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When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, more than one million people were killed in less than a year. Anwar and his friends were promoted from ticket scalpers to death squad leaders, and Anwar killed hundreds of people with his own hands. In 'The Act of Killing', Anwar and his friends agree to tell us the story of the killings. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims. 'The Act of Killing' is a nightmarish vision - a journey into the memories and imaginations of the unrepentant perpetrators and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. - Director:
- Joshua Oppenheimer
- Cast:
- Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin
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Tyrone Power and Betty Grable are captivating in this romantic WWII drama. When slick, money-motivated pilot Tim Baker (Tyrone Power) takes a high-paying job ferrying bombers across the Atlantic, he meets up with Carol (Betty Grable), an old flame who sparks enough new heat that Baker joins England's R.A.F. just to be near her. But Carol is also pursued by another pilot-Baker's superior officer! And when Baker must begin flying bombing missions, life suddenly takes on far more meaning than ever before. Featuring actual aerial combat footage and Grable's classic musical numbers, 'A Yank in the R.A.F.' is an engagingly dramatic love story. - Director:
- Henry King
- Cast:
- Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton
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Henry V (1944)The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Henry V is one of Shakespeare's most compelling historical plays. In this impressive Technicolor film, Henry sets out to press his claim to the Crown of France. His small expedition encounters vastly superior French forces at Agincourt, and there Henry delivers his famous exhortation to the soldiers. His army victorious, the King visits the French Court where he meets and marries Catherine of Valois, thereby establishing the beginning of a promising alliance with France. - Director:
- Laurence Olivier
- Cast:
- Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks
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Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments and relationships. His well-ordered life undergoes a profound change, however, when his brother Conrad (Sean Penn) gives him an unexpected birthday gift that soon has devastating consequences. There are no rules in The Game. - Director:
- David Fincher
- Cast:
- Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn
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Call of the Wild (1972)Harry Alan Towers
The immortal Jack London classic tale about John Thronton (Charlton Heston) a prospector in the 1987 Klondyke gold rush trying to eke out a living in the harsh conditions of the bitterly cold Yukon region of Alaska, and buck the German Shepherd dog he befriends. Thornton struggles against unscrupulous rivals and natural hazards in the extreme conditions and is greatly helped by buck who has his own story to tell: he was abducted from a family home and taken north to become a working sled dog. Man and dog forge a true bond of friendship, working together to survive life in the treacherous frozen North. - Director:
- Ken Annakin
- Cast:
- Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf
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Alan Ladd plays the titular gunslinger, the archetypal "man alone" who wanders into town and shortly afterward becomes embroiled in a conflict between a group of Wyoming homesteaders and the nefarious cattle baron who has designs to wrest away their land. As the conflict escalates, and a romance develops between Shane and homesteader Marian Starrett (Jean Arthur, in her last screen role), a who's-who of studio system character talent revolves through the production - Van Heflin, Jack Palance, Elisha Cook, Jr. - before one of cinema's most famous, unforgettable endings. - Director:
- George Stevens
- Cast:
- George Stevens, Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur
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Director/co-writer Michael Mann's 'The Last of the Mohicans' is a soaring story of transcendent love, an authentically detailed recreation of a turbulent era in U.S. colonial history and an exciting saga of flintlocks-and-tomahawks warfare. Daniel Day-Lewis (as Hawkeye) and Madeleine Stowe (as British transplant Cora) are lovers caught up in the tumult of the French and Indian War in this 1992 Academy Award winner set to a rapturous score by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman. The tale itself is a personal touchstone for Mann: the 1936 screen version was the first movie he recalls seeing as a child. It's hard not to detect a sense of boyhood wonder in Hawkeye's outsized heroics. Here, Mann augments that with a bravura style and sweep that shows why he's one of today's most electrifying moviemakers. - Director:
- Michael Mann
- Cast:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
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Set among Brooklyn tenements circa 1912, 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' is a portrait of the Nolans, an Irish-American family living in financially challenging circumstances, often made worse by father Johnny's (James Dunn)'s drinking and employment problems. But matriarch Katie (Dorothy McGuire) keeps the family together during all of the obstacles, caring for son Neeley (Ted Donaldson) and daughter Francie (Peggy Ann Garner), as well as Katie's outspoken, oft-married sister Sissy (Joan Blondell). But just as Francie's gift for writing opens up new avenues, more tragic developments test the family's resolve. - Director:
- Elia Kazan
- Cast:
- Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn
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A Town Like Alice (1956)The Rape of Malaya
Jean Paget (Virginia McKenna), an English woman taken prisoner by the Japanese, is among a group of women and children forced to trek through Malaya during the occupation. During her ordeal she meets captive Australian Joe Harman (Peter Finch) and there is an instant magnetism between them; as they talk, Jean learns about Joe's hometown of Alice Springs, and his hope of returning there one day. To relieve the suffering of the women and children, Joe steals some chickens from the sadistic Captain Sugaya (Tran Van Khe), but when he is caught Sugaya orders Joe to be executed in front of Jean and the others... - Director:
- Jack Lee
- Cast:
- Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takaki
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Unheroic yet elegiac, tragic yet uplifting, devastating yet deeply moving. Featuring gripping action on a scale unattainable by conventional war movies, Stuart Cooper's award-winning 'Overlord' is unlike any war film you have ever seen. This powerful and passionate film follows the journey of an ordinary young English soldier, Private Beadows, from his swift, dramatic induction into the army toward his inexorable destiny upon the hell-ravaged beaches at Normandy during in the D-Day invasion. Seamlessly weaving genuine WWII footage into a startlingly authentic story, beautifully shot by Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed cinematographer, the legendary John Alcott, 'Overlord' is not simply a unique piece of fiction, but an exceptional piece of history. Produced by the Imperial War Museum, digitally restored and now available for the first time since it was made over 30 years ago, 'Overlord' is a mesmerising cinematic achievement. - Director:
- Stuart Cooper
- Cast:
- Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball
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The unforgettable original version of acclaimed filmmaker Michael Haneke's classic exploration of screen violence is an uncompromising, sometimes uncomfortable, but never less than compelling experience. Arriving at their remote lakeside holiday home, a middle class family are alarmed by the unexpected arrival of two young men who soon begin to subject them to a twisted and horrifying ordeal of terror. With characteristic mastery, Haneke turns the conventions of the thriller genre upside down and, directly challenges the expectations of his audience, forcing viewers to question the complacency with which they receive images of casual violence in contemporary cinema. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1938)Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Set on the French Riviera, the charming daughter (Claudette Colbert) of a destitute aristocrat (Edward Everett Horton) catches the eye of a dashing millionaire (Gary Cooper). After a brief courtship, she accepts his marriage proposal, only to find out on their wedding day that he has been down the aisle before - seven times! Determined to teach him a lesson, she makes a mockery of their matrimony in a variety of side-splitting situations. - Director:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Cast:
- Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
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Haunted by his past, WWII veteran and drifter Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) crosses paths with a mysterious movement called The Cause, led by Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) aka The Master and his wife Peggy (Amy Adams). Their twisted relationship is the core of this film. Will Freddie be able to outrun his past? Will The Cause help or hurt him? Can this tortured, violent creature be civilized? Or is man, after all, just a dirty animal? - Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, William O'Brien, Joaquin Phoenix
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Charles McGraw stars as Detective Walter Brown, a cop with a simple mission - get mobster's wife Frankie Neale (Marie Windsor) on the train and take her to the grand jury in Los Angeles, where she's going to testify against her late husband's colleagues. But the mob don't want her to spill the beans and they'll stop at nothing to stop her taking the stand; Brown realises they've planted assassins on the train with them and it's up to him to keep her safe. It's going to be one hell of a journey... - Director:
- Richard Fleischer
- Cast:
- Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
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Edward G. Robinson stars as a government agent tracking down a sadistic Nazi officer (Orson Welles), who has evaded justice for running Nazi extermination camps. Rankin has crafted a new identity for himself in a quaint Connecticut town by marrying Mary (Loretta Young), the daughter of a local judge; but as his past begins to catch up with him, will his wife side with the investigators or her husband... - Director:
- Orson Welles
- Cast:
- Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
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