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At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard (Richard Burton) rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control. - Director:
- Anthony Page
- Cast:
- Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)Dora the Explorer
Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora (Isabela Merced / Isabela Moner) for her biggest challenge yet - High School. When her parents mysteriously disappear while searching for the Lost City of Gold, Dora must swing into action and lead a group of ill-equipped high schoolers on a wild quest to save them. Hold on for a high-stakes mission as Dora and her new friends navigate the jungle, outrun treasure hunters, and solve ancient puzzles to unlock the mystery of the fabled city. - Director:
- James Bobin
- Cast:
- Danny Trejo, Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez
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Green for Danger (1946)The Mad Killer
At the height of the 1944 Doodlebug offensive, a local postman is brought to an emergency hospital near London. His wounds aren't severe but he mysteriously dies on the operating table. The theatre sister, one of six hospital staff in attendance, stumbles across evidence that the man was murdered... but she is stabbed to death before she can tell the police what she knows. Called in from Scotland Yard to investigate the crime, Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim) finds that each of the remaining suspects has an excellent motive for committing both murders. By staging a mock operation, with the five suspects in attendance, he reconstructs the circumstances of the postman's death and dramatically unmasks the killer... - Director:
- Sidney Gilliat
- Cast:
- Hattie Jacques, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray
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Inspired by the real-life exploits of New York cop Eddie Egan, 'Badge 373' is a tough detective thriller, comparable to William Friedkin's more celebrated feature. Duvall delivers a powerfully authentic performance as a brutal New York detective, ruthlessly hunting for the killer of his partner against a backdrop of social upheaval and violent gang wars. - Director:
- Howard W. Koch
- Cast:
- Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow
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Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen head up an all-star cast in this wild and zany chapter from the swinging sixties. Michael James (O'Toole), the feature editor of Paris' hottest fashion magazine, finds himself surrounded by beautiful women with troublesome promiscuous tendencies. In an attempt to straighten out his complex love life, he confides in Dr. Fritz Fassbender (Sellers). Unfortunately the doctor is crazier than his patients and entangles them on a roller-coaster ride of lunacy and romance! Woody Allen's debut script is a masterpiece, brimming with witty satire, slapstick and good old-fashioned sex appeal. - Director:
- Clive Donner
- Cast:
- Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider
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When there is an assassination attempt on U.S. President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the President. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm and save the country from imminent danger. - Director:
- Ric Roman Waugh
- Cast:
- Gerard Butler, Frederick Schmidt, Danny Huston
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Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a Russian cop sent to Chicago to extradite a Russian drug-dealer named Viktor Rostavili (Ed O'Ross), wanted for murder back in the USSR. When Danko and his prisoner are ambushed by Viktor's gangland friends the Russian escapes, and a veteran police officer is killed. His partner Ridzik (James Belushi), who like Danko now has a personal vendetta against Rostavili, joins forces with the Soviet cop to hunt down the escapee and his gunmen. - Director:
- Walter Hill
- Cast:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle
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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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The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S. submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction. Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news: the cloud is lethal. With the days and hours dwindling, each person confronts the grim situation in his or her own way as the final chapter of human history is coming to a close... - Director:
- Stanley Kramer
- Cast:
- Gregory Peck, Delos Jewkes, Ava Gardner
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When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter Annie (Toni Colette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and their two children begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. - Director:
- Ari Aster
- Cast:
- Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Toni Collette
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)Avengers 4
The fourth instalment of the 'Avengers' series is the once-in-a-lifetime culmination of 22 interconnected films and the climax of an epic journey. Earth's, heroes will finally understand how fragile our reality is - and the sacrifices that must be made to uphold it - in a story of friendship, teamwork and setting aside differences to overcome an impossible obstacle. - Director:
- Anthony Russo
- Cast:
- Robert Downey Jr., Taika Waititi, Chris Evans
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Lady Frankenstein (1971)La figlia di Frankenstein
It's monster a-go-go up at the castle when Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten) and his laboratory assistant, Dr. Charles Marshall (Paul Muller), stitch together a creature using body parts supplied by shifty local grave robbers. When they rashly insert a killer's damaged brain into the monstrosity's skull and bring it to life, it crushes the Baron to death and goes on the rampage. Tania (Rosalba Neri), Frankenstein's glamorous daughter, teams up with Charles to continue her father's crackpot experiments. The two fall in love and transplant the aging lab assistant's cerebrum into the body of a hunky servant. Meanwhile, the first monster stalks the countryside, seeking bloody revenge on the bodysnatchers who exhumed the raw materials for its miscreation. It eventually goes after Charles and Tania, but will its brute strength triumph against the seductive wiles of lusty Lady Frankenstein? - Director:
- Mel Welles
- Cast:
- Joseph Cotten, Linda Gary, Mel Welles
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In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami…wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana (Al Pacino). The world will remember him by another name…Scarface. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Michelle Pfeiffer
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Claire Denis' first English-language feature sees a group of convicts assigned to a difficult space mission with the belief they will be freed if they are successful. The film follows Monte (Robert Pattinson), one of the convicts aboard the mission a few years after its launch as he raises his daughter in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards it's final destination... - Director:
- Claire Denis
- Cast:
- Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
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"The Secret Life of Pets 2" continues the story of Max (voice of Patton Oswalt), Gidget (voice of Jenny Slate), Snowball (voice of Kevin Hart) and the rest of the gang as they take on new adventures and are pushed to find the courage to become their own heroes. Explore the emotional lives of our pets - the deep bond between them, the families that love them - and find out what your pets are really doing when you're not at home. - Director:
- Chris Renaud
- Cast:
- Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford
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