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Peter Webber's screen adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's novel looks at the process behind creating one of the most famous portraits and told from the sitter's viewpoint - namely Jan Vermeer's The Girl With a Pearl Earring. Griet (Scarlett Johansson) is a young woman who sets off from her family home in the countryside to work as a servant for the Vermeer household in the burgh of Delft. To begin with, she is very lowly in the servant ranks, but is then given responsibility for cleaning the master of the house's painting quarters. Master of the house, the unsociable Vermeer (Colin Firth) is taken with Griet's looks and over some time paints her portrait. This upsets his pregnant and jealous wife, Catharina (Essie Davis) and his benefactor, van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson), who likes to decide what Vermeer should be painting. All the while, Griet is forming her own special relationship with a peasant boy (Cillian Murphy) of her own age.
Final 4 episodes of the second series of the BBC drama series about Jack Ford (James Bolam), a soldier who has returned to his native Tyneside after serving in World War I and now works as the District Secretary for the Fitter's union. Includes the episodes: 'A Wreath With Our Names On', 'The Way It Was in Murmansk', 'In the Front Line You Get Shot At' and 'The Simple Pleasures of the Rich'.
Anthony Valentine stars as the debonair A.J. Raffles who is constantly in demand as a house guest on English country estates at the turn of the century. What his hosts don't realise is that Raffles is also an accomplished jewel thief and safe-cracker.
The complete first series of the popular medical drama. In the two-part pilot episode, medical student John Carter finds himself dropped in the deep end when he turns up for his first day and discovers the emergency room in the middle of a major trauma. 'Day One' see Dr Ross struggle to save the victim of a drunk driving accident. 'Going Home' has Hathaway return to the hospital and Carter learn to be more compassionate. 'Hit and Run' finds Carol receiving an unexpected visit from the handsome Dr Ross. 'Into That Good Night' has Mark go in search of a much-needed transplant for a critical patient. 'Chicago Heat' sees Mark bring his daughter into the ER and Ross do his best to save a young girl suffering from an unintended cocaine overdose. 'Another Perfect Day' has Carter try to find an apartment of his own. '9½ Hours' finds Carter falling for Susan. In 'ER Confidential' Carol faces a difficult decision when a patient tells her a secret. 'Blizzard' sees the ER staff scramble to help the victims of a massive car pile-up. 'The Gift' has Doug turn up unexpected at Carol's engagement party. 'Happy New Year' finds Carter angry about doing Benton's work for him. In 'Luck of the Draw' Mark confronts a drug-smuggling patient and Carol decides upon a date for her wedding. 'Long Day's Journey' sees Peter hire physical therapist Jeanie to look after his mum. 'Feb 5th, 1995' has Carter surprised when Deb delivers an excellent trauma presentation. 'Make of Two Hearts' finds Deb in trouble when she accidentally takes some LSD. 'The Birthday Party' sees Jen accept the offer of work in Milwaukee, thereby making her separation from Mark almost inevitable. In 'Sleepless in Chicago' Carol's hopes of adopting Tatiana come to an end. 'Love's Labour Lost' has Benton's mother admitted to hospital when she breaks her hip. 'Full Moon, Saturday Night' finds the tension growing between Carter and Deb. 'House of Cards' sees Peter confront his mother about her need to enter a nursing home. 'Men Plan, God Laughs' has Mark attempt a reconciliation with Jen. 'Love Among the Ruins' finds Carter's secret background revealed. 'Motherhood' sees Carter stretched to the limit on a gruelling 24 hour shift. And in 'Everything Old is New Again' the day of Carol's wedding finally arrives.
Cathy Earnshaw (Juliette Bincoche) and her adoptive brother Heathcliff (Ralph Fiennes) became inseparable as children, and now share a forbidden passion in adulthood. However, Heathcliff is cast down to the level of a servant by Cathy's vengeful brother, Hindley (Jeremy Northam), who resents the love their father showed for a man he regards as an infidel. When Cathy sets her cap at wealthy neighbour Edgar Linton (Simon Shephard), the enraged Heathcliff flees, vowing revenge.
Dancer Bob Fosse directed this stylised, semi-autobiographical musical about a brilliant stage musical director (Roy Scheider) who drives himself to exhaustion. With Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen. Winner of four Oscars.
Danish adult animated tale. 32 year old clergyman August returns home from years of missionary work abroad because of the death of his sister Christina, who after going from greatness to the gutter as the famous porno star The Princess has finally died of drug abuse. She has left her five-year-old daughter Mia with Karen, a prostitute. August pays them a visit to bring Mia home with him and become her guardian. Burdened by sorrow and guilt, he decides to avenge Christina's death and brings Mia along on a crusade to clear his sister's name of pornographic connotations.The mission escalates into a brutal and violent rout as August attempts desperately to protect the only thing he holds dear, namely Mia, forcing him to make a fateful decision.
Upon arriving in Bangkok, American backpacker Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) is given a map by Daffy (Robert Carlyle), a drug-addicted Scot, which shows him the route to an idyllic island. Richard teams up with French couple Francoise (Virginie Ledoyen) and Etienne (Guillaume Canet) to make his way to the island, braving various dangers en route. The trio eventually reach their goal and discover a community of western travellers living on a paradise-like stretch of beach. Richard soon makes himself at home, embarking on a relationship with Francoise, but his new-found Eden proves to have hidden dangers when community leader Sal (Tilda Swinton) also becomes enamoured of him.
From Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf and the creative team behind “Law & Order” comes another thrilling season of one of the most explosive series on television! Starting with an undercover sting to find a massive bomb, and culminating in a desperate hunt for a devious serial killer, Season Five of FBI finds Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, and Special Agents Maggie Bell, Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan, Stuart Scola and Tiffany Wallace putting their unique expertise to the ultimate test against the deadliest threats in New York and the nation.
A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and exposes all aboard to the disease. Colonel Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) is called in to handle the situation and finds Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) who is on board the train. Mackenzie decides to re-route the train to the Cassandra Crossing where it will plunge into oblivion. But passengers miraculously begin to recover and Chamberlain must race against time to disconnect the cars.
William Woodman's production of Shakespeare's classic play. The tender passion of young lovers Romeo (Alex Hyde-White) and Juliet (Blanche Baker) is hindered by the fact that their respective families, the Montagues and Capulets, are still pursuing a long-standing feud.
A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
In this gripping 2nd season, Axelrod attempts to reorganise his assets as he takes on a number of powerful rivals, while Rhoades looks for another high-profile case in order to rebuild his reputation.
Winner of 3 Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director), 4 BAFTA Awards (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Cinematography), 2 Golden Globe Awards (Best Picture and Best Director). Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the Nevada town she calls home, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road in this critically-acclaimed film. Exploring an unconventional life as a modern-day nomad, Fern discovers a resilience and resourcefulness unlike any she’s known before. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West. From Searchlight Pictures, written for the screen and directed by Chloé Zhao, based on the book by Jessica Bruder, the film also stars David Strathairn and features real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells.
World War II thriller co-written and directed by Sean Ellis. As part of a dangerous mission to assassinate high-ranking SS General Reinhard Heydrich (Detlef Bothe), Czechoslovakian soldiers Jozef Gabcík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubis (Jamie Dornan) are parachuted into their German-occupied homeland in December 1941. After being assigned Marie (Charlotte Le Bon) and Lenka (Anna Geislerová) to pose as their partners as part of their cover story, the two men set about planning the crucial operation. However, with limited intelligence and little equipment available, the men are soon overwhelmed by fear as the Germans close in and the true scale of their assignment becomes clear.
In the two years following a shocking death, Raymond Reddington and the members of the FBI Task Force have disbanded – their lives now changed in unexpected ways and with Reddington’s whereabouts unknown. Finding themselves each at a crossroads, a common purpose compels them to renew their original mission: to take down dangerous, vicious and eccentric Blacklisters. In the process, they begin to uncover lethal adversaries, unimaginable conspiracies and surprising betrayals that will threaten alliances and spur vengeance for the past, led by the most devious criminal of them all: Raymond Reddington.
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. SPENCER is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.
Academy Award nominee:
Ben Affleck stars as a criminal forensic accountant in this US crime drama directed by Gavin O'Connor. Autistic maths genius Christian Wolff (Affleck) works for ZZZ Accounting where he runs the books for a number of arms dealers, cartels and gangsters and puts the fighting skills taught to him by his military father to good use. His latest assignment sees him analysing a large embezzlement at Living Robotics where he works with fellow accountant Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick) to investigate. Meanwhile, Treasury Department director Raymond King (J.K. Simmons) is hot on the heels of the shady man known as The Accountant and enlists the help of analyst Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) to find him and bring him to justice.
Bobby Axelrod and Chuck Rhoades are back. The “Devilishly fun” fifth season of BILLIONS sees their vicious rivalry reignited, while new enemies rise and take aim. Social impact pioneer Mike Prince poses a true threat to Axe’s dominance. Taylor Mason is forced back to Axe Capital, where Taylor must fight to protect their employees and their assets. Wendy Rhoades re-evaluates her loyalties and forges surprising new alliances that put her at odds with both Chuck and Axe. The stakes have no ceiling, the cut-throat rivalries no end in this 12 episode series featuring guest star Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies.
Determined to protect his ranch and his family’s legacy by any means necessary, John Dutton turns up the heat in the most epic season of Yellowstone yet. As the violence escalates and alliances shift, the ranch experiences some of its most dangerous affairs yet. Don’t miss out on a second of this wild second season, with an incredible vault of bonus features such as extended episodes, on set footage, a 30-minute behind the scenes journey, AND an array of candid interviews from cast and crew.
Born with facial differences that, up until now, have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, Auggie Pullman becomes the most unlikely of heroes when he enters the local fifth grade. As his family, his new classmates, and the larger community all struggle to find their compassion and acceptance, Auggie's extraordinary journey will unite them all and prove you can't blend in when you were born to stand out. This wonderful family film is based on the bestselling children's novel by R. J. Palacio.
Howard Vernon returns as the demented Dr Orloff, who, in this chiller, creates an invisible human in order to kidnap his partner's daughter, with whom he's obsessed.
Fourth volume of episodes from the Italian crime drama based on the series of novels by Andrea Camilleri. Salvo Montalbano (Luca Zingaretti) plays a key role maintaining law and order in the town of Vigata in Sicily. Navigating his way around the fraught terrain of the Italian justice system isn't the only issue faced by Montalbano - his dual indulgences, food and his girlfriend, Livia (Katharina Böhm), often threaten to derail him. The episodes are: 'August Flame', 'The Wings of the Sphinx', 'Track of Sand' and 'Paper Moon'. |
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