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1) Peppermint
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A revenge story focusing on a young mother who finds herself with nothing to lose, and is now going to take from her enemies the very life they took from her.
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Set during WWI, The King's Man tells the exhilarating 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 million across the globe, one man must race against time to stop them.
3) Jason Bourne
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Jason Bourne, the CIA's most dangerous former operative, now remembers who he truly is and comes out of hiding to uncover more hidden truths about his past.
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With a never-before-seen, alternate cut of the film and 90 minutes of all-new immersive special features. Rogue makes her return with the all-star characters from the original film, and joins forces with their younger selves and unite to battle armies of murderous Sentinel robots who are hunting down mutants and humans alike.
5) Blacklight
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Travis Block is a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past. When he discovers a plot targeting U.S. citizens, Block finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI director he once helped protect.
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Mauritian artist, Shiraz Bayjoo, works with film, painting, photography, performance, and installation. His research-based practice focuses on personal and public archives addressing cultural memory and postcolonial nationhood in a manner that challenges dominant cultural narratives. He has created a new artist's book in response to 'Treasure Island'. Presented alongside Stevenson's text, Bayjoo's images take us from the ports of England to landscapes...
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Marvel makes cinematic history as it unites the superhero team-up of a lifetime. Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, and Captain America assemble together for the very first time ever in this epic, action-packed blockbuster alongside Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Nick Fury.
10) Deadpool
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Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
11) Logan
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In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
14) Doctor Strange
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"World-famous neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange['s] life changes forever after a horrific car accident renders his hands useless. When traditional medicine fails him, he travels to remote Kamar-Taj in search of a cure, but instead discovers the mystical arts and becomes a powerful sorcerer battling dark forces bent on destroying our reality"--Container.
15) Spectre
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A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind Spectre.
16) Mortal engines
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Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London, now a giant predator city on wheels, from devouring everything in its path.
17) Divergent
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In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
18) The mummy
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Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day. Her malevolence, grown over millennia, unleashes terrors that defy human comprehension.
19) The marksman
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Jim, a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, has his peaceful existence come crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
20) Gran turismo
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"Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs -- a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within"--Container.
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