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Denied a job because of his colour, Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) joins a radical civil rights group and begins taking matters into his own hands. This eventually leads to a bloody and violent confrontation with the police. The story is told in a series of flashbacks, set against the confrontation. - Director:
- Oscar Williams
- Cast:
- Billy Dee Williams, D'Urville Martin, Celia Milius
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"Vox Lux" is a powerful and stylish portrait of a troubled pop star from writer-director Brady Corbet, which follows her rise from the ashes of a major national tragedy to global superstardom. Oscar winner Natalie Portman gives a remarkable performance as pop singer Celeste, who must overcome personal and familial struggles to mount a comeback with the help of her talent manager (Jude Law), after a scandalous incident that nearly derailed her career. Set over a 15 year period, this acclaimed and unique examination of modern celebrity features new songs by Sia and an original score by Scott Walker. - Director:
- Brady Corbet
- Cast:
- Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Stacy Martin
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Day for Night (1973)La nuit américaine
At the Victorine Studios in Nice, a French movie-maker, Ferrand (Francois Truffaut) starts shooting his latest film: "Meet Pamela". As ever, this proves eventful from the outset: ups and downs on the shoot, actors whims, complicated love-lives and the producer putting on the pressure... Ferrand wonders whether his film will ever get made. In 'Day for Night', Truffaut provides the answer to the question asked by all film lovers "what goes on behind the cameras?". He films the shoot as it really is, straightforwardly, without artefacts, with honesty and accuracy, making it seem like a documentary. Often funny, sometimes tragic, 'Day for Night' is one of Truffaut's most autobiographical films and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1973. - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Jacqueline Bisset, Georges Delerue, Jean-Pierre Léaud
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The Food of the Gods (1976)H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods
Legendary director Bert I. Gordon - the godfather of the gigantic monster movies delivers this spine tingling tale of ecology gone mad. Based on H.G. Wells' classic horror novel, 'The Food of the Gods' predicts a future where animals are suddenly at the top of the food chain... eager to get their fill! When a strange edible substance appears on a remote island, local farmer Mr. Skinner (John McLiam) and his wife (Ida Lupino) deem it a 'Food of the Gods' and feed it to their farm animals. Soon other wildlife such as rodents and insects have eaten the food, which makes anything that consumes it grow in size. These gigantic beasts start terrorizing the island, with an athlete named Morgan (Marjoe Gortner) among those who are fighting for their lives against the gargantuan creatures. - Director:
- Bert I. Gordon
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- Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker
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Phoenix (2014)Feniks
June, -1945. Bay injured, her face destroyed, Auschwitz survivor Nelly (Nina Hoss) turns to Berlin.. Having barely recovered IMMA facial surgery, she sets out to find her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld). Nelly's family has been murdered in the Holocaust - Johnny is convinced that his wife, too, is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down he doesn't recognise her, but seeing a resemblance Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his 'late' wife in order to access her inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her on imposter. - Director:
- Christian Petzold
- Cast:
- Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
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In God We Trust (1980)In God We Tru$t
Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman) is asked by Father Thelonious (Wilfrid Hyde-White) to leave their monastery and go to Los Angeles in search of Armageddon T. Thunderbird (Andy Kaufman), a big-time television evangelist. Brother Ambrose's mission is to ask Armageddon T. Thunderbird's Church of Divine Profit to pay off the monastery's mortgage. But as Brother Ambose makes his journey he has to encounter temptation and sin in the guises of a seedy evangelist, Dr. Sebastian Melmoth (Peter Boyle), a street-walking prostitute, Mary (Louise Lasser), and finally the rapacious dollar totting G.O.D. (Richard Pryor). - Director:
- Marty Feldman
- Cast:
- Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser
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Honourably discharged from the US navy, with nothing but his kit bag and rifle to his name, 21 year-old Elvis Valderez sets out on a quest to find his father. The trail leads to Corpus Christi, Texas, where Valderez discovers the man he has heard about but never seen. He’s now the highly respected pastor of a thriving Baptist church; a pillar of the community with a beautiful wife, a son and a teenage daughter. Compelled to confront his father, Elvis is stunned when he is brutally rejected as a reminder of a dark past the preacher would rather forget. But when the prodigal son unwittingly falls in love with his half-sister, secrets and lies threaten to unleash a chain of tragic and violent events. - Director:
- Jamie Marsh
- Cast:
- Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring
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A handsome young American sits at a Monte Carlo gaming table. Around him a crowd watches in awe as his pile of chips grows higher with each deal of the cards. How can this cool gambler play so brilliantly? Easy. He cheats. Warren Beatty and Susannah York star in this delightful caper 'Kaleidoscope', which speeds from the Riviera to Geneva to swinging London at the turn of a card...or unraveling of a clue. Twist the move one way and it's a taut suspense tale complete with Scotland Yard inspectors, a ruthless drug kingpin and a hold-your-break-in at a playing card factory. Twist 'Kaleidoscope' another way and it's a sparkling love story between the suave cardsharp (Beatty) and a kooky dress designer (York) whose father (Clive Revill) just happens to be a detective. Twist it again and it's a hip, cheeky comedy to keep you laughing between thrills. - Director:
- Jack Smight
- Cast:
- Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill
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Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)Kishiwada shônen gurentai: Chikemuri junjô-hen
A Takashi Miike film that is, to a degree, autobiographical, Young Thugs - Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day of school, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down to a career of enforcement and protection. Set in Kishiwada, a fishing district in the industrial town of Osaka, Innocent Blood lives up to its title. A lot of blood gets splattered around, without anyone getting too badly hurt, or taking too much offence. This is a story of rough kids trying to find their way in the world, a world of violence, sentiment and comedy, in a film that moves at a cracking pace from the opening shot. - Director:
- Takashi Miike
- Cast:
- Takeshi Caesar, Seiji Chihara, Noriko Eguchi
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Ginger (Victor Henry) shares most things in life with his friend, Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) - including girls. Then, he sees the beautiful Jill - 'all neat in black stockings' - in a south London pub. Her obvious innocence moves him, and he feels unable to make his usual approach. He realises that she is not only desirable, but also something very special... - Director:
- Christopher Morahan
- Cast:
- Victor Henry, Susan George, Jack Shepherd
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'Dead Man' is a story of a young man's journey both psychically and spiritually into the extreme Western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the 19th Century. William Blake is lost and badly wounded, when he encounters very odd, outcast native American named "Nobody", who believes Blake is actually dead English poet of the same name. Both comical and violent, Blake has been thrown into chaotic world as though he has passed though a surface of mirrors and emerges into a previously unknown world that exists on the other side. - Director:
- Jim Jarmusch
- Cast:
- Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover
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Dark Planet (2009)Obitaemyy Ostrov
The year is 2157: Maxim is on a mission in deep space when his ship crashes on an unknown planet. Despite the highly advanced weaponry and technology developed by the plane tyrannical leaders, he finds the general population suffering under cruel medieval living conditions. After discovering he will never be able to return home, Maxim joins forces with a local girl and her brother and launches an uprising to overthrow the planet's totalitarian system and its mind-controlling dictators. An epic battle commences... - Director:
- Fedor Bondarchuk
- Cast:
- Vasiliy Stepanov, Maksim Matveyev, Yuliya Snigir
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The credits dub this "the maddest story ever told", a promise that's well on the way to being fulfilled in the opening scene alone, when Virginia traps and kills a hapless deliveryman in her makeshift web. She's one of three siblings who suffer from a unique genetic disorder that causes them to regress back to childhood, while retaining the physical strength and sexual maturity of adults. Lon Chaney Jr. gave one of his most memorable late performances as Bruno, their guardian and protector, who has managed to cover up their crimes until two distant relatives lay claim to their house. When they insist on moving in, Bruno has to cross his fingers and hope that the 'children' behave towards their new guests... This was the first solo feature by Jack Hill, whom Quentin Tarantino dubbed "the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking", and it remains one of his wildest and weirdest. - Director:
- Jack Hill
- Cast:
- Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
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Vienna-based psychoanalyst Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) is involved in a passionate affair with Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell), a hedonistic, sexually impulsive and clearly troubled young woman. When Milena is brought into a hospital emergency room after apparently overdosing, detectives investigate the possibility of foul play on Alex's part. As he recounts the events to the investigating officer, Alex is forced to confront his own motives and detectives must decide whether her condition is the result of a suicide attempt, or something more sinister... - Director:
- Nicolas Roeg
- Cast:
- Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel
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Armored Car Robbery (1950)Armoured Car Robbery
Dave Purvis (William Talman) is the smartest crook there is and he's got a red-hot scheme to secure his retirement: rob an armoured car full of money, then fly off to the sun. But Dave's not as lucky as he needs to be: a cop car swings past, guns are fired and a policeman dies. The dead man's friend Lt. Jim Cordell (Charles McGraw) vows pursuit: he's smart and tough and gets results. As the heat starts to rise, paranoia kicks in and the gang turns on each other. Can Dave escape before Cordell runs him to ground? - Director:
- Richard Fleischer
- Cast:
- Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
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