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Straw Dogs
(1971) [R]
Quiet American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his British-born wife Amy (Susan George) relocate to Amy's rural English hometown in an attempt to flee the violent social unrest brewing in the US. When David hires some locals, including a former boyfriend of Amy's, to repair his... More
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The Tamarind Seed
(1974) [M]
Judith (Julie Andrews), an attractive widow, is holidaying in Barbados where she meets the charming and handsome Feodor (Omar Sharif) the russian military attache to Paris. A friendship develops but unbeknown to Judith, Feodor uses his position to conceal his position as Second-in-Command of the... More
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Blind Terror (See No Evil)
(1971) [M]
After being blinded, Sarah (Mia Farrow) goes to live in the English countryside with relatives. Out on a date with a boyfriend, she escapes the fate of her relatives who are murdered by a crazed killer. She finally makes the gruesome discovery of their bodies and has to flee on horseback. See No... More
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The Beguiled
(1971) [M]
Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page star in this tense psychological drama of love and betrayal. During the Civil War a wounded Union soldier is sheltered by the headmistress and students of a girls' academy in the South. As his health returns his desire increases, but can he trust these enemy... More
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Firefox
(1982) [PG]
The Russians have developed the ultimate sophisticated warplane. Called the MIG-31, it can fly at six times the speed of sound, cannot be detected by radar and has a weapon system operated by the pilot's thought-waves. It is an unprecedented achievement and American intelligence would like to lay... More
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Tightrope
(1984) [M]
Clint Eastwood plays a New Orleans detective determined to track down a serial killer of prostitutes. Complicating matters is the fact that the unknown culprit is very likely an S&M fetishist....and so is Eastwood. The detective is profoundly disturbed at the likelihood that he and the killer... More
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The Boston Strangler
(1968) [M]
Why did 13 woman willingly open their doors to the Boston Strangler? Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen... More
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Ice Station Zebra
(1968) [G]
A nifty cold-war thriller of spies, submarines and saboteurs captivated no less a personage than Howard Hughes, who reportedly watched it hundreds of times. Director John Carpenter also picked it as one of his favourites, stating "Why do I love this movie so much?" The film is based on Alistair... More
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Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (2 Disc Set)
(1962) [M]
Director Robert Aldrich's story: a thriller about ageing vaudeville child star who initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled '30's movie queen sister. His stars: Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. All he needed was the money. But when Aldrich scoured Hollywood for backing, He kept... More
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Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
(1964) [M]
Bette Davis delivers a powerhouse performance as Charlotte Hollis, a reclusive spinster still mourning the savage murder of the man she loved some 37 years ago. When the state wants her property in order to construct a new highway, to help her resist Charlotte turns to her worldly cousin, Miriam... More
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Blood On The Sun
(1945) [PG]
A newspaper editor in the 1920s works for the American owned Tokyo Chronicle. He reports on a controversial story and is asked by the Japanese authorities to retract it. When this is refused he is implicated in a murder... More
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
(1957) [G]
One of the best science-fiction films of the 50’s, Jack Arnold's The Incredible Shrinking Man is a gripping and thought-provoking classic. Scott Carey (Grant Williams) encounters a mysterious radioactive mist on a boating trip and soon finds his life taking a bizarre and frightening twist. His... More
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Capricorn One
(1978) [PG]
The world watches as the first manned space flight to Mars blasts off with a crew destined to walk on the surface of the red planet, but the crew is not on board.They have been secretly and forcible escorted to a desert hangar to act out the mission as though they were on the shuttle. The reason... More
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The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
(1953) [PG]
An atomic bomb tested in the Arctic frees a gigantic dinosaur from the icy tomb that has encased it for 100 million years. An ice fall kills all witnesses except one, Professor Tom Nesbitt (Paul Hubschmid) who returns to New York with the fantastic story. No one will believe his tale, but the... More
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Re-Animator
(2007) [MA]
Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the dead back to life. Experimenting with a glowing green liquid (Re-Agent), he successfully reanimates dead tissue. Unfortunately, the dead are uncontrollable and difficult to subdue. Dr. Carl Hill, West's instructor, is determined to steal his... More
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The Pelican Brief
(1993) [M]
Two supreme court judges have been murdered and a lone law student (Julia Roberts) turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shockwaves into the highest levels of government. She and a determined investigative reporter (Denzel Washington) want to tell the world... More
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39 Steps, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]
Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) meets up with a young nanny (Faith Brook) he'd come across earlier during the day. At the theatre that evening they attend a vaudeville performance by Mr. Memory (James Hayter), and afterwards Hannay takes her back to his London flat. There he discovers that she is... More
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True Romance
(1993) [R]
Clarence Worley (Slater) is a loner who has little experience in the ways of love until he meets Alabama Whitman (Arquette), a sex kitten with an irresistible innocence. The day she enters his life his world changes for the better - and the worst. After a whirlwind courtship Clarence commits a... More
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
(1992) [R]
Twin Peaks, a beautiful town filled with beautiful people, or is it... nothing is as it seems. The last seven days of Laura Palmer. David Lynch invites you to return to The Red Room... Cinema's supreme stylist draws us back into the uniquely haunting world of Laura Palmer in this prequel to the... More
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Strangers On A Train
(1951) [M]
Two strangers, making idle chitchat on a train, agree that “some people are better off dead”, and hypothetically speculate that if they swapped murders, they could commit the perfect, motiveless crime. Only later does one of the men realise that the other was serious about his murderous... More
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Dressed To Kill
(1980) [R]
In this film that combines Hitchcock's slick premises with modern-day gore, a lonely wife follows her shrink's advice and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The prostitute who discovers the body and the victim's son must track... More
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Obsession
(1976) [M]
This intriguing mystery/thriller by Brian DePalma (Mission: Impossible, Carrie) will leave you breathless. A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) discovers that his wife (Genevieve Bujold) and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. When... More
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Angel
(1982) [R]
Angel was the debut of writer/director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins) and it stars Stephen Rea as Danny, a young and talented saxaphone player. Danny witnesses the killing of his band manager when three masked terrorists bomb a dance-hall where his band had been playing. A young... More
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The Firm
(1993) [M]
"A real thriller! Great cast, great story, great suspense!" -Joel Siegel, Good Morning America Three-time Oscar nominee Tom Cruise delivers the most electrifying performance of his career in this riveting film based on the international best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, a brilliant and... More
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
(1978) [M]
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Fransisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later... More
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Cliffhanger
(1993) [M]
Sylvester Stallone takes you to the edge and over it in this mountain of an action movie that scaled box office heights around the world to become a smash hit. John Lithgow (in a brilliant turn as ice-cold villain Eric Qualen), Michael Rooker (Days of Thunder) co-star in the high-altitude story... More
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Reservoir Dogs (2 Disc Set)
(1992) [R]
Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless... More
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One False Move
(1992) [R]
With the assistance of two Los Angeles Police Department detectives, Star City, Arkansas Police Chief Dale "Hurricane" Dixon prepares to take on several criminals heading to his small town after a crime-filled road trip from California. More
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
(1992) [M]
Director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London... More
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Once Upon A Time In America (2 Disc Set)
(1984) [R]
Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends... More
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