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A tall, handsome 'preacher' - his knuckles eerily tattooed with 'love' and 'hate' - roams the countryside, spreading the gospel...and leaving a trail of murdered women in his wake.

To Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum), the work of the Lord has more to do with condemning souls than saving them, especially when his own interests are involved. Now his sights are set on $10,000 - and two little children are the only ones who know where it is. 'Chill...dren!' the preacher croons to the terrified boy and girl hiding in the cold, dark cellar...innocent young lambs who refuse to be led astray.

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Told in flashbacks, L.A. detective Lieutenant Dan August (Christopher George) investigates the disappearance of housewife, Marian Ord (Janet Leigh) whose extramarital activities possibly provide clues to her absence.

The police believe she has been murdered by her distraught husband George (Tim O'Connor) but they can't come up with a corpse and thereby hangs the mystery.

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Dennis Weaver stars as the travelling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is mysteriously singled out for destruction.

Praised for its deft use of relentlessly mounting psychological tension, Duel features one of the most uniquely terrifying "characters" in movie history: a massive, roaring 40-ton truck with more sheer menace than most flesh-and-blood villains. But Steven Spielberg was, literally, just getting started. A few years later, the action of Spielberg's blockbuster hit Jaws would echo Duel's tale of a lone hero in a heart-stopping fight to the finish against a monstrous, inhuman foe.

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Experience Orson Welles' timeless masterpiece, 'Touch of Evil', complete and uncut with restored footage for the first time ever! This exceptional film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a Mexican youth as

part of an intricate criminal plot. Charlton Heston plays an honorable Mexican narcotics investigator who clashes with the bigoted Quinlan after probing into his dark past. A memorable supporting cast including Janet Leigh as Heston's inquisitive wife, Akim Tamiroff as a seedy underworld leader, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marlene Dietrich as an enigmatic gypsy complete this fascinating drama engulfed in haunting cinematography and a magnificently eerie score by Henry Mancini.

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As a post-modern response to the growing trend of senseless gun-related violence amongst American teenagers, 'Pups' chronicles the story of rebellious teenager Stevie (Cameron Van Hoy), who stumbles upon his mother's gun and instead of heading to school, he and his girlfriend Rocky (Mischa Barton)

venture on an impromptu bank robbery that catches national media attention. As tensions inside the bank heighten, an FBI agent (Burt Reynolds) negotiates the boy's absurd demands, exemplified by an interview with MTV personality Kurt Loder.

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Bradford teenagers Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) regularly babysit for Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp), whose comfortable suburban lifestyle contrasts with the girls' bleak life on a council estate.

One evening when Bob is taking them home, he smooth-talks the girls into a three-way sexual relationship. At first it is all a bit of fun, but tempers flare once the affair is out in the open.

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Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site - a melting pot of itinerant labourers from all over the country.

Here he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying - but usually failing to control his workers, Shem, Mo (George Moss) and Larry (Ricky Tomlinson) and the other lads as they duck and dive the rules and regulations of the building trade. Stevie has other problems to contend: the wages are low, the site teems with rats, he has nowhere to sleep and life in London isn't that easy. One day, on his way to work, Stevie finds a handbag in a skip. He takes it back to it owner and meets Susan. As Stevie and Susan learn to live with the ups and downs of life in London, Riff-Raff builds a portrait - sometimes gritty, often funny of life as it is lived in the margins.

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In a far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay. But a group of scientists believe they have found the means to move humanity on to its next level in the creation of an ideal, self-replicating - and thus immortal - human being.

Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch), Nobel Prize-winning physicist and playboy adventurer, is vital to the project's success: his recently deceased father devised the formula of this 'final programme'. However, the formula is captured on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of the family's mansion, and jealously guarded by Jerry's drug-addicted, psychopathic brother, Frank (Derrick O'Connor)...

Featuring a top-notch cast, which includes multi-award-winning actresses Brigitte Lin and Maggie Cheung, director Chan combines a compelling storyline of an honest cop on the run from a false murder charge with dynamic visuals and full-blooded fight action which is electrified with emotional underscoring.

Reprising his role as the irrepressible Hong Kong 'super-cop' Ka Kui, Jackie Chan is triumphant in scene after scene of breath-taking action, as he puts his life on the line to combat ruthless kidnappers holding his city to ransom.

Bursting with energy, hyper-kinetic fight-action and stunning imagery, New Dragon Gate Inn tells the story of fabled resistance fighter, Zhou Huaian (Tony Leung), and his heroic struggle against despotic eunuch and master swordsman Cao Shao-qin, played with considerable menace by martial-arts supremo Donnie Yen.

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Respected Police Inspector Chan Ka Kui (martial arts superstar Jackie Chan) volunteers to go undercover in a Chinese prison in order to infiltrate a ruthless drug cartel.

Ingratiating himself into the system, Chan helps to break cartel member Panther (Yuen Wah) out of prison and, joined by undercover agent Inspector Jessica Yang (Michelle Yeaoh), they travel to Hong Kong to join Panther's gang. Initially accepted by gang leader Chaibat (Ken Tsang), their operation is seemingly threatened when Ka Kui's girlfriend May (Maggie Cheung) accidentally reveals his true identity.

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Maggie Cheung (playing herself) has been cast by a once revered but now out of touch director as the latex-clad cat-burglar in his ill-fated remake of the French classic 'Les Vampires'.

From the moment she arrives in Paris chaos ensues until the director finally has a breakdown and is replaced by another who doesn't know why she was cast in the first place. Amidst all the confusion Cheung becomes drawn to her character and is soon pulling on latex and prowling her hotel corridors at night.

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Hong Kong, 1962. Chow (Tony Leung) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His new neighbour Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) is a secretary whose husband seems to spend all his time on business trips. They become friends, making the lonely evenings more bearable.

As their relationship develops they make a discovery that changes their lives forever...

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Maggie Cheung stars as the conflicted and confused Emily Wang in writer/director Olivier Assayas' film. Her past riddled with drug use, crime and the recent death of her (once famous rock-star) partner, Emily begins a journey of self discovery to reconnect with the son she abandoned long ago.

Co-starring Nick Nolte and Beatrice Dalle, Clean is an absorbing and haunting film about self discovery and redemption.