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Hunderby 1831. A young woman, thought to be a spinster missionary, is washed up on the beach... In an attempt to escape her terrible past, she assumes the name of Helene Blone (Alexandra Roach) and marries the local widowed pastor and master of Hunderby.

Once wed, it soon becomes apparent that Pastor Edmund (Alex Macqueen), is not quite the man he appeared to be - and his peculiar housekeeper, Dorothy (Julia Davis), makes it clear she prefers the dead wife, doing all she can to undermine the new mistress. Such trials push Helene towards the sturdy arms of the dashing Doctor Foggerty (Rufus Jones). Can she resist his charms and birth her husband an heir to save Hunderby?

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From the creators of the award-winning film "Baraka", Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, comes a new non-verbal masterpiece.

Filmed over a five-year period in 25 countries across five continents, "Samsara" transports us via stunning Panavision Super 70 cinematography to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, "Samsara" subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary. It encourages our own interpretations, inspired by breathtaking images that infuse the ancient with the modern and set against a mesmerizing musical score featuring the work of Lisa Gerrard, Michael Stearns and Marcello De Francisci.

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'Jacob's Ladder' tells the truly scary story of a traumatized Vietnam war veteran, who, as he returns to his civilian life begins to hallucinate.

Visualising horned creatures and visited by his dead son, Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) downwardly spirals into a life of confusion and horror as he searches for the truth behind his Vietnam experience and tries to make sense of what is happening to him.

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Brace yourself as one of the all-time spellbinders possesses you all over again.

Director William Friedkin and producer/screenwriter William Peter Blatty have revisited The Exorcist to integrate 11 minutes of scenes and images deleted before the film's 1973 release and digitally restore the picture and audio elements. The result is an experience more gripping than ever. Now seen are moments deepening the impact of the performances by Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb. They include a "nervous disorder" dianosis, expansion of Father Merrin's arrival before the ritual, priestly doubts during the ritual, an epilogue with Lt. Kinderman and Father Dyer and most notably, a shattering staircase descent by Regan. Winner of Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Sound, The Exorcist astonishes time and again like no other movie.

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Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) are a happily married couple with three young children who have moved into their idyllic new suburban home. When tragedy strikes their young son, Josh and Renai begin to experience things in the house that are beyond explanation.

Before long, their lives are turned upside down by demonic forces, hell-bent on terrorising their very existence. Forced to seek help and protect their family, they learn the terrifying truth - it's not the house that's haunted but something far worse...

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You're invited to one of the most celebrated and audaciously funny hit comedies of the year - Muriel's Wedding! Follow frumpy, misguided Muriel Heslop on her lifelong quest for a glitzy fairy-tale wedding.

With visions of nuptials dancing in her head, this ABBA-obsessed misfit ditches her pathetic life and plastic friends in a small Australian suburb for big-city dreams in Sydney. But the road to the altar takes surprising twists and turns - and Muriel is about to learn the lesson of a lifetime. Wry, witty and hailed by critics everywhere, Muriel's Wedding is one affair you don't want to miss.

A Super-Secret Organisation recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training programme just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

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Gavin and Stacey is a British comedy sitcom starring Matthew Horne and James Corden about the romance between Gavin (Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page) and their friends and extended families.

Gavin, with the help of best friend Smithy (Corden) tries to impress her as they start a relationship that due to their odd friends and relatives has many bumps in the road. The show looks at the many embarrassments caused during life by family as well as the love and acceptance that it brings too.

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The Royle Family is a classic British Sitcom about the Royle Family, a family living in Manchester living off state benefits who spend almost all their time sat in front of the television watching anything that doesn’t involve doing anything.

Starring Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston, the series is a satire of modern England and the families that inhabit it and each episode usually involves the 6 members of the family sitting around talking about inconsequential things they have heard or happened to them, something that seems unlikely due to the fact they never leave the house.

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Saxondale is a British television sit-com co-written and starring Steve Coogan as Tommy Saxondale, a former roadie with anger issues. The series also stars Ruth Jones as Magz his Welsh anarchist girlfriend with comedians Greg Davis, Liza Tarbuck and Mark Williams in supporting roles.

The series sees the collection of odd characters involved in a wealth of ridiculous circumstances.

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Are You Being Served? is a cult British comedy series about the people who work in a London department store and the strange things they get involved in while working there.

The series follows the staff as they attempt to successfully run the store but are thwarted mainly due to either their own laziness or their own stupidity. The series looks at the shopping culture in Britain at the time while lampooning the people who work there. Co created by Dad’s Armies David C

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at The Royle's and Barbara's gone overboard with the presents. "If you can't spoil your family at Christmas when can you?" she asks, having spent a whole two hours in Poundland.

A new neighbour moves on to the street with an impressive cleavage but will she be welcome on the sofa? In a flash of seasonal entrepreneurial spirit Dave reveals the idea he intends to pitch to Dragon's Den. Will it take off and make them rich? Or is Jim's scratch card more likely to bring in the Christmas cheer? Joe, next door, is looking for love and places an advert in the Lonely Hearts column, 'Vacant Lady Wanted'. Who could resist?

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Kath and Kim is an Australian comedy drama about a suburban mother and daughter living in fictional area of Melbourne, Fountain Lakes.

The pair, along with their respective partners and a melee of friends, navigates their way through their typical lives trying to manage their dysfunctional relationship along the way.

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In 1960, a post-Nazi world, a travelling Doctor strikes up a relationship with a local Argentinian family, in particular their daughter Lilith, a lonely 12-year-old girl who unknowingly becomes close friends with one of the world's most terrifying Nazi war criminals, Josef Mengele A.K.A .

'The Angel Of Death', who is on the run for his crimes in Auschwitz.

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The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom.

One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.