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The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)The Mask of Fu Manchu
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames. - Director:
- Don Sharp
- Cast:
- Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Joachim Fuchsberger
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Le Doulos (1963)Doulos: The Finger Man
After serial burglar Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani) is released from his latest stint behind bars, he quickly returns to his criminal ways and plans a robbery with Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Rémy (Philippe Nahon). After murdering an old associate in retaliation for the killing of his former girlfriend, Maurice becomes racked with suspicion and distrust of everyone around him amid rumours that Silien has become a police informant. When Maurice and Rémy carry out a robbery of their own, the police quickly close in on them and Maurice begins to unravel the deadly web of deceit that has formed around him. - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
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Quatermass 2 (1957)Enemy from Space
Strange metallic meteorites rain down over Winnerden Flats, an eerie new town in the vicinity of a highly guarded chemical plant. Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) is intrigued to discover that contact with the meteorites causes an unusual infection, and is astonished to find that the chemical plant appears to be modelled after his own design for a moonbase - a design that enables life to thrive in an artificial atmosphere. Ouatermass's investigation uncovers a sinister conspiracy that extends from government level to the zombie-like workers who will stop at nothing to protect the plant. It soon becomes clear that they have all been enslaved by alien creatures who are using Winnerden Flats as the launching point for an invasion of Earth... - Director:
- Val Guest
- Cast:
- Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James
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Ocean's 11 (1960)Ocean's Eleven
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin, cards snap, slots chime, champagne fizzes, shows go on...and the lights go out. It's the perfect time to steal a hiss or a $25 chip. But tor Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) and 10 partners in crime, it's the ideal moment to steal millions. Sinatra and off-screen pals Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop and more play army buddies who scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig live big casino vaults and raid them all at the same instant. Packed with location-lensed glamour, sweaty suspense, swinging comedy and a stunning twist ending... - Director:
- Lewis Milestone
- Cast:
- Frank Sinatra, Richard Boone, Dean Martin
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At the dawn of the space age the British Rocket Group launches three astronauts on an experimental mission. Their ship, Quatermass 1, loses radio contact with Earth and later crash-lands. Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) is one of the first on the scene, and is intrigued to discover that two of the crew are no longer aboard. It soon becomes clear that the mission's sole survivor, Victor Carroon (Richard Wordsworth), is desperately ill. Carroon is rapidly consumed by the parasitic alien organism that killed his fellow astronauts. He embarks on a murderous rampage, powerless to prevent his ultimate, horrifying transformation... - Director:
- Val Guest
- Cast:
- Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean
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Recently orphaned Mary Yellan (Maureen O'Hara in her first major film role) arrives at Jamaica Inn from Ireland to live with her aunt. Unaware that it serves as the headquarters for a murderous gang responsible for shipwrecks along the Cornish coast, she soon finds herself embroiled in backstabbing, conspiracy and villainy presided over by the local squire, Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton). - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton
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Feature draws upon the narration of the surviving shipmate of a terrible tragedy to tell the classic tale of Captain Ahab's (Gregory Peck) obsessive hunt for the great white whale that has dictated his destiny ever since leaving him a peg-legged cripple. In a perilous journey that will take Ahab and his crew to the ends of the earth, no sacrifice is too great in Ahab's thirst for bloody revenge. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn
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Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son (Owen Wilson), a beautiful journalist (Cate Blanchett) assigned to write a profile of Zissou, and his estranged wife and co-producer, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston). They face overwhelming complications including pirates, kidnapping, and bankruptcy. - Director:
- Wes Anderson
- Cast:
- Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston
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An all-star cast - including George Segal, Robert Vaughan, Ben Gazzara and E.G. Marshall - brings all the glory and agony of war to stunning life in this intense and exhilarating, but uniquely human look at a struggle widely regarded as the most strategic coup of World War II. Excellent special effects, spectacular photography and fine action sequences put you on the front lines of the battle, and with the courageous soldiers who fought it. 1945: The Allies are making their final advance into German territory and only one strategic bridge on the Rhine river remains in Nazi hands. Both sides have much to gain, the Germans, the lives of 50,000 soldiers stationed on the wrong side of the bridge, and the Allies, a quicker end to the war with fewer lives lost. Though both armies would fight valiantly, only one could win the heart-rending battle for The Bridge at Remagen. - Director:
- John Guillermin
- Cast:
- George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara
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Two-Way Stretch (1960)Two Way Stretch
While in prison, Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) has planned the perfect robbery. He intends to break out, steal a fortune in diamonds, and then break back into prison without anyone noticing he has been absent. With only a few days left of his sentence, and a perfect alibi - what could possibly go wrong? - Director:
- Robert Day
- Cast:
- Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins
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Diabolique (1955)Les Diaboliques
A tyrant schoolteacher - Delasalle (Paul Meurisse) in a seedy boarding school has both his wife (Vera Clouzot) and his mistress (Simone Signoret) looking for a way out as he maltreats them both. They decide to work together to murder their tormentor. The two women drown Delasalle in the bath then dump the body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained and no body found they start to worry. When his suit is returned, cleaned, they start to panic. Is he alive? Does someone else know? A spiral of perfectly crafted tension hurtles you to an unparalleled conclusion and an ending you will never forget! - Director:
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cast:
- Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
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Whilst working on a top-secret missile project, research scientist David Garret (Ian Carmichael) runs into an old friend from behind the Iron Curtain, who is now a world chess champion. Believing his friend to be in dire trouble, the hapless professor of astronomy tries to help but ends up finding himself on the run with beautiful girl! - Director:
- Cy Endfield
- Cast:
- Ian Carmichael, Curd Jürgens, Janet Munro
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Bob the Gambler (1956)Bob Le Flambeur
In Melville's self-confessed 'love letter to Paris', the world-weary hero weaves his way through a stylised Parisian underworld, a failed gambler wearing a trench coat and a gentleman's code of honor. His pursuit of the ultimate heist takes him on a journey from the Sacre Coeur to Montmartre and Pigalle. Encountering betrayal, secrets and a dangerously seductive young girl, Bob Le Flambeur seeks to carry out his one final crime, despite warnings from L'inspecteur, his loyal friend yet adversary. - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast:
- Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy
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For five years the mid-European village of Vandorf has been plagued by a series of bizarre murders. Victims are discovered after a full moon, each turned to stone. Dr. Namaroff (Peter Cushing) and his nurse Carla Hoffmann (Barbara Shelley) receive the petrified corpses at the local hospital, where Namaroff controversially concludes that they died of natural causes. Paul Heitz (Richard Pasco) and Professor Meister (Christopher Lee) instead believe that the deaths are the work of Megaera - the mythical Gorgon with a head of writhing snakes. As the next full moon approaches, Meister further suspects that Megaera's spirit has been in their midst all along. - Director:
- Terence Fisher
- Cast:
- Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco
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Baba Yaga (1973)Baba Yaga: The Devil Witch
Beautiful Valentina (Isabelle De Funès) is a famous trendy photographer, one night she's nearly run over by an enigmatic older woman, Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker), who it turns out is not only the devil witch... but a sapphic predatory witch who must possess her! Pursued by the sensuous seduction of a now obsessed Baba Yaga, Valentina must either submit to her carnal S&M lust or escape what appears to have become a waking nightmare of perverted realities! - Director:
- Corrado Farina
- Cast:
- Carroll Baker, Ian Danby, George Eastman
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