robert-bucknor's - FAVOURITES List

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Cynical and rebellious ex-army sergeant Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) has been blackmailed into working for Britain's security service.

Hot on the trail of a kidnapped scientist, Palmer finds himself enmeshed in a sinister conspiracy involving horrifying brainwashing techniques, murder and treachery that reaches up to the highest levels of the security service itself.

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Orphaned by a cold-blooded cult leader (James Earl Jones) and his band of brutal marauders, Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) endures a childhood of merciless slavery only to become a gladiator for the amusement of his captors.

Sent to the Far East to hone his fighting skills, Conan is freed and begins a dangerous, full-blooded quest to avenge his parents' massacre. Now, the sword-wielding warrior must vanquish his bloodthirsty enemies in a death-defying action-adventure about courage, strength, character and the triumph of good over evil.

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In an alternate 1980s, the United States stands alone as communism grows stronger. When Soviet soldiers invade a small Colorado town, brothers Jed (Patrick Swayze) and Matt Eckert (Charlie Sheen) escape with friends to the forest.

With their father, Tom (Harry Dean Stanton), a prisoner of the invading army, the children decide to fight against the Soviets. As the country comes under increasing attack, the group teams up with Lt. Col. Andrew Tanner (Powers Boothe) to take back their town.

Gripping and powerful, 'The Insider' is based on the story of tobacco executive turned whistle-blower, Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe). This edge of your seat thriller recounts the chain of events that saw an ordinary man up against a corporate giant in the fight of his life.

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Deep within the desolate landscape of the Californian desert a dangerous killer roams the land looking for victims. With his terrifying psychic abilities he leaves a blood soaked trail of chaos and death.

No one is safe from the destructive, horrifying powers that he possesses as he continues on his brain-splattering journey of exploding heads and dismembered body parts. However, this is no ordinary psychopath. His name is Robert and he just so happens to be a rubber tyre.

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Based on a true story, The Emerald Forest features Powers Boothe as Bill Markham, an American engineer working on a dam project in the Brazilian jungle.

When a local tribe known as 'The Invisible People' abducts his infant son, Markham begins a ten-year search to find him, only to discover that his boy has grown into a fully-fledged tribesman. Can Markham persuade him to return to civilisation?

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Sailor Bill Masen is in hospital for an eye operation. With his eyes bandaged, he is unable to witness a freak meteorite show that blinds the entire population of London. As spores from the shower develop into 'triffids' (vicious, man-eating plants), humans Seem powerless to resist.

Along with a small group of seeing survivors, Masen begins the fight to save civilization.

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Arrows rain death. Soldiers clamber up stone walls. Swords clang, fires rage. Yet the waves of combatants storming Troy are repelled. To defeat the undefeatable ultimately requires brains more than brawn.

So feigning retreat, the Greeks offer a gift: a mammoth wooden horse secretly housing their fighting men. Homer's Iliad surges to the screen in Helen Of Troy, from the '50s heyday of big-screen spectaculars. Robert Wise directs this lavish epic capturing some 30,000 people on screen at the-then huge cost of $6 million. Among the 30,000: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Brigitte Bardot before her sex-symbol renown, and as the lovers at the conflict's centre, Rosasana Podesta and Jack Sernas.

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Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint (Oliver Reed) is fed up with his fabulously successful life and decides to quits his high-flying job in order to return to writing for a small, literary magazine.

To completely leave his former life behind, he even goes as far as saying good-bye to both his wife and mistresses! But Andrew finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape his past...

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From the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky comes his most autobiographical work and one that is regarded by many as his magnum opus.

Reflecting upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people, 'Mirror' is a sublime expression of memory, imagination, thoughts and dreams intertwined with real life and family relationships. A transcendent, inspired and multilayered masterpiece that continues to grow in stature, 'Mirror' has an exceptional resonance and rewards countless viewings.

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Brian Keith stars as Captain Jack Connor, a fast-talking, hard-drinking, tough-as-nails Irishman assigned to investigate an impending escape by a group of German POWs led by the charismatic Kapitan Schleutter (Helmut Griem).

The camp commander (Ian Hendry) has been unable to contain the prisoners, but Connor's brash and unusual approach solves the problem... for a while. In a race against time - and with growing animosity from the commander - Connor surpasses even his own previous unorthodox methods when he devises a scheme so daring that it will either make him a hero... or prove to be the most fatal mistake of his career.

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Strange metallic meteorites rain down over Winnerden Flats, an eerie new town in the vicinity of a highly guarded chemical plant.

Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) is intrigued to discover that contact with the meteorites causes an unusual infection, and is astonished to find that the chemical plant appears to be modelled after his own design for a moonbase - a design that enables life to thrive in an artificial atmosphere. Ouatermass's investigation uncovers a sinister conspiracy that extends from government level to the zombie-like workers who will stop at nothing to protect the plant. It soon becomes clear that they have all been enslaved by alien creatures who are using Winnerden Flats as the launching point for an invasion of Earth...

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Following the successful Cuban uprising, Ernesto Che Guevara's strong beliefs led him into the savage terrain of the Bolivian jungle to aide the revolutionaries in their own uprising against a military regime. This was to be his final tragic mission.

'Che: Part Two' is a poignant and masterful portrayal of a complex icon that constantly challenged himself and the world around him.

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When the suave Agent 007 (Pierce Brosnan) is assigned to protect an oil heiress (Sophie Marceau), he is catapulted into a passionate, adrenaline-charged adventure that pits him against one of his most deadly adversaries: Renard (Robert Carlyle).

Renard is a ruthless anarchist whose total imperviousness to pain makes him a virtually unstoppable enemy. The unrelenting suspense, breathtaking action and sly wit never let up in this explosively entertaining thriller.

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Samantha 'Sam' Callen (Shannon Sturges) is assigned to pull the plug on Dr. Branson's (Ernie Hudson) tornado project, an untested machine to track and predict dangerous twisters.

In the few days she gives him to finish his research she meets, and falls for, Jake Thorne, a tornado chasing cowboy who, along with his friend Tex, shows her the devastating effects a twister can have on an entire community. Sam then begins to understand the importance of the doctors work and realizes she wants to help them. It's then that Jake receives word of a real monster tornado heading their way- a deadly gale force maelstrom - an opportunity to test Dr. Branson's machine but at great risk as Sam and Jake enter the vortex and face imminent death.