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Ready or Not (2019)Family Ritual
When a young bride (Samara Weaving) marries into a ridiculously rich and delightfully deranged family, her wedding night becomes her worst nightmare as she's forced to play a lethal game of hide-and-seek and must fight to stay alive. 'Ready or Not' is a wicked comedy-thriller that elevates the phrase "til death do us part" to shocking new heights! - Director:
- Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
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- Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien
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"The Great" is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning). From creator and Academy Award Nominated writer Tony McNamara, comes a fictionalised, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl who honours an arranged marriage to the mercurial Russian Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult). Instead of love and sunshine, she finds a dangerous, depraved and backward world. Catherine becomes driven to change Russia and fulfill her destiny as the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia's history. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court on her side. - Director:
- Colin Bucksey
- Cast:
- Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox
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In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960's, where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy). But the glamour is not all it appears to be, and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker. - Director:
- Edgar Wright
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- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith
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Ambitious, award-winning German noir series, 'Babylon Berlin' is back for a fourth outing. Series Four is set in 1930's Berlin, just after the Golden Twenties culminated in the global stock market crash and the Great Depression - and the Nazis' march to power is in full swing. The story centres on detective Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch), and his ambitious colleague Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries). As Gereon's investigations lead him into the boxing milieu - and politically, uncomfortably close to Hitler's militant supporters - Charlotte risks her job to help her homeless sister, who roams the streets of Berlin with a group of young peers, fighting for survival. - Director:
- Hendrik Handloegten
- Cast:
- Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Benno Fürmann
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Paris Memories (2022)Revoir Paris
From acclaimed French filmmaker Alice Winocour comes an exceptional new drama."Paris Memories" follows Mia (Virginie Efira) as she struggles to make sense of her experience in the aftermath of a violent attack. Her isolation and confusion leads her to meet with others who were there, including Thomas (Benoit Magimel) who she forges a close relationship with. As Mia works through her fractured memories, she starts to rebuild her life and reconnect with the city she loves. Featuring outstanding performances, Winocour's new film is a powerful story of hope, humanity and compassion. - Director:
- Alice Winocour
- Cast:
- Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin
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Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) is an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman who looks just like her. Sarah assumes her identity, her boyfriend and her bank account but quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy and must race to find answers about who she is and how many others there are just like her. Filled with surprising twists and turns, this addictive new series will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. - Director:
- John Fawcett
- Cast:
- Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris
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Back for another gripping season, Sarah is now in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira. Her scorched earth tactics have sparked a war with the pro-clone Rachel, dividing and endangering all the clones. With Alison's carefully crafted suburban world spinning out of control, and the genetic illness affecting Cosima threatening them all, Sarah must negotiate a dangerous world of new enemies and shifting allegiances to get to the bottom of the experiment that made them who they are. As Sarah discovers more about her past, mysterious newcomers appear, but can they be trusted? - Director:
- John Fawcett
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- Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris
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Two-time Critics' Choice Award-winner Tatiana Maslany returns in the pulse-racing third series of Orphan Black. After the shocking discovery of Project Castor, Sarah and her sister clones are left to battle the top-secret military project producing these lethal male clones. At the same time, Sarah tries to track down her missing twin Helena and an ailing Cosima searches for the key to the synthetic sequences that may keep them all alive. But how far are they willing to go to protect each other and their families, and who can they really trust? - Director:
- John Fawcett
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- Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce
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Emmy award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany returns for the exhilarating fourth series of 'Orphan Black'. With the threat of the Castor clones no longer plaguing them, the sisterhood's future looks bright. That is, until the past comes crashing back into their lives with the return of Neolution - the organisation that has been pulling the strings all along. Forced to emerge from her Icelandic safe house, Sarah is led down a dangerous path back to the clone that started it all: Beth Childs. As Sarah begins to crack under the overwhelming pressure of keeping her family safe, the sisters are pushed in disparate directions. But in order to survive, they will need to band together like never before, or be torn apart forever. - Director:
- John Fawcett
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- Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce
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In this wild and incredible tale, young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to live by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella runs off on an adventure that inspires in her a fantastical evolution leading to a fierce dedication to equality and liberation. - Director:
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
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"One Life" tells the true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton (Anthony Hopkins), a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed? Fifty years later, it's 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It's not until a live BBC television show, 'That's Life', surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children - now adults - that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades. - Director:
- James Hawes
- Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn
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Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorised the Iocal town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago - all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore. - Director:
- Tim Burton
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- Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan
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Wednesday is a teen supernatural mystery series based on The Addams Family franchise. Wednesday Addams finds herself attending a more accepting school for odd teenagers with powers. Her stay at the school, however, reveals a darker murder mystery that she'll soon have to solve. The show stars Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, and Christina Ricci. - Director:
- Tim Burton
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- Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan
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Experience the breathtaking global phenomenon that has captivated audiences around the world. Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, 'Oppenheimer' thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
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- Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
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The African Queen (1951)African Queen
Take two legendary co-stars, a rip-roaring boys own story, a fearless director and an eventful location shoot in Zaire and Uganda and you get 'The African Queen' - the best loved of all adventure movies. During World War One, a hard drinking river trader (Humphrey Bogart) and a prim missionary (Katharine Hepburn) are forced to take a hazardous river expedition together, encountering tropical hazards, nefarious German officers and a surprising romance. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
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