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JCVD
(2008) [M]
Washed-up, fighting bankruptcy and caught in the midst of a desperate struggle to win his daughter back, Van Damme unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dangerous bank robbery led by a gang of armed and violent criminals.
Trapped inside, Van Damme is framed for the robbery and the murder... More
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State of Play (2009)
(2009) [M]
Set amidst the highest echelons of power, Cal McCaffrey is a street-wise reporter whose friendship with a powerful politician is tested when the politician’s young advisor is killed by falling in front of a train. When McCaffrey discovers that the two were involved in an adulterous affair and... More
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
(2008) [MA]
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book.
From the producer of Downfall comes an explosive film about one of the... More
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Duplicity
(2009) [M]
CIA officer Claire Stenwick and MI6 agent Ray Koval have left the world of government intelligence to cash in on the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? Secure the formula for a product that will bring a fortune to the company that... More
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Changeling
(2008) [MA]
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son; but he isn't her boy. Driven by one woman's relentless quest for the truth, the case exposes a world of corruption, captivates... More
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Gran Torino
(2008) [M]
Korean War vet and retired autoworker Walt Kowalski doesn't much like how his life or his neighbourhood has turned out. He especially doesn't like the people next door, Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia. But events force Walt to defend those neighbours against a local gang that feeds on... More
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Slumdog Millionaire (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [MA]
Slumdog millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who wants to be... More
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Eastern Promises (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [R]
The new thriller from director David Cronenberg reteams him with his "A History of Violence" leading man Viggo Mortensen.
The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Mr. Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families.
His... More
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Michael Clayton (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [MA]
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly... More
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The Brave One (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [MA]
How Many Wrongs To Make It Right?
New York radio host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) has a life that she loves and a fiancé she adores. All of it is taken from her when a brutal attack leaves Erica badly wounded and her fiancé dead. Unable to move past the tragedy, Erica begins prowling the city... More
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The Bank Job (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [MA]
Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, The Bank Job is a highly-charged heist thriller that tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England.
A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry... More
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RocknRolla
(2008) [MA]
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player -- a drugged out... More
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Man on Wire
(2008) [PG]
An amusing and engaging look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974. This documentary plays like a heist film, with as much anxiety and daring going into planning as the feat... More
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Slumdog Millionaire
(2008) [MA]
Slumdog millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who wants to be... More
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Black Widow
(1954) [M]
A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has... More
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Stavisky
(1974) [PG]
Stavisky was a man haunted by his father's desire to be accepted by French society. Stavisky pushed his Russian Jewish father's dream to its extreme. A charmer, a gambler and a crook, he became the darling of French High Society. But when his father found out that his son was wanted by the police... More
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Farewell Friend (Adieu l'ami)
(1968) [M]
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited by a coincidence. The doctor has made a promise to a friend which involves his breaking into a safe to return some improperly removed bearer bonds.... More
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The Third Generation (Fassbinder on Terror)
(1979) [MA]
Made during the 2nd Generation of the violent left-wing West German group, Red Army Faction, the film speculates on what lay behind increased security and domestic terrorism in Germany. The first third of the movie plays as a comedy of the inside shenanigans of how such a group would behave. The... More
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L: Change the World
(2008) [MA]
A God of Death dropped a notebook which had the power to kill any person. light Yagami (Tatsuya Gujwara) found the notebook and tried to become Kira, God of a new crime-free world, by executing criminals with the notebook. L (Kenichi Matsuyama) confronted Kira and a battle for the fate of... More
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Burn After Reading
(2008) [MA]
An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilde Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness!
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in... More
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Standard Operating Procedure
(2008) [MA]
Witness one of the worst debacles in American military history. Enter Abu Ghraib. You've seen the photographs on the nightly news: the naked prisoners, the pyramid of degraded captives and the infamous thumbs-up grin of the young female corporal standing guard over them all. Now, come inside and... More
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In Bruges
(2008) [MA]
Bruges (pronounced "broozh"), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hitmen Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the... More
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Two Way Stretch
(1960) [G]
Peter Sellers has planned the perfect robbery while in prison. He intends to break out of prison, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back into prison before anyone notices. With only a few days sentence left, and the perfect alibi - what could possibly go wrong? More
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Black Angel
(1946) [PG]
In Los Angeles, when singer Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling) is found dead in her apartment, Kirk Bennett (John Phillips) is accused of the murder, since he had been blackmailed by the victim. Kirk's wife Catherine Bennett (June Vincent) believes her husband is innocent and teams with Martin... More
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Criss Cross
(1949) [PG]
Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous... More
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Phantom Lady
(1944) [PG]
Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly no one seems to remember seeing the... More
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The Bank Job
(2008) [MA]
Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, The Bank Job is a highly-charged heist thriller that tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England.
A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry... More
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The American Soldier (RW Fassbinder: The Gangster Films)
(1970) [R]
Three of RW Fassbinder's early works united together in a single release. Each reworking the gangster noir genre, a la the French New Wave, these three Fassbinder films are some of the most interesting and intriguing of the New German Cinema movement. The loose trilogy of Love is Colder Than... More
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Gods Of the Plague (RW Fassbinder: The Gangster Films)
(1970) [R]
Three of RW Fassbinder's early works united together in a single release. Each reworking the gangster noir genre, a la the French New Wave, these three Fassbinder films are some of the most interesting and intriguing of the New German Cinema movement. The loose trilogy of Love is Colder Than... More
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