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Middle-aged Maggie (Marianne Faithfull) must find a way to get enough money for her grandson’s lifesaving medial treatment and with all financial resources exhausted she knows she must take drastic action. When a "Hostess Wanted" sign catches her eye, Maggie naively stumbles into a city ex club.

The true job description is quite a surprise for the respectable, middle-class widow, even if she isn’t a prude. But unskilled Maggie accepts this as her fasters way to raise he urgently needed cash. Maggie’s double life quickly attracts the attention of her gossipy neighbour’s prying eyes. The headstrong woman remains steadfastly discreet, keeping the money’s origins secret from even her own suspicious son. But discovery is inevitable and Maggie must confront provincial hypocrisy’s ugly face, as well as question her own morals. As she holds her head high, gracious Maggie just might find more than family love…

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Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) wants a promotion. He is clearly the best man for the job - the rest of his colleagues are just idiots. Annoyingly, there's been a murder and Bruce's boss wants results. No problem for Bruce.

He's in control and when he eventually solves the case and wins the promotion, his wife will come back to him. No problem. But is life that simple? Is Bruce the man he really thinks he is? The hilarious, tragic and unforgettable answers unfold in 'Filth'...

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Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is a cool, confident teenager who takes a nine-month detour into adulthood when she's faced with an unplanned pregnancy - and sets out to find the perfect parents for her baby. With the help of her charmingly unassuming boyfriend (Michael Cera), supportive dad (J.K.

Simmons) and no-nonsense stepmom (Allison Janney), Juno sets her sights on an affluent couple (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) longing to adopt their first child.

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Alex is a 15-year-old with a secret. What she hides is something that has driven her family to the windswept outer-reaches of the Uruguayan shoreline. Her father, Kraken wants what is best for his daughter, yet knows she cannot go on living the life she leads.

For Alex is intersexual, yet all she wants is to be left alone, to be herself. Before long an old family friend, who is also a plastic surgeon, is invited to stay at their isolated cabin, along with his teenage son Alvaro (Martin Piroyansky). As Alex realises the disturbing ramifications of the visit, she develops a relationship with Álvaro that is far from conventional… Highly acclaimed and the subject of much debate, XXY is the intimate coming-of-age portrayal of a teenager torn between the love of her parents, her own personal desires, and the daunting, inevitable path into adulthood.

History was made... by these guys? Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are cavemen who stumble out of the mountains into an epic journey of biblical proportions. One's a bumbling hunter, the other's a gentle gatherer; together, they become unlikely participants in history's most pivotal moments.

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Written by William Ivory and starring Stephen Tompkinson, Ashley Walters, John Dagleish, Harry Treadway, Sian Breckin and Jenn Murray, 'Truckers' follows the lives of six truck drivers working for a Nottingham haulage yard.

Funny, moving, painful and raucous, 'Truckers' tells stories of real life, of ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode one of our truckers undergoes a life changing journey and we are along for the ride.

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Someone's killing our super heroes. The year is 1985 and super heroes have banded together to respond to the murder of one of their own. They soon uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

The super heroes fight to stop the impending doom only to find themselves a target for annihilation. But, if our super heroes are gone, who will save us?

Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan star as strangers ripped from their ordinary lives when they are "activated" as part or a high-tech assassination plot. Through blistering chases and shocking twists they try to escape - but where do you go when the enemy is everywhere?

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Nurse Jackie season four stars Primetime Emmy Award - winning actress Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton, a strong-willed and brilliant - but very flawed - emergency room nurse. This season, Jackie comes to realise that both karma and sobriety can be a bitch.

In addition to finally confronting her addiction, Jackie's street smarts and sardonic wit are tested even further by an ambitious new hospital administrator (Bobby Cannavale), who's determined to run a tight ship and keep Jackie in line.

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Nurse Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) is an angel of the wards - even if her halo's a bit lopsided.

Juggling her painkiller addiction with adultery whilst playing fast and loose with hospital rules, her house of cards is starting to tumble: Her best friend and husband are putting the pieces together about her pill-popping ways. But if the people in her life think one little intervention is going to stop her, they don't know Jackie...

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When Avril is given the chance to explore the world outside her convent before taking her vows, she immediately accepts, mostly because she wants to meet her fraternal brother with whom she was separated at birth.

An attractive, friendly man offers to give Avril a lift, and the pair eventually come across her brother David, and his boyfriend, Jim, at a beachfront retreat. The unlikely foursome form a tight bond during a secular vacation by the coast, spending their days frolicking in the surf, dancing in the moonlight and getting merry with bottles of calvados. Before long, Avril must return to the repressive lifestyle she left behind, but not before putting up a fight to convince the nuns that the world outside is not the fearsome place they had her believe.

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When David Owen moves to New York, he likes everything about the city except the noise. At first even the noise seems to him the throb of urban vitality which makes New York so exciting. Yet gradually this incessant and 'unnecessary' din begins to drive him crazy. So David begins to take arms.

He quietly vandalizes cars whose alarms are going off: lets the air out of tires, leaves notes on the windshield. This has no effect, so he goes further: 'keys' the paint job, cracks a taillight... Eventually he is caught in the act, arrested, spends a night in jail. His wife, shocked to learn what he has been doing, worries that this is irrational behaviour. David promises to stop. But he can't; the noise is 'wrong'. He alone, is prepared to do something about it. He is arrested again and again. Will David win his battle or will the 'noise' get the better of him?

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As his fiftieth birthday approaches, life holds no fears for Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons), a respected Conservative Member of Parliament and Junior Minister marked by the Prime Minister for high ministerial office.

Secure in his enduring marriage to Ingrid (Miranda Richardson), he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he meets Anna (Juliette Binoche) at an embassy cocktail party. Although she is already involved in a relationship with his journalist son, Martyn (Rupert Graves), she acknowledges the immediate physical bond between them and they are quickly enmeshed in a passionate affair. Stephen is unwilling to break free from his obsession with Anna and continues to maintain the facade of normality. The relationship intensifies despite the announcement of Martyn and Anna's engagement. When tragedy finally and inevitably strikes, Anna is a survivor and it is Stephen and his family who must pay the price.