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Augusto (Broderick Crawford), Picasso (Richard Basehart) and Roberto (Franco Fabrizi) are small-time conmen who play elaborate tricks on the poor and the credulous.

But their cruelty and lack of morality is tested when Augusto is reunited with his estranged daughter and Picasso is faced with his loving wife's disapproving patience. Featuring excellent performances from Crawford, Basehart and Giulietta Masina against a colourful backdrop of sharply observed characters this sincere social drama is by turns comic, bitter and tragic.

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Jean (Jean Gabin), a deserter, arrives in Le Havre and looks for a shelter before leaving the French territory. Housed in a shed on the harbour, at the end of the docks, he meets an eccentric painter and a mysterious and beautiful girl called Nelly (Michèle Morgan)...

From then on he will be trapped in a tragic destiny, in spite of his passion for Nelly and his will to live...

Trained killer or talented artist... Jimbuck is both! A professional hitman is hired to kill a brain surgeon. However, it turns out that not only are he and the surgeon old friends, but they are both in love with the same woman...

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Patrice Chereau's gripping and intimate drama, adapted from Joseph Conrad's novella "The Return", charts the sudden unravelling of a bourgeois married couple's perfectly ordered lives.

Pascal Greggory plays the affluent and successful Jean Hervey, whose world is shattered when he arrives home to find a letter from his wife Gabrielle (Isabelle Huppert) in which she confesses to an affair and announces she has left him. But when a remorseful Gabrielle unexpectedly returns, the scene is set for a confrontation fraught with anger, bitterness and revelation that will seal the couple's fate forever. Atmospherically recreating Belle Epoque Paris in visually stunning style and featuring two exceptional lead performances, "Gabrielle" is an extraordinarily intense and unrelentingly emotional study of a relationship in crisis.

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Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson) is a talented young ballerina. One summer, while staying with her uncle, she meets and falls in love with Henrik (Birger Malmsten), a wealthy college boy. Soon they begin spending their days together and become totally consumed with one another.

But, as the summer begins to die and autumn draws in, Marie becomes troubled and is overcome with a deep feeling of unease. Then, on the morning of one of their last few days together, Henrik makes a shallow dive and suffers fatal head and back injuries. Years later, Marie becomes a prima ballerina, but her success is dulled by the pain and devastation she still feels at the loss of her first true love. Soon, a new relationship and the discovery of an old diary will awaken old memories and force her to re-examine her past.

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Written by Bunuel and his regular writing partner Jean-Claude Carriere, the film charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes to work in the Normandy estate occupied by Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter (Francoise Lugagne), and the daughter's husband, the right

wing Monsieur Montiel (Michel Piccoli). Celestine quickly learns that M. Rabour is a more or less harmless boot fetishist, his daughter a frigid woman more concerned with the family furnishings than in returning the affections of her husband, who, in turn, can't keep his hands off the servants. Celestine picks her way through this minefield carefully, spurning the advances of all of the men until it's convenient for her.

Ten dollars a pound is the going rate for freight, so charter pilot Steve Collins figures he's owed $1,150, cash on delivery. His cargo is Joan Winfield, an heiress whose elopement with a musician is kiboshed when Steve kidnaps her so he can fly her to her irate papa. But then Joan finds a parachute.

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Set in a five-story guesthouse in the middle of a Parisian working class neighbourhood, "Daybreak" opens on the top floor of the building with shouts and a gunshot. A door opens and the body of a man tumbles down the stairs.

As the police start to besiege the building and a crowd gathers, the killer, Francois (Jean Gabin), flees the crime scene and locks himself in his room. After failing to shoot their way into his room the police climb on top of the roof, and Francois, starts to recall previous events... His love for Frangoise (Jacqueline Laurent), the beautiful florist, and her love for Valentin (Jules Berry), the attractive dog trainer. Also starring the renowned Arletty as Clara, Valentin's assistant and suggested lover.

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Set in rural Japan in 1895, a housewife, Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) has a torrid affair with a younger man, Toyoji (Tatsuya Fiji), a soldier recently returned from the first Chinese war.

Following a passionate encounter when Toyoji shaves Seki's pubic hair, the couple decide that Seki's elderly husband Gisaburo (Takahiro Tamura) must die rather than discover their sordid secret. Having committed the murder and disposed of the body, then explain his absence by claiming that Gisaburo has departed for Tokyo to find work. Three years after his death, Gisaburo's ghost starts appearing to the lovers and other villagers. The threat of discovery and retribution heightens the murderers' guilty desperation and, perversely, their illicit passion.

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12-year-old Peejoe is about to get a fast education from his glamourous (yet eccentric) Aunt Lucille (Melanie Griffith).

Hell bent on pursuing her dreams of TV stardom, Lucille has got rid of her abusive husband in a most unusual way f leaving Peejoe with a lot of questions, and one explosive secret. Accompanied by only her hatbox and its mysterious contents, Lucille embarks on an hilarious journey across the country intent on finding fame and fortune in Hollywood, while Peejoe is left behind in Alabama. Trying to steer clear of the Sheriff (Meat Loaf), he learns which secrets to keep - and which to tell.

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"It was an evil house from the beginning, a house that was born bad". The place is the 90-year-old mansion called Hill House. No one lives there. Or so it seems. But please do come in. Because even if you don't believe in ghosts, there's no denying the terror of 'The Haunting'.

Robert Wise returned to psychological horror for this much admired, first screen adaptation of Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House'. Four people come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Or has the house drawn at least one of them to it?

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In 1962, Kenichi Horie (Yujiro Ishihara) embarks on a heroic attempt to sail single-handed across the Pacific Ocean.

Leaving Osaka in an ill-prepared vessel - The Mermaid - the young adventurer must overcome the most savage of seas, the psychological torment of cabin fever, and his mental and physical breaking point, if he is ever to reach the fabled destination of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Using Horie's best-selling logbook as his source, Ichikawa portrays the epic struggle of man against nature. 'Scope cinematography - with Horie isolated in the oceanic expanse of the frame - and a score by celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu, add to the drama of a film for which Ichikawa received a Golden Globe nomination, among other accolades. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Alone Across the Pacific for home viewing in the UK for the very first time.

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In 19th century France, a crazed former soldier (Michel Galabru) embarks on a killing spree across the country.

His crimes spark a frantic manhunt, and he soon becomes the prey of an ambitious and ruthless judge (Philippe Noiret), who is aware that he will gain political advantage if he masterminds the capture and execution of the killer. Driven by his thirst for success, the judge is loathe to allow the fact of the assassin's insanity stand in the way of a conviction, and so the lines of justice become blurred, in this gripping tale of hunter and hunted.

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Four card players meet in a bar every night. The Journalist - Daniel Auteuil, The Doctor - Richard Bohringer, The Tradesman - Philippe Leotard and The Professor - Claude Pieplu. The bar is run by The Brothel Keeper - (Jeanne Moreau) and is frequented by working girl Lotte (Fanny Ardent).

Michel Piccoli is the downtrodden barman Le Paltoquet. When there is a murder in a nearby hotel they all become suspects, but which one is a killer? The Inspector (Jean Yanne) casts his expert eye over the assembled suspects. Who could it be?

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Los Angeles has a discreet community of glamorous, sophisticated and hip vampires. Bacchanals of blood and sex are confined to private underground clubs. Anonymity is compromised by Nico, a bloodsucking seductress gaining notoriety as the 'Hollywood Slasher'.

Dallas valiantly tries to reform and save her. When crusty old Frederick Van Helsing unwittingly hires inner city gangbangers as his vampire hunting assistants, an outrageous juxtaposition of characters and cultures is set into action packed motion.