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Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna) is a cop, he is devoted to the job and will do whatever it takes to get the job done. It's a world he knows all about until he picks up a routine investigation into the death of an elderly Jewish shopkeeper.

Working the case Bobby is soon confronting his own ancestry and discovering a whole New World of scholars, ancient languages and passionate fighters. Suddenly what seems to everyone else a simple case of murder becomes Gold's link to a conspiracy of death. While Gold's boss is counting on him to bring in the killer, the investigation leads Gold to believe Zionist vigilantes and anti-Jewish conspiracy is responsible. Soon his vision, his loyalties to his partner Sullivan (William H Macy) and his promise to do the 'job' are clouded by the choices of morality he must make.

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It is the near future and society is crumbling. John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a struggling labourer who drifts into town and makes a deadly discovery - society has been invaded by aliens from another dimension who are controlling the Earth through mind control.

Armed with only a submachine gun and a pair of special sunglasses, can Nada infiltrate the aliens' transmitting station and reveal their true forms?

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Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Rainey has plagiarised his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice.

When Shooter's fearful demands turn to threats - and then murder - Rainey turns to a private detective for help. But when nothing stops the horror from spiralling out of control, Rainey soon discovers he can't trust anyone or anything...

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For thirteen extroardinary days in October 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe.

Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that had threatened to end in apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. In Thirteen Days, the power and the peril of the American presidency is dramatically explored by director Roger Donaldson, who captures the urgency, suspense and paralysing chaos of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The alarming escalation of events during those fateful days brought to the fore such public figures as Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Acheson, Dean Rusk, and General Curtis LeMay. In addition, many others - politicians, diplomats and soldiers were on the front line of the showdown. In Thirteen Days, we see all of these people, and, above all, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, through the eyes of a trusted presidential aide and confidante, Kenneth P. O'Donnell (Kevin Costner).

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Small-town accountant Fank Bigelow (Edomond O'Brien) takes a week's vacation in San Francisco prior to settling down with his fiancee Paula. But a night on the tiles leaves Frank with more than just a hangover...

waking up he is informed by doctors that he has been injected with a mysterious toxin for which there is no known antidote. At the outside, Frank has no more than a week to live. With no clue as to who should do such a thing or why, Frank sets out on a desperate quest to unmask his own murderer...

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A dark and harrowing drama involving murder, suspense and plenty of seat-gripping experiences for the viewer! Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson), a homicide detective, undertakers one last case on the day of his retirement.

An eight-year-old girl has been found murdered in the snow-covered mountains of Mexico and her mother begs Black to unravel the mystery of her daughter's death. With the help of local waitress Lori (Robin Wright Penn) and her young daughter Chrissy (Pauline Roberts), Black embarks on an unpredictable and riveting hunt for the killer where things are not always as they seem. Sean Penn's unique portrayal of this murder mystery makes for sensational viewing.

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Sergeant Jonny Gallagher (Gene Hackman) thinks he's been given a routine assignment: to escort a rebellious American soldier (Tommy Lee Jones) from Europe to the U.S. for a military court martial.

Gallagher soon learns, however, that the assignment is anything but routine, when he uncovers a terrifying military conspiracy. The clock is ticking down to a historic superpower summit, and Gallagher must stop the deadly plot before it's too late... for him and his country.

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At thirty five, Ray's learned the tricks and done the time. Now he's a face - a villain to be reckoned with and definitely not to be crossed - ready for the blag, the big score that'll really set him and his team up.

But although the job goes smooth and sweet the take doesn't scratch the three million the gang had it figured for. And when somebody starts thieving from the thieves, and people start getting blown away, Ray's got some serious thinking to do before the traitor - or the law - gets to him next...

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Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) is a man on the brink of something big. He has designed a process that will make his company millions and him a very wealthy man.

Unnerved by a lack of commitment from his boss, a chance meeting with a weathly jetsetter, Dell (Steve Martin), causes him to further suspect the true intentions of his colleagues. But with such a money-spinning opportunity at stake, is there anyone he can trust? David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner is a film that will make you giddy with its disorientating unpredictability. Keep your eyes open and trust no-one...

Wall Street titan Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like A Perfect Murder. It isn't. In fact, little is what it seems in this sleek thriller.

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For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is the day for idiots. The principle is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot.

"A world champion idiot!" Francois Pignon, a lowly accountant at the finance ministry, a man who is devoted to his construction of models made of matchsticks. What Brochant doesn't know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of causing chaos...

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Leo (Albert Finney), a likeable Irish gangster boss, rules an Eastern city along with Tom (Gabriel Byrne), his trusted lieutenant and counsellor. But just as their authority is challenged by an Italian underboss and his ruthless henchman Leo and Tom also fall for the same woman (Marcia Gay Harden).

Tom, caught in the jaws of a gangland power struggle, walks a deadly tightrope as he tries to control and manipulate its violent outcome.

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On a cold, bright autumn day in Suffolk, England, a little girl in a red mackintosh drowns in a pond-the daughter of John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura Baxter (Julie Christie).

Trying to recover from the tragedy, the couple arrive in Venice, Italy, where John has been commissioned to restore a church. In the eerie atmosphere of the lagoon city in winter, they encounter two strange sisters. Laura is suddenly released from her grief when one of them, a blind psychic, tells her that she is in contact with her dead daughter. Angered and sceptical, John carries on with his work, but witnesses an unsettling vision of his own: a little girl in a red mackintosh disappearing into the Venetian alleys. As Venice and his fate close in on John, illusion, reality and sudden terror spiral the story to its grotesque climax.

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A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Lantna is an intriguing psychological thriller about love, infidelity and mistrust. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer and the attempts we make to fix things up.

Detective Leon Zat (Anthony La Paglia) moves through a dark labyrinth of human relationships on his journey to sove the mystery of a woman's disappearance.

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Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's 'City of God'. A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where police rarely go, and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.

This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be his only way out.