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Seven Days In May
(1964) [G]
It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen in America. Or can it? At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and a President with a low public approval rating. At stake is the survival of the... More
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Blue Velvet
(1986) [R]
Possibly the most influential American film of the 1980's, David Lynch's bizarre erotic mystery spawned a whole raft of imitations with its portrayal of the dark underside of American small-town life. Critics and audiences responded to Lynch's original and startling images of sex and violence and... More
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Don't Look Now
(1973) [M]
Daphne Du Maurier's shattering psychic thriller has rightly taken its place as one the great British horror films. A truly original film, Don't Look Now is a superb psychological thriller, an eerie horror story, and much more. When a little girl is drowned, her parents (Donald Sutherland and... More
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Murder On The Orient Express
(1974) [PG]
This 1974 production of Agatha Christie's 1934 classic directed by Sidney Lumet is a judicious mixture of mystery, murder and nostalgia. Which member of the all-star cast, onboard the luxurious train, perforated the no-good American tycoon (Richard Widmark) with a dagger twelve times? Albert... More
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Death On The Nile
(1978) [M]
A murderer strikes on board the luxury Nile steamer 'Karnak' - and Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling case. Set against the sumptuous scenery of the Nile, the events of this murder mystery are played out by a gallery of memorable characters. More
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Endless Night
(1971) [M]
Gripping tale from the pen of Miss Agatha Christie, in which a young chauffeur, after marrying his beautiful and wealthy boss, thinks he has it made until he finds that their 'dream' house is more of a nightmare than a pleasure to live in. After taking up residence, their lives take a decided... More
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Prime Suspect 1
(1991) [M]
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison is in charge of the investigation to uncover a serial rapist/murderer. Even before Jane takes the case, there is a prime suspect. If he is guilty, can enough admissible evidence be gathered to convict him? If he is innocent, who is committing these crimes?... More
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The Million Dollar Hotel
(2000) [MA]
A gang of outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles flea-pit, known locally as "the Million Dollar Hotel". When one of the residents comes to a grisly end, the hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation led by FBI hardliner Detective Skinner (Mel Gibson). Every inhabitant of the... More
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Unbreakable (2 Disc Set)
(2000) [M]
Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson star in a mind-shattering, suspense-filled thriller that stays with you long after the end of this riveting supernatural film. After David Dunn (Willis) emerges from a horrific train crash as the sole survivor - and without a single scratch on him - he meets a... More
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The Insider
(1999) [M]
Russell Crowe and Al Pacino come together for 'The Insider' -a film nominated for six Academy Awards, including best Actor (Crowe) and Best Director (Mann). This suspense drama is based on the true story of Lowell Bergman's (Pacino) battle with CBS media executives to air an interview with... More
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Fantastic Voyage
(1966) [G]
This classic science-fiction inner space thriller directed by Richard Fleischer features a crew of medical scientists (Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmund O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield, Arthur Kennedy) on an incredible submarine journey through the human body and... More
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Family Plot
(1976)
Hitchcock's diabolically funny and exciting movie about a search for a missing heir, proved to be his final film. Starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, and Karen Black, Family Plot is the story of a cabbie and a psychic who team up to find a dead man who's not really dead, in... More
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A Pure Formality
(1994) [M]
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through... More
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The Lodger
(1927) [PG]
The Lodger is recognized as being the first authentic Hitchcock film. During his sojourn in Germany, Hitchcock was given the opportunity to see films by such masters as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. The influence of the UFA Studios in the stylized settings, the lush atmosphere, the mastery of light... More
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The Maltese Falcon
(1941) [PG]
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's... More
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Notorious
(1946) [PG]
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia... More
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The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
(1970) [PG]
When a beautiful woman claims that her dear husband has disappeared, the investigation takes Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) and Dr. Watson (Colin Blakely) to Scotland, where to their surprise they uncover a plot involving clandestine society. Her Majesty's Secret Service and the Loch Ness... More
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Double Indemnity (2 disc set)
(1944) [PG]
Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. They cook up a scheme to murder Mr. Dietrichson for life insurance money with a double... More
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The Conversation
(1974) [M]
A paranoid and secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Nocturne
(1946) [PG]
Nocturne opens with a tremendous night time aerial shot outside of a modern home hanging off some L.A. hill. The camera rolls slowly closer to the wall-sized window of the home where a man is playing piano. Without cutting, the camera moves through the living room without cutting and focuses on... More
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Six Degrees Of Separation
(1993) [M]
When a Manhattan art dealer couple open their doors to a young man who has been mugged, their world is changed forever. Claiming to be a friend of their children, the young man cons his hosts with tales of grandeur. A wickedly funny adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway play. More
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Death And The Maiden
(1994) [R]
Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed third World country. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime... More
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Midnight Lace
(1960) [PG]
Kit and Anthony Preston never had a real honeymoon and the midnight lace pajamas are for when they can finally get out of London. Anthony's business is very pressing these days. Then Kit is frightened one day in a London fog by a voice behind a statue. Next the telephone calls start. Then there... More
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Speed
(1994) [M]
Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrillers, breath-taking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. KEANU REEVES stars as Jack Traven, a L.A.P.D. Swat team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (DENNIS HOPPER) has... More
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Secret Agent
(1936) [G]
Alfred Hitchcock filmed Somerset Maugham’s WWI spy story 'Ashenden' with his typical mix of ironic humour and suspenseful set pieces. Novelist Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) has his death faked by British Intelligence. Giving him a new identity as Richard Ashenden, they persuade him to undertake... More
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The Letter
(1940) [PG]
Six years after exploding to stardom in Of Human Bondage, Bette Davis equalled that excitement with another W. Somerset Maugham role as an adulteress using her sexual wiles to escape a murder conviction in The Letter. The film throbs with sultry tension thanks to Davis, an impeccable supporting... More
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Three Colours Red
(1994) [M]
The third and final part of Kieslowski's outstanding trilogy has been acclaimed as his masterpiece. Immaculately played by an extraordinary cast, Red masterfully plays on Kieslowski's interpretation of brotherhood and destiny. Irene Jacob is stunning as a young model who meets a retired judge by... More
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In The Mouth Of Madness
(1995) [M]
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and... More
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The Woman Next Door
(1981) [M]
Following the success of The Last Metro, this was Francois Truffaut’s second film with Gerard Depardieu – and the first of two with future wife, Fanny Ardant - and stands as the director’s most startling and anguished portrait of destructive passion.
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Plein Soleil (Purple Noon / Full Sun)
(1960) [PG]
This is such an obscenely pleasurable movie it's almost ridiculous. You can take the story however you want -- as a cool look at high society's greediness and chic sensibilities, a homoerotic peek under-the-surface of gay culture at the time, or the empty, whorish rot of a story about money, sex,... More
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