TNT Jackson
TNT Jackson
A beautiful black girl, who also happens to be a martial arts expert, searches for her missing brother in Hong Kong….
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The Departed
The Departed
Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak’s masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob member and a mob member infiltrating the police force. Scorsese transfers the action to Boston, positioning Leonardo DiCaprio as undercover cop William Costigan and Matt Damon as undercover mobster Colin Su…
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Jacked
Jacked
Andre Carter is a 17-year old pushed to the edge one day in his Ohio ghetto neighborhood when a carjacking goes awry and he ends up shooting dead the driver. Wracked by guilt and inspired to confess his crime, Andre does odd jobs for the widow, becomes a mentor to her young son and begins a romantic relationship with the dead man’s daughter. It would appear Andre is struggling to go straight, but the gang members in his life won’t let him get away that easily. Soon, Andre finds himself fight…
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The Quiet
The Quiet
Jamie Babbitt (GILMORE GIRLS) makes his feature debut with this suburban melodrama tinged with the trappings of exploitation films and Gothic horror. Dot (Camilla Belle, THE CHUMSCRUBBER) is a deaf and mute girl with a troubled past: her mother died when she was seven, and now her deaf father has been run over by a truck. Things get much worse for Dot, however, when she moves in with the Deer family, who make no attempt to hide their dark secrets from her. Patriarch Paul Deer (Martin Donovan) is…
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A Dandy In Aspic
A Dandy In Aspic
A Russian counter-espionage agent working in British intelligence finds his cover blown, leaving him with no one to trust….
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Killing Words
Killing Words
It is said that life and death are in the power of the tongue, a truism that isn’t lost on kidnapped psychiatrist Laura, as she sits gagged and bound in a dark basement. Her captor, a seemingly normal man in his forties, is in fact a serial killer with a penchant for mind games. Terrified and alone, Laura must choose her words carefully if she is to escape with her life……
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The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code
Dr. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks, FORREST GUMP) and cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou, AMELIE) set out to uncover the truth about The Holy Grail, encountering a mysterious ancient society on the way. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is on business in Paris when he is called to the Louvre, where a curator he was due to meet has been murdered. There he meets police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, the granddaughter of the murdered curator. A number of symbols and riddles have been found at the mur…
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Cottage To Let (Special Edition)
Cottage To Let (Special Edition)
A film adaptation, with the original stage actors, of one of the first war-time stage thrillers about an unsuspecting inventor who is in danger of being kidnapped by a Fifth Columnist organisation….
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This Gun For Hire
This Gun For Hire
In this classic film noir, tough-guy thriller, Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gunman who is out for revenge, with Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. A hired gun, Raven is kind to everyone but his targets, and when he kills an extortionist and receives stolen money in compensation, he becomes the target of a Senate investigation that leads him to set his gunsight on Ellen….
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Mercury Rising/The Jackal (2 Disc)
Mercury Rising/The Jackal (2 Disc)
Features the Bruce Willis films MERCURY RISING and THE JACKEL. In MERCURY RISING, FBI agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), wrongfully disgraced after taking the fall for a botched undercover job, defends a ten-year-old autistic boy from a national security agent (Alec Baldwin) who orders the boy assassinated after he innocently cracks the purportedly uncrackable Mercury code. THE JACKEL is an update of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL and this spy thriller offers a seasoned FBI man (Sidney Poitier), a rigid…
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The Killers
The Killers
A former fighter awaits the arrival of his executioners. When they arrive they shoot him dead without a fight. An insurance investigator must decide why it is that a man gave up his life so easily……
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The Game/The Gingerbread Man (2 Disc)
The Game/The Gingerbread Man (2 Disc)
Two cracking thrillers - THE GAME finds Michael Douglas’ business man at the centre of a sadistic set of pranks and THE GINGERBREAD MAN, written by John Grisham….
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Crossfire
Crossfire
Tense crime story, revolving around three soldiers who are suspected of the murder of a Jewish man in a New York hotel….
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The Big Steal
The Big Steal
When an army officer is wrongly accused of a theft, he sets off in pursuit of the real culprit….
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Middletown
Middletown
After a long absence, Gabriel is a preacher who returns to Middletown; a place of his birth but a town that has changed greatly during the intervening years. His sister-in-law runs the local drinking establishment, a rough and ready den that boasts live cockfights and brawling, on a nightly basis. Gabriel believes that the entire township has give-in to sin and it?s up to him to save their troubled souls. But Gabriel however, is not all that he seems, and his arrival brings disarray into the liv…
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Rabbit On The Moon
Rabbit On The Moon
Noirish conspiracy thriller in which a young couple are unwittingly implicated in a major political assassination. With the birth of their baby, the stakes are even higher and what starts out as a fight for justice becomes a fight to survive. RABBIT ON THE MOON paints a bleak portrait of a society where crime goes unpunished, law officials are corrupt, and the very institutions set up to protect the people cannot be trusted. Shot in London and Mexico City, it marks the first ever Mexico-UK co-pr…
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Next Door
Next Door
NEXT DOOR is a sexy thriller filled with unexpected twists. When an eligible young bachelor gets friendly with two women who live in the apartment next to his, he doesn’t expect the erotic and ultimately anguishing experience that follows. Will these two seductresses be the end of him or will he escape unscathed?…
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Red Dragon/Hannibal (2 Disc)
Red Dragon/Hannibal (2 Disc)
Cannibal-killer Hannibal Lecter is arguably cinema’s most frightening creation. Discover why with these films featuring the brilliant but disturbed doctor. Includes HANNIBAL and RED DRAGON. In HANNIBAL, Doctor Hannibal Lecter escapes from incarceration and travels to Florence. There he takes a position as curator for the Palazzo Vecchio. He is soon sighted by a policeman who plans to turn him over to a former victim, Mason Verger, who seeks the ultimate revenge. Once again Clarice Starling finds…
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Barbershop Blues
Barbershop Blues
An ex-con fresh out of prison is unable to find a legitimate job, so he resorts back to his old tricks; drug dealing, blackmail, and extortion….
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The Brass Monkey
The Brass Monkey
British comedy murder mystery featuring Carole Landis as a radio star attempting to thwart the theft of priceless religious artifacts….
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