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What if you could control luck? Would that be the greatest power you could give a man, or his worst nightmare? "Stan Lee's Lucky Man" is a bold crime thriller series based on an idea by the legendary comic book writer Stan Lee.

BAFTA nominated actor James Nesbitt plays Detective Inspector harry Clayton, a brilliant but troubled cop and a compulsive gambler who is in danger of losing everything. Marry is near rock bottom, his family have left him and he is losing big at a casino when he is approached by the beautiful and enigmatic Eve (Sienna Guillory). She gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck, but this kind of luck comes with a price and soon harry finds himself right at the sinister heart of a crime wave sweeping through London. With luck on his side he sets himself against the dark forces circling, but will it be enough to save him and his family? D.I. Harry Clayton is about to step onto the roller coaster and find out just how fickle Lady Luck can be...

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A group of real-estate salesmen-cum-con artists live on the edge. All the time. Life is good for only one. For the rest, life hangs in the balance. There is no room for losers. The name of the game is simple: A-B-C. A-Always. B-Be. C-Closing. Always be closing. Sell or go under. Right under.

Deep rock bottom under. That's the name of the game. It's simple.

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All men are created equal...then, a few become firefighters.

'Only the Brave', based on the True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of firefighters that, through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect communities, become one of the most elite firefighting teams in America. As most of us run from danger, they run toward it - watching over lives and homes, and forging a unique brotherhood that comes into focus with one fateful fire.

Rellik gradually unravels the truth behind a string of gruesome murders. Damaged and charismatic detective, DCI Gabriel Markham, is on an obsessive hunt for a brutal killer. As his personal and professional lives unfurl, Rellik explores how our pasts make us who we are.

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Soar to new heights in this spellbinding film starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. To escape an irrational world, Birdy (Modine), a Vietnam veteran, sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army hospital, where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of his boyhood dreams.

In an effort to break Birdy's silence, his psychiatrist brings in Al Columbato (Cage), Birdy's loyal best friend from childhood. Al desperately tries to reach the disturbed Birdy and bring him back to reality. The answer may lie in their youth, where the eccentric Birdy first donned wings and the happy-go-lucky Al helped him to fly.

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Stephen King's horror masterpiece comes to life for a new generation. In Derry, Maine, seven young friends unite against a terrifying supernatural creature that has been haunting their small town for centuries.

Calling itself Pennywise the Dancing Clown, IT is a monster of unspeakable power that takes the form of everyone's most horrific fears. Threatened by their worst nightmares, the only way these kids can survive IT is together.

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Orson Welles makes his feature-length directorial debut with this classic drama which often tops critics' polls of the best films of all time. In 1940, newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Welles) dies after uttering the word 'Rosebud'.

An anonymous reporter (William Alland) is assigned the task of uncovering the meaning of Kane's dying word, and in the course of his enquiries he receives varying accounts of his life from former colleagues Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) and Bernstein (Everett Sloan), and ex-wife Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore). The film, which Welles also produced and co-wrote, was not-so-loosely based on the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

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The USS Nimitz is cruising peacefully 200 miles off Pear Harbour when it is suddenly caught in a storm and is bathed in an unearthly green light. Almost immediately the seas are calm again.

The reconnaissance photos taken after the storm to plot the position of the ship, show a blow-up of Pearl Harbour, circa 1941, with the battleship Arizona visible in the photo - this seems impossible; as the Arizona was sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. It dawns on the officers that somehow they have moved back in time. Will the crew, with its awesome force, take the opportunity to destroy the Japanese fleet heading for the naval base? And if so, what will happen to the world as we know it?

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When the President of the United States is caught in a scandal just two weeks before the election, it's up to his White House advisor Ronnie Bream (Robert De Niro) to clean up the mess.

Ronnie joins forces with Hollywood Producer Stan Moss (Dustin Hoffman) to divert the country's attention from the President's crime. They decide that what is needed to stop the media spotlight is a war, but lacking a real war, they fake one. Actresses play pretty refugees and rock stars record hit songs about freedom. Soon America is rallying around the President. But trouble arrives when a rough and tough Senator gets wise to the pair's tricks. Meanwhile, Election Day gets closer and closer...

The Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of 'The Force Awakens' join the galactic legends in an epic adventure that unlocks new mysteries of the Force.

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Inspired by the insider interviews in Misha Glenny's bestselling book, writer/directors Hossein Amini and James Watkins have created a drama that exposes the global network of organised crime.

'McMafia' unravels a complex web of connections that joins up money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in India, Russian oligarchs in London and Bedouin smugglers in the Negev desert. What starts out as a story of survival and revenge becomes a tale of one man's struggle against the lures of corruption.

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After a series of murders bearing all the markings of the Jigsaw killer, law enforcement find themselves chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade and embroiled in a new game that's only just begun.

Is John Kramer (Tobin Bell) back from the dead to remind the world to be grateful for the gift of life? Or is this a trap set by a killer with designs of their own?

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Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) and his 10 year old son, Grant (Spencer Treat Clark) are both trying to come to terms with the loss two years earlier of Michael's wife, Grant's mother. When they befriend a family from across the road, things seem to get a little better for them.

However, as the families become closer, Michael starts having misgivings about Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack), and begins investigating them. He soon realises that the Langs are definitely not who they claim to be. The film is a tense political psychological thriller with Michael uncovering more and more about the seemingly innocent family living opposite him on Arlington Road.

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In the dying days of Empire, Ancient Rome falls under the rule of Caligula (Malcolm McDowell), the most evil and perverse emperor ever to wield power over men.

Director and softcore legend Tinto Brass and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione team upto craft the most expensive, excessive erotic production ever filmed. Emperor Caligula is an incestuous, psychopathic despot, hell bent on bloodshed and sodomy in this orgiastic fever dream that plays like a Fellini movie with money shots. Watch with ever increasing shock and awe as Caligula, the twisted dictator brings an empire, and the women of Rome, to their knees, in an explosion of lust, lesbianism, torture and bloodshed.

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Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seeks revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang.

How this group of charlatans puts "the sting" on their enemy makes for the greatest double-crosses in movie history, complete with an amazing surprise finish.