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Thriller
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Secret Window
(2004) [M]
Following a bitter separation from his wife (Maria Bello), famed mystery writer Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter (John Turturro). Claiming Rainey has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands... More
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Dawn of the Dead
(2004) [MA]
The remake of George Romero's original 1978 zombie classic. Overnight the world has become a living nightmare of surreal proportions, with the planet's population hit by an inexplicable, unfathomable and lethal plague - and the dead aren't dying. Corpses yearning for their next meal are now... More
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Spartan
(2004) [M]
In David Mamet's thriller Spartan Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is recruited to find Laura, the daughter of a government official and is paired with novice Curtis (Derek Luke). Scott and Derek stumble upon a white slavery ring, which may have some connection to Laura's disappearance... More
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Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
(1968) [M]
A village trembles in fear, a priest forsakes his vows in the service of evil and young beauties fall victim to a mysterious seducer. Each night now brings a new threat of death... because Dracula Has Risen from the Grave! In his third incarnation as Bram Stoker's infamous vampire, horror Legend... More
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Godsend
(2004) [M]
Paul Duncan (Greg Kinnear), a teacher, and his photographer wife Jessie (Rebecca Romijn Stamos) live a normal family life with their son Adam (Cameron Bright) until the day he is suddenly killed in a traffic accident. The couple are devastated until one day when they are approached by Dr. Richard... More
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Long Weekend
(1978) [M]
Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch up their differences. More
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Dirty Pretty Things
(2002) [MA]
From director Stephen Frears, Dirty Pretty Things stars Audrey Tautou in a harrowing tale of struggle and survival for two immigrants who learn that everything is for sale in London’s secret underworld. Part of an invisible working class, Nigerian exile Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Turkish... More
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Last House on the Left
(1972) [R]
Wes Craven's (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) notorious film debut is a grimly affecting portrait of human evil infiltrating a middle-class household. Adapted from Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, this no-budget horror shocker sees four escaped cons kidnap, rape, torture and finally... More
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The Stepford Wives
(2004) [M]
When Joanna (Nicole Kidman) and husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) arrive from Manhattan, she can’t help but notice that her female neighbours lack personality and character. The one exception to the rule is her new friend Bobbie (Bette Midler) - a cranky, sarcastic alcoholic who definitely... More
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The Ugly American
(1963) [G]
Marlon Brando stars in this volatile political thriller based on the best selling book. As a compassionate American in Southeast Asia during the Cold War Brando turns in a tour-de-force performance as he tries to keep the country's democratic and Communist forces from explosive confrontation. More
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The Village
(2004) [M]
The people of a late nineteenth century village have built an harmonious and idyllic community in a beautiful setting. However, the surrounding woods contain creatures of an unknown origin refered to as "those we don't speak of". Lucius Hunt (Joaquin Phoenix) is curious about the outside world... More
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Charley Varrick (aka Kill Charley Varrick)
(1973) [M]
Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the Mob in this fast-paced offbeat thriller directed by Don Siegel. Academy Award winner Walter Matthau stars in a rare dramatic role, along with the powerful Joe Don Baker, as a tough Mafia hitman. Charley robs small banks with small payrolls.... More
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Year of the Gun
(1991) [M]
American journalist David Raybourne has arrived in Rome to write a political best seller about The Red Brigade, a militant left-wing group terrorizing Italy. When a daring photojournalist believes his book to be a piece of non-fiction...the manuscript falls tragically into the wrong hands. Now... More
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Eyes of Laura Mars
(1978) [M]
Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first, they have to figure out who it is.
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The Changeling
(1980) [M]
John Russell, a composer and music professor, loses his wife and daughter in a tragic accident. Seeking solace, he moves into an old mansion unoccupied for twelve years. But a child-like presence seems to be sharing the house, and trying to share its secrets, with him. Through research into the... More
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Rendezvous (C'etait un rendez-vous)
(1976)
A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris. * The film was shot in a single take, without any special effects or stuntmen, with the director driving the car. * The idea for this film came to Claude Lelouch after hiring a gyro stabilized camera mount for a film he was working on at the time.... More
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Underworld 2: Evolution
(2006) [MA]
The Underworld saga continues as hunted Vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) seeks out Marcus (Tony Curran), king of the Vampires, in the hope of bargaining for her life. Hybrid Michael (Scott Speedman) wants to join Selene in her quest but is unable to trust the werewolf raging uncontrolled inside... More
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The Fog
(2005) [M]
A remake of the original 1980 John Carpenter movie The Fog. Exactly 100 years ago, off the rocky shore of the town, a ship of lepers seeking refuge was betrayed by the town's founding fathers and pillaged and burned, killing everyone aboard. Now, on the town’s centenary celebrations, the ghosts... More
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Ring (1998)
(1998) [MA]
Within a week of watching a mysterious videotape, a group of teenagers are dead. The bodies are found gruesomely contorted, their eyes frozen as if they had seen something more terrifying than any physical threat. The video then becomes an urban myth. Insidiously, an unseen force is pointing its... More
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Ring 2
(1998) [M]
After losing her boyfriend to the deadly virus which took its grip in the first installment of the Ring series, journalist Mai Takano decides to conduct her own investigation into the powers of the lethal videotape. Along the way she witnesses the gruesome effects wrought up on those who have... More
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Nosferatu (1922)
(1922) [PG]
Nosferatu is the original Dracula movie and still, after eighty years, the scariest. When Bram Stoker's widow refused to grant Murnau the rights to Dracula, Murnau and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen simply changed the characters' names and went ahead with the film, creating one of the great... More
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The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
(1919) [E]
Arguably the First GREAT Horror Film ever made
Francis and his friend Alan visit a fair in the small German town of Holstenwall where a sideshow is run by the mysterious Dr Caligari. Caligari is exhibiting a Somnambulist, Cesare; who has slept for 23 years and knows the secrets of the past and... More
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Fritz Lang's M
(1931) [PG]
Berlin is in the grip of terror as an unknown psychopathic child molester and murderer is attacking little girls. Despite frantic searching, the police produce no clues and neighbours begin to turn against, and inform on, each other. The underworld becomes so incensed at the activity of the... More
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The American Friend
(1977) [M]
In Wim Wenders' adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel 'Ripley's Game', Dennis Hopper stars as American sociopath Tom Ripley, making a living as the middle-man selling the works of painter Derwatt, who has feigned his own death in order to increase the value of his works. At an auction in... More
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The End Of Violence
(1997) [M]
Two hit-men have been hired to kill Mike Max, a producer of gore movies... on the very day that his wife, Paige Stockard, walks out on him. The hoods abduct Mike, but the following day their decapitated bodies are discovered under a freeway junction – and there's no sign of their victim.... More
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Misery
(1990) [M]
Novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers is waking up in the home of Annie Wilkes (Oscar winner Kathy Bates) - a maniacal fan who is bent on... More
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Ninja Scroll
(1993) [MA]
Removed from the typical futuristic element of most Japanese animated adventures, this 1994 feature takes place in more of a sword-and-sorcery epic set in feudal Japan. Jubei Kipagami, a ninja mercenary, wanders the countryside in search of work. On his travels, he encounters Kagero, a female... More
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Armageddon
(1998) [M]
From the team who produced and directed 'The Rock' comes the biggest movie of the year - ARMAGEDDON! Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, Armageddon is a meteor storm of action-adventure movie-making that has you on the edge of your seat forgetting to... More
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Frequency
(2000) [M]
A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is... More
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Poltergeist
(1982) [M]
"They're here." And they seem almost whimsical at first, playing stack-the-chair games in the kitchen of the Freelings' suburban home. Then things turn darker. A storm erupts, a tree attacks, little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked into a spectral void. And as her family confronts a chain reaction... More
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