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After being blinded, a young woman Sarah (Mia Farrow) goes to live in the English countryside with relatives. Out on a date with a boyfriend, she escapes the fate of her relatives who are murdered by a crazed killer.

She finally makes the gruesome discovery of their bodies and has to flee on horseback. She is rescued but the murderer is still out there.

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At the height of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, four German exiles in Hollywood - director Fritz Lang, playwright Bertolt Brecht (earning his only US credit), composer Hanns Eisler and actor Hans Heinrich von Twardowski - pooled their talents to create Hangmen Also Die!, a remarkable film

about the Czech resistance. Twardowski plays Reinhard Heydrich, an SS Obergruppenfuhrer and the 'Reich-Protector' of Czechoslovakia, known alternately as The Hangman' and The Butcher of Prague'. When he is assassinated by a surgeon (played by Brian Donlevy), the city is locked down and the doctor must rely on the help of the resistance to evade capture.

While a police-eluding serial killer prowls the New York streets, newspaper publisher Walter Kyne pits his three top newsmen against each other to catch the maniac and scoop the story, but in the ensuing chase the hounds become entangled in professional rivalry and romantic complications - with deadly consequences.

Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster (Boris Karloff) out of lifeless body parts.

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When Orfamay Quest hires Philip Marlowe (James Garner) to find her brother, it seems like just another missing persons case. But soon enough Marlowe's investigation leads him on a trail of blackmail and murder, all of it seemingly linked to a mobster and his TV star mistress.

Luscious starlets, pugnacious gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks...welcome to Marlowe country!

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In Luis Bunuel's darkly comic psychodrama, a reawakened childhood memory convinces rich, cultured Archibaldo (Ernesto Alonso) that he is able to cause the death of others. But his murderous impulses are frustrated at every turn, driving him to find ever more inventive ways to fulfil his desires.

A key work of his Mexican period, Bunuel's gloriously twisted film anticipates his later works with an ambiguous tale of erotic obsession. Full of pitch-black humour and surrealist flourishes, the film is an unjustly neglected gem from one of cinema's greatest artists.

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One by one, the victims fell, each death more gruesome than the last. The actual murders that rocked Boston in the 60's are the gripping subject matter of this unforgettable police thriller. Henry Fonda stars as the investigating police detective.

Tony Curtis delivers a stunning performance as the psychopath Fonda must conquer. Filmed in a documentary style that makes the horrifying events all the more real, 'The Boston Strangler' is one of the most powerful films in its genre.

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Inspector Maigret (Albert Prejean) of the Parisian police has recently been bothered rather too often by Cecile Pardon (Santa Relli), who insists on speaking to him frequently.

Each time, she reports to Maigret that someone has been breaking into the house she shares with her elderly aunt late at night, but the Inspector is much too busy investigating a gang of counterfeiters to look into her fanciful claims. He can't ignore Cecile for long, though - for soon Cecile is dead, murdered in the very same police station in which she has been pleading for his help.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.

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An utterly wild comedy epic directed by Steven Spielberg and nominated for three Academy Awards".

Lavish effects sequences highlight this hilarious, all star extravaganza set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of a Japanese Invasion threw the city into a state of Pandemonium. Screwball characters run wild on Hollywood Boulevard as manic servicemen, zealous store owners, teary-eyed girls and bickering Nazis are thrown together in this fast-rising comic souffle that even features a sendup of Spielberg's own Jaws opening.

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Three of France's most beloved fictional detectives are on the case in 'Full House' (Brelan d'as), a portmanteau policier from director Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan).

First, Monsieur Wens (Raymond Rouleau), created by Stanislas-André Steeman (Quai des Orfèvres), is puzzled by a case in which the chief suspect seems to have the perfect alibi - he was with Wens at the time of the murder. Secondly, Peter Cheyney's Lemmy Caution (John van Dreelan) becomes entangled with a femme fatale as he tackles a jewel robbery. The final segment focuses on George Simenon's Inspector Maigret, as Michel Simon (L'Atalante) solves a murder from his sickbed with the aid of an altar boy. Verneuil's masterful triple-helping of post-war Gallic noir boasts a screenplay co-written by Jacques Companêez (Casque d'or) and André Tabet (Witness in the City).

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Young lawyer Robert Blair (Michael Denison) is called on in desperation by two women, mother and daughter, who live in a large, isolated house known as The Franchise, and have been questioned by the police in connection with a peculiar accusation.

As feelings in the local village run high, the police build up a case on a formidable amount of circumstantial evidence - against which Blair can put only the improbability of the charge, and some unsuccessful amateur detection...

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Romance and heartbreak walk hand-in-hand when Philip Chagal (Charles Boyer) accidentally meets Helen Lawrence (Irene Dunne) in a restaurant where she is a waitress.

Unhappily married to a woman who suffers from mental illness, he is attracted to her and they make a date to go sailing, arriving at Philip's country home just as a storm is breaking. Helen learns who he is for the first time, a celebrated-and-famous concert pianist and, falling in love with him, decides to leave before matters go further. A hurricane hits and their car is crippled by a falling tree. Rising water forces then to seek shelter in the choir loft of a church, where they spend the night. They are rescued in the morning and Helen meets Philip's wife, and learns their story. Helen and Philip meet once more, and Philip sails to Europe with his wife but promises to come back some day.

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Pretty Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray) has her pick of men. There's her boyfriend, the sophisticated Victor (Eric Portman), and now there's Jack... He's the humble bus conductor who comes to her rescue after the bus stalls and delays her journey by an hour.

She was on her way to meet Victor at the Hampstead Heath fairground and Jack gallantly escorts her there. Sparks fly between the pair as they share ice cream and enjoy the fair while keeping an eye out for Victor. When they finally reunite, Anne and Victor head for home at the same time a young woman is found dead on the Heath. She appears to be the latest victim of The Strangler', a notorious serial killer who has already struck five times before. With Jack seen storming away from the scene and Victor's handkerchief found near the body, the police seize both men to appear in the lineup of potential suspects. A crazed game of cat and mouse ensues and Anne soon finds herself in serious danger. The police are up against time in this race to draw the threads together - but in the end, which neck will they close around? Will the police get their killer before he gets Anne?

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A ruthless kidnapper and blackmailer called Marlowe has abducted a young boy. After imprisoning the child in a deserted house, Marlowe gives him a toy golly for comfort. But hidden inside is a time bomb which is set to explode at tend the following morning.

Marlowe coolly drives to visit the boy's wealthy father and demands a ransom of £50,000 in order to have his son returned alive. Inspector Parnell and Sergeant Grey are called in when the boy's father decides to pay the ransom. But Inspector Parnell chooses to play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the kidnapper as the young boy plays with his new toy. Meanwhile the clock is ticking...