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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.

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Based on the story by Graham Greene, 'Went the Day Well?' is a classic piece of propagandist entertainment, a warning to British citizens to remain ever alert for the arrival of the enemy.

A rare foray into darker material by Ealing Studios, Alberto Cavalcanti's film tells the story of a quiet English village which has been infiltrated by German soldiers masquerading as British troops, leaving the plucky villagers to uncover the plot and fight back.

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Set in Edinburgh, "The Advocates" contrasts the high powered and respectable world of the lawyers and advocates of the Scottish legal profession, with the sleazy and deadly existence of the city's pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts.

When a young prostitute is murdered by a deadly drug overdose, only Doctor Joe Sangster, who has been treating her at the local health clinic, suspects foul play. In the growing climate of fear over drugs and AIDS in the city, he turns to Greg McDowell, a young lawyer come investigator, for help. Greg sees this as the perfect opportunity to make a name for himself and decides to immerse himself in the gritty Edinburgh underworld in search of justice. "The Advocates" expertly combines an exhilarating legal drama with poignant social commentary.

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Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a relationship that will last a lifetime. July 15th, 1988, Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.

So where will they be on this "One Day" next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Feature is a modern love story, captivating and moving from beginning to end.

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Written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 'Killing Eve' centres on two women; Eve (Sandra Oh) is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn't fulfil her fantasies of being a spy.

Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. 'Killing Eve' topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.

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Grace and Jonathan Fraser have the life they always wanted: She's a successful therapist, he's an acclaimed pediatric oncologist, and their son attends an elite private school in Manhattan. But for Grace, everything unravels overnight. A violent death. A missing husband.

A series of unthinkable revelations. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant star in this gripping HBO limited series from writer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and director Susanne Bier (Bird Box). An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller filled with shocking twists and turns, 'The Undoing' exposes the lies we tell ourselves - even when the truth is right in front of us.

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In this action thriller set in the rain forests of central America, an international company plan to steal from nature to make room for a holiday paradise.

High-tech defoliants, thought to be eco-friendly, are sprayed for miles around the serene village of Ponce, targeted as the site of Stark Industries' soon-to-be-constructed "Byzantium - City of Tomorrow". Dr. Christine Du Maurier (Marina Sirtis) will do whatever is necessary to prevent the cataclysm she knows will follow the devastation of the rain forest. When a child is born with birth defects and a native labourer is mysteriously killed, only the tenacity of Mike Stark (William Forsythe) can hold together a billion dollar construction project bursting at the seams.

Deep in the hot and steamy Amazon jungle, activist Alyssa Rothman helped a brash photojournalist investigate the assassination of a famous environmentalist, at the risk of their own lives.

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In Cairo at the height of the Arab Spring, hotel night manager Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) receives a plea for help from the beautiful Sophie Alekan (Aure Atika).

As the mistress of the powerful but dangerous hotel owner, Sophie has evidence of an arms deal that could help crush the popular uprising. Compelled to do what he thinks is right, Pine makes contact with his friend at the British Embassy. But his actions unwittingly draw him into the terrifying world of ruthless arms dealer, Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). When Sophie's information makes its way to Angela Burr (Olivia Colman), a government anti-corruption agent intent on bringing down Roper's empire, a leak in her network triggers a chain of events that end in tragedy.

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In the summer of 2006, Rob Reilly (Killian Scott), a smart suited homicide detective and his partner Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) are dispatched to investigate a child's murder, and find a community caught between old and new Ireland.

On an altar lies the body of a local teenage girl, the talented Katy Devlin. Her body is found in the middle of an archaeological site, threatened by local developers aiming to build a shiny new motorway. The neighbouring estate, Knocknaree, has never quite got its share of the 'Celtic Tiger' and has been blighted by poverty arid unemployment for generations. Moreover, this is the not the first time a child of Knocknaree has been lost - twenty-one years earlier, in a very different Ireland, three children went missing, and only one came back alive. Memory runs deep in this part of the world* and locals, press and the Dublin Garda soon begin to worry that the cases are linked.