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Alf Hitchins (Joe Brown) is an unemployed East End lad whose life revolves around dance halls, amusement arcades and cafes - any place to escape from the family home.

Alf's cynical but cheerful acceptance of life expresses itself in the song he casually composes one night - and the results take everyone by surprise!

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Set against the turbulent backdrop of Forties London, 'The Night Watch' tells the stories of four young people inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. The drama opens in 1947 as Britain is trying to rebuild itself after the war.

Kay (Anna Maxwell Martin) is roaming the streets, haunted by some traumatic personal loss. Helen (Claire Foy) and Viv (Claire Foy) run a marriage bureau, helping people rebuild their shattered lives by finding love. Helen obsessively clings to her volatile relationship with Julia (Anna Wilson-Jones), while Viv is continuing an affair with a married man whom she seems unable to leave. Elsewhere Viv's vulnerable brother, Duncan (Harry Treadaway), harbours a terrible secret. Moving back to the days of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled.

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Frankfurt, Germany - 1945: A group of U.S. Army officers - including cynical Colonel Jack Durant (Billy Zane) and seductive Lt. Kathleen Nash (Lyne Renee) - take over a castle that formerly belonged to the German royal family.

When Durant and Nash uncover a massive cache of priceless gems, the lovers hatch a plan to loot the treasure. All they have to do is smuggle the German Crown Jewels into New York City, dodge military investigators, con a murderous mob boss and steal back their stolen fortune... and all without double-crossing each other first.

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From executive producer Alan Ball, creator of 'True Blood', this Cinemax action drama charts the continuing twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), an ex-convict who improbably assumes the identity of sheriff of the rural, Amish-area town of Banshee, where his former lover and

partner-in-crime (Ivana Milicevic) lives under the alias Carrie Hopewell. Series Two takes up immediately after the events of the Series One finale when Carrie's father, gang kingpin Rabbit (Ben Cross), was left for dead after a climactic warehouse shootout. Carrie, now exposed and estranged from her husband and kids, is torn between her devotion to her family and her connection to Lucas, who had given himself up in order to save her years earlier. The new season finds Lucas, having escaped detection after being interrogated by FBI agent Jim Racine (guest star Zeljko Ivanek), with his hands fuller than ever as sheriff, dealing with (among other things) the murder of a Kinaho tribe girl, the continuing escalation of tensions between Amish overlord Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen) and Kinaho tribe leader Alex Longshadow , (Anthony Ruivivar), as well as the unwelcome appearance of a surprise visitor: the reprobate son of the real (and late) Lucas Hood.

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From the creator of 'True Blood', this exciting new Cinemax action drama charts the twists and turns that follow Lucas Hood (Antony Starr), an ex-convict who improbably becomes sheriff of a rural, Amish-area town while searching for a woman he last saw 15 years ago, when he gave himself up to

police to let her escape after a jewel heist. Living in Banshee under an assumed name, Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic) is now married to the local DA, has two children (one of whom may be Lucas's), and is trying desperately to keep a low profile - until Lucas arrives to shake up her world and rekindle old passions. Complicating matters is the fact that Banshee is riddled by corruption, with an Amish overlord, Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen), brutally building a local empire of drugs, gambling and graft. With the help of a boxer-turned-barkeeper named Sugar Bates (Frankie Faison), Lucas is able to stay on even footing with Kai and his thugs, and even manages to bring a measure of tough justice to Banshee. But eventually, Lucas's appetite for pulling heists pulls him and Carrie into a dangerous cauldron of duplicity, exacerbated when Mr. Rabbit (Ben Cross), the NY mobster they once ripped off, closes in with vengeance on his mind.

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To get by in life you have to use your head and cover your feet...The ambitious leader of an undisciplined gang is trying to break into the big time. Meanwhile, his best friend is trying to leave the gang, and the key to his new life is a new pair of shoes.

A darkly humorous, haunting tale set in the world of London's drug dealers and squatters, 'London Kills Me' is brought to life by a talented young cast.

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Set against the moody, misty backdrop of rural England, 'Vampyres' sees a pair of beautiful young bisexual vampires, Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka Dziubinska), stalking the quiet country roads in search of fresh male victims to lure back to their crumbling gothic mansion.

But when Fran decides to keep her latest prey, handsome stranger Ted (Murray Brown), on as her lover, and a pair of overly-curious holidaymakers set up camp in the house's grounds, the vampyres' grisly way of life comes under threat.

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Adapted by Andrew Davies, 'Fanny Hill' is the story of a young country girl who falls into a life of prostitution in bawdy 18th-century London. Forced to take a succession of lovers to survive, she slowly rises to respectability but only after enjoying, wholeheartedly, the pursuit of her craft.

A vulnerable Fanny (Rebecca Night) is lured to London after losing her parents to smallpox. Seized upon by notorious madam Mrs. Brown (Alison Steadman), Fanny's virtue is tested by the lascivious Mr. Crofts (Philip Jackson). After a daring escape with her true love, Charles (Alex Robertson), Fanny briefly basks in happy domesticity. But when Charles' father, Mr. Crofts, meets his son's fiancee, he banishes Charles to the West Indies and leaves Fanny alone with spiralling debts.

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Academy Award nominee (Mark Wahlberg) delivers a "career-defining performance"" as Jim Bennett, a English professor leading a secret double life as a high-stakes gambler. When Jim is forced to borrow from a notorious gangster, he places the lives of those he loves in mortal danger.

With time running out, he must enter the criminal underworld and risk everything to keep from losing it all.

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Juliette Binoche plays Anne, a well-off, Paris based mother of two and journalist for "Elle", who is collating testimonials for an article about student prostitution.

Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja (Joanna Kulig) and Charlotte (Anais Demoustier), are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex.

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What would you do if your husband, wife or business partner was making your life unbearable, to the point where there was no alternative but to have them removed-permanently? Could you bring yourself to do it? If not, bored Kensington housewife Joan (Tracy Reed, cousin of Oliver and niece of Carol)

offers a possible alternative- for a price, she and her highly trained, all-female hit squad will very discreetly 'take out' the offending party and leave no trace behind. In this dark, bleakly comic and sometimes grimly prophetic drama from Donovan Winter, which, like many of the best British exploitation films, features a story "ripped from yesterday's headlines", we enter the lives of both assassin and victim, and discover that in the London of 1975, whether swanky Knightsbridge or deepest suburban Orpington, no-one has immunity from murder, and everyone is expendable. Locations also take in the legendary Biba department store, shortly before its closure.

Amanda (Susan George) is the young, attractive babysitter hired by the Lloyd family to look after their son one fateful evening. It isn't long before Amanda realises she is being watched. As the night progresses, Amanda is gradually subjected to a brutal ordeal of unhinged terror.

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Crime boss Rex (Bruce Willis) hires Frank (Michael Chiklis) and his crew to steal a priceless jewel stash - but the job goes wrong when someone tips off the cops. After Frank suffers a blow to the head, he wakes up to find the jewels gone and no memory of his attacker.

Now, Frank must confront his team members one by one to find the traitor - before Rex covers his tracks by having Frank murdered.

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Kelly (Constance Towers), a high class working girl, ups sticks to Grantville, the seeming epitome of small town USA. Confronted by suspicious sheriff Griff (Anthony Eisley), she decides to put her illicit lifestyle behind her once and for all and becomes involved with nursing handicapped children.

As Griff continues trying to run her out of town Kelly falls in love with Grant, scion of the town's founding family and Griff's best friend. But just as Griff begins to believe that Kelly may be on the level, a murder and perversion scandal threaten to destroy Kelly's new' life.

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Something has fallen to Earth. Something terrible. A merciless, carnivorous predator with an insatiable hunger for flesh...Assuming human form, the creature stumbles upon a remote country house owned by a beautiful young lesbian couple.

Jessica (Glory Annan) is sweet, innocent and desperate for new experiences. Josephine (Sally Faulkner) is overprotective, jealous - and has a locked trunk full of blood-soaked secrets. As the creature struggles against its bloodlust and studies the girls, it suddenly realises that it may not be the only dangerous predator in the house...