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Lisa and Reena are young, happy and in love. But when Reena agrees to become a surrogate mother for her childless sister, the cultural divide between Reena's Indian family and their lesbian lifestyle hits home.

'Chutney Popcorn' is delightful and heartfelt comedy about cultural struggles between immigrant parents and their Americanised children and the strength of family ties. Ultimately, 'Chutney Popcorn' offers a refreshing look at one contentious and loving family reinventing itself.

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An acclaimed writer of best-selling books and award-winning television, Lynda La Plante is the most prolific creator of taut, meticulously observed and forensically correct detective thrillers in the UK.

This superb collection brings together three of her most exciting, intense and compelling stories; each unique, and each presenting the kind of sharply written, outspoken and commanding characters she is famous for.

Above Suspicion (2009)
For eight years the body count of prostitutes and drug users has risen. Out to prove herself to DCI James Langton (Ciaran Hinds), DC Anna Travis (Kelly Reilly) links an acclaimed actor to the murders. He seems above suspicion, but in getting close to the truth, is she getting too close to a killer?
Trial and Retribution: Sins of the Father (2007)
DS Walker (David Hayman) and Dl Connor (Victoria Smurfit) are joined at the hip in their search for justice from case to courtroom. When young Emily Harrogate is found dead in her family home, appearances prove deceptive in a house full of secrets and lies. Yet even with the killer uncovered, will justice be done?
The Commander: Windows of the Soul (2007)
On an East London estate, Commander Blake (Amanda Burton) and DCI James (Mark Lewis Jones) find themselves on opposite sides when the murder of a priest reminds James of his rough-edged youth. But they must work together if they're to catch the killer before he strikes again.

Three beautiful television reporters stay in a strange house with an even stranger couple when on an assignment in California. Their stay becomes a horrific nightmare in this tense psycho thriller when one by one they encounter the unseen!!!

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Vicky, an ambitious young blonde living in Hollywood, gets hired to be the 'Toy' of her favorite rock star, Stu, who is in desperate need of inspiration. Starry-eyed and reckless, she enters a world of fantasy fuelled by addiction and an obsession for fame.

A victim of the hidden agendas and kiss-ass attitude of those around him, Stu lives in a bizarre fantasy world. His connection to the star struck Vicky only boosts his ego and accelerates his strange and abusive behaviour. The record company needs a hit but can Stu find the magic? Can Vicky survive her ordeal at the hands of a superstar madman?

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Notorious child murderer Kemper (David McEwen) is hellbent on exacting his revenge on the people who put him away, and from his padded room in the local asylum, he commands 'The Man' (Dani Filth) to slaughter the families of those responsible.

Detective Nielson (Edmund Dehn), who'd had his own unpleasant run-in with Kemper, is faced with an increasingly large pile of mutilated bodies and tries to make some sense of the savagery.

During the darkest days of World War II, the British government enlist the help of mathematician Alan Turing to crack Enigma, the unbreakable German encryption device. Turing and his team of code breakers must unlock the Enigma Code before their operation is infiltrated and more lives are lost.

Big city lawyer Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge (Robert Duvall), is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.

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The Manchester twenty-somethings are back with more on-off relationships, outlandish behaviour and other habits of the commitment-phobic.

When Michelle's new flatmate Chris calls her immature, she sets out to show him just how grown-up she is by marrying Grant - but first she's going to have to get him to split from her gorgeous friend Chloe. Michelle's best friend Claire has sworn off sex until she is married This doesn't deter the deeply frustrated Chris (seven years and counting - watermelons notwithstanding!), but when he baulks at buying a ring, Claire's new found faith is put to the test. What with Grant being hijacked, Michelle trying to be the ugliest woman in Manchester, Claire discovering she shares a revolting secret with Chris's parents and Chris being afflicted with 'clap hair' - it looks like fully-fledged adulthood is going to have to wait just a little longer....

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26 Year-old Michelle Dean shares a flat in Manchester with her beautician friend Claire. She's got a new boyfriend, a job as a nutritionist and a cool Vespa. With babies, mortgages and career paths looming on the horizon, the pressure is on to get the party going - in a grown-up sort of way...

While boyfriend Dean is not totally convinced Michelle can keep her fridge under control, let alone her libido - coping with a lack of responsibility is something her flatemates seem perfectly happy with. Claire's overriding concerns are maintaining her tan and resisting her urge to bite men, while Michelle's DJ brother, Mike - turns up on her doorstep with his 'ironic' record collection and his solicitor mate Grant - whose obsessions include Judge John Deed and getting Michelle to sleep with him. From making the mistake of saying 'I love you' too early in a relationship and worrying if you can catch rabies off a tramp; to the problems of dating four men all called Martin or deciding whether to buy healthy blueberries or Monster Munch? Michelle and her friends are ready to tackle the dilemmas of being a grown up head on.

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The setting is a working class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950's. Amongst the characters are prostitute Tralala (Jennifer Jason-Leigh), her brutal pimp Vinnie (Peter Dobson), an effeminate homosexual (Alexis Arquette) and a corrupt union official.

The director and cast successfully bring this disturbing book to the screen.

In this sequel to the horror classic, Donald Lawson, the devil child, is now a married man with a son on the way. Unaware of his own dark nature, he is promoted to second in command at a major multinational conglomerate whose CEO is determined to fulfill Donald's destiny as the Antichrist.

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Troubled by the death of her twin sister, Ellen Carlson (Sean Young) unwittingly falls in love with an ambitious young man, Jonathan Corliss (Matt Dilon).

As she investigates Dorothy's death, a chance encounter reveals how little Ellen really knows about her husband, and what she doesn't know may kill her in this heart-stopping suspense thriller based on Ira Levin's best-selling novel.

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From the wondrously fertile mind of writer/director John Waters, 'A Dirty Shame' tells what happens when a horny horde of 'sex addicts' invades a blue-collar neighbourhood, to the shock and dismay of the neighbours.

Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman), grumpy, repressed and middle-aged, doesn't like sex. Her handsome husband Vaughan (Chris Isaak) still has marital urges, but Sylvia couldn't be less interested. She is in complete contrast to her exhibitionist daughter, Caprice (Selma Blair), a go-go dancer with stupendously enlarged breasts! Everything changes when Sylvia is involved in a freak accident and receives a head injury. Sexy tow-truck driver Ray-Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville) rushes to her aid and Sylvia realises he's no ordinary service man; no, he's a sexual healer who knows how to bring out her flaming cauldron of hidden lust. A prude no longer, Sylvia suddenly views the world through hypersexual eyes. She seeks out Ray-Ray at his garage, and discovers that she is not alone. Other head injuries have brought forth a flock of sex addicts who have infiltrated every corner of the community. Sylvia and Vaughan's marriage is jump-started by a new sex act that elevates the community into a whole new dawn of sexual awakening.

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Audra, the impoverished children's nanny from Leeds who sacrificed everything for her only daughter. Christina, the talented art student who won world renown as a fashion designer - yet who has known pain and heartache.

Kyle, the rebellious young woman, who chafes against her mother's success - and in whom her grandmother's spirit of duty and sacrifice is reborn. Three beautiful women - grandmother, mother and daughter - struggle bravely through five eventful decades of hidden love, high drama and sudden death in this, Barbara Taylor Bradford's most stirring tale, based closely on her own remarkable true-life story.

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Jack is a successful fashion photographer in Hollywood. Jill is his gorgeous girlfriend and a match for the most beautiful of Jack’s models.

Jack seems to have it all until an attractive New York art director, also called Jill enters both their lives and awakens feelings deep within Jill, creating new sexual experiences for her. As the two Jill’s sexual experimentation begins to develop into a loving lesbian relationship, Jack’s idyllic lifestyle is turned upside down.