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Jennifer Lawrence is Dominika, a former ballerina forced to enter Sparrow School, a secret government program that thrusts her into a treacherous espionage game between Russia and the CIA. She emerges trained as a lethal agent, but is trapped in a world she desperately wants to escape.

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Friendships will be tested and the depth of deceit will lead to an unprecedented game of cat and mouse as the characters they play and the impact they have on the team dynamic will have viewers enthralled.

Follow the team on a whirlwind adventure tracking Somalian AQ terrorists, preventing assassination attempts, avoiding bomb efforts and vicious snipers, and through it all trail the personal consequences of working for the MI5.

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Three chilling words, spoken repeatedly by a sadistic exiled Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier), become a nightmare catchphrase for Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman), a Manhattan graduate student who is innocently swept into a deadly international conspiracy involving a renegade U.S.

government agent and a fortune in stolen diamonds. Director John Schlesinger builds terror and suspense in this thrilling adaptation of William Goldman's best-selling novel. The film's acclaimed cast also includes Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller; Olivier garnered a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination' for his terrifyingly unforgettable role of Christian Szell, a former concentration camp dentist.

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Oscar nominee Margot Robbie (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) "is fantastic" in this "dazzling" love story set amidst America's struggle during the Great Depression.

Eugene Evans (Finn Cole) dreams of escaping his small Texas town when he discovers wounded, fugitive bank robber Allison Wells (Robbie) hiding closer than he could ever imagine. Torn between claiming the bounty for her capture and his growing attraction to the seductive criminal, nothing is as it seems, and Eugene must make a decision that will forever affect the lives of everyone he's ever loved.

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The collateral damage of civil war is all-encompassing and unforgiving; a brutal setting for tense negotiations, especially when the results could have monumental consequences. Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike star as CIA agents in this nail-biting intelligent thriller.

In 1972, former US diplomat, Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm), was caught up in a terrorist attack that changed his life forever. 10 years later, whilst working as a mediator in Boston, Skiles receives an unwanted invitation to visit Beirut, a territory plagued by war and violence. Quickly dragged back into the system he hastily left, Mason is assigned a mission of negotiating a swap with a terrorist group: a kidnapped American CIA agent for a terrorist leader. Obligated to cooperate, Skiles is assigned a cultural attache (Rosamund Pike) to help navigate the city. Unravelling clues and uncovering political agendas along the way, the duo discover that relationships between America, Palestine and Israel may be more convoluted, and even more corrupt, than first thought...'The Negotiator' is a suspenseful drama that questions government loyalties, how far one person is willing to push themselves in the pursuit of justice and where the moral line in the sand is drawn when faced with the severest of situations. Clandestine operations and a web of intrigue intertwine.

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Often described as Director Edgar G Ulmer's 'Citizen Kane', alongside 'The Black Cat', 'Bluebeard' and 'Detour', 'Ruthless' is one of the Poverty Row king's very finest films.

The film follows the rise to power of Horace Woodruff Vendig (an admirably cast Zachary Scott) through flashbacks which both stress his destructive use of others and refuse to explain his ambitions through clear-cut motivations. 'Ruthless' is an indictment of the idea of success at any price...with first rate performances from Lucille Bremner, Martha Vickers and Sidney Greenstreet in his last great screen role.

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Spooks series 8 opens where series 7 left off: Harry Pearce (head of MI5's section D) has been kidnapped and the rest of the team are racing to solve the mystery of his disappearance before it's too late.

They discover that Harry thwarted a clandestine operation to smuggle weapons-grade uranium into Iraq to justify the war. Now the rogue officers, who masterminded the operation want their uranium back and are prepared to go to any lengths to get it, including bringing ex-Spook Ruth Evershead out of exile to blackmail Harry. In the meantime Lucas has struck up a rather too friendly relationship with new CIA recruit Sarah Caufield. Although she claims to be ushering in a new breed of liberal American agents, is she really all she seems?

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In Clark Duke's directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they've never met.

Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog's proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in, while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog's crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon's best-selling novel of the same name, 'Arkansas' weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.

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From acclaimed actress Robin Wright comes her directorial debut 'Land', the poignant story of one woman's search for meaning in the vast and harsh American wilderness.

Edee (Robin Wright), in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew, and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter (Demián Bichir) brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.

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Restless is a love story between a young man (Henry Hopper) who has given up on life and a beautiful, charming voting girl (Mia Wasikowska) who possesses a deep-felt love of life d the natural world.

When these two outsiders chance to meet at funeral they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.

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The world is still facing the threat of Islamist terrorism and with Russia also emerging as a new super power, the MI5 team face even more frightening and deadly challenges.

Six months on from their terrifying ordeal at the hands of the Red Backs, Adam is back on the Grid but there is no sign of Jo. There's a new Spook on the block when a secret assignation between MI5 and the Russian intelligence services (the FSB) brings Harry's old protégé Lucas North back into the fold after eight years languishing in a Russian prison. Harry is- thrilled to have him back but does Lucas have the necessary skills to rejoin MI5 at the top level? And more importantly after eight years with only a high ranking Russian spymaster for company, can Lucas's loyalty really be taken for granted...?

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When the Government decides to build the Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything appears to be going to plan.

All except for the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site are blocked by the House of Lords, a corner shop owned by Henry Lord (Stanley Holloway) and his wife Lillian (Kathleen Harrison). When the Lords' decline the compensation offered by government civil servant Mr Filch (Naughton Wayne) they barricade themselves in to avoid the demolition of their beloved home. And when they are joined by an ambitious BBC sports broadcaster the outside world gets to hear a running commentary of the hilarious events from inside the House of Lords'.

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Anthony Hopkins won an 'Outstanding Lead Actor' Emmy for this gripping and masterful portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the last, desperate months of World War Two. January 16th 1945.

With the allies closing in on Berlin from the east and west, and Allied bombers blasting Berlin by day and by night, Adolf Hitler takes up permanent residence in his command bunker under the Chancellery Building. Refusing to believe the war is lost, an increasingly irrational Hitler issues insane orders to a dwindling band of his most loyal followers, even as his dreams die in flames all about him...

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Full of flash, style and grit, this raw tale of corruption and revenge features one of the most harrowing car chases ever caught on film and a shockingly explosive ending. Federal Agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) has a score to settle, and he's through playing by the rules.

Whether that means blackmailing a beautiful parolee, disobeying direct orders or hurtling the wrong way down a crowded freeway, he vows to take down a murderous counterfeiter (Willem Dafoe) by any means necessary. But as the stakes grow higher, will chance's obsession with vengeance ultimately destroy him?

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An adaptation of the best-selling novel by the Austrian author Marlen Haushofer, the film stars Martina Gedeck who, in the course of a shoot that lasted over several seasons, gives a solo performance of enormous strength, both mental and physical.

An invisible wall cuts off a woman alone in the Alps but for a dog, a cow, a cat and her determination to survive, even when the rest of the world has possibly perished.