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The night that medical student Dan Cain discovered his pet cat, Rufus, dead in his roommates fridge was just the beginning. Before long Dan, and his beloved girlfriend, Megan, become involved in the macabre experiments of his roommate, the sinister Dr.

Herbert West, who has created a serum that can bring both brain and body back from the dead. The immoral scientific methods of Dr. West provide the Dean of the medical school with reason to expel West and force Cain out of the hospital. Undeterred, West and Cain continue with their experiments in the hospital's morgue - restoring life to an unlimited supply of fresh corpses. However, a chilling side effect to West's discovery leads to a seemingly endless night of mind-bending terror and unthinkable madness.

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Slip into the crypt for a peek at the "necro-files" of director John Carpenter in three dead-on tales from today's top terrormeister! Robert Carradine and David Naughton pump-up for high-octane horror when a satanic serial killer stalks "The Gas Station".

Stacy Keach, Deborah Harry and rock superstar Sheena Eston wig-out in the hair-raising tale of tonsorial terror, "Hair". And special guest director Tobe Hooper takes the reins when Mark Hamill and Twiggy set their sights on the supernatural and stare Evil right in "The Eye". So zip yourself up tight and chill out with host John Carpenter in the shock-around-the-clock scare-fest that will keep you coming back for morgue!

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Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel star as Johnny Boy and Charlie; Italian-American cousins and small time criminals hustling, fighting and carousing, doing whatever it takes to survive in the mean streets of New York.

Johnny Boy spends his life getting into trouble, leaving Charlie to get him out of it. Charlie wants to rise up in the local mafia, but when Johnny Boy reneges on a debt, the local loan shark seeks revenge.

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Ramu Gupta (Jimi Mistry) leaves Delhi with dreams to make it big as a movie star in New York, but fate has hilarious plans in store for him! With the assistance of a porn star (Heather Graham) and new-age Manhattan princes (Marisa Tomei) Ramu brings pleasure to the city’s socialites in a way he

never imagined…as New York’s very own Guru of Sex!

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Sexy Heather Graham leads a hilarious cast in an outrageously high-spirited comedy about the crazy things people will do for love.

When Joline (Heather Graham) discovers that her husband has abruptly left her in an effort to find himself, she drops everything and drives out of New York City in search of her stray spouse. Then, after finally tracking him down in the west Texas desert, Joline demonstrates that she'll do anything to win him back.

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In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to the fighting by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants.

But a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and even worse weather led to disaster beyond the Allies' darkest fears.

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The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection is a series of dvds featuring different classic films from the Ealing Studios collection, some of which have never been shown since their original theatrical release.

The series features classics from the 20s and 30s from the acclaimed and classic studio as the series shows the dynamic storytelling of the studio and the many different themes and stories the studio told over its acclaimed career as part of British cinema history during the start of the 20th century.

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Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) spends his days collecting frequent-flier-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters.

The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman).

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Duke Anderson (Sean Connery), released from prison after a 10-year term for safe-cracking, immediately starts planning and executing his next job, a daring million- dollar heist of an entire East Side New York apartment building.

Among the wealthy tenants is his girlfriend Ingrid (Dyan Cannon), a wayward mistress who is under surveillance by her current means of support Werner (Richard B. Schulll). Duke and his gang of expert thieves, including Martin Balsam and Christopher Walken, plot their elaborate robbery, while their every move is monitored and recorded by Werner's private investigators and other agencies, unaware of each other and Duke's impending crime, the final explosive showdown between the police and Duke's crew is a stunning action set piece staged on Fifth Avenue.

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Meet Stella James (Sean Young)... sensuous, fiercely independent, and possessing a fiery appetite for life. She vigorously pursues her ambition to become a 'haute cuisine' chef, while also seducing a variety of men to educate herself in the realm of lust and love.

Her passion for food is matched only by her appetite for men. In the traditional roles of the sexes, Stella is the woman to break the mould.
Stella's sexual odyssey is launched from the apartment of wealthy Teo (Dylan Walsh). Teo's alcoholism diminishes his sexual drive and leads Stella to prowl the streets in search of one night stands to experience the various sexual tastes and flavours of men.
She leaves New York for Los Angeles where she lands a job as a chef in a trendy restaurant owned by miserably married George (John Heard). Their closeness in the kitchen and mutual love of cooking soon blossoms into an affair... until Frank (Richard Hillman) shows up. A photographer with a social conscience, Frank pursues his own dream to win a Pulitzer Prize for his 'combat' photo journalism of gang warfare in South Central Los Angeles. Their affair begins as lust but grows into much more as they explore life experiences together. For the first time, Stella experiences jealousy and much more.

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American psychologist John Holden (Dana Andrews) arrives in England to discover that his colleague, Henry Harrington (Maurice Denham), has suddenly died following his efforts to discredit notorious occultist Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnls).

The cynical Holden dismisses Karswell's warnings as supernatural nonsense, even when he and Harrington's niece, Joanna (Peggy Cummins), are confronted by a series of bizarre and inexplicable events. Holden discovers that Karswell has slipped him a parchment featuring ancient runic symbols - a sign that, like Harrington before him, he has been marked for imminent destruction by a fire-breathing demon.

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Set in Berlin, 1945, this powerful and provocative war drama retells the final days of the Second World War as recorded in the diaries of Adolf Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, while barricaded with Hitler and his closest confidants in the Fuhrer's secret bunker.

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel with an astonishing performance by Bruno Ganz as history's most notorious figure, this unprecedented and controversial insider's perspective is a gripping insight into the madness and desperation of Hitler in the final hours of the war as the Russian Army closes a ring around Berlin.

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Mr. Sugiyama is an awkward and painfully shy middle-aged workaholic leading a mind-numbingly dull existence - until the day he catches a glimpse of a beautiful instructor in the window of a shabby ballroom dancing school.

Once he finally gets the nerve to sign up for lessons, he winds up assigned to an older instructor and her eccentric class of beginners. But this is just the first in a series of hilarious missteps he takes while trying to impress the elegant young beauty and keep the embarrassing details from his family and friends.

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Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is an arrogant publicist lying his way to success in New York. Everything changes however when he unknowingly answers a call in a phone booth he's been using to cheat on his wife.

Now he is at the mercy of the caller (Kiefer Sutherland) who, as an invisible sniper somewhere in the buildings above, is holding him hostage with demands to come clean with his wife (Radha Mitchell) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes). Relying on his wits and the unlikely help of Capt, Ramey (Forest Whitaker) Stu's life will change even if he does manage to escape alive.

Born in a tribe of tierce warrior women, Hundra has been raised to despise th influence of men. An archer, fighter and sword fighter, Hundra is superior to any male. Hundra finds her family slain and takes a vow of revenge until one day she meets her match