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Stone (2 disc set)
(1974) [R]
An Australian Easy Rider, Stone is a wild combination of biker movie, gore flick, whodunit, action film and remains the best known Australian cult exploitation film of the 70s. Writer, producer and director Sandy Harbutt also stars, giving a ferocious performance as the Grave Diggers’ leader,... More
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Prime Suspect 3
(1993) [MA]
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison moves to a new district and is put in charge of a vice investigation instead of homicide. But soon a homicide case impinges on her new job when a very young male prostitute is murdered in the apartment of Vera Reynolds, a female impersonator. Soon Jane is... More
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Raising Arizona
(1987) [MA]
Ethan and Joel Coen’s acclaimed screwball love story filled with mad chases, unexpected plot twists and wild pyrotechnics. Vowing to go straight, a convenience store bandit (CAGE) proposes marriage to the police department’s photographer (HUNTER). All is wedded bliss until they discover... More
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Eraserhead
(1977) [M]
Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to be abandoned. The lights flicker... More
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Prime Suspect 2
(1992) [M]
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison now deals with a racially charged murder. The long-dead body of a young black woman is discovered in a district recently convulsed by police brutality and which now is in the midst of a highly-charged political campaign. Her investigation is hampered by the... More
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Dead Reckoning
(1947) [PG]
Humphrey Bogart is at his best as a hardboiled sleuth in this '40s film noir. In one of his most exciting roles, the inimitable Bogie plays Rip Murdock, an ex-G.I. trying to find out who framed his pal Johnny for murder - and then rubbed him out! Tracing his war buddy's shadowy past leads Rip to... More
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The Big Sleep
(1946) [M]
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case...and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. But Raymond Chandler's legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style - and style is what The Big Sleep is all... More
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
(1993) [PG]
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton join forces again in this charming riff on such murder mystery classics as Rear Window and Double Indemnity. Allen and Keaton play Larry and Carol Lipton, a New York couple re-evaluating their life together after their only son goes off to college. Carol thinks they... More
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Scarlet Street
(1945) [PG]
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his... More
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The Client
(1994) [M]
Academy Award® Winners Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones headline this whirlwind thriller. Brad Renfro plays 11-year-old Mark Sway, torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will kill Mark if the boy reveals what he knows about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor... More
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The Lady Vanishes
(1938) [G]
Intrigue and espionage - and the effects on the lives and futures of passengers aboard a Trans-Continental Express emerge, when a girl traveller (Margaret Lockwood) returning from a holiday, strikes up an acquaintance with a middle-aged English governess who, during the journey mysteriously... More
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La Femme Infidele
(1969) [M]
The first in Claude Chabrol's celebrated 'Helene' series of films in which Helene is played by his then spouse and frequent collaborator, Stephane Audran. Her character is provocative, often predatory and this leads to turmoil in her marriage, betrayal and even murder. La Femme Infidele is a... More
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The Spiral Staircase
(1945) [PG]
This superb Hitchcockian thriller shocked critics and audiences on its initial release. With a superb performance from the cast (Dorothy McGuire in particular), a wonderful eerie gothic mansion and a chilling atmosphere of fear and suspense, it is easy to see why the film stands out as one of the... More
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Fearless
(1993) [M]
San Francisco architect Max Klein can see clearly now. He’s been transformed ever since he stared death in the face – and discovered he was unafraid. Jeff Bridges plays Max, more wildly alive and taking more risks then ever since surviving a plane crash. Isabella Rossellini is Laura,... More
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Young And Innocent
(1937) [G]
Hitchcock's favourite film from his 'British period' is a spine-chilling melodrama centring around the murder of a young actress, strangled with a raincoat belt - a clue which sets off a chain of life-threatening events. With its superb visual effects, black humour and suspense, this is truly... More
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Number Seventeen
(1932) [G]
A beautiful girl, member of a gang of thieves, falls in love with a detective who is on the track of her confederates. She saves him from death at the hands of the gang and thereafter the film traces their adventure in fleeing from the revenge of her former associates. The girl and the detective... More
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Rosemary's Baby
(1968) [M]
Rosemary and her new husband, Guy, move into a new apartment in New York, befriending an elderly couple who live near by. When another girl in the block commits suicide, Rosemary starts getting more attention than she desires, from all the wrong people. When Rosemary become mysteriously pregnant,... More
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Shock Corridor
(1963) [MA]
Young and ambitious newspaper reporter Johnny Barrett will pay any price for success. Sometimes, the price can be too high... With the help of his editor and a leading psychologist, Johnny feigns insanity inorder to get into an asylum where a brutal murder is witnessed by three patients. With the... More
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Lift To The Scaffold (L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud)
(1957) [PG]
Whether the face of Jeanne Moreau, or the mournful trumpet of Miles Davis, this film is forever etched into the memory of all who have watched it. Narrative centres around a bungled crime of passion, but the lingering memories of the film stem from the black & white photography, the creeping... More
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The Double Life Of Veronique (2 disc set)
(1991) [M]
A beautiful and disquieting romantic mystery from Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Double Life of Veronique stars Irene Jacob, winner of the Cannes 1991 Best Actress award for her performance as two identical women, Veronique and Veronika, born at the same time 20 years ago in Poland and France. They... More
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In A Lonely Place
(1950) [PG]
In director Nicholas Ray's haunting noir In A Lonely Place, Humphrey Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a screenwriter who is faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy best-seller. He enlists hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson to tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is... 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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Them!
(1954) [PG]
Nuclear tests in the desert result in the growth of gigantic mutant ants who menace cities in the American south-west as a team of investigators and the army search for a way to control their spread in this Cold War-era monster film.
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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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Lady From Shanghai
(1947) [PG]
Baffling murders, fascinating plot twists and remarkable camera work contribute to this time-honoured film noir written and directed by and starring Orson Welles. Hired to work on a yacht belonging to the crippled husband of femme fatale Rita Hayworth, Welles plays an innocent man drawn into 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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