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Robert Duvall is Felix Bush, the "Hermit of Caleb County," a man so haunted by his secrets that he has lived in quiet desolation in the Tennessee backwoods for over 40 years. Realizing that he is near his own mortality, Bush decides to have a "living funeral party," inviting people to tell their stories about him. Enlisting the help of Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) and Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black), Bush goes through a process of self-discovery, allowing him to deal with his past secrets, including ones involving old flame (and new widow Mattie (Sissy Spacek). - Director:
- Aaron Schneider
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- Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek
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The Driver spins out of Los Angeles with The Mechanic after winning a late night drag race. The two young men head south east on the freeway, stopping only for food, gas or a delicate adjustment on their primer grey '55 Chevrolet. Outside of Flagstaff, they take time out for lunch at a diner. When they return to their car, there is a new passenger in the back - a girl with a tear stained face. No questions are asked: No explanation is offered. They move off. When they hit Santa Fe, they cruise up and down the streets, looking for an unsuspecting country boy to challenge their beaten up Sedan. They find him sooner than expected in a '32 Ford Roadster, follow him to the outskirts of town, race him and beat him. That night the girl shares a hotel room with The Mechanic, while The Driver prowls the bars. - Director:
- Monte Hellman
- Cast:
- James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird
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The Chase. The Desert. The Shack. The Girl. The Roadblock. The End. One man races against time, against destiny, against the road: the ultimate car chase movie. Kowalski (Barry Newman) is the last American hero. He's the lone stranger - a modern cowboy in a white Dodge Challenger who bets that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in fifteen hours. Loaded with amphetamines and a full tank, he takes to the open highway. In his supercharged Challenger he breaks through every speed trap, dragnet and roadblock in four states to become an instant cult hero... - Director:
- Richard C. Sarafian
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- Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling
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The story of the rise and fall of one of America's most infamous outlaws. After a daring escape from jail John Dillinger (Warren Oates) recruits the likes of Baby-Face Nelson (Richard Dreyfuss) and Pretty Boy Floyd (Steve Kanaly) to take on both the depression era banks and the G-men of the nascent FBI, becoming public enemy No. 1 and a veritable folk hero in the process. - Director:
- John Milius
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- Warren Oates, J. Edgar Hoover, Ben Johnson
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Bacurau (2019)Nighthawk
"Bacurau" is a wild, genre-blending siege thriller from Kleber Mendonga Filho (Aquarius, Neighbouring Sounds) and Juliano Dornelles. Set in the remote back-country of Brazil, it follows a tight-knit village community's bloody and brutal fight for its own survival. With unforgettable turns from Udo Kier and Sonia Braga, this is an audacious, original and spectacularly violent blend of neo-Western, revenge thriller and political allegory. - Director:
- Juliano Dornelles
- Cast:
- Barbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira
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Onibaba (1964)Devil Woman / The Demon / The Hole / The Ogress / The Witch
Onibaba is set during a brutal period in history, a Japan ravaged by civil war between rival shogunates. Weary from combat, samurai are drawn towards the seven-foot-high susuku grass fields to hide and rest themselves, only to be ambushed and murdered by a ruthless team of mother (Nobuko Otowa) and daughter-in-law (Jitsuko Yoshimura). When Hachi (Kei Sato), a neighbour returning from the wars, brings bad news, he threatens the women's partnership. - Director:
- Kaneto Shindô
- Cast:
- Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô
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"The Peanut Butter Falcon" is a modern adventure starring Shia LaBeouf as Tyler, u a small time outlaw turned unlikely coach, who joins forces with Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down Syndrome, who is on the run from a nursing home. Zak has a dream of becoming a professional wrestler, but with Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), Zak's loving yet stubborn carer on his trail, success is less than guaranteed. - Director:
- Tyler Nilson
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- Zack Gottsagen, Ann Owens, Dakota Johnson
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Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) lives with her mother, a recovering addict, in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin (John Cho), a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his estranged, dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them. - Director:
- Kogonada
- Cast:
- John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
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The Edge (1997)Bookworm
A plane crash in the freezing Alaskan wilderness pits intellectual billionaire Charles Morse against self satisfied fashion photographer Robert Green in a brutal struggle for survival. Each soon discovers that the greatest danger resides not in nature, but from human fear, treachery, and quite possible, murder. This "nerve-racking adventure" filled with non-stop action and "gripping suspense" is a harrowing tale from one of America's leading screenwriters, David Mamet. - Director:
- Lee Tamahori
- Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson
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The Marxes skewer medicine and bring home a racetrack winner in the hilarious A Day At The Races. In his favorite role , Groucho is Dr. Hugu Z. Hackenbush - MD , PhD , RFD , MC , PDQ , BYOD and one of the above - dispensing horse pills and quips with equal glee. Chico , Harpo and favorite foil Margaret Dumon join the fun of throughly thoroughbred comedy . Enjoy tootsie-frootsie ice cream , Dumont's medical exam , Harpo's pretty girl pantomime sketch , wallpaper wackies and wall-to-wall hilarity the marx way - Director:
- Sam Wood
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- Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
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When suspected barn burner Ben Quick (Paul Newman) drifts into a town dominated by Will Varner (Orson Welles), he is recruited to husband Varner's spinster daughter (Joanne Woodward) so that Varner can keep an eye on him. But the two men soon lock horns, and a chain of events leaves them all changed forever. - Director:
- Martin Ritt
- Cast:
- Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
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Charles Laughton won an Oscar for his masterful portrayal of Henry VIII, one of Britain's most notorious monarchs, who is better known for his succession of wives than his prowess for ruling the nation. Alexander Korda's landmark film from 1933 lavishly, and often humorously, charts Henry's exploits: his hasty marriage to Jane Seymour on the day of the public execution of Anne Boleyn; his remarriage again, in order to maintain European alliances; his infatuation with Katherine Howard whilst awaiting the arrival of his new bride, Anne of Cleves (played by Laughton's wife, Elsa Lanchester), and he and Anne's subsequent divorce; and the execution of Katherine following her affair with courtier Thomas Culpeper. Finally, we see King Henry as a bitter, enfeebled old man, persuaded to marry his children's nurse and lady-in-waiting, Catherine Parr. Charles Laughton's portrayal of Henry, from flamboyant womaniser to henpecked glutton, is a wonder to behold and, for many, the definitive depiction of this colossal figure. Deservedly, 'The Private Life of Henry VIII' was the first British film to score a major box-office hit in America; it paved the way to Hollywood success for Laughton's co-star Merle Oberon, and earned Alexander Korda an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. - Director:
- Alexander Korda
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- Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall
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Leslie Howard plays Philip Carey, a club-footed student of painting in Paris, who realises that his \wrk will only ever be second rate so returns to England to study medicine. In a restaurant he meets, and falls for Mildred, a blonde waitress (Bette Davis), who breaks a date with him to go out with an artless salesman.Carey meets, and is subsequently courted by, the sophisticated Norah but he cannot forget the waitress. Mildred visits his apartment explaining that she has been deserted and is pregnant. Although Carey suggests marriage, she desens him again, this time for Harry Griffiths, a fellow student. Mildred returns once more, this time with the child but, although giving her shelter, Carey refuses her sexual advances and she destroys his belongings while he is out. Bonds that he needs to finance his studies are among these items and he is forced to leave medical school and become a salesman - but he becomes depressed and his health suffers. He is nursed back to health by Sally Athelny and her father. Later, he inherits sufficient money from an uncle to allow him to complete his studies and have corrective surgery for his club foot. On qualifying, his application for a job as a medical officer on a steamship to Australia is accepted. He learns that Mildred has been admitted to the hospital with tuberculosis but she dies before he is able to see her. Released from his emotional bondpge, he turns down the job at sea and is now free to marry Sally. This original movie adaptation of the tragic tale by Somerset Maugham is an exceptionally high quality production; the remakes in 1946 and 1964 being very poor in comparison. Leslie Howard and Bette Davis give brilliant performances which are enhanced by John Cromwell's sensitive direction. The role of the vulgar waitress Mildred had already been turned down by Katharine Hepburn, Ann Harding and Irene Dunne but the talented Bette Davis adopting a Cockney accent (even off stage!) made this, her first major role, her own and she was rightly heralded as a star of the first order. - Director:
- John Cromwell
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- Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee
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Set in 1825, Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer (Sam Claflin) through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of Aboriginal tracker Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. - Director:
- Jennifer Kent
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- Aisling Franciosi, Jeremy Ambrum, Baykali Ganambarr
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Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. - Director:
- Ari Aster
- Cast:
- Florence Pugh, Linnea Larsdotter, Jack Reynor
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