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The police are after Jack Barrett (Peter McEnery), who has stolen several thousand pounds and is now on the run.

He tries desperately to get in touch with Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde), a prosperous young barrister with a beautiful wife but, cornered and arrested by the police he commits suicide in his prison cell rather than answer their questions.

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After he saves her from drowning in the bay, Scottie's (James Stewart) interest shifts from business to fascination with the icy, alluring blonde. When tragedy strikes and Madeleine (Kim Novak) dies, Scottie is devastated.

But when he finds another woman remarkably like his lost love, the now obsessed detective must unravel the secrets of the past to find the key to his future.

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Cyrano (Gerard Depardieu), a swashbuckling hero with a gift for verse, is in love with the beautiful Roxane (Anne Brochet) but fears his prominent nose would cause her to reject his romantic advances.

Instead he uses his poetic artistry to help a dashing but shallow suitor, Christian (Vincent Perez), who employs the words to which Cyrano longs to give voice. But will the object of their affection realise who she’s really falling for?

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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. A top that list is Czech Resistance leader VIctor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one...

especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country, the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance.

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The young pilots of the First World War we idolised as glamorous, devil-may-care aces, but Gresham (Malcolm McDowell), commanding officer of the squadron, lives with the reality and knows it is very different.

Young, bare and a true patriot, but exhausted and old before his time, he greets each batch of eager recruits with quiet despair, knowing their families are unlikely to see them again. When the latest arrival turns out to be young Croft (Peter Firth), fresh from his old public school, the strain threatens to become wellnigh intolerable...A moving story of comradeship and bravery, loneliness and fear, from award-winning director Jack Gold and producer Benjamin Fisz, 'Aces High' contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever stages.

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Kerwin Mathews stars as Gulliver, the swashbuckling doctor who sets sail for fame and fortune in the fabled East Indies, but finds adventure, romance and danger instead in Brobdingnag and Lilliput, the infamous lands of the great and small.

One of the most complicated films of its time, 'The 3 Worlds of Gulliver' is both an enchanting fantasy and a captivating visual treat. Because the storyline calls for scenes that juxtapose forty-foot giants with six-inch-tall people, special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen perfected a state-of-the-art trick photography process so innovative, they had to invent a new word for it: Superdynamation.

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Climb aboard the Nautilus...and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Captain Nemo, brilliantly portrayed by James Mason.

Wavering between genius and madness, Nemo has launched a deadly crusade across the seven seas. But can the captive crew expose his evil plan before he destroys the world?

A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov will rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000.

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Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence.

How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best pictures ever made".

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On a laughter scale, Blake Edwards's '10', a spicy comedy of manners, morals and mid-life crisis, hits the top. It's a film of many moods, sometimes sexy, sometimes thoughtful and sometimes slapstick - but always on target.

That target is 42-year-old composer George Webber, a man who has everything and might just chuck it all in on an obsessive quest for a beautiful woman he glimpses en route to her wedding...

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At an isolated and snowbound country manor in 1950s France, a family is gathering for Christmas. But this year there will be no celebrations - their beloved patriarch has been murdered. The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the houes. Eight women. Each has a motive.

Each has a secret. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual, and dangerous... One of them is guilty. But who?

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'The Blue Max' is a raging war time thriller featuring spectacular aerial combat sequences. It is the story of Bruno Stachel (George Peppard), a cold, ambitious German combat pilot in World War I.

As brave as he is ruthless, he excels in combat, wins the highest medals, The Blue Max, and becomes a national hero.

Where to find your favourite fast-food hamburger in Paris? How many laundry soap packets does a trip to Atlanta require? Ask Macon Leary (William Hurt), whose guidebooks are revered by home-loving business travellers who loathe being in transit. About matters of the heart, don't ask Macon. he doesn't have a clue. At least, not yet.

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Grinding out a living as a filing clerk in a Clevland hospital, Harvey Pekar relieves the monotony of his daily routine discussing everything from rock 'n' roll and the decline of American culture to new flavours of jellybeans.

For Harvey, life in all its unpredictable glory becomes an obsession and he begins to record his observations in a collection of stories he calls 'American Splendor'. As grumpy as it is hilarious, the first edition of American Splendor is eventually published - with a little help from legendary comic book illustrator Robert Crumb - and the cantankerous curmudgeonly Harvey becomes a hero for millions of Americans. He achieves critical acclaim, celebrity status and, most unlikely of all, finds true love. Before camcorders, before webcams, before reality TV, there was Harvey Pekar. This is the true and extraordinary story of his life.

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In 1995, a mysterious piece of top secret black and white footage, supposedly filmed during the Roswell incident of 1947, was broadcast around the World to an expectant TV audience, It showed the autopsy of an Alien life form.

Two men were responsible for the discovery of the footage, best friends Ray (Declan Donnelly) and Gary (Ant McPartlin). The discovery of the film throws them into the centre of a media frenzy and catapults them into the limelight. However, the two have an even bigger secret and if the truth got out what would happen to them? Based on true events, Alien Autopsy is the story of two unlikely lads from London who became icons in UFOlogy.