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Thriller
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Odd Man Out
(1946) [PG]
James Mason plays a hit man in this tense, atmospheric thriller from Carol Reed, the director of The Third Man. Johnny (Mason) is the idealistic leader of an illegal organisation who is on the run after escaping from prison. An attempt to hold up a linen mill goes wrong and Johnny is badly... More
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The Eye 2
(2004) [MA]
In this follow up to the Pang Brothers' The Eye a failed suicide victim, Joey, recovers slowly in hospital. Occasionally she wakes from her recovery to see malevolent strangers watching over her. Upon her recovery she discovers that she is pregnant to her disinterested boyfriend and she realises... More
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Walk on Water
(2004) [M]
Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi) is a hitman who is on a mission to track down the very old Alfred Himmelman - an ex-Nazi officer who might be still alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, Eyal befriends Himmelman's grandson Axel (Knut Berger), who is in Israel to visit his sister. Axel wants to convince... More
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Red Lights (Feux Rouges)
(2004) [M]
Heading for the south of France, the heavy traffic and sweltering heat overtakes Antoine & Helene and they start to bicker. But when Helene goes missing, Antoine starts a desperate search where events spiral beyond his control with horrifying consequences. More
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House of Wax
(2005) [MA]
A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), Paige (Paris Hilton) and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site... More
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Layer Cake
(2004) [MA]
Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel, 'Layer Cake' is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) hands down a tough... More
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Dear Murderer
(1947) [PG]
Hailed on its release as the first Gainsborough production by Betty Box, Britain’s leading female producer at the time, this is a chilling tale of premeditated murder and revenge. Lee Warren, a business man, returns to London after a trip abroad with a suspicion that his wife is being... More
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A Place of One's Own
(1945) [PG]
Mr and Mrs Smedhurst are a middle-aged business couple who buy an old cheap house for their retirement. After they move in they are told the house is supposedly haunted but are sceptical of the rumour. They invite a young companion, Annette, to stay, and gradually she begins to hear strange... More
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The Hills Have Eyes (2 disc set)
(1977) [R]
The Carters are an all-American family on their way to California when their car breaks down far from civilization in the remote southwestern desert. But they are not alone: Watching from the hills is a very different kind of clan, a family of marauding inbred cannibals with an unspeakable taste... More
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : Dream Warriors
(1987) [MA]
The third story of the continuing misadventures of the fiendish Freddy Krueger. This time he is out to terrorise a group of Elm Street kids who are confined to a mental hospital for sleep disorders and suicide attempts. His presence is not quite what the doctor ordered. More
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 : Freddy's Revenge
(1985) [MA]
The Grady family, including their teenage son Jesse, moves into a house on Elm Street which has been vacant for some time. Hardly surprising, since it was the same house in which the first Nightmare on Elm Street took place. Ron starts having strange nightmares and finds that Freddy Kruger is... More
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
(1984) [MA]
Nancy is having nightmares about a frightening, badly-scarred figure who wears a glove with razor-sharp "finger knives". She soon discovers that her friends are having similar dreams. When the kids begin to die, Nancy realizes that she must stay awake to survive. Uncovering the secret identity of... More
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Skeleton Key
(2005) [M]
From the writer of The Ring (Ehren Kruger), comes this tense supernatural thriller with a chilling twist. Caroline (Kate Hudson), a young hospice nurse is hired to care for the ailing husband of an elderly woman in the couple's home, a foreboding and decrepit plantation mansion just outside of... More
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Red Eye
(2005) [M]
A luxury hotel senior employee is held hostage aboard a red-eye flight by a hired killer and forced to help him assassinate a politician -- if she doesn't, his associates will kill her father. More
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith
(2005) [M]
A married couple (Pitt and Jolie) are getting bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they're both assassins, secretly hopping the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when each finds out their next target is their own spouse. More
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War of the Worlds (2005 2 disc set)
(2005) [M]
An earth-shattering adventure that both "rivets and amazes" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune), War of the Worlds reunites superstar Tom Cruise and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg for one of the most awe-inspiring cinematic experiences of all time! A contemporary retelling of... More
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The Island
(2005) [M]
Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson) are among the hundreds of residents of a contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, everything about their day-to-day lives is monitored, seemingly for... More
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Hostage
(2005) [MA]
Jeff Talley (Willis) is an LAPD hostage negotiator who is shattered when a situation he is trying to deal with goes tragically wrong. Talley resigns from his job and moves away from LA and his wife and daughter, taking a low-profile job as chief of police in a small town. After following a family... More
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Stray Dog
(1949) [M]
Rookie detective Murakumi (Toshiro Mifune) is pick-pocketed on a bus and his police pistol is stolen. A frantic search for the gun leads him to the Tokyo underworld. The gun has been passed to a gangster who uses it in the murder of a woman. Deseperate to solve the crime, Murakumi turns to senior... More
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Score
(1995) [MA]
A small time Yakuza thug is thrown into a bloody battle after a bank robbery he was forced into goes wrong when all the men begin to turn on each other, a hitch-hiking serial killing couple decide to steal their loot. More
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Young Adam
(2003) [MA]
nton, Peter Mullan and Emily Mortimer, Young Adam is a moody, sensual thriller that takes place on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh during the 1950s. Evocative of the ambience of the Hollywood film noirs of the 1940s and ‘50s, the movie is one of the most original British works of... More
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The Bulldog Breed
(1960)
Butcher's assistant Norman is banned from entering a hospital to visit little orphaned Lindy. But he must get in somehow... More
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The Interpreter
(2005) [M]
New York’s United Nations building has been featured prominently in many movies - most notably, perhaps, in Hitchcock’s classic North By Northwest - but The Interpreter is the first film to be allowed to actually shoot inside the building - the ideal setting for a political suspense thriller.... More
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Shock
(1977) [MA]
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son. Mario Bava's final film. More
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Hatchet For The Honeymoon
(1970) [MA]
Every time John Harrington hacks up a bride on her wedding night with a meat cleaver, the face of his mother's killer (who died similarly) becomes a bit more clear. Compelled to discover the killer's identity, he kills again and again, even killing his own unloveable wife, who returns to haunt... More
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Black Sabbath
(1963) [M]
A trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800s who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who... More
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Black Sunday
(1960) [MA]
In Bava's most famous film the undead demons of hell terrorize the world in an orgy of stark horror! Atmospheric and stylish, this terrifying tale established Bava as the undisputed master of the gothic chiller and launched the career of the ultimate scream queen Barbara Steele. More
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The Cat and the Canary (1979)
(1979) [M]
At the request of the long-deceased Cyrus West (Wilfrid Hyde-White), his surviving relatives are gathered together on a suitably stormy night for the "reading" of his will, exactly 20 years to the day of his death. The name of the sole heir to the fortune is announced by Cyrus himself, by way of... More
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Assault on Precinct 13
(2005) [MA]
Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne lead an explosive, all-star cast, including John Leguizamo, Ja Rule and Drea de Matteo, in the gripping, action-packed thriller, Assault on Precinct 13. Run-down Precinct 13 is closing its doors forever. But everything changes when a high-security prison... More
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Constantine (2 disc set)
(2005) [M]
Based on the DC/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer, Constantine tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine who has literally been to hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin... More
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