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When a violent summer storm slams into the beach town of Point Pleasant, it brings with it the unconscious body of Christina Nickson. Rescued from the surf and taken to the home of a nearby doctor, the teenager is strangely reluctant to have anyone contact her family.

For all her life, Christina has felt surrounded by a sense of wrongness, and now she's determined to figure out why. Yet the longer Christina stays in Point Pleasant, the greater the supernatural and deadly impact she has on the people around her - an impact that is destined to lead to the ultimate confrontation between good and evil.

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In this action-filled film, five young people who demonstrate special powers are forced to undergo treatment at a secret institution - allegedly to cure them of the dangers of their powers.

But it's soon clear that their containment is part of a much bigger battle between the forces of good and evil!

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Madness and melancholy intersect to thrilling effect as Almodovar reimagines Jean Cocteau's short play 'The Human Voice' for an era in which isolation has become a way of life.

Laws of desire become the rules of the game as Tilda Swinton's unnamed woman paces and panics in a glorious Technicolor apartment where decor offers a window into her state of mind. A short, sharp shot of distilled Almodovar: passion, emotion, heartbreak, wit, and melodrama exquisitely bound up in a tale for our times.

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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis.

The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

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Set in 1920's Toronto, 'Frankie Drake Mysteries' follows the city's only female private detectives, Frankie Drake (Lauren Lee Smith) and Trudy Clarke (Chantel Riley), as they take on the cases the police don't want to touch.

In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention.

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At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), to recruit and train women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance in Nazi occupied Europe.

The SOE's "spymistress" Vera Atkins (Stana Katic), recruits two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas), an ambitious American with a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Apte), a Muslim pacifist Together, these women help to undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an unmistakable legacy in their wake.

Ava (Jessica Chastain) is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

Pixar's Soul introduces Joe, who lands the gig of his life at the best jazz club in town. But one misstep lands Joe in a fantastical place: The Great Before. There, he teams up with soul 22 (Tina Fey), and together they find the answers to some of life's biggest questions.

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Where does science end and the supernatural begin? That's the mysterious - and dangerous - line explored by skeptical psychologist Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) when she teams up with priest-in-training David Acosta (Mike Colter) to explore the evil humanity is capable of.

Together, they dive into the Catholic Church's files of occult phenomena to bring them to rational conclusions...or attempt to. Angel sightings, demonic possessions, prophecies and conspiracies will test their faiths and push them to their limits as they learn that the world's darkness may run deeper than they ever thought possible.

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Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Dan Stevens) is struggling with catastrophic writer's block and a stressful deadline for his first screenplay. His picture-perfect second wife Ruth (Isla Fisher) is doing her best to keep him focused in the hope of fulfilling her dream of heading to Hollywood.

Charles' desperate search for inspiration leads him to invite Madame Arcati (Judi Dench), a medium recently exposed as a fraud, to perform a séance in their home. They all get more than they bargained for when Arcati accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife: the fiery and jealous Elvira (Leslie Mann) who embarks on a mission to kill Charles so she can spend eternity with him which leads to an increasingly comical and deadly love triangle.

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DC's weirdly wonderful Super Heroes - Cliff Steele/Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor/Negative Man (Matt Borner), Rita Farr/Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero) and Vic Stone/Cyborg (Joivan Wade) - are back to save the world in nine episodes filled with humour and

heartache. If they can grow up, that is...both figuratively and literally. Following the defeat of Mr. Nobody, the 'Doom Patrol' are left mini-sized and stranded on Cliff's toy race-car track. Feeling betrayed by Niles Caulder/The Chief (Timothy Dalton), they are forced to confront their pasts. As our heroes face the challenge of moving beyond trauma and failure, they must come together to embrace and protect the newest family member - Niles' daughter, Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro) - whose mysterious powers threaten the world's very existence.

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Following the aftermath of an encounter with Trigon, Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites) reforms the Titans.

Under his supervision in their home at Titans Tower, Rachel Roth/Raven (Teagan Croft), Gar Logan/Beast Boy (Ryan Potter) and Jason Todd/Robin (Curran Walters) train together to hone their abilities and teamwork skills. They're joined by Hank Hall/Hawk (Alan Ritchson), Dawn Granger/Dove (Minka Kelly) and Donna Troy/Wonder Girl (Conor Leslie), who have attempted to transition into regular lives. But when old enemies resurface, everyone must come together to take care of unfinished business. As this family of old and new Titans - including Conner Kent/Superboy (Joshua Orpin) and Rose Wilson/Ravager (Chelsea Zhang) - learns to coexist, the arrival of Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (Esai Morales) brings to light the sins of the past, threatening to tear apart the Titans family once more. These 13 episodes deliver dynamic thrills, action and drama in a darkly rendered DC Universe.

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The second season of 'A Discovery of Witches' sees Diana (Teresa Palmer) and Matthew (Matthew Goode) hiding in time in the fascinating and treacherous world of Elizabethan London. Here they must find a powerful witch to help Diana master her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life.

In the present day however, their enemies have not forgotten them.

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In another world, not unlike our own, a young woman named Abigail (Marta Timofeeva) lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of a mysterious disease.

Her beloved academic father (Eddie Marsan) was one of the sick and, like many, mysteriously taken away when she was six years old. Now grown, Abigail (Tinatin Dalakishvili) is determined to find her father and discover the real secrets lurking beneath the surface of her world. When she unexpectedly encounters citizens playing with spells, she discovers her city is filled with forbidden sorcery, and she herself possesses extraordinary magical powers. Abigail takes us on an exciting magical adventure, rising against the forces in command, and shows how being brave and following your heart can show anything is possible, if you just believe it.

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Pixie (Olivia Cooke) wants to avenge her mother's death by masterminding a heist, but her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run with two young men (Hardy, McCormack) who are way out of their depth being chased across the Wild Irish countryside by gangsters.

She has to pit her wits against everyone, taking on the patriarchy to claim the right to shape her own life.