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Schoolteacher Harry Barnes (Peter Halliday) returns home from work and is told by a neighbour of a scream coming from his house a few moments earlier. Harry searches the house and realises that his wife Jean (Ingrid Hafner) is missing.

But when Harry decides to take a shower he discovers a dying man and a pair of bloody scissors lying on the bathroom floor. Believing that his wife has killed the man in self-defence and ran away, Harry's dilemma is whether to call the police or dispose of the man's body and protect his wife. Believing in his wife's innocence, Harry decides to bury the stranger beneath his floorboards. But hiding a corpse is no easy task...

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The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous "ramen western" by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions

distort the most natural of human urges - our appetites. Interspersing the efforts of Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) and friends to make her cafe a success with the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster and glimpses of food culture both high and low, the sweet, sexy, and surreal 'Tampopo' is a lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made.

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Three ill-fated men - a small-time pimp Jack (John Lurie) an unemployed DJ Zack (Tom Waits) and a strong-willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni) - meet in the confined space of New Orleans prison cell.

Undeterred by Jack and Zack's evident disdain, Roberto shares with them his improbable plans of escape, thrusting them into an adventure through the Louisiana bayous.

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Donnie Yen ignites the screen in a return to the role that made him an icon - as Ip Man, the real-life Wing Chun grandmaster who mentored Bruce Lee.

In this explosive conclusion to the blockbuster martial arts series, when a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer (Mike Tyson) make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

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Based on Lionel White's novel 'Obsession', 'Pierrot le Fou' transforms a story about a couple on the run into an entertaining, existential romance. Tired of his bourgeois life, Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) leaves his wife and elopes with his former baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina).

When a dead body is found in Marianne's apartment, the two lovers flee to the South of France in a futile bid to escape Marianne's dangerous past.

Paddington Station. Next stop…murder! Dozing in her train seat, elderly English gentlewoman Miss Jane Marple awakens just in time to witness a dreadful strangulation aboard a passing train. ‘Murder’, cries truth, even if it means uncovering an extra body or two!

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Dominic Danges (Herbert Lom) is a famous French novelist who is missing, presumed dead, during the Second World War. But Danges along with his fellow internee, Pierre Bonnet (Richard Attenborough) was captured by the Germans.

Arriving in France after their repatriation, Danges discovers that his new novel, Hell is Sold Out, is a best-seller. But Danges knows nothing of the book because a fan he has never met, Valerie Martin (Mai Zetterling), has written the book and passed herself off as the famous French author. As if that wasn't enough, when Danges returns to his family home he finds Valerie acting the role of his grieving widow!

Based on true events, 'The Highwayman' tells the story of one of the most notorious criminals in history - the infamous Dick Turpin. Outwitting the authorities at every turn, Turpin faces his biggest challenge following the failed robbery of a powerful Earl and the deadly consequences he faces. Has his luck finally run out?

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Chief Inspector Birkett (Ian Hendry) and Sergeant Saunders (Ronald Fraser) are called in to investigate the murder of a glamorous model. They discover that the murdered girl has led a chequered life and that her acquaintances include drug pushers.

Jordan Barker (Jeremy Brett) and Hammond Barker (Peter Arne) are reluctant to help but when the police finally make an arrest, another murder occurs in a seedy Soho Jazz cafe. But are the two murders connected? Birkett and Saunders have to move fast to unmask the real killer. But can they solve the model murders before time runs out and the killers make their escape?

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Now a newly-arrived citizen in British-occupied Hong Kong, Master Ip (Donnie Yen) wishes to open a Wing Chun academy to teach his unique style to a generation of new students, but is blocked by a corrupt group of martial arts masters led by Master Hung (Sammo Hung).

They refuse to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself as a kung fu master, including an East-versus-West fight to the finish against a boxer named Twister (Darren Shahlavi).

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Based on an old British radio show, The Brass Monkey' is a fast-paced British mystery and comedy thriller. Caroll Levis stars as a radio personality who attempts to prevent a connoisseur of Buddhist artifacts from stealing the priceless Brass Monkey.

The film is littered with stars such as Herbert Lom, Avril Angers and Terry-Thomas, but it is perhaps most famous for being the swansong of the beautiful Carole Landis. She committed suicide shortly after this film in a scandal that shook the film world.

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Let others select the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth.

When Miss Marple auditions for a spot in a repertory company, she lets rip with The Shooting of Dan McGrew! She gets the job (the manager thinks she has cash to invest in this floundering troupe), but she’s not giving up sleuthing for grease-paint and applause. She’s convinced one of her fellow actors is playing the part of murderer for real.

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When wealthy old mr. Enderby dies, his not-so bereaved relatives gather for the reading of the will. There amid the money and mahogany, aunt cora asks, "he was murdered, wasn't he?". The family tut-tuts such a distressing notion...

until cora is murdered and the tut-tuts turn to "who's next?" Margaret Rutherford is back on form and on the trail as sleuthing miss jane marple in this witty whodunit based on agatha christie's after the funeral. As in all rutherford marple mysteries, she's ably supported by Stringer Davis as the town librarian and charles tingwell as inspector craddock. But murder at the gallop has an extra attraction...robert morley who plays and enderby heir. Rutherford and morley are an engagingly comic pair, whether riding on horseback, gliding around on the dance floor, or trying to outfox each other.

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There’s something fishy about the HMS Battletore, a training ship designed to give young hoodlums a chance at new lives. When Miss Jane Marple goes aboard to investigate, she discovers it’s a training ship, all right: someone’s training the delinquents to be good thieves instead of good citizens.

And that someone would kill to keep the fact quiet! Murder may be at sea But Miss Marple never is in this sparkling mystery starring Margaret Rutherord as Agatha Christie’s endearing old-lady sleuth. Murder Ahoy features a rouge’s gallery of suspects and ingenious means of dispatching victims, including strychnine-laced snuff, a noose from a yardarm and a poisoned mousetrap. But Miss Marle prevail? Well, let’s just say it was a good thing she was Ladies National Fencing Champion of 1931!

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Jimmy Stewart plays the bungling but charming big-city lawyer determined to rid the fair village of Shinbone of its number one nuisance and bad man: Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). And as if all that weren't enough, the biggest star that ever aimed a six-shooter plays the man of the title: John Wayne.

Super-sincere Stewart and rugged rancher Wayne also share the same love interest (Vera Miles). One gets the gunman but the other gets the gal.