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  • Cleaner: Retired policeman Tom Cutler works as a crime scene cleaner to support his young daughter. His quiet life is thrown into turmoil when Ann Norcut contacts him in the wake of a routine job. When she reveals her husband has disappeared and his agency has sterilised an apparent crime scene in her home without her permission, Cutler turns to his hardened former partner, detective Eddie Lorenzo. Also stars Eva Mendes and Ed Harris. Lakeview Terrace: Moving into their first home, married couple Chris and Lisa Mattson look forward to a blissful new life together - until they meet their new neighbour, Abel Turner, who introduces himself to Chris as an armed car-jacker. Getting off to a bad start, things only get worse as Chris and Lisa realise that Turner is angered by their interracial relationship. Also starring Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. S.W.A.T: Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members including tough Deke Kay and single mum Chris Sanchex. Their first assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems like a routine assignment but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can bust him out, plenty of criminals are ready to step up for the prize. Also stars Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez. Freedomland: A mother blames the disappearance of her son Cody on a black man from the projects after she reports a car-jacking. Detective Lorenzo Council suspects the woman is hiding something and he enlists the aid of missing child activist Karen Collucci. While the search for Cody continues, the media amplifies the notoriety of the case, bringing up explosive racial issues. Also stars  Julianne Moore, Edie Falco and Ron Eldard.  
  • An update on H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man into a sci-fi slasher. A scientist volunteers to be the first human test subject for an invisibility serum, but when his fellow scientists can restore him to normal, he begins to slowly go insane...In Hollow Man 2 - a stand-alone sequel to Hollow Man - a scientist is ambushed at a Washington think tank by a brutal invisible force which demands information about a formula that was created to render humans invisible. The scientist mentions someone who might know what 'it' is looking for - Maggie Dalton, who was one of two survivors of the original human invisibility experiment five years earlier. The research has been recommenced - this time with a view to create the perfect invisible soldier. But there's a new and more dangerous side-effect of invisibility...
  • Hundreds of hopefuls congregate at a cattle call for Broadway dancers. Sour director, Zach and his brusque assistant whittle down the ranks until they're left with 16 dancers. Each one has a story - some are tragic, some are comic - and explain their love of dance. Tension mounts when Cassie - once both a big star and the director's lover but now desperate for a part - auditions. But Zach must choose only the best for his show. Musical.  
  • Frank Ashby, an Oxford University Professor, has a secure, well-ordered life. When he ventures into the Swiss Alps for a well-earned holiday before his prospective appointment as president of his college, he is suddenly brought face to face with a midlife crisis when he meets two American ladies: Miss Caroline Hartley and her 18 year old ward Miss Elinor Hartley. Ashby eventually finds enjoyment in their company as a refreshing diversion from the exclusively masculine world he normally inhabits. But on his return to Oxford, he must fight a young professor who aspires to the college presidency and what's more, there's the unexpected arrival in Oxford of  Miss Caroline and Miss Elinor. His well-ordered life is topsy turvy - and it seems that love is responsible! Also stars Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina, Roger Lloyd Pack and Alun Armstrong.
  • There comes a time in life when you are on the brink of finding your place in the world - the path you chose at that crucial point affects who you are and who you will become. At the crossroads are Iris, Margaret, Paula and Jane, trying to make their mark. They come together as 'temps' for the Global Credit Association, each girl seeing her job as temporary and they each dream of bigger things. They become friends, sharing their dreams and desires - but the fragile bond between them is broken with the introduction of a fifth woman and the strange events that follow - resulting in paranoia, suspicion and betrayal.
  • In the city of New York, a crime is committed every eight seconds. But across the river in New Jersey lies a quiet town called Garrison, home to some of New York's finest. It's a place where the local sheriff wears a badge - but the big city cops run the town. Garrison sheriff Freddy Heflin always dreamed of becoming one of the finest - but now he's discovered something that will force him to choose between his idols and upholding the law. Based on a true story.
  • U.S. Marshall Pete Nessip gets into hot water when the prisoner he's transporting parachutes out of a 747 and disappears safely into the night with his deadly cohorts. While Nessip did his best to prevent the escape, he can't stop the force from suspending him - and that won't stop him from tracking down the cadre of techno-terrorists...even if it means taking a 30,000 foot sky-dive.
  • In the near future, Major is the first of her kind - a human saved from a terrible crash and cyber enhanced to be the perfect soldier devoted top stopping the world's criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that allows the perpetrators to hack into human minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop them. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major learns that she's been lied to - her life was not saved, it wa stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past,find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others.
  • Tom Stewart is an ambitious crime reporter - which means digging up facts that many would prefer stay buried. And there's a few who'd like someone Tom has - the unethical detective sergeant Ray Birch who is looking for information on a robbery. During the investigation, Tom meets Morris Martin, a man mourning the accidental death of his wife Claudine. But Morris develops the erratic idea that his friends are keeping Claudine, who is alive and being kept hidden. One by one, Morris tracks his friends down and kills them - and Tom uses his newspaper connections to dig a little deeper to find a real surprise twist in the case - together with the realisation that Morris AND Birch are after him...