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Kursk: The Last Mission (2018)The Command
Based on the gripping true story of the Kursk submarine tragedy of 2000 in which 188 men lost their lives, 'Kursk: The Last Mission' is a tense submarine thriller from critically-acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg. When a Russian naval exercise goes horribly wrong, the Kursk submarine erupts in flames killing most of the men on-board and sending the trapped survivors to the bottom of the sea. Time is running out for Russian Captain Mikhail Averin (Matthias Schoenaerts) and his crew, as fire engulfs the vessel, starving them of oxygen. Ignoring the advice of their own people, the Russian government refuses the help of the UK Navy operation headed by Commodore David Russell (Colin Firth). When they finally give way to mounting domestic pressure, it's too little too late... - Director:
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Cast:
- Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek
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Yesterday (2019)All You Need Is Love
Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter...but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack (Himesh Patel) discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie (Lily James) - the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all. - Director:
- Danny Boyle
- Cast:
- Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino
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Wild Tales (2014)Relatos Salvajes
From director Damian Szifron and producer Pedro Almodovar comes six stories, each exploring a different facet of revenge and the various brilliant, mad, toe-curling and hilarious flavours in which it can be dished out. Whether it's taking out a belligerent crime lord, getting even with officious parking enforcement, retribution for infidelity, or good old fashioned road rage, 'Wild Tales' takes acts of vengeance for infuriating, often all too familiar situations and blows them out to a bitter and hysterical end in this outrageous, tense and ferociously funny dark comedy. - Director:
- Damián Szifrón
- Cast:
- Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa
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Based on Margaret Atwood's award-winning, best-selling novel, 'The Handmaid's Tale' is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized "return to traditional values". As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander's household, belonging to the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids - where anyone could be a spy for Gilead - with one goal: to survive and find the daughter who was taken from her. Also featuring Yvonne Strahovski and Samira Wiley. - Director:
- Reed Morano
- Cast:
- Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski
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Self-assured, and irritatingly cocksure, one thing Alex (Michael Socha) can boast about is his loyalty to his dearest friend, Jim (Danny Morgan). As Jim's 30th birthday approaches, Alex promises to help get his best friend laid, so he won't reach this unwelcome milestone a virgin. They muster up the courage to organise a double date with sisters Kitty (Kelly Wenham) and Lulu (Georgia Groome), but little do the boys know, their company for the evening have other plans for their night ahead. - Director:
- Benjamin Barfoot
- Cast:
- Danny Morgan, Georgia Groome, Michael Socha
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Ted (Zac Efron): handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. Liz (Lily Collins): a single mother, cautious, but smitten. A picture of domestic bliss, the two seem to have it all figured out, that is until Ted is arrested and charged with a series of increasingly grisly murders. As concern turns to paranoia, Liz is forced to consider how well she knows the man she shares a life with and, as the evidence piles up, decide if Ted is truly a victim, or actually guilty as charged. - Director:
- Joe Berlinger
- Cast:
- Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan
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Winner of 6 Academy Awards including Best Director for writer/director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record-breaking 7 Golden Globe Awards, "La La Land" is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year - it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in love with again and again. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as Mia and Sebastian, an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams - and finding each other - in a vibrant celebration of hope, dreams and love. - Director:
- Damien Chazelle
- Cast:
- Ian Wolfe, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone
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The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. "Gilead is within you" is a favourite saying of Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd). In Season Two, Offred and all our characters will fight against - or succumb to - this dark truth. - Director:
- Mike Barker
- Cast:
- Oprah Winfrey, Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes
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The second ten sensational part season of 'Riviera' sees Georgina (Julia Stiles) focused on trying to get away with murder as she fights to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. This intoxicating drama is full of sun, sex, sea, fast cars, fast living, chateau's and everything that says the glamour of the rich and powerful. Picking up immediately from the shocking ending of season one, with the Clios family still reeling from the devastation caused by Constantine's mysterious death, Georgina continues her battle for dominance and control with Irina Clios (Lena Olin) and her children Christos (Dimitri Leonidas) and Adriana (Roxanne Duran). - Director:
- Hans Herbots
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- Julia Stiles, Will Arnett, Poppy Delevingne
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"Dragged Across Concrete" follows two embittered police detectives and recently paroled convict who descend into the criminal underworld.
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- S. Craig Zahler
- Cast:
- Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles
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Burning (2018)Beoning
Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this critically acclaimed South Korean film tells the story of Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a part-time worker who bumps into old neighbour Haemi (Jong-seo Jun). She asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Kenya, but when she returns, Haemi introduces Ben (Steven Yeun) to Jongsu. One day, Ben visits Jongsu with Haemi and confesses his own secret hobby. - Director:
- Chang-dong Lee
- Cast:
- Ah In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jeon
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"Killing Eve" is a story of two women, bound by a mutual obsession and one brutal act: Eve (Sandra Oh), an MI6 operative, and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), the beautiful, psychopathic assassin that she has been tasked to find. Season Two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season; Eve is reeling and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately she's not the only person looking for her. - Director:
- Damon Thomas
- Cast:
- Sandra Oh, Irina Lytiak, Sonia Elliman
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Travel Man: Series 2 (2016)Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Richard Ayoade returns with an octet of comedy titans to take on the challenge of creating the optimal 48 hours away. This is Travel Without Mercy. Richard begins in Vienna with Chris O'Dowd, sampling the city's finest cakes, cafes, sausages, spirits and sewers. Mel Giedroyc joins Richard in Paris, touring the city by motorbike and sidecar, chowing down on calf's head and learning the secrets of making macarons. Noel Fielding goes the full 48 in Copenhagen, scoffing stunning sandwiches and riding one of the oldest roller-coasters in the world. Greg Davies and Richard head to Moscow, to sample space food in the Cosmonaut Museum and visit one of the strangest circuses on earth. Rob Delaney is roped in for a trip to Seville, where flamenco, tapas and a wild west film studio are among the attractions assessed. Jo Brand shares a gondola in Venice to explore a wealth of watery attractions. Johnny Vegas joins Richard for 48 hours of record breaking opulence and excess in Dubai. Finally Roisin Conaty and Richard head to Berlin for a weekend's worth of motoring, music and Michelin starred munching. - Director:
- Nicola Silk
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- Richard Ayoade, Chris O'Dowd, Mel Giedroyc
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Thrown into the crucible of the most violent air war ever seen, a boy, barely out of school, is determined to fight for survival... Seventy years later, that same boy is still yearning to be free. At the age of nineteen, Geoffrey 'Boy' Wellum was the youngest Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain. This is the dramatic story of the teenager who went to war with the Nazis and with the fear that threatened to engulf him... - Director:
- Matthew Whiteman
- Cast:
- Sam Heughan, Gary Lewis, Ben Aldridge
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Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him - Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendon) - remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith). Confined to an isolated cell-block in a California penitentiary, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan - until empathetic graduate student, Karlene Faith (Merritt Wever), is enlisted to rehabilitate them. Convinced the prisoners are not the inhuman monsters the world believes them to be, Karlene begins the arduous process of breaking down the psychological barriers erected by Manson. But are the women ready to confront the horror of what they did, including the fabled murder of actress and model Sharon Tate (Grace Van Dien)? Boundary pushing auteur Mary Harron (American Psycho), presents a provocative new perspective on one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century. - Director:
- Mary Harron
- Cast:
- Chace Crawford, Suki Waterhouse, Merritt Wever
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