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When Anna Forbes is raped by her father-in-law, at first she is too terrified to speak out. But when she does tell her husband, Mark, instead of sympathy she encounters vehement denial as he refuses to believe her accusations.

Anna's troubles only worsen when a concerned Mark commits her to a psychiatric institution. Mark is unaware of the institution's brutal regime, and the incarcerated Anna must now fight not only for justice but also for her sanity and freedom.

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Through circumstances beyond her control, Theresa Johnson (Mare Winningham) is forced into a life living rough on the streets with her young daughter, Hilary (Grace Johnston). It's a frightening and dangerous existence, and the crisis point comes as Hilary is rushed to hospital with lead poisoning.

Outreach worker Calvin Reed (Dorian Harewood) advises Theresa that the only way to save Hilary is to place her with a foster family, and Theresa must face the most heart-breaking and courageous decision of her life.

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Eight months after their livelihoods went up in smoke, the Henshall's are back in business, with a newly refurbished salon and a whole new set of problems. After a romantic break in Naples, everything looks rosy for Allie (Sarah Parrish) and Finn (Ben Daniels), especially as they come back married.

But with Allie and daughter Ruby (Lucy Gaskell) both heavily pregnant to the same man, the happiness is destined not to last. With Gavin (Jason Merrells) still in love with Allie, Ruby set on winning him for herself and Finn desperate to get Gavin out of the way, the Henshall's future is anything but cut and dried. It's time for some shocking decisions, but with what repercussions?

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Her face was her fortune - until they scarred her for life. Marla Hanson's dreams of becoming a top New York model were shattered when she was attacked and slashed across the face, sustaining wounds requiring nearly 150 stitches.

Marla's modelling career was finished, but her ordeal had only just begun. When her case came to court, the defence attorney tore into her, accusing her of being a prostitute and using sex to further her career. But Marla fought back against these accusations, and her exceptional courage made her not only America's most famous victim but a champion for others who had suffered in the same way.

Having chosen old flame Finn (Ben Daniels) over husband Gavin (Jason Merrells), Allie (Sarah Parish) finds herself far from welcome at her former hair salon. And is Gavin enjoying his newfound freedom just a little bit too much?

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Joanne Dawson (Victoria Principal) has everything that a woman could possibly want...beauty, brains, a successful career as a lawyer, and Jonathan Morris (James Farentino) as her lover. Morris is handsome, charming, and has a secure position as a prominent judge.

When a sensational homicide takes place, Joanne is called upon as the prosecuting attorney and Morris as the presiding judge. Through her investigation into the murder, Joanne discovers that Morris was somehow involved and she begins to realise the naked truth about her perfect boyfriend.

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Allie Henshall and dependable husband Gavin Ferraday own a successful hairdressing business. They plan to expand to a second site across the road. But their dreams are shattered when Mia and her husband Finn beat them to it and open a rival salon.

To further complicate matters, the charismatic Finn was once the love of Allie's life. And it soon becomes apparent that it's no coincidence his wife's salon has opened so near to Allie's.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.

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Tom Ronstadt (John Simm) is a successful London journalist who, with his career and life falling apart, returns to his home town in Lancashire for the first time in 18 years.

He finds his father Sam (Jim Broadbent), who Tom idolised as a child, in the grip of Alzheimer's - a once formidable man now being cared for by his sister Nancy (Olivia Colman). Over the three episodes Tom unravels the mystery linked to his childhood that drove him away all those years ago. As his frustrations grow with his father's failure to remember the past, he persists unaware that he is unearthing a devastating crime that will reveal secrets he could never have imagined.

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Set in Edinburgh, in the high powered and respectable world of lawyers and the legal profession, this gripping series tells the tale of James McCandlish, an eminent advocate who is arrested and charged with murdering his wife.

Greg McDowell, from the struggling law firm run by Katherine Dunbar represents him which pleases Katherine as it is such a high profile case and it raises the image and exposure of her law firm. Katherine is encouraged to supervise the McCandlish case which doesn't please McDowell and things become even more difficult when the company is sued for negligence over an entirely different issue.

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Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren star in this high speed, high-class tale of Middle Eastern intrigue set in London. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen, this breezy, romantic thrill casts Peck as an Oxford professor of languages hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message.

When Peck unravels its real meaning and befriends Sophia Loren, the magnate's exotic but unpredictable companion, the chase is on.

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When her estranged rabbi father suddenly passes away, Ronit (played by Oscar-winner and co-producer Rachel Weisz) returns from New York to the north London Orthodox Jewish community that rejected her years previously after a scandalous transgression.

Ronit's presence immediately courts further controversy when she runs into Esti (Rachel McAdams), the wife of her strictly religious cousin Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) and the woman for whom she shared an illicit attraction in their childhood. This happy reunion soon reignites the two women's burning, long-unrequited passions, an act of defiance that could alter the course of their lives forever. 'Disobedience' is a timely and emotionally powerful tale set at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, of personal desires and the demands of faith.

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As the third season of the multi award-winning drama continues, Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) are desperately trying to live their lives without the other.

Believing Eve is dead, Villanelle is bored and dangerously aimless; while Eve is hiding in plain sight trying to convince herself that she doesn't want Villanelle to discover her. When a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again, the journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, allegiances...and perhaps a part of themselves.

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The film paints the relationship between L.S. Lowry (Timothy Spall), one of Britain's most iconic artists, and his mother Elizabeth (Vanessa Redgrave), with whom he lived until her death. We see Lowry in the beginnings of his career, as he yearns for his work to be appreciated in London.

However, his disdainful mother actively tries to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions. At the same time, the film explores how Elizabeth is the very reason Lowry paints anything at all, as he desperately seeks to create something, anything, which will make her happy. This powerful yet humorous story imagines the impact this obsessive mother and son relationship had on the great artist.

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"Killing Eve" is a story of two women, bound by a mutual obsession and one brutal act: Eve (Sandra Oh), an MI6 operative, and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), the beautiful, psychopathic assassin that she has been tasked to find.

Season Two begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season; Eve is reeling and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately she's not the only person looking for her.