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Nightwatch (1994)Nattevagten
Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) a young law student, takes on a job as the overnight watchman at a local morgue to fund his studies, while his girlfriend, Kalinka (Sofie Gråbøl) studies to be an actress. His hell-raising, potentially insane best friend, Jens (Kim Bodnia), uses the situation to embark upon an escalating series of audacious and grisly stunts and challenges, much to the disapproval of the local police and Inspector Wormer. Investigating a series of psychopathic murders involving young prostitutes being left scalped, Wormer's suspicions become aroused when one of these games goes perhaps a step too far. Now Martin is fighting for his and Kalinka's life as the killer, aware of all that they know, decides they must be silenced for good. - Director:
- Ole Bornedal
- Cast:
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia
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When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack John Wick, a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend. - Director:
- Chad Stahelski
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen
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In the early '80s Phil's father moves the family from an inner city slum to build a bright new life in Stevenage. But it's now the '90s and the dream has crumbled. After leaving school, Phil (John Simm) finds himself in the bewildering world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse. His best friend Ted (Andrew Lincoln) disappears, Steven (Richard Hanson) tries to conform to his parents' expectations, and Matt (Nathan Valente) becomes engaged. Feeling alienated from his friends and dissatisfied with his existence, Phil becomes involved with Steven's brother Robert (Marc Warren), a dangerously incompetent villain who is ever planning the "big job". Now trapped between two worlds - the criminal and the banal, it is the arrival of his vibrant and liberated cousin Shona (Emer McCourt) that acts as the catalyst for Phil to expand his horizons. But on his horizon lies momentous decisions that will transform his world. - Director:
- Paul Hills
- Cast:
- John Simm, Emer McCourt, Marc Warren
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The incredible, untold story of the British artist Penny Slinger and the traumatic events that led to the creation of her masterpiece, the 1977 photo-romance, 'An Exorcism'. Coming of age against a backdrop of post-war austerity and the subsequent explosion of colour that characterised the 1960's counterculture, Slinger embraced her generation's quest for personal freedom and sexual liberation, and channelled these desires into her ground-breaking collages, sculptures, and films (including collaborations with Jane Arden and Peter Whitehead). So powerful was her vision that fifty years later her work is still influencing contemporary artists. - Director:
- Richard Kovitch
- Cast:
- Maria Blum, Tim Blum, Jack Bond
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Please note The handwritten look on the disc of this movie is legitimate and is intended to look like a burned DVD.
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) accepts an invitation to surreptitiously investigate a forty year old unsolved murder on behalf of the victim's uncle, Swedish industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Meanwhile, tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), hired to investigate Blomkvist, discovers the truth behind the conspiracy that led to his fall from grace. Thrown together by fate, the unlikely duo uncovers a secret history of murder and sexual abuse festering beneath the veneer of Sweden's industrial past, all the while drawing closer. - Director:
- David Fincher
- Cast:
- Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer
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Lucky Chances: Part 2 (1992)Jackie Collins' Lucky/Chances
The sweeping story of passion, power, greed an betrayal spans over 40 years from the tough streets of depression-hit New York to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and Las Vegas. For the first time Jackie Collins has been closely involved in the adaptation of her own novels. After the brutal murder of her mother, the wild and headstrong teenage Lucky Santangelo is packed off to an elite Swiss finishing school by her heavy-handed father, Gino. Self-destructive and frustrated by her over-protective father, Lucky always wants to live life in the fast lane and soon skips school to go thrill-seeking in Europe's glittering hot-spots. The exasperated Gino is not to be denied, however, and Lucky is married off to a powerful senator's son to try and break her wild spirit. But Lucky is the mirror-image of her ruthless father and is never afraid to take chances to get what she wants in a male-dominated world. Her impetuous ways and smart mouth are matched by an even smarter mind and a burning ambition to win her father's love by taking over his empire when he is forced to flee the country. But dangerous enemies from their past are about to bring fear and heartbreak to them both. - Director:
- Buzz Kulik
- Cast:
- Nicolette Sheridan, Vincent Irizarry, Michael Nadar
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Separate Lives (1995)Vidas separadas
The night sky over Malibu is blood red. Jane Weiss, a new Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney, is walking on the beach; she and her escort have sneaked away from a fund raising party for a romantic tete a tete. Suddenly a car speeds by on Pacific Coast Highway, a shot rings out, and the sand beneath Jane Weiss' s feet turns as blood red as the sky. Weiss crumples to the beach, dead. Tom assumes someone is threatening Lauren, but it's not that ordinary. Lauren has been experiencing blackouts, she explains. Afterwards, she finds herself in strange places, wearing different clothes, even tasting smoke on her breath, although she's normally allergic to cigarettes. Most disturbingly, she awoke a week ago with dried blood on her fingers. Just watch her for a few nights, she begs a reluctant Tom; see if she does anything unusual. The desperation in Lauren's voice touches Tom, and he agrees.
Lauren theorises that she suffers from a multiple personality disorder. Explaining that such a mental illness stems from a childhood trauma, like the violent crime she witnessed involving her mother and stepfather. Lauren tells Tom that she must have created another personality, Lena, to handle her pain. An now, Lauren fears, Lena herself may be a murderer. Tom insists Lauren's evidence is all circumstantial and offers to run a discreet check both on the gun and Lauren's fingerprints. He also urges her to seek expert psychiatric help, and she says she will consult Ruth. There's no question now, Tom is committed to helping Lauren. In a hypnotherapy session with Ruth, Lauren struggles to remember what happened the night her mother died, believing this is the key to her problems. Once again she conjures up nothing more than jumbled, distorted images. Ruth urges Lauren to consider committing herself to a sanatorium. If Lauren's mind is resisting the memory this fiercely, Ruth says, she'll need protection. In the midst of this nightmare, she finally remembers what happened after Margaret and David's murders, including Robert yelling at her, You're as guilty as I am, because you opened the door! In the present, Robert breaks down the door, but a wounded Tom has dragged himself into the room and shoots Robert. Gallo arrives, and Robert shoots him. But before he can shoot again, Lauren takes the gun that Tom has slid to her and fires the fatal shot at Robert. Lauren looks away as her father calls her Lena, his old nickname for her, and then dies. Voluntarily committing herself once again, Lauren now has a real chance to heal and lead a normal, happy life - especially because Tom Beckwith is there, waiting for her.- Director:
- David Madden
- Cast:
- Jim Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Vera Miles
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Think having three wives is a dream come true? Think again. HBO presents the new contemporary drama series that tells the story of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a practicing polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. An independent businessman who runs a growing chain of hardware stores, Bill faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotional, romantic and financial needs of his wives - Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloe Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) - while dealing with their kids, three adjoined houses, an ever-mounting avalanche of bills, and the opening of his newest hardware store. Complicating matters are a series of crises affecting his parents, Frank and Lois (Bruce Dern and Grace Zabriskie), who live on a polygamist compound in rural Utah, as well as an unexpected business challenge from Roman (Harry Dean Stanton), one of his fathers-in-law and the "Prophet" of the polygamist commune where his parents live. - Director:
- Mark V. Olsen
- Cast:
- Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny
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Images (1972)Robert Altman's Images
Originally conceived in the mid-sixties, 'Images' concerns a pregnant children's author (Susannah York) whose husband (Rene Auberjonois) may or may not be having an affair. While holidaying in Ireland, her mental state becomes increasingly unstable resulting in paranoia, hallucinations and visions of a doppelgänger. - Director:
- Robert Altman
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- Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi
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Reverb is the story of a musician (Leo Greogry) who is given the chance to cut a record in a state-of-the-art recording studio. The catch is that he and his former keyboardist (Eva Birthistle) have only two sessions to do it and, for security reasons, are locked in the facility overnight. It is then that they discover a hidden plea for help buried in an incoming song on the radio. - Director:
- Eitan Arrusi
- Cast:
- Leo Gregory, Eva Birthistle, Pamela Banks
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Simon Pegg stars as Sidney Young, a gate-crashing British journalist who loves exposing the shallowness of the celebrity world, yet desperately wants to join it. When he accepts an offer from renowned editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) to write for an ultra-chic magazine in Manhattan, Sidney finally gets to rub elbows with A-list celebrities but always manages to rub them the wrong way. His fellow writer, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), is powerless to stop Sidney when he sets his lustful sites on beautiful starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox). But when Sophie's publicist (Gillian Anderson) makes him a tempting offer, Sidney is finally poised to conquer the Big Apple or suffer the biggest humiliation of his life. - Director:
- Robert B. Weide
- Cast:
- Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox
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Debonair Mike Scott (Leslie Phillips) visits Minorca to arrange a series of photo-sessions of glamorous model-girls but upon arrival, bumps into an old school friend, Sir Percy de Courcy (Terry-Thomas) and his manservant, Perkins (Graham Armitage), who are both desperately trying to find a way of making profit from thousands of gallons of local wine that is far from good. When Perkins accidentally stumbles on the secret of making the wine highly-aphrodisiac, the whole town embarks on an orgy of drinking and the fun begins! However, the wine has a startling side effect - after a few bottles every imbiber begins to bark like a dog! - Director:
- Bob Kellett
- Cast:
- Leslie Phillips, Edward Judd, Terry-Thomas
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Exclusive all-new footage never seen before! Featuring across the range some of Britain's hottest Celebrity Babes sunning their beautiful bodies abroad! Check out the Wags and TV celebrity faces and bodies you will recognise from shows like 'The Real Hustle' (Jessica Jane), 'Dream Team', 'Hollyoaks', 'Emmerdale', and babes who have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as FHM, Nuts, Zoo, Maxim, The Sun, The Star, Vogue and Playboy. Some of these babes have also won beauty pageant titles such as 'Miss Great Britain', 'Miss Wale's and 'Miss Mystique'. Many of babes are so hot they have dated some of the UK's top male TV celebrities and Premiership Football Players! - Director:
- Stuart Wilmont
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- Jessica Jane (Real Hustle), Wendy
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New York 1988, Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has changed his name to conceal his family connection to a long line of distinguished New York cops in order to pursue ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealers around him, he comes face to face with the family he abandoned when his brother (Mark Wahlberg) and father (Robert Duvall) crack down on the club. Now Bobby must choose a side. Is he going to turn informant or will he help run the biggest crime ring in New York history? - Director:
- James Gray
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes
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Exclusive all-new footage never seen before! Features across the range some of Britain's hottest celebrity Babes sunning their beautiful bodies abroad! Check out the Wags and TV celebrity faces and bodies you will recognise from shows like 'The Real Hustle' (Jessica Jane), 'Dream Team', 'Hollyoaks', 'Emmerdale' and babes who have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as 'FHM', 'Nuts', 'Zoo', 'Maxim', 'The Sun', 'The Star', 'Vogue' and 'Playboy'. Some of these babes have also won beauty pageant titles such as 'Miss Great Britain', 'Miss Wales' and' Miss Mystique'. Many of these babes are so hot they have dated some of the UKs top male TV celebrities and Premiership football players! - Director:
- Stuart Wilmont
- Cast:
- Jessica Jane, Amy-Lou
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