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- Airspeed
-By:Robert
Tinnel/Actors:Joe Mantegna ; Elishia Cuthbert
A 13-year old girl
finds herself in deep trouble when the jet on which she is travelling to
meet the father she has never known suffers a freak mid-air accident. With a
radio failure adding to the complications life just keeps on getting worse.
What will be her fate?
- An
Innocent Man -By:Peter
Yates/Actors:Tom Selleck ; F. Murray Abraham ; Laila Robins ; Badja Djola ;
Todd Graff ; M.C. Gainey ; Bruce A. Young
Tom Selleck stars as
Jimmie Rainwood, an average citizen and hardworking honest man whose life
becomes a living nightmare when he is framed by a pair of crooked cops and
sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. Unable to prove his innocence,
he is thrown into a maximum security prison with a bunch of sadistic thugs
and forced to endure dangerous, subhuman conditions. During his
incarceration, Jimmy takes a crash course in prison survival from fellow
inmate Virgil Cane (F. Murray Abraham) and learns to do things he never
thought he was capable of. While he suffers in prison, his loving wife
(Laila Robins) leads an undaunting campaign to clear his name and bring the
corrupt cops to justice. Finally, after three years, Jamie makes parole and
is able to begin his life anew, determined to exact revenge against the
crooked team who did him wrong. This brutal prison drama from director Peter
Yates (BULLITT, BREAKING AWAY) combines hard-hitting action with heart and
romance.
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- Bare
Witness -By:Kelley
Cauthen/Actors:Daniel Baldwin ; Angie Everhart ; Catalina Larranga
Julie Spencer likes her
work as an adult film actress and call girl. She especially likes watching
the videotape she makes of herself and her clients. When Julie turns up dead
in an alley after her roommate, Carly, drives her to the location of another
film shoot, Carly first becomes a suspect, and then an intended victim.
Julie's murderers frantically search for her last videotape, which
implicates a ruthless businessman and a highly placed politician in a deadly
plot reaching all the way to City Hall and the Mayor's office. Carly's only
protection is Detective Killian, who has more than a professional interest
in keeping her safe while he tries to unravel the web of murder and intrigue
surrounding her and the mysterious missing tape...
- Basic
Instinct - Special Edition (DTS/5.1) (2 Discs)
-By:Paul
Verhoeven/Actors:Michael Douglas ; Sharon Stone ; Jeanne Tripplehorn ;
George Dzundza ; Denis Arndt ; Leilani Sarelle ; Stephen Tobolowsky ; Wayne
Knight ; Dorothy Malone
Includes Hot Scenes The
Director Was Forced To Cut! Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough
but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone co-stars as Catherine Tramell, a
cold, calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual
appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally
murdered - a crime she had described in her latest novel. But would she be
so obvious as to write about a crime she was going to commit? Or is she
being set up by a jealous rival? Obsessed with cracking the case, Nick
descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount,
bodies fall, and he finds within himself an instinct more basic than
survival...
- Breathless
- A Bout De Souffle (1959)
-By:Jean-Luc
Godard/Actors:Jean-Paul Belmondo ; Jean Seberg ; Daniel Boulanger ;
Jean-Pierre Melville ; Henri-Jacques ; Huet Van Doude ; Claude Mansard ;
Jean-Luc Godard ; Richard Balducci ; Roger Hanin
Landmark French movie
that turns the tragi-comic story of small time criminal Michel
Poiccard/Laszlo Kovacs (Belmondo) obsessed with both Bogart and an aspiring
American journo (Seberg), into a major masterpiece of fickle hedonism.
Cigarettes, hats, sunglasses and determined unconformity make Belmondo a
true cinematic icon playing against the stunning Seberg to a sharp jazz
score in the coolest of cities. Crafted with elusive spontaneity, Godard's
nervy style still looks as good as ever.
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- Campion - The Case Of The
Late Pig / Death Of A Ghost (2 Discs)
-Actors:Peter Davison ; Brian Glover ; Andrew Butt
The Case Of The Late Pig: Campion receives an anonymous invitation to
an old school friend's funeral. Then rather strangely the same friend is
murdered at another friend's house three months later. Campion
investigates... Death Of A Ghost: While Campion is enjoying a private view
of an artist's work with his friends, one of the guests is murdered. Campion
sets out to unravel the mystery and discovers more intrigue along the way...
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Cruel
And Unusual -By:George
Mihalka/Actors:Tom Berenger ; Rachel Hayward ; Tygh Runyan ; Elizabeth Carol
Savenkoff ; Mitchell Kosterman ; James Ralph
'Cruel and Unusual'
will have you at the edge of your seats as the suspense unfolds in this
subtle psychological thriller. Tom Berenger (Training Day) is terrifying as
Art Stoner, the cold calculating killer that insinuates himself into his
victims' lives, assuming the identities of his prey. Art seems to have
reached the end of his murderous spree as his trail of death and deceit lead
him to a small fishing town and a job in an isolated lighthouse. Forging a
friendship with Mike (Tygh Runyan, Disturbing Behaviour) and a romance with
Kate (Rachel Hayward, Fear: The Resurrection) the suspense builds as the
wait to see if he has left his deadly instincts behind or if this is the
latest in a line of doomed relationships. Will the village find out his real
identity or will Art get away with bloody murder yet again?
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- Dead
Man's Curve (aka The Curve 1998)
-By:Dan
Rosen/Actors:Randall Batinkoff ; Dana Delany ; Matthew Lillard ; Keri
Russell ; Tamara Craig Thomas ; Michael Vartan
Someone Is About To Go
Over The Edge.For college friends Tim and Chris the plan was simple. Knock
off their roommate, Rand, frame it as a suicide, and walk away with straight
A's for the semester.But when the plan begins to unravel and the questions
keep coming surrounding Rand's "suicide," the rules begin to
change and the bonds of loyalty and friendship dissolve in the midst of lies
and deception.
- Deceived
(Louis Gosset Jr.) -By:Andre
Van Heerden/Actors:Louis Gossett Jr ; Judd Nelson ; Michell Nolden ; Stewart
Bick
While the Pentagon are
experimenting with a new type of top secret paranormal weapon, an
observatory deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains receives a confirmed
extra-terrestrial signal. With evidence that the two are somehow connected,
Colonel David Garrett (Lou Gossett Jr.) scrambles a team of commandos to the
observatory. But as this edge of your seat thriller unfolds, it becomes
clear that the signal has a dark secret....
- Detective
Story -By:William
Wyler/Actors:Kirk Douglas ; Eleanor Parker ; William Bendix ; Cathy
O'Donnell ; George Macready
The love story of a man
whose wife was more woman than angel! On a day in the life of the 21st
Precinct detective squad, self-appointed crusader Jim McLeod (Douglas) shows
no mercy for lawbreakers, unaware that his obsessive pursuit of an
abortionist is leading him to personal disaster... Nominated for 4 Oscars.
- Devil In A Blue Dress
-Actors:Denzel Washington ; Tom Sizemore ;
Jennifer Beals ; Maury Chaykin ; Terry Kinney
It's 1948 and Los Angeles is booming, but Easy Rawlins
(Denzel Washington) has seen better days. He has just been fired and his
house payments are due, so when DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) offers him a
seemingly harmless job he jumps at the chance. All he has to do is track
down the elusive Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), a mysterious beauty known to
keep company on the wrong side of town. Soon he finds himself implicated in
two murders and is forced to call upon an old friend, Mouse (Don Cheadle),
who is all too familiar with the violent world Easy has landed himself in.
Slowly drawn deeper and deeper into a web of blackmail, dirty cops and even
dirtier politicians, the ways out for Easy become harder and harder to find.
- D.O.A.
(Dead On Arrival) (1988)
-By:Rocky
Morton/Actors:Dennis Quaid ; Meg Ryan ; Daniel Stern ; Charlotte Rampling ;
Jane Kaczmarek ; Brion James ; Jack Kehoe
Time is running out for
Dexter Cornell. He has just 24 hours to unravel the bitter truth behind his
own poisoning. In his desperate search, everyone's a suspect, even the woman
who loves him. Directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Janken, 'D.O.A.'
pulsates with explosive action and sizzling performances by Quaid and Ryan,
two people who suddenly find themselves living on the edge. It's a night on
the run, filled with fear, danger and passion.
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- Eye
For An Eye (1996) -By:John
Schlesinger/Actors:Sally Field ; Kiefer Sutherland ; Ed Harris ; Beverly
D'Angelo ; Joe Mantegna ; Philip Baker Hall ; Keith David ; Cynthia Rothrock
; Donal Logue ; Olivia Burnette ; Armin Shimerman
Karen McCann's orderly
life is shattered when a stranger breaks into her home and murders her
17-year-old daughter. But shock and grief turn into rage and disbelief when
the killer is released on a legal technicality. When he commits another
murder and is set free once again, Karen is determined to make him pay for
his crimes.
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- Four
Rooms -By:Allison
Anders ; Alexandre Rockwell ; Robert Rodriguez ; Quentin
Tarantino/Actors:Valeria Golino ; Amanda De Cadenet ; Madonna ; Ione Skye ;
Lili Taylor ; Alicia Witt ; Jennifer Beals ; Antonio Banderas ; Salma Hayek
; Quentin Tarantino ; Marisa Tomei ; Tim Roth ; Bruce Willis
It's New Year's Eve at
the Mon Signor hotel and a hapless bellboy named Ted is in for the wildest
night of his life. While delivering room service, Ted meets up with a series
of outlandishly eccentric guests, from a pair of pint-size pranksters bent
on destruction to a demented movie star who makes Ted an outrageous offer he
can't believe or refuse! Directed by four of Hollywood's hottest filmmakers,
including Quentin Tarantino, and featuring hilarious performances from
Antonio Banderas, Marisa Tomei and Madonna, this hysterical romp is
five-star fun!
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- Get
Carter (Stallone) -By:Stephen
T. Kay/Actors:Sylvester Stallone ; Miranda Richardson ; Rachael Leigh Cook ;
Michael Caine ; Alan Cumming ; Mickey Rourke ; John C. McGinley ; Rhona
Mitra ; Gretchen Mol
Jack Carter (Stallone)
has spent his life collecting for other people - debts, agendas,
retribution. He stands alone and always stands apart. But when his brother
is killed in an accident, it takes Carter home; to the family he abandoned,
to the debts that were never paid, and a mystery that will take him to the
center of his own soul.For Jack, the trip home to Seattle is a second chance
to make amends for past mistakes. He re-connects with his brother's wife,
Gloria (Richardson), and her teenage daughter, Doreen (Leigh Cook), who are
both suspicious of his sudden interest. But when he discovers that his
brother's death has murder written all over it, his purpose quickly changes
from redemption to revenge...
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- Heist
-By:David
Mamet/Actors:Danny DeVito ; Gene Hackman ; Ricky Jay ; Delroy Lindo ; Patti
LuPone ; Rebecca Pidgeon ; Sam Rockwell ; Robert Luisser
Getting the goods?
That's easy. Getting away after the robbery? A veteran thief knows that's
always the hard part. Who's going to walk away smiling, and who's not going
to walk at all? Los Angeles Times calls Heist "endlessly
clever full of action and suspense."
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- Irreversible
-By:Gaspar
Noe/Actors:Monica Bellucci ; Vincent Cassel ; Albert Dupontel ; Philippe
Nahon ; Mourad Khima ; Gaspar Noe
When Marcus (Vincent
Cassell) and his girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci) decide to go to a party
with their friend Pierre, they are totally unaware that their world is about
to be torn apart in the most unimaginably brutal way possible. Plunged
headlong into a nightmarish world of darkness, where an act of extreme
sexual and physical violence will serve as the spark for yet more violence,
Marcus and Pierre soon discover what they themselves are capable of. With
its unconventional approach to storytelling and its uncompromising depiction
of violence, Gaspar Noe's exploration of the inescapability of fate is a
truly breathtaking cinematic experience that will remain with you for all
time. Uncut.
- Island
of Dr Moreau -By:John
Frankenheimer/Actors:Marlon Brando ; Val Kilmer ; David Thewlis ; Daniel
Rigney ; Fairuza Balk ; Ron Perlman ; Marco Hofschneider ; Temuera Morrison
; Mark Dacascos ; William Hootkins
Edward Douglas(David
Thewlis) narrowly escapes death when his plane crashes in the South Pacific.
Adrift for weeks, he is rescued and taken to the mysterious island of Dr
Moreau (Marlon Brando). Douglas meets the infamous doctor and his enigmatic
assistant, Montgomery (Val Kilmer) but finds that he is a prisoner on the
island. Unable to leave or get answers about the experiments Dr Moreau is
conducting, Douglas searches for answers on his own. He discovers the
beautiful Aissa and becomes infatuated by her animal sensuality. But as he
explores further, Douglas uncovers fantastic and brutal experiments turning
animal life into human-like beasts. Dr Moreau has used the key of science to
unlock the gates of hell.
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- Jennifer
8 -By:Bruce
Robinson/Actors:Andy Garcia ; Uma Thurman ; Lance Henriksen ; Kathy Baker ;
Kevin Conway ; John Malkovich ; Bob Gunton
They are the
unidentified victims of an unsolved death spree, women linked by a killer's
gruesome handiwork...and by police files giving them the code name
"Jennifer." Homicide investigator John Berlin believes he's made a
breakthrough in the case when he uncovers a key witness: a young blind woman
named Helena. Yet who can rely on the testimony of a witness who cannot see?
Who can trust Berlin when he is ultimately suspected of the murders? And who
can keep vulnerable Helena from becoming the next Jennifer?
- Johnny
Handsome -By:Walter
Hill/Actors:Mickey Rourke ; Ellen Barkin ; Forest Whitaker ; Morgan Freeman
; Lance Henriksen ; Scott Wilson ; Elizabeth McGovern ; Allan Graf ; Raynor
Scheine
Johnny Handsome (Mickey
Rourke) is a small time crook with a grotesquely deformed face. When thrown
in prison for a crime he did not do, he befriends a kind doctor (Forest
Whitaker) who believes that Handsome would change his ways if he had a
normal face. Handsome undergoes plastic surgery and reappears unrecognisable
to anyone who knows him. When given parole, it seems that Johnny plans to
live a straight life... until the past catches up and shows that he only has
one aim: to fullfil his revenge on the man who set him up.
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- Kiss
The Girls / Along Came A Spider / The Sum Of All Fears (Box Set) (3 Discs)
-By:Gary Fleder ; Lee
Tamahori ; Phil Alden Robinson/Actors:Morgan Freeman ; Monica Potter ; Dylan
Baker ; Michael Wincott ; Jay O. Sanders ; Michael Moriarty ; Penelope Ann
Miller ; Ashley Judd ; Cary Elwes ; Alex McArthur ; Bill Nunn ; Alan Bates ;
Ben Affleck ; James Cromwell ; Liev Schreiber ;
The Morgan Freeman
Collection, containing three of his best known films.Kiss The Girls: North
Carolina police detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) tracks an elusive
psychopath whose modus operandi is not necessarily killing the young women
he abducts
- Knight
Moves -By:Carl
Schenkel/Actors:Christopher Lambert ; Diane Lane ; Tom Skerritt ; Daniel
Baldwin ; Kehli O'Byrne
In A Game Of Life And
Death, One Wrong Move Could Be His Last.A series of bizarre, ritualistic
murders lock a master chess player and a beautiful psychologist in a deadly
game of deception, seduction and betrayal in Knight Moves. When a shocking
murder ...
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- L
A Takedown -By:Michael
Mann/Actors:Scott Plank ; Alex McArthur ; Michael Rooker ; Vincent
Gustaferro ; Ely Pouget ; Xander Berkeley ; Daniel Baldwin ; Richard Chaves
; Sam J. Jones ; Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
As cop and criminal,
two ruthless professionals have the same outlook and code. L.A. Takedown,
directed by Michael Mann, is a complex and gripping thriller about Vincent
Hanna an obsessive cop tailing a callous and clinical armed robber Patrick
McLaren. They first meet across a crowded cafe and after a heist goes wrong
Hanna and McLaren confront each other in a full scale battle on the streets
of Los Angeles.
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- M
- Fritz Lang (Special Edition) (2 Discs)
-By:Fritz
Lang/Actors:Peter Lorre ; Otto Wernicke ; Ellen Widmann ; Theodor Loos
Like a brand, the
letter M has made its mark on film history with its disturbing theme having
lost none of its impact or relevance. Sinister, dark and foreboding, M tells
the story of Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) - child molester and murderer.
Tension build
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- New
Jack City: Special Edition (2 Discs)
-By:Mario Van
Peebles/Actors:Wesley Snipes ; Ice-T ; Chris Rock ; Mario Van Peebles ; Judd
Nelson ; Allen Payne ; Bill Nunn ; Russell Wong ; Vanessa Williams ; John
Aprea ; Flavor Flav ; Fab Five Freddy ; Thalmus Rasulala
There's a new kind of
criminal on the streets - ruthless gangsters who have turned drug
trafficking into highly lucrative inner-city corporations and who got a
"New Jack" way of dress, music and culture. There's a new kind of
cop, too. They're the tough, young New Jack cops who grew up on the streets
and who alone know how to bring these ruthless mobsters down...
- Nick
Of Time -By:John
Badham/Actors:Johnny Depp ; Christopher Walken ; Charles S. Dutton ; Roma
Maffia ; Marsha Mason ; Gloria Reuben ; Peter Strauss
Ninety Minutes. Six
Bullets. No Choice. The clock is ticking for Johnny Depp in Nick Of Time, a
twist-filled, race-against-time thriller directed by John Badham. And indeed
it is a race, filmed in "real time" so that onscreen events unfold
minute by nail-biting minute as they would in real life. No sooner does
accountant arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter
than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson
from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's
bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political
rally...or never again see his beloved child. The clock starts now.
- Nightwatch
-By:Ole
Bornedal/Actors:Patricia Arquette ; Josh Brolin ; Ewan McGregor ; Nick Nolte
; Lauren Graham ; Brad Dourif'
He's a full-time
college student who just took the wrong part-time job. Now, he's the final
piece in a brilliant serial killer's puzzle. This edge-of-your-seat suspense
thriller stars Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: Episode I, Little Voice) and Nick
Nolte (Simpatico, The Thin Red Line) leading an exciting Hollywood cast!
Martin (McGregor) is a cash-strapped law student trying to make easy money
as night watchman at the old city morgue. But Martin's peaceful graveyard
shift fast becomes a time of terror when a serial killer begins wreaking
havoc after hours and leaving behind clues pointing to Martin's guilt! Also
starring Patricia Arquette (Bringing Out The Dead, Stigmata) and Josh Brolin
(Hollow Man, The Mod Squad), Nightwatch is a stylishly original motion
picture that leads you on a shocking series of twists and turns!
- No
Orchids For Miss Blandish
-By:St. John Legh
Clowes/Actors:Linden Travers ; Jack La Rue ; Walter Crisham ; MacDonald
Parke ; Lilli Molnar ; Danny Green ; Hugh McDermott ; Zoe Gail ; Frances
Marsden ; Charles Goldner ; Percy Marmont
One of the most
controversial films of the 1940s, the gangster thriller No Orchids For Miss
Blandish caused outrage amongst critics, cinema audiences and censors alike
on both sides of the Atlantic when it was first released in 1948. Virginal
young heires
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- Open
Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos)
-By:Alejandro
Amenabar/Actors:Penelope Cruz ; Eduardo Noriega ; Fele Martinez ; Najwa
Nimri
"A Terrific
Psychological Thriller" -Jane Horwitz, Washington Post. In this steamy,
intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and
fantasy is hopelessly blurred. Cesar tries to make sense of his life after a
car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is
placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember
committing, Cesar's only hope is to delve into the depths of his
subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies in
his dreams.
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- Panic
(aka Pendulum) (2001)
'Panic' is a gripping
and violent story of murder, betrayal, corruption, and the determination of
a female police detective to find a serial killer on the loose whilst
fighting the bigotry from within her own organisation. Detective Amanda
Reeve (Rachel Hunter) is pulled off a case that she has been working on
involving a serial killer whos stalks and murders young women, taunting the
detectives who are after him. Alarmed at this sudden change, she is drawn
into an investigation which unravels the skeletons in the closets of the
most powerful politicians in the city...
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- Quicksand
-Actors:Brooke Theiss ; Dan Hedaya ; Douglas
Weston ; Marisa Morell ; Michael Dudikoff ;
Military Psychiatrist Bill Turner just met the woman of his
dreams. Unfortunately, she's the General's daughter, she's his new patient,
and she's untangled in a shadowy and lethal conspiracy! Is she guilty or the
victim? Turner's not sure he wants to know the truth...he just keeps getting
sucked deeper and deeper into "Quicksand."
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- Reeseville
-By:Christian
Otjen/Actors:Brad Hunt ; Majandra Delfino ; Brian Wimmer ; Missy Crider ;
Mark Hamill ; Sally Struthers ; Lee Ernst ; Mark Whalen
A character driven
murder mystery, set in the rural mid-west. David Meyers returns to the small
town in an attempt to silence the demons of his past. Shortly after his
arrival, David's father is found dead of an apparent suicide. Or is it?
Buried secrets of the town begin to unfold as the corner begins to suspect
the suicide was staged. The Sheriff must work quickly to solve the crime and
stem the tide of a rapidly growing obsession between David and Jason's
sister. The outwardly peaceful appearance of Reeseville begins to unravel as
the town's dark underbelly is exposed.
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- Sarah's
Child -By:Ron
Beckstrom/Actors:Mary Parker Williams ; Michael Berger ; Ruth Hale ; Bruce
Chamberlain
A couple move to live
in a small town where their lives are interrupted by the appearance of a
strange little girl.
- See No Evil (aka Blind
Terror) -Actors:Mia Farrow ; Robin Bailey
; Brian Rawlinson ; Dorothy Alison ; Diane Grayson ;
After being blinded, young woman goes to live in English
countryside with relatives. Out on a date with boyfriend she escapes the
fate of the other relatives, who are murdered by a crazed killer. She
finally makes the gruesome discovery of their bodies but the killer is still
in the house...
- Sherlock Holmes: The Hound
Of The Baskervilles / Voice Of Terror
-Actors:Basil Rathbone ; Nigel Bruce
For many people, Basil Rathbone's portrayal of the iconic
detective Sherlock Holmes is the definitive screen version of Arthur Conan
Doyle's much-loved character. In 1939, Basil Rathbone made his first
appearance as Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles, directed by
Sidney Lanfield for Twentieth Century Fox. Sporting the trademark
deerstalker and pipe, Holmes sets out to uncover the legendary curse of the
Hound of the Baskervilles amidst the moody, atmospheric landscape of the
moors. In 1942 Universal decided to revive the Sherlock Holmes films,
bringing back the successful partnership of Rathbone and Bruce in Sherlock
Holmes and The Voice Of Terror, directed by John Rawlins. This time the
films were re-vamped for modern audiences. The deerstalker was cast aside
and Sherlock Holmes entered the twentieth century in this film set during
WWII.
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- The
Anderson Tapes -By:Sidney
Lumet/Actors:Sean Connery ; Dyan Cannon ; Martin Balsam ; Ralph Meeker ;
Christopher Walken ; Val Avery
The Anderson Tapes is a
dazzling caper in which an ex-con's plans to commit a monumental crime are
hampered by sophisticated technology. Released after ten years in prison,
Duke Anderson (Sean Connery) masterminds an elaborate plot to rob an entire
New York apartment buliding where his girlfriend (Cannon) lives. Financed by
an underworld boss he recruits a team of specialists and, disguised as
moving men the thieves go door to door robbing every apartment of all cash
and jewelry. Trouble arrives unexpectedly when a seemingly helpless,
crippled young boy contacts the police... Can Anderson pull it off?
- The
Bourne Identity (1988)
-By:Roger
Young/Actors:Richard Chamberlain ; Jaclyn Smith ; Anthony Quayle ; Donald
Moffat ; Peter Vaughan ; Denholm Elliott
A man (Chamberlain)
washes up on the shore of a French coastal village, riddled with bullets and
without a single memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he's been
shot in the first place, yet in his sleep, he utters phrases in several
different ...
- The
Bourne Identity / The Bourne Supremacy Box Set
-By:Doug Liman ; Paul
Greengrass/Actors:Matt Damon ; Franka Potente ; Chris Cooper ; Clive Owen ;
Brian Cox ; Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ; Gabriel Mann ; Julia Stiles ; Joan
Allen ; Marton Csokas ; Karel Roden
The Bourne Identity: A
man who may or may not be Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is found floating in the
Mediterranean Sea and is hauled onto a fishing boat. When the ship's doctor
examines the unconscious castaway, he discovers two bullet wounds and an ...
- The
Good Son -By:Joseph
Ruben/Actors:Macaulay Culkin ; Elijah Wood ; Wendy Crewson ; David Morse ;
Jacqueline Brookes ; Daniel Hugh Kelly
For Mark Evans (Wood),
the loss of his mother is too much to bear. What Mark needs is friendship
and companionship, so in a desperate bid to overcome his bereavement he is
sent to stay with his cousin Henry (Culkin). But Mark discovers to his
horror that his cousin is hiding dark secrets and a wicked mind full of
trouble. His idea of fun is both evil and deadly... so deadly that Mark soon
finds himself hunted and on the run in a deadly cat and mouse game of
horror.
- The
Long Good Friday (Anchor Bay)
-By:John
MacKenzie/Actors:Bob Hoskins ; Helen Mirren ; Dave King ; Bryan Marshall ;
Paul Freeman ; Derek Thompson ; Eddie Constantine ; Kevin McNally ; P.H.
Moriarty ; Pierce Brosnan ; Alan Ford ; Dexter Fletcher ; Gillian Taylforth
; Paul Barber
In the savage and
deadly world of the gangland king, the man at the top is ruler, only for as
long as he controls everything in his territory. For that man, the rewards
can be infinite, but so are the dangers. Harold Shand is enjoying the height
of his powers, and he is on the verge of something that would make his
current 'arrangements' small fry. But stronger forces than even he can
control have moved in and taken over. Climaxing in one long and bloody day
of terror, an Easter Good Friday, he is to see his empire begin to crack and
crumble.
- The
Sixth Sense - Collector's Edition (2 Discs)
-By:M. Night
Shyamalan/Actors:Bruce Willis ; Haley Joel Osment ; Toni Collette ; Olivia
Williams ; Donnie Wahlberg ; Mischa Barton
After the assault and
suicide of one of his ex-patients, award-winning child psychologist Malcolm
Crowe (Bruce Willis) is left determined to help a young boy named Cole, who
suffers from the same diagnosis as the ex-patient - they both see dead
people. Malcolm cannot rest until he makes amends for his feelings of
failure, created by the mental breakdown of the first patient. Cole is a
young boy who is paralyzed by fear from his visions of dead people. His
mother is at her wits end trying to cope with Cole's eccentricities. With
the help of Dr. Crowe, Cole goes on a journey of self as he learns to
overcome his fears, all the while discovering the purpose of his gift.
- The
Vanishing (1993) -By:George
Sluizer/Actors:Jeff Bridges ; Kiefer Sutherland ; Nancy Travis ; Sandra
Bullock ; Park Overall ; Maggie Linderman ; Lisa Eichhorn
This is George
Sluizer's Hollywood remake of his finest directorial work, Spoorloos (aka:
The Vanishing).A young man begins an obsessive search for his girlfriend
after she mysteriously disappears during their sunny vacation getaway. His
three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a seemingly
mild-mannered professor who, in truth, harbors a diabolically clinical and
calculating mind. When the kidnapper contacts the man and promises to reveal
his lover's fate, The Vanishing unfolds with intense precision, culminating
in a genuinely chilling finale that has unnerved audiences around the world.
- Training
Day -By:Antoine
Fuqua/Actors:Ethan Hawke ; Denzel Washington ; Cliff Curtis ; Snoop Dogg ;
Dr. Dre ; Scott Glenn ; Tom Berenger ; Macy Gray
The only thing more
dangerous than the line being crossed is the cop who will cross it...A
gripping drama set in the shadowy world of undercover police work, 'Training
Day' tells the story of a veteran L.A.P.D. narcotics officer (Denzel
Washington in an Oscar-winning role) who guides an idealistic rookie (Ethan
Hawke) through his first day on the brutal inner-city beat.View movie
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- Twilight
(1998) -By:Robert
Benton/Actors:Paul Newman ; Susan Sarandon ; Gene Hackman ; Reese
Witherspoon ; Stockard Channing ; James Garner ; Giancarlo Esposito ; Liev
Schreiber ; Margo Martindale ; M. Emmet Walsh ; Clint Howard ; Lewis
Arquette
Some people can buy
their way out of anything. Except the past.Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a
burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a
long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan
Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown
world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, trust and
double-cross.
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- Urban Triple: Four
Brothers / Hustle & Flow / Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
-Actors:Mark Wahlberg ; Tyrese Gibson ; Andre
Benjamin ; Garrett Hedlund ; Terrence Howa
Four Brothers (Dir. John Singleton, 2005): When their beloved
foster mother is killed in a holdup, four tough brothers reunite in their
old Detroit neighbourhood with revenge on their minds. Mark Wahlberg plays
the brawl-hungry leader, Bobby. His brother,
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- Valentines Day
-Actors:Mario Van Peebles ; Randy Quaid ; Rae
Dawn Chong ; Ben Gazzara
Tony Denisio, a member of the Massimo crime family has agreed
to turn state's evidence but has refused official police protection.
Luckless Detective Jack Valentine (Mario van Peebles) has been assigned to
protect him and no sooner arrives at his assignment only to see the crime
boss blown away in a vicious and merciless mob hit. The only witness to the
bloody slaying being Deniso's stunning girlfriend Alma, who despite the
trauma remains cool, calm and emotionless. Stricken by her beauty, Valentine
allows his lust for this mysterious woman to cloud his professional
judgement, and soon finds he cannot trust anyone in this cat and mouse
thriller which twists and turns in one direction then another, and he is
plunged into a world where black and white disappear and no one is who they
claim to be...
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- When
The Bough Breaks -By:Michael
Cohn/Actors:Ally Walker ; Martin Sheen ; Ron Perlman ; Tara Subkoff ; Robert
Knepper ; James Medina
A freak rainstorm
washes up a gruesome discovery - a bag containing seven severed children's
hands, each with a number tattooed on its tiny palm. A psychiatric expert's
only clue comes from the disturbing behaviour of a mute patient, who seems
to have a telepathic link with killer's warped mind...
- Without
A Clue -By:Thom
Eberhardt/Actors:Michael Caine ; Ben Kingsley ; Jeffrey Jones ; Lysette
Anthony ; Pat Keen ; Paul Freeman ; Nigel Davenport ; Matthew Savage ; Peter
Cook ; Clive Mantle
A madcap comedy which
takes a fresh look at the classic Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson escapades.
Holmes is actually a figment of Dr. Watson's own success in crime detection,
a character who Watson uses when he writes in `The Strand' magazine. But
when the printing plates for five pound notes are stolen Queen Victoria
calls for the country's greatest detective.
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- X312 - Flight To Hell
-Actors:Thomas Hunter ; Ewa Stromberg ;
Howard Vernon ; Paul Muller
A plane crashes in the jungles of South America. Among the
survivors is the president of a powerful bank who tries to conceal the fact
that he has a stash of stolen jewellery from the other walking wounded.
Unfortunately, once his secret is revealed it's everyone for himself (or
herself) as the passengers battle it out to survive and get the loot...
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- Yakuza Papers / Yakuza
Graveyard / Street Mobster (3 Discs)
-Actors:Bunta Sugawara ; Hiroki Matsukata ;
Tatsuo Umemiya ; Tsunehiko Watase ; Nobuo Ka
Yakuza Papers: This nihilistic chronicle of the gang-wars
that ravaged Hiroshima in post-war Japan centres on the character Sugawara.
Based on the prison diary of a yakuza involved in the wars (Kozo Mino),
Sugawara is distinguihed through extreme, callous
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- Zandalee
(1991) -By:Sam
Pillsbury/Actors:Nicolas Cage ; Judge Reinhold ; Erika Anderson ; Joe
Pantoliano ; Aaron Neville ; Viveca Lindfors ; Steve Buscemi ; Marisa Tomei
; Ian Abercrombie
Love has left the
marriage of Zandalee (Erika Anderson) and Thierry (Judge Reinhold) so
Zandalee finds ecstacy in the arms of Johnny (Nicolas Cage), her husband's
boyhood friend. Once aroused, her longings cannot be satisfied until her
obsessive need for passion overwhelms the three in a dark triangle of desire
and death...
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