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Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are coke snorting, sadistic lesbian rapist and warden are no better.

Racial tensions are high as the inmates are divided into two factions, blacks and whites, who must either join together against the management or kill each other trying.

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From Oscar winning writer/director Adam McKay (The Big Short) comes 'Vice', an audacious and darkly comedic look at former US Vice President Dick Cheney's stealthy rise from Washington intern to the most powerful man on the planet.

Oscar winner Christian Bale leads an all-star cast that includes Oscar nominees Steve Carell as the affable, yet steely Donald Rumsfeld, Amy Adams as Cheney's ambitious wife, and Oscar winner Sam Rockwell as the malleable George W. Bush. Spanning a half-century, Cheney's journey from rural Wyoming electrical worker to de facto President of the United States is a hilariously terrifying true tale of the use and misuse of institutional power.

In this epic adventure of hope and empowerment, a cyborg, Alita (Rosa Salazar), searches for clues from her past when she awakens in a future world she does not recognise.

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Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the arch villain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.

Episodes Comprise:
11. The Dead Man Returns
12. Horror on the Highway

13. Skyscraper Plunge
14. The Scarab Strikes
15. The Toll of Doom

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A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk who have not returned from an earlier voyage. As they are sailing they are caught in a whirlpool that sends them near a hideous sea serpent and their boat is destroyed.

The survivors make their way to an island, the land of the Grimolts...a race of people that have enslaved all the unfortunate beings that land on their territory, including the Viking men who have been forced to work down their mines. The women must battle to save their men and themselves.

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Desperate to woo English socialite Diana (Agnes Ayres), Sheik Ahmed (Rudolph Valentino) kidnaps her and whisks her away to his luxurious desert tent.

At first she resists his advances but when she is kidnapped by ruthless desert bandits she begins to realise that she has true feelings for her sultry lover. But will the Sheik arrive in time to rescue her from the clutches of the bandits...

'Detroit' tells of the events that transpired one terrifying evening during the civil unrest that tore apart the city of Detroit, and its traumatic aftermath. Starring John Boyega and Will Poulter, 'Detroit' is a brutally tense thriller based on one of the most explosive events in recent history.

It's déjà vu all over again for Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe), the snarky sorority sister who solved her own murder by repeatedly reliving her death. When the masked campus killer mysteriously returns to terrorize new targets, Tree cycles through another time-loop of clever chills and slick suspense...

Jamie is moving from Chicago to New York in two weeks, hoping to become a Broadway actress. Her best friend Jessica is bummed, because she thinks she is in love with Jamie, so as moving day gets closer, she tries to make Jamie jealous by dating other women, with hilarious results.

From writer and director Steven Knight and starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, comes a mysterious tale of a fishing boat captain whose past is about to crash up against his life on a small island in the Caribbean and ensnare him in a new reality that might not be all it seems.

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Berlin, 1939, at the start of World War II, SS Officer Wallenberg (Helmut Berger) is instructed to train twenty of the most beautiful staunch young Nazi women as prostitutes and put them to work in the opulent brothel of Madame Kitty Ingrid Thulin).

Unbeknownst to Kitty or the girls who cater to the deepest perversities of the Reich's top-ranking men and women, the whole brothel is bugged and their acts recorded by Wallenberg, thereby feeding his own insatiable need to dominate and blackmail.

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One of the most emotional film experiences of any era, Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' is a miracle of the cinema, an enigmatic and profoundly moving work that merges the worlds of the viewer and of saintly loan herself into one shared experience of hushed delirium.

Drever's film charts the final days of Joan of Arc as she undergoes the debasement that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy - through her imprisonment and execution at the stake.

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Hong Kong, 1962. Chow (Tony Leung) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His new neighbour Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) is a secretary whose husband seems to spend all his time on business trips. They become friends, making the lonely evenings more bearable.

As their relationship develops they make a discovery that changes their lives forever...

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When Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr.

Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on "The Green Book" to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger as well as unexpected humanity and humor - they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

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A U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission.

There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince a Northern Alliance General to join forces with them to fight their common adversary: the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. In addition to overcoming mutual distrust and a vast cultural divide, the team - accustomed to state-of-the-art warfare - must adopt the rudimentary tactics of the Afghani horse soldiers, combining ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat.