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From Academy Award Winner Steve McQueen, the director of '12 Years a Slave', and from Gillian Flynn, the writer of 'Gone Girl', comes a powerful thriller with a stellar cast, including Oscar Winner Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo.

Four women - with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts - conspire to take fate into their own hands. Also featuring Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall and Liam Neeson, Widows delivers explosive action and gripping suspense!

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A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California.

Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in...Chinatown.

Jurassic Park takes you to a remote island where an amazing theme park with living dinosaurs is about to turn deadly, as five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators.

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In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from office.

Washington reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the story and stayed with it through doubts, denials, and discouragement. The entire 'All the President's Men' is their story. The film also explores a working newspaper, where the mission is to get the story - and to get it right.

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Set in the picture-postcard small town environs of Lumberton, Kyle MacLachlan plays the clean cut Jeffrey Beaumont, who, whilst returning from a visit to his hospitalised father, makes the shocking discovery of a severed human ear.

After reporting his discovery to a local police detective, Jeffrey decides to pursue his own line of enquiry, aided by the detective's daughter, Sandy (Laura Dern). This sets Jeffrey on a voyage of discovery that takes him to the very heart of Lumberton's seedy and sinister underworld where he encounters a collection of misfits whose various chronic compulsions to engulf him in their twisted and nightmarish world.

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Feckless cousins Kerry (Daisy May Cooper) and Lee 'Kurtan' Mucklowe (Charlie Cooper) live in a picturesque, but depressingly dull, village in the Cotswolds.

As they fritter away their days in the most pointless ways possible, they push their friendship to breaking point by constantly winding each other up. But, whether suffering the indignity of Kerry's house being pelted with plums, or celebrating the death of their old woodwork teacher with a bottle of cheap fizzy booze, these two miscreants always manage to stay loyal to each other.

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After Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), Jason (Manny Jacinto), and Chidi (William Jackson Harper) discover the truth about the 'Good Place', Michael (Ted Danson) asks for and receives permission from his boss Shawn (Marc Evan Jackson) to start over his experiment.

However, despite hundreds of reboots and memory wipes, the humans eventually realize the ruse. The numerous reboots result in a strike among Michael's dissatisfied demon underlings, forcing Michael to team up with the humans and attend Chidi's ethics classes. Shawn's final decision on the experiment puts the humans, Michael, and his assistant Janet (D'Arcy Carden) on a quest to find the real Good Place and stay there for good.

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They say they're looking for gold - but what they're really searching for and what they find will surprise even them. Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones are Andy and Lance, two friends who find common ground as part of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club.

Their dream is to uncover the final resting place of King Sexred, a wealthy East Saxon King. But while they search for the past, they must also grapple with the present. For Andy that includes trying to keep his head above water with Becky (Rachael Stirling), his long-standing girlfriend. For Lance it's trying to win back his ex-wife Maggie, from the local take-away pizza manager. Both of them face an invasion of their turf by rival detectorists the Antiquisearchers. It's an uphill, down dale, over field and around the meadow struggle. But they know at heart in a buried world of tin can pulls and toy cars, there's something waiting that - if only they could find it - would change their lives forever.

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Some suburban households have two cars. Some have two houses. But Tony Soprano has two families. This could be why the FBI is going to such lengths to wiretap his home. Why the son of his dear late friend Jackie Aprile is causing him such agita.

Why a Russian housekeeper is searching for her missing leg. Why his son is vandalising school property and his daughter is getting her heart broken. Why his wife is both consulting a psychiatrist and confessing to a priest. And it's also why Tony Soprano is still seeing Dr. Melfi for his anxiety attacks. It isn't easy heading up the mob in New Jersey. But that's what puts dinner on the table for the two families of Tony Soprano.

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Everyone is feeling the heat in Baltimore. The drug war is a losing campaign, bodies are piling up in the street and a desperate mayor demands to see some victories before Election Day. But the police are running out of ammunition. Wiretaps aren't working, and neither are stakeouts or street busts.

No matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be a step ahead.

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Returning for its sixth season, Mad Men - four-time Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of three consecutive Golden Globes - explores the glamorous and ego-driven "Golden Age" of advertising in late-1960s New York City.

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and the rest of the award-winning cast continue to captivate as they deal with the after effects of adultery, divorce, a merger, and an ever-changing social climate.

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It is the eve of Prohibition, and county treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is looking to cash in.

As the undisputed "Boss" of Atlantic City, Nucky leads a double life as a politician and bootlegger; Prohibition may have outlawed alcohol, but to provide "liquid gold" for a thirsty nation. In a city defined by notorious backroom politics and vicious power struggles, Nucky must battle with a relentless federal agent, ambitious underlings, and opportunistic rivals – including Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, and Al Capone.

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For Tony Soprano, there's no such thing as business as usual. Balancing the demands of his immediate family with the demands of his other family - Paulie Walnuts, Silvio Dante and Big Pussy Bonpensiero - means walking a tightrope no self-respecting mobster should have to walk.

With his mother and uncle plotting against him, his older sister Janice wreaking her own special kind of havoc, and the very real threat that one of his closest allies is wired by the FBI, Tony needs the support of his psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi, more than ever.

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"Mad Men: Series 7: Part 2" is the end of an era for television's most celebrated show - four-time Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of three consecutive Golden Globes.

Created by Matthew Weiner, the highly anticipated conclusion of the series follows, forthe last time, the complex lives of Don (Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm), Peggy, Roger, Joan, Betty and Pete as their stories come to an end.

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Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind 'The Lego Movie' and '21 Jump Street', bring their unique talents to a fresh vision of a different Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that's the first of its kind.

'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales (voice of Shameik Moore), and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.