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Live At The Top of The Tower is his first classic stand up show and highlights his unique brand of humor which is based on the acutely observed and painfully funny things that happen in everyday life.

Filmed in Blackpool specially for this video Live At The Top Of The Tower is stuffed full of classic routines – Why do Mums always buy crap pop? Is teletext the best way to book a holiday? He also casts his eye over Mums and Dads (Garlic Brad?), dinner ladies (It’s spitting!), Brits abroad (Les Cadbury’s Finger Res) and even the contestants on ‘Stars In The Eyes!’ Filmed in front of a packed crowd Live At The Top Of The Tower, is the original hilarious stand up show from the country's funniest comedians.

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Tess, portrayed by the entrancing Nastassja Kinski, is the daughter of a poor, drunken farmer who discovers that he is actually of noble descent. Tess is sent off to live with their proper and wealthy relatives.

There, she is seduced by a suave but sinister cousin and bears him a bastard son who dies while still an infant. The backdrop is morally rigid Victorian England where Tess must carry the shame of her past even into her marriage to a minister's son, until she cleanses herself of all guilt in one ultimate act of passion.

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1943, Italy: In the darkest days of the war, a young baker's apprentice suddenly murders his employer before taking to the empty midnight streets, frantically searching for someone or something... a haunting image of passion, rage and desperation.

Sixty years later: Passion seems to be missing from the life of Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzigorno), a young wife and mother of two who appears to have found some sense of domestic peace. She is not too pleased when her husband, Filippo (Filippo Nigro), insists on bringing home a confused elderly man they find wandering in the streets uttering a single name: Simone. The older man's presence and the mystery of his identity, not to mention their shared stories while baking, begin to have a profound effect on Giovanna. Meanwhile Giovanna gazes out of her apartment window to the flat opposite hers, where a handsome young bachelor Lorenzo lives. As the questions about the old man grow more and more complex, and the secrets of his past are slowly revealed, Giovanna finds herself facing a series of choices about her own life, her family, and her future - striking an eerily similar chord to the fateful choice the old man had to make some sixty years earlier.

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From the heart of Santiago's criminal underworld comes the year's most prolific gangster thriller. In a world ruled by murder, drug trafficking and prostitution, survival depends on betrayal and trust is a luxury you cannot afford.

Tarantinoesque in its directorial style, 'Los Debutantes' is the gripping tale of 24-year-old Silvio (Nestor Cantillana) and his 17-year-old brother, who leave the poverty of their small town lives in search of their fortunes in the city of Santiago. It is a move that will cost the brothers more than they could know as both fall for the beautifully seductive femme fatale Graciella (Antonella Rios), a club stripper and mistress to mob boss Don Pascual (Alejandro Trejo), whose whipped cream act captures their imaginations, and their hearts. As Silvio and his brother become embroiled in this violent and seedy gangland world it emerges that there is more to Antonella than meets the eye.

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When Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) takes a job in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening and unexplained incidents.

The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real!

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'Bicycle Thieves' tells the story of Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani), a long unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle.

His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem their already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until it is stolen. Antonio and his son take to the streets in a desperate search to find the bicycle which is so crucial to his livelihood.

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During a cricket match at a lunatic asylum, patient Alan Bates relates a strange story to composer John Hurt and his wife played by Susannah York. It seems that Bates once lived with Australian aborigines, who taught him the secret of a deadly shout which has the power to kill anyone within earshot.

He moves in with the couple and starts a steamy affair with York. Meanwhile, Hurt who wants to harness the energy of 'the shout' for his music will not rest until he has discovered the truth about his guest's strange powers.

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After shaking the world with his hugely controversial epic 'The Birth of a Nation', pioneer filmmaker D. W.

Griffith spared no expense in putting together his next project: a powerful examination of intolerance as it has persisted throughout civilisation, set across four parallel storylines that span 2500 years. There is the Babylonian story, depicting nothing less than the fall of Babylon; the Judean story, which revolves around the crucifixion of Christ; the French story, which presents the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in all its horror; and a modern American story of class struggle, crime, and the plight of life in the early 20th century set within urban slums and the prison system. Starring such luminaries as Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge, and Miriam Cooper, who share screentime with an enormous main cast and some 3,000 extras, Griffith's film - the most expensive motion picture ever produced at the time - went on to become a critical success whose influence has only grown in the decades since.

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Only once in its history, has the U.S. been at war with itself. In 1861, the Southern Confederacy is formed, and the American civil war ignites.

Along the Kansas / Missouri border childhood friends Jake (Tobey Maguire) and Jack (Skeet Ulrich) join up as horseman, raiding the North's Union soldiers and sympathisers. With a harsh winter looming, their unit, known as the Bushwhackers must disperse and find shelter. Several squad members hole up in a hidden hillside dugout. Their vigil is brightened only by a compassionate young widow, Sue Lee (Jewel Kilcher). Then, the realities of the war intrude, splintering the group. In the intense and brutal battle, the young men reach turning points both in the fighting and in themselves.

Legendary social club owner Brian Potter and his hapless band of staff and regulars are determined to make the Phoenix Club a success no matter what. Not even a racist folk band, an unforeseeable psychic or a drunken horse will get in the way of their dream that 'Clubland will never die'.

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Based on the childhood memoirs of Marcel Pagnol, author of 'Jean De Florette' and 'Manon Des Sources', 'La Gloire De Mon Pere' and its sequel 'Le Chateau De Ma Mere' are two of the greatest and most successful French films ever made.

An adult Marcel nostalgically recalls one idyllic summer spent with his family in the hills of Provence. A love affair with the country began and during those perfect days he found new respect for his school teacher father as he adapted to life away from the city. 'La Gloire De Mon Pere' is filled with warmth, humour and love for bygone days of youth; it is one of cinema's finest celebrations of childhood.

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Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) is at a crossroads. He is 42 and with no apparent direction in his life he recollects the days when he wanted to resemble his fictional hero, Diego de la Vega. The childhood days of when he put on the black cape and the mask are now only but a distant memory.

He feels that he can't fulfil the expectations that life brings him. He has no motivation, has a divorce behind him and lives for the restaurant his father (Hector Alterio) founded. He can't even sacrifice time to watch his daughter, Vicky (Gimena Nobile) growing up. His life begins to have a new meaning when he meets again with childhood friend Juan Carlos (Eduardo Blanco) who, despite having a personal tragedy on his shoulders, will help him in a particular way to reconstruct his past and recover his present. Along the way, he'll support his father to fulfil his mother's dream: get married in a church.

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Sweet Dreams is a fitting tribute to timeless star Patsy Cline, a biopic that takes us from her upcoming days as bored housewife, to one of Nashville’s biggest sensations.

Through her stormy marriage to lady-killer Charlie Dick, her life as an army wife and life on the road during her rise to fame, Lange delivers one of her best performances as the phenomenon who was Patsy Cline.

One of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time, 'Days of Heaven' is a moving story about two men who love the same woman. Richard Gere, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan (Sam Shepard) for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams).

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A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Aquirre, self-styled 'Wrath of God' go up the Amazon in search of gold, but Aquirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.

Eleven hundred men, two women, horses, Ilamas, pigs and rifles descend from the Andes highlands down into the steaming primeval forest where the waters of the Amazon begin, in quest of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Aquirre has with him his beautiful 14-year old daughter who he intends to marry and found a new 'pure' race to rule over a golden empire.