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Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup), German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler's orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode. And yet, Paris is not destroyed.

Why did von Choltitz refuse to carry out the Fuhrer's commands, despite his boundless loyalty to the Third Reich? Could it have been Raoul Nordling (Andre Dussollier), Swedish consul-general to Paris, who made the General change his mind?

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U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack) works for the Federal Witness Protection Program (WITSEC) relocating and protecting career criminals, compulsive liars, thieves, murderers, and the occasional innocent bystander.

With the help of her partner Marshall Mann (yes, Marshal Marshall) and her beat-up but beloved car, she just may get through her workday in time to deal with her sort-of boyfriend, her flaky sister, and her ne'er-do-well mother. Featuring an impressive cast, including Fred Weller, Nichole Hiltz, Todd Williams, and Lesley Ann Warren, In Plain Sight is the funny, suspenseful drama that critics are calling "hugely entertaining!"

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When Aboriginal detective Jay Swan returns to his home town to solve the brutal murder of a teenage girl, he is immediately thrown into a web of lies and deceit.

Alienated by the white-dominated police force to which he is attached and ostracised by the local Indigenous community, Jay must stand alone and attempt to unravel the truth before tensions boil over.

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The world has been thrown into turmoil by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Opportunity and misfortune are everywhere. Tommy Shelby MP (Cillian Murphy) is approached by a charismatic politician (Sam Claflin) with a bold vision for Britain.

He soon realises that his response will affect not just his own family's future but that of the entire nation.

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When a young Royal Engineer Officer is killed trying to defuse a bomb, he is replaced by raw officer recruit Brian Ash (Anthony Andrews). Ash is shocked to discover that his new unit, the 97th Tunnelling Company, is in fact a hastily formed bomb disposal squad.

With the Blitz devastating London every night and making massive demands on Royal Engineers' manpower, he is to take command of 347 Section forthwith. It's not long before he's facing the real thing at close range, with his men looking on from a safe distance, making bets as to whether he'll go the same way as his predecessor...

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In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power.

To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline. A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb (Laurence Harvey), an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side.

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Belfast, 1971: a young, rookie soldier, Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell), is sent on his first field operation as the British military deploy emergency troops to try to suppress the increasing violence. When their first mission sparks a riot, Gary is accidentally abandoned by his unit in the frenzy.

Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night and find his way back to base through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.

The remote arctic town of Fortitude attempts to recover, but out in the wilderness, nature is growing ever more dangerous and the sky itself has turned red. For there's a demon amongst the herd and they have to be stopped no matter the consequences.

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Six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape.

The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as "The Hangman", will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town's new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie's Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian Bichir), who's taking care of Minnie's while she's visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…

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Catherine of Aragon (Charlotte Hope), the Princess of Spain, has been promised the English throne all her life. She arrives in a rain-lashed England with her glorious and diverse court, including her ladies-in-waiting, Lina (Stephanie Levi-John) and Rosa (Nadia Parkes).

When her husband dies suddenly, the throne seems lost to her until she sets her sights on the new heir, the future King Henry VIII (Ruairi O'Connor). "The Spanish Princess" is a vivid and captivating story told uniquely from the point of view of the women who lived within it.

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The Balkans, 1939. British professor Guy Pringle (Kenneth Branagh) arrives in Romania with his new bride, Harriet (Emma Thompson), and becomes enmeshed in the politics of anti-fascism.

Despite Harriet's serious misgivings, Guy's social circle soon includes members of the British Secret Service who want to involve him in dangerous missions, and a downtrodden prince who zeroes in on Guy's generous nature and winds up living with the Pringles. So the stage is set for a mesmerising story of marriage tested by accidental betrayal, callous insensitivity, and a world in upheaval.

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Crabbe is asked to trace a voyeur who makes obscene telephone calls with Margaret Crabbe next on his list of victims. All the evidence points to Crabbe's charming cheese merchant but Henry can't believe that it's him.

With expiring customers, wayward absent daughters and hate mail Crabbe has his work cut out for him.

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During World War II Adriano (Luca Zingaretti) is forced into exile by the Nazis, but in the post-war years the Olivetti company and its employees prosper thanks to his inspired and enlightened leadership. But such success inevitably provokes envy, and his many rivals see Adriano as a threat.

As his enemies' hatred grows, Adriano is destined to confront a final betrayal - and an abrupt end.

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"Papillon" follows the epic true story of Henri "Papillon" Charriere (Charlie Hunnam), a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, who is framed for murder and condemned to life in a notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega (Rami Malek) who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape, ultimately resulting in a bond of lasting friendship.

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Srinavasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) is a 25-year-old shipping clerk and self-taught genius. Determined to pursue his passion despite rejection and derision from his peers, Ramanujan writes a letter to G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), an eminent British mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Hardy recognises the originality and brilliance of Ramanujan's raw talent and despite the skepticism of his colleagues, undertakes bringing him to Cambridge so that his theories can be explored. Ramanujan leaves his family, his community, and his beloved young bride, Janaki (Devika Bhise), to travel across the world to England. There, he finds understanding and a deep connection with his sophisticated and eccentric mentor. Under Hardy's guidance, Ramanujan's work evolves in ways that will revolutionise mathematics and transform how scientists explain the world.