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In this vivid snapshot of Weimar life, a group of young Berliners enjoy a typical lazy Sunday, including a trip to the city's suburban lakes. Flirtations, rivalries and petty jealousies ensure as they all try to wring the last from their weekend even while Monday and the weekly routine loom.

Young, middle-class and idealistic, Fabrizio struggles to break away from his bourgeois background.

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Unable to live with her mother, Berit is institutionalised for many years. When she is released from the institutions she ends up on the streets of the harbour slums of Gothenburg, and is forced to take a job.

The job is conditional on her living with her mother and she becomes a young woman in deep suicidal despair. One night she escapes her mother's overbearing apartment to go to a dance and, in an effort to lighten her spirits, she meets a sailor and tells her new-found confidante of her troubled past. She starts to spend more time with him and begins to meet others, soon, she discovers that she is not the only one with problems.

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Harvey Keitel plays J.R., an unemployed youth content to hang out with his buddies in New York's Little Italy. But love, in the person of a college-educated girl (Zina Bethune), soon throws J.R. into a turmoil that challenges his ways of looking at the neighborhood - and life itself.

Scorsese went on to make such landmark films as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Good Fellas. Each shows he's lost none of the fire and inventiveness seen here in his debut work.

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A ship has caught fire and only one lifeboat remains. Now, its captain, Michael Taylor (Gary Cooper) must decide who will live and who will surely die. The story begins at Taylor's trial where he is charged for the murders of the ship's passengers who perished.

But what his prosecutors don't know is that he was actually on board under British secret orders. Unexpectedly, he is awarded a new trial after a representative of the Queen of England steps forward with a detailed account of the tragedy. Next, the real story unfolds, via brilliantly photographed flashbacks, revealing Taylor and his partner's heroic mission to abolish the inhumane business of slave trading. But will the truth be enough to spare Taylor from a life behind bars?

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When U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn.

As the investigation unfolds and Teddy uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he learns there are some places that never let you go.

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The beautiful Leslie (Merle Oberon), a costume party guest, and handsome divorce lawyer Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier) find themselves stranded by fog in an already overcrowded hotel.

Leslie's solution is tn commandeer Logan's bedroom, relegating him to the sofa, eat his breakfast and sneak off leaving only a note: 'Goodbye, Lady X'. The next day she overhears Logan making disparaging remarks about women in divorce cases and decides that with the aid of her friends Lord and lady Mere (Ralph Richardson and Binnie Barnes) and an elaborate ruse, she will teach the misogynist a lesson...

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Hank McHenry (Edward G. Robinson) and Johnny Marshall (George Raft) work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang.

One night Hank and Johnny meet Fay Duval (Marlene Dietrich) in a clip joint, but tensions start to show in the road crew as rivally between Hank and Johnny increases.

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From Australia to Scotland, and (hind to New Guinea, George Raft, Vera Nina and an impressive parade of celebs "Follow the Boys" in this star-spangled, wartime tribute.

When screen star Tony West (Raft) is rejected for military service, he keeps the news to himself but finds another way to serve, organizing camp shows for the enlisted men that include such big-name stars as Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles, W.I. Fields, Dinah Shore, The Andrews Sisters, Sophie Tucker, Jeanette MacDonald and many more. Unfortunately, his war efforts are so all-consuming that they soon overshadow the news of his wife's (Zorina) pregnancy, threatening to turn their relationship into another casualty of war. This rousing drama, which showcases some of the most popular stars and musical acts of its day, endures as a stellar collector's item rife with sheer entertainment.

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A shy psychiatric nurse's unerring belief in fate sets her on the rocky road to love when she seeks out the man who saved her life. Deep in the countryside lies the Birkenhof asylum, an isolated kingdom over which nurse Sissi rules with gentleness and charm.

On a trip to the nearby town she becomes the victim of a horrendous road accident. A mysterious passer-by saves her life, but, he disappears without revealing his identity.
Armed with only a button pulled from his sleeve, Sissi tracks down her saviour, who turns out to be an ex-soldier and aspiring bank-robber named Bodo. Bodo is not the slightest bit interested in Sissi, but, Sissi is convinced that their chance meeting is the key to her new life. When a bank-robbery goes wrong Bodo is surprised to find that, this time, his fate lies in her hands. Maybe Sissi is right after all: their lives are intertwined and being together is their only chance of survival. Enigmatic love story in which crime, romance and road movie combine to endow everyday life with a mythical quality.

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Pioneering, immensely influential and often challenging, 'Armchair Theatre' was ITV's flagship drama anthology series.

Bringing high-quality drama to the viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network's potential to rival the BBC's drama output, with diverse and powerful plays showcasing some of Britain's most gifted writers. This release comprises four plays featuring performances by some of the era's most celebrated and accomplished actors including Rupert Davies, Roger Livesey, Constance Cummings, John Stride, Leslie Phillips, Caroline Mortimer and Denis Quilley.

Featured Plays:
- The Thought of Tomorrow (1959)
- Toff and Fingers (1960)
- Late Summer (1963)
- The Gong Game (1965)

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Immerse yourself in more spectacular space exploration with Season 3 of this epic series from History.

A virtual collision of astronomy and history, each enlightening episode utilises strikingly realistic computer recreations and animations to provide unprecedented insight into the mysteries of our universe and beyond. See how NASA is arming itself with the latest technology to pre-empt an apocalyptic attack in Deadly Comets and Meteorites. Learn how scientists envision reproduction and human development in Sex in Space and explore startling new evidence showing the existence of universes other than our own in Parallel Universes. From bizarre clouds to the hypothetical Planet X, from space disasters to space sex and the possibility of terrifying cosmic collisions, experience space in a whole new way - not through a telescope or textbook, but firsthand. With "The Universe: Season 3", you'll feel like you've travelled to the edge of the unknown.

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"Armchair Cinema" was one of the first projects undertaken by Thames Television's Euston Films subsidiary.

Based on the format of the hugely successful and influential 'Armchair Theatre', 'Armchair Cinema' presented a series of individual film dramas and is perhaps best remembered for one groundbreaking and phenomenally successful film - 'Regan', which introduced John Thaw and Dennis Waterman's maverick Flying Squad detectives, gaining a huge audience and leading to the commissioning of 'The Sweeney'. The standard of drama offered by the series was consistently high; its flexibility and scope attracted some of the best contemporary television writers, and every film showcased the talents of first-class performers - including John Thaw, Edward Woodward, Anthony Valentine and Tom Bell. This set also includes 'Suspect' and 'Rumour' - two Thames Television filmed plays by Mike Hodges (Get Carter) which were a dry run for the Euston Films style - alongside 'The Sailor's Return' and 'Charlie Muffin', two standalone television movies made by Euston Films.

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'Cheeni Kum' is a romantic comedy with less sugar. Means less much. It is a sarcastic love story of a 64 year old arrogant, acidic chef of London's top Indian restaurant and a simple 34 year old unmarried woman, visiting London.

It's a story of how they meet, how they fight, how they make up, how their relationship evolves into the romance. It's a story of their funny struggle to break the news to the woman's father and the chaos they go through convincing him and making him accept them as a couple.

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Antoine Doinel has married Christine Darbon. He's working for a florist tinting flowers in the courtyard of the building where they live.

Their neighbours are an eccentric bunch including an opera singer and his wife, a man in voluntary confinement, a waitress in love, and a mysterious man nicknamed "the strangler". Antoine begins working for an American company and shortly afterwards finds that Christine is to have a baby. But here Antoine and Christine's happiness ceases as Antoine become obsessed with Kyoko a beautiful, exciting Japanese girl he meets at work and becomes more and more distant from Christine.