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When a dead body impossibly vanishes from a locked study it is only the first in a chain of dark mysteries confronting Jonathan Creek and self-styled paranormal investigator Joey Ross.

A grisly murder, the macabre history of a Catholic girls' school, a sinister local society and a series of increasingly puzzling, interlocking clues form the backdrop to another weird and wonderful case for Creek and Joey - this time however, they find themselves merely junior players in an inquiry spearheaded by the flamboyant and indomitable detective inspector Gideon Pryke. An inquiry whose resolution will prove infinitely deeper and darker than any of them could have imagined...

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In World War II they were code-breakers at Bletchley Park; brilliant, invaluable members of an elite team whose task was to crack German intelligence. Their success was their downfall. Seven years after helping to win the war they are housewives, mothers, girlfriends, shadows.

Bound to the Official Secrets Act, their part in the Allied victory cannot be told; their finest abilities covered in dust sheets of security never to be seen again - unless... Susan has been reading newspapers, listening to the radio, following news of a serial killer targeting young women. She believes she can flesh out the pattern that will reveal his identity, but she can't do it alone. Calling on her companions from Bletchley, she persuades them to join her. But can yesterday's code breakers become today's detectives? All it will take is following the trail, breaking the code - and possibly risking their lives.

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Tom Selleck stars as Jesse Stone, a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case.

Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime. But it's not just the victim's and killer's pasts that rise to the surface - it's his own, becoming the chilling focus of a riveting investigation that uncovers one shocking revelation after another.

Captain America leads the fight for freedom in the action-packed blockbuster starring Chris Evans as the ultimate weapon against evil! When a terrifying force threatens everyone across the globe, the world's greatest soldier wages war on the evil Hydra organization, led by the villainous Red Skull (Hugo Weaving).

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Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Tom Selleck returns as police chief Jesse Stone in another thrilling chapter in the Stone Cold series based on the best-selling Jesse Stone murder/mystery novels by Robert Parker.

Settling into his role as the new Chief of Police in the town of Paradise, Massachusetts, Stone investigates the brutal murder of a troubled teenage girl found floating in a local lake. He soon discovers that she was once a straight-A student, but somehow wound up on a path of self-destruction, leading to her early demise. With hardly any clues, the case leads the former LAPD cop to the city, where the local Boston mob does not respond too kindly to him. To make matters worse, he must also deal with a case of domestic violence that ultimately turns deadly, while struggling with his ongoing alcoholism, his ex-wife and a truly disastrous love life. As Stone learns more about the girl's unhappy past, he begins to suspect that the affluent world of Boston might be involved and increasingly becomes obsessed with the case. Persistent in his determination to bring the killer to justice, Stone will do whatever it takes to finally solve this Death In Paradise.

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Worlds collide when a powerful ancient enemy threatens to plunge the cosmos into eternal darkness.

Now, reunited with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), and forced to forge an alliance with his treacherous brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) embarks on a perilous personal quest to save both Earth and Asgard from destruction.

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Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana (Gal Gadot), princess of the Amazons, raised on a sheltered island paradise and trained to be an unconquerable warrior.

When an American pilot (Chris Pine) crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers...and her true destiny.

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The Four Horsemen return for a second mind-bending adventure, elevating the limits of stage illusion to new heights in an adventure that takes them around the globe.

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic, the illusionists resurface for a comeback performance in the hope of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet. Their only hope is to perform one last unprecedented stunt to clear their names and reveal the mastermind behind it all.

Legendary hit-man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is forced out of retirement again by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome, where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.

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A prequel to "Stone Cold" in the series of Jesse Stone novels by Robert B. Parker, the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department.

He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by the town board of selectman to become police chief of Paradise, a small town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. Hungover on his first day on the job, he must investigate a domestic abuse case that ends up leaduing to a money laundering scheme perpetuated by a manager of a local bank.

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and he must race against time to stop Ragnarok - the destruction of his world and the end of Asgardian civilization at the hands of the ruthless Hela.

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Tom Selleck stars as Jesse Stone, an ex-Los Angeles homicide detective whose alcoholism forced him to downsize his career and take a job as a small town police chief.

When Stone investigates the town's first ever murder, he soon finds himself embroiled in a hunt for serial killers who seem determined to make him a victim as well. Complications arise when a young girl's parents reveal she was raped and Stone orders his team to investigate the charges while keeping both crimes under the radar of national press, state police and FBI. Stone must uncover both mysteries and faces the most challenging case of his career - one that could possibly claim the life of someone very close to him.

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When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack John Wick, a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman.

With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.

In Marvel's Doctor Strange, a world-famous neurosurgeon seeking a cure finds powerful magic in a mysterious place known as Kamar-Taj - the front line of a battle against unseen dark forces bent on destroying our reality.

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In the first ever onscreen appearance of Marvels Dr. Strange, Morgan Le Fay (Jessica Walter) an immortal witch, is locked in a magical battle with Thomas Lindmer (John Mills) the current Sorcerer Supreme of Earth.

Only his powers can prevent Le Fay opening the gates of Hell and unleashing an endless horde of demons upon us all! But when Lindmer is critically injured in a magical duel, it falls to psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Strange (Peter Hooten), a man with his own mysterious connection to the realm of magic, to claim the mantle of the next Sorcerer Supreme. Will he be in time to stop Le Fay creating Hell on Earth! Lets hope so!