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The award winning, critically acclaimed situation comedy, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson and directed by Edgar Wright.

'Spaced' is the story of two very different people, enthusiastic but directionless Daisy Steiner and grumpy, broken hearted skateboarder, Tim Bisley - two twenty-somethings who pretend to be a professional couple to secure the tenancy of a North London flat. As the pair grow closer, the potent mix of their friends, interests and ambitions lead them into a world more bizarre than childhood and a lifetime away from being grown up. Keep telling yourself ... 'It's only a sitcom'. Includes the episodes: Beginnings, Gatherings, Art, Battles, Chaos, Epiphanies, Ends

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Spaced Volume 2 follows the continuing voyages of confused twenty-somethings, Daisy Steiner and Tim Bisley, as they navigate through life at a time when they should be getting serious - but somehow aren't! Together with their assortment of co-conspirators - tortured artist Brian, would be soldier

Mike, fashion fascist Twist, rock casualty landlady Marsha and Colin the dog, they tackle the big questions of the 21st Century. Who they are, what they mean to each other and who should switch on the kettle?

Episodes Comprise:
1. Back
2. Change
3. Mettle
4. Help
5. Gone
6. Dissolution
7. Leaves

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Director/co-writer Michael Mann's 'The Last of the Mohicans' is a soaring story of transcendent love, an authentically detailed recreation of a turbulent era in U.S. colonial history and an exciting saga of flintlocks-and-tomahawks warfare.

Daniel Day-Lewis (as Hawkeye) and Madeleine Stowe (as British transplant Cora) are lovers caught up in the tumult of the French and Indian War in this 1992 Academy Award winner set to a rapturous score by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman. The tale itself is a personal touchstone for Mann: the 1936 screen version was the first movie he recalls seeing as a child. It's hard not to detect a sense of boyhood wonder in Hawkeye's outsized heroics. Here, Mann augments that with a bravura style and sweep that shows why he's one of today's most electrifying moviemakers.

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A college road trip turns into a breathless battle for survival. When a trio of computer geniuses are lured to the desert they believe it to be a hacker's prank, but things turn serious when they're kidnapped and taken to a mysterious facility.

Who has taken them? The government? A terrorist organisation? An agency not of this world? They must do whatever it takes to find out.

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Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, Curtis LaForche, a young husband and father, questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

As he tries desperately to stay sane, his obsessive actions become ever more erratic, placing his livelihood, his marriage and eventually his health in jeopardy. But the question remains are Curtis' apparitions real? Or is he beginning to follow a past family member down the road to mental illness?

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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission.

In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers - Blake's own brother among them.

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Anthony Hopkins plays the eponymous role of a mischievious and highly independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman). Yet, such help has become essential following Anne's decision to move to Paris with her partner.

As Anne's father tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

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How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of 18th-century nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O'Neal) the answer is: any way he can! His climb to wealth and privilege is the enthralling focus of this sumptuous Stanley Kubrick version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.

For this ravishing, slyly satiric winner of four Academy Awards, Kubrick found inspiration in the works of the era's painters. Costumes and sets were crafted in the era's designs and pioneering lenses were developed to shoot interiors and exteriors in natural light. The result? Barry Lyndon endures as a cutting-edge movie that brings a historical period to vivid screen life like no other film before or since.

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Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God'. A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.

This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be his only way out.

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A key film of the British New Wave, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was a great box-office success-audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy, the gritty realism of its setting, and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind.

Based on Alan Silletoe's largely autobiographical novel, the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham, where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench, his Saturday nights with Brenda (Rachel Roberts), wife of a fellow factory worker. Played by Albert Finney with an irresistible animal vitality, Arthur is anti-authority and unashamedly amoral. With powerful central performances, crackling dialogue by Sillitoe and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankwroth, the film stands as a vibrant modern classic.

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Ariel (voice of Jodi Benson), a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid, is off on the adventure of a lifetime with her best friend, the adorable Flounder (voice of Jason Marin), and the reggae-singing Caribbean crab Sebastian (voice of Samuel E. Wright) at her side.

But it will take all of her courage and determination to make her dreams come true - and save her father's beloved kingdom from the sneaky sea witch Ursula (voice of Pat Carroll)!

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Passion, temptation and obsession explode in this sexy, stylish thriller which charts a young man's rise in society and the terrible consequences of his ambition. The protagonist Chris (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is torn between two women, and on finding no way out, resorts to extreme action.

Nola (Scarlett Johansson) is the beautiful struggling American actress who comes between Chris and his rich wife Chloe (Emily Mortimer).

New York City detectives "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover 'The French Connection'. But when one of the criminals tries to kill Doyle, he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city limits.

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The martial arts legends of the 80s return. Karate champion Michael Rivers (Mathis Landwehr) is forced to fight in an illegal and deadly fighting competition in order to save his kidnapped daughter. Director and DOP Ross W.

Clarkson ("Undisputed 2", "Undisputed 3") reunites some of the most iconic martial arts stars of the 80s, among them Cynthia Rothrock ("China O'Brien"), Kurt McKinney ("No Retreat, No Surrender"), Billy Blanks ("The King of the Kickboxers"), Matthias Hues ("Kickboxer 2") and Mohammed "Michel" Qissi ("Bloodsport"). "The Last Kumite" also brings back music legends Stan Bush and Paul Hertzog, who wrote the iconic songs and soundtracks for "Bloodsport" and "Kickboxer".

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During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner.

While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu", this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.