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The Boys is an American action, comedy and crime TV series starring the likes of Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid playing Hughie Campbell, Erin Moriarty as Annie January and Dominique McElligott playing Queen Maeve in the main roles.

The show revolves around multiple superheroes with twisted morals and those who won’t stop at anything to see them completely eradicated.

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"The Boys" is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes - as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as gods - abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good.

It's the powerless against the super-powerful as 'The Boys' embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about 'The Seven' and their formidable Vought backing.

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Phobia-addled con artist Roy (Nicolas Cage) and his protégé Frank (Sam Rockwell) are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle. Suddenly, Roy discovers he has a teenage daughter, Angela (Alison Lohman) when she unexpectedly arrives on his doorstep.

His carefully ordered life turns chaotic as he tries to come to terms with being a father. Angela becomes a willing partner in the next high-risk scam as she is eager to learn the art of the con with thrilling consequences.

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Joseph is a small-town teacher who has given up on both life and his tentative relationship with childhood sweetheart Rosealee (Amy Irving).

That is until he becomes caught up in a passionate affair with Catherine (Amy Locane), the vivacious 17 year old daughter of a gruff retired major (Gary Busey) and an alcoholic mother. As his steamy liaison with Catherine develops, Joseph begins to realise that anything is possible and, for the first time in his life, he must make a stand for what he believes in.

When a mysterious life-threatening event strikes Earth, astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) goes on a dangerous mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

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Linda Fiorentino stars as Bridget Gregory, the most memorably evil and sexy of all cinema femmes fatales; the woman who "makes Stanwyck in Double Indemnity look like Snow White!" (Leonard Maltin) Beautiful, intelligent and ambitious, Bridget Gregory persuades her doctor husband Clay (Bill Pullman)

to enter a $700,000 cocaine deal so they can pay off a loan shark. She then takes off with the money and hides out in a small town where she becomes involved with young , dumb Swale (Peter Berg). Clay hires Harlan (Bill Nunn), a tenacious private investigator, to track down his wife and the money. As the pair close in, Bridget embroils Swale in an elaborate and deadly scheme to be rid of them once and for all.

Jefferies (James Stewart), a photographer with a broken leg, takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour (Raymond Burr) of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden.

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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. His memories have vanished and even his beautiful wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly) has become estranged from him.

So begins a quest to unravel the mysteries of his pact; a quest that will take him into a fiendish underworld where he is relentlessly pursued by the police and a gang of shadow-like beings known as the Strangers and where only the sinister Doctor Schreber (Keifer Sutherland) is able to help him.

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Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette).

So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences - involving underground - art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight - pile up with anxiety - inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese-abetted by Michael Ballhaus's kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, and John Heard - directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.

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Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood', a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.

After a jaded magazine writer (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbour.

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A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California.

Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown.

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"Jojo Rabbit" follows a lonely German boy Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl Elsa (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic.

Aided by his wildly idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

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With 'The Searchers', John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family.

He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama.

From Joss Whedon, creator of Firefly and director of the Avenger’s Assemble comes a dark, funny and cult TV must-see: “Into every generation a Slayer is born”; the chosen one, a girl with the strength and power to kill the vampires and demons that plague the world. Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), school outcast, is that girl – along with her best friends Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander (Nicholas Brendan) and under the disapproving glare of her Watcher come British Librarian Rupert Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) it is Buffy’s responsibility to rid the world of the secret evils that lurk in the darkness.

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When urban intellectuals Brian (Davic Duchovny) and Carrie (Michelle Forbes) set out a cross-country trip to research a book about serial killers they share the ride with a couple they barely know - Early Grayce (Brad Pitt) and his girlfriend Adele (Juliette Lewis).

Locked in a car hurtling westword, the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when they finally do connect, Early's violent nature abruptly emerges, and the petrified Brian and Carrie realise they don't need to go very far to learn about ruthless killers... because they're already face to face with one!