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A passionate woman trapped in a sterile marriage, Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) is immediately and irresistibly attracted to the handsome young novelist, Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) when they meet at a party given by Sarah's worthy but dull civil servant husband, Henry (Stephen Rea).

They begin a passionate, illicit and sexually liberating love affair. After five intense and passion-fuelled years, Sarah abruptly walks out of Maurice's life with no explanation, leaving him utterly bereft. Two years later, Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry. His obsession with Sarah rekindled, he succumbs to his jealousy and arranges to have her followed by a private detective, Mr Parkis (Ian Hart). Haunted by memories of their affair, he re-enters her life in a desperate attempt to solve the mystery surrounding the end of the affair...

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From the makers of the cult classic 'Pet Sematary', these are tales that will test your nerves to the limit and twist your faith about what is real or unreal: Betty (Deborah Harry) prepares a dinner party with a very special main course; Peston (James Remar) breaks a 10 year old promise and a

seemingly happy marriage shatters; Mr Halston (David Johansen) is confident, some might say too confident; What young Timmy (Matthew Lawrence) is reading might just save his life and Andy (Christian Slater) is forced to decipher 3000 year old hieroglyphics to reveal details of his own fate.

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"Sushi Girl" is a stylish and violent Tarantino-esque thriller about the aftermath of a diamond heist gone bad. Fish (Noah Hathaway) has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery and the other men involved.

The night he is released, the four men he protected celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner, hosted by mob boss Duke (Tony Todd) and Crow (Mark Hamill). The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman by chef Sonny Chiba. The sushi girl seems catatonic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things become dangerous. Sure enough, with the diamonds still missing, the four unwieldy thieves can't help but open old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot.

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Erin Grant (Demi Moore) must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she must first take it off. Bounced from her job, she needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child.

The pulsating gentlemen's club world of exotic dream-girls and whooping patrons is skewered in this lively comedy/drama co-starring Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames and Robert Patrick. Erin strips to conquer, then faces unintended consequences when a horny hound dog of a congressman (Burt Reynolds) fixates on her. Cash, blackmail, murder - the legislator has a lot of shady tools at his fingertips, but against Erin he's overmatched. She may strip for a living, yet it's the politician and his cronies who end up exposed.

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Popular and charming, student counsellor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) is no stranger to being the focus of female attention within the moneyed cliques of Florida's Blue Bay.

His fortunes are about to change dramatically, however, when one of the wealthiest students at his high school, sultry siren Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards), accuses him of rape. The charge looks sure to stick when another girl from the other end of the social spectrum, Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell), steps forward with her own allegations, but Detective Duquette (Kevin Bacon) smells something fishy, and the truth is as murky and dangerous as the alligator-infested swamps in the hinterlands of this affluent beach community.

The outrageous laughs bubble up when four friends share a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, only to wake up with nasty hangovers in 1986! Now, nice-guy Adam (John Cusack), party animal Lou (Rob Corddry), married man Nick (Craig Robinson) and mega-nerd Jacob (Clark Duke) relive a wild night of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll!

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Catherine (Julianne Moore), a successful doctor, suspects her handsome music professor husband David (Liam Neeson) is cheating on her. To lay her suspicions and fears to rest, she hires an irresistible young woman, Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), to test David's fidelity.

Chloe's torrid tales of her encounters with David lead Catherine on a journey of sexual and sensual re-discovery. But by opening the door to temptation, she puts her family in great danger...

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Mona (Natalie Press) has just got hold of a brilliant moped that only cost a tenner. No engine but still dirt-cheap. She lives with her brother, Phil (Paddy Considine) who used to run a pub before he found God and poured away all the booze.

Tamsin (Emily Blunt) is rich, spoilt and trying to livea life of seductive decadence.They meet on the moors, above their quiet Yorkshire village and begin an intense, unlikely friendship.Tamsin and Mona want to escape their lives, but Phil wants to save them and save everybody else. Mona wants the old, dangerous, Phil back; the brother that she loved. Tamsin wants to see what it takes to break him...

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Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb".

But when he is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.

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By day Gerri Dandridge (Jaime Murray) is a sexy and beautiful professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood.

So when a group of high school students travels abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri's chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and "Evil" Ed (Chris Waller) must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a "new moon virgin", who just so happens to be Charley's ex-girlfriend, Amy (Sacha Parkinson). They enlist help from Peter Vincent (Sean Power), the vampire-hunting host of a reality show called "Fright Night", to drive a stake through Gerri's plan and save Amy from a fate far worse than death.

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We've come so far and now the end is near. The journey that began with "Life on Mars" concludes as Alex Drake embarks on her final mission: to uncover the truth about Gene Hunt and unlock the dark secrets of this world. Alex is back, only this time it's 1983 and something feels different.

The arrival of DCI Jim Keats, sent by Scotland Yard to monitor the station's performance, throws some unexpected light on past events. Haunted by the ghost of a policeman, Alex decides that her only hope in getting home lies in finding out what really happened to Sam Tyler. As the final series reaches its climax, will Alex finally manage to unlock the mysteries of this world and find her way home, or will everything she's held to be true come crashing down around her feet?

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A seductive and intense noir romance for our times, 'Frank and Lola' is the story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he falls instantly and violently in love.

As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge. With outstanding performances from Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots, 'Frank and Lola' is a haunting examination of love, obsession and domination that weaves a twisted yet irresistible spell.

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Meet the sexy new neighbour, Jerry Dandrige (Colin Farrell). He's dangerously charming - and utterly lethal. That's because he just happens to be a vampire, and out for blood...buckets of it.

After high school senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) makes the connection between Jerry's suspicious activity and a steadily rising body count he vows to end the reign of terror next door. But he can't do it alone. His only hope is Las Vegas magician/vampire-slayer Peter Vincent (David Tennant). Together, this unlikely duo set out to end Jerry's evil rampage. But Jerry is a ruthless, relentless killer, and he's not going down without a fight.

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Series two kicks off on 1982 where leg warmers are cool, fluorescent is colour of choice, Thatcher is in her element and bullish DCI Gene Hunt is back, policing the streets in his politically incorrect and loud mouthed style.

Sassy Alex Drake, with whom Hunt shares a fiery working relationship, is by his side, desperately trying to keep him in line. Though no nearer to getting back to her daughter, Alex believes she is suspended in time and finally understands how the world around her works. But when she starts hearing news from the future, she realises nothing is as it seems. Clinging on to fast fading hope, she discovers she may not be alone in her predicament. A mysterious stranger who also seems to be stuck in 1982 is making Alex doubt her current world is merely a figment of her imagination. Is he a friend who can help her get home or a foe who will destroy all she knows?

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Series Four of 'Outlander' continues the story of Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) as they try to make in colonial America.

The Frasers settle in North Carolina at yet another turning point in history - the cusp of the American Revolution - where they must negotiate a tenuous loyalty to the current British ruling class, despite Claire's knowledge of the bloody rebellion to come. Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate and smuggler Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will come back to haunt the Fraser family. Meanwhile, Brianna Randall and Roger Wakefield grow closer in the 20th century but make a shocking discovery that makes them consider following in Claire's footsteps.