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Frank Skinner has created and started in a succession of hit comedy shows including The Frank Skinner Show, Fantasy Football, and Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned.

As well as live stand up and television, Frank has starred in London's West End, written a best-selling autobiography, had three number one hits with the iconic football anthem Three Lions, and created yet another number one hit with Baddiel And Skinners World Cup podcasts. Frank Skinner returned to live stand up in 2007 with his fifth sell-out tour of the UK, a decade since he played his last major live gig.

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A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery.

When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's masterful film - novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson - quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.

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During a long hot summer in south London, Jamie (Glen Berry) is bunking off school more than usual, scurrying back to the TV and the flat on the Thamesmead estate where he lives with his mother Sandra (Linda Henry).

Meanwhile his neighbour Leah (Tameka Empson), who's been kicked out of school, spends her days listening to Mama Cass records. In the same block is Jamie's sporty classmate Ste (Scott Neal), whose home life is punctuated by the regular beatings he receives from both his father and brother. One night, in a bid to escape the violence, Ste takes refuge in Sandra's flat and sleeps head to toe with Jamie. As Sandra struggles with a job promotion and her relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony (Ben Daniels), Jamie and Ste gradually discover their affection for each other.

Wall Street trader Jerry (Fredric March) is in love with his secretary, Julia (Claudette Colbert), but she turns him down to marry Philip (Monroe Owsley). A year later, realising the mistake she has made, she borrows money from Jerry, leading Philip to become dangerously jealous...

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This masterpiece by the acclaimed Italian director Marco Bellocchio tells the extraordinary story of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's secret mistress and her struggle for recognition.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno gives a raw and powerful performance as Ida Dalser, the woman loved by Mussolini and who bore him a son, only to be denied and erased from II Duce's official biography. Rising star Filippo Timi is superb as the young dictator whose ruthless ambition knows no bounds.

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From the Louvre to Buckingham Palace, to the gutters of Paris to the siege of La Rochelle…In a kingdom divided by religious wars and under threat of British invasion, a handful of men and women will battle and tie their fate to that of France.

'The Three Musketeers: Milady' Constance (Lyna Khoudri) is kidnapped before D'Artagnan's eyes. In a frantic quest to save her, the young musketeer is forced to join forces with the mysterious Milady de Winter (Eva Green). But as war is declared and Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmaï) and Aramis (Romain Duris) have already joined the front, a terrible secret from the past shatters all old alliances. As the King (Louis Garrel) falls further and further under the control of Cardinal Richelieu (Eric Ruf), D'Artagnan (François Civil) and the Musketeers are the last bastions before chaos. But, drawn into a plot that threatens to put the country to fire and sword, fate presents them with a terrible choice: will they have to sacrifice those they love to complete their mission?

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Clay Douglas (Ray Milland) arrives in London to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, who served as a Commando with the British Forces.

Suspecting it was not a German bullet that killed his brother, Clay's investigations uncover the fact that there was a mysterious thirteenth member of the raiding party...

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Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel star as Johnny Boy and Charlie; Italian-American cousins and small time criminals hustling, fighting and carousing, doing whatever it takes to survive in the mean streets of New York.

Johnny Boy spends his life getting into trouble, leaving Charlie to get him out of it. Charlie wants to rise up in the local mafia, but when Johnny Boy reneges on a debt, the local loan shark seeks revenge.

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In the middle of his classic series of collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg substituted the iconic German star with Phillips Holmes (The Criminal Code) and Sylvia Sidney (You and Me) to make 'An American Tragedy', a shocking tale of crime and punishment.

Clyde (Phillips Holmes), a poor garment worker with a past he wishes to forget, has a shot at the good life when he meets heiress Sondra (Frances Dee). But when his clandestine girlfriend Roberta (Sylvia Sidney) announces she is pregnant, Clyde considers drastic actions in order to preserve his dream of affluence. Based on the novel by Theodore Dreiser (which would later be adapted as 'A Place in the Sun', starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor), and inspired by a notorious real-life murder case, 'An American Tragedy' is a searing indictment of the American dream.

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After he saves her from drowning in the bay, Scottie's (James Stewart) interest shifts from business to fascination with the icy, alluring blonde. When tragedy strikes and Madeleine (Kim Novak) dies, Scottie is devastated.

But when he finds another woman remarkably like his lost love, the now obsessed detective must unravel the secrets of the past to find the key to his future.

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During World War I, a young soldier, Hamp (Tom Courtenay) deserts his post, attempting to escape the ever-present sound of guns and walk back home.

Captain Hargreaves (Dirk Bogarde), an aristocratic British Army lawyer must defend Hamp before the army tribunal, for whom the crime of desertion carries a nasty stigma and the penalty of execution. Initially, Hargreaves approaches Hamp's case with disdain; however, upon learning that Hamp volunteered for duty on a dare, that he is the sole survivor of his unit and that his wife has been unfaithful in his absence, his efforts on Hamp's behalf become more impassioned and earnest.

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In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled 'Que Viva Mexico'. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato.

Chaperoned by his guide, Palomino Canedo, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life. With 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato', writer/director Peter Greenaway explores the mind of one of the greatest masters of cinema, a creative genius facing the desires and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of his career.

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"Wonder Wheel" tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950's: Ginny (Kate Winslet), a melancholy, emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's

rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment. Poetically photographed by Vittorio Storaro, 'Wonder Wheel' is a powerful dramatic tale of passion, violence, and betrayal that plays out against the picturesque tableau of 1950's Coney Island.

Set in the world of 1980s college life, 'Everybody Wants Some' follows a freshman's first weekend at college, experiencing a fraternity-like lifestyle with his hard partying teammates as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

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Malotru (Mathieu Kassovitz) is now a mole working for the CIA within the DGSE, delivering classified information to Dr. Balmes, during fake therapy sessions. In exchange for his intel, the CIA has promised to rescue the love of his life, Nadia, now imprisoned in Syria.

The pressure increases when a French jihadist threatens France with a bloody massacre. Meanwhile, Marina Loiseau begins her own clandestine mission in Iran.