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Channel 4's celebrated political thriller, first broadcast in 1987, is adapted from the novel by Frederic Lindsay, voted one of the best Scottish books of all time. Stratford Johns plays the title role of Brond, the menacing mastermind behind the Scottish liberation army.

John Hannah stars as Robert, a Glasgow University student drawn into the web of political intrigue. Robert is the sole witness to the murder of a small boy. That same evening he encounters the assailant, Brond, at a party hosted by his professor. Brond is introduced as an old friend by Professor Gracemont, which stops a perplexed Robert from exposing him. Margaret (Louise Beattie), a fellow student who Robert is keen on, asks him to keep a parcel safe for Brond. Despite Robert's desperate efforts to get rid of it, he and the mysterious package are taken to Brond. Brond appears to take a keen interest in him and, against his will, Robert is pulled into a succession of violent and horrifying events. A tale of evil and exploitation in the nightmarish landscape of a Glasgow where nothing is as it seems.

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In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home after a long absence with his gang in low. There is friction in the ranks.

Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house to reach his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. His odyssey is hindered by dreamlike episodes and familial phantoms, an emotional journey that reveals secrets about the mysterious Pick family.

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Ten years ago, the Comanche took Jefferson Cody's (Randolph Scott) wife. He's never given up looking for her. While tracking her down, Cody finds another white woman, Nancy Lowe (Nancy Gates), and rescues her from the Comanche.

Now he must get her home safely across hostile Indian territory to her husband, who has offered a reward. But as Cody and Nancy flee the Comanche, they are joined by Ben Lane (Claude Akins) and his boys - vicious desperados who just might want the reward for themselves...

One of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time, 'Days of Heaven' is a moving story about two men who love the same woman. Bill (Richard Gere), a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan (Sam Shepard) for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams).

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Peter Greenaway, one of the most inventive, ambitious and controversial film-makers of our time, explores the life of celebrated 16th century Dutch artist and printer Hendrik Goltzius in this brilliant showcase of Greenaways legendary trademarks of breathtaking visuals and provocative

subject-matter. In the winter of 1590, Goltzius (Ramsey Nasr) attempts to persuade his patron, the Margrave of Alsace (F. Murray Abraham), to pay for a printing press which will enable him to create a pioneering deluxe edition of the Old Testament featuring illustrations of such erotic tales as the story of Lot and his daughters, the adultery of David and Bathsheba and the seduction of Joseph by Potiphar's Wife. To sweeten the deal, Goltzius, along with the members of his Pelican Printing Company, offers to stage live dramatisations of six biblical tales, each of which will demonstrate a different sexual taboo...

After his girlfriend is decapitated in a car accident, Dr Bill Cortner keeps her head alive whilst he tries to find the perfect body on which to put it!

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Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger, forced to flee to France to escape civil war by posing as a family with a woman and young girl he has never previously met.

Finding work as a caretaker of a housing block in the Parisian suburbs, Dheepan works to build a new life and home for his 'wife' and 'daughter', but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens the violence from his past, and he is left fighting for their livelihood, and eventually their lives. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, and winner of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, 'Dheepan' is a powerful tale of family, love, social integration, and the overwhelming effects of warfare.

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Presenting the first look into the vibrant world of consummate filmmaker Robert Altman, film reveals the organic evolution of 'Short Cuts', one of the director's ensemble masterpieces, as he adapts Raymond Carver's trenchant stories into the genre he perfected.

Granting directors Mike Kaplan and video pioneer John Dorr unprecedented access to his 22 stars and creative team throughout filming, we witness Altman's legendary "improvisational" process, the entertaining insights of his collaborators , and his unique observations on life, art and culture. Whether it's Jack Lemmon's excitement at performing his egg trick, Julianne Moore's description of her breakthrough role, Peter Gallagher's choreography in chain-sawing furniture, artist Don Bachardy capturing the cast on canvas , poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's widow, surprising Altman with a Carver gift, or the maestro himself cracking up during Jennifer Jason Leigh's phone sex calls, film unfolds with the natural flow of an Altman film, which perhaps caused him to say, "I never thought it would be this artful".

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... A bizarro world of frog butlers, topless princesses, machine-gun toting teachers, eccentric dwarves, their demonic wives, and the Devil himself (Danny Elfman). You've never seen anything like it...! Check your basement.

Is there door to the 6th Dimension there? If so, you're going on a wild ride into excess as you join Frenchy and Rene in a land of musical madness, despotic queens and strange frog man-servants. If you've tired of Rocky Horror and enough of Hedwig, it's time to 'The Forbidden Zone', a demented tribute to the hot jazz and dark glamour of a lost age, featuring new wave pop music and Cab Calloway-style insanity, filtered through the mind of a maniac!

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Set in America during the Great Depression, "Emperor of the North" is the story of a violent battle of wills between a sadistic train guard, Shack, (Ernest Borgnine) who has vowed no vagrant will ride his tram and survive, and a single-minded drifter.

Number 1, (Lee Marvin) who is determined to make a lie of the boast. Bound together by their mutual loathing, Shack and Number 1 hurtle together across America aboard the steam train, locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, as each seeks to secure their position in local legend by destroying the other.

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Breezy (Kay Lenz), a young, footloose hitch-hiker escaping from a lecherous driver, takes refuge in the car of Frank Harman (William Holden). He's a divorced, middle-aged real estate agent and these two very different people don't see eye to eye when they come across an injured dog.

But somehow he and Breezy come to forge an unusual relationship, against conventional expectations.

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Trojan Warrior is a gangster action comedy that revolves around the exploits of our hero Ajax and his cousin Theo. Theo is a small time criminal. A lovable rogue with a runaway libido.

Ajax, ex-Special Forces, is fearless, determined and his speed, power and technical wizardry make him a one-man army. As a bagman for the mob, Theo knows too much so when the Feds movie in on Underworld boss Poroni a price is put on his 'head'. What follows is a three-day roller coaster ride where Ajax must protect Theo as well as foiling Poroni's greatest ever heist.

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Something was calling George Moran (Peter Weller) away from his quiet Miami retreat...the haunting memory of his violent brush with death during the US invasion of the Dominican Republic.

Whilst on a trip to Santo Domingo in search of the woman who saved his life, George instead reunites with a woman whose love could cost him everything.

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Winner of the 1952 Venice Film Festival silver lion award, Kenji Mizoguchi's tragic tale, set in the 17th Century, of a young noblewoman's fall from grace established his reputation as one of Japan's greatest directors.

Kinuyo Tanaka stars as O-Haru, a beautiful courtesan who surrenders to her passion for a commoner, played by Toshiro Mifune. As punishment, she and her parents are banished into exile where O-Haru desperately attempts to escape her past. A compelling and powerful critique of feudal Japan as seen through the eyes of a woman, 'The Life of O-Haru' portrays the human dramas and historical settings with unflinching realism and atmospheric detail, demonstrating Mizoguchi's complete mastery of the medium.

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Denied a job because of his colour, Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) joins a radical civil rights group and begins taking matters into his own hands. This eventually leads to a bloody and violent confrontation with the police.

The story is told in a series of flashbacks, set against the confrontation.