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Sixteen years after her daughter Maggie disappeared in Central Park, Julia (Sigourney Weaver) has never recovered from the loss, and pursues a solitary existence based on rigid routine.

Her son Chris (Alessandro Nivola) is trying to reconnect with his mother in anticipation of his marriage to Celeste (Keri Russell). One day, Julia encounters a troubled, alluring young woman, Louise (Kate Bosworth), who reminds her powerfully of her vanished child. The two begin a series of tense encounters, and eventually Julia takes Louise in. As their bond deepens, Julia begins to reawaken to the pleasures of life -- all the while seeing everywhere clues that Louise could actually be the long-lost Maggie.

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Grieving widower Garret Blake builds boats for a living. Rebuilding his lifethats another matter. But thats before Theresa Osborne comes to his North Carolina village.

Theresa, a lonely divorcee and researcher for the Chicago Tribune, knows Garret is the author of the message she found inside a bottle on Cape Cod beach. And she knows the message spoke to her in a way that profoundly touched her heart. Kevin Kostner as Garret and Robin Wright Penn as Theresa bring high-voltage star-power to Message in a Bottle, a tale of love lost and found based on Nicholas Sparks best-seller.

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A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present in George Lucas' THX 1138, starring Robert Duvall as a man whose mind and body are controlled by the government.

THX makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime.

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Earth. Post-Apocalypse. 1000 years after the Neutron Wars. Lord Zirpola (David McLean), the dictator of Helix City, captures Range Guides Kaz Oshay (David Carradine) and Deneer (Claudia Jennings).

Range Guides are mystical nomads who have strange powers and who choose to fight for good in the bleak wastelands. Lord Zirpola forces them to take part in his favourite entertainment; the Death Sport - an arena where they must fight to the death on special motorcycles like Roman gladiators. But Kaz, Deneer and others break out and make their escape on the strange motorcycles, trying to cross the lethal desert to freedom. Ankar Moor (Richard Lynch), a former Range Guide who now serves the evil Zirpola, hotly pursues the fleeing group and now wants their blood!

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Red (Dennis Hopper), fresh from Prison, is an aging scam-artist looking for a new job. Together with fellow ex-con Ronnie (Viggo Mortensen), a naive and easily manipulated young hoodlum, Red starts his own business. However, this business involves organising fake-money sales and murder.

Things go wrong when Ronnie kills an undercover agent, who's partner Jimmy Mercer (Wesley Snipes) has one week before being transferred. The clock is ticking for Jimmy as he tries to track down his partners killers, and enforce his own justice.

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A young couple on holyday are car-jacked by an escaped convict. When their tyres are punctured by a dead animal riddled with needle-like splinters they have to take refuge in a deserted gas station.

Little do they know that these splinters are from a parasitic organism that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts. Trapped inside the gas station they realize they have to work together to fight this primal terror and get out alive.

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Gates fall, an isolated small town community, witnesses the reopening of its decrepit textile mill. Sitting next to a cemetery and abandoned for years, the site has fallen into decay and is now only home to a horde of rats.

After the mill beings operation again, a team of workers - almost as strange as the mill itself - venture into the basement to clean it. Trapped in the darkness below the mill, they find themselves pitted against each other, and against the terrifying secret that awaits them on the 'Graveyard Shift'.

Reprising his role as the irrepressible Hong Kong 'super-cop' Ka Kui, Jackie Chan is triumphant in scene after scene of breath-taking action, as he puts his life on the line to combat ruthless kidnappers holding his city to ransom.

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A zombie attack brings chaos to Harvardville Airport. Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield who fought the sinister Umbrella Corporation during the Raccoon City tragedy 7 years ago, are back.

In high-octane Resident Evil style, they're ready to battle a rogue warrior who is seeking revenge after his family was killed in Raccoon City. The deadly G-Virus is unleashed and a new mutated monster goes on the rampage. Will Claire and Leon be able to terminate the virus before history repeats itself

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Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins), a widower of five years, lives an aimless life as a college economics professor in suburban Connecticut.

When Walter reluctantly agrees to fill in for a colleague at a conference in New York City he discovers a young couple, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), have been scammed into illegally renting his vacant flat. Walter agrees to let them stay until they find a place of their own. However when an interaction with the police lands Tarek, an undocumented New Yorker, in an ICE detention centre, Walter emerges as the only person able to visit Tarek. When Tarek s mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass) appears in search of her son, Walter s emotional commitment in Tarek's case is sealed. As the four people struggle to deal with the stark realities of the US immigration system and their own individual lives, their shared humanity is revealed in awkward, humorous and dramatic ways.

In the year 1850, the suffering of the 430 million Chinese people under the corrupt rule of the Qing dynasty set the stage for the Taiping Rebellion. During the chaos of the decade long civil war, 50 million people died from either hunger or battle...

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When Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks into the mainframe of his ex-employer to prove his work was stolen by another executive, he finds himself on a much bigger adventure.

Beamed inside by a power-hungry Master Control Program, he joins computer gladiators on a deadly game grid, complete with high-velocity "Light Cycles" and Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), a specialized security program. Together they fight the ultimate battle with the MCP to decide the fate of both the electronic world and the real world!

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Boris Karloff's legendary performance has become a landmark in the annals of screen history. As the mummy, Im-Ho-Tep, he is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a team of British archaeologists.

It is revealed in a flashback that he was a high priest, embalmed alive for trying to revive the vestal virgin whom he loved, after she had been sacrificed. Alive again, he sets out to find his lost love. Today, over 50 years after The Mummy was first released, this brooding dream-like film remains a masterpiece not only of the genre, but for all time.

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Up until now, World War 1 had always been seen as a war that happened in black and white, but that was not the reality.

It was the first war to see the development of the fighter plane, the introduction of poison gas, the inventions of the tank and the flame thrower and the wide use of machine guns and heavy artillery, which caused such mass destruction. Using rare archive footage from sources around the World, including Britain's own Imperial War Museum, this 6 part series has been painstakingly colourised using the latest computer-aided technology to bring the first world war to colour, as experienced by those who fought and endured it. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, this landmark series brings a unique perspective to the events of 1914-1918 which saw 65 million men take arms against one another and a world thrown into chaos. The definitive guide to 'World War 1' as never seen before.

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At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control.

With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleagured and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act. Overseen by a former teacher, (Takeshi Kitano), and requiring that a randomly chosen school class be taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, the Act dictates that only one pupil be allowed to survive the punishment. He or she will return, not as the victor, but as the ultimate proof of the lengths to which the government are prepared to go to curb the tide of juvenile disobediance.