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When her best friend Elizabeth (Maggie Steed) goes missing, Maud (Glenda Jackson) is convinced something terrible has happened. But her search to find Elizabeth unearths an altogether darker unsolved mystery: her sister's disappearance, long buried in the recesses of her memory. Can Maud discover the fate of both missing women before her dementia erases the clues and the answers are lost to her forever? - Director:
- Aisling Walsh
- Cast:
- Glenda Jackson, Tony Atherton, Maggie Steed
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Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) is a hardworking armoured car driver with a fatal attraction to his ex-wife Anna (Yvonne DeCarlo), who's now married to notorious hoodlum Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). Unable to stay away from her, Steve has a secret tryst with Anna...only to be discovered by Dundee. To cover up their affair, Steve convinces Dundee that he only met with Anna to get Dundee's help in robbing an upcoming payroll shipment he will be driving. The hood falls for the ruse, which triggers a series of harrowing events that ultimately lead to violence and death. - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
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An artist and ceramist in Portland, Oregon is on the verge of an important show, but she's plagued with personal problems. Her neighbour-slash-landlady (a fellow or rival artist, as it happens) is failing to fix the hot water in her apartment. Her cat has almost killed a pigeon in their street and she feels obligated to look after the poor injured thing in a cardboard box, instead of working. Her mother (an administrator in the community arts centre where the artist works) is querulously estranged from her dad, who appears to have free loading house guests from Canada. And her bipolar brother, who also has artistic leanings is digging a huge hole in his back garden... - Director:
- Kelly Reichardt
- Cast:
- Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André Benjamin
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Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer (Mac) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son's life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brothers' secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger. - Director:
- Jamie Marsh
- Cast:
- Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson
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Witness in the City (1959)Un témoin dans la ville
Industrialist Pierre Verdier (Jacques Berthier) kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin (Françoise Brion) by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice. He waits for him in his house and hangs him. He leaves the place unseen, at least this is what he thinks. But unfortunately for him, Lambert (Franco Fabrizi), a taxi driver has witnessed him. Ancelin has no option but to get rid of him... - Director:
- Édouard Molinaro
- Cast:
- Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Franco Fabrizi
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La Vérité (1960)The Truth
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover (Sami Frey). As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, the Oscar-nominated 'La Vérité', directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique), delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of an impulsive young woman misunderstood and mistreated by those around her, and of her ultimately tragic affair with an up-and-coming conductor. With an astonishing performance by Bardot, Clouzot's affecting and intricately constructed film - a huge late-career success for the French master - renders a harsh verdict against a hypocritical and moralistic society. - Director:
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cast:
- Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Brigitte Bardot
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The Circus Tent (1978)Thampu
Aravindan's The Circus Tent poetically explores the ripples created by the arrival of a travelling circus in a remote Indian village. From their processional entrance through spellbinding performances to their final pack-down, circus life is captured in striking imagery. Cutting between skilled performers and wide-eyed spectators, the film encapsulates the sheer magic of ar encountered for the first time. Aravindan's lyrical masterpiece links the transience of the travelling troupe with the inevitable mortality of life. Once thought lost, now fully restored, the film will enrapture audiences anew. - Director:
- Govindan Aravindan
- Cast:
- Bharat Gopy, Jalaja, V.K. Sriraman
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Pinocchio (2022)Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realised through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker - which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature - daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means to be human through his experiences of war, death, and sacrifice. This 'Pinocchio' imbues the oft-told tale with a bold new resonance about living with courage and compassion. - Director:
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Cast:
- Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann
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The Night of the 12th (2022)La nuit du 12
Sooner or later, every police investigator comes across a case that remains unsolved and that haunts them. For Yohan (Bastien Bouillon), Clara's (Lula Cotton-Frapier)'s murder proves to be that case. What starts as a thorough investigation into the victim's life soon turns into a nagging obsession. One interrogation follows another, there is no shortage of suspects and Yohan has more and more doubts. Only one thing is sure, the crime occurred on the night of the 12th. - Director:
- Dominik Moll
- Cast:
- Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Théo Cholbi
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Western Approaches (1944)The Raider / Battle for the Atlantic: Greyhound vs Wolfpack - Western Approaches
The merchant seamen who helped bring in vital supplies to a Britain under siege during World War Two performed one of the most daring and dangerous tasks of the war. The battle of the Atlantic was merciless, and the Merchant Navy lost more men than any of the British armed forces. In 1944, the Crown Film Unit set out to document the bravery of the merchant seamen and expose the harsh dangers faced by making 'Western Approaches'. Generally regarded as one of the best British documentaries of the war, the film uses merchant seamen to re-enact their roles for the cameras and was shot in colour - unlike many films of the same era. The storyline was both realistic and dramatic. Trying to run the gauntlet of U.Boat Wolf Packs on its way home from America to Britain, a merchant ship is torpedoed and sunk. The survivors take to a lifeboat and await rescue - unaware that the U-Boat which sank them is still lurking in the area, just waiting for the rescue boat to turn up... - Director:
- Pat Jackson
- Cast:
- Eric Fullerton, Duncan MacKenzie, W. Kerr
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Raw Deal (1948)Corkscrew Alley
Dennis O'Keefe plays Joe Sullivan who is serving time for a robbery, having taken the rap for sadistic pyromaniacal gang boss Rick Coyle (Raymond Burr) who owes him if he gets out and lives to collect, Joe escapes Coyle's fatal trap and with the help of his moll/partner Pat (Claire Trevor) goes gunning for Coyle and his henchmen. Along the way Pat and Joe kidnap Joe's moralistic social worker Ann (Marsha Hunt) who has been trying to reform Joe. the film involves the complex emotional interactions within this odd menage a trios leading to the inevitable encounter with Coyle. Joe has to answer the question is he a tough heartless criminal or is there a heart of gold under that gritty exterior. - Director:
- Anthony Mann
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- Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)Yin shi nan nu
Director Ang Lee's follow-up to his surprise box-office hit 'The Wedding Banquet', and nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Foreign Film, "Eat Drink Man Woman" is an unrivalled bitter sweet comedy about food, the senses and gender politics in modern China. Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters; Jia-Jen, an unmarried chemistry teacher cynical about men; Jia-Chien, who has ambitions to become a great chef in a male dominated world and Jia-Ning, a sexually expressive college student who falls pregnant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, lovingly cooked by Chef Chu but may be all too traditional for the next generation of the family. As each meal passes the relationships between the daughters and the family as a whole evolve and change in many unexpected ways. - Director:
- Ang Lee
- Cast:
- Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu
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Screen legends Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in this timeless, heart-warming Christmas classic that can be enjoyed any time of year! Lee Leander (Stanwyck) is a pretty shoplifter on trial for swiping an expensive bracelet from a local jewellery store. When her trial is postponed until after New Year, the sympathetic Assistant District Attorney John Sargent (MacMurray) bails her out of jail. When he invites her to his family's home for the holidays, she discovers the warmth and love she's never had but always wanted. Featuring a wonderful supporting cast of Beulah Bondi, Sterling Holloway and Elizabeth Patterson, plus a charming script by Preston Sturges and superb direction by Mitchell Leisen, 'Remember the Night' is a not to be missed classic. - Director:
- Mitchell Leisen
- Cast:
- Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
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Ennio (2021)The Glance of Music / Ennio: The Maestro
From Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso), 'Ennio' celebrates the life and legacy of the legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who passed away on 6 July 2020. Through interviews with directors, screenwriters, musicians, songwriters, critics and collaborators, Tornatore's documentary retraces the life and works of the cinema's most popular and prolific 20th century composer - who wrote over 500 scores for film and television and sold over 70 million records - from his cinema debut with Sergio Leone, to winning an Academy Award for 'The Hateful Eight' in 2016. - Director:
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Cast:
- Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, John Williams
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Pushing Hands (1992)Tui Shou
Ang Lee's directorial debut established him as a world-class filmmaker and truly unique talent. "Pushing Hands" is a deeply moving and funny examination of Chinese respect for their elders and the cultural differences between the East and the West. Mr. Chu is an elderly man who has devoted himself to a lifetime of study and teaching Tai Chi but in old age wishes a closer relationship with his family and so decides to leave his native Beijing to live with his son Alex (Bo Z. Wang), and his frustrated writer wife Alex (Deb Snyder) in New York. Adapting to a new culture, bonding with his new wider American family and adjusting to his dwindling independence in old age, Chu soon discovers there is still much to learn. - Director:
- Ang Lee
- Cast:
- Bozhao Wang, Sihung Lung, Lai Wang
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