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Charles Boyer (Gaslight) gives an enthralling performance as Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian-born gigolo who arrives at a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US.

Faced with a waiting period of eight years, George is encouraged by his former dancing partner Anita (Pauline Goddard) to marry an American girl and desert her once safely across the border. He successfully targets visiting school teacher Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland), but his plan is compromised by a pursuing immigration officer, and blossoming feelings of genuine love for Emmy.

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After the success of the diamond sword, the second war epic follows Genghis Khan's empire. Genghis Khan is dead - after years of fighting for supremacy in the empire, there is still no successor who could assert himself. His two legitimate heirs to the throne have to flee after losing battles.

Pursued by new and old enemies, they must fight again to keep their freedom. But only together do they have a chance of avoiding death. Who will be the new Khan and who will lead them into the final decisive battle.

A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; 'Touch' follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.

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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) is a hardworking armoured car driver with a fatal attraction to his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne DeCarlo), who's now married to notorious hoodlum Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). Unable to stay away from her, Steve has a secret tryst with Anna...only to be discovered by Dundee.

To cover up their affair, Steve convinces Dundee that he only met with Anna to get Dundee's help in robbing an upcoming payroll shipment he will be driving. The hood falls for the ruse, which triggers a series of harrowing events that ultimately lead to violence and death.

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After the success of 'The Diamond Sword' and ''The Golden Throne' comes the third war epic about Genghis Khan's empire. Following the death of the powerful ruler Genghis Khan, his successor Kasym Khan (Berik Aytzhanov) unites the feuding tribes of the Kazakh karnate to give the country new strength.

But fearing their increasing power, the neighboring uzbek Khanate declares war. To defend his new empire, Kasym Khan and his army enter a bloody and costly battle for honor, glory and survival.

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In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) sets out to conquer the uninhabitable Danish heath in the name of the King.

But the sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik de Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg), who believes the land belongs to him, swears revenge when the maid Ann Barbara (Amanda Collin) and her serf husband escape for refuge with Kahlen.

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When 93-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

Based on a real-life experience, 'Thelma' is an "action" comedy unlike any other - exploring family, friendship, and aging, while being uniquely inspired by action movies...

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Laura (Penelope Cruz) and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past.

Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.

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When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then - and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass.

As a result, he retains a permanent child's-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the 'free city' claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II. With the help of Luis Bunuel's favourite screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, director Volker Schlondorff turns Gunter Grass's magical-realist masterpiece into a carnivalesque frenzy of bizarre, grotesque yet unnervingly compelling images as Oskar turns his increasingly jaded eye and caustic tongue on the insane follies of the adult world that he refuses to join.

Set in 1980s British colonial Hong Kong, a troubled refugee enters the infamous Kowloon Walled City, a dangerous enclave ripe with crime and corruption. As the city confronts, he soon discovers order amidst the chaos, and gains life lessons from the residents as they resist a violent invasion.

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Cited by Ray as one of his best films, this tale of a neglected housewife in Victorian-era Calcutta is adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore.

Sailen Mukherjee stars as a newspaper journalist who is driven more by professional ambition than the needs of his cultured and intelligent wife Charaulata (Madhabi Mukherjee). Sensing her loneliness, he enlists the help of his cousin Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee), a sensitive would-be writer, to keep her company. Charu and Amal hit it off and, almost inevitably, their feelings for each other begin to deepen...

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After meeting a newly orphaned girl named Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal), con man Hoses Pray (Ryan O'Neal), who may or may not be Addie's father, is enlisted to deliver the newly orphaned Addie to her aunt in Missouri.

Shortly after however, the two realise that together they make an efficient scam-artist duo. Adventure ensues as the pair blaze through the American Midwest, stealing, swindling, and selling the moon...

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How does an Irish lad without prospects become part of 18th-century nobility? For Barry Lyndon (Ryan O'Neal) the answer is: any way he can! His climb to wealth and privilege is the enthralling focus of this sumptuous Stanley Kubrick version of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.

For this ravishing, slyly satiric winner of four Academy Awards, Kubrick found inspiration in the works of the era's painters. Costumes and sets were crafted in the era's designs and pioneering lenses were developed to shoot interiors and exteriors in natural light. The result? Barry Lyndon endures as a cutting-edge movie that brings a historical period to vivid screen life like no other film before or since.

Emmi (Brigitte Mira), a widowed cleaning lady in her sixties, meets Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a Moroccan immigrant in his thirties. Seeking companionship, the pair marry to the outrage Emmi's family (including Fassbinder himself as her aggressive son-in-law), herfriends and her colleagues.

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Lake is nightclub chanteuse Ellen (Veronica Lake), and her police detective boyfriend Michael (Robert Preston) is on the hunt for assassin-for-hire Philip Raven (Alan Ladd), after Raven performed a hit on a chemist with a secret formula and a taste for blackmail.

When Raven's employer Gates (Laird Cregar) double crosses him after the job is done, Raven seeks revenge, and his path crosses with Ellen after she is hired to perform at Gates' club. Raven learns that the stolen formula is for a poison gas that is to be sold to the Japanese, and his pangs of conscience - and revelations of his tortured past - turn Ellen's fear into compassion, just as dangerous forces close in on Raven. But Ellen is still unsure if Raven can be trusted...