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Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry (Jaeden Lieberher), is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother (Jacob Tremblay).

When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama from director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World).

The story and characters you know and love come to spectacular life in the live-action adaptation of Disney's animated classic 'Beauty and the Beast', a cinematic event celebrating one of the most beloved tales ever told.

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Frank loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, NY. However, Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act.

He starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponser, and a job in a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel. But when an upstart Irish gang threatens the family business back in Buffalo, Frank is forced to return home, and with unlikely assistance from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.

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Malone (Thomas Jane) is a legendary hired gun. Some say gangsters killed his family and tried to kill him. But he was too tough to die. Other stories are worse… much worse, but only he knows the truth. His mythic reputation preceeds him, inspiring awe in even the worst criminals.

Taking a job to retrieve a case containing a mysterious secret sees bullets, fists, and blood fly, as Malone fights through an army of colourful characters and thugs to protect the valuable secret.

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In every generation, there comes along a person so scandalous, so rebellious, so willing to break taboos that they topple the world's ideas of what being a free spirit truly means.

In the 17th century that person was John Wilmot, Aka the 2nd Earl of Rochester -the wily and talented rogue who lived his short, wild life like a Restoration rock star and become known all at once as a troublemaker, a genius and one of history's most irrepressible believers in liberty. Now, in Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine, Johnny Depp brings forth the sexy, irreverent and ultimately moving adventures of a man who broke all the rules at a time when the rules of modern society were first being written. With a gritty and raw realism, the film brings to life the swinging times of 60s London - 1660's London, that is.

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L.A. is where famous people live ... and die. A celebrity death is big news. But a celebrity murder! That's a 24/7 media frenzy.

So the LAPD forms the Priority Murder Squad to handle those high-risk situations before they get out of hand and hires Atlanta's CIA-trained ace interrogator Brenda Johnson to run it. Her job: get the confessions that lead to convictions. And get them fast. Kyra Sedgwick stars as Johnson in the hit crime series from the production company whose credits includes Nip/Tuck. Beneath Johnson's soft drawl is a tough attitude that antagonises her co-workers, despite her skill at cracking cases, Behind her back, cops call her Scarlett O'Hara. But Johnson just calls 'em as she sees 'em, even if that means putting the heat on stars, politics, zillionaires and other La-La-Land types.

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Relentless edge-of-your-seat suspense, jaw-dropping, high-octane action and a powerful love story combine in what has been hailed by many critics as the best film of the year. 'Tell No One' follows one man's frantic race against time when his tragic past is suddenly and unexpectedly unearthed. Dr.

Alex Beck (François Cluzet) is left unconscious after his wife, and childhood sweetheart, Margot (Marie-Josée Croze) is brutally murdered. 8 years on and still unaware of the truth, Alex receives an anonymous e-mail. Clicking on the link he sees a woman's face in a crowd - Margot's face...But before this can sink in, Alex is thrown headlong into a deadly chase - running from both the Police and a team of killers who will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.

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Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) is divorced, retired and leads a reclusive and relatively quiet life. One day, he learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica (Charlotte Rampling), left in her will a diary kept by his best friend.

Tony's quest to recover the diary forces him to revisit his flawed recollections of his youth and, digging deeper, uncovers deceit, regrets and guilt buried long ago. Can Tony bear to face the truth and take responsibility for the devastating consequences of actions he took so long ago? 'The Sense of an Ending' is a deeply moving and uplifting story about the paths chosen in life, and the power of memory, love and forgiveness.

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Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets of 1926 New York, threatening to expose the wizarding community. Newt Scamander arrives in the city nearing the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures.

When unsuspecting No-Maj Jacob Kowalski inadvertently lets some of Newt's beasts loose, a band of unlikely heroes must recover the missing beasts before they come to harm, but their mission puts them on a collision course with Dark forces.

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In the near future, a time of artificial intelligence: 86-year-old Marjorie (Lois Smith) - a jumble of disparate, fading memories - has a handsome new companion (Jon Hamm) that looks exactly like her deceased husband Walter.

This is a Prime a holographic simulation programmed by Marjorie's daughter (Geena Davis) and her husband Jon (Tim Robbins) to feed the story of her life back to her. But as their interactions develop it becomes clear that each of them has a very complex relationship with their shared histories, with each other, and with this new technology they've invited into their home.

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It's a whole new ballgame for the LAPD's top-gun detectives as the first electrifying season of "Major Crimes" picks up where the hit series 'The Closer' left off. But there's more than a little grumbling in the tight-knit brotherhood of 'Major Crimes' because their new leader...

is their old nemesis, Captain Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell). And Raydor arrives with a whole new approach and plenty of baggage - in the form of lingering resentment over her earlier investigations into the team's operations. But even as Raydor attempts to gain the unit's trust, 'Major Crimes' will be forced to pull together to crack their toughest cases ever. From busting a gang of ex-soldiers turned heavily armed robbers, to joining forces with the FBI to take on Israeli mobsters, to investigating a street gang shooting that leads Raydor to jeopardise her career, to stopping the killing spree of a deranged sniper, the 10 episodes of 'Major Crimes' debut series are a major entertainment event... that would be a crime to miss.

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John "Falcon" Chapman (Michael Jai White), is an ex-marine anti-hero plagued with a terrible secret consuming him with guilt.

On the self-destructive edge, he learns his sister Cindy (Laila Ali) has been brutally beaten in the slums or "favelas" of Brazil and travels there to hunt down her attackers. In the process he discovers an underground world of drugs, prostitution, and police corruption ruled by the Japanese mafia and protected by the powerful Hirimoto (Masashi Odate). Can Chapman overcome his personal demons when tracking down his sister's attacker, or will he become another casualty?

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In this action-comedy caper harkening back to Jackie Chan's classic Hong Kong films, a railroad worker (Chan) and his ragtag group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions.

Unarmed and outnumbered, they must fight back against an entire army using only their wits, in a series of dazzling set pieces and action scenes rivalling anything seen on the big screen.

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Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez lead an all-star cast as the global blockbuster franchise delivers its most action-packed, high-octane adrenaline rush yet in 'Fast and Furious 8'.

Now that Dom (Diesel) and Letty (Rodriguez) are married, Brian and Mia have retired from the game and the rest of the crew has been exonerated, the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman (Charlize Theron) seduces Dom into the world of crime he can't seem to escape and must betray those closest to him. From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, our elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage...and to bring home the man who made them a family.

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When a boating joyride during their family vacation takes a disastrous turn, a doctor, his wife and their six year old son soon find themselves stranded on a deserted island.

Isolated and alone, without food or water, they are finally discovered by a local fisherman Miguel Kaba (Barkhad Abdi) after a few days. However their salvation soon becomes a living nightmare when the fishermen abduct the mother and son and demand a ransom for their safe return. Now a desperate father must race against the clock to track down the kidnappers and save his family.