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Inland Empire (2 disc set)
(2006) [MA]
Laura Dern stars as Nikki, an actress signed to star in a new movie - an adulterous love story - directed by Kingsley (Jeremy Irons) and co-starring the womanising Devon (Justin Theroux). But the film is actually the cursed remake of a project that was abandoned after its two leads were murdered,... More
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Madame X
(1966) [M]
Lana Turner's performance is brilliant going from loving bride and mother to a woman so down on her luck that when confronted with the chance that her son may discover what has become of her she resorts to murder , therefore protecting the only thing she has any love left for. The supporting cast... More
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Portrait in Black
(1960) [M]
Lana Turner and Anthony Quinn are lovers who murder Lana's cruel, but wealthy husband, played by Lloyd Nolan.
San Francisco cargo shipping czar, Matthew Cabot (Lloyd Nolan) is bedridden and slowly dying as his beautiful and ultra-glamorous wife Sheila (Lana Turner) becomes more and... More
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King of the Hill
(2007) [MA]
A man traveling through rural Spain in search of the town where his girlfriend awaits becomes ensnared in a surreal waking nightmare in director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego's intricate thriller. Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) was on his way to visit his girlfriend when he stopped off at an isolated gas... More
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Psycho (Blu-Ray)
(1960) [M]
Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose "old dark house" and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening. No one knows that better than Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), the ill fated traveller whose journey ends in the... More
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Winter's Bone
(2010) [MA]
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks... More
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Road Games
(1981) [M]
Stacy Keach is Pat Quid, a lone trucker who plays games to keep his sanity on long hauls through the desolate Australian Outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is a free-spirited hitchhiker looking for excitement with a game of her own. And somewhere up ahead, on the loneliest highway in the world, is a... More
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The Mothman Prophecies (2-Disc set)
(2002) [M]
From the director of ARLINGTON ROAD comes a spine-tingling supernatural thriller based on actual events that will rattle your nerves and shake your beliefs. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife (Debra Messing), John Klein (Richard Gere), is mysteriously drawn to a small West... More
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Reservoir Dogs (2 Disc Set)
(1992) [R]
Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless... More
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Reservoir Dogs (Blu-Ray)
(1992) [R]
Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless... More
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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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He Walked By Night
(1948) [PG]
A burglar becomes a cold-blooded cop killer and is hunted down on the streets of Los Angeles. The men in blue manage to track their suspect down into the bowels of the city--the labyrinth sewer system. Noir veteran Anthony Mann, though uncredited, co-directed the film. Well-done and supposedly an... 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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The Singing Detective (2003)
(2003) [MA]
Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dan Dark, a bedridden crime novelist writing about a private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance band. The detective is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during the murder investigation of a prostitute. Heavily medicated, the border between reality and... 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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I, Robot
(2004) [M]
In 2035 A.D., robots are programmed to live in harmony with humans and are part of every day life. When a brilliant scientist at the U.S. Robotics Corporation is found dead, Chicago detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) is called in to investigate. Aided by robot psychologist Dr Susan Calvin... More
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Pickup on South Street
(1953) [PG]
Writer-director Samuel Fuller's film about a low-life, petty criminal is a nominally Anti-Communist B-pic and an American noir classic. Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eye on the big score but ends up with some top-secret microfilm that has the Feds and the Commies on his trail.... More
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Pulp Cinema
(2001) [M]
The birth of so-called "hard-boiled" cinema, with is pulp plot and dark, sombre mood, is documented here in this exciting collection of theatrical trailers from some of pulp cinema/film noir's greatest hits. Featuring the gritty portrayal of down-and-outs on all sides of the law, film noir was... More
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Walk on the Wild Side
(1962) [M]
At the Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the... More
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Tokyo Joe
(1949) [PG]
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.
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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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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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L'Avventura (2 Disc Set)
(1959) [PG]
When L'Avventura premiered alongside La Dolce Vita at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize, it ignited a storm of controversy that sparked the international career of the great Michelangelo Antonioni - he went on to direct some of the most influential art films of the 60s and 70s... More
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Ossessione
(1942) [PG]
A restless wife, Giovanna, meets Gino, a rough and handsome vagabond. Their passions affair leads to the murder of Giovanna's boorish husband. Can a strong and sensual affair survive the guilt? Adapted from James M. Cain's classic novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, Ossessione is a dark 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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Faraway, So Close!
(1993) [M]
In this long-awaited sequel to 'Wings Of Desire', Wenders returns to the familiar characters of that film, charting the progress of the now earthbound ex-angel Damiel, and of Germany since the fall of the wall. Having shot the earlier film in West Berlin, the setting this time is the former East... More
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Until The End Of The World
(1991) [M]
Paris 1999, a woman has a car accident with bank robbers, who befriend and enlist her help to take the money to a drop. On the way she runs into an American who is being chased by the CIA. He states they want to confiscate his fathers invention, which allows you to capture images that blind... 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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