They were schooled in sabotage…licensed to kill…and send to destroy the world's deadliest rocket base! A fearsome rumour reaches Britain's World War II command.The Nazis are developing rocket technology that could rain death on London and, then, New York.Quickly, England develops a plan to send saboteurs into the sites manufacturing the rockets.Just moments after the carefully chosen commandos parachute into the drop zone, their pilot receives an urgent message: The mission may be compromised.Abort.Operation Crossbow is the partly fact-based tale of how that team succeeded against daunting odds.Michael Anderson directs guiding a huge cast in a film that builds to a spectacular finale, yet never neglects war's unsparing personal costs.As a record of a wartime espionage incursion and as an intrigue-filled thriller, 'Operation Crossbow' is on both counts Operation Accomplished.
Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic San Franciscan apartment she brews love potions, then lures men and seduces them. Her sorcery works only too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
"Spiral" is back for another intriguing, gripping and critically acclaimed series about the imperfect people upholding law and order in Paris. Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) returns early from maternity leave to help the team put a name to an anonymous murder victim identifiable only by use of his dismembered torso. Meanwhile, a high-profile trial involving a boy accused of murdering his own father tempts a jaded Joséphine (Audrey Fleurot). Magistrate Roban (Philippe Duclos) grows distracted and makes uncharacteristic mistakes.
"Spiral" is back for a thrilling seventh series of criminal investigations in Paris, as it embraces the various perspectives of those involved in the judicial system: the police and the judicial authorities. Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and Gilou (Thierry Godard) are brought back together by a double homicide in a Chinese restaurant located in the district of Belleville. One of the victims is the team's esteemed former superior. All of them will have to face unexpected hurdles and solve a dilemma: give up the truth or betray the institution they have faithfully served.
The end of series seven saw the demise of the Laure-Gilou team, but not of their relationship together. Their unorthodox investigation methods have landed Gilou (Thierry Godard) in prison, awaiting trial. Taking advantage of the situation, Crime Squad Superintendent Brémont (Bruno Debrandt) asks him to get acquainted with a fellow prisoner who's a high-profile criminal. In exchange for his reinstatement into the police, Gilou is taken out of prison to infiltrate a gang of heisters. Meanwhile, Laure (Caroline Proust) and Ali (Tewfik Jallab) are struggling to work as a team in a group that's been sidelined. The murder of a young Moroccan migrant spurs them back into action, although they have to deal with the trauma of Gilou's incarceration. Josephine (Audrey Fleurot) decides to defend the murder suspect - an unaccompanied Moroccan minor called Souleymane (Ayoube Barboucha) - and develops a close bond with him. Things get complicated when the cases Laure and Gilou are working on turn out to be connected. They join forces again to see their investigations through, exposing themselves to all kinds of danger.
Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, Alec Guinness stars in this classic spy spoof as Jim Wormold, an English expatriate who sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His life is irrevocably changed as he is recruited by Hawthorne (Noel Coward), and pressed into service as an operative of M.I.5, which he reluctantly agress to so he can earn extra money for his 17-year-old daughter. Wormold does not actually engage in any actual espionage. Instead, he invents facts on his reports and recruits fictitious agents. However thise reports are taken seriously in London and two additional agents, a radio operator and a secretary are despached to assist Wormold. He soon discovers that his imagination is going to take on life of its own...
Holly Martins a naive writer of pulp westerns, arrives in Vienna to meet his old friend Harry Line but finds that Lime has apparently been killed in a suspicious accident. Martins, too, curious for his own good, hears contradictory stories about the circumstances of Limes' death and as witnesses disappear he finds himself chased by unknown assailants. Complicating matters are the sardonic Major Calloway, head of the British forces, and Limes' stage actress mistress, Anna. Will Martin's curiosity lead him to discover things about his old friend that he'd rather not know?
After victory at The Battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror sent his army to the North of England to carry out a campaign of furious destruction. It was known as the Harrowing of the North. After years of slavery, a Norman Prince returns to the lost lands to seek revenge on his father's murderer; his uncle, the ruthless Earl Durant. He gains the trust of a band of exiled farmers and leads them into battle against the Earl, exploiting them in his inexorable quest for revenge. Can there be any redemption for his deep rooted rage and hatred or has he lost his soul to vengeance?
In a vast and opulent hotel, an unnamed man (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to persuade a similarly unnamed married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they have not only met before, but they were also romantically involved and had planned to escape together. The woman recalls no such encounter and so begins a sensual and philosophical examination into the uncertainty of truth.
Leonard Zelig (Woody Allen) is a man so introverted and insecure that he has developed the ability to blend perfectly into the background of any given situation, regardless of the personality or even ethnicity of the people around him. But when he inadvertently becomes famous as "the human chameleon" after the media takes too keen an interest in his therapy sessions with Dr. Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow), Zelig is faced with an unprecedented challenge: how do you fade into the background when the spotlight is firmly upon you?
A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anything to achieve success, this fascinating, compelling story crackles with taut direction and whiplash dialogue. Bristling with vivid performances by Curtis and Lancaster, this gutsy expose of big-city corruption is a timeless classic that cuts deep and sends a chilling message. It's late at night in the steamy, neon-lit streets of New York's Times Square, and everything's buzzing with nervous energy. But press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is oblivious to the whirlwind of street vendors, call girls and con men bustling around him as he nervously waits for the early edition of The Globe. Whose career did gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) launch today… and whose did he destroy?
The ultimate super computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller. When computer genius Charles Forbin creates a massive computer complex that is capable of independently regulating the national defence of the United States, it appears that no enemy will ever be able to penetrate it's sovereign borders. But such a promising thought turns into a stunning nightmare when it's discovered the Russians have built an equally sophisticated computer and that these two 'doomsday machines' have linked, sharing classified information and national secrets. Desperately Forbin and his Soviet counterparts try to stop the all-knowing 'monster' computers from seizing command of the world's nuclear missile stockpiles.
This science-fiction "inner space" thriller, one of the most amazing ever conceived, follows a crew of medical scientists on an incredible submarine journey through the human body and into the brain to perform a delicate repair operation. The team must combat the elements of the living body as well as a saboteur in their midst. But first they have to be miniaturised to microbe size for their fantastic adventure.
The explosive, courage-filled story of the Allied Resistance and the Paris Liberation of 1944. As the Nazi jackboot marches through Europe, the freedom fighters of Paris mount a brave resistance. An insane and desperate Hitler sends a top general to determine if the Nazis can hold the city. If not, Paris will be burned. With a powerful script by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola, this epic film boasts an international cast of screen legends, including Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kirk Douglas, Yves Montand, Leslie Caron, Anthony Perkins and Orson Welles. Is Paris Burning? is a staggering portrait of heroism and brotherhood, and one of the most riveting stories to come out of World War II
Miles Kendig is a veteran CIA agent who finds himself reduced to a desk job after the arrival of new boss Myerson. Refusing to take it lying down he disappears and begins to write his memoirs, threatening to lift the lid on the world's top intelligence agencies. He soon has both the CIA and the KGB in hot pursuit but Kendig is a hard man to keep up with. Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson are the perfect comic partnership in this classic spy caper from celebrated director Ronald Neame.
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