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Mission Impossible is a US cult drama series about the members of an elite group of agents who work for the IMF (The Impossible Mission Force) and investigate crimes and stop terrorists intent on attacking the US.

The series follows Jim Phelps (Peter Graves), the leader of the force as he is assigned missions by the force by recorded tape messages. He leads his team to foreign lands and places closer to home to catch criminals although they work separately to the government making their actions dangerous as they could be caught at any time.

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In this classic TV drama, the "Impossible Missions Force" consists of a team of extraordinary spies who are experts in their fields: the Leader (Steven Hill), the Tech Expert (Greg Morris), The Muscle (Peter Lupus), The Master of Disguise (Martin Landau) and The Femme Fatale (Barbara Bain).

Every day, this elite force risks failure, capture and death...but nothing is more important than their mission. The uncut action keeps rolling as television's legendary operatives lead us around the globe... and to the edge of our seats!

During the filming of The Seven Year Itch, while Hollywood censors kept a careful eye on the notoriously racy production, Marilyn was pure perfection as a sexy, yet innocent, starlet living upstairs from a married man who had just sent his wife and son away for the summer.

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Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex suddenly dies, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax.

As a series of eerie coincidences turn lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel while she desperately tries to prove she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen), a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1919, falls into a vat of pickles at his factory job and is preserved in brine for 100 years. He emerges in present-day Brooklyn to find that he hasn't aged a day.

But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can't even begin to understand.

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Christopher (Baltasar Kormakur) is like a fish on dry land after being fired from a freight liner. He doesn't stand much chance of being rehired, having been caught in the act of illegal alcohol trafficking.

Because of the high price of alcohol in Iceland, Christopher and his mates simply couldn't resist earning an extra buck by smuggling some vodka each time they sailed in. Faced with serious money problems, Christopher manages with a help of a friend (Ingvar Sigurdsson), to get his old job back. He is tempted to do a one last gig, determined to put all his problems behind him, once and for all.

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Living on social security in the protected environment of his mothers home, Hilmir has never felt the urge to venture beyond the confines of his neighbourhood, 101 Reykjavik, and is determined to resist adulthood at all cost.

However he soon finds out that life is busy making other plans for him when he discovers that the woman he had just been to bed with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover, and may be carrying his child.

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Armed with highly credible, heart-wrenching story, Sylvester Stallone leaps back in the ring in this knockout final chapter as one of most iconic characters in history of motion pictures. Since retiring, Rocky reminisces about his glory days for the locals at his Philly dinner, Adrian’s.

But his quiet world is shattered when the current reigning champion (Antonio Tarver) loses to a virtual, in-his prime Balboa in a computer-simulated match and challenges the retired Italian Stallion to the real thing! Never one to back down, Rocky does the unthinkable and agrees to fight of his life…pushing himself to the breaking point to go the distance one last time.

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British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to Investigate the mystery of his daughter's "accidental" death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), Is no easy target.

Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge.

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Spiral is a French crime drama that follows one case each season. The series follows the lead investigators in both the the French police and the courts as they attempt to solve a complicated murder case.

The series follows Police Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust), a Paris police officer and Prosecutor Pierre Clement (Gregory Fitoussi) as they get entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder as they attempt to solve a grisly murder as the suspects mount and the killers hide.

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The Parisian police and lawyers return for a gripping fifth instalment of the critically acclaimed crime drama series. Police Captain Laure Berthaud is in grief, yet her personal life threatens to be derailed further when she receives some unexpected news.

Working with her trusted team of lieutenants, Gilou and Tintin, she leads an investigation into a shocking double murder. Meanwhile, lawyer Josephine Karlsson tries to rebuild her reputation by taking on the case of a man accused of killing a policeman, but things don't quite turn out as planned. Her colleague, Pierre Clement finds himself defending a suspect of Laure's investigation; while Judge Roban is intent on exposing what appears to be a case of police manipulation. With its nail-biting suspense and constant tension, Spiral is a furiouslv-paced crime series.

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When the badly beaten body of a young Romanian woman is discovered on a Parisian rubbish dump, the investigation plunges us deep into the murky worlds of prostitution, drugs, business, politics and justice...

The investigation is led by Pierre Clement, a young recently-named public prosecutor, who teams up with Police Captain Laure Bathaud and investigating magistrate Judge Roban - three indomitable characters with their own methods, beliefs, demons and visions of justice. As the young woman's identity and past life are gradually uncovered, it soon becomes apparent that her story is tied to a network of corruption touching the very people charged with uncovering the truth about her.

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A burned corpse is found in the boot of a car in a seemingly isolated case of urban violence. However, the case grows in complexity and danger as each new piece of evidence unearths a duplicitous world of international trafficking, informers, double lives and arms dealing.

An audacious plan to strike at the heart of the crime network means that the slightest slip will result in certain deam.

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When the mutilated body of a young woman is found on a disused railway track in the North of Paris, Police Captain Laure Berthaud seizes the opportunity to restore a tarnished reputation and leads her squad on the hunt for what she believes to be a deranged serial killer.

However, with her personal life in tatters and a potential rift emerging from within her own ranks, Berthaud's world is on the verge of disintegration. Meanwhile the impeccable career of Public Prosecutor Pierre Clement falls into disrepute when his insistence on integrity makes him a pariah in the corridors of justice and ambitious barrister Josephine Karlsson attempts to untangle herself from some dubious associations - with dangerous consequences.

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Police Captain Laure Berthaud and her lieutenants, Gilou and Tintin, investigate when a student is abandoned by his accomplices in a forest near Paris after being blown asunder by their homemade bomb.

Lawyer Josephine Karlsson is getting herself into dangerous waters defending undocumented immigrants; her colleague, Pierre Clement, surprisingly finds himself representing crime boss, Johnny Jorkal; while Judge Roban returns to the Palais De Justice, sidelined and on the warpath. As the story unfolds to reveal a group of extremists intent on waging a war against the Parisian Gendarmerie and a dangerous arms-trafficking operation, the police and the lawyers begin to turn on each other in another tense and gripping series.