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A dark and enthralling tale of love, obsession, murder and retribution. 18th century London is a filthy, teeming city - a haven for gin drinkers, harlots and cut-throats. In its heart, on the busy Fleet Street, is the barbershop of Sweeney Todd (Ray Winstone), the most notorious serial killer ever.

Living in the shadow of Newgate Prison, barber Sweeney Todd tries to carve out a quiet and simple life. But he has a past that comes back to haunt him and inner demons he is unable to quell. When Mrs. Lovett (Essie Davis), a young lady who isn't too choosy about her men or the source of meat for her pie shop takes a shop next to Sweeney's, the pair forge a complex and destructive partnership, and customers begin to disappear with alarming regularity. As body parts are found in the Fleet River, the Bow Street Runners investigate; but even under the threat of capture, Sweeney Todd is unable to run away from the monster inside...

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The epic and dramatic tale of power, politics and passion.

Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, Russian empress Catherine the Great (Helen Mirren) develops an extraordinary and fiery relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke) as they overcome their adversaries and serve as the architects of modern-day Russia.

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New York, 1955, Private Detective Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) has a new case on his hands. Washed up crooner Johnny Favorite has gone missing. Anybody that might be holding clues is being killed. Informants and witnesses are being murdered one by one.

The bodies are piling up, time is running out and Harry Angel is being kept awake at night by strange satanic visions. From the mean streets of New York to the backwoods of New Orleans, Harry suddenly finds himself being dragged into a world of sex, murder, voodoo and death. This is no ordinary case, and Harry is no ordinary detective.

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In this original movie directed by Daniel Minahan and based on the iconoclastic, Emmy-winning HBO' series, David Milch's unforgettably profane characters reunite in the wake of South Dakota's statehood.

Sins of the past return with a vengeance, old feuds are revived, and allegiances are tested as modernity stakes its claim on this remote and dangerous and town.

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The Emmy Award winning 'Game of Thrones' returns for a final season of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honour...and an epic clash between the living and the dead.

With the Army of the Dead - led by the Night King, his White Walkers and an undead dragon - bearing down on Jon and Dany and their combined forces, a denouement eight seasons in the making will be reached, answering a myriad of questions surrounding the fate of the series' protagonists. Meanwhile, Jon's true identity promises to undermine Dany's claim to the Iron Throne...and, of course, Cersei has a devious strategy of her own.

When a mysterious life-threatening event strikes Earth, astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) goes on a dangerous mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

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The five Bennet sisters have all been raised by their mother with one purpose in life - finding a husband. However, the second eldest Lizzie can think of 100 reasons not to marry.

When Mrs Bennet hears the exciting news that a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends are to take up summer residence in a nearby mansion the Bennets are abuzz with the hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. Obligingly, the newcomer, Mr Charles Bingley, is immediately taken with the eldest Jane. However, when Lizzie meets up with the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr Darcy, what seems like a match made in heaven quickly becomes divided by pride and prejudice. Can they get past this and can Lizzie finally find a reason to marry?

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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.

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Wolfgang Peterson's "Das Boot" is regarded as one of the most outstanding and accurate representations of Germany's elite U-Boat crewmen during World War II.

Told from the German perspective the crew aboard U-96 are portrayed in a hopeless life-and-death struggle coping with the endless hours of loneliness and desperation, giving way to terror when confronted by the enemy.

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As the war between Earth and Mars ignites across the solar system, the terrifying next phase in the evolution of the protomolecule threatens the very existence of humanity.

Caught in the middle, the Rocinante crew struggles to deal with tensions amongst themselves, while striving to survive and aid those in peril.

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1306, Scotland's new King, Robert the Bruce (Angus Macfadyen) flees the English army after suffering a crushing defeat at Strath-Fillan.

Injured and alone, the country's last hope for freedom finds refuge in the croft of a widowed peasant (Anna Hutchison), whose Lord has sworn allegiance to England and whose men stalk the forest in search of the king they reject. Through a cold, cruel winter, risking her life and the lives of her children, she nurses him back to health, forging a bond that reignites his passion for freedom and a Scotland for all her people which he will earn years later on the field at Bannockburn.

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Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart.

But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight.

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Travelling back to the dark, brutal past of 13-century England, 'Ironclad: Battle for Blood' plunges us headlong into one of the most violent periods in English medieval history. The story continues with honour, action and excitement.

Gathered together by Hubert (Tom Rhys Harries), a small band of hired swords plot how to hold off evil Celtic Tribesmen. They are hell-bent on revenge for the death of their leaders' son Guy (Tom Austen) whose soul is wracked with guilt over the atrocities he has committed during the years after the great battle of Rochester Castle and his burgeoning feelings for Kate (Roxanne McKee), his cousin.

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Claire Denis' first English-language feature sees a group of convicts assigned to a difficult space mission with the belief they will be freed if they are successful.

The film follows Monte (Robert Pattinson), one of the convicts aboard the mission a few years after its launch as he raises his daughter in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards it's final destination...

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Tokugawa Ieyasu became Japan's most famous warrior leader. A rebel, a unifier and the greatest Samurai general of them all whose achievements would match those of Caesar and Napoleon.

He was as cunning as he was brave, and he founded a dynasty which would rule Japan for 250 years and whose ruthless philosophy of loyalty and sacrifice would shape it until our modern age. The story starts as the Taiko, Lord of Japan, dies. Ieyasu, then a powerful Samurai warlord, attempts to outmanoeuvre his enemies to grab power. The game of cat-and-mouse finally implodes in civil war, as vast armies clash over the future of Japan. Finally, on 21 October 1600, Ieyasu confronts two other armies in what became the biggest Samurai battle in Japanese history. During this decisive battle and at a moment when victory or defeat hung in the balance, he gambled everything on an act of almost reckless daring. This is also a story of a love for a reckless son, betrayal, redemption and that against insurmountable odds the belief in becoming Shogun - the military and political leader of his people.