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London crime boss Mick Roman (Gary Webster) is deathly ill, and time is running out to find a successor. His only options are an aging consigliere or an impulsive enforcer, and neither are suitable to take the throne.

Meanwhile, chaos reigns over the family who are coping with a paranoid ex-soldier, the return of a rebellious niece, and a drug-fuelled business meeting in Amsterdam. With deceit, ambition and infighting on the rise, this Roman empire may be about to fall.

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Geena Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on a airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by a rude, foul-mouthed "hero", who promptly disappears into the night..

leaving only his shoe behind. When Gale's TV Station offers a million dollars to the mystery hero, a gentle Vietnam vet (Andy Garcia) appears to claim the prize - and share it with the city's homeless. But this screwball Cinderella story is complicated by the fact that the real hero is a small-time crook (Hoffman) whom nobody believes. Both men have something heroic inside, as well as something to hide, and it's up to Gale to discover the true meaning of courage.

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Crewman Andrew Braddock (Michael York) survives the wreck of the sailing ship The Lady Vain. After several days at sea in a lifeboat, he reaches the shores of an island governed by the mysterious scientist "Dr. Moreau" (Burt Lancaster).

Though welcomed as an honored guest by Moreau, Braddock finds his contact with the natives increasingly disturbing, for they are not like any men he has ever seen before. Eventually, it becomes apparent that these 'men' are, in fact, the hybrid products of Moreau's experiments upon various species of wild animals. Braddock becomes so shocked and curious that Moreau explains to him that he has invented a serum with a genetic human gene that can transform many wild animals into human beings giving them human characteristics. Braddock finds himself threatened by both the 'mammals' and the sinister Moreau, who he suspects has plans to experiment on him.

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The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is given a new twist when seen through the innocent eyes of Dr. Jekyll's housemaid, Mary Reilly. Mary (Julia Roberts) is sensitive to the needs and weaknesses of her master, Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Malkovich) and is prepared to do almost anything for him.

Her trust is a blessing as the doctor embarks on a new, dangerous experiment - one that will bring about a meeting between Mary and Dr. Jekyll's sinister assistant Mr. Hyde. Although Mary remains devoted to her brilliant but rather reserved employer, she finds herself attracted to the charms of the mysterious Mr. Hyde. Together Mary and Mr. Hyde share a terrible secret that will cast both fear and danger on the Jekyll household. Mary Reilly must confront her own personal demons and dangerous desires if she is to survive and vanquish one of humanity's greatest evils.

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Labour and management at the sleeptite Pajama Factory aren't sleeping much lately: a proposed 7 1/2 cent hourly wage increase is why - and a strike may result.

But negotiations here involve snappy stars, terrific tunes and dynamic dances as Doris Day, John Raitt and a Broadway-seasoned cast play The Pajama Game.

A jealous businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair and hires an eccentric private detective to investigate. The suspected infidelity, however, is not what it appears, and an elaborate game of cat and mouse ensues...

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Carol Reed's whimsical 1950s comedy-drama. In a working-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe (Jonathan Ashmore), a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne (Celia Johnson), who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop.

Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realise the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky (David Kossoff) the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. But can his dreams ever come true?

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Gary Sheller's (Martin Freeman) days in a successful band with the world at his feet are a distant memory. Now he spends his days writing ad jingles for his best friend (Simon Pegg) before going home to a relationship that is just as unfulfilling.

But when he learns to control his dreams, he discovers a whole new world of beautiful women and endless possibilities. It's there that he meets the woman of his dreams (Penelope Cruz). But when the lines between his fantasy world and reality start to blur with hilarious consequences, Gary finally has to wake up and smell the coffee.

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A brash, exhilarating comedy set in New York's hip underground, 'Greetings' follows the adventures of a young man (Robert De Niro) trying to help his best friend fail an Army physical.

Sexy, loose and zany, the result is a hilarious, off beat attack of a whole bevy of juicy targets, from assassinations to free love.

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Inspired by true events. Having successfully pulled off a daring jewel heist, Paul Clifton (Stanley Baker) prepares to hit a mail train heading south from Glasgow.

Several difficulties stand in his way, however, not the least of which is the police - who are hot on his tail and already know he's planning something bigger...

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At a hospice facility nestled in the mountains of Southern California three very different families face the one thing they have in common: one member of each family is in the last stages of a terminal illness.

There is a sophisticated, divorced couple (Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer)who still care about one another; a blue collar married couple (Valerie Harper, James Broderick) and their teenage son (Curtiss Marlowe); and a once pretty, unappreciated spinster daughter (Melinda Diillon) and her dying mother (Sylvia Sidney). A critically acclaimed drama of death - and life.

Life in small town Mississippi means fishing, drinking and singing the blues. But when a dead body is discovered, everyone in Holly Springs soon becomes involved in the liveliest and funniest murder mystery the South has ever seen.

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Chris and Tim are a couple of college students whose hopes of getting into Harvard are fading fast. But they have a plan. A little-known college charter would guarantee them the grades they need - no work required.

The catch? Their room-mate, Rand, has to kill himself and then they'll automatically receive straight 'A's to help them get over their grief. So, figuring Rand deserves to die anyway, Chris and Tim plan to murder him. Scheming to make it look like he took his own life, they plan to be on their way to Harvard quicker than you can say "suicide"...

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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.