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In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's greatest work, the power surges through every scene.

The timeless tale of murder, corruption and revenge is reset in an opulent 19th-century world, using sprawling Blenheim Palace as Elsinore and staging much of the action in shimmering mirrored and gold-filled interiors. The energy is electrifying, due to a luminous cast. The excitement of the Bard's words and an adventurous filmmaking style lift the story from its often shadowy ambience to fully-lit pageantry and rage.

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Based on the Ed McBain novel, 'High and Low' is a gripping police thriller starring Toshiro Mifune.

Wealthy industrialist Kingo Gondo (Mifune) faces an agonising choice when a ruthless kidnapper, aiming to snatch his young son, takes the chauffeur's boy by mistake - but still demands the ransom, leaving Gondo facing ruin if he pays up. An anatomy of the inequalities in modern Japanese society, High and Low is a complex film noir, where the intense police hunt for the kidnapper is accompanied by penetrating insight into the kidnappers state of mind. Kurosawa's virtuoso direction provides no easy answers, and in short, intense sequences, he portrays the businessman, the police and the criminal as equally brutal but nonetheless human.

When the banks committed the greatest fraud in US history, four outsiders risked it alt to take them down. Based on the unbelievable true story and best-selling book from the author of 'The Blind Side' and 'Moneyball', critics are calling 'The Big Short' "slick and funny".

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Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director's own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore.

In a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes. Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), 'Akira Kurosawa's Dreams' is both a showcase for its maker's artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.

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Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is not a spy. And he's certainly no murderer. Nevertheless, Thornhill's a wanted man: enemy agents want him dead, the police want him arrested, and a cool, mysterious blonde (Eva Marie Saint) just plain wants him.

A victim of mistaken identity, Thornhill can't afford to make any mistakes of his own - so he embarks on a death-defying run for his life. Relentlessly pursued by plane, train and automobile, Thornhill's cross-country chase finally ends atop Mt. Rushmore where, if he doesn't watch his step, he could be in for a terrible fall.

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Inspired by the 'Brighton Trunk Murders' in the 1930's, written and directed by Val Guest, this 1962 British Production starring Jack Warner as Detective Inspector Fellows is filmed in and around Brighton. It's a taut murder mystery and is not the usual Dixon of Dock Green cosy role for Warner.

A woman is murdered and Fellows aided by Det Sgt Wilks, (Ronald Lewis) sift through the clues and suspects to complete the "Jigsaw" and find the killer.

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Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer (Hardy Kruger) hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau (Micheline Presle), an elegant, sophisticated Frechwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts.

He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline.

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Paris, January 1942 - art dealer Robert Klein (Alain Delon) is making a killing. For this loyal Frenchman the Nazi occupation is a unique business opportunity. He stands to profit from the Jewish people's misfortune, as they sell their possessions in a hurry to leave the country.

But when a Jewish newspaper turns up on Klein's doorstep, his comfortable life begins to unravel. It seems there is another Robert Klein, a suspected Jewish Resistance fighter, who is content to live in the shadows and let his namesake take the fall. As Klein's investigation of his double progresses, the mood shifts from Hitchcock to Kafka and proving his innocence becomes less important than confronting his doppelgänger...

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At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader's body is growing cold.

They're playing your song, Nick and Nora Charles! William Powell and Myrna Loy return as the married sleuths, rousting suspects out of bed for 4 AM interrogations while trying to fathom the bebop argot of '40s jazz jive. Speaking of their renowned screen chemistry, Loy once said: "It wasn't a conscious thing. If you heard us talking in a room, you'd hear the same thing. He'd tease me, and there was a sort of blending which seemed to please people." Decades later, people are still pleased. The melody of Song Of The Thin Man and the entire beloved series lingers on.

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Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears he is given a final chance to change his philandering ways or face the terrors of hell.

Joseph Losey's hugely successful adaptation of Mozart's greatest opera features wonderful performances from an excellent cast and stunning cinematography.

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In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, rookie pilot Peter Penrose (John Mills) is assigned to serve with Flight Lt. David Archdale (Michael Redgrave) at RAF Station Halfpenny Field. By 1942 David has become acting C.O.

but Peter is beginning to show signs of combat fatigue - a situation that David cannot leave unresolved.

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David Graham (Michael Redgrave) is an alcoholic father who arrives in London after his release from an American sanatorium. His son has been sentenced to hang the next morning for murder, and Graham's lawyer, (Peter Cushing), stresses that they have just twenty-four hours to save him.

Convinced of his innocence, Graham tries to unravel the twisted connections that his son had with the Stanford family and the murdered girl. But Graham's unwelcome interference drives the Stanfords apart and Robert Stanford (Leo McKern) forbids his wife (Ann Todd) from helping. As time ticks away and a last minute reprieve fails, Graham must battle his alcoholism, Robert Stanford and the entire British legal system if he is to save his son from the gallows.

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British journalist Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) comes under suspicion of murder when the body of a young American (Audie Murphy) is found floating in the river. Their story is told in flashback, as the American arrives in Vietnam looking to end the Indo-Chinese war being covered by Fowler.

Fowler's girlfriend falls for the American, prompting the journalist to take part in a Communist plot to kill him.

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Air Marshall Hardie is a guest at a society dinner party in Hong Kong on the eve of his flight to Tokyo. During the course of the night, another guest is persuaded to share the details of a strange dream he had, which involved a plane crash in the mountains of Japan.

Hardie takes little notice of the story until the following day, when he discovers the plane he had been intending to fly has been swapped for a Dakota, the very plane that featured in the mysterious dream. Stranger still, two last minute passengers arrive, taking the number of passengers up to match with that which the dream foretold. Hardie begins to wonder if it was indeed merely a dream — or a premonition which is about to become a deadly reality.

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A jockey who threw a race is murdered in the locker room. "My, they're strict at this track!" Nora Charles exclaims. With that, she (Myrna Loy) and hubby Nick (William Powell) are off to the races on another case of murder, mirth and perfect martinis.

Highlights of this fourth Thin Man include a visit to the arena for the evening's wrasslin' and dinner at Mario's Grotto where, no matter what anyone wants, the waiter insists upon the sea bass. As in all films in the series, the supporting cast is extraordinary, with Sam Levene, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Henry O'Neill and Stella Adler among Shadow's heroes and possible villains. Red herrings abound. But we still recommend the sea bass.