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The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favour with the Queen herself.

As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

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Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective, investigates the gruesome death of a controversial author.

1. The Silkworm (Part 1)

When a famous author disappears, his wife begs Cormoran Strike to take the case. Strike soon finds the gruesomely dismembered body but is convinced the police are pursuing the wrong suspect. Robin (Holliday Grainger) is eager to prove herself as an investigator, but this doesn't fit in with her boyfriend's plans.
2. The Silkworm (Part 2)
Delving deeper into the hidden meanings and concealed secrets of the author's last book, Bombyx Mori, Strike and Robin scour all corners of London's literary world to unmask Quine's killer.

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A group of friends are spending the weekend at a cabin while, unbeknownst to them, aliens have begun to attack planet Earth. A number of them are abducted by the alien spaceship hovering over the forest.

Annie (Laura Bilgeri) and Charlie (Jedidiah Goodacre) survive the mass-abduction and must rely on an eccentric and dangerous hunter who seems to have special knowledge of the attack. The Hunter (Wesley Snipes) goes on explaining that this day has been prophesized for years and extra-terrestrials have been guiding Earth's evolution in preparation for their ultimate takeover.

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Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London's Denmark Street.

Though he's wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike's unique insight and his background as an SIB Investigator prove crucial in solving a complex case that has eluded the police.

Part 1
Cormoran Strike seeks the'truth surrounding the mysterious death of supermodel Lula Landry (Elarica Johnson) alongside temp secretary, Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger).
Part 2
Strike discovers that Lula was murdered and makes a breakthrough about how it was done. Robin is offered a permanent job in HR but is reluctant to take it.
Part 3
Long buried secrets are revealed, putting Strike and Robin in danger as they close in on Lula Landry's killer.

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'Maleficent' explores the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the classic' Sleeping Beauty', and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone.

Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) cruelly places an irrevocable curse oh the human king's newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realises that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.

"The Other Side of Hope" follows the fortunes of Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a young man who has travelled to Helsinki from his home in Syria to seek asylum. For first-time visitors, Finland's capital city can be a strange and confusing place. But help is out there for those who know where ti find it.

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Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. Based on the best-selling book series from Charlaine Harris (the author behind True Blood), comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem.

From vampires and witches to psychics, angels, and assassins, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight off outside pressures from rowdy biker gangs, ever-suspicious cops, supernatural entities, and their own dangerous pasts, they band together and form a strong and unlikely family.

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The name McLaren is synonymous with motor racing excellence and stands today as a symbol for automotive superiority.

Yet what is less known is that the brand was the creation of one young man from New Zealand - a pioneer who followed his dream and who against all odds led a team to greatness and himself to become a motorsport champion and hero. Despite the tragic end to his life, Bruce's legacy lives on and his vision, passion and drive to innovate continues to be at the heart of advanced motor engineering to this day. A truly inspirational story of a young boy from humble birth who dared to take on the elite world of motor racing and win.

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"The Hatton Garden Job" follows four ageing East End criminals led by 76 year-old Brian Reader (Larry Lamb) and one mystery man who pull off the largest heist in English legal history.

With everyone from the Hungarian mob to Scotland Yard on their tail, these old school, and just plain old, villains set about achieving the seemingly impossible; drilling into a steel-and-concrete secured safety deposit vault in London's well-to-do Hatton Garden jewellery quarter. But will they commit the crime of the century or pay with their lives?

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Set in a world where law and politics collide, visceral thriller 'Fearless' stars acclaimed actress Helen McCrory as Emma Banville, an uncompromising human rights lawyer known for defending lost causes.

Written by Patrick Harbinson, this complex multi-layered drama shines a spotlight on an era of terror and high alert, where the necessities of national security secretly justify all kinds of police and state over-reach. Our defiant heroine, Emma, embarks on a fight to free a man she believes has been wrongly convicted of a girl's murder, but she soon begins to sense powerful forces working against her fight for justice.

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A key work of German silent cinema and an international smash on its release, E.A. Dupont's Variete (Variety) is an audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top.

When Boss Huller (the iconic Emil Jannings) meets the young emigre Berta-Marie (Lya De Putti), it kindles his desire to relaunch his career as a trapeze artist, stalled due to an injury and the pressures of domestic life. But with passion comes obsession, and with the involvement of the famed Artinelli into their act, tensions rise to a fever pitch. Visually astonishing, with some of the most inventive camerawork of the 1920s, and a typically intense and vivid central performance from Jannings.

This spectacular adventure pits Godzilla, the world's most famous monster, against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

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Prague, 1942. The Third Reich is at its zenith, controlling most of Europe. Reinhard Heydrich (Jason Clarke), aided by his wife Lina (Rosamund Pike), has risen to the top of the Nazi Party as head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the "Final Solution".

His brutal and oppressive rule of occupied Czechoslovakia leads to Hitler dubbing him "The Man with the Iron Heart". However, a small group of Czechoslovak Resistance fighters led by Jan Kubis (Jack O'Connell) and Jozef Gabcik (Jack Reynor) seek to stop the unstoppable and plan to assassinate Heydrich, making him the highest-ranking Nazi officer ever to be killed World War II. Based on Laurent Binet's bestselling book 'HHhH', 'The Man with the Iron Heart' its all-star cast tell the incredible story of how the brave men and women the Resistance sacrificed everything in name of freedom.

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Burned-out detective John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) is brought back into Homicide when the hunch he wouldn't let go is proven horribly correct.

Now, as he relentlessly tracks a brutal serial killer, he must keep a watchful eye on his new partner, detective Lise Delorme (Karine Vanasse), who he believes may have a secret agenda, whilst managing demons of his own as the life he's built with his wife and daughter threatens to unravel.

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F. W. Murnau made this film adaptation of Moliere's satire for UFA in 1925 and it was released in 1926, prior to Faust.

By presenting the play as a film-within-a-film, Murnau takes the opportunity to place the material in a contemporary setting, sandwiched inside a morality lesson about greed and hypocrisy. A devious housekeeper convinces her master to cut his worthy grandson out of his will and to leave the riches to her instead. The grandson, disguised as the projectionist of a travelling cinema show, flatters his way into the home to project a film of Tartuffe in an attempt to open his grandfather's eyes. Emil Jannings plays Tartuffe with creepy panache in a tour-de-force turn alongside Lil Dagover and Werner Krauss. Unjustly neglected for decades, perhaps because of its low-key nature compared with Murnau's more grand masterpieces, this delightful curiosity is more than a mere trifle. Tartuffe affirms Murnau as a master of multifarious cinematic disciplines: from the set-based dreams of Faust and Sunrise, to the naturalist landscapes of Nosferatu, City Girl, and Tabu. In Tartuffe we find an intimate Murnau, relying on close-ups and the performances of his actors to create magic. Tartuffe was first released in the UK in 1928.