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Filip (Jerzy Stuhr), a clerk in a small Polish town, buys an 8mm camera to film the baby his wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) is expecting. His bosses take an interest in it and commision him to film the company's 25th anniversary celebrations.

When the result wins a prize at an amateur film festival, Filip, encouraged by his success, becomes consumed by his new found passion. But, as he develops his creative skills, Filip soon discovers that his devotion to making films has unexpected consequences as tensions arise in his marriage, his managers impose censorship upon him and his films inadvertently lead to the sacking of a colleague. Featuring a superb performance from Jerzy Stuhr, 'Camera Buff' is a compelling exploration of the power and responsibility of the filmmaker.

When outlaws on the run invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to seduction, role reversal, and ultimately, bloody revenge.

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In the small coastal town of St. Malo, Brittany, the body of a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. Suspicion falls on the dour Rene Sterne (Jacques Gamblin) a once famous painter, now art teacher, who was the last person to see her alive.

His marriage to the buoyant Vivianne (Sandrine Bonnaire), already under strain beneath the weight of gossip and rumour, is further tested when shallow but successful novelist, journalist, and TV host Germain-Roland Desmot (Antoine de Caunes) arrives, a flamboyant ladies' man with a vacation home in St. Malo and an interest in Vivianne. A powerful psychological thriller that puts both the characters and the community under a microscope.

Based on the true story, this sweeping saga tells the tale of Pocahontas, the impetuous Native American beauty (Q'orianka Kilcher) whose relationship with Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell) sets off a battle for a new nation.

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"When you know how to die, you know how to live", that's the philosophy of an amazing man named Morrie Schwartz.

A retired professor, he's been a lifetime of inspiration to his students, including Mitch Albom, who abandoned early dreams of being a jazz pianist for a flashy career as a celebrity sports reporter. Now Morrie's facing his biggest challenge: a terminal illness. Typically, Morrie turns this tragedy into something positive. In dying, he will teach others how to live life to the full - and how to be honest with those they love. And who better to benefit from Morrie's invaluable lessons in life than Mitch, a man for whom money and celebrity have come to mean more than love and happiness.

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The story of the greatest lover who ever lived, died, and lived again. Chilling and sensual interpretation of the classic horror tale, starring veteran actor Frank Langella and screen legend Laurence Olivier.

When a ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby the sole survivor, Count Dracula, emerges from the storm to take up residence in the Carfax Abbey. Very soon local beauty Mina dies mysteriously, raising the suspicions of her father, Professor Van Helsing. Convinced of Count Dracula's evil, Van Helsing is horrified to discover his late daughter's friend Lucy has become involved with the sinister Count. But can Lucy be persuaded she is in danger, or is she too much in the thrall of her new found passion?

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Against a raw, unforgiving backdrop of parched desert and frozen mountains, MacConnachie (Robert Shaw) and Ansell (Malcom McDowell) run for their lives.

But even as they cross a seemingly endless expanse of open territory, the walls of their "cage" begin to close in as a relentless helicopter pilot stalks them in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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Jennifer Aniston leads an all-star cast in this hilarious crime comedy penned by legendary author Elmore Leonard. She plays pampered housewife Mickey, who is kidnapped by two petty crooks (John Hawkes) and who plan to extort a $1 million ransom from her wealthy husband (Tim Robbins).

A pretty solid plan save for the fact that he is having an affair with a voluptuous mistress (Isla Fisher) and doesn't want her back. As the crooks switch to plan B, a furious Mickey decides it's time get even!

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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.