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Bored and restless in his new home, Bruno (Asa Butterfield), an innocent and naive eight-year-old, ignores his mother and sets off on an adventure in the woods. Soon he meets a young boy, and a surprising friendship develops.

Set during World War II, based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, this remarkable and inspiring story about the power of the human spirit will capture your heart and engage your mind.

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As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly secret of his Jewishness.

He is bounced from a Soviet orphanage, where he plays a dutiful Stalinist, to the Russian front, where he hides in plain sight as an interpreter for the German army, and back to his home country, where he takes on his most dangerous role: a member of the Hitler Youth. Based on the real-life experiences of Salomon Perel, Agnieszka Holland's wartime tour de force 'Europa Europa' is a breathless survival story told with the verve of a comic adventure, an ironic refutation of the Nazi idea of racial purity, and a complex portrait of a young man caught up in shifting historical calamities and struggling to stay alive.

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Unforgiven tells the story of Ruth Slater (Suranne Jones) who has spent the past 15 years imprisoned for the murder of two policemen, and now faces the daunting prospect of rebuilding her life whilst being irresistibly drawn to the place that haunts her, Upper Hanging Stones Farm.

In spite of trying to focus on the future and her new boyfriend Brad (Will Mellor), Ruth is unable to forget her past and the sister, Katie, who she was forced to leave behind. Outraged to hear that the woman who killed their father has been released, Kieran (Jack Beam) and Steve Whelan (Matthew McNulty) are eager to seek revenge. Believing that life should mean life, the two brothers decide to take the law into their own hands. But just how far are they capable of going? Can they really do to her what she did to their father? As the details about Ruth's past become known, maintaining a job. friendship, and a relationship become increasingly arduous. Ruth soon realises that the ramifications of her release spread further than she could have imagined, with far reaching implications for everyone involved.

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Told with the help of some of Everett's most famous comic characters, including Cupid Stunt and Sid Snot, Best Possible Taste is the story of pioneering radio DJ and television star Kenny Everett's against-the-odds struggle to achieve both personal and professional fulfilment, as seen through the

decade-and-a-half prism of his marriage to Lee Middleton.

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Cuddly Ken is back with his long overdue DVD debut - 'The Complete Naughty Bits'. A fantastic 2 hour compilation of the best sketches from the ground-breaking original series by Thames.

'The Complete Naughty Bits' features the best of Kenny's wacky characters including Sid Snott, Marcel Wave, Angry of Mayfair & Brother Lee Love. Plus the much loved inter-galactic adventures of Captain Kremmen & hi delectable assistant Carla! Also features a host of celebrity guests including Sir Cliff Richard, Terry Wogan, Lionel Blair, David Essex & Michael Aspel. And finally, for the first time ever on DVD, steaming up the screen and registering 1000 degrees on the hotometer..Hot Gossip!

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The Street is a British drama series about the lives of a group of people living on an unknown street in Manchester. The series follows individual stories about the residents of a street in Manchester.

The show follows a different person in each episode as they deal with different events in their lives from the death of someone close to work problems and the many issues that arrise. As people are put through horrible events and must find friends to get through it, we see everyone who lives on The Street who who they are.

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UK comedy series starring Victoria Wood and Julie Walters about a group of dinnerladies at a canteen in a factory in Manchester. The show follows this eclectic group of employees as they cope with life as dinner ladies as well as the many problems in their own lives.

The show follows Bren (Wood) and her relationship with disenfranchised canteen manager Tony (Andrew Dunn). The series also looks at Bren’s relationship with her mother (Walters), a terrible mother who abandoned Bren years previously.

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The year is 872, and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes, leaving the great kingdom of Wessex standing alone and defiant under the command of King Alfred (David Dawson).

Against this turbulent backdrop lives our hero, Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon). Born the son of a Saxon nobleman, he is captured by the Danes and raised as one of their own. Forced to choose between the country of his birth and the people of his upbringing, his loyalties are ever tested. What is he? Saxon or Dane? On a quest to reclaim his birthright, Uhtred must tread a dangerous path between both sides if he is to play his part in the birth of a new nation and, ultimately, recapture his ancestral lands.

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Ginger faced, caravanning enthusiast Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show his new girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved caravan.

Up until now Tina has led a sheltered life with her over protective mother, but there are things that Chris wants her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn't take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina's meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris's dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge...

Legendary social club owner Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars are determined to make the Phoenix Club a success no matter what. Not even a racist folk band, an unforeseeable psychic or a drunken horse will get in the way of their dream that 'Clubland will never die'.

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Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars of the Phoenix Club return for another laughter packed series of Phoenix Nights. Life is not grand for Brian, he has lost everything, his license, his friends and his beloved Phoenix Club, in a mysterious fire.

But as Brian says "there's only one way to go when you're on the bones of your arse and that's up". It's time to get the old gang back together and raise the Phoenix from the ashes once again!

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He's back! After the biggest selling stand-up Dvd of 2011, Peter Kay is back with even more brand new live comedy taken from his Guinness World Record breaking eighteen-month tour across the UK.

We also take a unique and often hilarious look behind the scenes at life on the road as Peter reveals how he created his mammoth tour, playing 140 shows to 1.2 million people, officially making it one of the most successful stand-up comedy tours of all time.
Includes over 55 minutes of 'New' live stand-up. Special non-swearing mum's version (With just one tiny swear word...right near the end).

He's back! One of Britain's best loved comedians finally brings his record breaking "Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour" to disc. With his first live tour in seven years, playing to over one million people, this hilarious new show, sees Peter back on nights, doing what he does best, live stand-up comedy.

Peter Kay's "Mum Wants A Bungalow" tour was a phenomenal success, sweeping across the country and seen by over 300,000 people. The 180 night record-breaking run in arenas and theatres lasted an epic 9 months and still left people desperate for more.

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Flying in the face of fear and prejudice, Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) tells his girlfriend Fred (Suzanne Clément) that he wants to become a woman.

In spite of the odds, and in spite of each other, for ten years they confront the contempt and bigotry of their friends, ignore the counsel of their families, and brave the phobias of the society they offend - but will this stand cost Fred and Laurence both themselves and each other?