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Thriller
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Blood Simple
(1984) [R]
Deep in the heart of Texas, a jealous bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife and her lover. The sleazy hitman double-crosses the husband, killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime, or so it seems, but disposing of the corpse is not so simple. Blood Simple uncoils its... More
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Kwaidan
(1964) [PG]
Kwaidan is a quartet of compelling Japanese ghost stories based on the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, the 19th century English Orientalist who helped to publicise Janpanese art and culture in the 1890's and early 1900's. Masaki Kobayashi(Harikiri)- one of four outstanding and formative directors to... More
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Evil Dead
(1982) [R]
The Evil Dead, director Sam Raimi's (Spiderman, Darkman, A Simple Plan) first feature film, is a true classic in every sense of the word. Originally released in 1982, The Evil Dead tells the tale of a group of friends who go to a cabin in the woods where they find an unspeakable evil lurking in... More
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City Of God
(2002) [R]
Celebrated with international acclaim, this powerful true story of crime and redemption has won numerous awards including the American Film Institute's Audience Award and the Visions Award at the Toronto International Film Festival! The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's... More
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Edge Of Darkness: BBC TV (2 disc set)
(1985) [M]
Groundbreaking environmental-espionage shocker Edge of Darkness (1985) begins routinely enough but then ratchets the suspense to levels that would have turned Hitchcock green with envy. Emma Craven (Joanne Whalley in her first starring role) is a young environmental activist killed in mysterious... More
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Stranger Than Fiction
(2006) [M]
Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs... More
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The Illusionist
(2006) [M]
Nothing Is What It Seems. A supernatural mystery that combines romance, politics and magic, The Illusionist is the latest film from the producers of Crash and Sideways, starring Oscar nominees, Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as... More
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The Bourne Supremacy
(2004) [M]
A CIA agent is killed during an operation, and $3 million of the agency's money is stolen. A partial fingerprint of Jason Bourne is found at the scene. There is only one small problem; there is no Jason Bourne, because the name is only a cover for their agent, David Webb (Matt Damon). Someone has... More
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Straw Dogs (2 disc set)
(1971) [R]
Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house. More
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Night of Fear / Inn of the Damned (Double-Feature)
(1972) [M]
NIGHT OF FEAR:
A deranged and reclusive stranger delights in dismembering unwary travellers and keeping company with a colony of rats fed on blood.
When a young women crashes into one of this misfit's ghoulish traps, so begins "an unremitting avalanche of terror" (THE AUSTRALIAN) as... More
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Frontier(s)
(2007) [R]
In the not-too-distant future in France, the districts are over-run with violence. A group of small-time crooks use the riots to set up a heist; but when things go horribly wrong, the gang splits up and arranges to meet at a seedy hotel on the French border.
Unknown to the crooks, is... More
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
(1976) [M]
Some little girls can be murder! Thirteen-year-old Rynn (Foster) is a gifted prodigy who lives in a big old house with her reclusive father...all alone. Or does she? When Rynn's nosy landlady and a lecherous neighbor (Sheen) begin to susupect that this little girl is hiding a dark and dangerous... More
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The Bank Job (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [MA]
Inspired by the infamous 1971 robbery that took place at the Lloyds Bank in Marylebone London, The Bank Job is a highly-charged heist thriller that tautly interweaves high-level corruption, murder and sexual scandal in 1970s England.
A car dealer with a dodgy past and new family, Terry... More
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Let the Right One In
(2008) [MA]
Lonely, 12-year-old Oskar is an outsider; bullied, struggling to fit in at school and left alone to fend for himself at home while his mother works nights. One evening he meets the mysterious Eli, a pale young girl, who has moved in next door. Coinciding with her arrival is a series of... More
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21 Hours at Munich
(1976) [M]
September 5 1972. The darkest day in sports history. Some 900 million sports fans tune in to watch the Olympics on TV. Instead they see the most shocking scenes unfold... Academy Award winner William Holden (Best Actor 1953 Stalag 17) and Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight (Best Supporting... More
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The Hurt Locker
(2009) [MA]
Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. More
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The Singing Detective: BBC TV mini-series (Disc 1 of 3)
(1986) [MA]
From one of the great experimentalists of TV drama comes a compellingly original tour-de-force which mingles fantasy and reality with haunting hit songs of the 1940's. The award-winning The Singing Detective, acclaimed as Dennis Potter's masterpiece, is a dazzlingly entertaining and multi-layered... More
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An American Werewolf In London
(1981) [M]
David Naughton and Jenny Agutter star in writer/director John Landis' classic cult black comedy. American backpackers David Kessler (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) take off for a three month European jaunt. Walking in the desolate English countryside, they come across some locals who... More
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2 Disc Set)
(1979) [PG]
Who can spy on the spies? Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after a Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the "circus" without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was... More
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39 Steps, The (1959)
(1959) [PG]
Richard Hannay (Kenneth More) meets up with a young nanny (Faith Brook) he'd come across earlier during the day. At the theatre that evening they attend a vaudeville performance by Mr. Memory (James Hayter), and afterwards Hannay takes her back to his London flat. There he discovers that she is... More
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The Tamarind Seed
(1974) [M]
Judith (Julie Andrews), an attractive widow, is holidaying in Barbados where she meets the charming and handsome Feodor (Omar Sharif) the russian military attache to Paris. A friendship develops but unbeknown to Judith, Feodor uses his position to conceal his position as Second-in-Command of the... More
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In The Heat Of The Night
(1967) [M]
While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime - and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however,... More
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A Perfect Spy (BBC - 2 tape set)
(1987) [M]
Classic spy drama, from the novel by John Le Carre. Magnus Pym (Peter Egan) is a high-ranking member of the British secret service: trusted with national secrets, and holding the lives of many agents in his hands. Then, without warning, Pym disappears. The hunt is on for the "perfect spy". A... More
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Way Of The Gun
(2000) [MA]
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one. More
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Unfaithful
(2002) [MA]
From Adrian Lyne, the director of Indecent Proposal and 9 1/2 Weeks comes a steamy and erotic thriller about sexual passion so intense, it consumes everything - and everyone - in its path. A housewife's (Diane Lane in an electrifying performance) perfect life and marriage prove no match for the... More
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Crash (Director's Cut 2 disc set)
(2005) [MA]
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his... More
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The Da Vinci Code
(2006) [M]
Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is... More
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Death Note - Movie Collection (2 Disc Set)
(2006) [M]
Light Yagami is a brilliant university student who resents the crime and corruption in the world. His life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook, known as the "Death Note", lying on the ground. The Death Note's instructions claim that, if a human's name is written... More
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The Looking Glass War
(1969) [PG]
At the height of the Cold War, British Intelligence discovers evidence that suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. With no active agents available to investigate, Fred Leiser must be called back to the colours and sent East. Once behind the Iron Curtain, Leiser... More
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Open Cam
(2005) [R]
A DC-based gay sex website becomes home for a serial killer with a flair for exhibitionism. The life of controversial young artist Manny Yates is shattered when murder penetrates his close knit circle of friends causing him to question those friendships, life in general, and all the relationships... More
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