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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...

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Clift stars as George Eastman, a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor).

Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and romantic prospects; consumed with fear and desire, Eastman is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever...

While a police-eluding serial killer prowls the New York streets, newspaper publisher Walter Kyne pits his three top newsmen against each other to catch the maniac and scoop the story, but in the ensuing chase the hounds become entangled in professional rivalry and romantic complications - with deadly consequences.

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Generations in the future following Caesar's reign, apes are living harmoniously as the dominant species - and humans are living in the shadows.

As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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This sparkling comedy was Oscar nominated for its script in which Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a young child who is not looked after by the hardworking mother.

Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin (David Niven) becomes determined to keep the single woman and 'her' baby together in this wonderful comedy of errors. Ginger Rogers, David Niven and Charles Coburn achieve intense comic chemistry under the direction of Garson Kanin with hardly a dull moment in this stylish and breezy 'department store' romance in which Ginger gives as good as she gets!

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Nancy (Laraine Day) appears to be the perfect bride for her fiancée John Willisand (Gene Raymond) everything is set for a perfect wedding ceremony...

until her former husband Harry Blair (Brian Aherne) approaches Willis and explains how Nancy ruined his life, eventually leaving him in a psychiatric ward. As Blair's story unfolds in flashbacks, he recounts how Nancy's previous lover, the renowned artist Norman Clyde (Robert Mitchum) warned him of Nancy's kleptomania, incessant lying and involvement with murder; and at the time, Blair refused to believe Clyde, believing him to be the jilted lover. But is Blair's story also that of the jilted lover; or is he trying to save Willis from marrying a woman with a dark secret?

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Cary Grant brings his delightful wit and charm to this heartwarming romantic comedy as Walter Eckland, a grouchy civilian beachcomber in the South Pacific. Eckland is tricked into duty during WWII and abandoned on an isolated island to report enemy ship and plane movements to Allied reconnaissance.

His solitude is interrupted by a distress call from another station, where he discovers seven young schoolgirls and their attractive headmistress, played by the gorgeous Leslie Caron. When they return to the island and try to share his already cramped living quarters, the battle of the sexes that ensues is as explosive as the real war that surrounds them!

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Napoleon Solo - suave, seductive and trained to kill. Illya Kuryakin - mysterious, calculating and deadly efficient.

Together, they outwit spies and saboteurs, imposters and assassins, insidious machines and power-hungry madmen as agents for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement - The men from U.N.C.L.E. Here is the classic television series that helped launch the 'Mils spy mania, digitally remastered and brought to you. You'll enjoy every challenging mission, the many outlandish gadgets and each narrow escape as you watch Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Kuryakin (David McCallum) take on Thrush and its axis of evil allies around the globe. The mission begins here - in this spine-tinglingly exciting collection, featuring all 29 episodes from the groundbreaking first series of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. You'll be on a white-knuckle ride - from the first gripping moments of the series debut, "The Vulcan Affair", through every surprise this history-making collection has in store. So if you have spy-sleuthing, table-turning adventure in your sights...you've reached your ultimate destination. There's no resisting The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Artist Gaston Morrell hires models to paint their portraits, then strangles them when the portraits are complete! Latest model Lucille soon learns of his dark secret and vows to bring him to justice.

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Etero (Eka Chavleishvili), a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, never wanted a husband. She cherishes her freedom as much as her cakes. But her choice to live alone is the cause of much gossip among her fellow villagers.

Unexpectedly, she finds herself passionately falling for a man, and is suddenly faced with the decision to pursue a relationship or continue a life of independence. Etero must grapple with her feelings and decide how to find her own path to happiness.

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An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène's own 1973 novel, 'Xala' is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy.

On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a local marabout, El Hadji must face the possibility that he deserves the infliction for his part in embezzling public funds and for helping to keep Senegal under French control. Adeptly combining elements of African folklore and popular cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of male authority figures.