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Haunting, passionate, powerful, and featuring a score by rock legend Scott Walker, 'Pola X' is Carax's dazzling adaptation of Herman Melville's novel 'Pierre, or the Ambiguities'. Guillaume Depardieu plays Pierre, a young man who is devastated by the revelation that he has an illegitimate sister, whose existence has been kept secret from him by his mother (Catherine Deneuve). With his life shattered by lies and deception, he sets off to uncover the truth of the world - a destructive quest that threatens to consume him and those he loves. - Director:
- Leos Carax
- Cast:
- Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve
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"When the sun is bright and the wind is still, she comes to you like a sudden chill. Draped in black from head to toe, how she got there, you'll never know". "Today's the day". With that cryptic warning, an otherworldly woman sends a family into a seemingly inescapable nightmare. Already grieving the death of her husband, Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler) faces a new fear when this mysterious figure appears outside her farmhouse. With the woman continually creeping closer, Ramona must protect her children from the chilling grasp of this haunting entity whose unknown intentions are anything but peaceful. - Director:
- Jaume Collet-Serra
- Cast:
- Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peyton Jackson
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Lake is nightclub chanteuse Ellen (Veronica Lake), and her police detective boyfriend Michael (Robert Preston) is on the hunt for assassin-for-hire Philip Raven (Alan Ladd), after Raven performed a hit on a chemist with a secret formula and a taste for blackmail. When Raven's employer Gates (Laird Cregar) double crosses him after the job is done, Raven seeks revenge, and his path crosses with Ellen after she is hired to perform at Gates' club. Raven learns that the stolen formula is for a poison gas that is to be sold to the Japanese, and his pangs of conscience - and revelations of his tortured past - turn Ellen's fear into compassion, just as dangerous forces close in on Raven. But Ellen is still unsure if Raven can be trusted... - Director:
- Frank Tuttle
- Cast:
- Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
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One year after her sister Melanie's (Maia Mitchell)'s disappearance, Clover (Ella Rubin) and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. In an abandoned visitor centre, they are hunted and murdered one by one... only to find themselves reliving the night again and again - each time with a new terrifying threat. With limited deaths left, they must survive Until Dawn to escape. - Director:
- David F. Sandberg
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- Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa Adlon
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The Glass Key is based on the popular Dashiell Hammett novel. The Glass Key follows the story of Paul Madvig - a cone-corrupt politician who's decided to give up his past and join forces with Ralph Henry, a respectable candidate in an upcoming election. However, Madvig's crooked history is hard to forget when he finds himself at the centre of a murder plot. In this early collaboration between Donlevy, Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, unforgettable performances and masterful directing by Stuart Heislen make this a truly classic film noir. - Director:
- Stuart Heisler
- Cast:
- Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy
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The Hireling (1973)Botschaft für Lady Franklin
Shattered by the death of her husband, Lady Helen Franklin (Sarah Miles) is confined to a sanatorium. When she is at last released, she struggles to rebuild her life, striking up a nervous and hesitant relationship with her chauffeur, Steven Ledbetter (Robert Shaw). As the months progress, Lady Helen becomes more and more reliant on his company and Steven finds himself drawn to Lady Helen in turn. The promise of a forbidden relationship hangs over them - until Lady Helen meets the charming and aristocratic Captain Hugh Cantrip (Peter Egan), her social equal. What Lady Helen doesn't know is that both the roughly hewn Ledbetter and the smooth Cantrip are concealing secrets from her - and that she is trapped in a love triangle that could explode into a violent and heartbreaking confrontation... - Director:
- Alan Bridges
- Cast:
- Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan
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Born to Kill (1947)Lady of Deceit / Deadlier Than the Male
Sam Wild (Lawrence Tierney) is a real lady-killer. He's irresistible to women - but has a murderous and uncontrollable temper. He's already killed twice, without conscience or remorse - and he's ready to kill again.... Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) already has her suspicions about Sam when he marries her vulnerable half-sister and heiress Georgia (Audrey Long). At the same time she's irresistibly drawn to his brutal animal magnetism. Should she turn him into the police - or seduce him and share in his vicious crimes? - Director:
- Robert Wise
- Cast:
- Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
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Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)Висконсин: Путешествие к смерти
A most extraordinary experience awaits those with a taste for the strange and the bizarre in the small town of Black River Falls. Rocked by an inexplicable confluence of events in the late 1890s, this sleepy Wisconsin town generated some of the most unlikely news reports and stories ever told. Previously harmless residents - including children - commit a series of gruesome, violent murders. Sightings of ghosts, and reports of haunting and possession run rife. An epidemic sweeps through the town and takes with it some of the residents' newest born sons and daughters. Extreme cases of paranoia, insanity and delirium plague the townsfolk. And the population finds itself terrorised by a cocaine-snorting madwoman with a taste for smashing windows... Based on documented accounts, this haunting and surreal film beautifully evokes the otherworldly spirit and wayward madness of a time and place marked by an altogether unreal set of circumstances. Bizarre. But true. - Director:
- Jamie Marsh
- Cast:
- Jeffrey Golden, Ian Holm, Jo Vukelich
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With his daughter about to marry, Manhattan dentist Sheldon Kornpett is getting in over his head. The groom's father Vince Ricardo (who may/may not be CIA) has been in over his head so long he may have lost it totally. As played by Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, they're as different as night and day - and one of the funniest screen teams ever as 'The In-Laws'. - Director:
- Arthur Hiller
- Cast:
- Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini
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A young reporter, Mike Ward (John McGuire) stumbles upon a murder victim and identifies a nervous cabbie (Elisha Cook Jr) as the person he saw previously arguing with the dead man. On the strength of Mike's testimony, the cabbie is convicted. Mike however is haunted by the knowledge that he may have sent an innocent man to the electric chair for murder and that means the real maniac is still on the loose! Things take a turn for the worse when another murder is committed, a murder which may point, ironically enough, back to Mike... - Director:
- Boris Ingster
- Cast:
- Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
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A young couple is at the centre of the movie maestro's keen-eyed lens. She (Daria Halprin) is a sometime secretary whose duties may extend to the boudoir of her boss (Rod Taylor). He (Mark Frechette) is a sometime student who may be involved in a cop's death. The two meet, connect, play, love, move on: he to tragedy, she to an open road. - Director:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
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- Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix
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The Long Hot Summer (1958)Dugo toplo ljeto
When suspected barn burner Ben Quick (Paul Newman) drifts into a town dominated by Will Varner (Orson Welles), he is recruited to husband Varner's spinster daughter (Joanne Woodward) so that Varner can keep an eye on him. But the two men soon lock horns, and a chain of events leaves them all changed forever. - Director:
- Martin Ritt
- Cast:
- Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
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Classe Tous Risques (1960)The Big Risk
French gangland boss Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) has been on the run in Italy for a decade in order to escape a death sentence. But when police finally close in, he turns to his old criminal friends to help him and his young family return to Paris. With loyalty in short supply, it takes an insouciant stranger (Jean-Paul Belmondo) to come to the rescue. - Director:
- Claude Sautet
- Cast:
- Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Thérèse Raquin (1953)The Adultress
Married at a very early age to her cousin, Therese Raquin (Simone Signoret) leads an uneventful and joyless existence void of romance with her selfish husband and authoritarian aunt. The arrival of the handsome Italian Laurent (Raf Vallone) to whom Camille (Jacques Duby) has taken a liking, turns her life upside down. Straight away, sparks of love and passion fly between Thérèse and Laurent, however Camille refuses to agree to a divorce and plans to take Thérèse to Paris, away from temptation. En route, Camille is pushed off the train after a violent dispute with Laurent. The inquiry draws the conclusion of accidental death. However, a young sailor who witnessed the entire scene starts blackmailing Laurent... - Director:
- Marcel Carné
- Cast:
- Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby
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When Father Was Away on Business (1985)Otac na sluzbenom putu
Celebrated Balkan filmmaker Emir Kusturica won his first Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's highest honour, for this exuberant portrait of 1950s Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of six-year-old Malik. As the country resists the pressures of Stalinism, many find themselves taken away 'on business' by the police for making imprudent statements against the government. But Malik's father Manojlovic finds himself imprisoned for an altogether less noble reason when his affair with the mistress of a high-ranking party official is discovered. Naively believing his Papa to be away on business, Malik must face up to life's sometimes poignant, often comic tribulations without him. - Director:
- Emir Kusturica
- Cast:
- Moreno D'E Bartolli, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic
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