Lower City
Steamy sex, glistening sweat, dark photography, grungy ghetto colors, and sudden violence pervade this Brazilian feature from director Sergio Machado. Alice Braga (CITY OF GOD) stars as Karinna, a traveling prostitute who trades her favors to lifelong friends Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) for a ride back to Salvador on their run down boat. After Deco is almost killed at a cockfight, the three form a temporary menage-a-trois friendship, but the intense love each man feels for Ka…
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St. Andrews Girls
Four catholic school girls wreak havoc in a small, idyllic town….
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Derailed
Clive Owen plays advertising executive and family man Charles Schine who meets Jennifer Aniston?s business woman, Lucinda, on the commuter train to work. Their early flirtations soon escalate into a magnetic attraction, despite both having families. Lunch dates quickly become cocktails after work and before long their infatuation leads them to a hotel room. Their affair takes a turn for the worst when a violent criminal holds them to gunpoint and promises to reveal their indiscretion and threat…
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The Seduction
An attractive, well-known TV newscaster is stalked by an obsessed admirer, a TV station scriptwriter, whose obsession turns to hate when she rejects his advances and his moves become more harassing and ultimately murderous. …
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Rien Ne Va Plus (Subtitled)
A couple travelling around France in a motor-home live off their swindles. When they become caught up in an international money laundering scam the situation becomes a little more complex. Comedy thriller….
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La Ceremonie (Subtitled)
In Claude Chabrol’s LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect and Sophie proves to be ‘a bit bizarre, but a real pearl’ according to Madame Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset). Sophie remains distanced from the family and only comes out of her shell when…
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Death In Small Doses
When successful Dallas architect Nancy Lyon dies in agony from arsenic poisoning, it seems that no-one can unravel the mystery surrounding her death. It seems like someone is about to get away with murder. But District Attorney Jerry Sims is determined to find the truth. Based on a true story….
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13 Tzameti
Sebastien (Georges Babluani), a Georgian immigrant in France, leads an impoverished life with his family. When hired to repair the roof of the morphine-addicted Godon (Philippe Passon), Sebastien eavesdrops in on a conversation which appears to offer a quick and easy solution to his money troubles……
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Capone
Capone details the life of crime boss Al Capone (Ben Gazzara). Capone begins his rise through the ranks of the underworld at the age of 11. Eventually becoming a member of the Five Points Gang, run by his friend Johnny Torrio (Harry Guardino), Capone sets his sights on bigger things. Relocating to Chicago, Capone makes his move and calls for the death of his friend’s uncle. Taking over, Capone then becomes one of the most powerful gangsters in Chicago. In charge of the city?s prostitution and ra…
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Fascination
A thriller riddled with paranoia and distrust, Klaus Menzel’s FASCINATION is an acute study of a man stretched to breaking point by an egregious set of circumstances. Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) is both stricken and confused when his mother, Maureen (Jacqueline Bisset), announces the tragic death of his father, who drowned during a curious boating mishap while the couple was on vacation. The incident seems highly irregular to Scott due to his father’s considerable athletic prowess. But Scott’s e…
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The Constant Gardener
Starring Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler?s List) and Rachel Weisz (Enemy At The Gates, The Mummy); this provocative, cinematographically delightful film tells a tale of love, corruption, exploitation and murder. Based on the best-selling John le Carr? novel and superbly directed by Fernando Morielles (Oscar nominated for his first film: City of God) The Constant Gardener is so engaging and richly layered you?ll watch it again and again. In a remote area of Northern Keny…
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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. Kyle initially thinks her daughter may have wandered off, but mild panic turns to full-scale hysteria when after an exhaustive search Julia is nowhere to be found on the plane. More worryingly, it emerges that Julia was…
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Keizoku - Unsolved Cases
The Japanese mystery thriller KEIZOKU ? UNSOLVED CASES sees young female police chief Jun Shibata (Miki Nakatani, RING, RING 2)–of the Unsolved Cases Division–being called in to observe a reunion of shipwreck survivors on a remote island, but it soon turns into a succession of mysterious murders of the survivors. The film sees the first big screen outing for the successful Japanese television drama series KEIZOKU and invokes a dark and at times surreal atmosphere as Shibata and her partner Tor…
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Persona
‘This psychological mystery thriller deals with issue of identity and the struggle for individuality in modern day Japan. Yuki Kawamura and mistune Ashihara are students at the private Koyokan High School. One day they receive an e-mail invitation to a ?mask? party from the quiet and introverted classmate from their old middle school. ? Strange things start to happen at their school, as pupils start to don masks and take on new personals. This fashion appeals to the twin desires of…
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Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena
In a world of lies, Arjun (Fardeen Khan) is a man with a plan. The only thing he has not counted on is Natasha (Koena Mitra) ? a woman lured into his world but who, unknown to Arjun, has a plan of her own. Throw in an uncrowned king of the underworld ?Sikander (Gulshan Grover), his hired gun Kaif (Kay Kay), Arjun’s partners in crime Rohit (Rohit Roy), Jack (Amin Haji) and Bhatia (Mukul Dev) and the biggest mark that Indian cinema has seen (Feroz Khan) and what we have is a roller coaster ride wh…
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Series 1 - Complete
The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was as prolific as he was brilliant, producing not only dozens of award-winning films, but also a few excellent television series’. ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’, which won the Golden Globe Award for ‘Television Achievement’, was arguably the best of his small screen triumphs. Hosted by the man himself, the series offered viewers short audio-visual stories on a weekly basis, mixing the genres of horror, drama, suspense, and fantasy. The first series is col…
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The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
Based on a true story, this film is both a riveting courtroom drama and a first class chiller. A Catholic Priest (Tom Wilkinson) is on trial for homicidal negligence after performing a failed exorcism on Emily Rose, devout college girl (Jennifer Carpenter) now dead from assorted wounds and malnutrition. Laura Linney plays Erin Bruner, the priest’s defense lawyer, and Campbell Scott plays the chief prosecutor, who argues persuasively that Emily was likely suffering from psychotic epilepsy and cou…
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Saw 2
In SAW, a huge horror hit in 2004, a masked man called Jigsaw orchestrated the kidnapping of two people, chained them in a disgusting bathroom in an abandoned house, and played vicious, brutal mind games with them that potentially could lead to their freedom. Jigsaw is back for more gory fun in SAW II, but this time he comes out from behind the mask to terrorise a troubled cop face-to-face. Tobin Bell reprises his brief role as Jigsaw in the first film with a major starring turn in the sequel. D…
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Red Eye
From director Wes Craven comes Red Eye, a suspense thriller at 30,000 feet. Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying. Moments after takeoff, Lisa’s seatmate, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), menacingly reveals the real reason he’s on board. He is an operative in a plot to kill a rich and powerful businessman… And Lisa is the key to its success. If she reufuses to cooperate, her father (Brian Cox) wi…
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Wait Until Dark
The gripping tale of a blind woman confronted in her apartment by three criminals with an incredibly elaborate and sinister scheme. One of the first true jump-out-of-your-seat thrillers. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actress - Audrey Hepburn….
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