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Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is a bitter, angry and vengeful man ever since an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He's fed up with himself and everyone around him. All that changes when he's given Ella, a monkey trained to meet his every need.

But when Ella begins anticipating Allan's thoughts, strange and deadly things start happening. And as she stalks and wreaks havoc on Allan's fair-weather girlfriend (Janine Turner), incompetent doctor and meddling mother, Allan realizes he must stop the cunning maniacal creature... before she fully takes over his mind.

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After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.

Soon it's an all-out battle to the death with no rules, no mercy - and hundreds of innocent people caught in the crossfire. As the creature carnage continues, a handful of human survivors attempt a daring escape, but the U.S. government may be hatching a deadly plan of its own...

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John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has been leading a quiet life in Thailand until he is asked to ferry a group of missionaries into war-torn Burma.

When they are captured, Rambo teams up with a rag tag regiment of mercenaries and heads back into the jungle on a rescue mission that will force him to return to the battlefield with explosively violent consequences. Hitting new heights of carnage and raw excitement, the one-man killing machine is back with a vengeance.

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It's not hearts that melt when New York's tramps fall in love with beverage called Viper, it's whole bodies in this the gore-drenched shocker that does for alcohol what The Driller Killer did for power tools! An unscrupulous liquor store owner steadily wipes out his city's homeless with lethal

booze that melts anyone who consumes it into oblivion! Can a dedicated cop uncover the truth before a seemingly unavoidable hobo holocaust?

The BBC's most intrepid reporter of the culturally off-beat and the downright bizarre returns for tour more of the best episodes of his TV Series Weird Weekends. Swingers? Wrestlers? Crazy South African Boers? They're all here!

For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel or get the drop on a gunslinger. It's all safe: the park's lifelike androids are programmed never to harm the customers. But not all droids are getting with the program.

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'The Inbetweeners' is the painfully funny hit new comedy from E4 about four teenagers growing up in suburbia. Will McKenzie is on a bad run. His parents have just divorced and, to make matters worse, his mum has moved him from a posh school into the sixth form at the local comprehensive.

Despite the twin handicaps of being the new kid and carrying 'an actual briefcase', Will quickly makes new friends - Simon, Neil and Jay. Unfortunately, they are far from the coolest kids at school. Together they attempt to navigate the perils of sixth form life while trying to make girls, like the gorgeous Carli D'Amato, 'notice them for who they really are'. Which is a bad move, because they are idiots. Over the course of their term alone, the boys roll call of dishonour includes; accidentally hitting a disabled girl in the face with a Frisbee, drunkenly puking on a seven year old child, gate crashing a funeral cortege in Simon's tiny, bright yellow car, and calling Neil's dad a 'bumder'.

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A real-estate tycoon, his coke-binging wife and a slum wino have something grisly in common: They're the latest victims in a series of random murders.

A veteran NYPD detective soon suspects the killings may be supernatural and deliberate: caused by ages-old beings of cunning intelligence and incredible power defending their turf from the encroachments of humankind. Using a Steadicam camera and Louma crane to simulate the predator's perspective, director Michael Wadleigh achieves a remarkable blend of New York City mystery and menace not captured on film before.

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"Alien" is the first movie of one of the most popular sagas in science fiction history, and introduces Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the iron-willed woman destined to battle the galaxy's ultimate creature.

The terror begin when the crew of the spaceship Nostromo investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and makes a horrifying discovery - a life form that breeds within a human host. Now the crew must fight now only for its survival, but for the survival of all mankind.

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Through his unique, intimate and unconfrontational interviewing style, Louis Theroux is able to present intense, revealing and surprisingly tender portraits of the most disparate of subjects.

In this collection Louis heads to California’s infamous San Quentin prison where he meets some o the most dangerous people in America, spends time with the most hated family in the States – the Westboro Baptist Church, travels to Las Vegas to play the tables with high-rolling gamblers, goes under the knife in Beverly Hills and visits big game farms in south Africa where the animals are bred for hunting.

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The year 2707, Earth’s resources have been exhausted by mankind. Battle rages between soldiers of the four leading Corporations. The War breaks and ancient stone steal and Necromutants appear by the millions, destroying all before them.

The corporations’ leader (John Malkovich), plans to abandon the planet and leave countless innocents to die, when he is approached by the mysterious leader of the ancient order of The Brotherhood, (Ron Pearlman) who offers to save them from destruction at the hands of the mutant armies.

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The moment Lena Baker (Tichina Arnold) think she ahs overcome her inner demons, she is called to work for a tyrannical white man, Elliot Arthur (Peter Coyote), a father, a mill worker, and a drunk. They develop a highly-charged relationship that society deems inappropriate for the time.

His regular physical and mental abuse keeps Lena away from her children and mother (Beverley Todd). After imprisoning her in his home, Lena finally stands up and attempts to free from his bondage. A struggle ensues, and Elliot Arthur, a white man, is shot by Lena Baker, an African-American woman, on a hot humid night in Southwest Georgia in 1945. Following her arrest, a jury of 12 white men, her subpoenaed peers, found Lena guilty of murder in less than 6 hours. Lena Baker received the death penalty – earning her a place in history as the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by electric chair in the state of Georgia. Lena Baker was posthumously pardoned in 2005.

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The Inbetweeners are back for a new term and in Will’s head things are going to be very different for the four boys this year.

In reality the only thing that has changed is that they are now even less cool thanks to various disasters involving the Swanage field trip, their work experience and Will’s birthday. But has it been all bad? Well, yes pretty much. Will’s birthday ended with him being chased by a bloke with a cricket bat, Jay was caught enjoying himself at an old people’s home, Simon hot beaten up by a twelve year old and Neil punched a fish to death. It’s been an interesting term.

At Crystal Lake, what started as the best weekend of their lives could quickly become their last. A group of teens, miles from civilization, are about to learn, one by one, that the lake has a bloody past...and it's redy for revenge.

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A mysterious virus, carried by mutated rats creates pandemonium on the streets of New York City when rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie focuses on six tenants on a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side, Mulberry Street.

They must fight to survive the night against the rats and the multiplying mutants.