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Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Collection (2008)Wallace and Gromit: The Collection
This is the complete collection of all four cracking half-hour specials featuring Aardman's oscar-winning duo - charming and eccentric inventor Wallace and his faithful, four-legged friend Gromit!
A Grand Day Out (1989)
Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) likes a nice bit of cheesewith his crackers, so when this eccentric inventor finds his fridge empty and the local corner shop shut for the Bank Holiday, he is forced to look further a field for his Cheddar. The two modelling clay heroes blast off in their home-made rocket on the ultimate day trip - Wallace and Gromit (voice of Peter Hawkins) are off to the moon!
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
This time the modelling clay stars are plunged into a hilarious tale of skullduggery involving an extraordinary pair of automated trousers and a villainous penguin. Posing as an innocent lodger, the fiendish fish-eater sets about recruiting mild mannered Wallace as an unwitting accomplice to his dastardly plot - a diamond heist with a technically advanced, trouser-inspired difference. It is left to Gromit to turn detective and save the day as malice and mayhem culminate in a breathless train-top chase - around the sitting room!
A Close Shave (1995)
Trade is booming for Wallace and Gromit's Wash'n'Go window cleaning service and love is in the air as Wallace falls for the owner of the local wool shop, the lovely Wendolene. But Wallace has a new incentive - a Knit-O-Matic machine - and adventure looms. Sheep are being rustled, wool is in short supply and Wendolene's malevolent pooch is on the prowl... featuring Shaun the Sheep!
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery - Top Bun - and business is booming, not least because a deadly Cereal Killer has murdered all the other bakers in town. Can Gromit save his master from becoming the next baker to be butchered?- Director:
- Nick Park
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- Peter Sallis, Anne Reid, Sally Lindsay
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After a child is accidentally killed in a gang shooting, a group of women led by Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris) organise a protest against the ongoing violence in Chicago's Southside: They will withhold sex from their men until they agree to lay down their arms. Lysistrata's lover, rapper/gang leader Demetrius (Nick Cannon), retaliates by intensifying his feud with rival gang lord Cyclops (Wesley Snipes). Lysistrata's movement challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world, and raises tensions in the already violent neighbourhood. - Director:
- Spike Lee
- Cast:
- Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes
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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. - Director:
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Cast:
- Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde
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Guy X (2005)Парень Икс
1979. The frozen wastes of the Arctic. A 'small clerical error' finds private Rudy Spruance posted to an army hospital that doesn't 'officially' exist. In charge is the crazed colonel Woolwrap (Jeremy Northam), aided by his beautiful sergeant and secret lover (Natascha McElhone). Rudy soon realises that he is the only sane man on the base. After various failed escape attempts he falls for the colonel's girlfriend and stumbles upon one of the US Military's best kept secrets ... A secret the Pentagon is determined will never be told. But Rudy has other ideas. - Director:
- Saul Metzstein
- Cast:
- Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam
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The Indestructible Man (1956)Der Würger von Sing-Sing
This Sci-Fi / horror classic features legendary cult figure Lon Chaney Jr. as the criminal brought back to life after being sent to the gas chamber for a number of murders. He is quickly back to his old ways, seeking revenge against those men responsible for sentencing him to death. Robert Shayne plays the scientist hoping to make a breakthrough with his experiments. - Director:
- Jack Pollexfen
- Cast:
- Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr
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Former elite agent Kitty Galore plans to unleash a diabolical device designed to not only bring her canine enemies to heel but also to take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Cats and dogs must now join forces for the first time ever to prevent a global cat-astrophe. - Director:
- Brad Peyton
- Cast:
- Chris O'Donnell, Bette Midler, James Marsden
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Birdman (2014)The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
Determined to prove that he's a true artist, has-been movie superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) risks everything to finance a Broadway show. Now, as he grapples with inner and outer critics, a deranged alter ego, his estranged daughter (Emma Stone) and a temperamental stage star (Edward Norton), Thomson aims to soar above mediocrity. - Director:
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Cast:
- Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
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In one of the year's best-reviewed films, pampered pet mouse Roddy St. James thinks he's got it made ... until he's literally flushed away to a bustling underground world of ninja frogs, hench-rats and singing slugs. This outrageously inventive comedy-adventure is a flood of fun for both kids and grown-ups. - Director:
- David Bowers
- Cast:
- Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)Dairy Queens
Ellen Barkin, who plays the trailer-trash, beer-swilling mother of Amber (Kirsten Dunst), and the homicidally ambitious mother (Kirstie Alley) of spoilt rich bitch Becky (Denise Richards) will stop at nothing to ensure their daughters win the Mount Rose teen beauty pageant. Underneath the fresh-faced all-American faade of Mount Rose's contest to find the best, brightest and most beautiful, lie two roads to greatness: high hopes and homicide. In this game there can only be one survivor and it's all out war. - Director:
- Michael Patrick Jann
- Cast:
- Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Lennon, Denise Richards
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Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, (Alan Bates) a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch) and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy. - Director:
- John Schlesinger
- Cast:
- Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates
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'Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters' is the definitive retrospective documentary, charting the making of 'Ghostbusters', featuring Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Ivan Reitman. The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made by the filmmakers working in the photo-chemical era. It reveals a story of ingenuity, innovation and emphasizes just how ambitious an undertaking the making of 'Ghostbusters' really was. 46 insightful, entertaining and heartfelt cast and crew interviews accompany a wealth of never before seen archive material. The documentary demonstrates how the filmmakers collectively defied adverse time constraints and all manner of technical challenges to make 'Ghostbusters', the movie that inadvertently changed the film industry forever. - Director:
- Anthony Bueno
- Cast:
- William Atherton, Dan Aykroyd, Richard Beggs
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The Ninth Configuration (1980)Más allá de la locura
Deep in a forest near the coast of Washington State lies a grotesque Gothic mansion used as a special psychiatric hospital for the military. Those who know of its existence and the nature of project Freud refer to it as 'Center Eighteen'. Confined to the centre are high-ranking military officers undergoing treatment for mental breakdowns, which are unaccountable by their services experiences. Determined to establish the true nature and origin of the men's mental illness, the Pentagon enlist Colonel Hudson Kane (Stacey Keach), a brilliant, yet strangely unorthodox psychiatrist. Typical of the patients is Captain Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who aborted a space probe. He is convinced that God is a fraud. His fellow inmates are similarly consumed with inner torments - they fear the evil within themselves and are afraid that, with a Godless universe, man leads a purposeless existence. Slowly through the love he possesses for his fellow man, Colonel Kane is able to break down the lunatic facade of the inmates and of Captain Cutshaw in particular. But as he leads the way back to a world of reality the dividing line between sanity and madness assumes an increasingly vague definition, so much so that Kane's colleagues pose with real urgency the question of who is therapist to whom. - Director:
- William Peter Blatty
- Cast:
- Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller
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Repossessed (1990)Рецидив
A hilarious parody of the cult classic 'The Exorcist', 'Repossessed' stars the master of comedy spoofs Leslie Nielsen and the original star of 'The Exorcist', Linda Blair. The devil possesses Nancy's body via her television set while she is watching a religious program, and there follows a side-splitting battle to exorcise the demon with many jokes and gags along the way. - Director:
- Bob Logan
- Cast:
- Leslie Nielsen, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty
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"In Search of Lawrence of Arabia" is an epic desert adventure following in the footsteps of one of Britain's most iconic figures. In this Bafta award-winning documentary, English explorer and biographer, Michael Asher, retraces T.E. Lawrence's footsteps across Jordan, around Aquaba, Wadi Rum arid Egypt. Asher recreates Lawrence's amazing camel ride across the Sinai desert as immortalised s in his famous book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. After -the journey Michael Asher returns to London and discovers Lawrence's real experiences in Sinai, recorded in his unpublished pocket diary and now preserved by the British Museum. Consequently Michael Asher's expedition confronts him with the truth behind the greatest claims of Lawrence of Arabia, his desert hero. - Director:
- Stephen White
- Cast:
- Michael Asher
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Behind the Scenes Cecil B. de Mille closed his epic movie-making career with a blockbuster spectacle based on the story of Moses and the Exodus. This 1956 film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, won the Oscar for Best Special Effects, and remains De Mille's masterpiece. This special edition presents a behind the scenes look at the making of 'The Ten Commandments', featuring an introduction to the film by De Mille himself, De Mille on location in Egypt, and newsreel footage of the movie's premiere. Also included in this special edition are detailed biographies of 'The Ten Commandments' two biggest stars, Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. These programmes feature an in depth look at the life and careers of two of Hollywood's larger than life stars.
Show 2: Hollywood Looks at the Bible
When Hollywood makes movies based on stories from the Bible, the results are bound to be spectacular! You can directly access a selection of film clips from some of the best Biblical motion pictures made during the Golden Age of Hollywood.- Director:
- Todd Sokolove
- Cast:
- Cecil B. De Mille, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner
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