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Starring Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz, alongside Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott - "Denial" is the gripping and inspirational story of a relentless fight for justice. When writer Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) speaks out against the lies of Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) she is faced with a high-stakes battle to uncover one of the darkest deceptions in history. Passionate, fiery and independent she decides she must face him in court to fight the battle for the truth, even though the odds are solidly stacked against her. - Director:
- Mick Jackson
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- Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall
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In the 1980s, personal computing was anyone's game. "Halt and Catch Fire" captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during which an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it. While charting the changing culture of Texas' Silicon Prairie, tensions build within the group as they attempt to navigate the thin line between visionary and fraud, genius and delusion, and as their drive to do something that matters runs up against their ability to truly innovate. - Director:
- Juan José Campanella
- Cast:
- Lee Pace, Michael E. Sanders, Scoot McNairy
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Locked Up: Series 1 (2015)Vis a vis
"Locked Up" is a grippingly tense provocative prison drama that will fuel your addiction to foreign drama. Framed by her lover for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro (Maggie Civantos) finds herself locked up in a high security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals. Still in denial, prison proves to be a very rude awakening for Macarena and at the end of her first day, she finds herself struggling to cope. Yolanda (Belén Cuesta), her cell mate, takes Macarena under her wing, but a midnight visit from Zulema (Najwa Nimri), the prison's most dangerous inmate, is about to change Macarena's life forever. - Director:
- Jesús Colmenar
- Cast:
- Maggie Civantos, Carlos Hipólito, Roberto Enríquez
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Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis star in a complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti) and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (Lewis) are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmanoeuvre the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series. - Director:
- Neil Burger
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- Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff
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"Humans" is a thrilling drama series, written by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant eerily similar in appearance to humans. These incredible machines share our homes, our jobs and our lives and so become the objects of our fear, hatred, lust and even love. The Hawkins family struggles to put past events behind them. Their efforts are complicated further when they are unexpectedly drawn into battles being waged by their old conscious synth friends. As their emotional capabilities expand, the synths are pushed to the limit as they confront huge moral questions about their place in the world. While a mysterious organisation threatens to exploit the precious secret behind conscious synthetics, the possibilities and limitations of relationships between synth-kind and humankind are put to the ultimate test. - Director:
- Lewis Arnold
- Cast:
- Raphael Acloque, Callum Adams, Tim Ahern
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In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 Rillington Place revealed that his neighbour - star prosecution witness John Reginald Christie (Tim Roth) knew much more about the sinister goings on in the house. Set in the dark confines of Christie's home, this powerful drama imagines the relationships between Christie, his wife Ethel (Samantha Morton) and the innocent young Evans couple. What twisted influence did Christie hold over the young newly-weds Timothy (Nico Mirallegro) and Beryl (Jodie Comer)? And how was he able to trick both judge and jury into sending an innocent man to the executioner? - Director:
- Craig Viveiros
- Cast:
- Jodie Comer, Tim Roth, Nico Mirallegro
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Agent Carter: Series 1 (2015)Marvel's Agent Carter
Hold on to your hats as one fearless woman redefines heroism in the perilous arena of international espionage. With equal parts brains, beauty and brawn, Marvel's Agent Carter from ABC Studios ignites a firestorm of adventure, suspense and action-packed fun integral to the origins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 1946, top SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) operative Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) is still reeling from the loss of Steve Rogers (a.k.a. Captain America). But now that the war is over, peacetime deals her yet another blow as she finds herself marginalised when the men return home from fighting abroad. Now her "missions" consist of fetching coffee and answering glumes - until old acquaintance Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) is framed for selling his deadliest weapons to the highest bidder, and he contacts the one person he trusts to clear his name: Agent Carter. Working as a secret double agent with the aid of Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis (James D'Arcy), Peggy must evade both her SSR colleagues and mysterious foreign assassins as she attempts to track down those responsible and dispose of the weapons before they inflict mass destruction. Relive all the glamour and excitement of Marvel's Agent Carter. - Director:
- Louis D'Esposito
- Cast:
- Hayley Atwell, James D'Arcy, Chad Michael Murray
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Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman star in the epic conclusion to the ninth series of Doctor Who. Despite the danger that seems to lurk around every corner, the Doctor and Clara are still relishing all that time and space has to offer them. But the clock is ticking and Zygons aren't the only threat they'll be facing as they embark on their biggest adventures yet. - Director:
- Daniel Nettheim
- Cast:
- Elaine Tan, Nicholas Briggs, Jemma Redgrave
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The sexiest drama to scorch the airwaves soars to arresting heights of lust, lies and manipulation as Emmy Award winner Viola Davis lays down the law in ABC Studios' "How to Get Away with Murder": The Complete Second Season. As the body count rises, Frank, Bonnie and 'Keating Five' dive into a docket of daunting new cases. Meanwhile, the shocking discovery of who killed Rebecca leads into the mystery of who shot Annalise. But instead of answers, this stunning development will set the stage for a series of shocking secrets, bitter betrayals and gasp-worthy revelations that will prove beyond all reasonable doubt, that under the right circumstances, anyone can be a killer. - Director:
- Bill D'Elia
- Cast:
- Viola Davis, Billy Brown, Alfred Enoch
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War Dogs (2016)Arms and the Dudes
Two friends (Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) in their early 20s, living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War, exploit a little-known government initiative that allows smaller businesses to bid on U.S. military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and living the high life. But the two get in over their heads when they land a $300-million deal to arm the Afghan military - a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, including the U.S. government. - Director:
- Todd Phillips
- Cast:
- Jonah Hill, Mikush Lleshdedaj, Miles Teller
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Peter Capaldi returns as the Doctor alongside Jenna Coleman as Clara in the first six thrilling episodes of Series Nine. Now that the Doctor and Clara have established a dynamic as a partnership of equals, they're relishing the fun and thrills that all of space and time has to offer. Tangling with ghosts, Vikings and the ultimate evil of the Daleks, they embark on their biggest adventures yet. - Director:
- Hettie Macdonald
- Cast:
- David Tennant, Nicholas Briggs, Matt Smith
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Introducing Peter Capaldi as the twelfth Doctor, this fantastic new series sees the Doctor and Clara (Jenna Coleman) encounter unimaginable wonders and horrors... The time travellers meet a fleet of Daleks as they attempt to rescue a stranded ship of human survivors, face ranks of Cybermen stalking the Earth, go back in time and join Robin Hood in a fight with killer robots in Sherwood Forest, become bank robbers when they break into the deadliest bank in the cosmos, face a Mummy on the Orient Express, discover a deadly horror dwelling on the Moon; and come to know the last man standing at the end of the universe. - Director:
- Ben Wheatley
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- Peter Capaldi, Nicholas Briggs, Jenna Coleman
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Meet Dag, a couples therapist who holds a 90% divorce rate. His philosophy in life is that people should live alone and he's happy to share that with his patients. Dag leads a quiet life and the only thing he loves more than his solitude is prescription drugs. However, Dag's peaceful existence is away to change radically when Eva enters his life. Dag is a sometimes cynical, yet often heartwarming comedy that features a star-studded cast of Norway's most celebrated actors. - Director:
- Øystein Karlsen
- Cast:
- Atle Antonsen, Malin Helene H. Pedersen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen
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Winner of the Golden Globe for Best TV Drama, "Mr. Robot" follows Elliot Alderson (Golden Globe-nominee and Emmy Award-winner Rami Malek), a young cybersecurity engineer who becomes involved in the underground hacker group fsociety, after being recruited by their mysterious leader (Golden Globe-winner Christian Slater). Following the events of fsociety's 5/9 hack on multi-national company Evil Corp, the second season explores the consequences of that attack as welt as the illusion of control. - Director:
- Sam Esmail
- Cast:
- Paul Fusco, Rami Malek, Portia Doubleday
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The Night Of (2016)Criminal Justice
A probing, contemporary look at crime, the presumption of guilt and the urban prison system, 'The Night Of' centres around the police investigation of a murder on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The prime suspect in the case - a college student, the son of immigrant parents - finds himself and his family thrown into the pit of NYC's criminal, legal, penal and judicial system after his arrest and imprisonment. Written by Steven Zaillian and Richard Price, 'The Night Of' takes an unvarnished look at both the city's multifaceted criminal justice system and the purgatory of Riker's Island. Starring John Turturro and Riz Ahmed. - Director:
- Steven Zaillian
- Cast:
- Riz Ahmed, Bill Camp, Peyman Moaadi
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