Hell Penitentiary
A famous physician goes undercover as an inmate, and infiltrates a female prison in an attempt to expose the truth behind her sister’s suspicious death. She soon falls victim to the prison’s sadistic wardens, however……
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How Awful About Allan
A blind man tormented with guilt for his father’s death by fire is manipulated by his sadistic sister….
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Roberto Succo (Subtitled)(Wide Screen)
Based on true events, this is the story of Roberto Succo, who after escaping from an Italian mental institution, where he was being held for the murder of his parents, went into hiding in France. As Succo travelled across the country he left a trail of rapes, murders and abductions… French dialogue with subtitles….
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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
Claude Chabrol’s MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT is an intense psychological thriller starring Isabelle Huppert as Mika, the scheming wife of classical pianist Andre Polonski (Jacques Dutronc). When a young woman named Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis) arrives at their home, dark secrets from the past begin to emerge….
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The Game (Wide Screen)
For the follow-up to his dark crime thriller SEVEN, director David Fincher decided to remain in a film noir vein. The result is THE GAME, a fast-paced cinematic roller-coaster ride that stars Michael Douglas as Nicholas Van Orton, a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual birthday present from his estranged younger brother, Conrad (Sean Penn). The gift enrolls Nicholas in CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that designs elaborate real-life games for each specifi…
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The Jackal (Wide Screen)
An update of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, this spy thriller offers a seasoned FBI man (Sidney Poitier), a rigid Russian agent (Diane Venora), and a black-sheep IRA terrorist (Richard Gere) teaming up to stop a nasty and extremely well-paid assassin (Bruce Willis) from offing a U.S. official….
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Dressed To Kill (Wide Screen)
In this Brian De Palma film that combines Hitchcock’s slick premises with modern-day gore, a lonely wife (Angie Dickinson) follows the advice of her shrink (Michael Caine) and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The prostitute (Nancy Allen) who discovers the body and the victim’s son (Keith Gordon) must track the killer….
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Killer’s Kiss
KILLER’S KISS, Stanley Kubrick’s second feature-length film (though barely more than an hour), tells the story of a down-and-out boxer who falls for a comely female neighbor, leading to kidnapping and murder. Davey Gordon (Jamie Smith) has seemingly fought his last fight after being pummeled by Kid Rodriguez in the first round. Gloria Price (Irene Kane) is the hard-luck dame whose window faces Davey’s. A dancer at Pleasureland, Gloria is trying to break up with her boss, Vincent Rapallo (Frank S…
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Patty Hearst
One evening in February 1974, Patty Hearst, the daughter of newspaper magnate Randolph Hearst, was kid-napped from her Berkeley apartment and taken to a hideout. There she was gagged, blindfolded and kept in a tiny closet. So began a five-year ordeal for Patty, beginning with her kidnapping and followed by her transformation into a guerrilla for the Symbionese Liberation Army, her capture by the FBI, her trial, her imprisonment and the commutation of her sentence by President Carter….
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Shining Through (Wide Screen)
In 1940, a half-Irish, half-Jewish woman from Queens (Melanie Griffith) takes a posh secretarial job for an attorney who turns out to be a US government spy (Michael Douglas). Despite her lower-class status, the two become lovers, and the lawyer reluctantly allows her to go to Berlin to spy on a high-ranking Nazi….
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Charlie Chan - Meeting At Midnight
Charlie Chan investigates the death of an individual, thought by some to have been killed by something not of this world……
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Inner Senses
Inspired by THE SIXTH SENSE, INNER SENSES is the story of Yan, a young woman haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Told that it is all in her mind by her psychologist Jim, Yan still cannot find any other explanations for her visions. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when Jim begins seeing the same things she does and the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past….
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The Machinist
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale - Batman Begins) has not slept for a year. Ravaged by fatigue, his body is little more than a bag of bones. Wracked by exhaustion, his weary mind increasingly plays tricks on him. Then one fateful day at the machine shop where he works, he’s involved in an accident and a fellow worker loses an arm. Reznik’s guilt turns to paranoia when he discovers cryptic notes in his apartment and a ghostly apparition haunts his every move. Is it someone out to exact rev…
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Tell Me Something (Subtitled)
A box-office smash in its native South Korea, ‘Tell Me Something’ is a grisly crime thriller and a sly satire of the casually inept South Korean Police. Han Suk-kyu stars as Lieutenant Cho, a down and almost out cop under investigation for corruption and haunted by the death of his mother. Put in charge of the investigation of a series of gruesome murders in which skilfully dismembered corpses are being found in garbage bags around Seoul, Cho’s detective work quickly leads him to an icy but beau…
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Wonderland (Wide Screen)
Fast cars, fast women, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, with guns and ammo thrown in for good measure–that was the world of porn star John Holmes in Los Angeles in the 1970s. But everything came tumbling down in June 1981 when he was accused of taking part in a multiple murder that forms the basis of James Cox’s dizzying WONDERLAND. Val Kilmer, who previously embodied rock lead singer Jim Morrison in THE DOORS, transforms himself into the famous porn celebrity in this excitingly sordid tale of ex…
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The Red Siren (Wide Screen)
Alice, a 12 year old girl, accuses her mother of murder and has to go on the run when her mother orders a hit on her. She hides in a car belonging to Hugo, a trained killer, who reluctanly agrees to help Alice find her father, even though he knows that they have no chance of succeeding….
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Suspicious River
The dramatically disturbing SUSPICIOUS RIVER describes a self-destructive hotel receptionist (Molly Parker) who is uncontrollably drawn to a deadly underworld. After prostituting herself to guests in the hotel, she begins a romance with a violent stranger who allows her to be raped by several men. Her risky behavior increases until it seems she might have the same fate as her own mother, who was brutally murdered….
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Ley Lines
LEY LINES is the concluding part of Miike Takashi’s thematically linked Triad Society trilogy. It follows the story of three young boys from rural Japan who move to Tokyo in search of excitement and find thrills of a sort when in the notoriously sleazy Shinjuku district. After sliding into a life of drugs and violence they find themselves in serious danger when the local crimelord decides that he wants them dead….
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Dead Or Alive 2
When the assassin Otamoko is hired to make a hit, he is shocked when a rival hitman gets there before him but chooses to take the money anyway and flee from the gangsters who control his life. Returning to the island of his childhood he discovers that the rival hitman was his friend Sawada and the two hatch a plan to team up and rid the world of the gangsters and drug dealers which leads to a frenetic climax of action and violence….
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Rainy Dog
RAINY DOG is the second in Miike Takashi’s Triad Society trilogy which is linked by theme rather than character. This installment focuses on Yuuji, a loner who works as a triad hitman. His world is turned upside down when his ex-wife dumps a small boy, who may or may not be his son, on his doorstep….
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