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The Fly (1986)La mosca
This frightening, but extremely moving and romantic horror film stars Jeff Goldblum as an over-ambitious scientist who accidentally merges with a housefly while conducting a bizarre teleporting experiment. A journalist (Geena Davis) who has fallen in love with him while covering his scientific endeavours suddenly finds herself caring for a horrifying creature whose insect half gradually begins to take over. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
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The Dead Zone (1983)Stephen King's The Dead Zone
Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) is high-school teacher, a car-crash victim who wakes up from a 5-year coma with the ability to see into people's future. Consequently this extra sensory perception enables Johnny to avert several potential disasters and earns him a degree of local celebrity. After his 5 missing years however, Johnny has lost both his job and his fiance and he longs for his former existence without his new 'gift'. That is until he meets with a local politician and would-be Presidential candidate Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) and sees future events of genuinely catalysmic proportions. It is only then that Johnny must come to terms with his powers, his conscience, and his destiny. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt
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Nada (1974)The Nada Gang
A small French terrorist group, Nada, kidnaps the American ambassador from a Parisian brothel, secreting him away in an isolated farmhouse while they wait for an answer to their demands. As the police close in on the kidnappers, it becomes apparent that they are less concerned with rescuing the ambassador than they are with eliminating the terrorists and turning the situation to their political advantage. From Chabrol's most revered period of work between 1968 and 1974, this is a classic thriller with a wicked sense of irony. - Director:
- Claude Chabrol
- Cast:
- Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato
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Don't Look Down (2008)No mires para abajo
Tantalising, bold and intensely erotic, cult director Eliseo Subiela's latest film explores the tantric possibilities of sexual imaginations and awakenings. This uncompromisingly explicit film delves into mysticism and spirituality, when the sleepwalking 19-year-old Eloy (Leandro Stivelman) crashes through the roof of a beautiful woman, Elvira (Antonella Costa), who takes him on a journey of sexual discovery into the tantric and therapeutic powers of the Kama Sutra, of which she is an expert. - Director:
- Eliseo Subiela
- Cast:
- Leandro Stivelman, Antonella Costa, Hugo Arana
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Kinetta... a desolate Greek resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers. In this colourless setting, the film studies the cryptic activities of an inscrutable trio: a plain-clothes cop with a passion for cars, tape recorders and Russian women; a loner clerk who is a part-time photographer; and a hotel maid with aspirations to be an actress. They barely speak, passing the time by staging outlandish re-enactments of local murders. Their efforts are obsessive, the details exhaustive, their purpose... questionable. . - Director:
- Giorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Costas Xikominos
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Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for fresh new content for his TV channel when he happens across some illegal S&M-style broadcasts called "Videodrome". Embroiling his girlfriend Nick (Deborah Harry) in his search for the source, his journey begins to blur the lines between reality and fantasy as he works his way through sadomasochistic games, shady organisations and body transformations stunningly realised by Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Rick Baker. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits
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Pulse (2001)Kairo
Before 'The Grudge', before 'Dark Water', there was 'Pulse', one of the scariest films ever made from the master of Japanese horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa. At Sunny Planet Sales in Tokyo, a group of friends are concerned about Taguchi, a colleague who owes them a computer disc for a project and hasn't been returning phone calls. When co-worker Michi (Kumiko Aso) visits Taguchi's apartment to check on him, he seems fine. But within minutes, Taguchi has hanged himself. Michi flees the apartment, taking the disc, which may contain the most deadly computer virus ever created... When Taguchi subsequently reappears as a ghostly presence on their computer and video screens, is he trying to contact his friends from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? Soon, there are more sudden deaths and disappearances within the group, terrifying rooms sealed in red tape, and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo - and the world - is slowly drained of life. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki
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Cure (1997)Kyua
A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their actions, many of them having killed friends, co-workers or even their spouse. There are only two links between each crime: an X carved into the neck of each victim, and a mysterious stranger who seems to have had brief contact with the perpetrator a short period of time before each killing. But to follow these leads and end a seemingly inexplicable wave of terror, police detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) will need to put his own sanity on the line and endure a descent into hell. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
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The story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition travelling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Matthew McConaughey, Bill Irwin, Anne Hathaway
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From director Christopher Nolan, a unique and intriguing thriller that begins with the ultimate act of revenge and backtracks through time to reveal the shocking and provocative reasons behind it. Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) remembers everything up to the night his wife was brutally raped and murdered. But since that tragedy, he has suffered from short-term memory loss and cannot recall any event, the places he has just visited or anyone he has met just minutes before. Determined to find out why his wife was killed, the only way he can store evidence is on scraps of paper, by taking Polaroid photos and tattooing vital clues on his body. Throughout his investigation, he appears to have the help of both bartender Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), who may have her own secret agenda and police officer Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) whose friendship is always suspect. As Shelby's fractured memory tries to piece together a chilling jigsaw of deceit and betrayal in reverse, breathtaking twists and surprising turns rapidly occur in the most challenging, original and critically acclaimed thriller in years. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
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Last Year in Marienbad (1961)L'Annee Derniere A Marienbad
In a vast and opulent hotel, an unnamed man (Giorgio Albertazzi) attempts to persuade a similarly unnamed married woman (Delphine Seyrig) that they have not only met before, but they were also romantically involved and had planned to escape together. The woman recalls no such encounter and so begins a sensual and philosophical examination into the uncertainty of truth. - Director:
- Alain Resnais
- Cast:
- Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
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Shivers (1975)They Came from Within
The residents of Starliner Island enjoy a luxurious and opulent lifestyle incorporating the best in country living with the services of the nearby city... until something goes wrong. A strange disease begins to infect the residents causing violent outbreaks of uncontrollable violence combinex with unusual sexual behaviour. 'Shivers' is a thrilling mystery filled with terror and suspense. From its nerve shattering beginning to its alarming conclusion David Cronenberg's classic remains one of cinema's ultimate shockers! - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry
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Children of Paradise (1945)Les Enfants Du Paradis
Set amidst the glittering theatre world of 19th century Paris, the story revoles around the beautiful and free-spirted courtesan, Garanace, and the four men who compete for her affections; a mime-artist, an actor, an aristocrat and a criminal. As the melodrama unfolds, we are treated to one of cinema's greatest love stories, a captivating tale of passion, deception and murder. - Director:
- Marcel Carné
- Cast:
- Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
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David Cronenberg's Early Works (1970)Transfer (1966) / Stereo (1969) / Crimes of the Future (1970)
One of the most singular auteurs of the horror and science fiction genres, David Cronenberg has wowed audiences with his depictions of body transformations and explorations of society, this collection of his early short and feature films shows a master learning his craft and exploring many of the themes that would dominate his most celebrated work. "Transfer" (1966), Cronenberg's first short film, is a surreal sketch of a doctor and his patient. "From the Drain" (1967) finds two men in a bathtub, which may be part of a centre for veterans of a future war. "Stereo" (1969), Cronenberg's first official feature film, stunningly shot in monochrome, concerns telepaths at the Institute for Erotic Enquiry where patients undergo tests by Dr. Luther Stringfellow. In "Crimes of the Future" (1970) Cronenberg worked in colour and with a larger budget, where we find the House of Skin clinic director (Ronald Mlodzik, returning from Stereo) searching for his mentor, Antoine Rouge, who has disappeared following a catastrophic plague. Cronenberg's early amateurfeature films, shot in and around his university campus, prefigure his later films' concerns with strange institutions, male/female separation and ESP, echoing the likes of 'Videodrome', 'Dead Singers and Scanners'. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty
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La Belle Noiseuse (1991)The Beautiful Troublemaker
Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters the beautiful and fascinating Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart), he is inspired to return to the unfinished canvas, using her as his new model. But disturbing tensions develop as the work progresses and the reasons for the painting's original rejection begin to surface. - Director:
- Jacques Rivette
- Cast:
- Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart
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