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If there's one person in history who divides opinion like no one else it's Thomas Cromwell. The son of a Putney blacksmith, he came from nowhere to become Henry Vlll's right-hand man.

In this series historian Tracy Borman explores how Cromwell took back control of the Church in England from the Pope, conspired to execute Anne Boleyn and sees new evidence that shows how he secretly edited a manuscript to keep favour with the King. Tracy follows in Cromwell's footsteps to explore each stage of his rise and fall, discovering how his brilliance revolutionised the conventions and norms of the Tudor World.

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Career con man Roy (Ian McKellen) sets his sights on his latest mark, recently widowed Betty (Helen Mirren), who's worth millions. And he means to take it all.

But as the two grow closer, what should have been another simple swindle becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in this suspenseful drama about the secrets people keep and the lies they live.

A Super-Secret Organisation recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training programme just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

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From producer and director Steven Spielberg, with a script by screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner, comes 'West Side Story'.

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, the film tells the tale of forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills.

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The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Young shipyard worker François Guilbaud (Richard Berry) is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Madame Langlois (Danielle Darrieux), a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class, born a baroness.

His girlfriend Violette Pelletier (Fabienne Guyon), who works in a shop and lives with her mother, wants to get married but he is unwilling, partly because they have no money and nowhere to live. In the street François is accosted by a beautiful woman wearing only a fur coat. This is Édith Leroyer (Dominique Sanda), unhappily married to the owner of a television shop, who has taken to part-time prostitution. The two have a blissful night together in a cheap hotel and fall in love. In the morning Violette comes looking for François because she has learned she is pregnant, but he tells her he loves another woman. Meanwhile, Édith, going back to her husband's shop to collect some things and leave him, has a terrible row with him during which he cuts his throat. She flees back to her mother, who is François' landlady. Next morning, François joins a demonstration which is broken up by the police and is fatally injured. His workmates carry him up to the flat of the baroness, where he dies in the arms of Édith. Unable to live without him, she shoots herself.

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Aharon (Shai Avivi) has devoted his life to raising his son Uri (Noam Imber). They live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialized home.

While on their way to the institution, Aharon decides to run away with his son and hits the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this separation. The journey of the two will change their lives.

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September 1944 - Nazi Occupied Holland. When her temporary safe house is destroyed by a bomb, the beautiful young Jewish chanteuse Rachel Steinn (Carice van Houten) joins fellow refugees in an attempt to reach safe Allied territory by boat.

Tragedy strikes when a Nazi patrol intercepts their escape, ruthlessly killing everybody on-board including Rachel's family; only Rachel escapes the massacre. Embittered and desperate for revenge, she joins the Resistance where, assigned a new identity as the blond Security Service by seducing senior officer Muntze (Sebastian Koch). Without warning she becomes entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and betrayal...

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In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear). At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers.

Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women's Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.

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De Sica's film depicts the troubled lives of two young boys caught up in the chaos of a world plagued by poverty and unemployment. Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) work on the street, where they shine the shoes of American troops.

They dream of a better life, seeking solace in a horse that they ride to escape their harsh reality. When the boys are implicated in a petty crime, they are punished by the society that has robbed them of their innocence, resulting in tragic consequences.

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Set during WWI, 'The King's Man' tells the exhilarating origin story of Kingsman, the world's very first independent intelligence agency.

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gathers to plot a war to wipe out millions across the globe, one man must race against time to stop them.

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One morning, Josef K. (Anthony Perkins) is arrested without knowing the charges against him. Completely stunned, K. slowly finds himself trapped in a dehumanised nightmare and realizes he is the victim of a grotesque plot.

He is accused by everyone, friends and enemies, until, worn down, he ends up doubting his own innocence...

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A saga of passionate love and hatred, turbulent life and violent death. John Hallam stars as Thomas Mallen, a ruthless squire whose many illegitimate sons are marked by the Mallen streak - a lock of snow white hair and a streak of merciless self will.

They are also said to be cursed to meet a violent end and when Thomas's passions lead to his eventual destruction, his daughter is left with a disturbing legacy.

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When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale) is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex, the Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.

Far from the refinement of 1930's London, the decidedly odd family are in need of organising, so who better than Flora to do it!

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Walt Disney Animation Studios' 'Encanto', with original songs by award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, tells the tale of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family living in a magical house in the Colombian mountains.

But when Mirabel (voice of Stephanie Beatriz), the only ordinary family member, discovers the magic surrounding their home is in danger, she may be her family's last hope.