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Danny Griffin, Steve McAndrew and Gerry Standing are back for the twelfth and final series of New Tricks, investigating the Met's cold cases under the watchful eye of their boss DCI Sasha Miller. The team must put head over heart as one of their own is implicated in a case that spans three decades and shakes the police force to its core. Gerry becomes embroiled in a scandal that forces him to confront some skeletons in his closet, while Danny and Fiona take their relationship up a notch, Steve worries about his bank balance and everyone must pull together when Sasha is dealt a devastating blow. The team is knocked sideways by the arrival of Ted Case: an old-school ex-copper who dives into his first case feet first, armed with only the gift of the gab and his trusty pocket lighter for good luck. From bodies in the basement to skeletons in the swimming pool, lottery syndicates gone fatally wrong to making sense of The Madhouse, the UCOS team uncover the city's long buried secrets and bring justice to the streets of London. - Director:
- Julian Simpson
- Cast:
- Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite
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Korean War vet and retired autoworker Walt Kowalski doesn't much like how his life or his neighbourhood has turned out. He especially doesn't like the people next door, Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia. But events force Walt to defend those neighbours against a local gang that feeds on violence and fear. - Director:
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley
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Clint Eastwood memorably plays Everett in 'True Crime', a savvy beat-the-clock thriller, Isiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods, Diane Venora and others populate this suspense tale that tightens to nerve-frying intensity intercutting the parallel stories of the inmate and Everett's scramble to save him..and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap along the way. Everett is harried, determined and trying not to self-destruct. And the clock is ticking. - Director:
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton
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New Tricks returns for its eleventh series and Dan Griffin, Steve MacAndrew and Gerry Standing are back investigating cold cases under the watchful eye of their boss DCI Sasha Miller. Gerry goes back to his roots in Bermondsey when his youngest daughter decides to get married and while he's there an old friend asks for help to find whoever murdered his grandson. Meanwhile Sasha finds it tricky working with her ex-husband and fellow police officer, DAC Ned Hancock, Steve's parenting skills are tested when his son falls foul of the law and Dan Griffin needs some cheering up from his colleagues when his daughter, Holly leaves home for university. The team investigates a wide variety of crimes from the death of a young A&E doctor to an international interpreter with a passion for chess, there's an occult mystery that leads the team to the underground river fleet and there's the murder of a pub landlord where Gerry and Steve end up in an English vineyard. They also have to go back in time to investigate the mysterious deaths of an anti-nuclear activist, a local bobby from the 50's whose wife is now in a care home suffering from dementia and a schoolgirl from the 80's whose ascetic father has a secret to hide. Throw in some Roman re-enactment, some black market steroids, the death of one of Griffin's friends and a difficult reunion between Steve and his father and you have another compelling ten episodes of New Tricks. - Director:
- Andy Hay
- Cast:
- Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite
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The King's Man (2021)Kingsman: The Great Game
Set during WWI, 'The King's Man' tells the exhilarating origin story of Kingsman, the world's very first independent intelligence agency. As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gathers to plot a war to wipe out millions across the globe, one man must race against time to stop them. - Director:
- Matthew Vaughn
- Cast:
- Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans
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He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of career thief and ex-con Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed - and that the man responsible is the U.S. President? Clint Eastwood portrays Whitney and directs this crisp, finely acted adaptation of David Baldacci's best-seller. Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney and more top talents create well-rounded characters that intensify a constantly spiraling game of cat-and-mouse between Whitney, local police and the highest levels of Oval Office power. - Director:
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris
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Jack Irish: Series 1 (2016)Jack Irish - Blind Faith
Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) is engaged to track down a missing man, but the investigation goes pear-shaped when his quarry is killed before his eyes. The client becomes an enigma and the job is revealed to be an elaborate set up - one that now has Jack prime suspect for murder. Even his alibi is false - the alluring but unnerving metal sculptor, Sarah Longmore (Claudia Karvan), claims to have been with Jack at the time. If all this isn't disturbing enough, the only witness to the crime has taken off in his beloved Studebaker. Meanwhile, in Manila, Linda Hillier's (Marta Dusseldorp) journalistic instincts tell her she is on the trail of something big. But when the beginnings of her expose are quickly quashed, the opportunity of a lifetime begins to look like a dead end job - until a mysterious meeting with a criminal in hiding. But all is not what it seems... - Director:
- Kieran Darcy-Smith
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen
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A brilliant ensemble stars in this enthralling film from Marvel Studios. 'Eternals' follows a group of ancient heroes from beyond the stars who have protected humanity since the dawn of our existence. When Deviants - monstrous creatures who were thought gone forever - mysteriously reappear, the Eternals return, hoping to save humanity once again. - Director:
- Chloé Zhao
- Cast:
- Gemma Chan, Mahershala Ali, Richard Madden
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Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014)Jack Irish 3 - Dead Point
A former lawyer reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, he reinvents himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, then takes on cases that plumb the depths of Australian society. In Dead Point as police forces close in on a drug smuggling operation in Melbourne, Jack is tasked with retrieving a red leather-bound book for an anonymous client. - Director:
- Jeffrey Walker
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen
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Jack Irish (2012)Jack Irish: Bad Debts / Jack Irish: Black Tide
Jack Irish (Guy Pearce) is a man getting his life back together. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, punter and sometime lover. An expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. - Director:
- Jeffrey Walker
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen
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Action-packed thrills, edge-of-your-seat car chases and high-stakes explosions are up for grabs in 'Honest Thief'. Starring Liam Neeson as career criminal turned good-guy who is double crossed by a corrupt FBI agent (Jai Courtney) and framed for murder. Directed by Mark Williams, 'Honest Thief' follows Tom (Neeson), a bank robber who tries to turn himself in after falling for Annie (Kate Walsh) who works at the storage facility where he's stashed his money. Complications ensue when his case is turned over to ruthless FBI Agent Nivens (Courtney) and Tom must go underground to save both himself and Annie. - Director:
- Mark Williams
- Cast:
- Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney
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She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on true events, 'Official Secrets' tells the story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist who received a shocking memo in 2003: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in blackmailing United Nations Security Council members so they vote in favour of the Iraq War. Unable to stand by, Gun defies her government and leaks the memo to the press, beginning an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family in harm's way. - Director:
- Gavin Hood
- Cast:
- Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode
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Mulholland Drive (2001)Mulholland Dr.
Los Angeles, city of angels. Amnesiac and wounded, a mysterious femme fatale wanders on the sinuous road of Mulholland Drive. She finds a shelter at Betty's house (Naomi Watts). an aspiring actress just arrived from her hometown and in search of stardom in Hollywood. First of all intrigued by the stranger who calls herself Rita (Laura Elena Harring), Betty discovers that her handbag is dull of dollar bundles. The two women get to know each other better and decide to investigate in order to discover Rita's true identity.... - Director:
- David Lynch
- Cast:
- Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
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Stillwater follows an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter. - Director:
- Thomas McCarthy
- Cast:
- Matt Damon, Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin
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When Freddy (Hermione Corfield), a troubled young woman, is nearly assaulted outside a nightclub, the toilet attendant steps in to help. Baba (Dipo Ola), a former child soldier, acts with swift, unstoppable brutality. She's entranced. The pair form an instant intoxicating connection. Something dark within both of them quickly emerges. Soon they set about exacting revenge on people from Freddy's past - Baba's skill for violence and Freddy's tinge of psychopathy prove a lethal combination. But they're not the only ones on the hunt. Can dysfunctional detectives DI Mendy (Babou Ceesay) and DS Franks (Eve Myles) set aside their opposing views long enough to catch the deadly duo? - Director:
- Jon Jones
- Cast:
- Babou Ceesay, Hermione Corfield, Kamara Abraham
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