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Timothy Spall plays Peter, a Bank worker living a mundane, routine life in Manchester. After an unexpected early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in sunny Benidorm, only to discover that he has disappeared.

As Peter searches for clues, his encounters with an eclectic cast of characters only lead to further confusion. In looking for his brother, can he ultimately rediscover himself?

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The government refuses to listen to scientists, but private industrialists finance the building of a spaceship, which will carry a limited number of people to another planet to begin a new civilization. As doomsday approaches, they race against time and the panic of those who will be left behind.

The potential pulverizing impact of the collision, the massive tidal waves and devastating earthquakes, and the final cosmic smashup make a chilling panorama of disaster. The balance between human and planetary drama is excellently maintained as the movie builds to its fascinating, unforgettable climax.

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In this landmark film, passion and tragedy collide on a military base as a fateful day in December 1941 draws near. Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is a soldier and former boxer being manipulated by his superior and peers.

His friend Maggio (Frank Sinatra) tries to help him but has his own troubles. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster) and Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr) tread on dangerous ground as lovers in an illicit affair. Each of their lives will be changed when their stories culminate in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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When he was a young boy and saw his father killed by an organized group of criminals, Tolly Devlin (Cliff Robertson) decided that he would track down those responsible and make them pay for their act of violence that cause his father's death.

After landing in jail when convicted on a burglary charge Tolly tracks down the leader of the gangsters who killed his father and extracts the names of the others who all have covers as respectable business men in a company that is a front for a criminal organization. When Tolly saves the life of mob drug courier Cuddles (Dolores Dorn) he realizes he can learn more about the crime organization and revenge his father's murder. When FBI operative Driscoll (Larry Gates) approaches Tolly with a deal to give them information in exchange for a conviction of the guilty men, Tolly refuses until he discovers the ring leader Conners (Robert Emhardt) who appears untouchable. Tolly concocts a scheme with Driscoll of supplying mis-information to the crooks which turns them against themselves, and it appears the police will have them all arrested until Tolly takes matters into his own hands.

Big game hunter, Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea), barely survives a shipwreck in shark infested waters and washes ashore on the private island of Count Zaroff (played with a delightful zeal by Leslie Banks). Zaroff fancies himself an accomplished hunter also - only his preferred quarry, is man!

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In 1912 Mack Sennett and two friends decided to invest their money to form the soon-to-be acclaimed "Keystone Production Company". The new film company went on to produce highly successful classic comedies which encapsulate the era with their fast, furious, slapstick comedy.

These short movies are fondly looked upon as they include such performers as Fatty Arbuckle, Mark Swain and the much loved Keystone Kops which were to become some of the most infamous movies of the silent era.

Short Films Include:
- Mabels's Wilful Way (1915)
- Ambrose's Nasty Temper (1915)
- That Little Band of Gold (1915)
- Ambrose's Sour Grapes (1915)
- Mabel and Fatty's Married Life (1915)
- When Ambrose Dared Walrus (1915)
- Wandering Willies (1926)

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In one of his most exciting roles, the inimitable Bogie plays Rip Murdock, an ex-G.I. trying to find out who framed his pal Johnny for murder-and then rubbed him out! Tracing his war buddy's shadowy past leads Rip to Coral Chandler (Lizabeth Scott), who was once Johnny's sweetheart.

Now she's a chanteuse in a nightclub run by a brutal gangster. Martinelli (Morris Carnovsky). Rip gets a taste of the beautiful blonde's seductive charms and soon finds himself ensnared in a twisted web of deceit and danger. Is Coral an innocent thrush-or is she a predatory siren leading Bogie to the Dead Reckoning?

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Stephen McNally is Lightning, the quick-drawing marshal of Silver City who's intent on capturing a ruthless gang of claim jumpers that have been terrorising and murdering local miners - including his best friend.

After losing the use of his famed trigger finger in a shootout, Lightning deputizes the sharp-shooting Silver Kid (Audie Murphy), whose own father was killed by the gang, to help bring the outlaws to justice. But their plans are complicated when Lightening falls for the beautiful new lady in town (Faith Domergue), whose interest in the marshal is a thin disguise for her own dangerous agenda, in this unforgettable drama brimming with pulse-pounding thrills, danger-tinged romance and gun-blazing glory!

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When multiple residents of a small Californian town begin to suffer from identical frenzied delusions, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) suspects the community is in the grip of a new kind of epidemic.

But his investigations soon reveal the terrifying truth - uncovering not a medical emergency, but a hidden extraterrestrial invasion that threatens mankind's very existence.

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Eddie Rico (Richard Conte), a former accountant for crime-boss Sid Kubik (Larry Gates), has gone straight, with the blessings of Kubik who owed his life to Rico's mother (Argentina Brunetti) when she stopped a bullet meant for him.

Eddie and his wife, Alice (Dianne Foster), are looking to adopt a baby when Eddie learns that the syndicate is looking for his brother, so they can get him out of the country before the police can find and question him. Eddie finds him, but the mobsters double-cross him and kill his brother just as they had killed another brother of Eddie's. Eddie decides to go to the police but Kubik puts out the word to get him also.

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A range war is coming to the valley. Ambitious land baron Lew Wilkison (Edward G. Robinson) and his hired guns from the Anchor Ranch have been driving other farmers off their land. Now they've gunned down the local sheriff and are looking to own the entire valley.

Civil War veteran Captain John Parrish (Glenn Ford) doesn't want any trouble. He'd be happy to sell out to Wilkison and return back east. But when Wilkison's men kill one of his ranch hands, Parrish realises he has to stand his ground - and look to his guns.

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Don Siegel (Madigan) directs 'The Lineup', a brutal film noir loosely based on the radio and television series of the same name.

Beginning as a straightforward police procedural, the film shifts into much darker territory as Julian and Dancer, two sociopathic gangsters played by Robert Keith (The Wild One) and Eli Wallach (The People Next Door), must retrieve a parcel of heroin that has ended up in the possession of unwitting tourists. With a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant (Murphy's War), The Lineup's influence stretches from Bob Dylan, who quoted its dialogue in Absolutely Sweet Marie', to Quentin Tarantino, whose erudite gangsters bear a close resemblance to Julian and Dancer.

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Jim Brecan (Robert Ryan) may have killed his partner, a local prince in British Burma.

The bereaved father wants Brecan's head, but until the murder can be solved, Brecan finds refuge on the teak plantation of wealthy colonial elephant trainer Gwen Moore (Barbara Stanwyck), where mutual attraction occurs.

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Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of Cochise County, Arizona.

However, Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan), a one-time gunslinger turned United States Marshall arrives to restore democratic law and order and soon all roads lead to a violent stand off. Exploring the sexual attraction between Drummond and Bonnell, Fuller (Shock Corridor) takes a characteristically singular approach to the genre, giving it a thrillingly personal and uncompromising vision. Handsomely shot and with knockout performances from Stanwck and Sullivan, this is an essential viewing experience ripe for rediscovery.

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Feeble George (George Formby), a newspaper compositor with delusions of being a detective, wins big at the races - but when the winnings are changed from three tenners to more manageable fivers they're replaced with counterfeit notes.

Suitably annoyed, George puts his sleuthing skills to the test and goes undercover!