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A gang of outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, known locally as "The Million Dollar Hotel". When one of the residents comes to a grisly end, the hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation led by FBI hardliner, Detective Skinner (Mel Gibson).

Every inhabitant of The Million Dollar Hotel falls under suspicion and as Skinner's investigation proceeds, the lines between murder and suicide, sanity and madness, become very blurred indeed.

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Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi, two of the great Hollywood character actors, portray the couple whose house the bank has foreclosed upon, and who are forced subsequently to move into their children's homes in the city.

A near-musical restructuring of gratitude and debt ensues once the offspring deem the couple's lodging an imposition: the two are separated, then reunited weeks later... as they glide inexorably into an uncertain future.

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Horror comes home to Roost It’s Halloween. Four friends are on the way to a wedding when their car breaks down on a dark and lonely country highway. A nearby abandoned farmhouse seems to be their only choice of sanctuary.

But walking towards the flickering porch light and strangely vacant premises, they hear ominous rustling sounds. The disturbing noises appear to be coming from a creepy old barn. Too late they make the fatal error of going to investigate. For the cavernous barn contains an unimaginable terror – a swarm of bloodthirsty vampire bats waiting to turn their dread-filled victims into murderously rabid zombies. And there’s soon no hiding place from the winged, fanged horror.

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Poor Teddy (Marty Feldman) has several problems on his plate.

His colleague's advice to 'think dirty' seems to have resonated worryingly with his young son, while the vicar's 'Clean-Up TV' campaign has gained unexpected support from his wife; and with Teddy's ineptitude mistaken for talent by his boss, he's been tasked with finding an erotic angle on McLaughlin's Frozen Porridge!

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Tarkovsky's unforgettably haunting film, his first to be made outside Russia, explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist, Gorchakov, a Russian poet researching in Italy.

Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia, his beautiful Italian interpreter, Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children, and he encounters the local mystic, who sets him a challenging task. The film is filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary images, all of which coalesce into a miraculous whole in the film's final shot. As in all Tarkovsky's films, nature, the elements of fire and water, music, painting and poetry all play a major role.

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Altman's film also jump-started the serious acting career of Cher, nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as Sissy, one of the "Disciples of James Dean", an all-women fan club devoted to the late actor, meeting for a reunion at a crumbling Woolworth's in a small Texas town in 1975.

Joined by group leader Mona (Sandy Dennis) and the glamorous, initially mysterious Joanne (Karen Black), the women recall their love for Dean, and the club that began twenty years earlier when the actor was in a nearby town filming 'Giant', and the fatal car accident that followed. Soon, as more memories of 1955 are recalled, secrets are revealed and old friendships are put to the test.

Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts) has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President (Pat McCormick) and General Custer.

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When two young men arrive at a family-run guesthouse in rural France, their anticipation of a few days' peace and quiet is undermined by a variety of sinister occurrences.

A small bird is found murdered, its neck in a tiny noose, a strangely sexualized stain appears on a wall, and a slug crawls across the breakfast tray. Are these all signs comprising a portent of truly cosmic significance, or merely bizarre coincidences? And is it any wonder that one of the visitors, Witold (piercing-eyed Jonathan Genet) has such difficulty writing his novel, or that his companion Fuchs (Johan Libereau) prefers to find solace in earthier pleasures?

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A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) discovers that his wife (Genevieve Bujold) and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. When an attempt to thwart the captors goes awry, Courtland's wife and daughter are never recovered.

Several years later while vacationing in Florence, Courtland falls in love with a young woman who is an exact double of his dead wife. On the eve of their wedding, the woman disappears and Courtland finds a ransom note - a duplicate of the one found several years earlier.

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In the zany and outrageous tradition of 'Down and Out in Beverly Hills' and 'Ruthless People', 'Scenes From a Mall' teams up Midler with Woody Allen - a comedy's ultimate mix of combustible fun.

During a spending spree in an upscale shopping center, this Beverley Hills couple's seemingly happy marriage takes an outlandish turn for the worst when they try to work out their marital differences... in public.

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Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a Hollywood producer who has become rich and powerful thanks to brutal and bloody action films, but cuts himself off from his home life and neglected wife (Andie Macdowell) by the banks of phones and computers he uses to remain in contact with his business associates.

Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican garndener's family. In order to track him down, the police call in a scientist (Gabriel Byrne) who is forced to use an orwellian surveillance system that enables government agents to assassinate their enemies at will.

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Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his son Luis when he crossed the border into the U.S. But after years of trying to set an example for his son, Luis has become an impressionable American teen, unwilling to work for the things that he wants in life.

In a desperate attempt to teach his son some important lessons in life and save him from the dangerous path he's about to choose, Carlos invests in his own business, with far reaching consequences.

In the belly of Bangkok's underworld, the lives of four strangers are about to change forever. As fate spins its web, the destinies of a desperate drug dealer, a young runaway, a beautiful assassin, and an English psychologist collide. How will their fates connect?

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Terry Sneed (Billy Dee Williams) is a well-known cop brought in by police chief Ray Berrigan (Eddie Albert) to quell a crime wave that has gripped Paloma, New Mexico.

Already on the payroll of local businessman and crime chief Victor Manso (Vic Morrow), corrupt police Captain Frank Dolek (Albert Salmi) finds it hard to control Sneed, who is pressuring low-level hood Danny James (Frankie Avalon) for information. But in fact, Sneed is in business for himself, and even has his own 'business manager' (Sorrell Booke) to help them shake down anyone he can for a payoff.

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Jack Nicholson in his very best in this highly-acclaimed dramatic comedy about three sailors on the loose.

Two hard-boiled career petty officers, Buddusky and Mulhall, are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows, from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offence. Buddusky and Mulhall take a liking is Meadows and are determined to show him a food time on their journey north. Their escapades begin in Washington where they narrowly escape a bar fight, then get blink drunk in their hotel room. In New York City, they tangle with some Marines, and in Boston, Buddusky takes Meadows to a brothel for his first sexual experience. Finally, after reluctantly turning in Meadows, Buddusky and Mullhal realise they are as much prisoners of their won world as Meadows now is of his.