adulation that await him at the local tavern. Despairing at her husband's weakness, Judy forces the hungover Punch to focus on his responsibilities and leaves him to mind their baby for a morning, the repercussions of which lead to an ill-fated turn of events that Judy must avenge...

In this suspenseful story, Robin Williams gives an incredible performance, praised by the critics, as a photo technician who spirals headlong into a deep haunting obsession with a family whose pictures he develops.

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When Diane Lockhart's life savings are lost, she must start from scratch at a new firm...

Picking up one year after the events of the final episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie), while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's (Christine Baranski) savings. Forced out of Lockhart and Lee, they join Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms...Neil Gross makes the firm write terms of service to weed out trolls from his sites. Maya and Elsbeth try to figure out if Henry is spying on Maya. Luca and Colin explore their relationship. Marissa gets interested in being an investigator...Diane and Adrian find themselves involved in another police brutality case, this time representing a surprising but familiar face, Colin Sweeney. Lucca represents Maia for her interview with a federal investigator seeking information on the Rindell scandal...

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MI5 supremo Harry Pearce and team leader Adam Carter soon begin to suspect that rogue members of the British 'Establishment' may themselves be sabotaging the very system they sought to uphold in order to bring about a radical change of government...

The growing crisis necessitates that the ream work closely with head-strong, high-flying MI6 officer Ros Myers, who soon makes her presence felt on The Grid and instantly generates an undeniable spark with Adam. Contains Spooks Season 5 Episodes 1-10 Uncut.

The team is shattered following Danny's death at the hands of hostage takers. But the danger waits for no-one and during his funeral a major bomb blast rips through Central London, heralding the start of a new terror campaign. MI5 has only ten hours before the next bomb is detonated. The clock is ticking...