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Mona (Natalie Press) has just got hold of a brilliant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil (Paddy Considine) who used to run a pub before he found God and poured away all the booze.

Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is rich, spoilt and trying to livea life of seductive decadence.They meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship.Tamsin and Mona want to escape their lives, but Phil wants to save them and save everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous, Phil back; the brother that she loved. Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him...

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Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb".

But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.

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By day Gerri Dandridge (Jaime Murray) is a sexy and beautiful professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood.

So when a group of high school students travels abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri's chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and "Evil" Ed (Chris Waller) must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a "new moon virgin", who just so happens to be Charley's ex-girlfriend, Amy (Sacha Parkinson). They enlist help from Peter Vincent (Sean Power), the vampire-hunting host of a reality show called "Fright Night", to drive a stake through Gerri's plan and save Amy from a fate far worse than death.

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We've come so far and now the end is near. The journey that began with "Life on Mars" concludes as Alex Drake embarks on her final mission: to uncover the truth about Gene Hunt and unlock the dark secrets of this world. Alex is back, only this time it's 1983 and something feels different.

The arrival of DCI Jim Keats, sent by Scotland Yard to monitor the station's performance, throws some unexpected light on past events. Haunted by the ghost of a policeman, Alex decides that her only hope in getting home lies in finding out what really happened to Sam Tyler. As the final series reaches its climax, will Alex finally manage to unlock the mysteries of this world and find her way home, or will everything she's held to be true come crashing down around her feet?

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A seductive and intense noir romance for our times, 'Frank and Lola' is the story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he falls instantly and violently in love.

As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge. With outstanding performances from Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots, 'Frank and Lola' is a haunting examination of love, obsession and domination that weaves a twisted yet irresistible spell.

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Meet the sexy new neighbour, Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell). He's dangerously charming - and utterly lethal. That's because he just happens to be a vampire, and out for blood...buckets of it.

After high school senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) makes the connection between Jerry's suspicious activity and a steadily rising body count he vows to end the reign of terror next door. But he can't do it alone. His only hope is Las Vegas magician/vampire-slayer Peter Vincent (David Tennant). Together, this unlikely duo set out to end Jerry's evil rampage. But Jerry is a ruthless, relentless killer, and he's not going down without a fight.

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Series two kicks off on 1982 where leg warmers are cool, fluorescent is colour of choice, Thatcher is in her element and bullish DCI Gene Hunt is back, policing the streets in his politically incorrect and loud mouthed style.

Sassy Alex Drake, with whom Hunt shares a fiery working relationship, is by his side, desperately trying to keep him in line. Though no nearer to getting back to her daughter, Alex believes she is suspended in time and finally understands how the world around her works. But when she starts hearing news from the future, she realises nothing is as it seems. Clinging on to fast fading hope, she discovers she may not be alone in her predicament. A mysterious stranger who also seems to be stuck in 1982 is making Alex doubt her current world is merely a figment of her imagination. Is he a friend who can help her get home or a foe who will destroy all she knows?

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Series Four of 'Outlander' continues the story of Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) as they try to make in colonial America.

The Frasers settle in North Carolina at yet another turning point in history - the cusp of the American Revolution - where they must negotiate a tenuous loyalty to the current British ruling class, despite Claire's knowledge of the bloody rebellion to come. Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate and smuggler Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will come back to haunt the Fraser family. Meanwhile, Brianna Randall and Roger Wakefield grow closer in the 20th century but make a shocking discovery that makes them consider following in Claire's footsteps.

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"DCI Gene Hunt, (Philip Glenister) the Neanderthal copper last seen in Life on Mars is Back.

Joined in London by his faithful sidekicks, DS Ray Carling (Dean Andrews), DC Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster) and a brand new red Audi Quattro, Gene is ready to take on the "southern Nancy" criminal scum and show the Met a thing or tow about policing. Only this time it’s 1981 and the world has changed: Charles and Diana are about to marry, there’s been rioting in Brixton and there are perms, pastel suits and cocktails all around him. Worse still, Hunt has finally met his match with the arrival of Di Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes), a sexy, sophisticated police psychologist from 2008 who has studied the world of the now deceased Sam Tyler. When Alex is shot and wakes up in 1981, she realises she has assimilated Sam’s fantasies with here own experiences to create this world. She needs to do everything in here power to keep fighting, to stay alive and to get back to the daughter Molly. To a soundtrack of Duran Duran, The Clash, OMD and The Human League, sparks fly as Hunt and Drake grapple with each other and the world around them.

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A film crew and actors arrive at the seemingly secure and beautiful Venetian hotel to film a version of the classic Jacobean tragedy. 'The Duchess of Malfi'. Shadowing the production are two rival entertainment reporters (Salma Hayek and Lucy Liu) who immediately start a war of egos.

When the director (Rhys Ifans) is put out of commission, the producer (David Schwimmer) must take over the production, and that's when the cannibals and vampires start picking off the film crew and guests...

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"Vox Lux" is a powerful and stylish portrait of a troubled pop star from writer-director Brady Corbet, which follows her rise from the ashes of a major national tragedy to global superstardom.

Oscar winner Natalie Portman gives a remarkable performance as pop singer Celeste, who must overcome personal and familial struggles to mount a comeback with the help of her talent manager (Jude Law), after a scandalous incident that nearly derailed her career. Set over a 15 year period, this acclaimed and unique examination of modern celebrity features new songs by Sia and an original score by Scott Walker.

From writer and director Steven Knight and starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, comes a mysterious tale of a fishing boat captain whose past is about to crash up against his life on a small island in the Caribbean and ensnare him in a new reality that might not be all it seems.

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Adam (Richard E. Grant) is a rich industrialist and frustrated opera singer aspiring to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he's just a City suit living a capitalist dream he decides to stage an opera in his lavish country retreat.

He feels sure the shallow taunting will end once his friends see him in full voice. In tact his singing might even help him win the hand of Celia (Sarah Brightman) the female conductor he's been pursuing, especially since she is the first to be recruited for his showpiece.

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For Marty, School Days were the worst days of his life... When the alumni of an all-American high school make a trip to attend a class reunion, they reconnect with their pasts in ways more bloody and fatal than they could possibly imagine in the 80s slasher classic 'Slaughter High'.

On arrival, they discover the school shuttered and in disrepair, as if the reunion were just a ruse to drag them back. Still, the old pupils decide to break in and celebrate anyway. A deadly error considering that Marty, the nerd whose teenage life they made a living hell, is lurking in the dank, dark corridors, waiting to bring fear, torment and slicing, dicing murder to each and every one of them.

A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.