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In Order of Disappearance (2014)Kraftidioten
When his son dies of a drug overdose, mild-mannered snow plough driver, Nils (Stellan Skarsgard), refuses to believe the results from the police report. On finding out who was responsible for his son's death, Nils sets out for revenge and justice. In the process, he becomes embroiled in a drug war between the Serbian mafia and gangster boss, The Count. For an ordinary guy, he soon displays an extraordinary talent for revenge. - Director:
- Hans Petter Moland
- Cast:
- Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen
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This video brings together two films from 1940 starring horror icon Boris Karloff: Monogram Pictures' 'The Ape' and the 'British Intelligence'. Karloff plays one of his many mad scientists in 'The Ape', directed by William Nigh, who also helmed several of Karloff's Mr. Wong films. Curt Siodmak, who wrote The Wolf Man and others for Universal, gives Karloff plenty of fun dialogue. The crisp cinematography is by Harry Neumann, who shot over 200 films, covering everything from Buck Jones to the Bowery Boys. And in the title role, without credit, is Ray "Crash" Corrigan, whose career included everything from stunt work to B Westerns to playing It! The Terror From Beyond Space. They say that Karloff preferred character parts, and in British Intelligence he's Valdar, a sabrescarred butler who might be a secret agent. The picture boasts some great miniature work and was shot by Sidney Hickox, whose credits also include The Big Sleep, White Heat and Them! - Director:
- William Nigh
- Cast:
- Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell
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A cosmic nightmare from the minds of H.P Lovecraft and Richard Stanley. 'Color Out of Space' follows Nathan (Nicolas Cage) and Theresa Gardner (Joely Richardson) and their children, whose recent retreat to rural life crumbles when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time. The local wildlife begins to mutate and the family attempts to fight the contagion that has consumed their farm with the help of a friendly hydrologist (Elliot Knight) and eccentric neighbour (Tommy Chong). But what chance can a few humans have against a nebulous entity capable of traversing the gulf between worlds, a nightmarish being that exists beyond the limits of the human spectrum? - Director:
- Richard Stanley
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Brett W. Bachman, Joely Richardson
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Bumbling baby photographer Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) gets mistaken for a private detective and hired to find the missing Baron by Baroness Carlotta Montay (Dorothy Lamour). This is not a straight forward assignment, however, and Jackson soon finds himself involved in a murder and pursued by gangsters. Something of a spoof of detective films then at the height of their popularity, My Favourite Brunette continued the box office success already enjoyed by Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour had enjoyed with their Road To...series. - Director:
- Elliott Nugent
- Cast:
- Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre
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All's fair in love and war, especially in World War II movies that combine both elements into romantic thrillers like 'They Met in Bombay', 'Arise My Love' and this film starring Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. It's 1939 and British intelligence needs to reconnect with a missing agent on the Continent who has details of a secret Nazi weapon. Enter newlyweds Frances and Richard Myles, who agree to forsake their European honeymoon for an even more adventurous foray into espionage. So off they go into a world of cryptographs, disguises, code words, shadowy rendezvous and the Gestapo. - Director:
- Richard Thorpe
- Cast:
- Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
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Widely celebrated as one of Britain's greatest filmmakers, Humphrey Jennings is a true poet of the cinema whose work was the inspiration for Danny Boyle's 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony. This, the last of three comprehensive volumes which bring together his entire directorial output, features the films he made between 1944 and 1951, and charts his transition from wartime to peacetime filmmaking. Featuring 'A Diary for Timothy', Jennings' much-loved collaboration with E M Forster, 'The Dim Little Island', a muted but affecting celebration of Britishness, and 'Family Portrait', the esoteric Festival of Britain film, this essential collection confirms Jennings as a master of the cinematic art.
Documentary Films Comprise:
- The True Story of Lili Marlene (1944)
- The Eighty Days (1944)
- Myra Hess (1945)
- A Diary for Timothy (1946)
- A Defeated People (1946)
- The Cumberland Story (1947)
- The Dim Little Island (1948)
- Family Portrait (1950)- Director:
- Humphrey Jennings
- Cast:
- Michael Redgrave, Denis Blood, Ralph Vaughan Williams
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A thrilling wartime espionage drama in which the respected naval commander Richard Heritage (James Mason) is duped by Mary, an attractive, enemy agent who plants false naval movement orders on him. As a consequence of these false plans, a merchant ship is lost to enemy submarines and Heritage is court-martialled for disobeying orders before being found guilty and summarily dismissed from the Navy. Following his return to civilian life Heritage endeavours to prove his innocence by tracking down the beautiful agent who double crossed him. Working on a tip-off that she is at a remote house on the coast called Orchard Cottage, Heritage visits the house during a stormy night only to discover Mary's dead body in one of the bed' rooms. When Laura Verity (Joyce Howard) enters the house a few moments later, she presumes that Heritage is the murderer and flees to call the police. But when the dead body disappears, Laura and Heritage begin to realise that they are just pawns in a dangerous chess game played by Christopher Child (Tom Walls), the head of a Nazi spy ring. - Director:
- Karel Lamac
- Cast:
- James Mason, Joyce Howard, Phyllis Stanley
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Tell No One (2006)Ne Le Dis A Personne
Relentless edge-of-your-seat suspense, jaw-dropping, high-octane action and a powerful love story combine in what has been hailed by many critics as the best film of the year. 'Tell No One' follows one man's frantic race against time when his tragic past is suddenly and unexpectedly unearthed. Dr. Alex Beck (François Cluzet) is left unconscious after his wife, and childhood sweetheart, Margot (Marie-Josée Croze) is brutally murdered. 8 years on and still unaware of the truth, Alex receives an anonymous e-mail. Clicking on the link he sees a woman's face in a crowd - Margot's face...But before this can sink in, Alex is thrown headlong into a deadly chase - running from both the Police and a team of killers who will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden. - Director:
- Guillaume Canet
- Cast:
- François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier
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After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. 'Us' pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves. - Director:
- Jordan Peele
- Cast:
- Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
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The Souvenir (2019)The Souvenir Part I
Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) is a young film student struggling to find a firm direction in life when she meets the seemingly unwavering and decisive Anthony (Tom Burke). The two immediately take to one another and an intense romance blossoms between them. However, as the relationship develops it becomes clear that Anthony is not being honest about all aspects of himself and Julie slowly discovers that the)' could have potentially devastating consequences for them both. One of Britain's most unique filmmakers Joanna Hogg (Archipelago, Unrelated) presents a deeply personal examination of her own youthful experiences in this beautifully crafted, Martin Scorsese produced portrait of self discovery, 'The Souvenir'. - Director:
- Joanna Hogg
- Cast:
- Neil Young, Tosin Cole, Jack McMullen
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House of Dracula (1945)The Wolf Man vs. Dracula / Dracula vs. the Wolf Man / Destiny
Count Dracula (John Carradine) arrives at the laboratory of Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens), claiming to seek a cure for his vampirism, but in fact eager to turn Edelman's beautiful assistant into his vampire bride. At the same time, a wretched Wolf Man Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr. ) asks Edelman to bring his lycanthropy to an end. The first attempt to cure Talbot fails, and he throws himself off a cliff in a bid to commit suicide. This attempt fails, but leads him to an underground cavern where he discovers the monster (Glenn Strange) created years before by Dr. Frankenstein... - Director:
- Erle C. Kenton
- Cast:
- Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr.
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Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin team up as lifelong buddies Willie, Joe and Al, who decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money. - Director:
- Zach Braff
- Cast:
- Joey King, Morgan Freeman, Peter Serafinowicz
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Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is cast into a web of international intrigue when she decides to hide fugitive British agent Alan Thurston (James Mason) from Nazi agents in the Vichy colony of Algiers. Thurston's mission is to recover a camera revealing the exact location where the Allies are rehearsing operations for the invasion of North Africa. His every move is followed by Dr. Muller (Walter Rilla), a Nazi sympathiser, who will stop at nothing to acquire the camera and capture the Allied group. - Director:
- George King
- Cast:
- James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell
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The Butcher (1970)Le Boucher
Stephane Audran plays a lonely schoolteacher who develops an inexplicable draw toward an ex-army butcher who may or may not be a serial killer plaguing a small town. Drawing on Hitchcockian themes of exchanged guilt and shared secrets, Chabrol constructs an extraordinary relationship between the two characters that marries unspoken self-awareness with constant suspense over the unresolved nature of their bond. - Director:
- Claude Chabrol
- Cast:
- Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age. - Director:
- Quentin Tarantino
- Cast:
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
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