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David Whitman (William Hurt) is a hazardous materials expert called to the scene of an explosion at a chemical plant where he discovers his worst fear. Someone has been exposed to a secret bio-weapon and anyone who comes into contact with it will be dead within an hour.

Was it an act of terrorism or an industrial accident? All Whitman knows for sure is that to stop a human catastrophe he must find the carrier before the virus spreads.

When Intelligence Officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) learns his wife (Marion Citillard) may be secretly working with the enemy, he has only 72 hours to prove her innocence and save his family before he must do the unthinkable.

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From celebrated British director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), 'You Were Never Really Here' is a powerful and intensely thrilling reworking of the crime genre.

A tormented but brutal hired gun sets out to rescue a young girl from a sex ring, only to find himself weathering a storm of violent vengeance when matters go awry. Featuring a career best performance from Joaquin Phoenix as a solitary and deeply troubled underworld mercenary, 'You Were Never Really Here' is a stylish and brutal tale of vengeance and corruption.

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British film icon Michael Caine produces, narrates and stars in 'My Generation', the vivid and inspiring story of his personal journey through 1960's London.

Based on personal accounts and stunning archive footage this feature-length documentary film sees Caine travel back in time to talk to some of the best and biggest icons of the '60s - from the worlds of fashion, art, photography and music - celebrating a golden age of creativity...

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In 1956 the massively popular radio show Hancock's Half Hour transferred to the flourishing new BBC television service.

Here, Tony Hancock, 'the lad himself', continued his role as East Cheam's antagonistic, socially-aspirational misanthrope, as writers Galton and Simpson adapted his role for the small screen.

The Alpine Holiday
Aaah...the Alps, the fresh air, fantastic scenery, peace and quiet, the yodellers...
Air Steward Hancock: The Last of the Many
Hancock has seen it all - wartime dogfights, jumbo jets, cockpits with more buttons than Clapham switchboard... it's just he's never actually been in the air....
The Lawyer: The Crown v Sidney James
Hancock is called in to defend petty criminal Sid James, but ends up in the dock himself.
Competitions: How to Win Money and Influence People
Hancock's after the big win and he's feeling lucky: "I don't want any publicity - get too many begging letters. If they're anything like the ones I send out I don't want to know!"
There's an Airfield at the Bottom of My Garden
Hancock has found the perfect rural idyll... There is just one small problem...
Christmas Special
- Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes
- The East Cheam Repertory Company

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As the Iranian Revolution takes over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, six Americans escape. Now only one man can get them out from behind enemy lines. Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) is a brilliant CIA agent who specialises in impossible escapes, but his new plan is as daring as it is desperate.

Disguised as a film crew, Tony and the fugitives must hide in plain sight, where the slightest slip up could end in instant death.

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As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister.

With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) sceptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen.

Legendary hit-man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is forced out of retirement again by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome, where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.

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The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself.

As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

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Jean Servais is Tony le Stephanois, a master thief with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvenirs of a recent stint in the pen.

The ageing Tony is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when he realizes his girlfriend has thrown him over for a rival gangster, he agrees to attempt one last job. Together with three collaborators – a young father, a boisterous Franco-Italian and a sentimental Milanese safecracker – Tony meticulously engineers his biggest heist yet: robbing the most heavily guarded jewelry store in Paris.

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Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen's bittersweet romance 'Café Society' follows Bronx-born Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) to Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York, where he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.

With 'Café Society' Woody Allen conjures up a 1930s world that has passed to tell a deeply romantic tale of dreams that never die.

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Churchill follows Britain's iconic Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days before the infamous D-Day landings in June 1944.

As allied forces stand on the south coast of Britain, poised to invade Nazi-occupied Europe, they await Churchill's decision on whether the invasion will actually move ahead. Only the unflinching support of Churchill's brilliant, unflappable wife Clementine (Miranda Richardson) can halt the Prime Minister's physical and mental collapse and help lead him to greatness. Also starring John Slattery as General Eisenhower. Supreme Commander of the Allied D-Day operations, and Julian Wadham as British military commander Field Marshal Montgomery.

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Steven Spielberg presents this devastating comedy that literally brings the house down on Tom Hanks and Shelley Long. After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, they buy the home of their dreams only to find it's a house of hilarious money-eating horrors.

Richard Benjamin directed the gag-filled farce that ha the disaster prone couple attempting to keep their relationship together even as their roof - and bank account-fall apart. Alexander Godunov and Maureen Stapleton are also on hand to see everything, including the kitchen sink, go down The Money Pit.

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Scotland Yard are investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman found stabbed on Hampstead Heath.

Superintendent Hazard (Nigel Patrick) and Inspector Learoyd (Michael Craig) lead the investigation and quickly discover that Sapphire (Yvonne Buckingham) had been leading a double life, her light coloured skin allowing her to pass for white when in fact she was black. The police discover a motive for the murder when they discover that Sapphire was pregnant by her white boyfriend David Harris (Paul Massie), a fellow student. Police enquiries lead them on a manhunt through both the black and white communities in London where they encounter distrust and racial prejudice. Whilst the chilling climax to this tense thriller illustrates how racial prejudice can tear apart even the most loving of families.