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Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers.

When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer (Mac) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son's life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brothers' secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger.

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Set in the glamour of 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of

Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by the scariest curse of all...love. And so begins a Gothic Romance of twists, turns and power struggles of "pure, delicious pleasure" that is "devilishly funny and luxuriantly sensuous".

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One fine evening, in the beautiful heart of the English countryside, a group of rabbits emerge from their warren to feed. But as the sun sinks behind a hill, one of their number - Fiver - has a terrifying vision of the warren's destruction at the hands of man. Fiver (voice of

Richard Briers), with his brother Hazel (voice of John Hurt), and a few of their friends flee the warren in search of a "high lonely place" where they will be safe. Enduring danger and adventure, they find the place of their dreams - until a new shadow falls upon them, a ruthless race of rabbits who will stop at nothing to defend their supremacy...In this magnificent animation of the classic animal saga by Richard Adams, young and old alike will find themselves transported into the beauty, darkness and adventure of the natural world.

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Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, accountant Eric (Rob Brydon) joins an all-male group of synchronised swimmers, discovering that making patterns in a pool can, for a couple of hours at least, smooth out the bumps in his work and marriage.

Initially keeping their personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle squad and coach Susan (Charlotte Riley) slowly learn to reveal their inner lives, as well as their paunches. But can they get their lives and routines in sync as they embark on an unlikely journey to Milan to compete in the World Championship?

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A hilarious parody of the cult classic 'The Exorcist', 'Repossessed' stars the master of comedy spoofs Leslie Nielsen and the original star of 'The Exorcist', Linda Blair.

The devil possesses Nancy's body via her television set while she is watching a religious program, and there follows a side-splitting battle to exorcise the demon with many jokes and gags along the way.

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The Hurt Locker is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat.

When renegade Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner) takes command of a highly trained bomb disposal unit, he frequently risks the lives of himself and those around him with his suicidal methods and a complete disregard for danger. Caught in the middle are his subordinates Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), who can only watch as their leader descends further into addiction: an addiction to war.

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It is November 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife, Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas), gather relations and friends for a weekend shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group.

As the guests assemble in the gilded drawing rooms above their personal maids and valets swell the ranks of the house servants in the teeming kitchens and corridors below-stairs. But all is not as it seems: neither amongst the bejeweled guests lunching and dining at their enormous leisure, nor in the attic bedrooms and stark work stations where the servants labour for the comfort of their employers. Part comedy of manners and part mystery, the film is finally a moving portrait of events that bridge generations, class, sex, tragic personal history - and culminate in a murder. Or is it two murders…?

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Jonathan (Tuc Watkins) returns to San Francisco with a mission: to recreate a road trip from his past. He finds what he's looking for in a flirty young hustler and a proposition is made: He will accompany Jonathan on his trip, role playing as someone else - in return he will be paid double his rate.

'Retake' is a moving, funny and heartbreaking film about the lengths we will go to reclaim the past.

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It's the summer of 1963, and 17 year old Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is about to learn some major lessons in life as well as a thing or two about dancing.

On holiday in America's Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents, "baby" shows little interest in the resort activities, and instead discovers her own entertainment when she stumbles upon the staff's quearters where an all-night dance party is in full swing. Mesmerised by the raunchy dance moves and the pounding rhythms, "baby" can't wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of sexy, heart-throb Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) the resort dance instructor. "baby's" life is about to changhe forever as she is thrown in at the deep end as Johnny's leading lady both on-stage and off with breath-taking consequences.

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Beauty. Brains. Charm. Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) has them all. In fact, she's got everything going for her except the right haircut, the right clothes, and most importantly, the right job.

Ambushed one too many times in her struggle to get out of the Wall Street secretarial pool and onto the management ladder, Tess decides to take matters into her own hands. When her classy, seductive and treacherous boss (Sigourney Weaver) breaks a leg skiing, Tess steps, literally, into her boss's shoes - as well as her apartment, her corner office and her $6,000 dresses. Suitably disguised, Tess forms an alliance with a very capable-and very attractive-Wall Street investment banker (Harrison Ford). Together, they create a deal that could catapult Tess into the big time-or finish her off for good.

Three modern-day "witches" (Cher, Susan, Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer) yearn for Mr. Right in a New England town.Is the arrival of wealthy and irresistible Daryl Van Horne (Nicholson) a coincidence - or the women's unconscious sorcery at work? Based on John Updike's bestseller.

Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) doesn't expect much when she moves to the small town of Forks, Washington, until she meets the dark and mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) - a boy who's hiding a dark secret: he's a vampire.

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The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world's population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species - hunted to the brink of extinction and then farmed to feed the vampires' need for blood.

The remaining humans are now in hiding and as supplies run low, the terrifying consequences of vampire starvation are becoming more apparent - the normally civilised vampire population will turn into literal blood sucking monsters if a blood substitute is not found.

When sad old Eeyore loses his tail, Owl sends the whole gang - Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga and Roo - on a wild journey to help Eeyore and save Christopher Robin from the mysterious Backson. In the end, it turns out to be a very busy day for a bear who simply set out to find some "hunny."

Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house; a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose expertise goes beyond bric-a-brac; and the dealer's mysterious, pale-skinned "partner" (Reggie Nalder) in ''Salem's Lot' - a blood-curdling shocker based on King's novel and directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist).