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Lt. Mark Benson (Robert Ryan) is the leader of a platoon that has just been given orders to advance to Hill 465, where they are to join awaiting troops and advance on the territory. While Benson and his men are weary, they have little choice but to comply.

Needing a transport for their weapons, Benson and his men commandeer a truck, only to discover that it's not empty - Sgt. "Montana" Williamette (Aldo Ray) has been ordered to escort a colonel (Robert Keith) suffering from extreme battle fatigue to a field hospital for examination and treatment. While Benson's loyalty is to his troops and his mission, Montana refuses to turn over the truck; the colonel is one of the only men he's been able to rely on during his stretch in the Army, and he is determined to stand by him in his time of need. Either way, the men find themselves frequently confronted by danger, and their numbers are decimated when they're ambushed by enemy troops.

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It's the legendary James Stewart at his leading-man finest in this timeless western that set the standard for all that followed.

Frontiersman Lin McAdam (Stewart) is attempting to track down both his father's murderer and his one-of-a-kind rifle, the 'Winchester '73', as it passes among a diverse group of desperate characters, including a crazed highwayman (Dan Duryea), an immoral gunrunner (John Mclntire), a savage young Indian chief (Rock Hudson) and McAdam's own murderous brother (Stephen McNally). Featuring Shelley Winters as the rifle's only rival for McAdam's interest and Tony Curtis in one of his first screen performances, the gripping tale of the men (and gun) who won the West is one of Stewart's most memorable films and one of the genre's most enduring classics.

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Set against the outbreak of World War I, 'A Promise' centres on Charlotte Hoffmeister a married woman who falls in love with her husbands protege, Friedrich Zeitz (Richard Madden).

Bound by duty and divided by the impending war, the young lovers pledge their devotion to each other in spite of what their future holds. Adapted from Stefan Zweig's novel Journey into the Past and directed by Patrice Leconte, 'A Promise' is a passionate and romantic drama about forbidden love.

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"Women Talking Dirty" is a touching comic story of two women, who truly test the meaning of the phrase "best friend." Together, Ellen (Gina McKee) and Cora (Helena Bonham Carter) help each other with all that life throws at them - lovers, divorce, children, debts and too much vodka.

A colourful and quirky set of friends (James Nesbitt, Richard Wilson) share in their ups and downs, and force the pair to unravel a dark secret that they unknowingly share.

Sixty-year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy (Roddy McDowall) in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgans, and his devoted parents (Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood), while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.

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After the death of her lover, Wilma takes over his bootlegging business, but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred, who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist.

In the meantime, Wilma also kidnaps the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom. Will Wilma and Fred be able to retire with their ill-gotten gains, or will the law eventually catch up with them?

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The crew of the SS Glencairn, composed by lonely men, need to transport explosive ammunition from the United States to London, in the beginning of World War II. Along their journey, drunkenness, fights, suspicion, deaths, and trouble caused by the German planes, fill their lives.

Only Ole Olsen (John Wayne) wants to change his life, moving back home to Stockholm, Sweden.

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Threatened from the East and West, Japan and the Tokugawa Shogunate are dangerously unstable. Lord Li Naosuke, the 'Red Devil', has raised up a puppet figure to become the Shogun lemoshil. The year is 1860. Among his opposition is the Mito Clan. Undefeated, they are planning his assassination.

Amongst their numbers is one Niiro Tsurichiyo (Toshiro Mifune). The illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman, Niiro has been brought up in a merchants household, harbouring ambitions to become a samurai. A swordsman of outstanding ability, a social outcast, earning his living through brawling and blackmail. Now the Mito Clan suspect him of being a spy. Mifune holds the screen with a commanding performanceof an unprincipled man who moves to the brink of personal tradgedy in an action that threatens to destroy a dynasty.

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Brian De Palma's inspired rock 'n' roll fusion of Faust, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray boasts an Oscar-nominated score by Paul Williams, who also stars as an evil record producer who not only steals the work of composer/performer Winslow Leach (William Finley) but gets him

locked up in Sing Sing - and that's not the worst that happens to him along the way.
Few revenge scenarios have ever been so amply justified, but the film is also constantly aware of the satirical possibilities offered by the 1970s music industry, exemplified by Gerrit Graham's hilariously camp glam-rock star. Jessica Harper (Suspiria) appears in her first major role as the naive but ambitious singer, on whom Winslow secretly dotes.
Prodigiously inventive both musically and visually, this is one of De Palma's most entertaining romps, not least because it was so clearly a labour of love.

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A fugitive couple, Amedee Lange (René Lefèvre) and Valentine (Florelle), rent a room in a small hotel on the Belgian border. In the bar, the other guests wonder if Lange is the murderer being chased by the police.

Valentine tells Lange's story so that the guests can decide for themselves if they should let him get away...

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Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin', croonin' and swoonin' 'On Moonlight Bay', based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories.

"Try not to walk like a first baseman", Mama (Rosemary DeCamp) tells tomboy Marjorie (Day) as she prepares to date college man Bill (MacRae). The advice takes. The lovebirds hear wedding bells ahead, just as soon as Bill gets his Sheepskin. But World War I rages "over there", and Papa (Leon Ames) rages at home after a flap with his prospective son-in-law. Will harmony return to this Hoosier home? Surely Day and MacRae will make musical harmony. And 'On Moonlight Bay' will have you sailing along.

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From the inimitable Billy Wilder (Double Indemnify, The Lost Weekend) comes this classic comedy that mixes romance with hard-boiled wit in a story about stiff-necked Iowa congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur -Shane) mired in jaded postwar Berlin.

As she investigates the morale of American troops, Phoebe is cynically wooed by fellow Iowan Captain John Pringle (John Lund), who is trying to cover up his affair with Nazi-tainted chanteuse Erika von Schlutow (Marlene Dietrich). Filled with sharp dialogue and satiric jabs, 'A Foreign Affair' is one of Wilder's most beloved comedies...

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Embittered ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) enlists ruthless killer Earle Slater (Robert Ryan, The Dirty Dozen) and gambling musician Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) to rob an upstate New York bank.

Trouble unfolds however when, fuelled by racist hatred, Earle clashes with Johnny and the planned heist spirals into chaos, leading to a violent climactic confrontation With its exceptional jazz score, acerbic social commentary and atmospheric visual style, 'Odds Against Tomorrow' is a high point in the film noir canon, and one of the most important films of its era to address racism.

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The Little Tramp is hired by a circus and soon becomes the main attraction when his comedic blunders drive the crowd wild. Yet he himself is unaware of this newly acquired eminence due to his tunnel vision of love for the ringmaster's daughter.

'The Circus' features one of the most memorable appearances by the Little Tramp where Chaplin delivers a whirlwind of visual gags that are quite literally show stopping.

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A WW2 veteran suffers from amnesia with only two clues to help him discover who he is: a letter from an angry woman who has something against him, and another letter signed by a mysterious "Larry Cravat".

Heading out west to meet the signatory on his second letter, the veteran discovers that the mysterious "Larry Cravat" is wanted for murder and theft of two million dollars! While in Los Angeles, the veteran becomes involved with a singer who may not be who she says she is. While he is chased by mobsters who are on the hunt for the two million dollars, he discovers the true identity of "Larry Cravat" and the identity of the woman who wrote the angry letter.