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Crash-landing on Earth from his dying planet, an alien humanoid travelling by the name of Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) uses his superior intelligence to build a vast business empire.

As he takes on - and beats - every US corporation, people can only guess at his true purpose: to save his dying world from agonising death by drought. Newton's ageless fall from grace, as he becomes prey to lust, alcohol, business rivals and finally, the US Government, makes 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' not only a bitingly caustic indictment of the modern world, but also a poignant commentary on the loneliness of the outsider.

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Clint Eastwood returns as the invincible "Man With No Name", this time teaming with two gunslingers (Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach) to pursue a fortune in stolen gold.

But teamwork doesn't come naturally to such strong-willed outlaws, and they soon discover that their greatest challenge may be to stay focused - and stay alive - in a country ravaged by war.

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Marlon Brando is Rio, a bank-robber who is double-crossed by his friend and mentor, Dad (Karl Malden). Rio is imprisoned for his role in the crime, but escapes with thoughts of revenge.

He tracks down Dad only to find that, during those years spent behind bars, Dad has used his ill-gotten wealth to become the sheriff of Monterey...

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Obsessed with expanding the powers of human sight, renowned scientist Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) aims to develop a formula that will allow the user to see beyond the visible spectrum. Experimenting on himself, he finally perfects a serum that gives him the power to see through solid objects.

As he continues experimenting his ambition turns to obsession. No longer able to control the effects, his vision extends beyond the realms of human comprehension until he finally sees more than he can bear.

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Gadzooks! These be terrible times in the kingdom of Bruno the Questionable! At the darkest hour of the Dark Ages (hey, who turned off the lights?), the dreaded Jabberwock roams the land.

His eyes aflame, his talons bared - a bone-crushing horror! Which brave knight shall slay the beast and save the kingdom? Who shall win the hand of the fair princess? Could it be Dennis the Apprentice (Michael Palin), a mere dolt and silly fool who carries a potato and loves the fat Griselda? Shall he save the kingdom? Or will he be smitten with chamberpots and made to eat rats on a stick? Arrrgh!

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Small-town accountant Fank Bigelow (Edomond O'Brien) takes a week's vacation in San Francisco prior to settling down with his fiancee Paula. But a night on the tiles leaves Frank with more than just a hangover...

waking up he is informed by doctors that he has been injected with a mysterious toxin for which there is no known antidote. At the outside, Frank has no more than a week to live. With no clue as to who should do such a thing or why, Frank sets out on a desperate quest to unmask his own murderer...

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Arctic researchers discover a huge, frozen spaceling inside a crash-landed UFO, then fight for their lives after the murderous being (a pre-Gunsmoke James Arness) emerges from icy captivity.

Will other creatures soon follow? The famed final words of this film are both warning and answer: "Keep watching the skies!"

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Scott Carey (Grant Williams) encounters a mysterious radioactive mist on a boating trip and soon finds his life taking a bizarre and frightening twist. His physical size begins to diminish as he shrinks to a mere two inches.

Suddenly ordinary household situations loom over him with lethal intensity: a playful cat becomes a demon and a spider a gargantuan monster. Carey finds he must rely on his wits to survive...

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Harry Sears (Peter Falk) manages 'The California Dolls', a female wrestling tag-team who tour America hoping for a chance at winning big time. Harry is also romantically involved with one of them.

Their fortunes seem secondary to him (particularly when he accepts an engagement involving mud wrestling!) but then a chance at the big ring match beckons in Reno, Nevada.

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A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present in George Lucas' THX 1138, starring Robert Duvall as a man whose mind and body are controlled by the government.

THX makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime.

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Sandy Bates (Woody Allen) is not only tired of being funny, he may even be teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown.

At a retrospective of his films, in between toecurlingly stupid questions from his audiences, he's forced to confront not only the meaning of his work but also past and present relationships with Dorrie (Charlotte Rampling), Daisy (Jessica Harper) and Isobel (Marie-Christine Barrault). Plagued by hallucinations, alien visitations and philistine studio executives trying to change his bleak new film into something more conventionally crowd-pleasing, Sandy struggles to find a reason to go on living.

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Being a teenage girl in the valley is never easy. Peer pressure, social awkwardness, alienation, boyfriend trouble, ignorant parents and the apocalypse. Yes, the apocalypse.

When squabbling teenage sisters Reggie and Sam wake up one morning to find the human race has been thrown into extinction, they decide to track down a radio signal and hopefully other survivors. It's a journey fraught with flesh eating zombies, demented scientists and 1980s teenage girls brandishing machine guns. Who the hell said Armageddon couldn't be fun?

When wealthy city girl Barbara Blandish (Kim Darby) is kidnapped by 'The Grissom Gang', a family of murderous outlaws headed by the malevolent Ma Grissom (Irene Dailey), no-one is prepared for the bloody chaos that ensues as violent son Slim (Scott Wilson) finds himself falling in love with the victim.

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In one of the most powerhouse performances in American screen-acting, the great Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

When Tatum begins to influence the story's outcome, a descent begins that finds more than one man caught between a rock and a hard place. An electric narrative that stands as one of Wilder's tautest and most (melo)dramatic plots (penned with Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman), 'Ace in the Hole' plays today as both a prescient examination of the modern media landscape, and the public appetite for the disastrous news-story that leads to toxic wish-fulfillment.

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Written and directed by Godard, 'Alphaville' is the strangely beautiful futuristic tale of Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an American private eye sent to a planet ruled by Von Braun (Anna Karina), a malevolent scientist who has outlawed human emotions in favour of logic.

The film deals with the fight between individualism in the face of inhumanity and blind conformity...