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Whatever your option on love and relationships, one thing's for sure - Coupling will enlighten you as to how the opposite sex ticks. Frank and funny, coupling features 6 friends -involved with each other - who get down to the basics of what works in the love department. They find themselves in bizarre and compromising scenarios, revealing their deepest secrets, confusing the clearest secrets, confusing the clearest issues and generally making their way across the minefield that is love.
Episodes Comprise:
- Flushed
- Size Matters
- Sex, Death & Nudity
- Inferno
- The Girl With Two Breasts
- The Cupboard of Patrick's Love- Director:
- Martin Dennis
- Cast:
- Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander
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The Coupling gang are back for another hilarious helping of sexual exploration and social humiliation. The third series begins a heartbeat after the end of the last-with Steve (Jack Davenport) and Susan (Sarah Alexander) splitting up - and the entire first episode is conducted in split-screen, each half following one of the sundered couple as they both head to 'The Temple of Woman', a beauty salon for Susan, a strip club for Steve. Life for their friends is no less complicated: Jane (Gina Bellman) has picked herself a religious boyfriend who doesn't believe in sex before marriage; Jeff (Richard Coyle) is propositioned in the stationery cupboard by a woman who wants to 'borrow' him from his girlfriend; while Sally (Kate Isitt) and Patrick (Ben Miles) have to face two scary prospects - a spider in Sally's bedroom and the possibility that they might want to be more than just friends.... - Director:
- Martin Dennis
- Cast:
- Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander
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Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle / Charlotte Angel) is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. Arriving at Versailles, she must obey the numerous and complex rules of French court. Transforming from the young Dauphine to the Queen of Style and a true fashion icon, Marie Antoinette will attempt to recreate Versailles in her image: free, independent and feminist. But her successes will provoke jealousy and rivalry, as her opponents within the Royal Family will do everything they can to bring her down... - Director:
- Geoffrey Enthoven
- Cast:
- Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer
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Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both. - Director:
- George Miller
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Erdil Yasaroglu
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In the sixth season of 'Outlander', the Frasers strive to maintain peace and flourish within a colonial society which - as Claire (Caitríona Balfe) knows all too well - is unwittingly marching toward Revolution. Against this backdrop, which heralds the birth of the new American nation, Claire and Jamie (Sam Heughan) have built a home together at Fraser's Ridge. They must now defend this home - established on land granted to them by the Crown - not only from external forces, but also from the increasing strife and conflict in the community within their care. - Director:
- Kate Cheeseman
- Cast:
- Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton
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'Female Perversions' is the provocative and stimulating story of Eve Stephens (Tilda Swinton), a successful attorney struggling under the tremendous pressures of power, promiscuity and a destructive sister. Consumed by wild sexual fantasies, she is unable to feel satisfied by either her male or female lovers. She uses them to fuel her all consuming desire for sexual fulfilment regardless of the damage she is doing to those around her. In a truly shocking exploration of female perversion, Swinton delivers a riveting performance that ranks alongside her stunning portrayal of 'Orlando'. Dare to let yourself go... where you've never been before. - Director:
- Susan Streitfeld
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas
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With Donna down in 'that London', Gaz and Janet decide to properly couple up. But will the spirit, the concrete head or the biscuits of Jonny ever leave them alone? To earn Gaz's respect, Janet becomes a community policewoman, in return, he thinks of even more imaginative things to do with marmite. Then Donna returns - with Runcorn's first would-be-cockney market trader, Wesley, in tow. Is she really ready to divorce Gaz? Is she prepared to compromise her feminist principles and let him choose between her and Janet? Or will Wesley let Gaz's secret burst open like a pot of rancid yogurt? - Director:
- Nick Wood
- Cast:
- Will Mellor, Sheridan Smith, Kathryn Drysdale
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We! (2018)Wij: A Summer Odyssey in Four Parts
During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators. - Director:
- Rene Eller
- Cast:
- Jenne Decleir, Aimé Claeys, Tijmen Govaerts
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"The White Lotus" is a sharp social satire set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort. When some rich, entitled tourists check into the luxurious White Lotus, tensions arise between the hotel staff and volatile vacationers over the course of a week. As darker dynamics emerge each passing day, this biting six-episode series gradually reveals the complex truths of the seemingly picture-perfect travellers, cheerful hotel employees and idyllic locale itself. - Director:
- Mike White
- Cast:
- Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge
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'Separation', scripted by and starring Jane Arden, concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown - marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the 'swinging' London of the film's setting. Featuring the unique sounds of Procol Harum, 'Separation' is stunningly photographed in monochrome, with leading British artist Mark Boyle's distinctive liquid light colour projections used throughout. - Director:
- Jack Bond
- Cast:
- Jane Arden, David De Keyser, Ann Lynn
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Hatching (2022)Pahanhautoja
12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog presents their family's idyllic existence. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer of her family and into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see. - Director:
- Hanna Bergholm
- Cast:
- Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen
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Brothers (2004)Brodre
Danish Academy Award Winner Ulrich Thomsen stars as Michael, a man who has everything under control; a successful military career, a beautiful wife and two loving daughters. His younger brother Jannik is a drifter, living on the edge of the law. When Michael is sent to Afghanistan on a UN peacekeeping mission, it is not long before events turn dramatic and he is missing in action - presumed dead. Sarah is comforted by Jannik who against all the odds takes responsibility for himself and his brother's family. It soon becomes clear that Jannik and Sarah's feelings have developed beyond mutual sympathy - the fragility of their emotions is constantly under threat as the balance between husband and wife and the two brothers changes forever. - Director:
- Susanne Bier
- Cast:
- Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Connie Nielsen
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Torn between two lovers - one of them is her best friend's bloke and one of them is dead! • Does a Knightrider snow-globe necessarily count as "tacky crap"?
- Is a tattoo of Kris Akabusi a suitable memorial for a dead husband?
- Under what circumstances can an erection be classified asan emergency?
- Is there really something Gaz wants more than to be filmed having sex with Donna - in a Mondeo - with a sheep in the back seat?
The Archer has been re-furbished - there's now a picture of John Barrowman behind the bar - but little else has changed for the Runcorn Five. Oh, except Donna is now working behind the bar, Louise is pregnant and, as Jonny has been eaten by a shark in Hawaii, Gaz is now forced to share his masturbation fantasies with Munch... Jonny's death affects them all in different ways: Janet decides she must get through the five stages of grief quicker than Darren Day on a stage full of blondes, Louise finds the answer to her accommodation problems and Gaz comes over all paternal. And, as Donna gets a career and Louise gets motherhood, will Janet and Gaz finally get each other..?- Director:
- Nick Wood
- Cast:
- Natalie Casey, Kerry Shale, Will Mellor
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They're demolishing the Archers - and that's just the start of the nightmare! Might Gaz go into the red at the sperm bank? Would Jonny really swap Corinthian McVitie for a t-shirt? Could Louise be Princess Diana's and Nelson Mandela's love child? Would pork scratchings really beat mini cheddars in the World Cup final of bar snacks? The arrival of Corinthian McVitie seems to have had little effect on the lives of the gang. Jonny decides to be a farmer - well at least come home with farm produce; Janet tries elves and sex; Gaz sacks himself; Donna becomes a bloke and Louise discovers her real father is gay - and fancies Jonny. It's not all babies and tantric sex. While Gaz and Jonny debate who is Corinthian's real father, Janet and Donna are battling over who gets the bar manager's job in the Archers. And as the pub gets closer to demolition, all five are drawn back for a final session - a real night to remember. - Director:
- Becky Martin
- Cast:
- Sheridan Smith, Natalie Casey, Will Mellor
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Golden Globe Award-winning actress Jennifer Garner (Best Actress In A Television Series, 2002) is Sydney Bristow. Syd's not exactly your average college student. Her life might appear normal, but she really is hiding a secret life working as a spy for the CIA. Her mission is to root out evil. But her world is turned upside down when she learns she may work for the very enemy she thought she was fighting. Now she's entangled in a covert lifestyle where she is forced to question the allegiances of everyone, including those closest to her - her family and friends. - Director:
- Davis Guggenheim
- Cast:
- Jennifer Garner, J.J. Abrams, Kate Anthony
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