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Against the backdrop of the floods that devastated her home, Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns to her family farm to confront her estranged father, Aubrey (David Troughton).

Shadowed by ill-remembered conflicts and unspoken regrets, the pair set out to heal their fractious yet still loving relationship.

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Julianne Moore gives an astonishing performance as Carol White, a typically bored, affluent Californian housewife whose carefully controlled domestic environment suddenly turns against her. Gradually she develops nosebleeds, vomiting and breathing problems before finally collapsing.

In desperation to remain 'safe' from her allergies she opts for the virtual isolation of a porcelain igloo in the Texan desert where the inhabitants drag around oxygen cylinders and therapists behave like preachers.

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Collection of documentaries on some of the most pivotal battles of World War II...

Arnhem

By September 1944, the Second World War had almost reached a conclusion. It was agreed that a single army should be given priority of the supplies to enact a plan that would deal the final blow and win the war before the end of 1944. The plan was to unleash the largest airborne assault in the history of warfare. To fly deep into the heart of industrial Gemany and capture no less than five key bridges. Ultimately, the final bridge at Arnhem proved a bridge too far.
Burma
Japanese occupation of Burma in 1942 had cut off the last land route by which the Allies could deliver aid to the Chinese Government. However it was not until the spring of 1944 that the allies were finally able to attempt the reconquest of Burma; it was to prove a hard fought battle amongst difficult terrain and strong Japanese resistance. In the end however disease, starvation, monsoon rains and the allied army proved too much for the Japanese.

A breathtaking thriller with twists aplenty, The Long Arm is the story of Halliday's attempts to solve the mystery of a series of robberies in London. The crimes are apparently unconnected, but the plot thickens as an inexplicable pattern in events becomes clear.

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September 5 unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today.

Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an ABC Sports broadcasting team who quickly shifted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage.

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After 20 years on the British police force, Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery) has seen too much: 20 years of murders, rapes and countless other violent crimes.

One day while interrogating a snide, sarcastic suspect in a child molestation case, all of his pent up anger and hatred surfaces and Johnson loses control, killing the man. What had started out as a routine investigation has turned into a case of police brutality, and Johnson must now attempt to reconcile his own violent behaviour.

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When ex-cop Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless) returns to her New Zealand hometown after years living in Australia, she's called upon to investigate puzzling murders by charismatic DI Harry Henare (Rawiri Jobe).

Alexa is soon joined in Auckland by data analyst and partner-in-crime-solving, Madison (Ebony Vagulans), who's closerthan everto her mentor-literally, as she ends up living in Alexa's apartment. But to truly make a fresh start, Alexa must deal with the family troubles she's avoided for decades, starting with her wayward brother, Will (Martin Henderson).

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Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend's lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy.

Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police. But when the boy's father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David and Jo must come to terms with their fateful act and its shattering consequences.

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At a lavish ceremony hosted by her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist), the wedding of Justine (Dunst, in an award winning performance) and her fiance Michael (Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood) is marred by fractious familial exchanges and Justine's battle with her own inner demons.

Meanwhile, the mysterious planet Melancholia emerges from behind the sun and appears to be headed on an apocalyptic collision course with the Earth...

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Based on the memoir of French police detective Roger Borniche, 'Flic Story' grippingly recreates a violent post-war crime spree that shocked a nation still reeling from Nazi occupation.

When Emile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) France's most notorious criminal escapes from a mental asylum, his bloody rampage has politicians and the press demanding results. Paris cop Roger Borniche (Alain Delon) gets the thankless job of finding Buisson and either bringing him in or stopping him dead. Through rooftop pursuits, alley stakeouts, nightclub showdowns, and car to car gun battles, Borniche, a stylish and scrupulously ethical "flic" (French slang for "cop"), is forced to break the rules he usually only bends.

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TV viewers first met secret agent Callan in a one-off Armchair theatre play A Magnum for Schneider, in which the disgraced former top secret service agent is seconded to a government section devoted to the elimination of undesirables - by whatever means necessary.

Callan's was a violent, bleak world where if you didn't kill first they killed you. He was a cold-blooded killer, an outsider - isolated, often in direct conflict with his superior, Hunter, a codename given to all Heads of Section. So successful was the hit man with viewers that author James Mitchell was asked to write a series that went on to become one of the most successful series in British TV history and ran from 1967 through to 1972... This feature film is an expanded rewrite of the first TV episode in which the disgraced former secret service agent David Callan is given an opportunity to redeem himself with one more liquidation. His assignment is to kill a businessman responsible for a number of bombings and gun running, but not everything goes according to plan.

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The thrill of the hunt. It's the ultimate drug, and the more intense the rush, the higher the price. International superstar Jean Claude Van Damme teams up with world-famous action director John Woo for this electrifying thriller.

Van Damme is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen) who recruits homeless combat veterans for the "amusement" of his clients - bored tycoons who will pay a half a million dollars to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of them all: Man.

A retired boxer returns to the ring for one last shot at the title but only if he can make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight cut program with an unscrupulous trainer.

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Harry holds the key to the secrets, and trusting his natural instincts uses his connections to seek the truth, but will his personal relationships end up compromising the lives of those around him? His loyal team decide to risk it all in order to reveal the enemies true identity, but as the clock

ticks down will Sir Harry Pearce, super spy, put his trust in the right person? After narrowly surviving his MI5 disciplinary tribunal, Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) finds his world thrown into turmoil as his past comes back to haunt him, putting his team, the nation and his job in severe danger. A bitter intelligence war has broken out between the CIA, KGB and MI5. Harry and his new team realise that someone is trying to sabotage the planned partnership between Britain and Russia via a series of terror attacks. As a passenger plane hurtles towards London Harry has a decision to make, could the old friend have become the enemy, and the enemy the friend?

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Duke Anderson (Sean Connery), released from prison after a 10-year term for safe-cracking, immediately starts planning and executing his next job, a daring million- dollar heist of an entire East Side New York apartment building.

Among the wealthy tenants is his girlfriend Ingrid (Dyan Cannon), a wayward mistress who is under surveillance by her current means of support Werner (Richard B. Schulll). Duke and his gang of expert thieves, including Martin Balsam and Christopher Walken, plot their elaborate robbery, while their every move is monitored and recorded by Werner's private investigators and other agencies, unaware of each other and Duke's impending crime, the final explosive showdown between the police and Duke's crew is a stunning action set piece staged on Fifth Avenue.