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The action begins when the conniving Dr. Who builds a robot Kong in order to retrieve a highly radioactive element for his mysterious benefactor, Madame X. When the robot proves less than reliable, the devious duo scheme to kidnap the real Kong from his remote island home of Mondo.

Interfering with their plans are the heroic trio of U.S. Cmdr. Carl Nelson, Lt. Jiro Nomura, and Kong's current crush, Lt. Susan Miller. It's up to them to outwit the greedy ape-nappers in this sci-fi adventure that takes Kong to unprecedented heights of excitement.

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Zorg is a handyman working at in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty walks into his life, a young woman who is as beautiful as she is wild and unpredictable.

After a dispute with Zorg's boss they leave and Betty manages to get a job at a restaurant. She persuades Zorg to try and get one of his books published but it is rejected which makes Betty fly into a rage. Suddenly Betty's wild manners starts to get out of control. Zorg sees the woman he loves slowly going insane. When their relationship turns to the worst, can his love prevail?

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1306, Scotland's new King, Robert the Bruce (Angus Macfadyen) flees the English army after suffering a crushing defeat at Strath-Fillan.

Injured and alone, the country's last hope for freedom finds refuge in the croft of a widowed peasant (Anna Hutchison), whose Lord has sworn allegiance to England and whose men stalk the forest in search of the king they reject. Through a cold, cruel winter, risking her life and the lives of her children, she nurses him back to health, forging a bond that reignites his passion for freedom and a Scotland for all her people which he will earn years later on the field at Bannockburn.

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After a failed global-warming experiment, a post-apocalyptic Ice Age has killed off nearly all life on the planet. All that remains of humanity are the lucky few survivors that boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine.

A class system has evolved aboard the train, fiercely dividing its population - but a revolution is brewing. The lower-class passengers in the tail section stage an uprising, moving car-by-car up toward the front of the train, where the train's creator and absolute authority resides in splendor. But unexpected circumstances lie in wait for humanity's tenacious survivors...

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In this subversive satire, a group of elites gather for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt ordinary Americans for sport. But the elites' master plan is about to be derailed because one of The Hunted. Crystal (Betty Gilpin), knows The Hunters' game better than they do.

She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off one by one as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (Hilary Swank) at the center of it all.

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Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn't allow it and, if he can't film, his life has no meaning.

His mixture of medications, along with the occasional flirtation with heroin, means that Salvador spends most of his days prostrate and forlorn. This drowsy state transports him back to reflect on his childhood in the 60's, when his family emigrated to Paterna, a village in Valencia, in search of prosperity, through to the appearance of his first desire and his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80's. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he may also find his salvation.

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Go ahead. Slug, drug, kidnap and leave John Shaft buck-naked in a sweltering hellhole. It's still no deal. If you want to recruit this tough-minded Manhattan detective for an overseas assignment, you'd better use a language he understands. One that offers a fat up-front fee.

And a drop-dead gorgeous accomplice. Richard Roundtree returns as the indomitable Shaft, who poses as a slave, unmasks the leaders of an Africa-to-Europe slavery cartel and, for good measure, mixes his business with amorous pleasure involving a beautiful princess (Vonetta McGee).

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If you like your celebrities devastatingly lampooned and brilliantly skewered, Kevin Bishop hits the mark (and the Brad and the Gok) over and over again in the return of his breakneck-paced series.

The high-speed dash through the channels takes in anything from David, the new Mitchell brother in PeepEnders; Michael Macintyre Undercover to Billie Piper's next project, 'Diary of a Call Centre Girl' and a British High School Musical. Simon Cowell, Harry Hill, Brad and Angelina, Cheryl Cole, Katy Perry all get the merciless treatment and there's Pointless Movie Prequels and other Daily Mail giveaway DVD's; Parkinson/Emu, Best/Wogan in a Frost/Nixon remake style and hilarious ads for Piii games such as Free Paper Giver Outer. Lily Allen, Heston Blumenthal, Katie Price, Derren Brown (well, his taxi-driving brother, Darren) - No one is safe from Kevin and the gang's brilliant p-taking scattergun.

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From the team who brought you 'Star Stories' comes this roller-coaster ride of irreverent impressions, parodies and utter madness...Hold on to your seats - when Kevin Bishop's got the remote there's not a safe celebrity in TV land.

This channel-hopping, high-speed comedy stuffs over 40 sketches into each episode. From 'Pimp My Ride' with Stephen Hawking to 'Die Hard 5' with Bruce Forsyth; from 'Sophie's Choice' - The Musical to Griff Rhys Jones and 'The Temple of Doom'. If' Taking the P' was a GCSE, Kevin's heading for an A* as he rips into Amy Winehouse with her new Bond theme 'The Booze Is Not Enough'; Simon Cowell, whose brother seems to run a convenience store in Rotherham and Colin Farrell in his constant quest for love. There's 'Very Blue Planet' - the post watershed version; the lost 'Carry On' film 'Carry On Hand Luggage'; a celebration of Jack the Let Ripper; Grange Hill USA and loads, loads more. So take a deep breath and prepare to be entertained - unless you happen to be Jonathan Ross, Gordon Brown, Ross Kemp, Gordon Ramsay, Sir David Attenborough, Rick Stein, Bob Geldof - or practically anyone who has shown their face on TV!

In Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke (Michael Peña) makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.

Seberg is inspired by true events about the french new wave darling and breathless star, Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights movement, and romantic involvement of Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie), among others.

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Legendary bada** John Shaft (Samuel L Jackson) agrees to help his estranged son, JJ (Jessie T. Usher), uncover the truth behind his friend's suspicious death.

The polar opposite of his foul-mouthed father, JJ is a book-smart cybersecurity expert who needs an education only Shaft can provide: how to navigate Harlem's underbelly. But if flying fists and bullets weren't enough of a challenge, JJ finds his political correctness clashes wildly with Shaft's "shut your mouth" style in this nonstop action-comedy that proves the Shaft name is still the ultimate in cool.

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Hero to some, outlaw to others, Ned Kelly (George MacKay) throws a long shadow over Australian history. Spanning his life from his younger years to the time leading up to his death, the film follows the story of this legendary figure.

Nurtured by the notorious bushranger Harry Power (Russell Crowe) and fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother (Essie Davis), Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot a campaign of anarchy and rebellion that will grip the entire country. Youth and tragedy collide with violent and explosive consequences but at the beating heart of this riveting tale is the fractured and powerful bond between a mother and son.

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Xavier's life is turned upside down when his wife Wendy announces she's moving to New York and taking the kids. A few months later, he's on a transatlantic flight as well.

From fathering a child to a lesbian couple, to marrying a Chinese-American to obtain citizenship, to reigniting a flame with his first love who comes to visit, Xavier and his world really do seem like a Chinese Puzzle...

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Despite protesting her innocence, 21-year-old Anne Carson (Joan Taylor) is convicted as an accomplice to a bank robbery and finds herself in prison with 3 equally glamorous cellmates in form-fitting uniforms: tough Jenny (Adele Jergens), unbalanced Dorothy (Phyllis Coates), and deceptive,

sweet-talking Melanee (Helen Gilbert). The prison chaplain (Richard Denning) takes an interest in her case and believes her story. However, Anne's cellmates think differently. Convinced that she is guilty, they stage a breakout and force the girl to join them. As Anne meets the darker side of prison life, she learns that her greatest danger is the existence, somewhere out there, of the stolen bank loot everyone thinks she has hidden.