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Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young, black optometrist whose adoptive parents have recently died. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with her confrontational daughter, Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook).

Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) is a successful wedding photographer who lives comfortably in suburbia with his snooty wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). In a misplaced effort to re-unite the family, Maurice and Monica throw a small barbecue party for Roxanne's 21st birthday. When Cynthia brings along her new friend Hortense, chaos ensues as some painful truths are revealed.

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Yesterday strangers, today inseparable soulmates. But separate they must in just a few hours. Jesse and Celine are making every moment count, pouring as much living as they can into the time 'Before Sunrise'. From Richard Linklater comes another smartly observed tale of young people at a crossroads.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy play twenty-somethings who meet on a train in Europe, sense a connection and explore after-hours Vienna together. The people, places and allure of the city become their sudden itineraries. Love is their destination. On the way there's the mutual sharing of hopes, jokes, dreams, worry and wonder. It's a day to linger in their memories. And a valentine to young love forever.

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Mitsuha and Taki have never met, but when the frustrated country girl wishes of a life in the big city, they will forge a connection both unexplainable and unforgettable. In their dreams, the two swap lives, cultures and genders as they learn more about, and grow closer to, each other.

What was once a shock becomes a joy-filled double life, but what will happen when they discover the red string of fate tying them together?

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Tthis is a compelling drama about a prestigious ad agency in New York's Madison Avenue.

Mad Men (an affectionate term coined for those working in the agencies) is set in the early 60's when sexism, homophobia, dubious family values and misogyny were rife, and smokers were enjoying the last guilt free years of the cigarette. These were the early years of mass consumerism where everyone was selling someone something and ad men were revered.

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Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony Jr. A mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home. A hot headed uncle. A not-too-secret mistress.

And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're made ...doesn't mean you've got it made.

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The most unvarnished, uncompromising and realistic police drama ever returns for another hard hitting season. McNolty has been demoted to harbor patrol, Daniels is in the police archive dungeon, Prez is chafing in the suburbs and Gregs is stuck behind a desk.

Meanwhile, on the docks of the Baltimore harbor, the rank and file scrounge for work and the union bosses take illegitimate measures to reinvigorate business, but a horrific discovery is about to blow the whole port inside out. While the detail is on ice, a new case begins...

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'Mad Men: The Final Season, Part 1', is the beginning of the end for television's most celebrated show -four-time Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of three consecutive Golden Globes.

Set in the captivating world of 1960s New York, 'Mad Men' continues to follow iconic ad man Don Draper (Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm), his colleagues and his family.

His separation hasn't been working out. His nephew's fiancee has become a distraction. His paroled cousin is giving off bad vibes. His business rival is looking for payback. His therapist isn't buying into the "Two Tonys". It's enough to send any mob boss over the edge. Hell hath no fury like The Sopranos.

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New challenges abound for Tony Soprano as his life grows increasingly complicated. Now that he and Carmela are back together, they must face the reality that their kids are no longer children, but not yet grown.

And with Johnny Sack in prison, the always-tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained even further.

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Atlantic City, February 1924: Picking up 8 months after the events of Season 3, Nucky Thompson is laying low at the end of the Boardwalk after barely surviving an overthrow by gangster Gyp Rosetti.

But the calm will be short-lived, as Nucky faces new challenges, including a clash with a violent Harlem powder broker, a battle with his brother Eli over Eli's college-age son, and the irresistible lure of lucrative - and perilous - opportunities in Florida.

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The Coen Brothers Best Picture Oscar Nominee transforms into the season's most talked about TV debut. 'Fargo' features a new "true crime" story and new characters...all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic , film.

Oscar Winner Billy Bob Thornton stars as Lome Malvo, a manipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman). Gus Grimly (Colin Hanks) and Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman) are the small-town police officers who join forces to uncover Lester's secrets and stop the relentlessly destructive Malvo.

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With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNulty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "follow the money" up the political ladder amidst a hotly contested mayoral campaign.

Prez witnesses first-hand the role of inner-city education in the formation of youth as four students, Michael, Namond, Randy and Dukie, face dangerous decisions and adolescent angst in a city rife with the temptations of crime and easy money. The explosive fourth season of The Wire continues to blur the lines between good and evil, and incite the fires of urban unrest.

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Welcome to Mad Men - a shocking portrait of a time that was anything but innocent. Nothing is as sexy. Nothing is as provocative. Nothing is as it seems. Season three of Mad Men, is bursting with one scandalous surprise after another.

Don Draper and the rest of the Madison Avenue pioneers contend with a world on the brink.

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Season Five of "Mad Men", four-time Primetime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series and winner of three consecutive Golden Globes, plunges into the seductive and intriguing world of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.

Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning cast continue to mesmerise as they adapt to changing times, social revolution, and a radical world. Lust is back. Adultery is back. Deception is back.

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Concluding a powerful and groundbreaking five-season run, 'Boardwalk Empire', the Emmy - winning HBO drama series from Academy Award nominee/Emmy Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese begins its final season in 1931, a full six years after the end of Season

4. In stark contrast with the Roaring '20s, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression, and with the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimise himself by forging alliances with liquor producers. Season 5 also includes flashback scenes of Nucky, Eli, the Commodore, Gillian and others from 1884-1900 - childhood experiences that would shape their relationships and their futures.