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The Time of Your Life is a gripping emotional thriller about the pain and confusion one woman faces after waking from a 18-year long coma, to a world where nothing is the same. Meet Kate (Genevieve O'Reilly) who at the age of 36 has spent half her life lying motionless in her childhood bedroom. Kate discovers that everything around her has changed: her parents, Eileen (Geraldine James) and Toby (Robert Pugh) look like her grandparents; her friends have succumbed to the jobs and the families they swore they'd never have; and her boyfriend Pete (Mark Bazeley) is in love with someone else. Her miraculous re-awakening sends shock waves around her family and friends to whom Kate is a reminder of their own lost youth; of their failed dreams and plans for their own futures. Her initial re-emergence into society is a painful one, but as she embarks on an accelerated rites of passage, Kate learns to deal with her extraordinary situation and attempts to make up for her lost time by living life to the full. - Director:
- David Blair
- Cast:
- Genevieve O'Reilly, Geraldine James, Robert Pugh
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Gangster (2011)Edwin Boyd / Citizen Gangster
Based on the true story of Edwin Boyd, a notorious bank robber and leader of the infamous Boyd Gang. Disillusioned with his life after returning from WWII, Edwin Boyd is determined to follow his dream of becoming a Hollywood star. However, with the need to provide for his young family and jobs in short supply, his dream seems destined to remain just that. He decides the best way to achieve his goal is to rob banks - Hollywood style. But his actions lead him down a path to danger, tragedy and prison. - Director:
- Nathan Morlando
- Cast:
- Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly, Kevin Durand
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Gaspar Noe, director of the hugely controversial 'Irreversible', 'Enter the Void' and 'Love', makes a triumphant return with 'Climax' - a visually dazzling feast of music and mayhem, and perhaps his most critically acclaimed work to date. Following a successful rehearsal, a dance troupe set about celebrating with a party. But when it becomes apparent that someone has spiked the sangria, the joyous atmosphere soon transforms into a nightmarish hellscape of violence and twisted carnality as the dancers begin to turn on each other in an orgiastic frenzy. Inspired equally by the worlds of modern dance and esoteric arthouse-horror (chief among them, Dario Argento's Suspiria and Andrzej Zutawski's Possession), 'Climax' - which pulses towards its astonishing conclusion with a thumping score by the likes of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and Gary Numan - illustrates a director at the height of his hallucinatory filmmaking powers. - Director:
- Gaspar Noé
- Cast:
- Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub
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Britannia begins in 43AD as the Roman Army, determined and terrified in equal measure, returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by wild warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the mysterious forces of the Underworld. Arch Celtic rivals Kerra (Kelly Reilly) and Antedia (Zoë Wanamaker) must face the Roman invasion led by the towering figure of Aulus Plautius (David Morrissey) as it cuts a swathe through the Celtic Resistance. - Director:
- Sheree Folkson
- Cast:
- David Morrissey, Kelly Reilly, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Series 1 (2010)Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Betrayed by the Romans, forced into slavery, reborn as a Gladiator. The classic tale of the Republic's most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic and visceral new series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment. But not all battles are fought upon the sands. Treachery, corruption and the allure of sensual pleasures will constantly test Spartacus. To survive, he must become more than a man, more than a gladiator. He must become a legend. - Director:
- Rick Jacobson
- Cast:
- Andy Whitfield, Campbell Cooley, John Hannah
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Long past the secrets that brought them together and tore their lives apart, Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole are on separate journeys with the promise of new relationships and a fresh start. But as the past continues to surface, they question what they're holding on to as their lives keep crashing back into one another. - Director:
- Rodrigo García
- Cast:
- Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney
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Series 3 of "The Affair" picks up three years after Noah's (Dominic West) shocking admission of guilt at the murder trial of Scott Lockhart. Noah attempts to restart his life, but the damage wrought by his past decisions has made him a ghost of his former self. Alison (Ruth Wilson) has been raising daughter Joanie alongside Cole (Joshua Jackson) and Luisa (Catalina Sandino Moreno) in Montauk, but Alison's past continues to rear its ugly head as Cole and Luisa attempt to build their own future. For Helen, life appears to continue on, but just below the surface of a successful business and a bustling home lies uncertainty with her boyfriend Vik, instability amongst her children, and an unshakable feeling of guilt. - Director:
- Jeffrey Reiner
- Cast:
- Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney
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Atomic Blonde (2017)The Coldest City
Charlize Theron stars as elite MI6's most lethal assassin and the crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Lorraine Broughton. When she's sent on a covert mission into Cold War Berlin, she must use all of the spy-craft, sensuality and savagery she has to stay alive in the ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors. Broughton must navigate her way through a deadly game of spies to recover a priceless dossier while fighting ferocious killers along the way... - Director:
- David Leitch
- Cast:
- Charlize Theron, Matt Lindquist, James McAvoy
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With a murder unsolved and a betrayal exposed, the truth is suspect in 12 stunning Season Two episodes of the Golden Globe winning drama. Shifting between the perspectives of Noah (Dominic West), Alison (Ruth Wilson), Helen (Maura Tierney) and Cole (Joshua Jackson), the story now reveals the complex family ties, passionate betrayals and vengeful emotions that have resulted from the illicit summer liaison. And as the two estranged couples try individually to plan for the future, a new series of deceptions will once again force them to question everything they believed. - Director:
- Jeffrey Reiner
- Cast:
- Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney
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This melodrama adapted from a story by D.H. Lawrence sees two country girls, Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and her sister Lucille (Harriet Harper) return home after attending a provincial school. Yvette is smitten by the sight of a handsome gypsy (Franco Nero). Her stern matriarchal grandmother (Fay Compton) objects, but Yvette continues to see the dashing young man who awakens her sexual curiosity. She is comforted by Mrs. Fawcett (Honor Blackman) and Major Eastwood (Mark Burns), two people living in sin, much to the chagrin of the moralistic townsfolk. - Director:
- Christopher Miles
- Cast:
- Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman
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True Confessions (1981)Istinita ispovest
Tale of two brothers caught in a web of deceit surrounding a heinous murder. Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (Robert Niro), a rising star in the Catholic Church hierarchy, has a talent for fundraising that is matched only by his level of piety. When his brother Tom (Robert Duvall), a hard-edged cop, finds that a suspect in the murder of a prostitute may be one of the church's prime benefactors, he asks for his brother's help in catching the killer. Although Desmond is torn between his loyalties to the church and to his brother, he chooses to join Tom in a desperate search for the truth. But as the brothers edge closer to the killer, they face a flurry of political finger-pointing and back-room deals that rock the very foundation of the Roman Catholic Church and lead them to a chilling, climactic conclusion. - Director:
- Ulu Grosbard
- Cast:
- Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning
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Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg lead an all-star cast in '2 Guns', an explosive action film that tracks two operatives from competing bureaus who are forced on the run together. But there is a big problem with their unexpected partnership - neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent. - Director:
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast:
- Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton
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Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Drama and Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama (Ruth Wilson), 'The Affair' is a provocative and suspenseful look at how many stories are involved in every love affair. Noah Solloway (Dominic West) is a New York City schoolteacher and happily married father who finds himself powerfully attracted to waitress Alison Lockhart (Ruth Wilson) while vacationing with his family on Long Island. But nothing is as simple as boy-meets-girl, as both sides of the romance are explored by a detective investigating a murder. Also starring Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson, it's every episode of the gripping first season that quickly had audiences begging for more. - Director:
- Mark Mylod
- Cast:
- Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney
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Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton), descendent of famed vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, wares up after a five-year coma to discover a vampire-controlled world. She soon learns that she possesses a unique blood composition that makes her immune to vampires and able to turn the creatures into humans. That power puts humanity's last hope to return the world to how it once was before the vampires took over in Vanessa's hands. - Director:
- Michael Nankin
- Cast:
- Kelly Overton, Vincent Gale, Rukiya Bernard
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Una (2016)Blackbird
Based on David Harrower's celebrated play Blackbird, 'Una' stars the Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara and Golden Globe-nominated Ben Mendelsohn, following a young woman's journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen years earlier, teenage Una (Mara) ran away with an older man, Ray (Mendelsohn), a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned. When she comes across a photo of him in the present, Una tracks him down to his workplace, and her abrupt arrival threatens to destroy Ray's new life - all the while derailing her precarious stability. Unspoken secrets and buried memories surface as Una and Ray sift through the wreckage of the past, confronting unanswered questions and unresolved longings, ultimately shaking them both to the core. 'Una' gazes into the heart of devastation and asks if redemption is possible. - Director:
- Benedict Andrews
- Cast:
- Ruby Stokes, Rooney Mara, David Shields
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