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Emmy award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany returns for the exhilarating fourth series of 'Orphan Black'. With the threat of the Castor clones no longer plaguing them, the sisterhood's future looks bright. That is, until the past comes crashing back into their lives with the return of Neolution - the organisation that has been pulling the strings all along. Forced to emerge from her Icelandic safe house, Sarah is led down a dangerous path back to the clone that started it all: Beth Childs. As Sarah begins to crack under the overwhelming pressure of keeping her family safe, the sisters are pushed in disparate directions. But in order to survive, they will need to band together like never before, or be torn apart forever. - Director:
- John Fawcett
- Cast:
- Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce
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Following a string of bloody murders a creature of myth and legend, a real Vampire, is injured and captured by a mysterious secret military unit, imprisoned in a high security medical centre and then subjected to horrific and brutal medical experiments in an attempt to discover the source of his power. As the medical experiments become viler and more gruesome, the project's Doctor becomes torn between sympathy for the patient's suffering and the concern for the evil that threatens to consume everyone involved. - Director:
- Jon Cunningham
- Cast:
- David Tracy Brown, Jason Carter, Jack Donner
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Madame Sabine De Barra (Kate Winslet) is an unlikely candidate for landscape architect of the still to-be-completed Palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical, ordered designs of the man who hires her, the famous landscape architect Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts). However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Notre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV (Alan Rickman). But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassion help her to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun King and the heart of Le Notre. - Director:
- Alan Rickman
- Cast:
- Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci
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Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device. Don't miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Blvd. , shoots hoops at the Coliseum, dive bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park, and mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends, fiends and foes (Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, George Corraface, Cliff Robertson, Pam Grier and more). - Director:
- John Carpenter
- Cast:
- Kurt Russell, Kathleen Blanchard, Steve Buscemi
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"Jackie" is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman). 'Jackie' places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of "Camelot" that they created and loved so well. - Director:
- Pablo Larraín
- Cast:
- Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig
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Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along. Her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos. - Director:
- Lilly Wachowski
- Cast:
- Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne
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The hugely successful series starring Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Helen George and Linda Bassett returns with more touching and compelling stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House. In this series Sister Monica Joan goes missing at Christmas time leaving the nuns and nurses distraught. Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and Barbara? Meanwhile, a string of babies born with severe and devastating deformities, casts a dark shadow over the entire team at Nonnatus House as they struggle to understand why. - Director:
- Juliet May
- Cast:
- Vanessa Redgrave, Jack Ashton, Judy Parfitt
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On the morning of 30th June 1860, the body of three-year-old Saville Kent is found brutally murdered and hidden down a servants' privy in the grounds of the elegant Road Hill House, on the edge of a sleepy Wiltshire village. As the local police struggle to solve the crime, the case becomes a national scandal. On the orders of the Home Secretary, Inspector Jonathan "Jack" Whicher, the so-called "Prince of Sleuths" from the newly formed Scotland Yard detective department, is despatched to the countryside to identify the killer and restore order. But this case is to prove the most difficult of his career. - Director:
- James Hawes
- Cast:
- Paddy Considine, Peter Capaldi, Tom Georgeson
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The time: today. The stakes: all our tomorrows. A nascent AI, assisted by deadly cyborgs, continues to edge toward world domination and the ruin of humankind. It accepts no limits. It fears no one. Except John Connor. The machines know John, now 16, is the future head of the resistance. They know he is growing in abilities. They must find and terminate him. But Sarah Connor is there, protecting and instructing her son as he becomes the man he's destined to be. The hunt is on in a season of powerful revelations, breathless pursuits and bravura effects. A mysterious 3-dot symbol (do UFOs provide a clue?), a girlfriend for John (is Cameron jealous?), ZeiraCorp (can it master the renegade software called Turk?) - Director:
- Jeffrey Hunter
- Cast:
- Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau
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When their village is invaded by the grumpy Bergens, two mismatched friends must work together in perfect harmony to save the day.
- Director:
- Walt Dohrn
- Cast:
- Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel
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Brooklyn's finest are back and better than ever! detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) is on a mission to be the "most amazing detective-slash-genius" ever. The season is full of shake ups and shenanigans as the crew deals with a new boss, suspicious romances, a badly planned "babymoon", undercover mayhem and outrageously funny body cam shots. - Director:
- Michael Schur
- Cast:
- Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews
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As a boy, Louis (Jack O'Connell) is always in trouble but with the help of his older brother he channels his energy into running and becomes a 1936 Olympic competitor. When World War II breaks out, Louis enlists in the military. After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, he spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. Here he becomes the favourite target of a particularly brutal prison guard because of his Olympic history. An unbelievable and inspiring true story about the resilient power of the human spirit. - Director:
- Angelina Jolie
- Cast:
- Jack O'Connell, Sean O'Donnell, Takamasa Ishihara
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Starring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, "The Hundred-Foot Journey" is an uplifting and feel-good comedy bursting with flavour, passion and heart. When the icy proprietress (Mirren) of a Michelin-starred French restaurant in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val gets wind of the Kadam family opening an Indian restaurant just 100 feet from her own, her protests escalate to all-out war between the two establishments. But as these two worlds collide, despite their different tastes they find an unlikely source of compromise that will change both sides forever. - Director:
- Lasse Hallström
- Cast:
- Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal
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After years of reckless behaviour and being haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi (Laura Dern), Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) makes a rash decision to embark on a challenging trek across the Pacific Crest Trail. With absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles all on her own - in what becomes a remarkable journey of self-discovery and redemption that strengthens and ultimately heals her. - Director:
- Jean-Marc Vallée
- Cast:
- Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann
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In Season 13 the missions turn personal when a hostage situation traps one of their own, new evidence calls the unit's conclusions into question, and a threat from the past targets the team and their allies. Yet even when the danger hits close to home, Special Agent Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) knows he can count on his supremely skilled team to cope with the crises that affect U.S. military personnel and national security. - Director:
- Tony Wharmby
- Cast:
- Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette
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