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A hot shot reporter (Porter Wren) is seduced into an affair by a beautiful woman and tasked with investigating the mysterious death of her ex-husband. When suspicious circumstances lead Porter down a dark and violent path he must do everything to protect the ones he loves.

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As he plans a job that could result in his gang's biggest score ever, a longtime thief plans a way out of the life and the town while dodging the FBI agent looking to bring him and his bank-robbing crew down.

In addition to heading an electrifying cast, Ben Affleck also directed and co-wrote this suspenseful, critically acclaimed crime thriller that unfolds - and often explodes - across gritty Boston locations.

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In Tumbledown, a young widow (Rebecca Hall), falls for a brash New York writer (Jason Sudeikis) who barrels into her rural Maine town investigating the death of her husband, folk-music hero Hunter Miles.

Hannah is scraping her life back together in a cabin at the foot of Tumbledown mountain, attempting to seal every shred of her husband's life into a biography. When Andrew, an academic who has a different take on Hunter's life and death, shows up looking for the truth of this mysterious musician, the pair clash. But gradually they find themselves collaborating to craft Hunter's story, and beginning to write the next chapter of their lives together.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples' game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother (Kyle Chandler) plans a murder mystery party that turns out to be more than they bargained for.

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A powerful World War II drama series set in occupied France starring John Thaw. After going against the wishes of his family to join the Catholic Church twenty years earlier, Monsignor Renard returns to the town where he was born.

He finds confusion, mainly caused by an ineffectual Mayor who is at pains to reassure the anxious populace that threats of occupation are premature. Renard is given a cool reception by his brother Yves, resentful that Renard escaped the running of the family business, and is accused of scaremongering when he disagrees with the Mayor. I his tense and moving drama follows Monsignor Renard as he faces the many dilemmas brought about by his return and the imminent occupation.

"Even When I Fall" is the incredible true story of Nepal's first circus, set up by survivors of human trafficking. An intimate beautiful story of female empowerment that harnesses the visual, power of circus as it follows Circus Kathmandu on their unique journey to independence.

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'All That Matters Is Past' tells the story of childhood friends Janne and two brothers, William and Ruud who from the moment of meeting their destinies are entwined. After many years of separation Janne runs in to William.

Shocked to see him after all this time, the pair realise that the connection they had as children is still as strong as ever, rekindling feelings of love and lust. Entranced by William and the depth of feeling she has for him, Janne ends up leaving her family and they both leave to live together in a cabin by the river. But soon they realise Ruud is haunting them again. One day a canoeist discovers Janne in the forest, she is extremely weak and injured, but not alone. Two dead bodies lie beside her.

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When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young African-American man, visits his white girlfriend's (Allison Williams) family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation.

At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behaviour as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

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Set in the glamour of 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of

Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by the scariest curse of all...love. And so begins a Gothic Romance of twists, turns and power struggles of "pure, delicious pleasure" that is "devilishly funny and luxuriantly sensuous".

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When Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband is having an affair, she seeks refuge with her estranged, bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie). As a fish out of water, Sandra is at odds with her sister's free-spirited lifestyle, until she is persuaded to join Bif's dance class.

Here, Bif and her friends Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman) show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love.

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Set in 1914, Ali (Adam Bakri) is an educated young Muslim noble living in Baku, the oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan. Nino (Marfa Valverde) is a regal Christian girl from Georgia.

Although desperately in love, their relationship is beset by familial objections, religious divides, violent social customs and the very real threat of war-time conflict, which all look set to keep them apart. As revolution brews and Azerbaijan seeks independence from Russia, Ali and Nino find themselves caught in a world of dramatic change where their love for each other is the only constant.

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'The Big Sick' is the hilarious and heart-rending true story of Pakistan-born aspiring comedian Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani), who connects with grad student Emily (Zoe Kazan) after one of his stand-up sets.

What they thought would be just a one-night stand blossoms into the real thing, which complicates the life that is expected of Kumail by his traditional Muslim parents. When Emily is beset with a mystery illness, it forces Kumail to navigate the medical crisis with her parents (Holly Hunter and Ray Romano), who he's never met, while dealing with the emotional tug-of-war between his family and his heart.

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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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As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister.

With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) sceptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen.

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"Spiral" is back for another intriguing, gripping and critically acclaimed series about the imperfect people upholding law and order in Paris.

Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) returns early from maternity leave to help the team put a name to an anonymous murder victim identifiable only by use of his dismembered torso. Meanwhile, a high-profile trial involving a boy accused of murdering his own father tempts a jaded Joséphine (Audrey Fleurot). Magistrate Roban (Philippe Duclos) grows distracted and makes uncharacteristic mistakes.