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The Romans are here and set to stay. Two years on from his invasion of Britannia, General Aulus (David Morrissey) is romanising cooperative Celt tribes and crushing those who try to resist, with the help of his new ally, Celt Queen Amena (Annabel Scholey).

The only form of hope for Veran's (Mackenzie Crook) Druids and Celts is Cait (Eleanor Worthington-Cox), a young girl who is being trained by outcast Druid Divis (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) to fulfil a prophecy that would save Britannia from the Romans. But when a dead man wakes, two Druid brothers begin an epic battle of wills that divides the Druids and puts the prophecy in jeopardy.

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Christian (Claes Bang), a respected curator of a contemporary art museum in Stockholm, is gearing up to launch a new show, 'The Square', a daring installation examining altruism and our duty to help others.

However, Christian's own views on social responsibility are put to the test when he becomes the victim of scam, forcing him to question the world around him and his place in it.

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On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings.

After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous extraordinary challenges: he had to find a way to bypass the WTC’s security; smuggle the heavy steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers; pass the wire between the two rooftops; anchor the wire and tension it to withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings.

In Pete Walker's 'Schizo', a young woman's engagement to a famous athlete is overshadowed by terrifying threats from an unknown assailant As the stalker's menacing presence grows, she unearths a web of deceit and betrayal, leading to a suspenseful climax that will keep audiences guessing until the very end.

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"Locked Up" is a grippingly tense provocative prison drama that will fuel your addiction to foreign drama. Framed by her lover for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro (Maggie Civantos) finds herself locked up in a high security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals.

Still in denial, prison proves to be a very rude awakening for Macarena and at the end of her first day, she finds herself struggling to cope. Yolanda (Belén Cuesta), her cell mate, takes Macarena under her wing, but a midnight visit from Zulema (Najwa Nimri), the prison's most dangerous inmate, is about to change Macarena's life forever.

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The fourth and final season of this Cinemax action drama finds ex-con Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) returning to 'Banshee' without his badge, but with a new mission: to hunt for a vicious serial killer and to track down a long-lost ally.

Season 4 begins two years after Lucas and Carrie (Ivana Milicevic) orchestrated a multimillion-dollar heist that went bad, leaving Carrie's husband dead and Job (Hoon Lee) in the hands of a criminal gang. After a bender, during which he finds an unlikely saviour in Rebecca (Lili Simmons), Lucas emerges from a self-imposed exile and goes back to Banshee to find it a drastically changed town that's facing multiple threats on many levels.

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Created by Jonathan Trapper and David Schickler, this Cinemax action drama charts the continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood, an ex-convict who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, where his former lover and partner-in-crime has been

living under her own alias, Carrie Hopewell. Series Three takes up a month after the events of the Series Two 2 finale: Carrie, now exposed and estranged from her husband and kids, remains in Banshee, working as a waitress by day while moonlighting with Lucas, and fellow co-conspirators Sugar Bates and Job, on a variety of local heists. As Lucas finds it harder and harder to keep his true identity from his deputies, he and the Banshee police force become embroiled in a new conflict between Amish gangster Kai Proctor and Chayton Littlestone, the vicious leader of the Redhone wing of the Kinaho tribe. And as fists and bullets fly in and around Banshee, Lucas concocts a new scheme that could net his thieves a fortune - robbing a decommissioned Marine compound housing millions of dollars.

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Director Mike Nichols brings Patrick Marber's highly acclaimed theatrical tour de force Closer to the screen.

An uncompromisingly honest look at modern relationships, Closer is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen) - their chance meetings, instant attractions and brutal betrayals.

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Alf Hitchins (Joe Brown) is an unemployed East End lad whose life revolves around dance halls, amusement arcades and cafes - any place to escape from the family home.

Alf's cynical but cheerful acceptance of life expresses itself in the song he casually composes one night - and the results take everyone by surprise!

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Set against the turbulent backdrop of Forties London, 'The Night Watch' tells the stories of four young people inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. The drama opens in 1947 as Britain is trying to rebuild itself after the war.

Kay (Anna Maxwell Martin) is roaming the streets, haunted by some traumatic personal loss. Helen (Claire Foy) and Viv (Claire Foy) run a marriage bureau, helping people rebuild their shattered lives by finding love. Helen obsessively clings to her volatile relationship with Julia (Anna Wilson-Jones), while Viv is continuing an affair with a married man whom she seems unable to leave. Elsewhere Viv's vulnerable brother, Duncan (Harry Treadaway), harbours a terrible secret. Moving back to the days of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled.

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Frankfurt, Germany - 1945: A group of U.S. Army officers - including cynical Colonel Jack Durant (Billy Zane) and seductive Lt. Kathleen Nash (Lyne Renee) - take over a castle that formerly belonged to the German royal family.

When Durant and Nash uncover a massive cache of priceless gems, the lovers hatch a plan to loot the treasure. All they have to do is smuggle the German Crown Jewels into New York City, dodge military investigators, con a murderous mob boss and steal back their stolen fortune... and all without double-crossing each other first.

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From executive producer Alan Ball, creator of 'True Blood', this Cinemax action drama charts the continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), an ex-convict who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, where his former lover and

partner-in-crime (Ivana Milicevic) lives under the alias Carrie Hopewell. Series Two takes up immediately after the events of the Series One finale when Carrie's father, gang kingpin Rabbit (Ben Cross), was left for dead after a climactic warehouse shootout. Carrie, now exposed and estranged from her husband and kids, is torn between her devotion to her family and her connection to Lucas, who had given himself up in order to save her years earlier. The new season finds Lucas, having escaped detection after being interrogated by FBI agent Jim Racine (guest star Zeljko Ivanek), with his hands fuller than ever as sheriff, dealing with (among other things) the murder of a Kinaho tribe girl, the continuing escalation of tensions between Amish overlord Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen) and Kinaho tribe leader Alex Longshadow , (Anthony Ruivivar), as well as the unwelcome appearance of a surprise visitor: the reprobate son of the real (and late) Lucas Hood.

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From the creator of 'True Blood', this exciting new Cinemax action drama charts the twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), an ex-convict who improbably becomes sheriff of a rural, Amish-area town while searching for a woman he last saw 15 years ago, when he gave himself up to

police to let her escape after a jewel heist. Living in Banshee under an assumed name, Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic) is now married to the local DA, has two children (one of whom may be Lucas's), and is trying desperately to keep a low profile - until Lucas arrives to shake up her world and rekindle old passions. Complicating matters is the fact that Banshee is riddled by corruption, with an Amish overlord, Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen), brutally building a local empire of drugs, gambling and graft. With the help of a boxer-turned-barkeeper named Sugar Bates (Frankie Faison), Lucas is able to stay on even footing with Kai and his thugs, and even manages to bring a measure of tough justice to Banshee. But eventually, Lucas's appetite for pulling heists pulls him and Carrie into a dangerous cauldron of duplicity, exacerbated when Mr. Rabbit (Ben Cross), the NY mobster they once ripped off, closes in with vengeance on his mind.

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To get by in life you have to use your head and cover your feet...The ambitious leader of an undisciplined gang is trying to break into the big time. Meanwhile, his best friend is trying to leave the gang, and the key to his new life is a new pair of shoes.

A darkly humorous, haunting tale set in the world of London's drug dealers and squatters, 'London Kills Me' is brought to life by a talented young cast.

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Set against the moody, misty backdrop of rural England, 'Vampyres' sees a pair of beautiful young bisexual vampires, Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka Dziubinska), stalking the quiet country roads in search of fresh male victims to lure back to their crumbling gothic mansion.

But when Fran decides to keep her latest prey, handsome stranger Ted (Murray Brown), on as her lover, and a pair of overly-curious holidaymakers set up camp in the house's grounds, the vampyres' grisly way of life comes under threat.