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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission.

In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers - Blake's own brother among them.

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Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour star in the musical classic set around the time of the Civil War. Dan finds himself caught between his love for two women as he tries to turn his talent for song writing into a livelihood. In New Orleans he teams up with the accordion-playing huckster Mr Bones.

Together they try to persuade the theatres to take them on without much luck. Eventually, a card game leads to a compromise and the local Opera House grudgingly allows them onstage. The rousing Dixie is performed to an appreciative audience, while backstage a fire burns, and love rages.

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The rich are generally different. But in matters of the heart, they’re just as scatterbrained as the rest of us.

Heiress Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) is engaged to one man (John Lund) attracted to another (Frank Sinatra) and, just maybe, in love again with her ex-husband (Bing Crosby) in this effervescent musical reinvention of Philip Barry’s play The Philadelphia Story featuring an endlessly delightful Cole Porter score. Among High Society’s high points: Sinatra and Celeste Holm ask Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Crosby and Kelly share True Love, Der Bingle and Ol’ Blue Eyes swing-swing-swingle Well, Did You Evah? And Crosby and Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong jive with Now You Has Jazz.

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In his film debut, singing idol Elvis Presley stars in this action-filled romance set in the aftermath of the Civil War. After hearing his older brother (Richard Egan) has been killed in combat, a young Texas farmer (Presley) marries the man's sweetheart (Debra Paget).

But his brother returns, sparking a bitter sibling rivalry and tragic confrontations with Union soldiers.

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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters.

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

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In the Academy Award-nominated classic, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire join forces, lending their song and dance talents to the timeless musical.

When a fashion magazine mogul (Kay Thompson) and her head photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) scout out a bookstore for their next photo shoot, Dick discovers the unique face of bookseller and amateur philosopher Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Whisked off to Paris, Jo is soon transformed into a global supermodel...and finds herself falling for the photographer who first noticed her sunny, funny face.

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The Bachelor is Dick Nugent (Cary Grant), a sophisticated and debonair artist - no wonder Bobby-Soxer Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) develops such a crush on him. It doesn't matter to her that she's just seventeen and he's in his forties...

When Susan is found in Dick studio after hours, he's hauled before the judge - who just happens to be Susan's older sister Margaret (Myrna Loy). Although convinced that Dick is blameless, Margaret devises an inventive punishment - he has to take Susan out on 'dates' until her infatuation fades. But how long will that take...?

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You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Nina Yoshenka (Cyd Charisse), a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Nina's Cold War.

She meets Steve Canfield (Fred Astaire), a smoothly brash American who won't take 'nyet' for an answer.

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"Expresso Bongo" takes the lid off the seedier side of showbiz! Cliff Richard plays Bongo Herbert, a young singer, playing for peanuts in Soho's sleazy clubs with its striptease snows, clip joints and teenage dens.

He becomes an overnight success when taken up by wide boy showbiz agent Johnny (a brilliant performance from Laurence Harvey) but at what price? Cliff's first role is packed with punch and the great soundtrack includes the hit single Voice in the Wilderness and I've Never had It So Good. His co-stars include Yolande Donlan, as man-crazy American singer Dixie Collins and Sylvia Syms cast against type as a dancer in a strip show.

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Fred and Ginger bring all their magic and artistry to this delightful romantic comedy. A lawyer sends his girlfriend, who cannot decide whether to marry him, to a psychiatrist to help her increase her confidence.

However, she falls hopelessly in love with the charming psychiatrist who is uncertain of his best course of action. Ginger is nothing short of stunning in this beautifully engaging musical.

While in the care of her gruff, overly protective aunt, an adorable tyke with singing and dancing abilities (Shirley Temple) catches the eye of a talent scout. Soon, the gifted youngster is sought after for the big-rime, but can she convince her aunt to let her star shine?

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Newly arrived in Bath, highly ambitious Londoner DCI McDonald (Tala Gouveia) intends to lake the city's police force by storm.

But when she's partnered with veteran Sergeant Dodds (Jason Watkins), the unlikely pair must find a way to work together as their different approaches to policing - and to life - come to the fore, Together, in two new feature length episodes, they investigate intriguing crimes, set against the backdrop of the contemporary changing face of Britain's most traditional city. From the secret lives of the rich and entitled, to the undercover world of addiction treatment clinics, McDonald and Dodds come to realise not all is at it seems in the seemingly sleepy city of Bath.

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In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie. Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai. has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself.

To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds there's a lot to celebrate: a chance to rediscover the country she left as a child, her grandmother's wondrous spirit, and the ties that keep on binding even when so much goes unspoken. With 'The Farewell', writer/director Lulu Wang has created a heartfelt celebration of both the way we perform family and the way we live it, masterfully interweaving a gently humorous depiction of the good lie in action with a richly moving story of how family can unite and strengthen us. often in spite of ourselves.

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Jenny Bowman (Judy Garland), strong-headed, absent mother turns up in the lives of her ex-lover David (Dirk Bogarde) and their son, rocking the boat in these otherwise still waters.

Who can resist a showbiz mum who turns up at boarding school and charms everyone she meets; who sings her way into the heart of a nation. David knows he must, because with the best will in the world, this is a woman strong enough to build a mountain of love and bring it crashing down without looking back.

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An elevator operator, a wife of a struggling concert violinist, a born-in-a-trunk vaudevillian: they're three different women on three different paths of life, yet they soon share one dream: to become a 'Ziegfeld Girl'.

Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Judy Garland play the respective three trying for stardom in this sumptuous extravaganza. James Stewart adds to the star wattage, playing the jilted truck-driving beau of Turner's footlight diva. And legendary innovator Busby Berkeley brings his imaginative camerawork and pacing to numbers that include Garland's massively scaled and calypso-infused 'Minnie from Trinidad', plus a lavish, showgirl-revue finale that reprises the rhapsodic 'You Stepped Out of a Dream'.