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The time has come to say goodbye. The cinematic return of the global phenomenon follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s.

When Mary (Michelle Dockery) finds herself at the centre of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

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Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason (Robert Mitchum) meets big-spending customer Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) who is really a commercial spy.

Steve unmasks her duplicity but when he discovers that Connie is a war widow he feels sorry for her and with the spirit of Christmas in the air and goodwill to all people, Steve decides to let Connie go. But his kind-hearted decision rebounds when the company fires him before the Christmas holiday. When Steve and Connie end up on a chance date, Connie's steady (Wendell Corey) is not impressed but her son Timmy (Gordon Gebert) is delighted. With her wedding booked for New Years day, can Connie choose between the safe yet dull Carl, or the handsome but unpredictable Steve Mason?

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Heavenly bells are ringing, jubilant choirs are singing and Christmas joy is blanketing the world like freshly fallen snow. But the Yuletide spirit has yet to warm Bishop Henry Brougham's Victorian home.

Struggling to raise funds for a new cathedral, the preoccupied young clergyman has neglected his loving wife Julia (Loretta Young), and now only divine intervention can save their marriage! But the powerful and handsome angel sent from above has a mind of his own...and teaching mortal Henry (David Niven) an immortal lesson in romance isn't all he's got planned!

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In the role that won her Broadway's acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing Shirley Valentine, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it's never too late to recapture your dreams.

Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she's back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with a handsome rogue (Tom Conti) and the life she's always wanted.

In this action-packed dark comedy, Honey O'Donahue (Margaret Qualley) is a smalltown private investigator who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

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Return to the breathtaking world of Pandora in the most powerful chapter of the Avatar saga yet. As Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) guide their family through grief, they journey with the nomadic Wind Traders across Pandora's skies.

But the Sullys' path is threatened by a new enemy - the Ash People, a warlike clan led by the fierce Varang (Oona Chaplin) - who have turned against Eywa and the ancient Na'vi way.

.A bold and original reimagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.

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Johnny Aysgarth (Cary Grant) is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from his friends. Whilst travelling on a train in a first class carriage with only a third class ticket, he meets shy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) whom he soon starts to date and before long they marry.

Only after their honeymoon does she discover his true character in this film-noir thriller.

Intrigue and espionage abound when a young woman travelling aboard a transcontinental express train strikes up an acquaintance with a charming elderly English governess, who then disappears without a trace. Is the young woman hallucinating, or is something altogether more sinister afoot...?

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Alfred Hitchcock's exciting 1942 wartime thriller starring Robert Cummings as a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent. During the deadly explosion, Cumming's best friend is killed and he, himself, is wrongly accused of sabotage.

To clear his name, Cummings begins a relentless cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall, and finally to a harrowing confrontation a top the Statue of Liberty.

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World-travelling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found.

Academy Award winners Meryl Streep (earning her 10th Oscar nomination for this performance) and Clint Eastwood (who also produces and directs) bring blazing starpower and powerful conviction to the beloved characters of Robert James Waller's rhapsodic bestseller of love, choice and consequence. 'Streep and Eastwood are so visually and spiritually right they seem to have walked right off the page,' Entertainment Weekly proclaims. Also right are the small details and large emotions of once-in-a-lifetime love. With luck, a love like that happens to some of us sooner or later. For Robert and Francesca, it was later. And it was glorious.

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In this heartfelt film, Brendan Fraser portrays an American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig with a Japanese 'rental family' agency playing stand-in roles for strangers.

As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he forms genuine bonds and rediscovers purpose and the quiet beauty of human connection.

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Two years post-Bangkok, with disaster-magnet Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong) supposedly locked up in a Thai prison, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) are finally living blissfully uneventful lives - until their best friend Alan (Zach Galifianakis) ditches his meds, goes off the

rails and triggers a final odyssey of comic mayhem.

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Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) fills her days by reading the personal ads and following an ongoing romance between "Jim" (Robert Joy) and "Susan" (Madonna), a mysterious drifter who appears to lead the kind of free-spirited life about which Roberta can only dream.

And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City...and after a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan and opens the door to intrigue, laughter and love!

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Spinning off from the incredibly popular 1960's sitcom and its BAFTA-winning 1970's sequel, James Bolam and Rodney Bewes star as Terry Collier and Bob Ferris, two life-long friends with vastly different outlooks on life.

Written by comedy legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais - who would go on to further success with series like 'Porridge' and 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'...Thelma's continued annoyance at her husband Bob's disruptive friend Terry shows no sign of abating. But when Terry lands himself a new girlfriend, Thelma sees her chance to finally get him married off and out of her's and Bob's lives forever! Her solution of touring the north of England in a caravan, however, leaves a lotto be desired...