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"Grim Prairie Tales" is a 1990 horror anthology movie where two travelers, one a well to do young clerk on the way to a reunion with his spouse, the other a scruffy, feral bounty hunter meet at sundown on a lonely prairie and agree to swap stories around the campfire.

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R1865. The American civil War is over and the Confederacy is in flames. Embittered and disillusioned, Southern soldier Private O'Meara (Rod Steiger) heads west to find his destiny on the Frontier, accompanied by his old Indian friend, Walking Coyote.

Attacked by a renegade band of Sioux Indians, O'Meara and Walking Coyote are forced to suffer a terrifying endurance test - the Run of the Arrow. His companion dies but O'Meara lives and becomes accepted into the Sioux Nation. As all-out war looms on the Frontier, O'Meara tries to negotiate a treat) between the Indians and Cavalry - but the bitter legacy of the Civil War threatens to poison O'Meara's judgment...

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Director Samuel Fuller skillfully intercuts footage of the German death camps with scenes from this thought-provoking drama about a forbidden, post-war love affair. David (James Best) is a G.I. stationed in Germany with the American Military Government.

He falls in love with Helga (Susan Cummings), a young German woman, and she reciprocates his feelings. But their romance is not condoned by either culture and made all the more difficult because a troublesome gang of neo-Nazis is on the rampage, killing, stealing, and helping war criminals evade capture. Helga's younger brother is a member of the gang who suddenly breaks down when he attends the Nuremburg trials and sees footage on the death camps. That changes his mind and he is ready to help the American military, and maybe the relationship between his sister and David as well.

In post-Civil War America this legendary band of outlaws blaze a bloody trail across the west, robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches culminating in the infamous Northfield, Minnesota bank raid and one of the most acclaimed and explosive climaxes ever committed to film.

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Lieutenant Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is determined to bring down mob boss Mr Brown (Richard Conte), even if it means jeopardising his own career, but the feeling is mutual and the unscrupulous gangster is more than willing to operate outside the law to get his man.

The confrontation escalates, leading to some wince-inducing set-pieces involving such handy props as a radio and a hearing aid.

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A gang-busting western saga and a gripping parable of the rise of fascism. Upstanding history professor Brad Fletcher (Gian Maria Volonte) is forced into retirement by his poor health and moves to the warmer climate of Texas.

Almost as soon as he arrives, however, he is taken hostage by famed bandit Solomon Bennet (Tomas Milian) in an accidental confrontation, and by necessity is forced to take up with his cohorts. But the learned man's growing identification with the gang encourages him to stage a takeover from Bennet, and a new crueller system of leadership is put into place.

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Lou Castel plays a young man who was raised to be a pacifist by a travelling preacher after Confederates massacred his family. But when his step-sister runs away, the pursuit reveals a natural talent as a sharp-shooter as well as a bloody and unexpected confrontation with his past.

Joining Castel are an impressive array of performers, including Mark Damon as the sadistic aristocratic villain, Franco Citti as his henchman, and the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in a rare acting role as a revolutionary priest.

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Starring Caitnen Maura as Gloria a prescription drug addicted working mother battling to make sense of her life and family as the world around her goes crazy.

With a plot that includes paedophilia, wanton drug use, forgery, sex and crime, this tale of a woman's lonely struggle to hold a family together in a harsh urban environment ought not to be this funny.

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At the centre of the terror is Carrie (Sissy Spacek), a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends... and no idea about the extent of her 'secret powers' of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far.

the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained, vengeance-seeking powerhouse who, with the help of her 'special gift', causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone that will take you to the very depths of horror - and beyond!

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A government satellite crashes outside a small town in New Mexico - and within minutes, every inhabitant of the town is dead, except for a crying baby and an elderly derelict The satellite and the two survivors are sentto Wildfire, a top-secret underground laboratory equipped with a nuclear

self-destruct mechanism to prevent the spread of infection in case of an outbreak. Realising that the satellite brought back a lethal organism from another world, a team of government scientists race against the clock to understand the extraterrestrial virus - codenamed "Andromeda" - before it can wipe out all life on the planet.

The discovery of a dead body near to a US Air Force base in Canada arouses the suspicions of the already hostile locals. The dead have been relieved of their brain and spinal column, but their killers have vanished...

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Words can kill...Shock-jock Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian) receives the biggest break of his career when his local radio show is targeted to become nationally syndicated. Glib, cynical, cruel but often very funny, Champlain is skilled in pushing people s buttons and touching callers' raw nerves.

But with fame and success literally knocking at the door to his studio, Champlain does not relax or celebrate. Instead, he sweeps up his ex-wife (Ellen Green), his co-workers and his unstable radio audience into a darkly comic marathon bout of compulsive risk-taking. Shock radio is "just a job", Champlain is told, just a form of entertainment, a show. But both he and his fans - the marginal, the pathetic, the angry, the lost, the confused, the extreme, the desperate and the dangerous - know better. They know that talk radio is not cheap and they know that words can kill...

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During their time in college, roommates Sandy (Art Garfunkel) and Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) reveal their innermost feelings about girls and sex to one another, each taking his own approach to getting what he wants.

As they grow older and establish new relationships, they continue to share their fantasies and frustrations about the opposite sex, each responding differently to the mixture of desire, distain and disinterest they experience.

This Eastern-Western, set in sixties New York, tells of an Arizona sheriff who accompanies his extradited prisoner and loses him in the concrete canyons of Manhattan. Eastwood's enigmatic, dangerous Westerner must find him, meeting pimps, crooks, hippies and cops along the way.

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Charles McGraw stars as Detective Walter Brown, a cop with a simple mission - get mobster's wife Frankie Neale (Marie Windsor) on the train and take her to the grand jury in Los Angeles, where she's going to testify against her late husband's colleagues.

But the mob don't want her to spill the beans and they'll stop at nothing to stop her taking the stand; Brown realises they've planted assassins on the train with them and it's up to him to keep her safe. It's going to be one hell of a journey...