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A Pure Formality
(1994) [M]
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through... More
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Suite 16
(1996) [R]
When Chris, a thief, meets the wealthy and paraplegic Glover, he soon realizes that Glover gets off on observing sexual encounters -- and will pay well for the thrill. A video camera is set up in a bedroom of Glover's lavish apartment, and a television in the adjoining room. At first, Chris... More
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Die Hard 2 : Die Harder
(1990) [M]
Directed by Renny Harlin, Die Hard 2 is a blockbuster sequel and a powerful action film in its own right. A band of commandos led by a murderous officer seize an international airport. Their aim is to rescue a drug baron (Franco Nero) from justice. Detective McClane (Bruce Willis) finds himself... More
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Die Hard
(1988) [M]
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists have seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. But one man has managed to escape detection... an off-duty cop. He's alone, tired and the only chance anyone has. Bruce Willis stars in Die Hard as New York City detective John McClane,... More
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The Lodger
(1927) [PG]
The Lodger is recognized as being the first authentic Hitchcock film. During his sojourn in Germany, Hitchcock was given the opportunity to see films by such masters as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. The influence of the UFA Studios in the stylized settings, the lush atmosphere, the mastery of light... More
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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
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The Jigsaw Man
(1983) [M]
In return for betraying his country a man is given a new face and identity. Now he can come back from the dead to claim the 'insurance' he needs to survive. More
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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
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Naked Killer
(1992) [R]
Stylish, ultraviolent and totally over the edge, director Clarence Ford creates a freefall vision of delirious sad-eroticism in this ground-breaking category 3 thriller. A supercharged erotic action adventure movie combining elements of Nikita and Basic Instinct, Naked Killer unfolds the twilight... More
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Double Indemnity (2 disc set)
(1944) [PG]
Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. They cook up a scheme to murder Mr. Dietrichson for life insurance money with a double... More
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The Conversation
(1974) [M]
A paranoid and secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Christine
(1983) [M]
She was born in Detroit on an assembly line...but she is no ordinary automobile. She is Christine - a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose standard equipment includes an evil, indestructible presence that will destroy anyone in her way. More
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Death And The Maiden
(1994) [R]
Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed third World country. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime... More
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The Professional (Leon)
(1994) [R]
From acclaimed director Luc Besson comes the hard-hitting, action-packed thriller, Leon. Gary Oldman plays a corrupt government official whose maniacal greed leads to murder on the streets of New York. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues when he crosses paths with a lone hitman named Leon.... More
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Shallow Grave
(1994) [MA]
Three friends push the boundaries of trust in this hermetically sealed shocker from the creators of Trainspotting. Starring Kerry Fox (The Hanging Garden, Intimacy), Christopher Eccleston (Elizabeth) and Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace), Shallow Grave is a masterpiece... More
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Night Train To Venice
(1994) [M]
Martin is delivering to his publisher his latest novel which reveals a threat from a Fascist sect whose leader has influence over a bunch of skinheads who board the train on which Martin is travelling... More
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Star Trek Generations
(1994) [PG]
In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk as guests. But the maiden voyage turns to disaster as the unprepared ship is forced to rescue... More
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Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
(1976) [R]
From widely acclaimed director John Carpenter comes the classic Assault On Precinct 13; a taut, well-made, excellently acted, police suspense thriller. Isolated, cut off. Inside a virtually abandoned Police Station, a handful of cops and a mob of cutthroat convicts on their way to Death Row find... More
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Midnight Lace
(1960) [PG]
Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London fog by a voice behind a statue. Next the telephone calls start. Then there... More
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Speed
(1994) [M]
Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrillers, breath-taking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. KEANU REEVES stars as Jack Traven, a L.A.P.D. Swat team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (DENNIS HOPPER) has... More
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Die Hard With A Vengeance
(1995) [M]
Superstar Bruce Willis is back on duty as Detective John McClane - about to face his worst day yet in the action packed blockbuster Die Hard With A Vengeance. In New York City, McClane's newest foe (Jeremy Irons) wreaks havoc in downtown Manhattan - and then reveals that more destruction... More
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Heavenly Creatures
(1994) [M]
Based on the true story that shocked a nation, HEAVENLY CREATURES paints a vivid and disturbing portrait of two teenage schoolgirls whose obsessive friendship leads to an unspeakable crime. This critically acclaimed, hypnotic thriller chronicles the story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker from... More
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In The Mouth Of Madness
(1995) [M]
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and... More
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Plan 9 From Outer Space
(1959) [PG]
"Can your heart stand the shocking facts about Grave-robbers from Outer Space?" That's the question on the lips of the narrator of this tale about flying saucers, zombies and cardboard tombstones. A pair of aliens, angered by the "stupid minds" of planet Earth, set up shop in a California... More
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Plein Soleil (Purple Noon / Full Sun)
(1960) [PG]
This is such an obscenely pleasurable movie it's almost ridiculous. You can take the story however you want -- as a cool look at high society's greediness and chic sensibilities, a homoerotic peek under-the-surface of gay culture at the time, or the empty, whorish rot of a story about money, sex,... More
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Backroads
(1977) [M]
From the director of Australian Classics Dead-Calm and Rabbit-Proof Fence and Hollywood blockbusters The Bone Collector and Patriot Games, comes the searing thriller that started it all. Phillip Noyce's debut feature film, Backroads, takes us on a vivid journey into the remote corners of white... More
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The Paradine Case
(1947) [G]
Highly successful London barrister Anthony Keane takes on the case of Italian Maddalena Paradine who is accused of poisoning her blind military hero husband. Keane comes increasingly under her spell, threatening both his marriage and his career.*MR More
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(1994) [M]
Passion, obsession and horror combine to recreate the most terrifying and shattering story of all time - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It is the late 18th Century. After the death of his beloved mother, young Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) leaves his father and Elizabeth, the adopted sister... More
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Prime Suspect 3
(1993) [MA]
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered in the apartment of Vera Reynolds, a female impersonator. Soon Jane is... More
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Haunted Palace
(1963) [M]
Charles Dexter Ward travels with his wife to Arkham to inspect a large house he has inherited. It was once owned by his great grandfather Joseph Curwen, a disciple of the devil, who cursed the local villagers as they burned him at the stake. Everyone is hostile to Ward, blaming the curse for the... More
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