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Having learned of the sudden death of his sister Elizabeth (Barbara Steele), Francis Barnard (John Kerr) sets out to the castle of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Medina (Vincent Price), to uncover the cause of her untimely demise.

A distraught, grief-stricken Nicholas can offer only the vaguest explanations as to Elizabeth's death - at first citing "something in her blood", but later asserting that she quite literally "died of fright". What sort of unspeakable horrors are buried within the walls of this castle that could cause one's heart to stop so? With Francis determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, the terrible truth will not stay buried for long.

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May is an ordinary grandmother from the suburbs. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives.

Stuck in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old woman whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she falls for Darren, a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter.

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Sherman McCoy was Wall Street's Master of the Universe - and everything in his life was right. Then one night he took a wrong turn at the wrong place with the wrong woman. And nothing has gone right since.

Tom Hanks as McCoy, Bruce Willis as a jaded journalist, Melanie Griffith as McCoy's self-centered mistress and Morgan Freeman as an outspoken judge ignite 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities', the quintessential story of the go-for-it '80s.

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An alien race, undefeatable by any existing military unit, has launched a relentless attack on Earth, and Major Wiiliam Cage (Tom Cruise) finds himself dropped into a suicide mission.

Killed within minutes, Cage is thrown into a time loop, forced to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again and again. Training alongside warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), his skills slowly evolve, and each battle moves them one step closer to defeating the enemy in this intense action thriller.

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While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell.

Although he's hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety when Freddy's ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.

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'Ascension' is the riveting story of a group of medical students who come across the body of the world's most notorious vampire! When a mysterious stranger appears and offers the students $30 million to harvest the body and steal its blood for auction, it's an offer they can hardly refuse! But as

the lure of riches collides with unimaginable terror, the students also find themselves relentlessly pursued by a vampire killer from the Vatican!

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Rescued from exile by a desperate Parliament, Charles II returns to the throne at the age of 30. As the Plague and the Great Fire brings London to its knees, Charles nurtures the wittiest, most lascivious and decadent court of all time.

A sensitive and promiscuous lover, he entertains an array of mistresses including high-born Barbara Villiers; sparky streetwise actress Nell Gwyn and aristocratic French spy Louise de Keroualle. Still traumatised by the execution of his father, Charles is forced to play politics with the Parliament that killed him and proves himself a canny and ruthless politician. Meanwhile, with a lack of a legitimate heir, his squabbling family grow ever more frantic...

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Michael Chambers (Peter Gallagher) is a drifter and a charmer living on his good looks and luck. When he returns to the place he calls "home", he is greeted by a mother starting her new life, a brother driven by jealous rage and Rachel (Alison Elliot), the woman he left behind.

In a frantic attempt to get Rachel back, Michael makes a desperate and very dangerous deal. When passion ignites into obsession, a treacherous game of "who do you trust?" spins a deadly web of intrigue and murder.

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This is the true story of Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) who in 1963 before a United States Investigating Committee and a vast live television audience explained for the first time the inner workings of The Mafia, Valachi serving his third prison term was speaking from experience having been a

valued member of Cosa Nostra for thirty three years, from driver to 'hit man' he had witnessed the power struggles of the Mafia's key figures including Lucky Luciano (Angelo Infanti) and Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura).

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Helen Hunt joins John Hawkes and William H. Macy in this triumphant true story about love, sex, desire... and making every breath count. Paralysed and confined to an iron lung since childhood, poet-journalist Mark O'Brien (Hawkes) has overcome adversity time and time again.

But now, at age 38, he faces his toughest challenge yet: losing his virginity. With the help of a beautiful therapist (Hunt), a sympathetic priest (Macy), and his own unbridled sense of optimism and humour, Mark embarks on an extraordinary personal journey to discover the wondrous pleasures that make life worth living.

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Winner of business man of the year, Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson), is completely thrown on discovering that he's being tailed by a man exactly the same as him who plans to take his place.

While trying to prevent his replica from entering his family circle, he discovers the identity of his mysterious double. With dashes of thriller, melodrama and comedy, the director of Deliverance and Excalibur brings us an original, vibrating tale with all of the knowhow of one of the great British masters.

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In the early hours of the morning, the lonely figure of a child approaches a city police station. Minutes later, 12 year old Alice is calmly accusing her own mother of being a cold-blooded murderer.

Fact or the twisted imaginings of a disturbed mind? Despite the warnings of her superiors, Detective Staro(Asia Argento) wants to know more. Alice meanwhile, goes on the run. But she's not alone. A twist of fate throws her together with a battle-scarred mercenary who vows to protect her. On their trail, the cop who's determined to uncover the truth and an army of ruthless killers whose mission is to silent Alice... no matter what it takes.

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Starring Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, "The Hundred-Foot Journey" is an uplifting and feel-good comedy bursting with flavour, passion and heart.

When the icy proprietress (Mirren) of a Michelin-starred French restaurant in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val gets wind of the Kadam family opening an Indian restaurant just 100 feet from her own, her protests escalate to all-out war between the two establishments. But as these two worlds collide, despite their different tastes they find an unlikely source of compromise that will change both sides forever.

A stunning and beautiful film, "Mr. Turner" tells the extraordinary story of Britain's greatest ever artist. As Turner (Timothy Spall) produces masterpieces ahead of his time that challenge the art world, so he has to confront his own ever changing circumstances and deal with love and loss.