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Thunderbolt And Lightfoot
(1974) [M]

Clint Eastwood is Thunderbolt, a bank robber in disguise, running from a gang convinced he double-crossed them in a heist years before. Jeff Bridges (in an Oscar-nominated performance) is Lightfoot, a fast-talking drifter helping him to plan a criminal caper to clear his name. Written and...  More

The Dead Pool
(1988) [M]

Fame isn't Detective Harry Callahan's style. He dislikes being grouped with a rock star, a film critic and a TV host, all slain celebrities in a macabre betting pool called The Dead Pool. Another name just got added: his. Clint Eastwood returns for his fifth Callahan caper, and this time Harry's...  More

The Gauntlet
(1977) [R]

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley's dream of breaking "the big case" has faded through the years. His assignment to escort from Las Vegas "a nothing witness for nothing trial" seems like just another meaningless exercise. Until the fireworks start. Clint Eastwood runs "The Gauntlet" into an explosive...  More

The Outsiders
(1983) [PG]

Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The Outsiders was the film that launched a new generation of actors. Together they would become know as the 'brat pack', and dominate the box office over the next decade. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, it was made back-to-back with Rumblefish,...  More

While The City Sleeps
(1956) [PG]

The playboy son of a television and newspaper tycoon who inherits all on his father's death, decides to appoint his father's successor. The person who discovers the identity of the Lipstick Killer, who is terrorising the streets of New York will run the news empire.  More

Rumble Fish
(1983) [M]

Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother - The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang...  More

Lift To The Scaffold (L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud)
(1957) [PG]

Whether the face of Jeanne Moreau, or the mournful trumpet of Miles Davis, this film is forever etched into the memory of all who have watched it. Narrative centres around a bungled crime of passion, but the lingering memories of the film stem from the black & white photography, the creeping...  More

Seance On A Wet Afternoon
(1964) [M]

Richard Attenborough and Kim Stanley give outstanding performances in Bryan Forbes' tense, supernaturally tinged thriller Seance On A Wet Afternoon. Myra Savage (Stanley) is an aspiring psychic who persuades her husband to abduct a child. Their plan is to stage a seance to "entrance" the victim...  More

The Asphalt Jungle
(1950) [PG]

You have a lot of time to think when you're locked away seven years. So criminal mastermind Doc conceives what he believes is the perfect heist. As in The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, director John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in...  More

Taxi Driver
(1976) [R]

New York City cab driver Travis Bickle constantly, almost obsessively, reflects on the ugly corruption of life around him, and becomes increasingly disturbed over his own loneliness and alienation. In nearly every phase of his life, Bickle remains a complete outsider, failing to make emotional...  More