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Recently orphaned Mary Yellan (Maureen O'Hara in her first major film role) arrives at Jamaica Inn from Ireland to live with her aunt.

Unaware that it serves as the headquarters for a murderous gang responsible for shipwrecks along the Cornish coast, she soon finds herself embroiled in backstabbing, conspiracy and villainy presided over by the local squire, Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton).

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Scott Carey (Grant Williams) encounters a mysterious radioactive mist on a boating trip and soon finds his life taking a bizarre and frightening twist. His physical size begins to diminish as he shrinks to a mere two inches.

Suddenly ordinary household situations loom over him with lethal intensity: a playful cat becomes a demon and a spider a gargantuan monster. Carey finds he must rely on his wits to survive...

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Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River.

Still haunted by Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), Lydia (Winona Ryder) finds her life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened.

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If there was a paradise untouched by the war in the winter of 1940, it was Kenya's Happy Valley. There the tall, blond and impeccably groomed Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Errol, enjoyed a decadent life of pleasure with his fellow aristocrats.

Their's was a society in which adultery was routine and Errol set the pace with a series of flamboyant affairs with the colony's leading ladies – including the delightfully eccentric Alice. It was in this highly charged atmosphere that 57-year old Sir Delves Broughton, brought his ravishing young bride, Diana. It could never be the same again.

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Soulmates Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård) and Shelly Webster (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered when the demons of her dark past catch up with them.

Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

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To be a "moffie" is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa's white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the Angolan border.

Like all white men over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer) must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. But that's not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army culture itself, proudly hardened and homophobic - something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit. From the producer of 'Ida' and co-written and directed by one of South Africa's greatest emerging auteurs, Oliver Hermanus, 'Moffie' is a beautifully captured story of a man's struggle to find the beauty in himself in one of the ugliest times in contemporary history.

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Based on real events from the Cold War, 'Firebird' is a passionate love story set against the backdrop of an Air Force base in occupied Estonia during late 1970's Communist rule.

Sergey (Tom Prior), a soulful, young soldier who dreams of becoming an actor in Moscow, is counting the days until his military service ends. His life is turned upside down when he locks eyes with Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii), a sexy, enigmatic ace fighter pilot newly assigned to his base. Driven by their undeniable attraction, Sergey and Roman navigate the precarious line between love and friendship at a time when Soviet men in uniform caught having a sexual affair was met with the severest punishment. As their friendship grows into love, the men risk their freedom and their lives to be together in the face of an all-seeing Communist regime.

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When Martha (Maren Jensen) marries into a close knit sect she finds herself shunned as an outsider by its fanatical members, but when her husband dies mysteriously while riding a tractor expressly forbidden as a tool of the devil, things take a darker turn.

Marked as a incubus by her neighbours, time is running out for Martha and her visiting friends, as plagued by nightmares and fearing for their lives, they face the violent fury and retribution of old time religion.

In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.

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Johnny Saxby (Josh O'Connor) works long hours on his family's remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex.

But when a handsome Romanian migrant worker (Alec Secareanu) arrives to take up temporary work on the family farm, Johnny suddenly finds himself having to deal with emotions he has never felt before. As they begin working closely together during lambing season, an intense relationship starts to form which could change Johnny's life forever.

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After Maid Marian (Marie Everett) is kidnapped by the Sheriff of Nottingham (James Oliver Wheatley), Robin Hood (Ben Freeman) must get a band of men together in order to save her.

Many are reluctant, given that they are massively outnumbered by the Sheriff's forces - but those that do join Robin will stop at nothing to defeat the bloodthirsty tyrant. Together, they hatch an audacious plan to penetrate the depths of the Sheriff's castle and reclaim Robin's true love.

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Six young people, each with their own agenda, set off to take part in a social study set up to ascertain the nature of human interaction and relationships.

What begins as a fun weekend where the participants have the use of a luxury house and all facilities, becomes something more sinister when the organiser of the project is found dead in horrific circumstances. Suspicions become heightened as another member of the group is also found dead in a freak accident. Trapped in a house and unable to leave the experiment, the six participants begin to suspect one another.

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He's an American. She's a ghost. Vacation romances are always a hassle. When Peter Plunkett's (Peter O'Toole)'s Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossessed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the American tourists by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle.

The trouble begins when a busload of guests arrive - along with some real ghosts. Among the tourists are married couple Jack (Steve Guttenberg) and Sharon (Beverly D'Angelo). Sharon's father holds the mortgage on Castle Plunkett, so she's hoping to debunk the ghosts. Jack, on the other hand, after meeting pretty ghost Mary (Daryl Hannah), is very eager to believe. Can there be love between a human and ghost? Jack and Mary are going to try and find out.

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For 2,000 years The Vatican has recorded evidence of evil. In a highly secure vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, tile Catholic Church holds videos and documents of unexplained religious phenomena and demonic possession. Guarded from the world. Until now.

After a young woman (Olivia Taylor Dudley) begins to express erratic and aggressive behavior, her father (Dougray Scott) and boyfriend (John Patrick Amedori) become increasingly concerned. Their fears escalate when she seems to have a devastating and deadly effect on anyone dose. Hearing about her haunting story, Father Lozano (Michael Pena) calls upon the Church when he suspects possession. Vatican exorcist Vicar Imani (Djimon Hounsou) soon comes to realise that she's been taken over by an ancient satanic force more powerful than they ever could have imagined. Father Lozano must now wage war for more than just Angela's soul, but for the world as we know it...

Shadowed by a haunting presence in the redwood forest, five young hikers discover an abandoned goldmine dating back to the Gold Rush and descend into madness and greed as the pursuit of easy riches consumes them.