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Painter Marianne (Noemie Merlant) is commissioned by an affluent countess to paint the wedding portrait of her sheltered but headstrong daughter Héloïse (Adele Haenel).

While posing as her hired companion, Marianne is instructed to complete the portrait in secret, observing Héloïse by day and painting her by night. However, as the two women grow closer, their intimacy and attraction begins to blossom, paving the way for a simmering, star-crossed romance.

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An intricately woven, suspenseful tale of love, murder magic and revenge set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand's South Island at the height of the 1860's Gold Rush. Anna Wetherell (Eve Hewson) has travelled to New Zealand to forge a new life.

On the last day of her voyage, a romantic first encounter with the radiant Emery Staines (Himesh Patel) fills her with great expectations for what lies ahead. However, the scheming fortuneteller Lydia Wells (Eva Green) has other ideas for Anna and Emery and lays a trap to ensure that the planned rendezvous between the young lovers never takes place. Deceived, swindled, and betrayed, Anna's fortunes begin to fall. She is drawn into an elaborate plot of blackmail involving opium, gold, shipwreck, fraud and false identity. And when Emery vanishes without a trace, leaving Anna without an alibi for a murder she did not commit, the noose of the plot begins to tighten around her.

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Jessie Montgomery (Ally Sheedy) is rich and bored. The Beverly Hills raised daughter of a widower (Tom Skerritt) has become a spoiled brat. Her father wishes he never had a daughter. Unknown to all, his wish is granted by fairy God-mother Stella (Beverly D'Angelo).

Stella transforms Jessie into a homeless penniless outsider, who is forced to work as a maid for wealthy social climbers Stan and Georgette Starkey (Dick Shawn and Valerie Perrine) and their daughter Brie (Rainbow Phoenix). Jessie learns the hard way to coexist with the Starkey's staff, Cook (Merry Clayton), maid (Begona Plaza) and handsome young chauffeur (Michael Ontkean). What begins as a cruel nightmare unfolds into a fairy-tale lesson about the meaning of true friendship and love.

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Laura and Tyler are two girls who like to party - drink, sex and drugs infuse their days while their careers and lives remain on hold. But when aspiring writer Laura (Holliday Grainger) meets the devilishly handsome musician Jim, sparks fly.

Tyler (Alia Shawkat) wants to keep the party going, living a life without limitation, as Laura begins to settle into her relationship with Jim and a more strait-laced approach to life. As the fabric of their friendship begins to fray, the bond between Laura and Tyler starts to implode. Finding themselves at a crossroads as their old lives start to slip away, both begin to encounter new opportunities that might carry them beyond their past hedonism.

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One of Chabrol's best films: a taut, diabolical thriller about a woman (Stephane Audran) who leaves her drug-addicted husband after he violently attacks their child while in a schizophrenic haze.

His aristocratic parents hire a brutal private detective (Jean-Pierre Cassel) to turn up incriminating evidence in order to discredit her in a child custody suit.

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Tracklisting:
1. Razorlight - America.
2. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole.
3. Lily Allen- Smile.
4. The Automatic - Monster.
5. Keane - Is It Any Wonder?.
6. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars.
7. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy.
8. Kasabian - Empire.

9. My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade.
10. James Morrison - You Give Me Something.
11. Paulo Nutini - Jenny Don't Be Hasty.
12. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble.
13. The Zutons - Valerie.
14. Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead.
15. Richard Ashcroft - Break The Night With Colour.
16. Oasis - Wonderwall.
17. Embrace - Nature's Law.
18. The Feeling - Fill My Little World.
19. Girls Aloud - Something Kind Of Ooooh.
20. The Streets - When U Wasn't Famous.
21. Amy Winehouse -Rehab.
22. Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone.
23. Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie.
24. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On.
25. Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair).
26. McFly - Star Girl.
27. Pink - Who Knew.
28. Sugababes - Easy.
29. Orson - No Tomorrow.
30. The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger.

Bonus - Live performance footage - Tracklisting:
1. Razorlight - In The Morning.
2. The Feeling - Sewn.
3. Snow Patrol - You're All I Have.

Captivating crime drama from the producers of 'The Investigation', 'The Rain' and 'Modus'. A cold case is getting hot. Criminal profiler Louise Bergstein (Natalie Madueño) is hunting a killer - and they're closer than she knows...

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Everything changes for savvy CIA operative Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) in season three of the hit series 'Covert Affairs'.

Reassigned to a new and even more covert division of the agency, Annie takes on missions that become personal and finds herself on dangerous forays into inhospitable territory, while a series of explosive revelations forces her to question her role and what (and who) matters most.

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In a world of gangs and villains, one man - Moon (Michael Latimer) - will stop at nothing to get the girl and take the spoils.

Pete Walker's affectionate low-budget homage to the gangster thriller is packed with sights and sounds from a Britain about to swing out of the Sixties and into a somewhat less optimistic decade. It offers not only rare glimpses of a world gone by, but also some unexpected twists on generic convention.

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This set is exclusive to Renown and features a selection of slightly saucy films and shorts starring much loved British actors...

How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment (1965)

Unseen for many years, this rare film is a comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to 1960's strip clubs. It was also the last work of director Compton Bennett and features a host of stars.
White Cargo (1973)
In this cheeky comedy involving a strip club, undercover coppers and the white slave trade, David Jason stars as day-dreamer Albert Toddey who fantasises about becoming a "government employee with a position of responsibility".
Sunsine Sweethearts - 50' Bikini Girls! (1959)
Made by Walton Films in 1959, this short film introduces the world to a new beach outfit - the bikini!
Not Tonight, Darling (1971)
Beautiful and intelligent housewife Karen (Luan Peters) is tired of her empty, suburban lifestyle and her work-obsessed solicitor husband. She is lonely and wants something more. Fast-talking salesman Alex (Vincent Ball) enters her life, making a series of sexual advances towards her. This early 1970's erotic comic thriller stars Luan Peters and infamous sex symbol Fiona Richmond and also features a cameo from the band Thunderclap Newman.
Games That Lovers Play (1971)
Set in the roaring twenties, two Belgravia 'Madams' have a wager as to whose brothel is the best and bet £1,000 that their respective star girl can seduce an "impossible" subject.
Miss Bikini (1951)
Made around 1951 a 'look' at the new style of swimsuit. The launch of the 'Bikini' and inside a Miss World Contest filled with devastatingly beautiful damsels .

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When their father disappears to America, Sid, Gwenny and Boyo are left to care for their eccentric and mysterious mother.

Now they must live by their own rules, for what other choice do you have when reality lets you down? To escape the desperation of a two-bit Welsh town, Sid (Steven Mackintosh) and Gwenny (Lisa Palfrey) immerse themselves in a drug and alcohol enduced fantasy world where they become the incarnation of "beat generation" author and poet Jack Kerouac and his girlfriend Joyce Johnson. As their obsessive and unstable mother (Sian Phillips) sinks further and further into madness, her macabre secret slowly and destructively unfolds, leaving Boyo (Matthew Rhys) discover the brutal truth.

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London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val (Rose Williams / Marley Chesham) arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary.

With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift in the empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face her own traumatic past in order to confront the malevolent power that's intent on destroying everything around her.

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Chief Instructor, Ant Middleton and his team of Directing Staff, Foxy, Billy and Ollie, are returning to the spiritual homeland of the SAS - Scotland. The location for some of the Special Forces' most challenging training and the birthplace of the founder of the SAS.

This series sees twenty-five men and women taken to a remote Scottish Island and put through what the DS believe is their toughest, most unforgiving selection course yet. Scotland's rugged coastline, volatile weather and harsh landscapes are the perfect crucible to help create the ultimate soldier and where the world's most admired - and feared - elite military operatives train. For the DS, it's a homecoming to where their Special Forces skills were honed. They bring their experiences and expertise to a new clutch of nervous recruits. And they are joined by a new member of the Directing Staff team.

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Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor.

One evening, she meets Arnold (John Turturro) and finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of harmonising this new life with an old past.

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Runaway hit original series, Covert Affairs, stars Golden Globe-nominated Piper Perabo as Annie Walker, a young CIA operative whose exceptional linguistic skills and spot on instincts make her invaluable to the Agency.

In season two, Annie's personal and professional lives crash into one another, and the balance of her relationships are forever changed.