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Adapted by Andrew Davies, 'Fanny Hill' is the story of a young country girl who falls into a life of prostitution in bawdy 18th-century London. Forced to take a succession of lovers to survive, she slowly rises to respectability but only after enjoying, wholeheartedly, the pursuit of her craft.

A vulnerable Fanny (Rebecca Night) is lured to London after losing her parents to smallpox. Seized upon by notorious madam Mrs. Brown (Alison Steadman), Fanny's virtue is tested by the lascivious Mr. Crofts (Philip Jackson). After a daring escape with her true love, Charles (Alex Robertson), Fanny briefly basks in happy domesticity. But when Charles' father, Mr. Crofts, meets his son's fiancee, he banishes Charles to the West Indies and leaves Fanny alone with spiralling debts.

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Academy Award nominee (Mark Wahlberg) delivers a "career-defining performance"" as Jim Bennett, a English professor leading a secret double life as a high-stakes gambler. When Jim is forced to borrow from a notorious gangster, he places the lives of those he loves in mortal danger.

With time running out, he must enter the criminal underworld and risk everything to keep from losing it all.

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Juliette Binoche plays Anne, a well-off, Paris based mother of two and journalist for "Elle", who is collating testimonials for an article about student prostitution.

Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja (Joanna Kulig) and Charlotte (Anais Demoustier), are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex.

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What would you do if your husband, wife or business partner was making your life unbearable, to the point where there was no alternative but to have them removed-permanently? Could you bring yourself to do it? If not, bored Kensington housewife Joan (Tracy Reed, cousin of Oliver and niece of Carol)

offers a possible alternative- for a price, she and her highly trained, all-female hit squad will very discreetly 'take out' the offending party and leave no trace behind. In this dark, bleakly comic and sometimes grimly prophetic drama from Donovan Winter, which, like many of the best British exploitation films, features a story "ripped from yesterday's headlines", we enter the lives of both assassin and victim, and discover that in the London of 1975, whether swanky Knightsbridge or deepest suburban Orpington, no-one has immunity from murder, and everyone is expendable. Locations also take in the legendary Biba department store, shortly before its closure.

Amanda (Susan George) is the young, attractive babysitter hired by the Lloyd family to look after their son one fateful evening. It isn't long before Amanda realises she is being watched. As the night progresses, Amanda is gradually subjected to a brutal ordeal of unhinged terror.

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Crime boss Rex (Bruce Willis) hires Frank (Michael Chiklis) and his crew to steal a priceless jewel stash - but the job goes wrong when someone tips off the cops. After Frank suffers a blow to the head, he wakes up to find the jewels gone and no memory of his attacker.

Now, Frank must confront his team members one by one to find the traitor - before Rex covers his tracks by having Frank murdered.

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Kelly (Constance Towers), a high class working girl, ups sticks to Grantville, the seeming epitome of small town USA. Confronted by suspicious sheriff Griff (Anthony Eisley), she decides to put her illicit lifestyle behind her once and for all and becomes involved with nursing handicapped children.

As Griff continues trying to run her out of town Kelly falls in love with Grant, scion of the town's founding family and Griff's best friend. But just as Griff begins to believe that Kelly may be on the level, a murder and perversion scandal threaten to destroy Kelly's new' life.

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Something has fallen to Earth. Something terrible. A merciless, carnivorous predator with an insatiable hunger for flesh...Assuming human form, the creature stumbles upon a remote country house owned by a beautiful young lesbian couple.

Jessica (Glory Annan) is sweet, innocent and desperate for new experiences. Josephine (Sally Faulkner) is overprotective, jealous - and has a locked trunk full of blood-soaked secrets. As the creature struggles against its bloodlust and studies the girls, it suddenly realises that it may not be the only dangerous predator in the house...

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A sunny day, a quiet road, rural France: the genre defying scene is set for unsettling, atmospheric terror...Young English nurses Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice) are on a cycling holiday, unaware that another tourist girl was brutally slain in the same region two years earlier.

They happen upon a mysterious man, Paul (Sandor Eles), who seems interested in them. Cathy is intrigued by the man, but suspicious Jane wants to continue on the journey. The two split apart after arguing the point, but, when Jane returns to the village where they're staying, her friend is nowhere to be found. Frantic, she searches for Cathy. Will she find her in time?

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Set in 1930's England it tells of three former public schoolmates, Larry Dann (The Bill), Murray Melvin (The Devils) and the enigmatic Vivian MacKerrell (the inspiration for Bruce Robinson's creation 'Withnail', seen here in his only major screen role), who reunite in a country mansion haunted by

the spirit of insane former resident Marianne Faithfull (The Girl on a Motorcycle). The haunting transports us to a surreal world of incest and murder, inhabited by a demonic doll and a sadistic doctor who presides over a corrupt insane asylum.

When four lifelong friends (Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah) travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

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"SAS: Who Dares Wins" is a series revealing one of the world's most physically challenging and psychologically demanding military entrance processes: SAS Selection.

In this series, a group of ex-Special Forces operators put 30 ordinary men through an SAS selection course, designed and run by them, with every test based on what they experienced on the real Special Forces Selection. It's shot with minimal interference for maximum authenticity, as the recruits spend eight intensive days isolated from the outside, world. For the SAS, physical fitness is little more than a necessary minimum. The true test is one of character: do these men have the mental strength needed to join the Special Forces? As they're subjected to psychological profiling and testing, sleep deprivation and stress positions, extreme physical endurance, and capture and interrogation, the men are taken to the edge of their capabilities and some surprising truths emerge: Alpha males aren't always welcome, coming first in the race isn't always the way to win, and what's really being tested is often not what it seems.

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On the heels of the bloody escape from the House of Batiatus that concluded "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", the gladiator rebellion continues and begins to strike fear into the heart of the Roman Republic in "Spartacus: Vengeance".

Gaius Claudius Glaber and his Roman troops are sent to Capua to crush the growing band of freed slaves that Spartacus leads before it can inflict further damage. Spartacus is presented the choice of satisfying his personal need for vengeance against the man that condemned his wife to slavery and eventual death or making the larger sacrifices necessary to keep his budding army from breaking apart. Containing all of the blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, and villainy and heroism that has come to distinguish the series, the tale of Spartacus resumes in epic fashion.

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John Schlesinger's brilliantly observed suburban drama finds a recent divorcee (Glenda Jackson) and a middle-aged Jewish doctor (Peter Finch) in a progressive love triangle with a bisexual artist (Murray Head).

Both discover a new freedom with their young lover, as they confront the conventions that have defined their lives.

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Fashion Photographer Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway), world-renowned for her erotic portraits of transparently-gowned models in settings of urban violence, becomes the focal point for a series of bizarre murders.

The victims are "witnessed" by Laura in her mind's eye - as if through the lens of her camera. These terrifying experiences bring Laura together in an intimate relationship with homicide detective John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones), who, while unraveling the mystery, makes a shocking discovery!