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Ernest Hemingway's The Killers
(1964) [M]

The Killers, sometimes marketed as Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, is a 1964 crime film released by Universal Studios. It is the second Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story of the same name, following a version made in 1946. It was directed by Don Siegel and stars Lee Marvin. It...  More

Empire Of The Passions (Ai no borei)
(1978) [R]

Based on the true story of a nineteenth century housewife. Seki and Toyoji are embarking on an illicit love affair, and decide that Seki's husband must die, rather than discover their sordid secret...  More

Butterfly Kiss
(1995) [MA]

From director Michael Winterbottom (9 Songs, 24Hr Party People) comes a film full of macabre humour, centered around two extraordinary women, Eunice, unpredictable and highly dangerous, paces the highways of the North of England in search of Judith, the only person who has ever loved her. She...  More

The Basketball Diaries
(1995) [R]

Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in...  More

Bonnie And Clyde
(1967) [M]

Adrift in the depression-era Southwest, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure - and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns...  More

The Maltese Falcon
(1941) [PG]

A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's...  More

Scarface
(1932) [M]

Big Louis Costillo, last of the old-style gang leaders is slain, and his former bodyguard Tony Camonte is taken into custody. Since Costillo's body has never been found, the police have to release him, though they strongly suspect Johnny Loro paid Tony to remove Big Louis. Tony begins taking over...  More

Force of Evil
(1948) [PG]

John Garfield has never had it so good. The smart young Wall Street lawyer joins a get-rich-quick scheme of a mob boss who plans on bankrupting the city's small-time numbers racketeers and consolidating their businesses. However, when Garfield discovers he must choose between his loyalty to the...  More

Sapphire
(1959) [PG]

On a bleak winter's day the body of a beautiful young girl is found on waste land. She has been stabbed violently through the heart. All her clothes indicate that she was a student, apart from a flame-red petticoat. As the police eventually trace her identity, her brother identifies her as music...  More

Get Shorty (2 Disc Set)
(1995) [MA]

Drug Smuggling. Racketeering. Loan Sharking. Welcome to Hollywood! An hysterical comedy that insists it doesn't take much to make it in the movies...just a background with the mob. Loan Shark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster. So when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a...  More