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It Is a time of arrivals at The Kingdom. The infamous Swedish surgeon Stig Helmer (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) has taken up his new post, much to the distress of his Danish colleagues.

The position promises to be an eventful one - while Helmer is inducted into the sinister brotherhood of surgeons and performs surgery on a patient who cannot be anaesthetised, his involvement with a brain-damaged patient leaves him open to legal proceedings and a blackmail plot by the idealistic Dr. Krogshoj (Søren Pilmark). And there are other, less wholesome presences beginning to make themselves known in the labyrinthine hospital. When the imagined illnesses of Mrs Sigrid Drusse (Kirsten Rolffes) lead her to be admitted as a patient, she discovers The Kingdom's resident ghost weeping in the lift shafts and embarks on a supernatural search for the wayward spirit. Dr. Judith (Birgitte Raaberg) is pregnant with a highly unusual baby, ghostly ambulances arrive with neither patients or drivers, Dr. Bondo (Baard Owe) finds himself unable to resist the lure of a dying man's tumour and just what is the lovesick Dr. Mogge (Peter Mygind) doing in the morgue with a hacksaw?

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After a round of partying he can't remember, World War II veteran Dave Hirsh is placed on a bus headed for the last place he'd choose: Parkman, Indiana, the hometown Hirsh hasn't seen in well over a decade.

Frank Sinatra plays Hirsh, whose arrival in Parkman brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day in this character-driven tale directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on a novel by James Jones. In his first screen pairing with Sinatra, Dean Martin, plays a sharp-witted cardsharp.

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On 30th January 1972, British soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians taking part in an anti-internment civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland.

This event became known as 'Bloody Sunday', and was a major turning point in the history of the modern Irish troubles, catapulting the conflict into a civil war, driving many young men into the IRA and fueling a 25 year cycle of violence. The film centers around Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt), who organised the civil rights march, and lived through the horror of the day.

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Alpha (Mélissa Boros / Ambrine Trigo Ouaked), 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Tackling themes of memory, trauma, addiction and illness, 'Alpha' is a profound story, beautifully told, and is sure to leave a mark.

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After ex-spy David Somers (Trevor Howard) takes a low-profile job in the country cataloging a butterfly collection, he discovers that the entities of his previous life have re-emerged...and are casting ominous shadows indeed.

When his employer's niece is framed for the murder of a spiteful handyman, Somers finds himself embroiled in a sinister plot - his only option that of heading "underground" with the beautiful suspect, and staying one step ahead of the police...

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Best known for dramas such as 'Until We Meet Again' and 'An Inlet of Muddy Water', the Japanese filmmaker Tadashi Imai was also the director of 'Revenge', a highly accomplished and brutal jidaigeki picture.

These two sensibilities come together in the film that night just stand as Imai's masterpiece: 'Cruel Tale of Bushido'. Kinnosuke Nakamura (Miyamoto Musashi) stars in multiple roles, playing seven generations of men belonging to the same family, n the modern day, salaryman Susumu likura is devastated by his wife's attempted suicide. In his grief, Susumu recalls the listory of his family over the previous 350 years: tale after tale of men who have suffered, debased themselves and made untold sacrifices in the name of 'bushido', or the moral code of the samurai. Faturing EijiroTono (Seven Samurai) and Masayuki Mori (Rashomon) in supporting roles and boasting a foreboding score by the celebrated composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, 'Cruel Tale of Bushido' won the Golden Bear Award at the 1963 Berlin Film Festival for its uncompromising deconstruction of the all-too-often romanticised concept of bushido.

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l962.The Cuban Missile Crisis casts a shadow over the world. "It'll be a bitter day for this town if the world comes to an end". A woman in Francie Brady's Irish hometown laments.

But if planet Earth explodes into a hundred-million, billion, trillion pieces, Francie won't be suprised one single bit It's just like grownups to do something like that.

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Scotland Yard are chasing a murderer responsible for the deaths of three young women in London, where the killer evidently has no apparent motive but appears to be using the ideas housed in Scotland Yard's "Black Museum" as the theme for his murders.

Edmond Bankroft (Michael Gougb) is a popular crime writer who uses his own "black museum" as the base for his stories. While Scotland Yard is baffled by the seemingly unstoppable murders, Bankroft seems to stay one step ahead of the murderer's every move. Which leads to the question of whether Bankroft's obsession with the murders goes deeper than professional journalism... But as the string of horrifying murders continue, innocent victims are stabbed, electrocuted, boiled and decapitated and Scotland Yard is left to wonder, is the killer right under their nose?

When a beautiful, college-bound girl, disturbingly preoccupied with the threat of nuclear destruction, falls in love with a handsome ex-con who is rumoured to have murdered the father of his high school sweetheart many years ago, the pair embark on a tempestuous affair.

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Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party.

Her husband Oliver (Lionel Barrymore) is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is trying to buy up the stock in his shipping business - even his old friend Carlotta (Marie Dressler) wants to sell her stock. Hoping to get help from businessman Dan Packard (Wallace Beery), he persuades Millicent, against her wishes, to invite Packard and his wife to the dinner. As Oliver's problems get worse, Millicent is increasingly quick-tempered because the plans for the party are not going smoothly. As the time for the dinner approaches, it appears that the hosts and the guests will all have plenty on their minds.

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Times are tough for cotton miller Archie (Karl Malden), but at least he has his child bride (Carroll Baker), who'll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof - yet never in the same bed - is about to end.

But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In 'Baby Doll', as in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations - earning condemnation from the then-powerful Legion of Decency.

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"Mediterraneo" tells the story of a group of inept Italian soldiers who are sent to occupy a tiny, isolated Greek Island during WWII.

Initially the island appears uninhabited but when it becomes apparent that there is a small Greek population, and moreover that all the young men have gone to war, the Italians begin to view their assignment with more enthusiasm. Each in their own far-flung corner of the gentle paradise, the soldiers embark on magical and sometimes unusual love affairs, whose endurance is threatened only by the encroachment of the war raging in the seemingly distant outside world.

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Marlon Brando captures the extraordinary contradictions and complexity of a decent man who becomes a Nazi officer. 'The Young Lions' tells the story of World War II from both sides. The American, represented by Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin. And the German, made tragically vivid by Brando.

Based on the novel by Irwin Shaw, 'The Young Lions' is a provocative, insightful movie. It is also one of Brando's all-time best.

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Struggling poet Vijay (Guru Dutt) is ridiculed by his brothers and scorned by publishers. Vijay finds encouragement in a sweet prostitute Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman). One day he meets his exgirlfriend Meena (Mala Sinha) and gets hired as servant by her husband Mr.Ghosh (Rehman) who is a publisher.

In a train mishap, the beggar clad in Vijay's coat dies while Vijay gets injured. Gulabo convinces Ghosh to print Vijay's poems, believing him to be dead. After recovering from injuries, Vijay's close friends and brothers refuse to recognize him for their ulterior motives and he is confined to mental asylum for claiming to be someone who is dead. He escapes from the mental asylum and arrives at the function held to honour him. There he denounces this corrupt and hypocrite world and declares that he is not Vijay.

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Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of its genre.

As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable every-man persona, in his first of many westerns, with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers - delivered with unmatched bravado by the magnetic Dietrich - come together to create an irresistible, oft-imitated marvel of studio-era craftsmanship.