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Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) won't graduate if they don't do well in their history presentation. This would be both bogus and uncool! A dude called Rufus from the future appears in the nick of time, providing a time-travelling phone booth, as their lives are important to the future of mankind! The two jump in and out of different eras, collecting historical figures (from Socrates to Billy the Kid), confronting them with West Coast culture and generally being excellent! - Director:
- Stephen Herek
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
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Clue (1985)Clue: The Movie
Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous 'Clue' board game. And now, you can see all 3 surprise endings! Was it Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull) in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren) in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth (Tim Curry) the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things. You'll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Featuring all three surprise endings!! - Director:
- Jonathan Lynn
- Cast:
- Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn
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A Korean War veteran in search of his father travels across 1950's Jim Crow America with his childhood friend and uncle in the wildly original HBO series 'Lovecraft Country'. Their journey soon becomes a struggle to survive as they battle racist terrors and monsters that could be ripped from an H.P. Lovecraft paperback. Chock-full of pulpy, edge-of-your-seat action, each episode melds mystery, horror and sci-fi while raking viewers to a new place in time and space. - Director:
- Daniel Sackheim
- Cast:
- Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Courtney B. Vance
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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters. From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all. - Director:
- Armando Iannucci
- Cast:
- Dev Patel, James Daniel Wilson, Hugh Laurie
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This season, Red John strikes into the heart of the CBI. Ever since the serial killer murdered Patrick Jane's family, the California Bureau of Investigation consultant and former faux-psychic has become obsessed with finding the man who destroyed his life. But after a homicide suspect is set ablaze in his jail cell and a CBI agent is later framed as Red John, Patrick realizes his adversary is closer than he imagined. - Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
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Naked Lunch (1991)David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
Former junkie William Lee (Peter Weller) makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan (Judy Davis) discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever. Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems. When Bill, underthe influence of drugs, or the bugsthat have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
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California Bureau of Investigation consultant Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) has a blatant lack of protocol but is self-assured and driven. The former "psychic" uses his talent for seeing the clues everyone else misses to solve the most baffling crimes. But there's more than crime that makes this season a must-see: Lisbon and Cho reveal hints about their troubled pasts. Violence fells one CBI boss, and the new boss seems more interested in authority than teamwork. And as the Van Pelt-Rigsby relationship heats up, it threatens to cool down their careers. - Director:
- Bruno Heller
- Cast:
- Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
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Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. Kicked out of his band, Bill leaves his despairing wife and kids behind in Stratford to seek fame and fortune in London. He's written a great work for the stage and he'll prove all the doubters wrong. In Madrid, King Philip II of Spain has hatched his latest plan to rid the world of his mortal enemy, Queen Elizabeth, and seize the English throne for himself. Sneaking into England with a motley crew of assassins, Philip fools desperate courtier the Earl of Croydon into helping with his devilish plot. Aided by debt-riddled London playwright, Christopher Marlowe, Bill believes his big break has come when the Earl Of Croydon offers to put on his play for Queen Elizabeth. Little does he know that King Philip is using Shakespeare's first work as the centrepiece in his plan to assassinate the Queen. - Director:
- Richard Bracewell
- Cast:
- Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas
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Fall in love with Adam, the delightful, romantic story about two strangers in search of an extraordinary connection. Hugh Dancy delivers an unforgettable performance as a brilliant, yet awkward, astronomy buff, who is drawn out of his sheltered existence by his beautiful and outgoing new neighbour, Beth (Rose Byrne). But can true love survive when two very different worlds collide? - Director:
- Max Mayer
- Cast:
- Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher
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Adapted from Deborah Harkness' best-selling trilogy of novels, 'A Discovery of Witches' is a bold and romantic thriller that uncovers a secret underworld of extraordinary beings hiding in plain sight for fear of persecution by humans - they are vampires, witches and daemons. Brilliant historian Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer) is a witch denying her own heritage. But when she unexpectedly calls up an ancient, bewitched manuscript from Oxford's Bodleian Library, one that was thought by the creatures to be lost and could answer the mysteries of their existence, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a dangerous mystery - and into the path of the enigmatic geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode). Matthew is driven to solve the looming threat of the creatures' decline and extinction, but their unlikely alliance to find the book before it falls into the wrong hands - and their deepening relationship - threatens to violate age-old taboos and shake the fragile peace that exists between the species. - Director:
- Sarah Walker
- Cast:
- Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer, Valarie Pettiford
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A mentalist is a master manipulator of thought and behavior. The Mentalist is Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), a celebrity psychic whose wife and child are viciously murdered by an elusive serial killer called Red John. Devastated, Patrick admits his paranormal act is fake, renounces his earlier life and uses his astonishing skills of observation and analysis - talents that made him appear psychically gifted - to bring killers to justice. At crime scenes across California, Patrick now helps an elite team of detectives break their toughest cases. But no matter how many criminals he catches, Patrick never forgets his central goal: Find Red John. And bring him down. - Director:
- Bruno Heller
- Cast:
- Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang
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Alex (Alan Rickman), a tight-lipped Englishman recently freed from prison, is driving through Ontario when he begrudgingly picks up the vivacious teenage hitchhiker Vivienne (Emily Hampshire). On the outskirts of her hometown, a truck hits the car. Vivienne dies instantly and Alex finds himself, for the second time in his life, grieving for someone he never knew. Devastated by the accident, Alex goes to the frozen backwater of Wawa, Ontario to visit Vivienne's mother Linda (Sigourney Weaver). There, he discovers that she is autistic with an unconventional take on life and mourning. Drawn in to the small frozen backwater community, Alex soon forms a close relationship wish Linda, begins an affair with her sassy neighbour Maggie (Carrie-Anne Moss), and becomes the object of scrutiny by the ineffectual local law enforcement officer Clyde (James Allodi). As the funeral approaches, life in Wawa seems to have enabled Alex to face the present, but how will he cope when the dark secrets of his past finally emerge? - Director:
- Marc Evans
- Cast:
- Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss
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In this swashbuckling comic farce, star Danny Kaye plays kind-hearted entertainer Hawkins who disguises himself as the legendary king of jesters, Giacomo (John Carradine). Hawkins infiltrates the court of the evil villain Basil Rathbone, but when a sorceress hypnotises him, royal chaos ensues. Giacomo now believes he is also an infamous assassin, and alternates between his identities at the snap of a finger. Between swordplay and wordplay, Danny Kaye displays his fancy footwork....and his comic genius. With a stellar supporting cast, including Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury and Mildred Natwick, Kaye sings and dances among dueling knights and damsels in distress. Through it all, this jester proves he's one of the original kings of comedy. - Director:
- Melvin Frank
- Cast:
- Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone
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When a murder shocks 1938 Los Angeles, Detective Tiago Vega (Daniel Zovatto) and his partner Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane) pursue the case during a historic period of great change: from the construction of the city's freeways to the infiltration of Third Reich spies and the rise of radio evangelism. Set against the city's deep traditions of Mexican-American folklore, these powerful forces soon threaten Tiago and everyone he holds dear. Also starring Natalie Dormer and Academy Awardr nominee Adriana Barraza, 'Penny Dreadful: City of Angels' takes you into the darkest shadows of Hollywood's Golden Age. - Director:
- Paco Cabezas
- Cast:
- Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé
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Omnipotent aliens arrive to save humanity from self-destruction. Under their benign gaze, war, famine and injustice become things of the past. But a small group of people are beginning to question whether this "Golden Age of Man" comes at a secret and terrible price. And when the Supervisor for Earth, Karellen, finally reveals his true form to the world, the sight is as profound as it is disturbing. - Director:
- Nick Hurran
- Cast:
- Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Betts
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