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Nicky (Will Smith) is a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). As he's teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort, and he breaks it off.

Three years later, Jess - now an accomplished femme fatale - shows up in Buenos Aires during the high-stakes race-car circuit, throwing Nicky off his game in the middle of his latest dangerous scheme.

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Evan is a hot young, gay newspaper writer - and he's just had his heart broken. Attempting to shake off his melancholy, he takes on an assignment profiling Hunter, an alluring gay club promoter.

Around the guys are a host of other twenty-something urbanites, all longing for the same thing - approval. Whether it's by the in-crowd, the hottie across the bar or in the industry they work, all strive for something greater, failing to appreciate what they already have. Seek explores fresher territory in gay cinema, and is all the more tender and heart-wrenching for it.

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A psychotic serial killer is on the loose, committing some of the most diabolical crimes the police have ever witnessed. No one is safe as the body count rises and the killer continues his evil odyssey of sadistic butchery.

But when the fiancée of an elite special agent becomes one of his victims, a personal investigation becomes a merciless and brutal game of vengeance. As one violent encounter leads to another, it's a game where the hunter becomes as unhinged as the hunted.

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Things are different for the Pontipee men now that big brother Adam's fetched a bride and brought her to their cabin.

Indeed, the unwed brothers are so inspired they raid the town and carry off brides of their own! Like a favourite flannel shirt, everything fits right in this rugged whoop-for-joy directed by Stanley Donen, choreographed by Michael Kidd and featuring an exhilerating Gene dePaul/Johnny Mercer score that won an Academy Award. Jane Powell and Howard Keel star, supported by a cast of buckskinned dancers and petticoated danseuses. And what steppin'! The barn-raising sequence alone - back-flipping, plank-leaping athleticism - leaves a daylong smile. "Bless Your Beautiful Hide", all you brides and brothers!

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Freddie is a free man after spending a considerable stretch at Her Majesty's Pleasure, and now he plans to take the underworld by storm.

As events unfold, his wife Jackie (Kierston Wareing) becomes increasingly unstable, not helped by the actions of her younger sister, Maggie (Charlotte Riley), who is in love with Freddie's cousin, Jimmy (Shaun Evans). If you are a Jackson then you trust no one, because everyone in this criminal world is on The Take.

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Across seven time zones and through all extremes of weather, the writer and TV presenter Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey through vast and varied landscapes of Russia, killing cliches and revelling in the unpredictable.

This landmark BBC series opens with Dimbleby driving over the tundra inside the Arctic Circle. It is the short summer season - when the snow melts and the sun never sets. Ahead of him lies 10,000 miles of hard travelling, through a country that is not only the largest in the world but also, perhaps, the most awe-inspiring. Look through one window, and you see an authoritarian regime trying to modernise itself into an oil-rich economy. Look through another, and you see exuberant people enjoying new opportunities but struggling with old problems, the marker stones of their turbulent past painfully evident. Dimbleby's exhilarating journey by boat, train, truck and foot is heart-warming, entertaining and compelling viewing.

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This new HBO series revolves around three 30-something friends living in San Francisco, who explore the exciting, sometimes overwhelming, options available to a new generation of gay men.

Friendship may bind them, but each is at a markedly different point in his journey: Patrick (Jonathan Groff) is a 29-year-old video game designer returning to the dating world in the wake of his ex's engagement; aspiring artist Agustin (Frankie J. Alvarez), 31, questions the idea of monogamy amid a move to domesticate with his boyfriend; and the group's oldest member, longtime waiter Dom (Murray Bartlett), 39, is facing middle age with dreams still unfulfilled. The trio's stories intertwine dramatically as they search for happiness and intimacy in an unparalleled era for gay men.

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What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir travels the world in search of the most modern manifestations of the oldest hatred, and comes up with some startling answers.

In this irreverent quest, he follows American Jewish leaders to the capitals of Europe, as they warn government officials of the growing threat of anti-Semitism, and he tacks on to a class of Israeli high school students on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz.

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Military conscripts Yossi and Jagger are soldiers in love - but secretly so, in this magnificently directed, tender Israeli drama.

Their affair is unknown to almost all the other inhabitants of their isolated outpost, including Ya'eli, a sweet female soldier who holds a candle for the unsuspecting Jagger. As an attack looms closer, the tensions in the lovers' relationship mount. Jagger is about to finish his service, and wants his discretion-obsessed commanding officer Yossi to quit the army and live openly with him. But can they even survive the evening's ambush? Based on a true story and featuring some brilliantly drawn supporting characters, Yossi & Jagger is an intensely romantic story of hidden love in the trenches.

Includes all episodes from fifth season.

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Ben is not your average teenage boy. With everyday life an epic struggle to overcome ignorance and bullying, Ben spends most of his time residing in a virtual world, using the role playing online fantasy adventure video game Archlord to escape from the harsh realities of his life.

It is in this realm where he learns to create the real-world avatar that will allow him to survive. Online he meets Scarlite (Laura Verlinden), a girl destined to shape his future and help him take revenge on the people making his real life a living hell. Based on a true story Ben X is a compelling and moving take about a young man, his online relationship with a girl and a mother and father who would do anything to protect him from a cruel world, virtual or real.

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Three teenagers jump 'The Beast' - the infamous train that illegal immigrants board to take them from Guatemala, through Mexico, to the American border. The journey to a better life is fraught with danger.

Facing exploitation at every turn, the only people they can trust on this perilous journey are each other.

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In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanised police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind.

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In the mountain retreat of a gifted internet billionaire, a young man takes partin a strange experiment: testing an artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

But the experiment twists into a dark psychological battle - a love triangle, where loyalties are torn between man and machine.

Set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University, 'The Riot Club' follows Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin), two first year students determined to join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.