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Julianne Moore gives a unique, moving and Oscar winning performance as successful linguistics professor Alice Howland who, in the midst of her settled life, discovers she has early onset Alzheimer's disease.

As Alice regresses, feeling her memories and personality fading away, she tries to salvage what she can from the remaining moments with her family. Exploring the profound effect that such a devastating revelation can bring, 'Still Alice' is a sincere, sobering and inspiring story about human identity and love.

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"Maiden" Maiden is the inspirational story of how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.

Tracy's dream was opposed on all sides: her male competitors thought an all-women crew would never make it, the chauvinistic yachting press took bets on her failure, and potential sponsors rejected her, fearing they would die at sea and generate bad publicity. But Tracy refused to give up: she re-mortgaged her home and bought a second-hand boat, putting everything on the line to ensure the team made it to the start line. With the support of her remarkable crew she went on to shock the sport and prove that women are the equal of men.

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When evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the present day the natural world is turned on its head and humanity faces a threat to its very existence.

Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of time, allowing creatures from the very earliest stages of Earth's development to roam the modern world. Cutter and his team struggle to keep the looming disaster secret while dealing with savage dinosaurs and other deadly foes. Cutter also has to deal with a deeply personal dilemma - he discovers that his wife Helen, missing believed dead for eight years, has actually been travelling in the past; now she is back with possible answers to the riddle of the anomalies, but is it an answer she is willing to share?

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An air of uncertainty hangs around the team after the death of Superintendent Vermaelen. However, they don't have much time to think when a young girl is found hanged in a boarding school. The Vice want to get to the bottom of this case and start by investigating the role of Sister Adelheid...

When Pieter, a gigolo, is raped during one of his client sessions, Hannah Maes and her team have no idea where to start. They look at his regular clients and try and piece things together before things escalate. Meanwhile, Hannah gets another mysterious tip that could lead to a breakthrough in her private investigation...

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Nominated for a Golden Globe award and Germany's official submission for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, Max Faberbock's 'Aimee and Jaguar' is the tender, elegiac account of a forbidden love affair set against the backdrop of wartime Germany.

In performances that garnered them Silver Bears at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. Juliane Kohler (Lilly Wust) and Maria Schrader (Felice Schragenheim) play the eponymous Aimee & Jaguar, an example of Nazi motherhood and a politically committed Jew's respectively who embark on a transgressive love affair that will ultimately shatter their lives. Based on the acclaimed book by Erica Fischer 'Aimee and Jaguar' is an uplifting love story totally unlike any other.

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Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road in this "exquisite film" (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).

Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she's known before long the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.

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Poet and novelist, Margaret Atwood is a household name. Yet few know the private Margaret Atwood.

Who is the woman and writer behind these stories? The film crew keeps pace with Atwood as she jets to speaking engagements around the world, visits the set of 'The Handmaid's Tale' and takes a family holiday. The film explores Atwood's early days in the Canadian wilderness and as a shining star of the Can Lit scene. Atwood's novels will be explored, including her latest, 'The Testaments', the highly anticipated sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'. Personal stories will be shared by friends, family and by the author herself.

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Water polo team 'The Shiny Shrimps ' have little hope of achieving their goal to compete in the world's biggest LGBTQ+ sporting event, the Gay Games. Their undisciplined behaviour (in and out of the pool) has team captain Jean searching for a new coach to whip the Shrimps into shape.

He arrives in the form of World Silver Medallist swimmer Matthias Le Goff (Nicolas Gob) who, after making a homophobic remark on live TV, is offered redemption by means of training and reigning in the flamboyant Shrimps.

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Hong Kong, 1962. Chow (Tony Leung) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His new neighbour Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) is a secretary whose husband seems to spend all his time on business trips. They become friends, making the lonely evenings more bearable.

As their relationship develops they make a discovery that changes their lives forever...

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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Visionary director Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs' tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots.

With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

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Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people.

As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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Set in exciting and exotic locations 'Crossing Lines' taps into the charter of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to mandate a special crime unit to investigate serialized crimes that cross over borders, hunt down criminals and bring them to justice a global FBI is born.

'Crossing Lines' stars William Fichtner as Carl Hickman, a wounded New York cop, pulled from the edge by a group of unlikely saviors, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Donald Sutherland as Michel Dorn, an inspector in the International Criminal Court, and Marc Lavoine as Louis Daniel, the head of an elite cross-border police unit charged with hunting down the worlds most brutal criminals.

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A special crime unit investigates serialized crimes that cross over European borders, to hunt down criminals and bring them to justice...The team races against time to save Louis (Marc Lavoine) and Rebecca (Elsa Mollien) while Dorn (Donald Sutherland) prepares to take down Dimitrov (Marcel Iures)...

After arriving in The Hague to stand trial, smug Genovese (Kim Coates) tries to make a deal with the ICC; Eva (Gabriella Pession) enters the underbelly of human trafficking...The team, at first baffled by the gang's tactics, begins to put the pieces together. Realizing the prison psychiatrist is in on the breakout, Hickman (William Fichtner) alerts the team. As the mystery unfolds, tragedy for the team also follows...

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Crossing Lines is an American/French/German action, crime, and adventure TV series starring William Fichtner as Carl Hickman, Donald Sutherland playing Michel Dorn, Tom Wlaschiha as Sebastian Berger, and others.

The show follows a special crime unit which hunts criminals with unconventional and oftentimes publicly disputed methods.