Laurin
Laurin
Laurin is haunted by gloomy dreams and hallucinations. By unravelling the mystery of what is happening in a quaint harbour town she puts her own life at risk. Digitally remastered….
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Dead Man’s Shoes
Dead Man’s Shoes
Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he’s returned for revenge……
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
The title HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT is more ironic and telling than the unknowing viewer would dare to guess. A whimsical love story, yes it is. But its whimsy is short-lived and fades quickly to concentrate on the dark underbelly of relationships, emotional attachment, and the complexity of the human spirit. Audrey Tautou delivers a beguiling performance as Angelique, a lovely and passionate young art student. Having just received a grant to work on a series of new paintings, she rushes thro…
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Betty Fisher And Other Stories (Subtitled)
Betty Fisher And Other Stories (Subtitled)
Director Claude Miller was a protege of Francois Truffaut, and the French master’s influence is clear in this low-key thriller, based on the novel THE TREE OF HANDS by Ruth Rendell. Betty (Sandrine Kiberlain), a reclusive best-selling author and mother of a young son, is having a hard enough time dealing with a visit from her eccentric and self-involved mother, Margot (Nicole Garcia), who suffers from a blood disorder that occasionally makes her violent. Betty has the scars from her childhood to…
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Sherlock Holmes - Terror By Night
Sherlock Holmes - Terror By Night
A precious jewel ‘The Star Of Rhodesia’ is stolen from a train. Sherlock Holmes investigates….
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Sherlock Holmes - The Secret Weapon
Sherlock Holmes - The Secret Weapon
The secret weapon is a new bombsight which could hasten the outcome of World War II, and both the Allies and the Nazis are in a desperate race to secure it for themselves. Super sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are assigned to find the kidnapped scientist who developed the secret weapon, only to be foiled by Holmes’ nemesis, the evil Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill). Based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING…
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The Vanishing (Subtitled)
The Vanishing (Subtitled)
Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend (Johanna ter Steege), a man (Gene Bervoets) tracks down her kidnapper (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu). The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man through the mail, is actually a cold-hearted clinician of terror. When her kidnapper promises to reveal the location of his lost loved one, their confrontation explodes. This taut Hitchcockian thriller inspired director George Sluizer’s own Hollywood remake in 1993….
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The Near Room
The Near Room
Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career has reached rock-bottom. He has a teenage daughter, Tommy, who was put into foster care many years before. Now, aged seventeen, Tommy has become inloved in a scandal that involves child pornography with a high-ranked police officer. Charlie and Tommy become reunited as Charlie struggles to defend his daughter from a trail of blackmail and murder….
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Das Experiment (Subtitled)
Das Experiment (Subtitled)
DAS EXPERIMENT, a German film about a group of 20 men who are asked to participate in a psychological test with the promise of a monetary award, centers on Tarek (Moritz Bleibtreu) a reporter who wants to write about the event and so volunteers. When he is locked in a strange prison, not to emerge for 14 days, he worries that he made a bad choice….
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Rich And Powerful
Rich And Powerful
A rich and powerful man is threatened with exposure from an honest politician….
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Cold Comfort
Cold Comfort
Dolores has everything she wants for her birthday - a party, a fine cake with 18 candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who is more than a guest. He’s a present to keep Daddy’s little girl happy - and he’s a prisoner……
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The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd
Worldly Priest, Father Daniel Clemens (Christian Slater) becomes increasingly convinced that a colleague has been wrongly charged with murder. This is affirmed when the accused commits suicide and he takes over the deceased?s post with the intention of solving the mystery. With the help of journalist and his childhood sweetheart (Molly Parker), he embarks upon a quest that may lead to further bloodshed?.but also may lead him to the truth and his true calling….
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Dot The I
Dot The I
Having experienced a violent relationship, Carmen finds solace and security in her new relationship with Barnaby, but is this enough? On the eve of her wedding, the relationship is put to the test as she becomes attracted to a mysterious stranger……
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The Bedroom Window
The Bedroom Window
A young architect is engaged in an affair with his boss’s wife, who witnesses an attack on a young girl from his bedroom window, but needs him to report it since she cannot admit to being there. The architect steps forward and pretends to be the witness, only to become the chief suspect in a series of brutal murders….
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Wicker Park (Wide Screen)
Wicker Park (Wide Screen)
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 and score his first major account, the past comes back to haunt him. Matthew runs into his good friend Luke (Matthew Lillard), who is dating a mysterious actress, Alex (Rose Byrne). Suddenly he is reminded…
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The Statement
The Statement
While a secret society of Catholic priests hide him in various French abbeys, a network of bitter Jewish assassins track him, and a determined judge attempts to use the law to pin a prison sentence on him. This highly wanted man is Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who committed war crimes–not only murdering Jews but also stealing their money and property–when he was a Nazi in World War II. However, Brossard’s wrongdoing happened 40 years in the past and he was in hiding long enough that nobody-…
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Out Of Time
Out Of Time
Carl Franklin and Denzel Washington team-up once more for this hilariously refreshing noir thriller. Washington is Matt Lee Whitlock, police chief of a small Florida town just outside of Miami. In the process of getting a divorce from the woman he still loves, Alex (the sultry Eva Mendes), Chief Whitlock has begun to have an affair with Anne (Sanaa Lathan), wife of abusive ex-football quarterback Chris Harrison (Dean Cain). When he learns that Anne has terminal cancer and doesn’t have long to li…
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Confidence (Wide Screen)
Confidence (Wide Screen)
Ed Burns gives arguably the best performance of his career in James Foley’s fast-moving CONFIDENCE. Foley, who directed David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, has learned much from his mentor, making a who’s-conning-whom film worthy of the master of the genre. Burns plays Jake Vig, the leader of a small group of con artists who unknowingly steals money from a sleazy but powerful underworld lord known as King. In order to get his dough back, King forces Vig and his gang to pull off a nearly impossibl…
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Possible Worlds
Possible Worlds
Winner of a Canadian Genie award, POSSIBLE WORLDS is both a study of relationships, a look into the idea that we exist in many different realities and a surreal murder mystery all sparked off by the discovery of a corpse without a brain….
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The Monkey’s Mask
The Monkey’s Mask
Jill (Susie Porter) is a twentysomething private investigator called up by a pair of distraught parents to find their missing daughter. The trail of the missing girl, an amateur poet, leads lesbian Jill into a strange world of sleazy literary wannabes and straight into an affair with libertine poetry professor Diana (Kelly McGillis). Australian Samantha Lang (THE WELL) directed this thriller based on the erotic mystery novel by Dorothy Porter….
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