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Pigs and Battleships / Stolen Desire (1961)Buta to gunkan / Nusumareta yokujô
Imamura finally answered his true calling as Japanese cinema's most dedicated and brilliant chronicler of society's underbelly with the astonishing 'Pigs and Battleships' (Buta togunkan). A riotous portrait of sub-Yakuza gangsters battling for control of the local pork business in the U.S. Navy-occupied coastal town of Yokosuka, Imamura conjures a chaotic world of petty thugs, young love, tough-headed women, and underworld hypochondria, with one of the most unforgettable climaxes ever filmed. 'Pigs and Battleships' immediately became a cornerstone of the Japanese New Wave and remains perhaps Imamura's most well known work. The Masters oi Cinema Series is proud to present the film on its 50th anniversary in a Dual Format edition, alongside Imamura's rarely seen 1958 debut, 'Stolen Desire'. - Director:
- Shôhei Imamura
- Cast:
- Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
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The hilarious, rowdy and raunchy insight into the zany antics of six, sex mad American teenagers, who all share the same interests, basketball, girls and how to get laid. Desperate to prove their manhood, they are hypnotically drawn to the notorious Porky's where, for a price, their amorous daydreaming can become a night-time reality. But, having paid their money, Porky, the owner, has them thrown into the swamp. They decide to take revenge. One way or another, they will get even with Porky and Co... any way they can! - Director:
- Bob Clark
- Cast:
- Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight
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Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way (2023)Ted Lasso: Series
In a bitter divorce settlement from her billionaire husband, Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) becomes the new owner of AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League football team. She's assisted by her director of communications, Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift), who formerly worked for her husband. Her first order of business is to fire the team's current manager and replace him with small-time American football coach Theodore "Ted" Lasso (Jason Sudeikis).Ted and his friend, assistant Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt), cross the pond to take up the management of the team's long, albeit modest, histoiy. He gets to know the team, including salty team captain Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) and top scorer Jamie Tartt (Phil Dunster), but finds his first friend in the locker room is assistant Nathan Shelley (Nick Mohammed). Although he is nationally ridiculed for doing so, Ted works to change the team's profound mediocrity. Richmond is about to change the way they're doing things - now it's the Lasso way. - Director:
- Declan Lowney
- Cast:
- Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Jeremy Swift
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Edwin Anthony had a very nasty accident and lost something very vital. So they gave him Percy. Now Edwin wants to know where Percy's been before. When a nasty accident leaves Edwin (Hywel Bennett) an antiques dealer, missing a particular part of his body, he becomes the first to experience a new groundbreaking transplant procedure carried out by Sir Emmanuel Whitbread (Denholm Elliott)...He awakes to find himself in hospital with a newly fitted part, which the nurses have affectionately named 'Percy', and has gone from nonentity into an instant celebrity overnight!! Edwin Focuses his attention on the more important matter in hand, who did Percy belong to? This quest leads him on a wild journey filled with lots of young beautiful women and his wife of the donor, Moira (Cyd Hayman). Taking refuge in Moira's house from the press and public, Edwin soon realises that Percy has a lot of 'female friends' and attempts to carry on where Percy's owner had left off... - Director:
- Ralph Thomas
- Cast:
- Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer
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The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970)The Devil's Widow
Hollywood enchantress Ava Gardner (The Killers) casts a glamorous, beguiling spell across this eerily evocative, unjustly overlooked folk horror. Loosely based around the traditional Scottish ballad, and shot in the Borders, it would be the sole directorial credit of legendary Planet of the Apes actor, Roddy McDowall. Swinging-London photographer Tom Lynn (Ian McShane, Lovejoy), the current bedroom favourite of beautiful, wealthy widow Mrs. Cazaret (Gardner), joins his lover and a kooky coven of bright young things for decadent debauchment at a remote Scottish moorland retreat. But when Tom falls instead for Janet (Stephanie Beacham, Dracula AD 1972), daughter of the local vicar (Cyril Cusack, Fahrenheit 451), he must face the fiery fury of a woman scorned: drug-fuelled, dangerous, deadly games... - Director:
- Roddy McDowall
- Cast:
- Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis
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Caddyshack (1980)Los locos del golf
Greenkeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III - against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smails plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10-foot putt. Insanity? No, Caddyshack. - Director:
- Harold Ramis
- Cast:
- Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray
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Come Play with Me (1977)David Sullivan's Come Play with Me
Sue (Mary Millington), as the leader of a horde of horny girls who take over the running of a remote health farm. Their naughty fitness treatments certainly give new meaning to being in 'rude' health and, when a pair of bungling forgers hide out at their country house of ill-repute to escape the police and rival heavies, the movie climaxes (oof!) with a no-holds-barred orgy that would make a docker blush. - Director:
- George Harrison Marks
- Cast:
- Irene Handl, Alfie Bass, George Harrison Marks
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After a badly burned pilot (Ralph Fiennes) is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert, he's placed in the care of an army nurse (Juliette Binoche) and identified only as "the English patient". As his memory slowly returns, a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) is unveiled, and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered. - Director:
- Anthony Minghella
- Cast:
- Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
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Belle De Jour (1967)Belle de jour
Undoubtly Luis Bunuel's most accessibly film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 40 years ago. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve plays Severine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs cold with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clementi), and ignites an obsession that will court peril. Expertly dramatizing the collision between fantasy and reality, and between depravity and respectable bourgeois values, Bunuel, working from the novel by Joseph Kessel, fashions an immaculately designed (the fetishistic interiors and production designs are astonishing) and amoral comedy of manners. - Director:
- Luis Buñuel
- Cast:
- Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
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This hilariously violent action comedy caper stars Paz Vega as a sexy, high-end call girl on the run for her life with key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up of a shockingly horrific crime. When two bumbling private detectives become her unlikely protectors (Scott Mechlowicz, Alphonso McAuley) they too find themselves running from a deadly combination of the Mob, a corrupt US Senator and a ruthlessly sadistic female assassin (Janet McTeer). - Director:
- John Stockwell
- Cast:
- Malina Germanova, Paz Vega, Janet McTeer
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Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons returns as the savvy and scheming Pope Alexander in all ten episodes from the riveting third and final season of 'The Borgias'. Beset by enemies at every turn, Alexander responds with an iron will to purge the Vatican of those disloyal to him. But as he struggles to establish the Papacy as a hereditary monarchy across the heart of Italy, his emboldened children have their own plans for seizing power: Cesare (Francois Arnaud) is now a daring guerilla fighter, Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger) has entered the fray of Neapolitan politics, and both are burning with a desire that could consume them all. Passionate, sumptuous and undeniably addictive, it's an unmissable chapter in the saga of one of the most powerful families the world has ever known. - Director:
- Kari Skogland
- Cast:
- Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger
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From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of 'Yellowstone', and Hugh Dillon, 'Mayor of Kingstown' follows the McLusky family - power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither. With an impressive line-up of star power, including two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner, Golden Globe, Emmy and Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest, and five-time Emmy nominee Kyle Chandler... - Director:
- Taylor Sheridan
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- Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest, Hugh Dillon
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Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, 'Eileen' follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) shuffles between her father's dingy, emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works alongside colleagues who have ostracized her. When an intoxicating woman (Anne Hathaway) joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken. Just when the possibility of a salvational friendship (or maybe more) takes hold and forms a singular glimmer in Eileen's darkness, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime that alters all. - Director:
- William Oldroyd
- Cast:
- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Shea Whigham, Sam Nivola
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Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise (1987)La venganza de los nerds II
Everyone's favourite nerds are back! This time Lewis, Wormser, Poindexter, Lamar and Booger are off to the united Fraternity Conference in Ft. Lauderdale. Unfortunately, the hotel manager and Alpha Betas join forces, leaving the Tri-Lambs with no place to slay but the Ricky Ricardo Wing of the dilapidated Hotel Coral Essex. But even though the boys are misled, mistreated and misused, they once again strike back, proving the importance of self-respect in a wild and wacky lessen you'll never forget - Director:
- Joe Roth
- Cast:
- Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott
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Anthony Edwards (TV's "ER") stars with Robert Carradine in this hilarious satire on college life about a group of outcasts who start their own fraternity after being rejected by every house on campus. It's a brains vs. brawn battle when the football team jocks try to crush their misfit counterparts, but the nerds have the perfect plan to gain the upper hand. - Director:
- Jeff Kanew
- Cast:
- Robert Carradine, Greg Berg, Anthony Edwards
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