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Danger UXB (1979)Danger UXB: The Complete Series
When a young Royal Engineer Officer is killed trying to defuse a bomb, he is replaced by raw officer recruit Brian Ash (Anthony Andrews). Ash is shocked to discover that his new unit, the 97th Tunnelling Company, is in fact a hastily formed bomb disposal squad. With the Blitz devastating London every night and making massive demands on Royal Engineers' manpower, he is to take command of 347 Section forthwith. It's not long before he's facing the real thing at close range, with his men looking on from a safe distance, making bets as to whether he'll go the same way as his predecessor... - Director:
- Ferdinand Fairfax
- Cast:
- Anthony Andrews, Maurice Roëves, George Innes
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The Nest (2021)The Bewailing
When Meg (Maple Suttles) and her mother Beth (Sarah Navratil) visit a yard sale, Beth buys her young daughter an adorable stuffed bear, thinking it may help with Meg's separation anxiety. As children do, she quickly becomes completely attached to the bear, talking to it and taking it everywhere she goes. However, soon Beth notices that the bear is communicating with Meg and even influencing her daughter's behaviour. Then when Meg starts developing hoarding habits, and seems infected by a manipulative parasitic creature, things take a turn for the worse. Soon it's clear there's something much more nightmarish and sinister to this yard sale toy than anyone could have imagined. - Director:
- James Suttles
- Cast:
- Dee Wallace, Sarah Navratil, Maple Suttles
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"Years and Years" follows the Lyons, a busy Manchester family. Daniel's getting married to Ralph (Dino Fetscher). Stephen (Rory Kinnear) and Celeste (T'Nia Miller) worry about their kids. Rosie's chasing a new fella. Edith hasn't been home for years. All presided over by Gran, the imperial Muriel (Anne Reid). But when their lives all converge on one crucial night in 2019, the story accelerates into the future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons over the next 15 years. And what a world! Everything we fear, and everything we hope for, happening around this tight-knit family. Society gets hotter, faster, madder, with the turmoil of politics, technology and distant wars affecting the Lyons in their day-to-day lives. Set against this, the Lyons have to navigate their everyday hopes and fears, knowing that one ordinary family could never change the world. Or could they? - Director:
- Simon Cellan Jones
- Cast:
- Rory Kinnear, T'Nia Miller, Anne Reid
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Newly promoted Detective Chief Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft (Sarah Parish) returns to head up a new merged police service. Revered by colleagues and delivering impressively low crime figures. Bancroft is riding a professional high. However, this success comes at a great cost as Bancroft is left isolated and estranged from her beloved son, Joe, and facing increasing pressure from her dangerous pact with crime boss, Daanish Kamara (Ryan McKen). When a disturbing double murder brings her personal and professional life crashing together, she is forced to confront a chilling new enemy. With threats closing in from all sides, the repercussions of her past actions will come back to haunt her in ways she could never have expected. - Director:
- Lawrence Gough
- Cast:
- Paul Adeyefa, Sarah Parish, Charles Babalola
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Bombshell (2019)Fair and Balanced
Starring Academy Award winners Charlize Theron, and Nicole Kidman and Academy Award nominees John Lithgow and Margot Robbie. Based on the real scandal, 'Bombshell' is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it. - Director:
- Jay Roach
- Cast:
- Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie
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A dark and compelling thriller exploring what happens when heinous crimes, long buried in the past, come back to haunt us. Created and written by Kate Brooke, leading actress Sarah Parish plays respected police officer Detective Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft. Ruthless and courageous, Bancroft is a brilliant copper. She has given her life to the police force. But when ambitious fast-tracked recruit, Katherine Stevens joins the force, played by acclaimed actress Faye Marsay, Katherine takes on a cold case and unwittingly disturbs the ghosts of Bancroft's devastating past. With strong female characters at its heart and a detective with an explosive secret, this original crime drama is packed full of twists. - Director:
- John Hayes
- Cast:
- Sarah Parish, Faye Marsay, Ryan McKen
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"Ackley Bridge" is back for another laugh-out-loud, irreverent and highly emotional series set in and around a school designed to unite the divided white and Asian communities of a small Yorkshire mill town. The school is now part of a large multi-academy trust. Mandy has a new nightmare boss Ken who has dumped a load of unmanageable kids from the trust's other schools on to her. Along with a suspect 'A-team' of senior staff, joining the school are new hot-headed Deputy Head Martin and disenchanted Director of Behaviour Sue Carp. As Ackley's Year 13 pupils enter their final year they all face questions about their future. Will Nas get to Oxford? Will Kaneez and Rashid take things to the next level? What will happen with Sadiq? Only one thing's for sure: at Ackley Bridge, nothing is certain. - Director:
- Penny Woolcock
- Cast:
- Poppy Lee Friar, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Sunetra Sarker
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Captain Newman (Gregory Peck) heads up a chaotic military hospital treating post-traumatic stress disorder. "We're short of beds, doctors, orderlies, nurses, everything ... except patients!" Newman tells Corporal Leibowitz (Tony Curtis), as he browbeats him to sign up as an orderly. Newman also seduces an army nurse (Angie Dickinson), into what she thinks is a romantic date... until he asks her to transfer to Ward 7 instead of taking off her clothes! One of the most poignant and funny war films - a joy to watch. - Director:
- David Miller
- Cast:
- Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson
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Cocky and headstrong Johnny Truelove is living the wannabe gangsta's American dream as a drug dealer in the privileged neighbourhoods of LA. For Johnny and his crew their existence is a heady blur of partying and looking for the next thrill. When raging hothead Jake fails to come up with money he owes Johnny, the situation escalates into a battle for dominance between the two and results in an ill-fated event with irreparable circumstances for all involved. For Johnny, the line between playing a gangsta and becoming one soon blurs, with very real consequences for everyone involved... - Director:
- Nick Cassavetes
- Cast:
- Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin
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While a liberated Kaneez discovers what life is like without the shackles of marriage, Nas attempts to disguise her sexuality and embarks on a marriage of convenience with Naveed. Though when he starts at Ackley Bridge the realities of their sham relationship hit home and the pair struggle to keep up the charade. Mandy is in crisis. Her marriage is on the rocks, exam results are plummeting and Sadiq wants her out. Can she save both her marriage and the school? Emma is in a mess. Sami is getting married but not to her. Forced to balance life as a teacher, mother and lover Emma must decide whether to move on or give in to her fatal attraction. And after a stint in Young Offenders, Jordan is working for a local drug dealer but when he's mugged by two women in niqabs there's more than just his grades at risk... - Director:
- Penny Woolcock
- Cast:
- Amy-Leigh Hickman, Poppy Lee Friar, Liz White
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Texas brothers - Toby (Chris Pine), and Tanner (Ben Foster), come together after years divided to rob branches of the bank threatening to foreclose on their family land. Vengeance seems to be theirs, until they find themselves on the radar of Texas Ranger, Marcus (Jeff Bridges) looking for one last grand pursuit on the eve of his retirement. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their scheme, and with the Rangers on their heels, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the values of the Old and New West murderously collide. - Director:
- David Mackenzie
- Cast:
- Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Chris Pine
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Five years ago teacher Sally Wright (Katherine Kelly) lost everything: her job, her marriage, her freedom. She was convicted of the murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Matty Taylor, with whom she was also accused of having a sexual relationship. But now her guilty verdict has been overturned with irrefutable evidence of her innocence. Determined to regain all that was lost, Sally embarks on a quest for justice, driven by the need to prove beyond all doubt that she is innocent of all charges and that she was faithful to ex-husband Sam (Jamie Bamber). With a new inquiry lead by DI Michael Braithwaite (Shaun Dooley), those close to Matty increasingly come under scrutiny and, as the investigation intensifies, deeply buried secrets and hostilities rise to the surface, threatening to destroy the lives of those caught up in its wake. - Director:
- Tracey Larcombe
- Cast:
- Katherine Kelly, Wuese Houston-Jibo, Katharine Simmons
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London 1940: As the Blitz rages and her future is threatened by fallout from the war, Agatha Christie (Helen Baxendale) makes the decision to kill off her most famous creation. After twelve Poirot novels in six years, Agatha should be a rich woman. Instead, she's struggling to make ends meet. Killing Poirot in the midst of this turmoil seems almost spiteful, but Agatha has a plan: she's selling the novel to a private buyer, a super-fan who will pay anything to own a piece of history. A meeting at an infamous London hotel is arranged, where despite the presence of an old friend, things quickly go wrong. As the bombs fall and the bodies pile up, the real danger of her situation becomes apparent: the only thing more valuable than the last ever Poirot novel is the last ever book written by Agatha Christie. - Director:
- Joe Stephenson
- Cast:
- Helen Baxendale, Blake Harrison, Jacqueline Boatswain
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A story of love, lust, jealousy and betrayal, of one man's fight to rebuild his shattered life and a family's struggle to find the truth behind their loved one's murder. After seven years in a high security prison, David Collins' (Lee Ingleby) conviction for the murder of his wife, Tara, is overturned due to a technicality, or as his lawyer puts it an appalling miscarriage of justice. Able to start his life again and begin to repair relationships with his family and friends, David hopes to finally be allowed to mourn his wife's death. As a new investigation is launched, headed by DI Cathy Hudson (Angel Coulby), dark secrets of abuse, affairs and money troubles rise to the surface. From jealous sisters to disgruntled lovers, these secrets rip fragile relationships apart at the seams. But one question remains: is David Collins truly innocent? - Director:
- Richard Clark
- Cast:
- Lee Ingleby, Daniel Ryan, Adrian Rawlins
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"Ackley Bridge" is a gritty and thought provoking six part drama series, combining sharp wit with emotional storylines, big characters and a contemporary view of multi-cultural teenage life that promises smiles, laughs and tears. Follow the increasingly chaotic lives of the teenagers, teachers and parents as their stories become unpredictably intertwined at the new Ackley Bridge College. Watch as they muddle their way through this new environment and attempt to mop up the mistakes they make along the way - sometimes more successfully than others. Will the new academy sink, swim...or explode? - Director:
- Penny Woolcock
- Cast:
- Arsher Ali, Esa Ashraf, Samuel Bottomley
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