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Dr. Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is on the verge of realising a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when a gang, led by the sadistic Robert G. Durant (Larry Drake), obliterates his laboratory. Burned beyond recognition, Westlake attempts to rebuild his laboratory.

Torn between his desire to create a new life with former girlfriend Julie (Frances McDormand) and his quest for revenge, the man known as Darkman begins to assume alternate identities and finds his most challenging task lies with himself...

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It's the shrink vs. the shark in the ultimate mind game! When a suicidal patient reveals that his gambling debt has him at the end of his rope, dedicated psychiatrist Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) enters into the shadowy underground world of gaming to help him out.

At a seedy casino, she boldly confronts Mike (Joe Mantegna), the con man to whom her patient is in debt. Duped into a high-stakes poker match, Margaret becomes intoxicated by Mike's mastery, as he both cheats at the game and charms her. She quickly falls for him, turning a blind eye to the fact that he's a swindler who can't be trusted. And before long she finds herself sparring in a mental poker match of the heart...with deadly consequences!

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Superstar Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel re-team for their fifth film in this fascinating account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz.

In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and 'Birdman' Robert Stroud, was only broken once - by three men never heard of again.Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed escape; Patrick McGoohan is a superb counterpoint as the suspicious warden. Filmed on location in Alcatraz, this gritty and realistic re-enactment of the true story has all the power one expects from an Eastwood/Siegel movie.

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Based on the true story of Resistance fighter Andre Devigny, who was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis during the Second World War, the film reconstructs his actual cell at the Lyons fortress of Montluc, and follows his meticulous plans for escape.

This totally involving and thrilling tale of courage and faith is all the more authentic for its use of non-professional actors and Bresson's spare style.

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North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a man made instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun.

And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-in-arms. Sean Connery headlines this stark tale of war inside military prison walls. The inmates are soldiers who once defied, rebelled, talked back. The wardens are sadists who perpetrate cruelty in the name of discipline.

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Eisenhower is President, Rock n' Roll is king. And Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the baddest hood in his high school.

Johnny Depp heads up a supercool cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one single tear drives all the girls wild – especially Allison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane), a rich, beautiful "square" who finds herself uncontrollably drawn to the dreamy juvenile delinquent and his borbidden world of rockabilly music, fast cars and faster women.

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From his first gig as a nervous Catskills comedian, it's obvious that Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman) is a force to be reckoned with. Armed with a shocking routine and a stripper as his muse (Valerie Perrine), Lenny turns comedy - and America - on its ear with his abrasive and often offensive humour.

But life in the smoke-filled bars of the comedy circuit begins to take its toll. The drugs and arrests for his subject matter wear heavily on this maverick crusader... but don't stop him from going to extremes right to his tragic and myth-making end.

When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking discoveries that sees both her and colleague Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) fleeing for their lives to the sound of ear-piercing alien screams.

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Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling.

Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff (Yul Brynner), occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke (Eli Wallach) cannot afford to marry Estusha (Lainie Kazan) and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zanvill (Oliver Tobias) will take care of things.

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As a wild storm rages over Lord Byron's literary house party, the poet suggests that his famous guests concoct a ghost story. But after deciding a seance would liven up the evening, they soon conjure up their deepest fears and are plunged into a surreal horror.

Is it merely the power of their own intense lust and vivid imaginations that is tormenting them or have they, in fact, raised the dead?

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Cumbria, 1348 - the year of the Black Death. Griffin (Hamish Gough), a young boy, is plagued by apocalyptic visions which he believes could save his village.

Encouraging a small band of men to tunnel into the earth, they surface in 1980's New Zealand and a future beyond their comprehension but must complete their quest.

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"Weekend" follows a bickering, scheming bourgeois couple who leave Paris for the French countryside to claim an inheritance by nefarious means.

Almost immediately, they become entangled in a cataclysmic traffic jam, which is just the beginning of a journey fraught with violence and dangerous encounters: rape, murder, pillage and even cannibalism.

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In one of cinemas most influential, and gripping, roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of most postwar teens - and reverberates more than 40 years later.

Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's tag-along pal Plato) were Academy Award nominees for their achingly true performances.

Rock star Frank Zappa stars in this film about life on the road with a rock band. Filmed in London where Zappa was living, the film also features Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Flo and Eddie and an X-rated animation sequence.

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Banned from Britain until the 90s, Sergio Corbucci's seminal western stars Franco Nero as Django, the mysterious lone gunfighter who arrives in a bleak mud-drenched town - dragging a coffin behind him.

Caught in the middle of a violent feud between two gangs of sadistic bandits, Django will need to fight for his life armed with his devastating revolving machine gun.