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Fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cut Throat Bill (Juliette Lewis).

To do so, he rallies a band of unlikely heroes including a grave-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire and together they venture into the unforgiving Wild West on a quest for justice.

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Double bill of classic US horror films.

House of Frankenstein (1944)
An evil scientist and his hunchbacked assistant escape from prison and encounter Dracula (John Carradine), the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange).
House of Dracula (1945)

Count Dracula (John Carradine) and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) seek cures for their afflictions; a hunchbacked woman, a mad scientist and Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange / Boris Karloff) have their own troubles.

The story of a legendary, lovable canine that roamed the outback and found his way into the hearts of each and everyone he met along the way. He brought people together, helping some find love and others to find themselves.

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Two travelling companions, George (Ray Lovelock) and Edna Simon (Christine Galbo), come across a small town invested with the living dead that are satisfying their cannibalistic hunger on anyone they come across.

Discovering that an agricultural machine using radiation waves is at the root of all the havoc, George and Edna light for survival and their innocence as they are pursued by a relentless detective who is convinced they are responsible for the ghoulish acts of violence plaguing the countryside.

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As WW1 rages on, the Choral Society in a small English town has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral's committee is determined to press ahead with new recruits. They engage a driven new chorus master, Dr. Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes) - recently returned from a career in Germany.

As conscription papers start to arrive, the community discovers that the best response to the war is to make music together.

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This poignant dramedy is a must-see from director Peter Cattaneo (Military Wives) and writer Jeff Pope (Philomena), starring Academy Award Nominees Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce.

Follow an Englishman's personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.

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"The Ballad of Wallis Island" follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), back together.

His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Robert Egger's 'Nosferatu' is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. Starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe.

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Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him.

Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly.

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Yonosuke is a typical Japanese on-screen hero: socially awkward, childish and naive, but always cheerful and charming. We meet him when he moves from Nagasaki to Tokyo in the late eighties at the height of the city's economic boom.

Despite his odd character he manages to make new friends at university, joins a samba class and falls in love with an older woman. Sixteen years later his friends are all reminiscing over their college days, thinking back on how Yonosuke changed their lives. A heart-warming, crowd-pleasing comedy that takes a sudden dramatic turn.

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In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they are forced to switch to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Lt.

Stanislav Sobinski (Robert Stack) falls for Maria and meets up with her during Joseph's famous "To Be or Not to Be" speech as Hamlet. When Stanislav is eventually dispatched for war, he implicates Maria with Professor Siletsky (Stanley Ridges), who has a secret plan to destroy the Warsaw resistance. The Polish theater troupe is then forced to use their theatrical skills to ensure their survival. Eventually, they turn to impersonating Nazi officers - and even Hitler himself - in order to outwit the enemy and keep the resistance safe from spies.

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In a radical reworking of the H.G.

Wells classic, 'War of the Worlds: Next Century', tells the story of Iron Idem (celebrated Polish actor Roman Wilhelmi), a television host, who finds himself contending with a Martian invasion, whose takeover involves collaborating with the state and manipulating the populace through a media apparatus made up entirely of fake news...Drawing as much on George Orwell and 1984 as on Wells' novel, Piotr Szulkin's prescient allegory of state and media control is a dark sci-fi that uses classic noir tropes to tell its sinister story.

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Seeking a fresh start, Blake (Christopher Abbott) moves his wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) to his childhood home in rural Oregon.

Upon arrival, they encounter a brutal animal attack, forcing the family to barricade themselves inside the house as an unseen creature prowls the perimeter. As the night wears on, Blake's injuries worsen, and his bizarre behavior turns monstrous. To protect her daughter, Charlotte must decide whether to confront the danger outside or the growing horror within.

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When her estranged father passes, twenty-something Nyla (Yaayaa Adams) is tasked with the thing she hates the most - cleaning up his mess.

Left behind are a collection of VHS tapes, and with them, the burden of returning them to 'Blaster Video' a time capsule to an era in which cover art and a catchy movie title were king, run by Kevin (Kevin Martin), a human encyclopaedia of VHS history and a friend of her father. Amongst the returns is an unknown tape, a movie not even Kevin has heard of. Was this the last movie Nyla's father watched before he died? The mystery is too much to resist. But when Kevin and Nyla press play, they unwittingly activate a long-dormant curse and a series of classic cinematic villains are plucked from B-movie heaven and hell to be unleashed into the store itself!

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Richard Fleischer directs this sci-fi thriller starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young. In a dystopian, futuristic New York in the year 2022, almost 20 million citizens, half of the city's population, are out of work.

Voluntary death is encouraged by government clinics and people live on rations of a green food called Soylent produced by the Soylent Corporation. The film follows NYPD Detective Frank Thorn (Heston) as he investigates the murder of a wealthy business magnate in the dictatorial Soylent research camp.