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Hemel Pike is part of a dying breed, he's a British narrow boat trader, and the only way they'll get him off the canals is if they fill them in. He also has a reputation to keep up as the notorious Casanova of the canals.

But his way with the women soon gets him trouble when one of his many squeezes falls pregnant Suddenly Hemel Pike finds himself persuaded by her protective, hot headed, drunken father eager to chase her up the aisle.

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Stuart Burge's film of John Dexter's production of Othello at the National Theatre was made in Shakespeare's Quarter Centenary year and stands today as a masterpiece among film presentations of theatre productions.

Shakespeare's tragic story of how a great man's vanity is manipulated by a jealous aide to bring about his downfall has never been more movingly nor dramatically portrayed. One of Shakespeare's most powerful drama, here presented by an inspired National Theatre Company. Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finley and Joyce Redman all received both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for their performances. A screen classic in every sense.

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Live it up today, your time is up tomorrow. In the Year of the City 2274, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday.

That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. The screen's first use of laser holography provides some of the sci-fi kicks in this post-apocalyptic saga honored with a Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects. Michael York plays Logan 5, a government Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carrousel. Logan is almost 30. Catch him if you can.

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Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is from a blue-collar family from the hills of West Virginia, whose clan has been famous for its bad luck for nearly 90 years.

After being fired from his job, and with his ex-wife (Katie Holmes) threatening to move out of State taking their daughter with her, Jimmy decides he has to do something to get his family's life back on track. With a little help from his brother Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), his sister Mellie (Riley Keough) and an incarcerated explosive expert, the aptly named Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), he plans to steal $14 million from the Charlotte Motor Speedway on the busiest race day of the year.

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England, March 1215. King John (Gerald Flood) is visiting the castle of Sir Ranulph Fitzwilliam (Frank Windsor).

The arrival of the Tardis disturbs a medieval joust, but the Doctor (Peter Davison) and his companions are proclaimed to be friendly demons by the King, who seems strangely interested in their 'blue engine'. It soon becomes clear that neither King John or his Champion, Sir Gilles Estram (Anthony Ainley), are who they pretend to be. One of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest enemies threatens the future of democracy on Earth, and he must be stopped!

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Earth, 2084. Two global superpowers hover on the brink of war. When the Tardis is forced to make an unplanned visit to Sea Base Four, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough find themselves accused of being enemy agents.

Quickly embroiled in a deadly game of paranoid intrigue, it becomes clear that others on the base have sabotage and murder in mind. However, there is a greater threat to Mankind: the Silurians and Sea Devils, prehistoric reptiles seeking to reclaim the Earth. Can the Doctor prevent them implementing their 'final solution' and triggering a war that could wipe out the entire human race?

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Deskbound CIA analyst Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is about to become the world's newest - and unlikeliest - secret weapon.

When her partner (Jude Law) falls off the grid and another top agent (Jason Statham) is compromised, Susan volunteers to go deep undercover and bring down a deadly arms dealer. Loaded with wise-cracking, hilarious action and adventure, "Spy" is a mission impossible to resist!

Paris, Je T'aime tells stories of love from the City of Love. Eighteen renowned filmmakers have created their own vignette based in different areas of Paris to form a collection of short films which will embrace you to fall in love with the world¿s most romantic city.

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The Tardis makes an unplanned landing on Manussa, where preparations are underway to celebrate the defeat of the Sumaran Empire five centuries earlier But the ancient evil of the Mara lives on, and Tegan (Janet Fielding), who has been haunted by disturbing dreams since her time under the Windchimes

on Deva Loka, is now a pawn in its plan to re-enter the physical world and subjugate the Manussan people. Only the Doctor (Peter Davison) can stop the Mara - but first he must convince the authorities that he is not just a deluded fool who believes in children's fairytales...

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Travelling with Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) in the Tardis, the Doctor (Peter Davison) is attacked by a malign entity - a being of pure antimatter seeking to cross the dimensions.

Although the invader is successfully repelled, the Tardis is immediately recalled to Gallifrey, where the High Council of Time Lords sentence the Doctor to be executed to prevent any further attempts at bonding. It seems there is a traitor on Gallifrey. And what links the Renegade and the disappearance of Tegan's cousin in Amsterdam? Two fates intertwined must battle for the future of the entire universe...

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The Tardis arrives by accident in the middle of Terminal One at Heathrow Airport. One of the supersonic Concordes has disappeared mid-air and the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa soon become involved in a hunt for the missing aeroplane.

But what connects its disappearance to prehistoric Earth and why is a mysterious sorcerer so interested in the Doctor's Tardis? A flight through time will reveal all.

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The mysterious disappearance of an archaeological team is merely the prelude to a deadlier threat for the Doctor and his companions - the Cybermen want to destroy Earth, and will use any means at their disposal.

The Doctor's ingenuity is stretched to its very limits as he battles to defeat the Cyber army at any costs. But even he does not realise just how high that cost will be...

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England, 1925. The Tardis materialises on a quiet railway platform where the Doctor, Tegan, Adric and Nyssa soon discover they are expected at an afternoon cricket match.

And when the time travellers are invited to stay at Cranleigh Hall for a fancy dress ball, it isn't long before they uncover a terrible family secret. Who is murdering the servants and why? A rare flower may hold the answer...

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To see Paul Scofield as Lear is to see nobility turn to pauperdom, pride to a frenzy of madness, manhood to senility, in the course of a single and unique dramatic experience. Scofield has always excelled in Shakespeare.

Now, directed by Peter Brook and backed by a skillful cast, his mastery and maturity are seen at their most stunning level. This performance, and this direction, must surely count as one of the classics in the history of great Shakespearean drama on film.

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Based on the facts we know about William Shakespeare, Ben Eltons sitcom is about the life of the world's favourite bard as it just might have been. It's the 1590s and Will (David Mitchell) is still at the start of his career.

In London his plays are looked down on by his sinister rival Robert Greene, while his friends and fellow actors are baffled by Will's weird new ideas. He's not taken very seriously in Stratford either where his mum and dad say his plays are boring, his teenage daughter makes fun of his flowery language and his wife Anne wonders how he can claim to be a great writer when he can't even find his quill. Packed with gags and sparkling wordplay 'Upstart Crow' pays comic homage to the greatest writer in the history of the English language - and reveals some rather surprising stories about where his best ideas came from...