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Night of the Juggler (1980)New York Killer
A young girl is kidnapped in broad daylight in Central Park by a murderous psychopath (Cliff Gorman), who plans to demand a huge ransom for her return, mistakenly believing she is the daughter of a wealthy property developer. Unfortunately for him, she's actually the daughter of Sean Boyd (James Brolin), a devoted dad and grizzled ex-cop who will stop at absolutely nothing to get her back, even if it means taking out the kidnapper, his enemies in the NYPD, and the entire scuzzy underworld populating the mean streets of 1970s New York… - Director:
- Robert Butler
- Cast:
- James Brolin, Cliff Gorman, Richard S. Castellano
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When a young Amish boy (Lukas Haas) inadvertently witnesses a brutal murder while en route to Philadelphia with his recently widowed mother, Rachel (Kelly McGillis), Detective John Book (Harrison Ford) is assigned to the case. With the perpetrators desperate to silence the sole witness, Book and his two wards are forced to hide out in the heart of the Amish community. As passions between Book and Rachel ignite, the killers close in, culminating in a dramatic, life-and-death clash of cultures that while change the lives of those involved forever. - Director:
- Peter Weir
- Cast:
- Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas
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The Stunt Man (1980)The Stuntman
Vietnam veteran Cameron (Steve Railsback) is on the run from the police when he stumbles onto the set of a war movie directed by megalomaniac Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole). But when the young fugitive is forced to replace a dead stunt man, he falls in love with the movies leading lady (Barbara Hershey) while trying to avoid getting arrested or killed. Is Eli trying to capture Cameron's death on film? And what happens to a paranoid stunt man when illusion and reality change places? - Director:
- Richard Rush
- Cast:
- Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey
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Prince of Darkness (1987)John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Deep in the basement of an abandoned church, once run by a sinister religious sect, lies a strange bottle of green liquid being investigated by a group of local theoretic physics students. But as the night draws in the students soon realise that the strange relic holds a dark and powerful force beyond their control. A force that could well be the essence of pure evil: the remains of Satan himself. - Director:
- John Carpenter
- Cast:
- Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)4 Mosche di Velluto Grigio
A Twisted tale of tortured paranoia and homicidal frenzy. Who is the deranged maniac persecuting and mentally torturing celebrated rock musician Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon)? First he's implicated in a horrifying stabbing and is soon surrounded by other senseless slaughter. The last strange images captured on one murder victim's eye retina contain the only clue to the demented criminal manipulator. And their identity will take Roberto over the edge of sanity to a shock horror peak... - Director:
- Dario Argento
- Cast:
- Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle
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Le Trou (1960)The Night Watch / The Hole
1947. A young man, Gaspard Claude (Marc Michel), is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he is innocent of the crime. He is sent to the notorious Sante Prison in Paris and is placed in a cell with four hardened criminals. The latter have decided to escape from the prison by digging their way out of their cell. Reluctantly, they take Gaspard into their confidence and labour digging their way out of their cell. Then, just when escape appears certain, Gaspard is called away to see the prison governor... - Director:
- Jacques Becker
- Cast:
- André Bervil, Jean Keraudy, Michel Constantin
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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)Diarios de motocicleta
Based on the journals of the man who would later become the revolutionary Che Guevara, 'The Motorcycle Diaries' follows the story of two young Argentines, Ernesto Guevara (Gael García Bernal) and Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on a road trip to discover real Latin America. The two friends leave their familiar surrounding in Buenos Aires on a rickety 1939 Norton 500. Although the bike breaks down in a course of their eight month journey, they press onward, hitching rides along the way. They begin to see a different Latin America in the people they meet on the road, and the diverse geography they encounter begins to reflect their own shifting perspectives. This is a start of a journey of self-discovery, tracing the origins of a revolutionary heart. - Director:
- Walter Salles
- Cast:
- Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De La Serna, Mía Maestro
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Palindromes (2004)Palíndromos
12-year old Aviva Victor wants to be a Mom. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. Like so many trips, this one is a round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again. - Director:
- Todd Solondz
- Cast:
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis
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Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is a retiring horror-star bidding farewell to the limelight. Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly) is an unassuming but disturbed Vietnam veteran who suddenly embarks on a murderous shooting rampage. As Byron makes one final public appearance, their worlds collide as Bobby brings carnage to a suburban Los Angeles drive-in cinema. - Director:
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Cast:
- Don Steele, Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff
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Lilya 4-Ever (2002)Lilja 4-ever
The film is a touching and tender insight into the life of Lilya (Oksana Akinshin) who lives in a poor suburb somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Lilya's mother has emigrated to the States and she is waiting to be sent for. After a while it becomes clear that she has been abandoned. Left alone and broke Lilya strikes up a friendship with local 11 year old boy, Colodya (Artion Bogucharskij), himself an outcast. Through their similar circumstances they fantasise of a life elsewhere. Moodysson's award winning script is observant of the hopes and dreams of Lilya and Volodya but is realistic about the world they live in. It is this realist approach that has drawn comparisons between Moodysson and some of the classic realist directors including Truffaut, Bresson and Ken Loach. - Director:
- Lukas Moodysson
- Cast:
- Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov
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Sally Potter's dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel is the tale of the apparently immortal Orlando (Tilda Swinton), who begins an epic quest for love and freedom in the court of Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp) as a man and completes the search 400 years later as a woman. This journey takes Orlando from the frozen river Thames and central Asia, where he changes sex, through to romantic love and loss in the Victorian age, motherhood and war in the Twentieth Century, until finally arriving in the present moment. - Director:
- Sally Potter
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp
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Panic Room (2002)La habitación del pánico
Traped in their Ney York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three brutal and deadly intruders - Junior (Jared Leto), Burnham (Forest Whitaker) and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam). But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside the Panic Room. - Director:
- David Fincher
- Cast:
- Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker
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Single, attractive Isabelle ("Izzy") Grossman has a rent-controlled uptown apartment and a blooming career in publishing. She also has Bubbie, a tradition-minded grandmother who's hired a matchmaker to find a husband for Izzy. There's already a prospect: the corner pickle seller?!? Amy Irving as Izzy is the radiant center of this witty charmer, and her co-stars strike comic sparks galore as old-world ways rub against new-world woes: Peter Riegert as the pickle man, Jeroen Krabbe as his rival and Sylvia Miles as the matchmaker. A veteran stage performer, 74-year-old Reizl Bozyk is an ideal Bubbie, blithely snapping off one-liners and stealing scenes in "a joy of a comedy". - Director:
- Joan Micklin Silver
- Cast:
- Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk
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A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's masterful film - novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson - quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border. - Director:
- John Sayles
- Cast:
- Chris Cooper, John Griesemer, Elizabeth Peña
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much
James Stewart and Doris Day play Ben and Jo McKenna, innocent Americans vacationing in Morocco with their son, Hank. After a French spy dies in Ben's arms in the Marrakech market, the couple discovers their son has been kidnapped and taken to England. Not knowing who they can trust, the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of international espionage, assassinations and terror. Soon, all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth and a chilling climatic moment in London's famous Royal Albert Hall. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
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