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Disorder (2015)Maryland
Following a tour of duty, Special Services soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) takes a job in security for a wealthy businessman and his family. During a lavish party at their luxurious villa in the French Riviera, Vincent senses that something is amiss. When his employer is then urgently called away on business Vincent is left to ensure the safety of his wife Jessie (Diane Kruger) and their child. Suffering from post-traumatic stress, Vincent battles his own paranoia whilst clinging to the certainty that Jessie and her family are in immediate danger, unleashing a hell-bent determination to protect them at all costs. - Director:
- Alice Winocour
- Cast:
- Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy
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The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/ Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last time. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. - Director:
- Elia Kazan
- Cast:
- Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter
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She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on true events, 'Official Secrets' tells the story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist who received a shocking memo in 2003: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in blackmailing United Nations Security Council members so they vote in favour of the Iraq War. Unable to stand by, Gun defies her government and leaks the memo to the press, beginning an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family in harm's way. - Director:
- Gavin Hood
- Cast:
- Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode
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The Seventh Seal (1957)Det sjunde inseglet
As the Black Death continues to wipe out the population of Europe, knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) returns from the Crusades, disillusioned and worn. When suddenly Death (Bengt Ekerot) appears before him, he asks for the chance to live, proposing a game of chess to decide his fate. The knight takes his squire, a troupe of traveling players and a deaf and dumb girl under his protection as the game is played out. One by one Death exacts his toll, and it is up to Block to stall his opponent for as long as possible if he is to help save the lives of those he is trying to protect. All the while, the villages and towns about them fall further into ruin and religion takes a stranglehold on those desperate for a means of survival. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
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Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)Truly Madly Deeply
Nina (Juliet Stevenson), a charming, warm-hearted young woman, is dealing with the sudden death of her beloved husband, Jamie. Just when she can no longer bear the pain of her loss, Jami (Alan Rickman) suddenly appears in her living room - back from the dead! At first his presence in her life seems too good to be true, but when Nina unexpectedly meets Mark (Michael Maloney), a part-time magician and full-time good guy who turns h world upside down, Nina is faced with the ultimate decision. Will she hold on to her past? Or let new love guide her into the future? - Director:
- Anthony Minghella
- Cast:
- Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Jenny Howe
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Red River (1948)Río Rojo
After the Civil War, ranch owner Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) leads a drive of ten thousand cattle out of an impoverished Texas to the richer markets of Missouri, alongside his adopted son Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift) and a team of ranch hands. As the conditions worsen, and Dunson's control over his cattlemen gets ever more merciless, a rebellion begins to grow within the travelling party. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
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Masque of the Red Death (1964)The Masque of the Red Death
Vincent Price stars as the evil Prospero, a Prince who has sold his soul and who counts on the promises of the Devil for protection. He hosts incredible, opulent parties for the privileged while toe poor die in hovels, starving victims of the Red Death, a devastating plague that is sweeping his lands. Prospero takes a perverse pleasure in the pain and suffering of his supplicants and his friends alike. When Prospero decides to hold a masked ball all seems ready for a night of unheard of indulgence and decadence, until he notices the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing toe figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero determines to seek him out...Based on Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, - Director:
- Roger Corman
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
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The Killers (1946)Los asesinos
Ernest Hemingway s spare, laconic short story about two professional killers and their encounter with a mysteriously unresisting victim was significantly expanded into this all-time film noir classic, which Hemingway said was the first adaptation of his work that he really admired. As washed-up boxer turned hitman victim Ole 'Swede' Andreson, Burt Lancaster made his screen debut, and was catapulted to instant stardom, not least for the screen chemistry that he showed opposite sultry Ava Gardner, whose Kitty Collins is the very personification of the femme fatale. German émigré Robert Siodmak was one of the filmmakers who helped create film noir, and Elwood Bredell s high-contrast cinematography, all harsh lighting and long shadows, elevates the film far above a conventional crime drama. But even on that level it s a first-rate demonstration of how to maintain narrative tension, with the flashback structure withholding crucial details until almost the very end. - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)Hiroshima, My Love
A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, passionate affair in post war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred but fading memories of love and suffering, which Resnais communicates with the use of flashback techniques innovative to the time. - Director:
- Alain Resnais
- Cast:
- Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas
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Having just served a prison term for possession of heroin, poker dealer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) vows to stay clean and find success as a jazz drummer. His wife (Eleanor Parker), left disabled by a car crash, is equally determined he should remain in the lucrative gambling business. Pressurised by his wife after being asked to deal in a high-stakes game, Frankie's fear of failure leads him straight back to the nearest fix... - Director:
- Otto Preminger
- Cast:
- Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak
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A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation. - Director:
- Shin'ya Tsukamoto
- Cast:
- Kei Fujiwara, Tomorowo Taguchi, Nobu Kanaoka
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This brand new edition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's much-loved Oklahoma! gives you the opportunity to watch the whole film or just your favourite songs, with or without Sing-along subtitles. In sunny Oklahoma, farmhands Curly (Gordon McRae) and Will (Gene Nelson) fall for local girls Ado (Gloria Grahame) and Laurey (Shirley Jones). The path to true love is thwarted, however, by nasty farmhand Jud Fry (Rod Steiger). This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900's, with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs, such as "Oh, What a Beautiful Momin'", "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top", "People Will Say We're in Love" and "Oklahoma!". - Director:
- Fred Zinnemann
- Cast:
- Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
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Peeping Tom (1960)Face of Fear
Mark (Carl Boehm), a focus puller at the local film studio, supplements his wages by taking glamour photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent. By night he is a sadistic killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand trying to capture the look of genuine, unadulterated fear - an obsession that stems from his disturbing and terrifying childhood at the hands of his scientist father. Mark slowly becomes enamoured with Helen (Anna Massey), who lives with her blind mother (Maxine Audley) in the flat downstairs, but how long before he turns the deadly gaze of his camera towards her? - Director:
- Michael Powell
- Cast:
- Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer
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In this powerful, thought-provoking true story, recent Harvard graduate Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) passes up lucrative jobs to defend those wrongly condemned in Alabama. Supported by local advocate Eva Ansley (Brie Larson), he quickly picks up the incendiary case of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a death-row inmate convicted of a notorious murder. Facing a legal and political labyrinth and unabashed racism, Bryan fights for Walter and others like him in a system stacked against them. - Director:
- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Cast:
- Jamie Foxx, Norm Lewis, Charlie Pye Jr.
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Writer-director James Cameron creates an exhilarating mix of nonstop action-adventure and romantic comedy. Arnold Schwarzenegger is secret agent Harry Tasker, a top spy in the ultra-secret Omega Sector - although to his wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), he's just a dull computer salesman. But while Harry's been busy saving the world, Helen's been gathering secrets of her own. When their two lives unexpectedly collide, Harry and Helen find themselves in the clutches of international terrorists, fighting to save not only their marriage, but also the world! - Director:
- James Cameron
- Cast:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold
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