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Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb, into battle on a heavily-fortified enemy island. Their objective is a Japanese rocket site in the island's interior, and this action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles.

In the process, the senior officer (Richard Widmark) is transformed from a former school teacher into a combat-hardened leader, and his disparate squad of men is forged into a cohesive fighting unit.

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When knights were bold in days of old there could never have been anything quite like the wild and wacky adventures of Count Godefroy and his grotesque vassal Jacquoville who are accidentally zapped from the 12th century to the present day with hilarious consequences.

Toilets, telephones, cars and clingfilm are just some of the new fangled inventions that baffle our olde-world heroes - not to mention people who look just like them - as they try to get back to their own time and the destiny that awaits them. But will it be alright for the knight???

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'Bodysong' is an epic story of love, sex, violence, death and dreams. The story of our lives told through moving images from across the world and spanning 100 years of cinema, cut to an ambitious score by Jonny Greenwood. 'Bodysong' is both a film and a website. The site www.bodysong.

com gives us the stories of the people portrayed in each of the extraordinary images in this powerful debut feature. The video includes an exclusive interview with Jonny Greenwood on the process of composing the score, the full website and early short films by director Simon Pummell.

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Spirited Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor) is sent by her poverty-stricken mother to live with her prosperous aunt and cousins at their grand country estate. Here, she struggles to adjust to aristocratic protocol and the daily reminders of her inferiority to her relatives.

When her sparkle and wit bring the inevitable interest of suitors, Fanny is forced to decide whether to marry for love or status.
A timeless satire on manners, money and passion set against the backdrop of outwardly genteel 19th century English society, Mansfield Park will delight Austen fans everywhere.

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In this incredibly atmospheric midnight movie classic from Roger Corman, the brilliant, unmistakable Vincent Price stars as Charles Dexter Ward, the main beneficiary of his grandfather's will, who arrives in the surreal village of Arkham in the hope of claiming his inheritance: his grandfather's

gothic mansion. But Charles gets more than he bargained for when he discovers that his grandfather was a callous warlock who worshipped Satan and was responsible for the disappearance of the village's women and turning most of its inhabitants into disfigured mutants. Not only that but there's something very strange waiting for him in the basement...and it needs feeding.

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Deep in the English countryside, the tranquil village of Lipsbury Lea seems a long way from the war raging beyond. So it's the perfect spot for Battle of Britain fighter ace (and keen bird watcher) Jimmy Bancroft (Niall MacGinnis) to recover from his war-wounds. Jimmy's not the new arrival, however.

For only the second time ever, a pair of Tawny Pipits have arrived in Britain to nest. Led by the redoubtable Colonel Barton-Barrington (Bernard Miles), the good folk of Lipsbury Lea rally around to show these birds some traditional British hospitality, protecting their little guests from the might of the army, the stupidity of bureaucracy and the machinations of some very determined egg hunters...

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The Color of Paradise is a fable of both a simple child's innocence and a complex look at faith and humanity. Visually magnificent and wrenchingly moving, the film tells of the story of a blind boy, Mohammed, whose inability to see the world only enhances his ability to feel its powerful forces.

From acclaimed director Majid Majidi, The Color Of Paradise continues a strong tradition of Iranian cinema with this very effecting look at a child's definition of the world and his role in it.

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To Bull McCabe (Richard Harris) it is his life. But now the field he has worked and loved for as long as he can remember is to be sold by public auction.

When an American (Tom Berenger) bids for the land against Bull, the stage is set for a fearful confrontation that both men are determined to win. With both the land and their livelihood at stake Bull and his son attempt to frighten off the American. It's a battle that they can't afford to lose. For the field holds a dark secret that must be protected at any cost.

1976: A timid sound engineer (Toby Jones) arrives in Italy to work on a mysterious horror film, mixing bloodcurdling screams with the grotesque sounds of hacked vegetables. But as the onscreen violence seeps into his consciousness reality and fantasy become blurred and a nightmare starts to awake...

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Although he's kind and lovable, "Professor" Eustace Appleby (Frank Morgan) is a pickpocket, and his talented granddaughter, Dimples (Shirley Temple), desperately wants him to go straight.

But when Dimples meets a high society lady and her theatre-loving nephew, she just might find success on the legitimate stage!

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Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in Leap Year, a romantic comedy that follows one woman's determined quest to get married to the perfect guy... despite what fate has in store for her.

When their four-year anniversary passes without a marriage proposal, Anna decides to take matters into her own hands. Hearing of an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on February 29th, Anna decides to follow her boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) to Dublin and get down on one knee herself. But airplanes, weather and fate leave Anna stranded on the other side of Ireland, and she must enlist the help of handsome and surly Declan to get her across the country. As Anna and Declan bicker across the Emerald Isle, they discover that the road to love can take you to very unexpected places.

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When sweet-talking cowboy Lester Long (Vince Vaughn) swaggers into town and straight into Clay Bidwell's (Joaquin Phoenix) life, things quickly go from bad to worse, when dead bodies start piling up and all the signs start pointing to Clay as the killer! Will the smart talking, big city FBI agent

go after the right man or will Clay end up taking the fall?

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The last instalment of the Antoine Doinel story, Love On The Runs see Antoine and his wife Christine in the final stages of their divorce after five years together.

When, Antoine by chance meets up with his first love Collette, they reminisce on his past relationships including his infidelities and Antoine realises that he wants to share his life with his new love Sabine.

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A searing indictment of Japanese society’s treatment of women, ‘Sisters of the Gion’ is one of Mizoguchi’s finest pre-war films, which he considered to be his first serious work as a director. It tells the story of two sisters who work as geishas in a district of Kyoto.

The tradition-bound and submissive Umekichi (Yôko Umemura) resolves to stand by her lover after he goes bankrupt and leaves his wife. By contrast, the rebellious O-Mocha (Isuzu Yamada) views her patrons purely as a means to attain financial security and thinks her older sister foolish for her devotion to a man with no means to support her. Determined to improve their fortunes, O-Mocha embarks on a reckless course of action that has terrible consequences for both sisters.

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At the height of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, four German exiles in Hollywood - director Fritz Lang, playwright Bertolt Brecht (earning his only US credit), composer Hanns Eisler and actor Hans Heinrich von Twardowski - pooled their talents to create Hangmen Also Die!, a remarkable film

about the Czech resistance. Twardowski plays Reinhard Heydrich, an SS Obergruppenfuhrer and the 'Reich-Protector' of Czechoslovakia, known alternately as The Hangman' and The Butcher of Prague'. When he is assassinated by a surgeon (played by Brian Donlevy), the city is locked down and the doctor must rely on the help of the resistance to evade capture.