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Britain is in a state of political turmoil. There is rioting on the streets and the coalition government has collapsed. This taut and gripping 4-part thriller stars Philip Glenister as Harry Venn, a small time solicitor who is forced to delve back into his murky past. When a mysterious lawyer, Gina Hawkes (Thekla Reuten) turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client, he finds himself unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother twenty years ago. But as he begins to untangle the web of lies and deceit, Harry finds himself caught up in a bigger and more complex conspiracy. - Director:
- Niall MacCormick
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- Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor
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Harry holds the key to the secrets, and trusting his natural instincts uses his connections to seek the truth, but will his personal relationships end up compromising the lives of those around him? His loyal team decide to risk it all in order to reveal the enemies true identity, but as the clock ticks down will Sir Harry Pearce, super spy, put his trust in the right person? After narrowly surviving his MI5 disciplinary tribunal, Harry Pearce (Peter Firth) finds his world thrown into turmoil as his past comes back to haunt him, putting his team, the nation and his job in severe danger. A bitter intelligence war has broken out between the CIA, KGB and MI5. Harry and his new team realise that someone is trying to sabotage the planned partnership between Britain and Russia via a series of terror attacks. As a passenger plane hurtles towards London Harry has a decision to make, could the old friend have become the enemy, and the enemy the friend? - Director:
- Alrick Riley
- Cast:
- Simon Russell Beale, Max Brown, Rachel Edwards
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Friendships will be tested and the depth of deceit will lead to an unprecedented game of cat and mouse as the characters they play and the impact they have on the team dynamic will have viewers enthralled. Follow the team on a whirlwind adventure tracking Somalian AQ terrorists, preventing assassination attempts, avoiding bomb efforts and vicious snipers, and through it all trail the personal consequences of working for the MI5. - Director:
- Paul Whittington
- Cast:
- Richard Armitage, Peter Bankole, Simon Russell Beale
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Spooks series 8 opens where series 7 left off: Harry Pearce (head of MI5's section D) has been kidnapped and the rest of the team are racing to solve the mystery of his disappearance before it's too late. They discover that Harry thwarted a clandestine operation to smuggle weapons-grade uranium into Iraq to justify the war. Now the rogue officers, who masterminded the operation want their uranium back and are prepared to go to any lengths to get it, including bringing ex-Spook Ruth Evershead out of exile to blackmail Harry. In the meantime Lucas has struck up a rather too friendly relationship with new CIA recruit Sarah Caufield. Although she claims to be ushering in a new breed of liberal American agents, is she really all she seems? - Director:
- Alrick Riley
- Cast:
- Richard Armitage, Ace Bhatti, Paul Birchard
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The world is still facing the threat of Islamist terrorism and with Russia also emerging as a new super power, the MI5 team face even more frightening and deadly challenges. Six months on from their terrifying ordeal at the hands of the Red Backs, Adam is back on the Grid but there is no sign of Jo. There's a new Spook on the block when a secret assignation between MI5 and the Russian intelligence services (the FSB) brings Harry's old protégé Lucas North back into the fold after eight years languishing in a Russian prison. Harry is- thrilled to have him back but does Lucas have the necessary skills to rejoin MI5 at the top level? And more importantly after eight years with only a high ranking Russian spymaster for company, can Lucas's loyalty really be taken for granted...? - Director:
- Peter Hoare
- Cast:
- Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Firth, Richard Armitage
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'Our Friends In The North' is the biggest and most ambitious contemporary serial ever produced for BBC 2, an epic drama spanning 30 years in the lives of four Georgie friends and the world that shaped them. The eleven hours took forty weeks to film and feature a cast of thousands, with 160 speaking parts and 3000 extras, exploring three decades of corruption, vice, violence and collapsing ethical standards in Britain's corridors of power from 1964 to 1995. - Director:
- Simon Cellan Jones
- Cast:
- Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee
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Some Like It Sexy (1969)Come Back Peter / Afternoon Delight / Model Girl / Peter's Pets / Seducer / Twins
Join uber- Mod sex god Peter (Christopher Matthews) as he cavorts across a not just swinging, but fully bouncing and pulsating London at the turn of the two greatest decades it ever saw: the 60s and 70s. Flitting from one boho pad to another in his fully functional babe wagon - a white E-Type Jaguar - he leaves his mark (sometimes literally) on a variety of beautiful women of all ages, nationalities, colours and shapes. The lucky ladies include later Gothic Goddesses Madeleine and Mary Collinson, Annabel Leventon and a young Nicola Pagett. There's also a fully clothed (what do you mean, "damn"?) appearance from Hammer scream queen Madeleine Smith as the delectable daughter of one of Peter's classy conquests. With a superb pop-psych-bubblegum-library freakout soundtrack, and some choice locations, this is the film for anyone who wants to indulge in unadulterated enjoyment, albeit with a twist. As director Donovan Winter put it, it's "like Alfie with more sex", and here, more is definitely what you get. Anyone seeking intellectual stimulation or 'pure cinema' can retire to the corner on the other side of the room where they can eulogise about Citizen Kane to their heart's content, but in the meantime, we're going to have some fun...and like Peter himself, we'll "come back" many, many times... - Director:
- Donovan Winter
- Cast:
- Erika Bergmann, Penny Riley, Christopher Matthews
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Growing mistrust between the British, American and Iranian Governments culminates in a series of high-risk operations at home, pushing the Section to its very limits. As Iran's race to become a nuclear power impacts on British and American security, the distinction between friend and foe becomes ever more blurred. Harry and his team start to question exactly whose agenda they're working to and who they can trust - both on and off the Grid. The electric atmosphere between Adam and Ros comes to a head but things are complicated further by Adam's ongoing and dangerous affair with a key asset inside the Iranian Embassy. Harry gains a new friend on the grid when he recruits old MI5 colleague Connie as desk officer. Clever, with plenty of old-school tricks up her sleeve, she might just be able to fill the void left by Ruth's departure. Contains Spooks Season 6 Episodes 1-10 uncut. - Director:
- Omar Madha
- Cast:
- Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Firth, Hermione Norris
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Tape (2001) The nature of memory and truth, the bonds between old friends and lovers are examined with jagged intensity as John arrives at a motel expecting to see old friend Vince but is stunned to be also facing ex girlfriend Amy, and his past. Steeped in venom, deception and manipulation, Tape is a super-taut and superbly acted thriller.
Chelsea Walls (2001)
Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Crumb, Brendan Behan, Bob Dylan and Sid and Nancy lived (and in some cases died) there. Stories have been set in it. Plays have between written about it. Photographers and painters have recorded its seasons. This is Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel where a novelist, a dancer, a painter, a poet, an aged jazz singer, and a young troubadour have holed up to live a few moments of their lives within its walls.
Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Excitement, anticipation, passion, dread, confusion, boredom, loneliness, curiosity, need. An awkward blind date, a plane ride with a strangely attractive Cuban, a chance meeting with an old boyfriend: stories of peculiar intimacy as ten woman with ten very different experiences impart emotionally and psychologically explicit encounters with love. Kathy Baker, Elizabeth Pena, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Radha Mitchell and Alicia Witt are among those offering a moving, honest examination that grows in scope and breadth with each monologue, plucking moments out of time.
Final (2001)
Disoriented and distraught, Bill wakes in an isolated ward at a secure facility in Connecticut, doctors assessing and assimilating details of exactly how he got here. He himself is none the wiser. But he has a suspicion that he's been out for more than a short while, that he's been cryogenically frozen and only now been woken in his final hours to be administered a lethal injection. As he jostles wills with Ann, his sympathetic doctor, he desperately tries to discover what in his memory is real, what is imagined and, finally, what is the truth.- Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Robert Sean Leonard
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Classic tale of lust and lace set in Edwardian England. A young country girl Fanny (Cheryl Dempsey) sets off for London to seek her fortune, but soon finds herself on a slippery slope from prim innocence to total sexual degradation. Fanny lured into one of London's most outrageous brothels and her search for true love amid a maze of courtesans and corsets, bosoms and breeches, petticoats and perversion. - Director:
- Valentine Palmer
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- Cheryl Dempsey, James Highton, Melanie Shepherd
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When wealthy Swiss architect Phil Emmenthal (John Standing) takes financial control of a group of Pachinko game parlours in Japan, and puts his strange son Storey (Matthew Delamare) in charge, his life takes on a new meaning. For, in the wake of his wife's death, Storey leads his shattered father into a self-revelatory journey of erotic discovery and spiritual lust. As the pair travel between Tokyo and Geneva acquiring exotic lovers on the way, their Geneva home becomes a high class brothel where nothing is forbidden and everything is explored for maximum understanding of their own male sexuality and humanity. - Director:
- Peter Greenaway
- Cast:
- John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu
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Murphy (Karl Glusman), an American living in Paris, wakes up on New Year's Day to a frantic phone call. His ex-girlfriend, Electra (Aomi Muyock), has been missing for months and her mother fears the worst. This brings back the memories he has of his relationship with her and their exploration of sex together as well as with others. - Director:
- Gaspar Noé
- Cast:
- Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin
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Nurse (2013)Nurse 3D
Paz de la Huerta turns up the body heat in this wickedly entertaining story of a fatal attraction. By day, nurse Abby Russell (Paz de la Huerta) lovingly attends to the patients at All Saints Memorial Hospital; by night, Abby prowls nightclubs, luring unfaithful men into dangerous liaisons. After Danni - a young, sensitive nurse - joins the hospital staff, Abby pursues her friendship. However, when the friendship turns to obsession, Danni spurns Abby, unleashing Abby's fury and a rampage of terror. - Director:
- Douglas Aarniokoski
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- Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson
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In 1989, filmmaker Barry J. Gillis and friends renewed the world's faith in Canada with the horror brainbomb known as 'Things'. But that was only the beginning. Virtually unseen until now, 'Wicked World' is not only Gillis' 1991 follow-up to 'Things' - it's also a new form of genre anarchy. Grant Ekland (Gillis) is a cop who is haunted by the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a psychotic slasher named Harold. When Harold is released from an asylum, there's only one option for Ekland: revenge! Filled with metal riffage, gnarly ultra-violence, and experimental techniques, 'Wicked World' feels like what would happen if Salvador Dali injected acid directly into his brain while staring at a Cannibal Corpse LP cover. This is a highly personal treatise on the toxicity of society from one of the most singular fi lmmakers in trash horror history. If you survive 'Wicked World', you'll never forget it. - Director:
- Barry J. Gillis
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- Patti Anne Crossman, Maria Delgado, Kelly Felhaber
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Dogging is the new filthy sex craze to sweep Britain. Strangers meeting outdoors and engaging in spontaneous hard-sex acts.
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