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The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers
(1946) [PG]

FATE Drew Them Together... And Only MURDER Could Part Them! No one's as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she is "bad" - and the Double Indemnity star gives an equally chilling performance opposite rugged Van Heflin and dynamic Kirk Douglas (making his feature-film debut) in The Strange Love Of...  More

The Big Easy
(1987) [M]

Ellen Barkin stars alongside Dennis Quaid in this humorous, stylish and erotic thriller. When a Mafia hood is found dead in a New Orleans fountain, Lt Renny McSwain (Quaid), and his partner (Ned Beatty) decide that it is a Mafia hit. However, Assistant District Attorney Anne Osborne (Barkin)...  More

Body Heat
(1981) [MA]

Attorney Ned Racine's life coasts along in neutral - until he meets a siren in white (with a well-to-do husband) named Matty Walker. Ned knows Matty is the kind of woman men would kill to be with. So he does. Kasdan's Body Heat, is a sexy, haunting tale echoing 1940's film noirs but charged with...  More

The Postman Always Rings Twice
(1981) [M]

Drifter Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson), is headed nowhere. Then he drifts into a job at a roadside diner and sees his boss’ alluring young wife Cora (Jessica Lange). They are both compelled by agonising passions they can neither control or completely understand, to become lovers with savage...  More

The Set-Up (1949)
(1949) [PG]

Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive...  More

The Hot Spot
(1990) [M]

A loner (Johnson) drives into a small Texas town and gets himself a job at a used car dealership. He gets an idea for robbing a small local bank after he tries to open a new bank account at the same time a fire occurs nearby. The bank was left open while all of the employees went to fight the...  More

Sunset Boulevard
(1950) [PG]

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the...  More

Night And The City
(1992) [MA]

Harry Fabian (Robert De Niro) is an unsatisfied, small-time lawyer in New York City; but he has a dream. Helen (Jessica Lange) is equally disgruntled. Their meeting sparks an impulsive shot at the big time, as Harry battles to fulfill his new, all consuming dream of becoming a boxing promoter....  More

Mildred Pierce
(1945) [PG]

The kind of woman most men want-but shouldn't have! A Mother's Love Leads To Murder - And An Oscar! What Veda wants, her mother - Mildred Pierce - provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love....  More

In A Lonely Place
(1950) [PG]

In director Nicholas Ray's haunting noir In A Lonely Place, Humphrey Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a screenwriter who is faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy best-seller. He enlists hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson to tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is...  More