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Scilla (Wendy Craig) is fed up with her husband. His fondness of the bottle and flirtatious behaviour with the stars of his numerous television productions drives her to leave him to his selfish ways.

She quits her job as a singer on one of his shows and moves in with a friend, planning to build herself the ideal home - one designed perfectly for baths and parties. 'Just Like a Woman' captures the bright swinging sixties. It's bold, colourful and sometimes surrealist design is seen through the wary eyes of the bickering couple as they try their best to be more 'kooky' and daring than the other.

Two reporters, Mullen (Gabriel Byrne) and Bayliss (Denholm Elliott), receive an anonymous tip-off on a breaking political scandal regarding an MP, a call girl and an East German military attache. But when Bayliss suddenly dies, Mullen realises that the story goes far deeper than anyone imagined.

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Jimmy Corona (James Lorinz) is a struggling writer, down on his luck. His girlfriend Lori (Sandra Bullock) has walked out and the debts are piling up. After several hilarious failed suicide attempts, he decides to write a book about the Mafia.

Jimmy goes to see his uncle Tony (Tony Darrow), a New York "Wiseguy", who agrees to get him into the Mob. He is partnered with "Bink Bink" Borelli (John Costelloe), a young thug on the rise, who soon grows tired of Jimmy's inability to hand the "Goodfella" lifestyle! Eventually Jimmy is put to the ultimate test ... he will have to kill someone to "make his bones" or face up to his luck finally running out...

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Three titans of European cinema team up for a stylish film based on the works of macabre author Edgar Allen Poe.

Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini direct Jane and Peter Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, and Terence Stamp in three separate stories of souls tormented by their own phantasmal visions of guilt, lust and greed. Vadim directs the first segment, 'Metzengerstein', with Jane Fonda portraying the spoiled, vicious Frederique. Malle takes the middle slot with 'William Wilson', featuring Alain Delon as the troubled hero, a man who has been haunted since childhood by a man with his exact name. Fellini's segment, 'Toby Dammit', features Terence Stamp as a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. 'Spirits of the Dead' is a real gem for those who enjoy the surreal and grotesque.

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On his wedding trip to Las Vegas, Jack Singer (Nicolas Cage), a commitment-phobe bridegroom, loses an expensive round of Poker to professional high-stakes gambler, Tommy Korman (James Caan).

Unable to cover his loss, Jack agrees to turn his fiance, Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker), over to Tommy for the weekend. Jack realizes too late that the game was all a setup to get Tommy close to Betsy, who's a dead ringer for Tommy's late wife. jack must then track down Tommy and Betsy to reclaim his fiance, the girl of his dreams. Who will be the lucky couple to celebrate their Honeymoon in Vegas?

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A handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces each family member, not forgetting the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs.

Unable to endure the void left in their lives, the father (Massimo Girotti) hands over his factory to the workers, the son abandons his vocation as a painter, the mother (Silvana Mangano) abandons herself to random sexual encounters, and the daughter sinks into catatonia. The maid (Laura Betti), however, becomes a saint. In this cool, richly complex and provocative political allegory Pasolini uses his schematic plot to explore family dynamics, the intersection of class and sex, and the nature of different sexualities. After winning a prize at Venice Festival, Theorem was subsequently banned on an obscenity charge, but Pasolini later won an acquittal on ground of the film's 'high artistic value'. Theorem is visually ravishing, with superb performances from all the cast and a brilliantly eclectic soundtrack - with music ranging from Mozart and Morricone to the natural sound of chirping birds.

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British journalist Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) comes under suspicion of murder when the body of a young American (Audie Murphy) is found floating in the river. Their story is told in flashback, as the American arrives in Vietnam looking to end the Indo-Chinese war being covered by Fowler.

Fowler's girlfriend falls for the American, prompting the journalist to take part in a Communist plot to kill him.

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When gorgeous young French model Ann-Marie (Penny Irving) appears naked in public, she is snatched away by her new boyfriend, Mark E.

Desade (Robert Tayman) and hurled into the secret women's prison run by his parents - a disgraced prison governess (Barbara Markham) and a blind, senile judge (Patrick Barr). Now she and her fellow inmates face the starkest of choices - submit or die. But Ann-Marie gambles everything on a third option - escape...

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Steve McQueen stars as Boon, a roguish hired hand who "borrows" his employer's new automobile, a spectacular Winton Flyer, and takes off for Memphis. Accompanying him are Ned, the black stable hand (Rupert Crosse) and Lucius (Mitch Vogel), an earnest 12-year old on the verge of losing his innocence.

The three "reivers" (thieves) set out on a wild escapade that takes them everywhere from a brothel to a spectacular horse race where Lucius must ride a stallion to victory if he is to win back the Winton that Ned swapped for the horse.

This terrific suspense movie contains a marvellous series of ingenious plot twists and multiple climaxes, superbly wrought by screenwriter Alistair MacLean, with a super cast headed by Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton.

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East End gang chief Vic Dakin (Richard Burton) is a violent psychopath who lives with his mother (Cathleen Nesbitt) whilst making a living by running a prosperous protection racket.

After a tip off for a potential payroll heist opportunity, Dakin starts planning the job, bringing in a gang from the criminal underworld alongside associate Wolfe Lissner (Ian McShane). Tough copper Detective Inspector Robert Matthews (Nigel Davenport) has been tasked to arrest Dakin when he makes his first mistake and is watching his every move, determined to catch him in the act. When a gang member is hospitalised and Matthews is closing in, can Dakin silence him before he confesses all?

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When the San Francisco Giants pay centerfielder Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan Gil Renard (Robert De Niro).

So when Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard stops at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory...not even murder.

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Based on the best-selling novel by Daphne du Maurier (author of the peerless Rebecca), My Cousin Rachel (1952) weaves an eerie tale of Gothic romance, set against the backdrop of the wild, rock-ribbed Cornish coast.

Richard Burton, in his first American film role, stars as an anguished young Englishman, torn between dark suspicion of and an uncontrollable passion for his guardian's widow, the alluring and mysterious Rachel (Olivia de Havilland). With atmospheric direction by Henry Koster (The Robe) and a darkly romantic score by Franz Waxman (Sunset Boulevard), 'My Cousin Rachel' is a seductive entry in the annals of cinematic ambiguity.

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Richard Burton is a British intelligence officer who leads a daring attack on the German shore defences at Tobruk in this explosive WWII drama.

Infiltrating a German POW convoy, Captain Foster learns that the commandos he hoped to link up with have been almost completely wiped out, and the prisoners belong to a British medical unit. Aided by MacKenzie, one of the surviving commandos, he vows to carry out his mission, which is further complicated by the presence of an Italian general's mistress. together, Foster and Mac whip the ragtag band of POWs into a fighting force that overthrows and impersonates its captors - only to stumble into an unexpected meeting with Rommel!

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In director Robert Altman’s final masterpiece, A Prairie Home Companion tells the tale of a much loved US radio show still surviving in the age of television.

Garrison Keillor joins forces with an all star cast in this tale of the last ever live recording of one of America’s broadcasting institutions. The show broadcasters, WLT, have been bought out by Texan conglomerate who decide to axe the show and its cast. Garrison Keillor as hangdog MC leads the veteran performers including Yolanda and Rhonda – the Johnson sisters and Dusty and Lefty, The Old Trail Hands, as they make their final performance and reminisce of times gone by.