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DI Richard Poole is sent to the paradise island of Saint-Marie in the Caribbean to solve an impossible murder. He hates sun, sea and sand, but no matter - once he's solved the murder he'll be heading back to wonderful, cold, drizzly London. He does so, with brilliance and tenacity - only to discover his boss back home has conspired to keep him there. He's trapped on an island he hates and people just keep getting murdered. - Director:
- Charlie Palmer
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- Sean Maguire, Danny John-Jules, Lenora Crichlow
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The Great Silence (1968)Il Grande Silenzio
On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. Only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) stands between the innocent refugees and the corrupt killers. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong are not always clear, and good does not always triumph. - Director:
- Sergio Corbucci
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- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
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Cefalonia (2005)Kefallonia 1943
8 September 1943 proved to be a fateful day for the Acqui Division,part of the predominantly Italian force occupying Cefalonia: it was the day the Allies concluded an armistice with Italy. Confusion now reigned between the Italian and German troops stationed on the island. The Italians longed to return peacefully to their homeland, but the Germans - now their enemies - feared that the Italians might use their munitions in a hostile act. As Nazi reinforcements invaded the island, the Italian troops did something extraordinary. Following a democratic referendum involving soldiers of all ranks, rather than surrender to the Germans they elected to fight. - Director:
- Riccardo Milani
- Cast:
- Luca Zingaretti, Luisa Ranieri, Roberto De Francesco
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The 12th Man (2017)Den 12. mann
"The 12th Man" is a breath-taking war thriller about an incredible true-life story of heroism and a man's unbreakable will to live. Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad) finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia led by Kurt Stage (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). It's a harrowing journey across unforgiving, frozen wilderness that will stretch on for months - and force Jan to take extreme action in order to survive. The legendary story of Jan Baalsrud's escape remains one of the wildest, most unfathomable survival stories of World War II. - Director:
- Harald Zwart
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- Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Marie Blokhus
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Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna (Emma Thompson) Quangel receive the news that their only son has lost his life in the battlefield and decide to resist the Nazi regime in their very own way. Soon their campaign comes to the attention of the Gestapo and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins. - Director:
- Vincent Perez
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- Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Brendan Gleeson
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Above Suspicion: Series 4 (2012)Above Suspicion: Silent Scream: Series 4
Kelly Reilly, Ciarari Hinds arid company are back for the fourth and final series based on Lynda La Plante's hugely successful crime novels, 'Above Suspicion'. Silent Scream finds DCS James Langton (Hinds) enraged at having lost a bid for promotion, certain that someone has sold him out. That doesn't make for the most supportive teamwork as Dl Anna Travis (Reilly) and crew investigate the brutal murder of an acclaimed young film actress. The victim, Amanda Delaney, had secrets, lots of them. And enemies, lots of them too. But what she also appeared to have, among the married men and their angry wives, jealous actors and hard-edged directors, was someone who wanted something more, something more than she could give. An already tense team find themselves at the mercy of suspects many of whose very profession is one of deception. When you add envy, wild passion and desperate addiction into the mix, you find a case that is stirring up too much interest and too great a risk to all involved. The way things stand, there will be more than one victim before the final curtain falls on Silent Scream. - Director:
- Catherine Morshead
- Cast:
- Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall
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Lawman (1971)The Law Man
During a drunken spree in the small Wild West town of Bannock, one of a half-dozen workers from a nearby ranch accidentally shoots an innocent man. Bannock's marshal, a righteous man named Jared Maddox (Burt Lancaster), comes to the larger town of Sabbath bearing the dead body of one of the revellers and demands the surrender of the remaining five from sheriff Cotton Ryan (Robert Ryan) and ranch owner Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb), starting a confrontation that threatens to engulf them all. - Director:
- Michael Winner
- Cast:
- Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb
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Above Suspicion: Series 3 (2011)Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent: Series 3
Ciarán Hinds, Kelly Reilly and company are back for a third instalment of Lynda La Plante's hugely successful Above Suspicion. Deadly Intent follows DI Anna Travis (Reilly) reunited with DCS James Langton (Hinds) as they investigate the fatal shooting of Frank Brandon, an ex-police officer from the drug squad, whose body is found in a drug dealer's squat. Travis begins to uncover suspicious links between Brandon and the notorious drug-trafficker, Alexander Fitzpatrick, one of the most wanted men in the Western world who has eluded arrest for 20 years and has not been sighted until now. No one involved with the case can be trusted; witnesses, suspects, victims all appear to be lying. What can be so precious, valued, loved, that it's worth dying for? The answer lies behind a Deadly Intent. - Director:
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Cast:
- Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall
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A classic action-filled John Wayne western is set into motion with a spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerrillas. The train's colonel (John Wayne) jails the enemy leaders (Jorge Rivero, Chris Mitchum) but the three men later become friends when the war ends. Together they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies, a mission that culminates in a rousing shoot-'em-up finale. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill
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After being shot on duty, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe decides, against the will of his superiors and his accountant wife, to retire and open his own restaurant - Pie in the Sky. Prowlers, sudden deaths, retrieving rebellious daughters, missing lovers, psychics and fear of the food writer are all elements Henry has to deal with as well as creating his signature steak and kidney pies. - Director:
- Lawrence Gordon Clark
- Cast:
- Richard Griffiths, Joe Duttine, Maggie Steed
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Above Suspicion: Series 2 (2010)Above Suspicion 2: The Red Dahlia
DC Anna Travis (Kelly Reilly) is back, reunited with the inimitable DCI James Langton (Ciaran Hinds), to face her most challenging and terrifying case yet. When the body of a young woman is discovered, sadistically mutilated and drained of blood, it would seem an ominous re-enactment of the infamously unsolved murder from 1940s Los Angeles, dubbed the 'Black Dahlia'. Travis races to stay one step ahead of the killer, using the original case as some sort of instruction manual. Meanwhile, the underlying sexual friction between her and Langton threatens to derail the investigation. However, they must pull together to stop this depraved copycat killer before he strikes again. - Director:
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Cast:
- Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall
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Even when it was east versus West, sometimes it was hard to tell the good guys from the bad. "The Company" is a pulse-pounding rollercoaster ride that traces the CIA's secret war against the KGB, spanning the globe from Moscow to Berlin, from Budapest to London, from Washington D.C. to Cuba. Sent to Berlin to work with a man who becomes his mentor, codename "The Sorcerer" (Alfred Molina), Jack McCauliffe (Chris O'Donnell) soon finds himself caught up in a web of intrigue and deceit as he takes on his elusive and formidable enemy. And when Jack falls in love with an informant, codename "Rainbow" (Alexandra Maria Lara), this simple act makes her a pawn in their terrible game. But there is a traitor somewhere in the CIA, feeding vital information to the enemy, sabotage and death to the very heart of 'the company'. Together with their counter intelligence Chief, James Angleton (Michael Keaton), McCauliffe and "The Sorcerer" must find this mole before the world that they have fought so hard to preserve is completely destroyed. - Director:
- Mikael Salomon
- Cast:
- Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton
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DC Anna Travis (Kelly Reilly) has been assigned to her first murder case. Under the watchful eye of DCI James Langton (Ciaran Hindis), she joins a team investigating a series of brutal and shocking murders. They started eight years ago, and the body count - all prostitutes and drug users - was up to six, but now a seventh body has been found. This time the victim is a beautiful, young student, with the murderer no less ugly in his slaughter. Is every victim innocent, or are some more innocent than others? Determined to prove herself, Anna uncovers a vital piece of information linking one man to all the killings, a much-loved actor on the brink of stardom. He seems above suspicion and his smouldering good looks attract even Travis - but in getting closer to the truth, is she getting too close to a killer? - Director:
- Christopher Menaul
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- Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Jason Durr
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Dandelion Dead is a dramatization of the true story of Major Herbert Armstrong, a solicitor equally proud of his work in the justice system as he was of his beloved garden. Life seemed good for Herbert, a respected solicitor with country estate, the love of his three children and a devout pride in both his life and his garden. But Armstrong, pillar of the local community, was also a man at war. He was in conflict on three fronts: he fought regular battles against his domineering and unstable wife, Katherine; he had regular skirmishes with his bright and ambitious business rival, Oswald Martin; and waged a war against the dandelions that colonised his treasured lawn. These dandelions led to one of the most celebrated murder trials in British legal history. - Director:
- Mike Hodges
- Cast:
- Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, David Thewlis
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After being shot on duty, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe decides, against the will of his superiors and his accountant wife, to retire and open his own restaurant - Pie in the Sky. Of course life is never simple and between his first love - cooking - and being constantly called back on duty by a needy ex-boss, Chief Constable Fisher, Henry finds that he's not going to fulfill his dream in peace. - Director:
- Colin Gregg
- Cast:
- Richard Griffiths, Joe Duttine, Maggie Steed
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