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Register your mobile number to order Home Cinema™ movies and events by SMS text

Showtime has set another first with the launch of Home Cinema™ Text - the quickest, simplest way to order Home Cinema™ movies and events.

By registering your mobile telephone number with Showtime and linking it to your Showtime smart card number, you will have the freedom to immediately order Home Cinema™ movies and events by SMS Text.

Simply text the three digit order code for your selected movie to +971 50 357 5111. You'll find the three digit order code for each movie on the Home Cinema™ schedule grid.

It's that simple and your selected movie will be activated in minutes as long as there are credits in your Home Cinema™ account or you pay via credit card.

Remember all Total Plus and Movies Plus subscribers are eligible to order Home Cinema™ movies, while all Showtime subscribers may order Home Cinema events like boxing and wrestling.

Make sure you register your mobile phone number now by sending an SMS Text message with your Showtime smart card number - no spaces, no hyphens - to +971 50 357 5111. You will receive a text message confirming your successful registration.

One time registration: Text your 11 digit smart card number (without space and hyphens) to +971 50 357 5111.
You will get a confirmation by SMS.

The 51st State (18)
16 - 22 January: HC9 •FINAL PLAY•
Action comedy with Samuel L. Jackson as a streetwise chemist with a new drug that delivers the biggest ever high. Things go wrong when he hooks up with some bumbling accomplices to push his product in the UK. Robert Carlyle co-stars. [Dur: 92 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Aaboud Al Hodood (PG)
26 December - 01 January : HC7 - 8
09 - 15 January : HC7 - 8
23 - 29 January : HC7 - 8

Arabic language comedy starring the late Alaa Waliy El Deen as Aboud, a kindhearted youth who finds himself defending the Egyptian-Israeli border after being conscripted by the army. [Dur:106 min]
A screening begins every hour

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Alhoub Al Awal (PG)
02 - 08 January : HC7- 8
16 - 22 January : HC7- 8
30 January - 05 Febuary : HC7 - 8

One of them is looking for romance, one of them is finding it hard to attract women and the other just wants any woman he can get! Hilarious Arabic comedy about three lovelorn Cairo friends starring Mostafa Amar, Tareq Lotfi and Hany Ramzy. [Dur: 132 min]
A screening begins every hour and 15 minutes
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Big Shot's Funeral (tbc) •PREMIERE•
16 - 22 January : HC6
Comedy about a movie shoot in China that descends into farce when the director falls ill and an eccentric cameraman takes over. Donald Sutherland stars. [Dur: 100 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Blue Car (18) •PREMIERE•
09 - 15 January : HC6
The tender story of a young woman who expresses the unhappiness of her homelife through poetry, and the teacher who tries to nurture her talent. Drama with David Strathairn. [Dur: 96 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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The Book Of Eve (tbc) •PREMIERE•
26 December - 01 January : HC9
Tender drama starring Clare Bloom as a woman who leaves her husband after years of unstimulating marriage. Being alone is equally unsatisfying until a younger man insists on showing her what life can really be about. [Dur: 98 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Catch Me If You Can (tbc) •PREMIERE•
16 - 22 January : HC1 - 4
23 - 29 January : HC5

The amazing true story of Frank Abagnale Jr, a daring and charming conman who pulled off many large scale swindles and became one of the FBI's most wanted men. Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. [Dur:141 min]
16 - 22 January: A screening begins every 45 minutes
23 - 29 January: A screening begins every 2 hours and 30 minutes
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16 - 22 January
105
23 - 29 January

Chicago (16) •PREMIERE•
26 December - 01 January : HC1 - 4
02 - 08 January : HC5

30 January - 05 Febuary: H10
Lavish, vibrant blockbuster based on the smash-hit stage musical. Renée Zellweger plays an ambitious dancer who wants to make it to the top of the showbiz tree by any means necessary. Catherine Zeta Jones and Richard Gere star. [Dur:113 min]
26 December - 01 January: A screening begins every 30 minutes
02 - 08 January: A screening begins every 2 hours
30 January - 05 Febuary: A screening begins every 2 hours
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26 - 01 January
105
02 - 08 January
110 30 January - 05 Febuary

Confidence (tbc)
30 January - 05 Febuary:
HC1 - 4
A conman on the verge of pulling off his biggest ever scam realises he has been swindling the wrong man - a crime boss with a nice line in revenge. Crime thriller with Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz. [Dur: 97 min]
A screening begins every 30 minutes

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Enough (16)
02 - 08 January :
H10 •FINAL PLAY•
Jennifer Lopez stars as a woman on the run from her abusive husband who decides to train herself to fight back against his violence. Thriller with Noah Wyle. [Dur: 115 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours

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Festival in Cannes (16) •PREMIERE•
02 - 08 January : HC9
Comedy set behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, where a movie producer has to juggle a whole host of problems to keep his film project alive. Greta Scacchi stars. [Dur:99 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Heroes Mountain: The Threadbo Story (16) •PREMIERE•
30 January - 05 Febuary : HC9
The amazing true story of Australia's Thredbo disaster, in which rescue workers raced against time to rescue 60 people buried by an avalanche. Craig Maclachlan stars. [Dur:100 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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The Hunted (18)
09 - 15 January : H10 •FINAL PLAY•
An FBI agent is assigned to track down a hunter who has developed a fondness for pursuing human prey in the backwoods of Oregon. Action thriller with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro. [Dur:94 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Interceptor Force (tbc) •PREMIERE•
26 December - 01 January : HC5
An elite team of government agents are sent to the wilds of Russia to confront a fearsome alien with a grudge. Sci-fi action with Olivier Gruner. [Dur: 90 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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The Invader (tbc) •PREMIERE•
09 - 15 January : HC9
An alien from a dying race must impregnate an earthling or his kind will become extinct. Sci-fi horror with Sean Young and Daniel Baldwin. [Dur: 93 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Jackass : The Movie (18)
23 - 29 January : H10 •FINAL PLAY•
*not showing 26 January - replaced with WWE Royal Rumble
Warning: This movie depicts totally stupid stunts that should on no account be attempted by sensible individuals! Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass team put their bodies in extreme peril purely for your entertaintment. [Dur:87 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Little Insects (tbc) •PREMIERE•
30 January - 05 Febuary : HC6
While their colonies go to war over a jam jar, two young ants find a 'Romeo & Juliet'-style love with each other despite being on opposite sides. Animated fun for all the family. [Dur: tbc]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Lone Hero (tbc) •PREMIERE•
23 - 29 January : HC6
An actor in a wild west show must play the part for real when his town is taken over by a biker gang and he is the nearest thing to a hero the townsfolk have got. Action drama with Lou Diamond Philips and Sean Patrick Flannery. [Dur: 90 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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The QuietAmerican (tbc) •PREMIERE•
23 - 29 January : HC1 - 4
30 January - 05 Febuary : HC5

Michael Caine gives one of his best ever performances in this strong drama about a British reporter vying with a young American for the affections of a woman in 1950's Vietnam. Highly recommended. [Dur: 101 min]
23 - 29 January: A screening begins every 30 minutes
30 January - 05 Febuary : A screening begins every 2 hours
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23 - 29 January
105
30 January - 05 Febuary

Spy Kids 2: Island Of Lost Dreams (PG) •PREMIERE•
02 - 08 January : HC1 - 4
09 - 15 January : HC5

The Cortez kids are back, and this time the action is even more explosive! Smash-hit family adventure sequel with Antonio Banderas, Alexa Vega, Carla Gugino and Steve Buscemi. [Dur: 99 min]
02 - 08 January: A screening begins every 30 minutes
09 - 15 January: A screening begins every 2 hours
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02 - 08 January
105
09 - 15 January

The Tuxedo (tbc) •PREMIERE•
09 - 15 January : HC1 - 4
16 - 22 January : HC5

A hapless chauffeur is transformed into a secret agent when he tries on a special tuxedo that gives special abilities to whomever is wearing it. High-octane action with Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt. [Dur: 98 min]
09 - 15 January: A screening begins every 30 minutes
16 - 22 January: A screening begins every 2 hours
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09 - 15 January
105
16 - 22 January

Wasabi (tbc) •PREMIERE•
23 - 29 January : HC9
A French cop travels to Tokyo to hear the reading of his former girlfriend's will, only to find that she died in suspicious circumstances, that there's $200m up for grabs and he is the father of her child. Comedy with Jean Reno. [Dur: 94 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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The Weight of Water (18)
26 December - 01 January : H10 •FINAL PLAY•
Tense thriller about a journalist investigating a double axe murder who uncovers some difficult secrets about the past. Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, Catherine McCormack and Elizabeth Hurley star. [Dur: 113 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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Wise Girls (18)
16 - 22 January : H10 •FINAL PLAY•
A waitress working in a restaurant owned by the mafia faces a potentially deadly dilemma when she witnesses a serious crime. Crime thriller with Mira Sorvino, Melora Walters and Mariah Carey. [Dur: 96 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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WWE Royal Rumble
26 January : H10

30 WWE Superstars. One ring. One chance to live the dream. The Road to Wrestlemania begins at Royal Rumble. Don't miss WWE Royal Rumble, Monday, January 26 , live and only on pay-per-view.
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Zu Warriors (tbc) •PREMIERE•
26 December - 01 January : HC6
Wonderful, special effects laden martial arts action and adventure with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star Zhang Ziyi and one of the masters of Hong Kong cinema, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo. One of the most amazing kung fu movies ever made! [Dur: 104 min]
A screening begins every 2 hours
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