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Everything changes for savvy CIA operative Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) in season three of the hit series 'Covert Affairs'. Reassigned to a new and even more covert division of the agency, Annie takes on missions that become personal and finds herself on dangerous forays into inhospitable territory, while a series of explosive revelations forces her to question her role and what (and who) matters most. - Director:
- Allan Kroeker
- Cast:
- Piper Perabo, Sarah Podemski, Christopher Gorham
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Man of Violence (1970)Moon / The Sex Racketeers
In a world of gangs and villains, one man - Moon (Michael Latimer) - will stop at nothing to get the girl and take the spoils. Pete Walker's affectionate low-budget homage to the gangster thriller is packed with sights and sounds from a Britain about to swing out of the Sixties and into a somewhat less optimistic decade. It offers not only rare glimpses of a world gone by, but also some unexpected twists on generic convention. - Director:
- Pete Walker
- Cast:
- Michael Latimer, Luan Peters, Derek Aylward
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The Slightly Saucy Box Set (1973)How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment / White Cargo / Sunsine Sweethearts - 50' Bikini Girls! / Not Tonight Darling / Games That Lovers Play / Miss Bikini
This set is exclusive to Renown and features a selection of slightly saucy films and shorts starring much loved British actors...
How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment (1965)Unseen for many years, this rare film is a comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to 1960's strip clubs. It was also the last work of director Compton Bennett and features a host of stars.
White Cargo (1973)
In this cheeky comedy involving a strip club, undercover coppers and the white slave trade, David Jason stars as day-dreamer Albert Toddey who fantasises about becoming a "government employee with a position of responsibility".
Sunsine Sweethearts - 50' Bikini Girls! (1959)
Made by Walton Films in 1959, this short film introduces the world to a new beach outfit - the bikini!
Not Tonight, Darling (1971)
Beautiful and intelligent housewife Karen (Luan Peters) is tired of her empty, suburban lifestyle and her work-obsessed solicitor husband. She is lonely and wants something more. Fast-talking salesman Alex (Vincent Ball) enters her life, making a series of sexual advances towards her. This early 1970's erotic comic thriller stars Luan Peters and infamous sex symbol Fiona Richmond and also features a cameo from the band Thunderclap Newman.
Games That Lovers Play (1971)
Set in the roaring twenties, two Belgravia 'Madams' have a wager as to whose brothel is the best and bet £1,000 that their respective star girl can seduce an "impossible" subject.
Miss Bikini (1951)
Made around 1951 a 'look' at the new style of swimsuit. The launch of the 'Bikini' and inside a Miss World Contest filled with devastatingly beautiful damsels .- Director:
- Compton Bennett
- Cast:
- Reginald Beckwith, Olwen Griffiths, Christine Child
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When their father disappears to America, Sid, Gwenny and Boyo are left to care for their eccentric and mysterious mother. Now they must live by their own rules, for what other choice do you have when reality lets you down? To escape the desperation of a two-bit Welsh town, Sid (Steven Mackintosh) and Gwenny (Lisa Palfrey) immerse themselves in a drug and alcohol enduced fantasy world where they become the incarnation of "beat generation" author and poet Jack Kerouac and his girlfriend Joyce Johnson. As their obsessive and unstable mother (Sian Phillips) sinks further and further into madness, her macabre secret slowly and destructively unfolds, leaving Boyo (Matthew Rhys) discover the brutal truth. - Director:
- Marc Evans
- Cast:
- Siân Phillips, Steven Mackintosh, Matthew Rhys
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London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val (Rose Williams / Marley Chesham) arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift in the empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face her own traumatic past in order to confront the malevolent power that's intent on destroying everything around her. - Director:
- Corinna Faith
- Cast:
- Mark Smith, Marley Chesham, Rose Williams
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Chief Instructor, Ant Middleton and his team of Directing Staff, Foxy, Billy and Ollie, are returning to the spiritual homeland of the SAS - Scotland. The location for some of the Special Forces' most challenging training and the birthplace of the founder of the SAS. This series sees twenty-five men and women taken to a remote Scottish Island and put through what the DS believe is their toughest, most unforgiving selection course yet. Scotland's rugged coastline, volatile weather and harsh landscapes are the perfect crucible to help create the ultimate soldier and where the world's most admired - and feared - elite military operatives train. For the DS, it's a homecoming to where their Special Forces skills were honed. They bring their experiences and expertise to a new clutch of nervous recruits. And they are joined by a new member of the Directing Staff team. - Director:
- Freddie Foss-Smith
- Cast:
- Shaun Dooley, Anthony Middleton, Mark Billingham
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Gloria Bell (2018)Gloria
Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor. One evening, she meets Arnold (John Turturro) and finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of harmonising this new life with an old past. - Director:
- Sebastián Lelio
- Cast:
- Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius
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Runaway hit original series, Covert Affairs, stars Golden Globe-nominated Piper Perabo as Annie Walker, a young CIA operative whose exceptional linguistic skills and spot on instincts make her invaluable to the Agency. In season two, Annie's personal and professional lives crash into one another, and the balance of her relationships are forever changed. - Director:
- Kate Woods
- Cast:
- Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett
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John Thunderbolt Doherty (Clint Eastwood) is a former thief whose razor-sharp wits and steely nerves made him a monster of his profession, but he's about to to enter the criminal world with a new partner. Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges), a brash young drifter whose energy and exuberance give the veteran a new outlook on life. Their target: the seemingly impenetrable Montana Armored Depository. After forming an uneasy alliance with Thunderbolt's former partners in crime (George Kennedy and Geoffrey Lewis), they launch an amazing scheme that will test the limits of their endurance...and the power of their friendship. - Director:
- Michael Cimino
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy
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The epic and dramatic tale of power, politics and passion. Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, Russian empress Catherine the Great (Helen Mirren) develops an extraordinary and fiery relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke) as they overcome their adversaries and serve as the architects of modern-day Russia. - Director:
- Philip Martin
- Cast:
- Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Gina McKee
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)Hitman's Bodyguard 2
The world's most lethal odd couple - bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) - are back. Still unlicensed, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's wife, the infamous international con artist Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek). As Bryce is driven over the edge by volatlile spouses, the trio get in over their heads in a global plot and soon find that they are all that stand between Europe and a vengeful and powerful madman (Antonio Banderas). Joining in the fun and deadly mayhem is Morgan Freeman as...well, you'll have to see. - Director:
- Patrick Hughes
- Cast:
- Ryan Reynolds, Mariana Hill, Samuel L. Jackson
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A White, White Day (2019)Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur
Father, grandfather, policeman, widower. In a remote Icelandic town, Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurdsson), an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. - Director:
- Hlynur Palmason
- Cast:
- Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
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David (Bobby Soto) and Creeper (Shia LaBeouf), are "tax collectors" for the crime lord Wizard, collecting his cut from the profits of local gangs' illicit dealings. But when Wizard's old rival returns to Los Angeles from Mexico, the business is upended, and David finds himself desperate to protect what matters more to him than anything else: his family. - Director:
- David Ayer
- Cast:
- Bobby Soto, Cinthya Carmona, Shia LaBeouf
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For the first time ever, women join men in an attempt to pass this unique version of SAS Selection. In a landmark moment for the British Special Forces, SAS selection has now opened to women for the very first time. Leading the way, this hew series sends a group of 25 men, and women high into the spectacular and punishing Andes Mountains in Central Chile. It's a long, tough course spanning 11 gruelling days, in a hostile and unforgiving winter warfare environment. The recruits eat, sleep and wash together with no allowances made for gender, as their mental and physical strength is tested to the limits. As the recruits progress through the course they're forced to confront surprising truths about themselves to discover their real characters. Will they have what it takes to make it through this unique version of SAS selection? - Director:
- Ollie Elliott
- Cast:
- Shaun Dooley, Anthony Middleton, Jason Fox
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In series 3, 25 civilian recruits are pushed to their limits in the extreme and unforgiving terrain of the Atlas Mountains in Southern Morocco. Over five thrilling episodes the recruits are thrown in at the deep end as they endure punishing tasks derived from actual Special Forces Selection. This time the Directing Staff (DS) and recruits are based in a makeshift training camp inside a 150 year old Kasbah in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. The soaring temperatures, surrounding arid landscape, vast mountains, canyons and deserts all trigger memories of the environments where the DS have fought during recent wars. For them, this is the terrain of modern warfare. As the recruits progress through the course, they discover harsh truths about themselves whilst revealing and facing their fears. As they are stretched to their limits, the underlying issues of masculinity and men's mental health emerge as strong overarching themes. For many taking part, this will be a life changing experience, but who amongst them has what it takes to make it through to the end? - Director:
- Alex Kiehl
- Cast:
- Anthony Middleton, Billy Billingham, Ant Middleton
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