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During the darkest days of World War II, the British government enlist the help of mathematician Alan Turing to crack Enigma, the unbreakable German encryption device. Turing and his team of code breakers must unlock the Enigma Code before their operation is infiltrated and more lives are lost.

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A funny and touching coming-of-age story based on the beloved best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, feature is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up.

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope – and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.

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Belfast, 1971: a young, rookie soldier, Gary Hook (Jack O'Connell), is sent on his first field operation as the British military deploy emergency troops to try to suppress the increasing violence. When their first mission sparks a riot, Gary is accidentally abandoned by his unit in the frenzy.

Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night and find his way back to base through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.

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"Hockney" is the definitive exploration of one of the most significant artists of his generation. For the first time, David Hockney has given access to his personal archive of photographs and film, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of a long life.

The film chronicles his vast career, from his early life in working-class Bradford - where his love for pictures was developed through his admiration for cinema - to his relocation to Hollywood, where his lifelong struggle to escape labels ('queer', 'working class', 'figurative artist') was fully realised. Paradoxically, this escape to live the American Dream did not break the ties to the childhood that formed him. We see his upbringing and life experiences give him the willpower to survive relationship problems, and later the Aids epidemic, and also allow him to create some of the most renowned works of the past century. Acclaimed filmmaker Randall Wright offers a unique view of this unconventional artist who is now reaching new peaks of popularity worldwide, as charismatic as ever, and at 77 still working in the studio seven days a week.

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Director Jack Hazan and editor David Mingay (Rude Boy) had access to David Hockney and his circle from 1970 to 1973, a critical period for the internationally-acclaimed artist following the break-up of his relationship with Peter Schlesinger.

As much an intimate study of love gone wrong as a portrait of an artist at work, "A Bigger Splash" chronicles the emotional ripples that separation casts on their coterie. With appearances by such art scene icons (and subjects of Hockney's work) as Celia Birtwell, Ossie Clark, Henry Geldzahler and Patrick Proctor, this ground-breaking film is presented here in a newly remastered version, accompanied by rare and fascinating archive documentaries on Hockney and an insightful interview with Hazan.

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Mahomet (Mohammed) son of Abdullah; was born in Mecca in about 571 A.D. He was orphaned at the age of six and was brought up to be a merchant, the traditional occupation of the prestigious Hashemite clan to which he belonged.

In 610, when he was 40, Mohammed had a vision of an angel and received his first divine revelation. From then on, he spent all his time preaching, proclaiming his faith to ever-larger audiences from Mecca to Medina until his death in 632. The prophet's biography is told via rare interviews with a number of Muslims, including imams, whilst academics from the Arab world and beyond shed further light on various sections of the narrative. With the aid of calligraphic manuscripts, Ottoman illuminations and sequences filmed in the mosques and Koran schools, this epic documentary demonstrates the vast importance of the prophet whose life-story is inextricably woven into the Koran, the sacred text on which Islam is founded.

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Bruce LaBruce directs and stars in these infamous and controversial erotic classics.

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Bruce LaBruce plays Bruce, a spent porn star who sees his chance to make a cum-back via Googi, a mercenary dyke documentary film-maker. But Googi is only exploiting the "poor, down-on-his-luck faggot" to get financial backing for her pet project, Submit To My Finger.

No Skin Off My Ass
Bruce LaBruce stars as a punk hairdresser who picks up a baby-faced skinhead from the local park and talks him home to bath and seduce him. The skinhead finds himself locked in the guest bedroom, trapped and prey to the hairdresser's sexual needs. The skinhead manages to escape but, soon after, he starts to realise that he relished and perhaps wants the sexual attentions. But will he return to the hairdresser's arms...?

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Neale Donald Walsch's autobiographical novel is a nearly unparalleled, touchingly triumphant phenomenon.

And now the inspiring story has been adapted into an equally moving motion picture - one of such stunning affirmation, that it may change your life! Henry Czerny gives a compelling performance in this true-life drama about the most spiritual experience a person can have. When his world crumbles around him, leaving him no job, no home and a debilitating injury, Neale Walsch demands an explanation for his suffering... and to his astonishment, receives an answer that will transform his world, his thinking and his life! See why the renowned author was inspired to share his story in this tremendously affecting and empowering film!

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The heartwarming Bafta-winning drama returns, packed with shocks and surprises as it continues the compelling story of childhood sweethearts, reunited after nearly 60 years apart, as they and their families negotiate the highs and lows of life and relationships.

The latest series of this acclaimed ensemble drama sees Celia and Alan's marriage tested by revelations about an incident in his past. As his daughter Gillian tries to deal with the dramas of her own complicated love life, Caroline has settled into happy domesticity with pregnant partner Kate. But her life is thrown into turmoil by sudden and tragic events and, despite feeling angry about her mother's absence from her wedding, Caroline needs Celia and stepdad Alan more than ever.

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When pensioner Tom Parfitt (Michael Palin) stages a fall in his eerie Yorkshire home in order to escape into residential care, a chilling and macabre mystery unfolds, which challenges weary police detective Rob Fairholme (Mark Addy) and teenage care worker Hannah Ward (Jodie Comer) to risk

everything they hold dear to unravel the truth. A traumatic murder investigation, a ghostly haunting and a coming-of-age tale rolled into one, Remember Me takes the audience from the windswept Scarborough coast to the tragic recesses of 20th Century history. Written by Gwyneth Hughes and directed by Ashley Pearce, this three-part drama is a dark and unforgettable voyage into the unknown.

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Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow.

In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an Infected Zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures... A jaded US journalist (Scoot McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his boss' daughter, a shaken American tourist (Whitney Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border.

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1986. The Berlin Wall divides not only a city, but symbolises the division of the entire European continent. For twenty-five years it has separated families, friends and lovers - and caused the deaths of countless people who dared attempt an escape to the West.

Travelling from West to East, however, was never such a problem. And so they meet; a tourist trip to another world sparks a chance meeting that will forever change the lives of two young men - one from the free West, the other held captive in the East...

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Fede is young, hot, horny - and in a chatroom. When he meets a gay couple online, he decides to take the plunge and over to theirs to see where the night takes him. When the evening unfolds with an intensity and complexity he wasn't expecting, Fede is forced to see himself a new light.

A brilliant evocation of the possibilities of one night stands, 'The Third One' asks - can one passionate night change your life?

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Alex is a 15-year-old with a secret. What she hides is something that has driven her family to the windswept outer-reaches of the Uruguayan shoreline. Her father, Kraken wants what is best for his daughter, yet knows she cannot go on living the life she leads.

For Alex is intersexual, yet all she wants is to be left alone, to be herself. Before long an old family friend, who is also a plastic surgeon, is invited to stay at their isolated cabin, along with his teenage son Alvaro (Martin Piroyansky). As Alex realises the disturbing ramifications of the visit, she develops a relationship with Álvaro that is far from conventional… Highly acclaimed and the subject of much debate, XXY is the intimate coming-of-age portrayal of a teenager torn between the love of her parents, her own personal desires, and the daunting, inevitable path into adulthood.

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When Avril is given the chance to explore the world outside her convent before taking her vows, she immediately accepts, mostly because she wants to meet her fraternal brother with whom she was separated at birth.

An attractive, friendly man offers to give Avril a lift, and the pair eventually come across her brother David, and his boyfriend, Jim, at a beachfront retreat. The unlikely foursome form a tight bond during a secular vacation by the coast, spending their days frolicking in the surf, dancing in the moonlight and getting merry with bottles of calvados. Before long, Avril must return to the repressive lifestyle she left behind, but not before putting up a fight to convince the nuns that the world outside is not the fearsome place they had her believe.