Miami Vice: Season Two
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Eighties vice cops turn on the style.
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Song For A Raggy Boy
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Autobiographical account of life as a boy offender in an Irish Catholic reform school.
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Fear Of A Black Hat
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Hip-hop mockumentary
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Snack Bar Budapest
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Gangsters, hotels and hookers - European 80s-style.
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Dylan Thomas: Return Journey
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One man show dedicated to the life of one of Britain’s greatest ever poets.
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The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes
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Meglomaniac doctor brings together a piano tuner and a dead opera singer for his grand operatic masterpiece.
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Casualty: Series 2
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The lives and loves of staff and patients at a busy casualty department... injected with a healthy dose of politics, racism and more blood than a
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Blissfully Yours
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A languid celebration of the pleasures of the moment - Thai style.
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Upstairs, Downstairs: The Complete Third Series
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National and social changes amongst the privileged and servant classes in London during tempestuous times before The Great War.
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Seducing Dr Lewis
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French Canadian islanders manipulate the life of a city doctor in an attempt to make him stay.
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