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With a murder unsolved and a betrayal exposed, the truth is suspect in 12 stunning Season Two episodes of the Golden Globe winning drama. Shifting between the perspectives of Noah (Dominic West), Alison (Ruth Wilson), Helen (Maura Tierney) and Cole (Joshua Jackson), the story now reveals the complex family ties, passionate betrayals and vengeful emotions that have resulted from the illicit summer liaison. And as the two estranged couples try individually to plan for the future, a new series of deceptions will once again force them to question everything they believed. - Director:
- Jeffrey Reiner
- Cast:
- Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney
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This melodrama adapted from a story by D.H. Lawrence sees two country girls, Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and her sister Lucille (Harriet Harper) return home after attending a provincial school. Yvette is smitten by the sight of a handsome gypsy (Franco Nero). Her stern matriarchal grandmother (Fay Compton) objects, but Yvette continues to see the dashing young man who awakens her sexual curiosity. She is comforted by Mrs. Fawcett (Honor Blackman) and Major Eastwood (Mark Burns), two people living in sin, much to the chagrin of the moralistic townsfolk. - Director:
- Christopher Miles
- Cast:
- Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman
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Tale of two brothers caught in a web of deceit surrounding a heinous murder. Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (Robert Niro), a rising star in the Catholic Church hierarchy, has a talent for fundraising that is matched only by his level of piety. When his brother Tom (Robert Duvall), a hard-edged cop, finds that a suspect in the murder of a prostitute may be one of the church's prime benefactors, he asks for his brother's help in catching the killer. Although Desmond is torn between his loyalties to the church and to his brother, he chooses to join Tom in a desperate search for the truth. But as the brothers edge closer to the killer, they face a flurry of political finger-pointing and back-room deals that rock the very foundation of the Roman Catholic Church and lead them to a chilling, climactic conclusion. - Director:
- Ulu Grosbard
- Cast:
- Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning
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Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg lead an all-star cast in '2 Guns', an explosive action film that tracks two operatives from competing bureaus who are forced on the run together. But there is a big problem with their unexpected partnership - neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent. - Director:
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast:
- Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton
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Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Drama and Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama (Ruth Wilson), 'The Affair' is a provocative and suspenseful look at how many stories are involved in every love affair. Noah Solloway (Dominic West) is a New York City schoolteacher and happily married father who finds himself powerfully attracted to waitress Alison Lockhart (Ruth Wilson) while vacationing with his family on Long Island. But nothing is as simple as boy-meets-girl, as both sides of the romance are explored by a detective investigating a murder. Also starring Maura Tierney and Joshua Jackson, it's every episode of the gripping first season that quickly had audiences begging for more. - Director:
- Mark Mylod
- Cast:
- Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney
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Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton), descendent of famed vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, wares up after a five-year coma to discover a vampire-controlled world. She soon learns that she possesses a unique blood composition that makes her immune to vampires and able to turn the creatures into humans. That power puts humanity's last hope to return the world to how it once was before the vampires took over in Vanessa's hands. - Director:
- Michael Nankin
- Cast:
- Kelly Overton, Vincent Gale, Rukiya Bernard
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Una (2016)Blackbird
Based on David Harrower's celebrated play Blackbird, 'Una' stars the Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara and Golden Globe-nominated Ben Mendelsohn, following a young woman's journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen years earlier, teenage Una (Mara) ran away with an older man, Ray (Mendelsohn), a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned. When she comes across a photo of him in the present, Una tracks him down to his workplace, and her abrupt arrival threatens to destroy Ray's new life - all the while derailing her precarious stability. Unspoken secrets and buried memories surface as Una and Ray sift through the wreckage of the past, confronting unanswered questions and unresolved longings, ultimately shaking them both to the core. 'Una' gazes into the heart of devastation and asks if redemption is possible. - Director:
- Benedict Andrews
- Cast:
- Ruby Stokes, Rooney Mara, David Shields
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Get Out of My Room (1985)Cheech and Chong: Get Out of My Room
Hey guess what? We made a video cuz everybody kept telling us "Hey, you dudes should make a video". Actually we made four videos and as long as we're at it a documentary of how we made 'em, sort of. At first Tommy didn't want to do them. He said, "If we're gonna be stupid let's get paid a lot instead of little, but after two weeks of hanging around with beautiful models he thought maybe it wasn't so bad. We thought we were so too cool, anyways, hope you dig 'em and run them backwards and forwards a lot. Love, Cheech and Chong.
Get Out of My Room
Show's you what you can do with a lot of smoke, girls and a rat guitar.
I'm Not Home Right Now
Hope this one ends up on everybody's answering machine.
Love is Strange
We still had a lot of smoke left over from the first video and Tommy wanted to use some more models.
Born in East L.A.
This one is straight from the heart. Thanks to all the homeboys and homegirls in East Los Angeles.- Director:
- Cheech Marin
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- Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, John Paragon
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The Griswald family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls, Las Vegas.
- Director:
- Stephen Kessler
- Cast:
- Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid
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After Hours (1985)A Night in SoHo / Lies
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences - involving underground - art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight - pile up with anxiety - inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese-abetted by Michael Ballhaus's kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O'Hara, and John Heard - directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace. - Director:
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast:
- Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom
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Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film charts the intensely emotional and physical relationship between Matt (Kieran O'Brien) and Lisa (Margo Stilley), a young American student in London, from their first encounter at the Brixton Academy to their eventual split. Intercutting between the couple's uninhibited sexual encounters and electrifying gig footage of Black Rebel, Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, Elbow, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Super Furry Animals, Franz Fredinand and Michael Nyman, 9 Songs tells a truly modern love story. - Director:
- Michael Winterbottom
- Cast:
- Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, The Dandy Warhols
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An astonishing portrait of youth on the American fringe, 'American Honey' is told through the eyes of a vivacious teenage rebel who joins a group of fellow misfits hustling and partying their way across the country. Bursting with electric, primal energy, 'American Honey' is an immersive, exhilarating odyssey of heartbreaking beauty - a generation-defining film that celebrates the defiant resilience of youth in pursuit of the American Dream. - Director:
- Andrea Arnold
- Cast:
- Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough
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From acclaimed director David Cronenberg comes a twisted tale of the dark secrets that lurk behind the closed doors of a celebrity obsessed Hollywood dynasty. Dr. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) made his fortune writing self-help books, but life with his overbearing wife Cristina (Olivia Williams) and thirteen-year old son, Benjie (Evan Bird), a child star fresh out of rehab, is anything but idyllic. When their estranged daughter Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) is released from a psychiatric hospital, she's determined to make it in Hollywood and befriends a wannabe actor/writer limo driver (Robert Pattinson) and becomes PA to the neurotic actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore). Before long, the lives of each member of the family begin to take a darker turn as the ghosts from their past return to haunt them. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson
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The Kenny Everett Video Show (1981)The Kenny Everett Video Cassette
Erupting onto television in the summer of 1978, 'The Kenny Everett Video Show' was an instant ratings grabber - propelling the subversive, impish DJ to the stardom he had always deserved! Kenny's anarchic mix of manic sketches, musical guests and dance routines - courtesy of raunchy booty-shakers Hot Gossip - created must-see TV, his comic genius running riot as he unleashed a line-up of much-loved, much-mimicked characters including gobby rocker Sid Snot, Gallic sophisticate Marcel Wave and the improbably-handed evangelist, Brother Lee Love! - Director:
- David Mallet
- Cast:
- Kenny Everett, Hot Gossip, David Essex
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Actor John Turturro's directorial debut won him the Cannes Camera d'Or for the film Mac (1992), he returned to directing with this period farce about a struggling Theatre Company owned by Astergourd (Beverly D'Angelo) and pallenchio (Donal McCann). It's the turn-of-the-century, and in New York the ambitious playwright Tuccio (John Turturro), is desperate to have his new play 'Illuminata' staged, with the troupe's manager Rachel (Katherine Borowitz), as the star in his elaborate production. However, his attempts to impress the theatre owners have failed and his play is rejected, but undeterred he will find a way to bring his play to life at all costs. - Director:
- John Turturro
- Cast:
- Leo Bassi, Henri Behar, Maurizio Benazzo
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