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When a Stranger Calls
(2006) [M]
Whatever You Do, Don't Answer The Phone To Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle), it was the perfect babysitting job. The parents were away. The fridge was stocked. The children were tucked into bed. But then the phone rings and an ominous voice asks, "Have you checked the children?" Locked in with the... More
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Match Point
(2005) [M]
Passion. Temptation. Obsession. Woody Allen's Match Point is a drama about a young man's rise in society and the terrible consequences of his ambition. The protagonist is torn between two women, and finding no way out, resorts to extreme action. The actors are all English and it is set amongst... More
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A History of Violence
(2005) [MA]
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes... More
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The Killing of Angel Street
(1981) [MA]
Inspired by the controversial events surrounding the death of Greens activist Juanita Neilsen and her fight to save homes from destruction by property developers in Sydney’s Kings Cross in the early 1970s.Jessica Simmonds (Liz Alexander) returns home from London and is shocked to find the... More
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Flightplan
(2005) [M]
In Flightplan, Jodie Foster plays Kyle Pratt, a recently widowed aircraft designer who must fly her and her daughter back from Berlin to America in order to bury her late husband. When she awakes from a much-needed nap, she realises to her horror that her six-year-old daughter Julia is missing.... More
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The Constant Gardener
(2005) [M]
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's travelling companion, an African doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that... 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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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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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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Old Boy
(2003) [R]
A man is inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years and his wife is brutally murdered. On his release, he is given a wallet full of money and a mobile phone. A stranger calls and asks him to try and figure out why he was imprisoned. A girl appears and promises to help him solve the enigma... 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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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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Hide and Seek
(2005) [M]
"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" That command is familiar to everyone who has played the children's game, Hide and Seek. The words and game take us back to an innocent, carefree time in our lives, where the simple goal was to find hiding playmates. Many children could even enjoy a spirited... More
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Panic in the Streets
(1950) [PG]
Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s, is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femme fatales and moral conflict. In this suspenseful melodrama,... More
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The Innocents
(1961) [PG]
Adapted from the Henry James novel 'Turn of the Screw'. Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), a repressed spinster-governess, looks after two small children in a lonely mansion haunted by tragedy in this ground breaking horror classic. Widely considered to be the finest ghost story ever filmed, The... More
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Wicker Park
(2004) [M]
In remaking the 1996 French thriller L'appartement, director Paul McGuigan transplants the story to the snow-covered Windy City, Chicago. Josh Hartnett is Matthew, a good-looking young man who has a great job and an even greater girlfriend. But just before he's about to get on a plane to China... More
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The Bride Wore Black
(1968) [M]
Francois Truffaut's 1968 thriller was an attempt to reconcile the exclusive experience of the Hitchcockian hero with the expansiveness of Jean Renoir's view of flawed humanity. Jeanne Moreau stars as a newlywed whose husband is shot dead on the church steps following their wedding. The story then... More
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The Grudge
(2004) [M]
A remake of the Japanese horror hit JU-ON, THE GRUDGE is helmed by its original director Takeshi Shimizu. Like its predecessor, this Hollywood version of the film takes place in Tokyo, but most of the main characters are American, including Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a young social worker,... More
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Crimson Rivers : Angels of the Apocalypse
(2004) [MA]
Commissioner Neimans' day is going from bad to worse. The body he found in a monastery seems to point to a ritualistic sacrifice and a portent of something strange coming. At the same time, young police captain Reda finds a man in agony who's an exact DNA match for Christ. Reda quickly finds out... More
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
(2004) [M]
Milla Jovovich returns to the role of ass-kicking heroine Alice – who’s thrust back into the war against the bloodthirsty undead, the fight against the powerful Umbrella Corporation…and pitted against a super-human super-weapon, who has been unleashed to destroy her. Also starring Sienna... More
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Dragonwyck
(1946) [PG]
This classic gothic thriller from Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) is set in 1940s New York State and sees an innocent young woman (Gene Tierney) leave her rural home to stay with her wealthy and sophisticated cousin, Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price). Occupying Dragonwyck, a dark... More
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The Manchurian Candidate
(2004) [MA]
Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, along with Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Liev Schreiber, mesmerise a whole new generation of audiences in Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme’s "The Manchurian Candidate". As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle... More
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Collateral (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [MA]
Collateral is another superb L.A. noir from director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) has lived the mundane life of a cab driver for 12 years. The faces have come and gone from his rearview mirror, people and places he's long since forgotten. Until tonight. Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a contract... More
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Billion Dollar Brain
(1967) [PG]
Ken Russell directs this third outing for Len Deighton's spy Harry Palmer. Some time has passed since Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) was in the employment of the British Government and he refuses to go back despite a "friendly" offer from his old boss Colonel Ross (Guy Doleman). However when Harry... More
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A Perfect Murder
(1998) [M]
Wall Street titan Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like A Perfect Murder. It isn't. In fact, little is what it seems in this sleek thriller.... More
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Angel Heart
(1987) [R]
A journey of violence and murder that canvasses the desperate streets of Harlem, smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and ultimately to voodoo rituals in the sweltering swamps of Louisiana. More
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A Kiss Before Dying
(1956) [M]
Bud Corliss, a darkly handsome college boy is so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend Dorothy gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime... More
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Phenomena
(1985) [R]
Jennifer Connelly stars in horror stylist Dario Argento’s spine tingling tale of a young girl who arrives at an eerie Swiss boarding school where the students are being butchered by a vicious serial killer. With the help of wheelchair bound bug-specialist, Dr McGregor (Donald Pleasance), she... More
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