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From Nicolas Roeg, the genius behind 'Walkabout', 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' and 'Don't Look Now', comes a scorching dissection of the basic needs of humanity; to eat, to love and to survive.

Gerald Kingsland (legendary Hellraiser Oliver Reed) advertises for a female companion to join him on a desert island for a year. Lucy (Amanda Donohoe) responds and the two embark on an unforgettable expedition, and an unexpected battle of the sunburnt sexes. Based on the book from Lucy Irvine, the movie manages to bring to life this controversial and tabloid-baiting social experiment.

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Amid the trendy, bohemian scene of London's famed Bloomsbury group, Dora Carrington (Thompson), a talented young artist, first meets bon vivant and writer Lytton Strachey (Pryce). The two creative souls are instantly attracted, although Strachey's desires clearly lie elsewhere.

The unlikely pair joyously spends colourful days pursuing their arts - and discovering that love works in mysterious ways. But their blissful existence hangs in the balance when Carrington brings home a lover and they suddenly find themselves caught in a bizarre love triangle. As conflicting passions heat to a boiling point, will true love triumph or will Carrington lose her one and only soul mate forever?

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A emotionally disturbed young woman, Claire is the heir to a great fortune. She is kept prisoner in a château by her aunt who wants her money. The game keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she manages to escape. In her flight she meets Louis who is also running away from two killers.

He becomes her lover. In a world of grotesque characters, bizarre incidents, brutal murders and incessant driving rain, this dark and erotic thriller is compelling thanks to the incredible performance of Charlotte Rampling. Will Claire be able to make sense of her own identity?

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Hailed as one of the best comedies ever made and nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, the story focuses on army surgeons who develop a lunatic life-style in order to handle every day horrors encountered in Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean war.

Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, this irreverent mob of madcaps is equally adept at making a shambles of army bureaucracy.

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After she rejects the marriage that her wealthy parents have arranged, young Carmella Simoni (Eleonora Giorgi) is packed off to the convent to become a nun.

But there she finds the other 'brides of Christ' have some very bad habits: there are power games and sadism, and not everyone is sticking to their vows of chastity...

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Told over one horrifying night, Deviation will take you on a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton (Danny Dyer), a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London.

But when Frankie takes a hostage (Anna Walton), the deadly game of cat-and-mouse truly begins.

Marvel Studios presents their most signifcant mistake yet. His days as Deadpool behind him, a listless Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) toils away in civilian life. But when his homeworld is threatened, he reluctantly suits up as he tries to convince Wolverine...oh hell, just watch.

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From the producers of 'Battlestar Galactica', 'Caprica' and 'Farscape' comes the third series of 'Defiance'. Nolan and Irisa return to the ruins of Defiance seven months after the complete destruction of New York City.

They find the town on the verge of war with the Votanis Collective, led by the notorious General Rahm Tak. To beat impossible odds and to save Defiance from the brutality of the Votanis Collective, the town turns to the mysterious Omec, a long-lost race of Votans with a blood-stained past. Watch all 12 episodes with new aliens, new villians and new threats - back-to-back and uninterrupted.

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As Defiance's second action-packed season begins, the lives of the townspeople remain in turmoil as Nolan (Grant Bowler) searches for Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas), Amanda (Julie Benz) deals with a personal loss and Stahma (Jaime Murray) plots to take over Datak's criminal empire.

Meanwhile, Earth Republic's control of Defiance brings changes with far-reaching consequences, including a scheming new mayor (James Murray) whose secret agendas push the town towards its breaking point.

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Defiance is the story of courage and survival in a place unlike any other you could imagine. Set in the wake of an alien conflict, a completely transformed planet Earth is inhabited by human and alien survivors forced to live and work together in the aftermath of this global catastrophe.

Mysterious drifter Joshua Nolan (Grant Bowler), a former military lieutenant and his lone companion, Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas), settle in the frontier town of Defiance, where they join up with other inhabitants struggling to build a new society in this dangerous new world. Now they must stand together against outside forces that threaten their existence. United they stand. Divided they fall. It's do or die in the town of Defiance...

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Orphaned by a cold-blooded cult leader (James Earl Jones) and his band of brutal marauders, Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) endures a childhood of merciless slavery only to become a gladiator for the amusement of his captors.

Sent to the Far East to hone his fighting skills, Conan is freed and begins a dangerous, full-blooded quest to avenge his parents' massacre. Now, the sword-wielding warrior must vanquish his bloodthirsty enemies in a death-defying action-adventure about courage, strength, character and the triumph of good over evil.

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Set against the backdrop of a transforming country, a young women finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent.

As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game that will ultimately determine her fate.

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Imamura finally answered his true calling as Japanese cinema's most dedicated and brilliant chronicler of society's underbelly with the astonishing 'Pigs and Battleships' (Buta togunkan). A riotous portrait of sub-Yakuza gangsters battling for control of the local pork business in the U.S.

Navy-occupied coastal town of Yokosuka, Imamura conjures a chaotic world of petty thugs, young love, tough-headed women, and underworld hypochondria, with one of the most unforgettable climaxes ever filmed. 'Pigs and Battleships' immediately became a cornerstone of the Japanese New Wave and remains perhaps Imamura's most well known work. The Masters oi Cinema Series is proud to present the film on its 50th anniversary in a Dual Format edition, alongside Imamura's rarely seen 1958 debut, 'Stolen Desire'.

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The hilarious, rowdy and raunchy insight into the zany antics of six, sex mad American teenagers, who all share the same interests, basketball, girls and how to get laid.

Desperate to prove their manhood, they are hypnotically drawn to the notorious Porky's where, for a price, their amorous daydreaming can become a night-time reality. But, having paid their money, Porky, the owner, has them thrown into the swamp. They decide to take revenge. One way or another, they will get even with Porky and Co... any way they can!

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In a bitter divorce settlement from her billionaire husband, Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) becomes the new owner of AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League football team.

She's assisted by her director of communications, Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift), who formerly worked for her husband. Her first order of business is to fire the team's current manager and replace him with small-time American football coach Theodore "Ted" Lasso (Jason Sudeikis).Ted and his friend, assistant Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt), cross the pond to take up the management of the team's long, albeit modest, histoiy. He gets to know the team, including salty team captain Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and top scorer Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster), but finds his first friend in the locker room is assistant Nathan Shelley (Nick Mohammed). Although he is nationally ridiculed for doing so, Ted works to change the team's profound mediocrity. Richmond is about to change the way they're doing things - now it's the Lasso way.