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In this high-stakes suspense thriller, Mark Wahlberg plays a pilot transporting an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.

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1969: Dr Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) takes up a post at Bainbridge Hospital, New York. Among his patients, he discovers a group of forgotten survivors of the 1916 Sleeping Sickness epidemic - a virus that turned its victims into living statues.

He is particularly drawn to one of these victims, Leonard Lowe (Robert de Niro). With a new experimental drug, Dr Sayer discovers a vital key to awakening in himself long dormant capacities for love and friendship. Inspirational and critically acclaimed "Awakenings" is based on a true and haunting story.

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Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer and Mercedes Ruehl star in Terry Gilliam's must-see comic masterpiece. Williams is Parry, a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Bridges co-stars as Jack, New York's No.

1 shock DJ, whose off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy which ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviours... Parry. And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds - a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail, filled with humour, heartbreak and ravishing romance.

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Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) are newlyweds, but Rosemary has no idea that her wedded bliss is about to come to a horrific end. Her husband's ambition as a struggling actor is about to plunge her into an abyss of terror like she has never known.

In exchange for a taste of fame, Guy makes a deal with the devil that puts his wife and soul in jeopardy. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, her husband becomes odd, her neighbours (Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon) border on obsessive, and her normal life turns into a surreal nightmare. Slowly, she begins to realise that a seed of evil has been planted... and she is its host.

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'Blast from the Past' is a romantic comedy featuring two children of the nuclear age - one a modern L.A. woman; the other an innocent young man cocooned since 1962 in a bomb shelter.

Adam (Brendan Fraser) the son of brilliant scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walker) and perfect suburban wife (Sissy Spacek) was born in his family's elaborately engineered steel bunker, after they mistook a plane crash in their backyard for a nuclear attack. Eve, (Alicia Silverstone) however, grew up in a rapidly changing LA and her life has been a series of dead-end jobs, shallow boyfriends and dashed hopes. When the time-triggered shelter finally opens, Adam bumps smack into Eve. At first she can't believe this guy who says "Ma'am", and has never seen a colour television, is for real. But Eve watches Adam approach the world with wide eyes and finds herself falling..in love?

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"Better Man" is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall and remarkable resurgence of Robbie Williams, one of the UK's bestselling artists of all time.

Under the visionary direction of Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) and with stunning visual effects created by the Academy Award winning team at Weta FX (Avatar, The Lord of the Rings), the film is uniquely told from Robbie's perspective, capturing his signature wit and indomitable spirit. It follows Robbie's journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of 'Take That', through to his unparalleled achievement as a record-breaking solo artist - all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.

Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd couple's old tensions resurface agains the backdrop of their family history.

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The Freeling family (JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke) may have settled into a new home... but the spirts of the dead have not given up their desire to possess Carol Anne.

Led by Kane (Julian Beck), a demon disguised as a preacher, the spirts attempt to convince Carol Anne to join them on "the other side". But when the plan fails, Kane inleashes the hellish fury of the Poltergeist on the Freelings...forcing the desperate family to turn for help to a mysterious medicine man, a medium, a grandmother and, most of all, to each other.

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Laurence Oliver delivers one of his greatest Shakespearean performances as Hamlet. Seldom has the tragic story of the Danish prince tortured by his duty to his murdered father and by the guilt and fear he feels at the prospect of revenge, been so brilliantly portrayed.

It is the tragedy of a man who thinks but fails to act. For as long as Shakespeare is performed this film will stand as a definitive production.

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Sent by her parents to live in a Chicago high-rise with her aunt and uncle, Carol Anne discovers she must now face demons more frightening than ever before. Led by the Revered Kane (Nathan Davis), the spirits have moved from invading houses to taking over an entire skyscraper.

They are lurking behind every mirror...waiting to break through the only barrier that divides us from a horrifying dimension. Fortunately, Tangina (Zelda Rubinstein), a powerful psychic, returns to battle these malevolent forces.

Gregory Peck stars as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism. Searching for an angle, he finally decides to pose as a Jew - and soon discovers what it is like to be a victim of religious intolerance.

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Alfie is not really a bad sort. It's just that he has this overwhelming desire for the opposite sex. You might say that "birds" are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. With Michael Caine in the title role. Alfie is a ribald and wild comedy, filled with sex and sin.

For those who want to be entertained, Alfie is charming, delightful and quick-moving. For those who want more, there is, beneath the surface, a lingering tragedy, simply and poignantly told about the taker and the taken.

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Following the Nazi invasion of Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne (Millie Perkins) and her family go into hiding in the confines of an attic.

Anne's remarkable account of their lives, their growing fear of discovery, their deplorable living conditions and even the blooming of her first love, are intimately depicted in this extraordinary portrait of humanity. Nominated for eight 1959 Oscars and winning three 'The Diary of Anne Frank' remains one of cinema's most astounding and enduring treasures.

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Directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie and Spencer) and starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie, 'Maria' tells the glamorous, moving story of the iconic opera singer, Maria Callas.

Paris, 1977: Once the world's greatest soprano, Callas now hides in an apartment, having lost her voice and retreated from the world. She dreams of returning to the stage, but can her body and mind take the pressure?

Follow the epic tale of the unlikely rise of the Pride Lands' beloved king. An orphaned Mufasa is lost and alone until he meets Taka, heir to a royal bloodline. This launches an epic journey that tests the pair's bonds as they evade a deadly foe.