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There can't be many black sons in Brixton as innocent as Benjamin Ignatius Samuel Jones. He arrives in this throbbing immigrant area of London fresh from his village in Guyana, where he was brought up by his strictly religious granny.

Within a few hours of his arrival, Ben (Trevor Thomas) has been humiliated by officialdom, robbed of his money by a street urchin and left desolate by his sad discovery that the only address he has in London turns out to be a demolished house. Ironically he is befriended by the very couple of amiable tricksters who robbed hip'of the few pounds left from the sale of hit granny's farm. Ben happily takes on their offer of a friendly partnership. He will earn the money and cook the food. Dave (Norman Beaton) will show him how to enjoy it He takes Ben to Soho to give him his first taste of sex and arranges a trip to the English seaside where the cold climate is compensated for by the nubile warmth of Miss Saffra (Dawn Hope), an ambitious miss determined to escape from the ghetto. Ben's final education comes when he discovers that Saffra has no real love for him and that Dave and Devon (Paul J. Medford) were the thieves who stole his money. When Dave tries to sweet-talk Ben into lending him more money, Ben refuses and lets the swindler swindle himself. Innocence wins. The country boy has had the best teachers...

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Set in the volatile arenas of intelligence and global politics, an elite CIA operative (Mark Wahlberg) is aided by a top-secret tactical command unit as they are tasked with smuggling a mysterious police officer carrying highly classified information out of South East Asia.

On this 22 mile mission, the team soon realise they're not just against the clock, but against the city's gangs, police and military too, who are dead set on reclaiming the renegade officer and the information he carries.

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Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. His life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson).

As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae's disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?

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Based on author Philip Pullman's beloved trilogy, 'His Dark Materials' follows Lyra (Dafne Keen), a brave young woman from another world.

Lyra's quest to find her kidnapped friend leads her to uncover a sinister plot of a secret organization, encounter extraordinary beings and protect dangerous secrets.

In modern-day London, a sex criminal known as 'The Necktie Murderer' has the police on alert, and in typical Hitchcok fashion, the trail is leading to an innocent man, who must know now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer.

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Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) is a nobody. As an overlooked and underestimated father and husband, he takes life's indignities on the chin and never rocks the boat. But when his daughter (Connie Nielsen) loses her beloved kitty-cat bracelet in a robbery, Hutch hits a boiling point no one knew he had.

What happens when a pushover finally pushes back? Hutch flips from regular dad to fearless fighter by taking his enemies on a wild ride of explosive revenge.

Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), a retired Pawnee scout out to claim his birthright, meets Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), an Englishwoman hell-bent on revenge. Their paths fated to cross, they travel north together.

Directed by Robert Hamer, it stars Googie Withers as Rose Sandigate, a Bethnal Green housewife whose Sunday is turned upside down by the re-appearance of an old flame who is now an escaped convict seeking protection from the police.

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"The Traitor" tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino), the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980's, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil.

Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.

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This thrilling police drama returns as the elite squad of detectives begin investigating a string of murders with links to the police force.

Could the killer be a fellow officer? The case has deeply personal ramifications for the team led by DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer), involving DS Vivienne Cole's (Sharon Small) ex-husband and threats to DC Rob Brady's (Bailey Patrick) family. As they try to discover if a murderer lurks among their ranks, the detectives also investigate the death of a schoolboy that could be connected to a girl's suicide, a widow who somewhat suspiciously refuses to grieve, and the fatal attack on a locksmith that harks back to the manslaughter of Trainee DC Billie Fitzgerald's (Tori Allen-Martin) father a decade earlier.

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Down on his luck Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) stumbles upon the dangerous, cut-throat world of underground world of freelance crime journalism - discovering that filming murder and mayhem can be a quick way to make a buck.

Aided by Nina (Rene Russo), a ruthless veteran of TV news, Lou combs LA's seedy underbelly for the city's most sensational news footage. He soon discovers he's uniquely suited to his new job, but events begin to spiral out of control as one dark choice leads to another.

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Written by Ashley Pharoah, this two-part adaptation of the much-loved John Meade Falkner novel is set in the small Dorset village of Moonfleet. In the story, young John Trenchard (Aneurin Barnard) is desperate to join the local band of smugglers led by Elzevir Block (Ray Winstone).

Together they embark on an adventure full of action, friendship, and humour, and hunt for a fabled lost diamond. Their journey takes them from 18th Century Dorset, to the jewellery quarter of The Hague, and on to a gripping, final sea voyage. Sophie Cookson joins the cast as John's first love, Grace, who is also the daughter of Moonfleet's anti-smuggling magistrate, Mohune, played by Ben Chaplin. Omid Djalili appears as a diamond merchant, Aldobrand, and Martin Trenaman as the Turnkey.

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Lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) and his hardened employer Cousin Marv (James Gandolfini) run a bar that is used as a "drop" - a covert scheme that funnels cash to local gangsters.

But when they find themselves caught in a robbery gone bad, and on the hook for a debt they can't repay, both men have to make the dangerous choice between loyalty and survival.

"Into the Wild" is inspired by the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life.

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Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife Lara is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn't commit.

With their family ripped apart and Lara suicidal at the prospect of a lifetime in jail, Brennan immerses himself into a shady and dangerous underworld, risking everything to devise a highly complex prison break.