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From director-writer-producer Todd Field comes Tar, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician, Lydia Tar. The film examines the changing nature of power, its impact and durability in our modern world.

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Spoiled millionaire playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson) almost dies when he wrecks his speedboat; he is saved when police use a resuscitator belonging to someone else. As a result local hero Dr. Phillips dies. Bob attempts to help Dr. Phillips widow Helen (Jane Wyman) who he falls in love with.

When terrible tragedy strikes can Bob save Helen and redeem himself from the past?

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A Man Called Otto tells the story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a grumpy widower who is very set in his ways.

When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol (Mariana Treviño), leading to an unlikely friendship that will turn his world upside-down. Experience a funny, heartwarming story about how some families come from the most unexpected places.

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When Liz Evans's (Samantha Morton / Louisa Cliffe)'s local cinema in Wales is threatened with demolition, she does everything in her power to keep it open.

Her final idea, to attract younger people by screening the new Jurassic Park movie there, leads to a conversation with 'Mr Spielberg' and an offer to host the premiere.

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Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker David 0. Russell comes an original crime epic about three close friends who find themselves at the centre of one of the most shocking secret plots in American history.

Based on facts that meet fiction, the film stars Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, with Rami Malek and Robert De Niro.

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Based on the hit show, the story centres around Matilda (Alisha Weir), an extraordinary girl with a sharp mind and vivid imagination who takes a stand against her terrible parents and villainous head teacher! At Crunchem Hall school, Matilda meets the inspirational teacher, Miss Honey (Lashana

Lynch), but also goes up against her fearsome headmistress Miss Trunchbull (Emma Thompson). Filled with an overwhelming sense of justice, courageous Matilda fights for what's right and teaches Trunchbull a valuable lesson!

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Computer hacker David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems, break the most intricate secret codes and master even the most difficult computer games.

But when he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportions - World War 3! Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

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Ashley Judd shines as an innocent wife convicted of murdering her husband, only to find out that he staged his death. Tommy Lee Jones is the parole officer hot on her trail after she skips town to find the man who framed her.

Full of twists and turns, it delivers more than a double dose of suspense and action.

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Angela DeMarco (Michelle Pfeiffer) has had enough! Her cheating husband Frank (Alec Baldwin) is a gangster and she's sick of living on laundered money. So when Frank gets iced by mob boss Tony 'the Tiger' Russo (Dean Stockwell), Angela is free to go straight...

until Tony puts the moves on the grieving widow. Now she must make a move of her own and kiss the Long Island Mafia arrivederci. Starting over in Manhattan, Angela finds a new job and a new beau (Matthew Modine) in no time. But when it comes to divorcing the first family of organised crime, fuh-get-about-it! Tony's hot on her trail and he's still determined to make her his mob mistress. Angela must choose between helping the FBI take Tony by the tail, or spending the rest of her life behind bars for being 'Married to the Mob'!

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Based on the bombshell New York Times investigation, 'She Said' follows the remarkable true story of how reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor went from underdogs to inspirations by shattering the silence surrounding sexual assault in Hollywood.

Determined to expose the truth many fear to tell, Megan and Jodi's partnership shakes up the system, empowering courageous women to retake their strength through stories of survival in this extraordinary film from Emmy-winning director Maria Schrader, featuring captivating performances by two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.

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Following Pu Yi (John Lone), the last of the Emperor's of China, from his birth in 1908, through his childhood in the fortress-like Forbidden City and his later misguided collaboration with the Japanese in World War II, 'The Last Emperor' tells the history of modern China through the eyes of the

man brought up to believe that he was the country's divine ruler.

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Power, Politics, Money...

in this provocative, bitingly funny drama series about a dysfunctional dynasty led by the ageing and ailing - Logan Roy (Brian Cox), whose four grown children (Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck) challenge his waning dominance while others in their orbit position themselves for the looming post-Logan world.

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London, 1953. Mr. Williams, played by Bill Nighy, is a veteran civil servant, a cog in the city's stifling bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild following WWII. After a shattering health diagnosis, it dawns on him he has not been living his life to the full.

Amidst the fog of his paperwork, and his loneliness at home, he yearns to find fulfilment before it's too late. He is encouraged in his search by two younger colleagues - the vibrant Margaret (Aimee Lou Wood) and idealistic new recruit Peter (Alex Sharp) - and a hedonistic stranger, Sutherland (Tom Burke), encountered during a desperate trip to the seaside.

From director and writer Sam Mendes (1917 and Skyfall), and set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, 'Empire of Light' is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times.

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Set 200 years before the events of 'Game of Thrones', the series finds the Targaryens ruling over the Seven Kingdoms - and on the brink of a civil war within their own house.

Prior to the birth of a son, King Viserys (Paddy Considine) sent shockwaves through the kingdom and declared his daughter, Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy), his heir. Once a healthy boy entered the picture, plans were afoot to make sure she would never sit on the Iron Throne. Now, with schemes hatched on both sides - and the kingdom in the balance - viewers will see the house that dragons built and learn how they tore it all down.