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East End gang chief Vic Dakin (Richard Burton) is a violent psychopath who lives with his mother (Cathleen Nesbitt) whilst making a living by running a prosperous protection racket.

After a tip off for a potential payroll heist opportunity, Dakin starts planning the job, bringing in a gang from the criminal underworld alongside associate Wolfe Lissner (Ian McShane). Tough copper Detective Inspector Robert Matthews (Nigel Davenport) has been tasked to arrest Dakin when he makes his first mistake and is watching his every move, determined to catch him in the act. When a gang member is hospitalised and Matthews is closing in, can Dakin silence him before he confesses all?

A member of a smuggling gang is found murdered on the Franco-Spanish border with counterfeit bills in his pocket. Agent Lee Scott (Richard Greene) - the dead smuggler's brother - is assigned to investigate.

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

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The MacGrieff's, a wealthy Scottish family, are rocked by a grisly murder on their estate. The youngest, Corringa (Jane Birkin), finds herself embroiled in an increasingly bizarre saga.

As the bodies pile up, Corringa starts suspecting someone within her own family of the murders, is it her arrogant cousin, James (Hiram Keller)? Their seductive French teacher, Suzanne (Doris Kunstmann)? Her own mother, Alicia (Dana Ghia)? Or can the legend of the MacGrieff family be true? That any MacGrieff killed by the hands of another will bring about a vengeful curse on the whole clan.

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Shy, failing magician Corky (Anthony Hopkins) finally finds success with a ventriloquist act featuring a dummy called Fats. With a shot at the big time on the horizon the pressure gets the better of him however and in a panic he flees the city back to the security of his hometown.

When he reunites with an old high school flame Fats takes on a life of his own with devastating consequences.

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Winter 1968, and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown.

As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians, and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as she embarks on a courtship with Mickey Deans (Finn Wittrock), her soon-to-be fifth husband. And yet Judy (Renée Zellweger) is fragile. After working for 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted: haunted by memories of a childhood lost to Hollywood, and gripped by a desire to be back home with her kids. Will she have the strength to go on? Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love and the sheer pizzazz of "the world's greatest entertainer".

In an epic adventure directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man), Mowgli, a man-cub raised in the jungle by a family of wolves, embarks on a captivating journey of self-discovery when he's forced to abandon the only home he's ever known.

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Career con man Roy (Ian McKellen) sets his sights on his latest mark, recently widowed Betty (Helen Mirren), who's worth millions. And he means to take it all.

But as the two grow closer, what should have been another simple swindle becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in this suspenseful drama about the secrets people keep and the lies they live.

Drummond (Richard Johnson) is hot on the trail of his nemesis, the devious Carl Petersen (James Villiers), who is hell-bent on sabotaging the new British fighter airplane. Peterson must be stopped, whatever the cost, but this time he's protected by a bodyguard of murderous female androids!

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Myra Savage, a highly-strung spiritual medium, convinces her weak-willed husband to fake a child kidnapping so she can offer her services to the parents when all seems lost.

Though horrified at the prospect, he reluctantly goes along with the plan but becomes more convinced than ever that Myra is losing her grip on reality.

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Retired hit man Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is forced on the run by a young, highly skilled operative who will stop at nothing to eliminate his target.

Now on a race around the globe, Henry must outsmart the mysterious assassin at every step - but how far will he go once they finally come face to face?

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International playboy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) decides to pretend he is dying in order to find out what his three ex-lovers will do when they hear the news. He summons them all to his bedside and they come willingly, thinking of the fortune he will leave behind. The three are the madcap Mrs.

Crocket-Sheridan; the gorgeous Princess Dominique, royal but broke, and the enigmatic screen star, Merle McGill. To help in his scheme, Fox hires unemployed actor and sometime gigolo McFly, to keep the ladies in line. But things take an unexpected turn when McFly begins to suspect that something more than a hoax is going on, and very soon Fox's charade becomes an all too real murder mystery.

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Fervent cyclist Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) is ran off the road by impatient tycoon Charles Chingford (James Robertson Justice). Tracing Chingford back to his home he meets and falls in love with Chingford's daughter, car-mad Clare (Julie Christie).

Egged on by his fellow lodger and racy car saleman Freddy Fox (Leslie Phillips), Murdoch decides to invest in 'The Fast Lady', a vintage Red Label Bentley to try to woo Clare. First, though, he has to learn to drive. His instructor, a veteran whose nerves are going, is terrified as Murdoch's obstinate nature comes to the fore and they narrowly avoid disasters with lorries and old ladies. Worse still, an incident in the main street involves none other than Clare's short-tempered father.

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Five dysfunctional individuals man an isolated oil pipeline station in the Sahara, their mutual contempt only overshadowed by their desire for female company.

Without warning, a car drives out of the desert night and crashes in front of the station - the driver is badly injured but the passenger, a gorgeous blonde, stirs up the tension amongst the men to unbearable levels.

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Publicans Carol (Joan Collins) and Jim (James Booth) Radford learn that a reclusive local man suspected of raping and murdering their ten-year-old daughter has been released due to insufficient evidence.

Heartbroken and hungry for vengeance, Jim hatches a chilling plan to force a confession from the suspect: abducting and imprisoning him in the pub's cellar, he will become judge, jury and - if necessary - executioner!