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Happy Valley is a British drama television series on BBC One. The series follows Catherine Cawood, who is a strong and independent police sergeant who works in the Yorkshire valleys. Despite her tough outer-shell, she is still torn apart by the death of her daughter by suicide.

One day she comes across the man she holds responsible for the cause of her daughter’s death, and she becomes obsessed with making him pay. Cast includes Sarah Lancashire and Robin Hood’s Joe Armstrong.

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Line of Duty is a BBC -made crime drama centering on the investigations of the Police’s Anti- corruption unit, AC-12. Heading up the team is Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), a veteran from the conflicts in Northern Ireland.

Along with his colleagues, Detective Constable Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure), and the newly transferred Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), Hastings attempts to stem the flow of corruption which appears to have already infected the force’s highest echelons.

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The Bridge is a Swiss/Danish collaborative police drama created by Hans Rosenfeldt and written by Björn Stein.

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) and Swedish Saga Norén (Sofia Helin) have share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

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As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town's small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can't leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable.

A mutilated and dismembered body washes on the shore, an unidentifiable man murdered only hours ago. The local police chief, Andri Olafssun, whose personal life is in shatters, realises a killer has descended into his town. As word spreads, order disintegrates into chaos as the ferry's passengers and the town's residents realise they are all possible suspects and that a killer is trapped among them.

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Our Girl is the story of Molly Dawes (Lacey Turner), the eldest of five kids with little future, a difficult father and a mother who always wanted more for her.

Born and raised in the London Borough of Newham, it tells Molly's story from nobody to a soldier in the Royal Army Medical Corps, to her arrival in Afghanistan. Leaving school with no qualifications, Molly has a part-time job in a local nail bar. Drunk and despondent on the evening of her 18th birthday, she throws up in the doorway of an Army Recruitment Office. She doesn't know it then, but it's an action that will change her life forever...

During the darkest days of World War II, the British government enlist the help of mathematician Alan Turing to crack Enigma, the unbreakable German encryption device. Turing and his team of code breakers must unlock the Enigma Code before their operation is infiltrated and more lives are lost.

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Dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason (Ellar Coltrane) is facing upheaval: his struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston - just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) re-enters their world.

Thus begins a decade of constantly unfolding heartbreak and wonder as Mason swims against the tide of family moves and controversies, faltering marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times and scary times that shape the person he will be.

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Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London's Denmark Street.

Though he's wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike's unique insight and his background as an SIB Investigator prove crucial in solving a complex case that has eluded the police.

Part 1
Cormoran Strike seeks the'truth surrounding the mysterious death of supermodel Lula Landry (Elarica Johnson) alongside temp secretary, Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger).
Part 2
Strike discovers that Lula was murdered and makes a breakthrough about how it was done. Robin is offered a permanent job in HR but is reluctant to take it.
Part 3
Long buried secrets are revealed, putting Strike and Robin in danger as they close in on Lula Landry's killer.

Based on the true story of Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith), a woman of uncertain origins "temporarily" parks her van in Alan Bennett's (Alex Jennings) London driveway and proceeds to live there for 15 years. What begins as a begrudged favour becomes a relationship that will change both their lives.

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Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the world of dreams.

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but has also made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime. But no planning or expertise can prepare them for a dangerous enemy who seems to predict their every move. An enemy only Cobb could have seen coming.

Academy Award winner Robert Redford stars in 'All Is Lost', an open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea.

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Following the scandalous abdication of his brother King Edward VIII, Bertie (Colin Firth) who has suffered from debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of the United Kingdom.

With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) seeks out the help of eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush).

Legend is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London's most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance.

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Based on the bestselling fantasy book series 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R.R. Martin, this drama is set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime.

From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms arc locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honour, conquest and triumph. In the 'Game of Thrones', you either win or you die.

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In the third season of the hit HBO drama series 'Game of Thrones', the Lannisters barely hold on to the throne after a savage naval onslaught from Stannis Baratheon, while stirrings in the north threaten to alter the overall balance of power.

Robb Stark, King in the North, faces major calamity in his efforts to build on his victories over the Lannisters while beyond the Wall, Manee Rayder and his huge army of wildlings continue their inexorable march south. Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targarycn - reunited with her three fast-maturing dragons - attempts to raise an army to sail with her from Essos, in hopes of eventually claiming the Iron Throne. In Season 3 of this original series based on George R.R. Martin's bestselling books, the battling families of Westeros continue to clash as bonds are strained, loyalties are tested, and cruel fates are met.