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From its seemingly placid opening, "Village of the Damned" keeps piling one eerie and disquieting detail upon another, creating that rarest of achievements - an utterly believable masterpiece of horror! Starring the ever-imperturbable George Sanders (who does not remain that way for long), this

classic, havoc-filled tale of mind reading and hypnotism will have you completely hypnotized...and shaken to the core! The "monsters" of this film are a band of innocent-faced platinum-blond children, all of whom are born in a small, peaceful village on the same day. Their rapid physical development is matched by their fast-growing mental powers and with calm, blood-curdling efficiency, they are soon terrorizing the tiny hamlet. They can read the thoughts that are forming in your mind...which makes them an altogether unstoppable enemy!

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When a creature, geneticaly engineered through extraterrestrial intelligence, escapes from observation, scientist Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley) assembles an elite team of experts to track it down.

The crew - a government assassin (Michael Madsen), an empath (Forest Whitaker), a biologist (Helgenberger) and an anthropologist (Molina) - combines their expertise and traces their prey to Los Angeles. There, in the form of a stunning young woman (Natasha Henstridge), the alien initiates a horrific plan to mate with unsuspecting men and produce offspring that could destroy mankind. As her deadly biological clock rapidly ticks, Fitch and his team are hurled into a pulse-pounding chase in which the fate of humanity itself lies in the balance...

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In this spy thriller, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is a brilliant but deeply introverted CIA decoder working out of Langley.

When his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, and his supervisors refuse to act, Heller embarks on a dangerous trek, crisscrossing the globe to take down those responsible, his intelligence being his ultimate weapon.

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Charley Patanna (Jack Nicholson) has been loyal to The Family' since he can remember. If you need someone taken care of, he's your man - ready to kill at the drop of a dollar.

Unknown to Charley, Boss Don Corrado Prizzi's daughter Maerose (Anjelica Huston) has set her sights on him, but Charley has already fallen for sultry hit-woman Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner). However, their unlikely romance hits a problem when each is given a contract neither can go through with - each other!

U.S. Army Officer Dan Adams (Robert MacKenzie), blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves in an effort to clear his name. In order to trap the wily criminals, Adams pretends that he's still bereft of his vision. Based on the 1950 film 'Blackout'.

Struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled for his treatment of Auggie Pullman, Julian (Bryce Gheisar) is visited by his grandmother (Helen Mirren) and is transformed by the compassionate and heroic story of her attempts to escape Nazi-occupied France during WWII.

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Double bill of crime dramas from the 1950's.

Naked Fury (1959)

Whilst robbing a bank, four men kill a night watchman and take his daughter hostage - they hold her in an old warehouse. One of the robbers (Kenneth Cope) of "Randall and Hopkirk" and "Coronation St" fame falls for the girl (Leigh Madison) but that only causes squabbles and fighting between the four.
Mark of the Phoenix (1957)
Directed by Maclean Rogers, this 1957 Butchers production is a great little Crime Drama. A sample of an advanced new metal is stolen and made into a cigarette case for smuggling to the East. Caught up in the plot, international Jewell thief (Sheldon Lawrence) is then pursued by East and West...

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Renowned anthropologist Professor Sir Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) boards the Trans-Siberian Express with a peculiar cargo - a crate containing the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid which, he believes, may prove to be the missing link in human evolution.

The professor is soon to discover that he is wildly mistaken, however, as the creature promptly thaws out and reveals itself to be the host of an alien being capable of jumping from passenger to passenger.

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Double bill of British crime dramas.

The Flaw (1955)

Directed by Terence Fisher of Hammer fame, this 1955 British production stars John Bentley, Donald Houston and Rona Anderson. In this crime drama, racing car driver Raul Oliveri (John Bentley) plans to murder his wife for the insurance money. Her attorney, who is in love with her, discovers the plan - a brutal fight culminates in tragedy for one of the two combatants. Great old motor racing sequences and filmed in Shoreham, East Sussex.
Witness in the Dark (1959)
This second feature stars Patricia Dainton as a blind girl who "witnesses" the thief turned murderer of her upstairs friend and neighbour. Also stars Conrad Phillips and Nigel Green.

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In this electrifying thriller, social order collapses as humanity confronts a double catastrophe. The majority of people have been blinded in a freak solar storm leaving them at the mercy of opportunists who still have their sight.

Meanwhile the Triffids are evolving and advancing on the towns in search of human prey. In the face of total human annihilation, it is down to a select few to take a stand against mankind's deadliest adversary, a foe with a fatal sting and an unquenchable taste for human flesh.

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"Last Breath" is an emotionally charged action thriller telling the incredible true story of Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), a commercial diver who after a freak accident is trapped on the bottom of the North Sea.

With only 10 minutes of emergency oxygen and any hope of rescue over half an hour away, this is one man's impossible fight for survival 300 feet underwater, while up above his colleagues battle against a raging storm and do everything they can to bring him back alive.

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You're invited to one of the most celebrated and audaciously funny hit comedies of the year - Muriel's Wedding! Follow frumpy, misguided Muriel Heslop on her lifelong quest for a glitzy fairy-tale wedding.

With visions of nuptials dancing in her head, this ABBA-obsessed misfit ditches her pathetic life and plastic friends in a small Australian suburb for big-city dreams in Sydney. But the road to the altar takes surprising twists and turns - and Muriel is about to learn the lesson of a lifetime. Wry, witty and hailed by critics everywhere, Muriel's Wedding is one affair you don't want to miss.

Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) was born with a rare genetic disorder where he can't feel any pain. When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is taken hostage in a bank heist, he turns his inability to feel physical pain into an unexpected strength in the fight to get her back.

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Operation Diplomat (1953)

Like 'Portait of Alison' and 'The Broken Horseshoe' this thriller was originally made as a BBC television drama, and was based on a story by popular crime writer Francis Durbridge. Forced to work on a mystery patient, surgeon Mark Fenton (Guy Rolfe) finds the police do not believe his story...
The Sicilians (1964)
An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a mafia boss...

Black Bag is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and his beloved wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). When she is suspected of betraying the nation. George faces the ultimate test-loyalty to his marriage or his country.