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Jonathan Younger (Donald Sutherland) is a charming man who lives in a dream world. The success of his Younger Self - Storage company is entirely down to his efficient but neglected wife, Penny, whom he is constantly unfaithful to.

Their son, Winston, is Jonathan's main interest in life besides his 'entertaining' of female customers in the room above the office. One day, Penny witnesses his infidelity on the office monitor, and as a result, dies of a heart attack. Winston returns from college in England to join the company. He is quick to recognise the gap left by his mother and knows that his father's disinterest will eventually ruin them. The reality of Jonathan's life without Penny, his caring wife, falls a long way short of what it was. He is beginning to miss her. Furthermore, he is beginning to have visions of her... He can hear her... he can see her... but he cannot touch her. Each time she appears, she grows more and more beautiful and younger and younger. Jonathan, slowly but surely, falls in love with her all over again.

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Based on as Asian proverb that life can be broken down into four key emotions-happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love - The Air I Breathe follows the lives of 5 key characters: a bored banker, a ruthless crime boss, his henchman and a beautiful star, whose lives entangle when a doctor, fighting to

save the woman he loves, sets into motion the ultimate collision of fates.

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The time is 1943, for most the Second World War is a living hell, for others it's a blessing in disguise. Others like Tor Lindblom, owner of Club Havana, a decadent and nocturnal lair for the criminal elite, notorious Nazis and opportunistic hustlers.

As ruthless as they come, Lindblom is more than willing to exploit the war effort for his own personal gain. But all that's about to change with the arrival of a sensual and mysterious cabaret singer named Eva. For Eva has a dark secret: she's a double agent working for the resistance. Gathering information for the British government and intent on infiltrating the Gestapo, Eva is a key player in a deadly plan. Unbeknown to Lindblom his world and everything in it is about to be completely obliterated. The British troops are gathering, their mission: destroy.

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Eight strangers wake up in a cubed shape room. None of them seem to know how or why they got there, but they quickly realise that their survival is dependent on unlocking the secrets of Hypercube.

The unending and interconnected rooms are operating in the 4th dimension where the rules of physics no longer apply! Each of the captives possesses a specific skill that will help them navigate the cube, but only one will survive it.

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Carey Mulligan stars as a headstrong Victorian beauty in this sweeping romantic drama, based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy. Mulligan plays Bathsheba Everdene, an independent woman who attracts three different suitors: a sheep farmer; a dashing soldier; and a prosperous, older bachelor.

This timeless story of Bathsheba's passions explores the nature of relationships, love and resilience.

Erik (Espen Klouman Hoiner) and Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) have been best friends since childhood and both want to become writers. While Erik's manuscript is refused by the publishers as lacking in talent, Philip is eagerly welcomed and overnight becomes a young star in Norway's literary scene. Soon, their young dreams clash with reality.

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Haunting, passionate, powerful, and featuring a score by rock legend Scott Walker, 'Pola X' is Carax's dazzling adaptation of Herman Melville's novel 'Pierre, or the Ambiguities'.

Guillaume Depardieu plays Pierre, a young man who is devastated by the revelation that he has an illegitimate sister, whose existence has been kept secret from him by his mother (Catherine Deneuve). With his life shattered by lies and deception, he sets off to uncover the truth of the world - a destructive quest that threatens to consume him and those he loves.

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The true story of an FBI undercover agent (Johnny Depp) who becomes Donnie Brasco, 'The Jewel Man', to infiltrate one of the mob families. Donnie manoeuvres his way into the confidence of ageing hit man, Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino) who trusts Donnie and vouches for him to the mob.

But Lefty and Donnie become friends when they should be enemies. As Donnie moves deeper and deeper into the Mafia chain of command, he realises he is not only crossing the line between federal agent and criminal but it also leading his friend Lefty to an almost certain death sentence...

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Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss.

Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes…and this time, it's all or nothing.

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Danger, scandal and smoking guns are no match for resourceful CIA operative Annie Walker (Piper Perabo), who proves herself as astute as ever in season four of Covert Affairs.

When Annie and Auggie (Christopher Gorham), her blind lover and colleague, mix business with pleasure on a trip to Colombia, they ruffle the feathers of local CIA station chief Calder Michaels (Hill Harper), whose seemingly fleeting allegiance has major implications for the future of the Domestic Protection Division. Complicating matters, Arthur (Peter Gallagher) reveals a "covert affair" of his own, while Henry's (Gregory Itzin) ulterior motives are brought to light. Venture across South America, Europe, and Asia with Annie in all 16 thrilling episodes, back-to-back and uninterrupted.

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'Jordskott' is a gripping Nordic mystery thriller set in Sweden. Seven years after the disappearance of her daughter Josefine, police investigator Eva Thornblad is still trying to cope with the grief of her loss.

Even though her daughter was said to have drowned, Eva knows in her heart that someone took her child on that fateful day by the Silverhojd lake. When a young boy goes missing in the same forest Eva returns to delve into the dark mystery that haunts her. As she is drawn into the investigation she learns that there are much deeper and darker forces in operation. Eva now faces the toughest of all questions: how far is she willing to go to protect the one she loves?

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Nobel Prize winning German scientist, Werner Heisenberg, is aiding the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb using 'heavy water' from a factory deep in the Norwegian mountains.

Desperate to crush Hitler's catastrophic goal, The Allies plan and mount a series of daring sabotage missions to blow up the plant before the Germans can create their potentially devastating nuclear weapon, an enterprise fraught with many dilemmas and epic challenges, the outcome of which will determine the future of democracy itself. Leading English, Norwegian and German actors portray the real-life characters and heroes of one of the most exciting stories from the Second World War, dramatised over six parts.

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Take a bone-chilling journey into evil, and witness how Thomas Hewitt became the infamous and deranged serial killer Leatherface. Born under the most gruesome of conditions, an abandoned baby is found and taken in by the demented Hewitt family.

As he grows under their morbid nurturing, Thomas develops a ravenous appetite for chainsaws and torture. This is unfortunate for four teens captured by the shady local "sheriff" and brought to the Hewitts' sadistic hose of horrors. There, the teenagers must fight to survive as Thomas' murderous desires are unleashed and Leatherface is born.

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The year is 1977. Phoebe O'Connor (Jordana Brewster) lives in San Francisco with her mother. She has just graduated from high school and is enrolled to start university in the fall.

But Phoebe feels disconnected from the world around her, and is increasingly obsessed with the memory of her sister Faith (Cameron Diaz), who killed herself in Portugal six years earlier. Faith was a charismatic and beautiful creature, everyone's favourite - and the circumstances of her death seem incomprehensible to all who knew her. Against her mother's wishes, Phoebe decides to follow Faith's path through Europe and discover the truth of what happened to her. Armed only with the postcards Faith sent to her years before, she sets out, travelling to each location her sister visited, trying to uncover the mystery of her sister's death.

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In Peter Bogdanovich's much-anticipated return to the silver screen, "She's Funny That Way", young Hollywood starlet Isabella (Imogen Poots) recalls how the actions of charming Broadway director, Arnold (Owen Wilson), changed her life forever.

A classic style New York romantic comedy with touches of classic screwball and a sprinkling of terrific cameos, the former escort reminisces to a reporter about her rags to riches fairy tale - a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold's wife Delta (Kathryn Hahn), leading man Seth (Rhys Ifans), playwright Joshua (Will Forte) and even Isabella's therapist, Jane (Jennifer Aniston).