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Almost two years later...A woman is found brutally murdered on Pepparholm island at the base of the bridge.

It turns out that the murdered woman is Margrethe Thormod, General Director of the Migration Agency in Copenhagen, and perhaps the motif is to be found in a scandal around a deportation that recently hit Margrethe personally. Henrik Sabroe starts to investigate the macabre murder with his Danish colleague Jonas Mandrup. Henrik misses his colleague and friend Saga Noren (Sofia Helin), who is incarcerated in the women's prison in Ystad, convicted of murdering her mother. Henrik visits her as often as he can and wants her to help him with the new case, but Saga points out that she isn't a police officer anymore and can't help him. The same goes for Henrik's missing children; Saga can't help and Henrik is close to giving up the search...This last season Henrik and Saga both suffer on a personal level, their special friendship is put to difficult tests and once again events from the past will make themselves felt and by the end of the season nothing is the same anymore for either Saga or Henrik...

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This is a collage-style exploration of the ideas of radical sexologist Wilhelm Reich.

Dusan Makavejev intermingles documentary material on Reich's own life, scenes reflecting late Sixties American sexual counter-culture, and the fictional story of the sexually liberated Milena who attempts to spread the Reichian doctrine to a handsome but leaden Russian skating star.

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"2001: A Space Odyssey" is a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite. It is a dazzling, Academy Award-winning visual achievement, a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion.

It may be the masterwork of director Stanley Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) and it will likely excite, inspire and enthrall for generations. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted realms of space, perhaps even into immortality.

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The young D'Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos (Oliver Reed), Porthos (Frank Finlay), and Aramis (Richard Chamberlain), each of whom challenges him to a duel.

D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston), who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux (Raquel Welch) and the passionate Milady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.

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D'Artagnan (Michael York) has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort (Christopher Lee) to kidnap Constance (Raquel Welch), the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love.

The Cardinal (Charlton Heston) uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D'Artagnan. But soon, she is D'Artagnan's sworn enemy and she has an unfortunate history with Athos (Oliver Reed) as well. Milady goes to England to dispatch Buckingham; the Musketeers fight the rebels. Milady, with Rochefort's help, then turns to her personal agenda. Can D'Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter's ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all.

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Tout Va Bien (Everything's Going Fine) places Jane Fonda and Yves Montand in the roles of She and He, that is, a modern couple representative of the middle-class global bourgeoisie circa 1972.

She's a radio journalist at the French bureau of the American Broadcasting System; he's an advertisement director who before '68's social upheavals served as a Nouvelle Vague screenwriter. Through Fonda's and Montand's star-personas, Godard and Gorin investigate 'how the sausage is made', both metaphorically (movie financing) and literally (industrial food processing) - in the process questioning what it means to be involved or 'engaged' socially, politically, and romantically.

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Welcome to Tromaville, a small American town which is being terrorized by criminals while the towns Mayor sits idly by. Among the residents of Tromaville is Melvin, a wimp of a young man and a janitor at the local health club.

He is forever teased and tormented by the strong, beautiful men and women of the club as he goes about his daily menial tasks. A particularly nasty group of Melvin's tormentors devise a plot to ridicule him in front of the whole town. BUT, the 'harmless' pranks turns into a horrible accident as Melvin crashes through a third story widow and lands in a vat of hazardous toxic chemicals. The rest, as they say, is history! As the toxic chemicals take hold of Melvin's body, a strange transformation begins to take place. Melvin the weakling turns into a huge, hulking 'Toxic Avenger' - the first superhero in New Jersey! The excitement is non-stop as this monstrous mess of mutated man sets out to single-handedly wipe out the forces of evil which contaminates the town of Tromaville.

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On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of one story.

Through coincidence, chance, human action, past history and divine intervention they will weave through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax.

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The hit movie that became a cultural sensation, 'Flashdance' delivers an electrifying mix of music, drama and dance that dazzles the senses as it-touches the heart...

Jennifer Beals stars as Alex, a fiercely determined 18-year-old with one all-consuming dream: to study at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance. Working during the day as a welder and at night as an exotic dancer. Alex bravely pursues her dream, undertaking an unforgettable journey that reveals the power of her convictions.

Airline pilot Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) miraculously lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe. But even as he's being hailed for his heroic efforts, questions arise as to who or what was really at fault.

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Neil Simon has a special genius for finding great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment.

That's the premise of The Odd Couple, although there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays fussy Felix, fastidious to a fault. He proves that cleanliness is next to insanity. Matthau is Oscar, who wreaks havoc on a tidy room with the speed and thoroughness of a tornado. An enduring and endearing picture with the intelligence one usually misses in comedies.

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Paul Newman stars as the coach of 'The Chiefs' - a struggling minor-league ice hockey team - in this hilarious comedy about the world of professional sports.

To build up attendance at their games, management signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose ob is to demolish the opposition.

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In the 1975 film The Naked Civil Servant, John Hurt played Quentin Crisp to great critical acclaim winning a BAFTA for his performance and turning Crisp into an icon.

An Englishman in New York sees the legendary John Hurt return as Crisp and follows his emigration to the US and the last 20 years of his fascinating life.

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A group of delightful and very human people meet up with some very bizarre and not-so-human beings, who are visitors from a distant galaxy. They have come to Earth on a rescue mission to retrieve a secret which has laid hidden on the ocean floor for thousands of years.

They share a more wondrous adventure of love and friendship than they could ever have imagined.

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James Mason delivers a strong performance in the title role of this sympathetic study of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early 40s, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa.

But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realisation that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn allegiance, was destroying Germany, his ingrained sense of duty pushed him into a conspiracy against Hitler. Co-starring Jessica Tandy as Rommel's wife and Cedric Hardwickle as another anti-Hitler conspirator, The Desert Fox is an intimate look at one of the most respected military tacticians of modern times, openly admired by both those who followed him into combat and those who faced him on the field of battle.