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Luchino Visconti's masterpiece, The Leopard, is now available on DVD for the first time.

Featuring the complete and uncut version of the film, with fully restored picture and sound, this stunning high definition digital transfer from the film's original 70mm negative materials, overseen by the film's director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, is presented here in its original widescreen aspect ratio..

A murdered girl's defiant mother (Frances McDormand) boldly paints three local billboards, each with a controversial message, igniting a furious battle with a volatile cop (Sam Rockwell) and the town's revered chief of police (Woody Harrelson).

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The life and controversial death of Vincent van Gogh as told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them.

Beginning a year after his demise, this portrait of the artist is built via a series of interviews conducted by Armand Roulin (Booth) - a regular model for the artist's portraits - who becomes obsessed with van Gogh's death, caused by a bullet wound to the stomach. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? 'Loving Vincent' sets out to explore one of art's great mysteries, a unique film created using over over 65,000 hand painted frames and features music from the award winning composer Clint Mansell (The Fountain; Black Swan).

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What once was just imagination is now real; what was once the distant future is now around the corner. The "Science Fiction" of the past has now simply become "Science".

And the science of the future was strangely prophesied by a group of visionaries whose dreams once may have deemed them renegades and "mad scientists" have become reality! In a dynamic hyper-stylized way that has never been seen before. We will take a tour of what was, and what will be through the eyes of the visionary authors, illustrators, filmmakers, and scientists who have become the Prophets Of Science Fiction!
Some sci-fi storytellers are content to merely predict, but Sir Arthur C. Clarke creates. The writer is single-handedly responsible for the cornerstone of modern telecommunication technology: the satellite. Clarke's collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick on the iconic 2001 predicted videophones, iPads, and commercial spaceflight, while redefining science-fiction cinema for a new generation.

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Van Gogh, depicted by the remarkable actor/songwriter-singer Jacques Dutronc (Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie)), has arrived at Auvers-sur-Oise to come under the care of Dr. Gachet (Gerard Sety) for his nervous agitation.

Soon after the arrival of Vincent's brother Theo (Bernard Le Coq) and his wife, plein air portraiture and conviviality give way to the more crepuscular moods of brothels and cabarets, and the painter's anguished existence, tossing between money worries and an impassioned relationship with the doctor's teenage daughter, finally meets its terminal scene.

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Discover the incredible true story of Henry o Navarre, the celebrated warrior king who became one of history's great defenders of justice and reliaious freedom.

It is the mid 16th Century and France is awash with blood, as the protestant Huguenots fight for survival against dar forces led by the treacherous Catherine Medici. When she orchestrates the ultimate betrayal at the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, King Henry will fight his life's greatest battle to ensure her treachery joes not go unanswered...

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What if you could control luck? Would that be the greatest power you could give a man, or his worst nightmare? "Stan Lee's Lucky Man" is a bold crime thriller series based on an idea by the legendary comic book writer Stan Lee.

BAFTA nominated actor James Nesbitt plays Detective Inspector harry Clayton, a brilliant but troubled cop and a compulsive gambler who is in danger of losing everything. Marry is near rock bottom, his family have left him and he is losing big at a casino when he is approached by the beautiful and enigmatic Eve (Sienna Guillory). She gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck, but this kind of luck comes with a price and soon harry finds himself right at the sinister heart of a crime wave sweeping through London. With luck on his side he sets himself against the dark forces circling, but will it be enough to save him and his family? D.I. Harry Clayton is about to step onto the roller coaster and find out just how fickle Lady Luck can be...

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In 19th century France, the romantic daughter of a squire Emma Bovary (Isabelle Huppert) marries a dull country doctor Charles Bovery (Jean-François Balmer).

To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner Rodolphe Boulanger (Christophe Malavoy) and a young law student Leon Dupuis (Lucas Belvaux), and runs up ruinous debts.

Westworld is a dark odyssey about artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Days of fantasy play out in a vast, remote Wild West park where a guest pays top dollar to become the person they've always dreamed of during their adventures with android hosts. But behind the scenes, something's not right.

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Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and rising star in her party with her eye on the White House - then she became Vice President. Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in Veep, the new HBO comedy series created by Oscar nominee Armando Iannucci.

Veep follows the whirlwind day-to-day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the president's interests, even as she tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the chief executive.

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From the visionary director of the modern cinema classics Nikita, The Big Blue, Subway and Leon comes a compelling romantic fable set in Paris, the world's most beautiful city. Angel-a begins when two strangers meet on a bridge one morning.

Looking to escape his past Andre accepts the help of the mysterious Angela and sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life forever. Beautiful in its simplicity, Angel-a is a striking, supernatural love-story and the first film Besson has directed for over seven years.

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The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne...a new era is dawning.

Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.

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The acclaimed French political crime drama. 'Spin' carries us deep in the heart of a tension filled political campaign. Games of power, reason, hate and love: these Spin doctors will go to any lengths to see their candidate win. France is in shock: the President has been assassinated.

Behind the scenes, politicians are already campaigning for the special snap election in 35 days time. Presidential advisor Simon Kapita (Bruno Wolkowitch) wants to preserve his mentor's honour and sides with low-level Minister Anne Visage (Nathalie Baye). He believes she is the only one capable of defeating their political enemy, Prime Minister Philippe Deleuvre. But Simon finds his former protege (Ludovic Desmeuze played by Gregory Fitoussi) in his way, now working for his rival the PM's campaign. Both spin doctors go to war.

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Newly divorced journalist Dicte Svendsen (Iben Hjejle) has returned with daughter Rose to her hometown of Aarhus where she is trying to escape the past and build a new future.

But working as a crime reporter, she soon finds herself caught up in a case that is destined to open old wounds when she discovers the body of a murdered young woman. Brash, quick-witted, and not afraid to put herself in danger, she will do what it takes to uncover the truth, throwing herself into each investigation, jeopardising not only her life, but sometimes the lives of those around her. These five gripping tales told over ten episodes are drawn from the crime novels of bestselling Danish author Elsebeth Egholm.

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The Long Winter Is Here...Throughout seven thrilling episodes, the penultimate Season 7 focuses on a convergence of armies and attitudes that have been brewing for years. As the season begins, Daenerys Targaryen -accompanied by her.

Unsullied army and emboldened by Dothraki/lronborn allies and her lethal trio of dragons - has finally set sail for Westerns with Tyrion Lannister, her newly appointed Hand. Jon Snow has apparently consolidated power in the North after his spectacular conquest of Ramsay Bolton and the return of Winterfell to Stark control. In King's Landing, Cersei Lannister, bereft of any surviving heirs, has successfully seized the Iron Throne. But as these and other factions drive towards new alliances or (more likely) violent conflicts, the cold specter of another, apocalyptic threat - in the form of an army of undead White Walkers - threatens to undermine the status quo and obliterate the outcome of these smaller, all-too-human rivalries.