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Get up, get on, and get ready for the ride of your life! it's Christmas Eve, and you're about to roller-coaster up and down mountains, slip-slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine.

You're on The Polar Express! Tom Hanks stars in and Robert Zemeckis directs this instant holiday classic filmed in dazzling performance-capture animation that makes every moment magical. "Seeing is believing", says a mysterious hobo who rides the rails with you. You'll see wonders. And you'll believe. All Aboooooard!

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Despite their differences, beautiful Shelby (Julia Roberts), her strong-willed mother, M'Lynn (Sally Field), beauty parlour owner Truvy (Dolly Parton), elegant wealthy widow Clairee (Olympia Dukakis), sharp-tongued Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine) and mousey newcomer Annelle (Daryl Hannah) enjoy a

friendship that spans the boundaries of age and status. Sharing each other's strength and loyalty, these six remarkable women survive the cycles of life, birth and death to emerge stronger, closer and still laughing.

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1940, London, the Blitz. With the country's morale at stake, inexperienced screenwriter, Catrin (Gemma Arterton) and a makeshift cast and crew, work under fire to make a film to lift the country's flagging spirits and inspire America to join the war.

Alongside fellow screenwriter, Buckley (Sam Clafiin) and a gloriously egotistical actor, Ambrose (Bill Nighy) they set off to make a film that will warm the hearts of the nation.

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Discover the story behind one of the most beloved musicals of all time: 'The Sound of Music'. Eliza Bennett stars as the eldest daughter of the von Trapp family, who defies the odds to pursue her dream of a musical career.

Based on Agathe von Trapp's autobiography "Memories Before and After the Sound of Music", this heart-warming story of a family's incredible and harrowing journey also stars Matthew Macfadyen (Anna Karenina) and Rosemary Harris (Spider-Man franchise).

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From time to time four extraordinary actresses meet up to gossip, to laugh and to remember. For once they let the cameras in...

'Nothing Like a Dame' is a unique celebration of the lives and careers of four of our most iconic actresses; Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright and Dame Maggie Smith. All four have gone from being fledgling actresses in the 1950's to acting royalty. They've watched each other's careers grow and bloom and have celebrated life's ups and downs together. 'Nothing Like a Dame' invites you to spend time with these acting legends as they talk about their lives and their professional experiences across theatre, television and film. Directed by Roger Michell (My Cousin Rachel, NottingHill), the film also includes a range of astonishing archive material. Candid, funny, caustic, irreverent, poignant and utteijy engrossing, this unmissable film is proof that there is truly nothing like a Dame...

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Stoic and heartbroken, Einar (Robert Redford) lives quietly alongside his only trusted friend (Morgan Freeman)... until the woman (Jennifer Lopez) he blames for the death of his son arrives at his door broke, desperate and with a granddaughter he's never known.

But even as buried anger and accusations resurface, the way is opened for unexpected connection, adventure, mercy and true reunion.

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When a young Amish woman (Kelly McGillis) and her son (Lukas Haas) are caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their unlikely savior proves to be the worldly and cynical Philadelphia detective John Book.

Harrison Ford is sensational as Book, the cop who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community. The end result is an action-packed struggle of life and death, interwoven with a sensitive undercurrent of caring and forbidden love.

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San Francisco writer Frances Mayes is in a real mess when a good friend offers her ten days in Tuscany. Not wanting to go, Frances summons all her courage and packs her bags.

Once in Tuscany, she impulsively buys a run-down villa, plunging herself into a life-changing adventure filled with unexpected surprises, friendship and romance. Beautifully filmed in Italy's incredible Tuscany and featuring a dazzling cast - you'll fall in love with...

Private Benjamin's immovable object is pampered Judy Benjamin, a wedding night widow. The irresistible force is a three-year, expense-paid hitch in the U.S. Army. What's Judy doing in combat boots and fatigues? A recruiter seductively describes today's 'new Army' and gullible Judy takes the bait. .

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Bette Midler portrays a rock star whose success is laced with so much booze, drugs and hard-living; it eventually causes her downfall. Trapped in a self-created hell, Rose begs her manager (Alan Bates) for time off from her concert tour.

When he refuses, she seeks comfort and love in the arms of a handsome drifter (Frederic Forrest), but even he cannot handle her life of excess.

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Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) who claims to be part of "The New Earth Army", an experimental US Army unit. According to Cassady, a legion of psychic warriors with .

unparalleled powers can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program's founder, Bill Django (Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady's mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance's far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to accompany him on the search.

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Mike Nichols' superbly directed cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy. 'Catch 22' is the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors.

Separately and together, they are frightened, nervous, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. 'Catch 22' is an anti-war satire of epic proportions!

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Beauty. Brains. Charm. Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) has them all. In fact, she's got everything going for her except the right haircut, the right clothes, and most importantly, the right job.

Ambushed one too many times in her struggle to get out of the Wall Street secretarial pool and onto the management ladder, Tess decides to take matters into her own hands. When her classy, seductive and treacherous boss (Sigourney Weaver) breaks a leg skiing, Tess steps, literally, into her boss's shoes - as well as her apartment, her corner office and her $6,000 dresses. Suitably disguised, Tess forms an alliance with a very capable-and very attractive-Wall Street investment banker (Harrison Ford). Together, they create a deal that could catapult Tess into the big time-or finish her off for good.

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Molly hasn't spoken a word since her mother died. Her father (Ray Liotta) is desperately trying to find the right housekeeper to look after Molly until Corrina (Whoopi Goldberg) comes along. She's not what they were looking for...

or what they expectewd - but it soon turns out that both Molly and her father are crazy about her.

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Set against the stunning backdrop of the Scottish highlands, Edie tells the inspirational story of Edith Moore (Sheila Hancock), who at the age of eighty-three embarks on the gruelling climb to the top of Mount Suilven.

A recent widow, Edie leaves her home behind in the hopes of recapturing the magic from her youth, but what she discovers is much more than that. Through an unlikely friendship with young local Jonny (Kevin Guthrie), Edie learns just how strong and resilient she can be, and in doing so, finds herself. Join 'Edie' on a journey of self-discovery and heart, as she fulfils the adventure of a lifetime.