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Natural Born Killers
(1994) [R]
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis star in director Oliver Stone's bold film that takes a look at a country seduced by fame, obsessed by crime and consumed by the media. Lovers Mickey and Mallory are also psychopaths and serial killers, driving across the country only in search of the pleasure... More
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Prime Suspect 2
(1992) [M]
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison now deals with a racially charged murder. The long-dead body of a young black woman is discovered in a district recently convulsed by police brutality and which now is in the midst of a highly-charged political campaign. Her investigation is hampered by the... More
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Call Northside 777
(1948) [M]
Henry Hathaway directs this perfect film noir with Stewart in a great role as a reporter on the search for truth and finds himself right in the middle of the re-opening of a ten year old murder case. Lee J. Cobb and Richard Conte also star. More
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Romeo Is Bleeding
(1993) [MA]
Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) leads more than a double life: He's a veteran cop, a two-timing husband and a corrupt mob informant. But when the Feds enlist him to protect Russian gangster Mona Demarkov (Lena Olin) at the same time that the Mafia orders him to kill her, Jack's world of greed and... More
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The Big Sleep
(1946) [M]
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. But Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style - and style is what The Big Sleep is all... More
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True Lies
(1994) [M]
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is special agent Harry Tasker - although to his wife Helen (JAMIE LEE CURTIS), he's just a boring computer salesman. When Harry's two lives unexpectedly collide, both he and Helen find themselves in the clutches of international terrorists, fighting to save not only their... More
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Billy Connolly: World Tour Of Scotland
(1994) [MA]
Billy's odyssey takes in Scotland in all its diversity: the urban hustle and bustle of major cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh, the windswept beaches of secluded islands, the tranquil charms of lowland villages, and the dramatic beauty of highlands. Join Billy as he travels the length and... More
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The Day Of The Jackal
(1973) [PG]
The Day of the Jackal is a taut and colourful suspense thriller about the attempt by the right-wing OAS to assassinate General De Gaulle. Edward Fox portrays the ruthless anonymous assassin hired by exiled OAS chief Colonel Rodin (Eric Porter) to carry out the execution. Working under the... More
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Le Samourai
(1967) [PG]
Alain Delon is the coolest killer to hit the screen, a film noir loner for the modern era, in Jean-Pierre Melville's austere 1967 French crime classic. Delon's impassive hit man, Jef Costello, is the ultimate professional in an alienated world of glass and metal.
In a career-defining... More
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Scarlet Street
(1945) [PG]
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his... More
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The Client
(1994) [M]
Academy Award® Winners Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones headline this whirlwind thriller. Brad Renfro plays 11-year-old Mark Sway, torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will kill Mark if the boy reveals what he knows about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor... More
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The Lady Vanishes
(1938) [G]
Intrigue and espionage - and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge, when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday, strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who, during the journey mysteriously... More
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La Femme Infidele
(1969) [M]
The first in Claude Chabrol's celebrated 'Helene' series of films in which Helene is played by his then spouse and frequent collaborator, Stephane Audran. Her character is provocative, often predatory and this leads to turmoil in her marriage, betrayal and even murder. La Femme Infidele is a... More
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The Spiral Staircase
(1945) [PG]
This superb Hitchcockian thriller shocked critics and audiences on its initial release. With a superb performance from the cast (Dorothy McGuire in particular), a wonderful eerie gothic mansion and a chilling atmosphere of fear and suspense, it is easy to see why the film stands out as one of the... More
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Young And Innocent
(1937) [G]
Hitchcock's favourite film from his 'British period' is a spine-chilling melodrama centring around the murder of a young actress, strangled with a raincoat belt - a clue which sets off a chain of life-threatening events. With its superb visual effects, black humour and suspense, this is truly... More
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Number Seventeen
(1932) [G]
A beautiful girl, member of a gang of thieves, falls in love with a detective who is on the track of her confederates. She saves him from death at the hands of the gang and thereafter the film traces their adventure in fleeing from the revenge of her former associates. The girl and the detective... More
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Blood From The Mummy's Tomb
(1971) [R]
The evil begins when professor Julian Fuchs (Andrew Keir) and his expedition team, discover in Egypt, after years of quest, the tomb of Queen Tera (Valerie Leon). The Queen is a beautiful creature, naked save for the tapestry of wonderful jewels that decorate her body. Legend suggests that Tera,... More
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The Professional Golgo 13
(1983) [R]
Indestructible to his enemies and irresistible to women, the professional assassin codenamed GOLGO 13 is shrouded in mystery and anonymity. If you're on his hit list you're already dead. Always hired on his reputation alone, GOLGO 13 never breaks a contract. But can he survive the combined forces... More
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Serpico
(1973) [MA]
Al Pacino's portrayal of Frank Serpico in this compelling Sidney Lumet movie established him as one of the cinema's most versatile actors. Serpico was based on the true story of a New York policeman who discovers that honesty is not expected to be part of his job. He endures scorn and... More
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Fail Safe
(1964) [PG]
A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. At this point the flight crew are trained to cease communications and prepare to... More
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The Bedford Incident
(1965) [G]
Academy Award® Winner SIDNEY POITIER headlines a first-rate cast - including RICHARD WIDMARK and MARTIN BALSAM - in this ‘grim, all to realistic cold war thriller’ that treads similar territory to THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and CRIMSON TIDE. A taut and engaging psychological thriller about an... More
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To Live And Die In L.A.
(1985) [R]
When a notorious, highly sophisticated counterfeiter murders his partner, Secret Service agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) launches a furious vendetta to capture the man responsible. But master counterfeiter Rick Masters (Willem Dafoe) is always just one step ahead of Chance in William... More
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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
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Running On Empty (1988)
(1988) [M]
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today,... More
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Jurassic Park
(1993) [PG]
On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to experience... More
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Violent Cop
(1989) [R]
Violent Cop is the explosive and critically acclaimed directorial debut from Japanese master film maker 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano. Kitano is Azuma- a vicious detective who deals out harsh justice with an iron fist- Dirty Harry style. Investigating a drug dealer's murder, Azuma and rookie detective... More
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One Deadly Summer (L'Ete Meurtrier)
(1983) [R]
Elle (Isabelle Adjani) is a beautiful, provocative and extremely feisty 19-year-old who returns to the Provencal village where she grew up to care for her crippled father and German mother. Her arrival stirs up the normally sleepy village, and the men folk are mesmerised by the new arrival who is... More
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Kwaidan
(1964) [PG]
Kwaidan is a quartet of compelling Japanese ghost stories based on the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, the 19th century English Orientalist who helped to publicise Janpanese art and culture in the 1890's and early 1900's. Masaki Kobayashi(Harikiri)- one of four outstanding and formative directors to... More
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Z
(1969) [M]
In an unidentified Mediterranean country under a totalitarian regime, support is growing for Z, the leader of the pacifist opposition party. Following a meeting, Z is knocked down by a van and dies after undergoing brain surgery. An investigating magistrate assigned to the case, treats the death... More
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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
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