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Peace should never be taken for granted. Even the smallest efforts should be fostered and cherished. What happens when we don’t heed the warning signs when peace is under threat? These were the questions posed by two powerful films shown on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival.

A middle-class boy capitalises on his privilege in Reagan-era New York in James Gray’s uncharacteristically syrupy movie

Twelve years since it first premiered, television hit "Downton Abbey" is back with a second stand-alone film about the fictitious Crawley family and their servants running a sprawling English country estate in the early 20th century. Set in 1928, "Downton Abbey: A New Era", released in US cinemas on Friday,…

'It doesn’t matter what happened in the past. I have come to terms with the shock. I’m just glad she never found out'

“I truly believed that my money was going to help a man who I cared about deeply, and I believed wanted a future with me"

Old-fashioned sequel is locked into a one-way track of mild befuddlement

The Downton Abbey: A New Era cast posed on the red carpet dressed to the nines, with Laura Carmichael, Michelle Dockery and Joanne Froggatt stunning at the premiere

Anna Bonner pretended to be a bouncer her best friend Susan Hughes had fancied

Susan Hughes and Anna Bonner had been best friends for 25 years before she realised she was posing as a club bouncer who she met several years ago.

Today, Susan tells how she lost her life savings – and the ability to trust anyone – after a scam that began in 2011 and ran her ragged for nine years.

With his latest film, "The Northman," director Robert Eggers is bringing his distinctive vision behind cult hits "The Witch" and "The Lighthouse" to something exponentially larger — a big-budget Viking epic. Opening in wide release from Focus Features this weekend, it's a pressure-cooker test case of what happens when a…