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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L Sayers. When Lord Peter goes on holiday to Scotland, he is hoping to do nothing more strenuous than catch some trout. Even Wimsey's loyal servant Bunter is looking forward to taking some time off to go painting. However, when Bunter notices an easel in the distance but no sign of the artist Lord Peter is called into action. The easel belongs to an unpopular local artist, Campbell, whose body is discovered lying on the rocks below the popular vantage point. Was it an accidental fall? Wimsey suspects not and with six possible suspects he must use all of his detective skills to determine the five red herrings and expose the murderer. - Director:
- Robert Tronson
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- Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Roy Boutcher
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Die Hard 4.0 (2007)Live Free or Die Hard
The best is back in action in the latest installment of the pulse-pounding, thrill-\-minute Die Hard action films. New York City detective John McClane delivers old-school justice to a new breed of terrorists when a massive computer attack on the U.S. infrastructure threatens to shut down the entire country over Independence Day weekend. - Director:
- Len Wiseman
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- Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant
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Die Hard 2 (1989)Die Hard 2: Die Harder
On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport and now holds thousands of holiday travellers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler), have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency except one: John McClane, an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of deadly deja vu. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists, but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz), the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the Army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction, and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling overhead, which is desperately low on fuel. - Director:
- Renny Harlin
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- Bruce Willis, William Atherton, Bonnie Bedelia
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Dogma (1999)Bearclaw / God
Searching for a way back from everlasting exile, renegade fallen angels Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck) attempt to turn the entire cosmological system on its head - unless an unlikely horde of humans can stop them. Bethany (Linda Fiorentino), the heroine of 'Dogma' is a woman convinced her prayers have not been answered when, out of nowhere, a heralding angel appears in her bedroom and declares her the potential saviour of humanity. Setting off on an extraordinary journey, Bethany meets a host of heavenly and hellish characters, including the celestial messenger Metatron (Alan Rickman), an apostle with a 2,000 year old grudge (Chris Rock), hot-headed demon Azrael (Jason Lee) and heavenly muse Serendipity (Salma Hayek). In Kevin Smith's comic fantasia, angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of the Earth and battle it out for the fate of humankind. - Director:
- Kevin Smith
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- Ben Affleck, Ethan Suplee, Matt Damon
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A young copywriter at Pym's Publicity Ltd. falls down the staircase and is fatally injured. Before his fall the copywriter had notified his boss that something more dire than just bad copy has infiltrated the ad agency. The owner hires detective Death Bredon Wimsey in disguise, who poses as an adman taking over the dead man's job. As Bredon, Wimsey writes snappy headlines, banters with the typists and carouses with highborn lowlifes in his free time. All the while piecing together a web of nefarious criminals that has ensnared both the wicked and the weak - Director:
- Rodney Bennett
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- Ian Carmichael, Mark Eden, Rachel Herbert
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Cruise plays Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery - after his wife's (Nicole Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. - Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
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- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field
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Despite their differences, beautiful Shelby (Julia Roberts), her strong-willed mother, M'Lynn (Sally Field), beauty parlour owner Truvy (Dolly Parton), elegant wealthy widow Clairee (Olympia Dukakis), sharp-tongued Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine) and mousey newcomer Annelle (Daryl Hannah) enjoy a friendship that spans the boundaries of age and status. Sharing each other's strength and loyalty, these six remarkable women survive the cycles of life, birth and death to emerge stronger, closer and still laughing. - Director:
- Herbert Ross
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- Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field
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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Peter is called upon to investigate the death of the aged General Fentiman who apparently died peacefully in his chair by the open fire at the Bellona Club. It would have been dismissed as simply old age, had the exact timing of the General's death not been vital to the distribution of a huge inheritance. Lord Peter's investigations lead him into deeper water than anyone expects and, when it becomes clear that the General was murdered, the list of suspects is long. - Director:
- Ronald Wilson
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- Ian Carmichael, Terence Alexander, Anna Cropper
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From acclaimed director Steve McQueen comes the incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. It is 1841 and Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbertder) and must find the strength within to survive. In his twelfth year in captivity, a chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life. - Director:
- Steve McQueen
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- Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
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A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, 'American Hustle' tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. - Director:
- David O. Russell
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- Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper
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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L Sayers. When Captain Cathcart, the fiance of Lord Peter's sister, is murdered and Lord Peter's own brother is accused of the murder, Lord Peter Wimsey decides to join in the investigation in order to find out what really happened. A mysterious letter from Egypt, a grieving fiancee with a suitcase and a bullet destined for one very special Wimsey are uncovered but who is the real murderer? - Director:
- Hugh David
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- Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Mark Eden
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When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even west Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. - Director:
- Ethan Coen
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- Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
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Is there a secret you would kill to know? In this electrifying, suspense-packed thriller from director Christopher Nolan, Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play magicians whose cutthroat attempts to better each other plunge them into deadly deceptions. Scarlett Johansson also stars as the stage assistant who's both a pawn and player in their rivalry. A brilliant supporting cast (including Michael Caine and David Bowie). An ingenious story. An astonishing payoff. Once you see The Prestige, you'll want to see it again. Watch closely. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
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- Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson
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With his back against the wall, Raymond Reddington (James Spader) faces his most formidable enemy yet Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone). Aligned with her mother, infamous Russian spy Katarina Rostova, Liz must decide how far she is willing to go to find out why Reddington has entered her life and what his endgame really is. The fallout between Reddington and Keen will have devastating consequences for all that lie in their wake, including the Task Force they helped to create. - Director:
- Andrew McCarthy
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- James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff
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Complete seventh series of the sci-fi television drama. The Starship Voyager, under the command of Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), has been drifting in space thousands of light years away from Federation territory, as the crew tries desperately to find a way home. In this series the crew launch a decisive battle against the unstoppable Borg, become abducted from their ship and forced to work on a industrial mining planet, and Janeway makes a critical decision to alter the space-time continuum in an effort to get her ship back to the Alpha Quadrant. - Director:
- Mike Vejar
- Cast:
- William Daniels, Kate Mulgrew, Majel Barrett
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