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Alex, a Russian immigrant (Michael York), arrives in Los Angeles seeking the American dream only to land a low-paying job in a factory manufacturing sex toys. The factory's owner, Eppy, a 65-year-old Jewish mother adopts Alex like a son, and tries to set him up with another lonely single friend of hers, Catherine, a fading adult movie star (Prunella Gee). An offbeat love affair begins as Alex, old-fashioned and deeply romantic, tries to convince the cynical Catherine that true love does indeed exist. - Director:
- Len Richmond
- Cast:
- Michael York, Prunella Gee, Nancy Fish
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Revenge (1971)Inn of the Frightened People
Publicans Carol (Joan Collins) and Jim (James Booth) Radford learn that a reclusive local man suspected of raping and murdering their ten-year-old daughter has been released due to insufficient evidence. Heartbroken and hungry for vengeance, Jim hatches a chilling plan to force a confession from the suspect: abducting and imprisoning him in the pub's cellar, he will become judge, jury and - if necessary - executioner! - Director:
- Sidney Hayers
- Cast:
- Joan Collins, James Booth, Ray Barrett
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After 20 years on Georgia's Death Row, Daniel Holden is released into a world he no longer understands. Freed on a technicality, he could be sent back. If Daniel can rebuild his life, will he be allowed to keep it? Convicted of raping and murdering his high school girlfriend and isolated from society for his entire adult life, Daniel emerges an enigma. The boy who left is now a man who must reconnect with his damaged family, and find his place in the town still traumatized by a brutal crime. Discovering flaws in the original investigation, secrets emerge which threaten reputations and careers built on the conviction and jeopardize the fragile balance of Daniel's family, while his friends and enemies try to uncover truth about that fateful night. Rectify's incredible multi award-winning production team have created a gripping psychological thriller about crime and punishment, forgiveness and revenge, guilt and innocence. - Director:
- Bill Gierhart
- Cast:
- Aden Young, Madeline Taylor, Abigail Spencer
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With a hilarious swipe at the underside of the film industry, Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff and Alicia Witt star in John Water's madcap comedy Cecil B Demented - an insane tale of a young lunatic filmmaker (Dorff) and his gang of film fanatics, the "Sprocket Holes". The Sprocket's goal is to kidnap A-list Hollywood movie goddess Honey Whitlock (Griffith) and force her to perform in their own underground movie. Every inch a star, Honey's career is at its peak, but her personal life is in disarray. Forty years old and divorced, she is still beautiful, rich and talented, and is on every producer's short list despite her reputation as a diva. Agreeing to appear at her latest film's international premiere in Baltimore, she has no idea she is about to meet the most demanding director of her career. - Director:
- John Waters
- Cast:
- Melanie Griffith, Joe James, Stephen Dorff
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Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski (John Savage) arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie 'happening' in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila (Beverly D'Angelo). Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger (Treat Williams), and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort to save Claude from Vietnam sets in motion a bizarre twist of fate...with shocking consequences. - Director:
- Milos Forman
- Cast:
- John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
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11 Days, 11 Nights (1987)Eleven Days, Eleven Nights: 11 giorni, 11 notti / 11 Days 11 Nights - Part 1 - Fantasy Becomes Reality
Within eleven days Michael (Joshua McDonald) was due to marry Helen (Mary Sellers) his fiance but a chance meeting with a total stranger threatens to destroy all his plans. Whilst travelling to work, Michael's gaze is met by a vision of beauty, her stare penetrates him, afraid to turn away, Michael becomes intoxicated by the vision as she slowly unbuttons her coat to reveal that underneath she is totally naked. He stares in disbelief as she demands that he makes love to her right there, right now; driven by lust Michael can only obey, as they both become locked in a devouring passion totally oblivious to the people flowing around them. Unbeknown to Michael, the beautiful vision Sarah (Jessica Moore), is a writer who's about to finish her book 'Sarah and her one hundred men'. Michael has became her one hundredth conquest. - Director:
- Joe D'Amato
- Cast:
- Jessica Moore, Joshua McDonald, Mary Sellers
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The second ten sensational part season of 'Riviera' sees Georgina (Julia Stiles) focused on trying to get away with murder as she fights to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. This intoxicating drama is full of sun, sex, sea, fast cars, fast living, chateau's and everything that says the glamour of the rich and powerful. Picking up immediately from the shocking ending of season one, with the Clios family still reeling from the devastation caused by Constantine's mysterious death, Georgina continues her battle for dominance and control with Irina Clios (Lena Olin) and her children Christos (Dimitri Leonidas) and Adriana (Roxanne Duran). - Director:
- Hans Herbots
- Cast:
- Julia Stiles, Will Arnett, Poppy Delevingne
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Lady Chatterley is a passionate love story which portrays the tempestuous and scandalous affair between an aristocratic young woman and her husbands gamekeeper. Joely Richardson plays one of fictions most famous and passionate characters, Lady Chatterley, and Sean Bean is Mellors, the moody and intense gamekeeper with whom she falls in love. - Director:
- Ken Russell
- Cast:
- Joely Richardson, Sean Bean, James Wilby
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After just a year of marriage, the immaculate life Georgina (Julia Stiles) has quickly become intoxicated by is blown apart when her art collector husband Constantine is killed in an explosion aboard the yacht of a Russian oligarch. Believing there to be more to the tragedy, she sets out to uncover what happened. Dark truths about Constantine's dealings emerge and, as she begins to realise who she was really married to, Georgina enters a spiral of moral descent as she becomes immersed a world of lies, double-dealing and criminality. In order to maintain the Clios' legendary Cote d'Azur mansion and protect the family and its fortune, she will have to learn to adapt, survive and ultimately thrive in her dangerous new reality. But as she first proved back in her days as a fine art scholar in the US, she's an A-plus student... - Director:
- Hans Herbots
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- Julia Stiles, Iwan Rheon, Adrian Lester
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This gritty, sexy, violent, pulse-quickening new original series from Cinemax is a crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco's Chinatown in the latter part of the 19th century. Inspired by the writings of the late Bruce Lee, the story follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstance and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown's most powerful organised crime families. - Director:
- Assaf Bernstein
- Cast:
- Andrew Koji, Kenneth Fok, Olivia Cheng
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Down-on-their-luck punk rockers 'The Ain't Rights' agree to a last-minute gig in a backwoods Oregon roadhouse, only to find themselves targeted by a ruthless club owner and his associates, leading to devastating consequences. From the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier, "Green Room" is a claustrophobic thriller with a thick vein of dark humour... - Director:
- Jeremy Saulnier
- Cast:
- Anton Yelchin, Ed Squires, Imogen Poots
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Series 2 of the gritty drama series - featuring an acclaimed ensemble cast led by Oscar nominees James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal - finds its protagonists living at the apex of the Golden Age of Porn, when the dream of a mainstream X-rated film business is a credible reality and late-'70s Times Square is at its gaudiest and most unrestrained. From executive producers David Simon and George Pelecanos, 'The Deuce' brilliantly captures this volatile world in the midst of seismic change. - Director:
- Alex Hall
- Cast:
- James Franco, Carolyn Mignini, Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Manina (1952)The Girl in the Bikini / Manina, la fille sans voiles / Manina: The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
A Parisian student, Gérard Morere (Jean-François Calvé), sets off to recover a lost treasure contained in a sunken Phoenician ship near an island off the coast of Corsica. With funds supplied by his fellow students, Gérard convinces a smuggler named Eric (played by Jess Franco favourite Howard Vernon) to be his transportation. Whilst diving for the treasure off the picturesque Lavezzi islands, Gérard gets to know Manina (Brigitte Bardot), the attractive daughter of the local lighthouse keeper... - Director:
- Willy Rozier
- Cast:
- Brigitte Bardot, Irène Hilda, Jean-François Calvé
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After the death of her lover, Wilma takes over his bootlegging business, but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred, who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist. In the meantime, Wilma also kidnaps the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom. Will Wilma and Fred be able to retire with their ill-gotten gains, or will the law eventually catch up with them? - Director:
- Steve Carver
- Cast:
- Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt
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The undead are among us and livelier than ever when Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and a talented group of young bloods star in Interview With The Vampire, the spellbinding screen adaptation of Anne Rice's best seller. Award-winning box-office favourite Cruise stylishly plays the supremely evil and charismatic vampire Lestat. Pitt is Louis, lured by Lestat into the immortality of the damned, then tormented by an unalterable fact of vampire life; to survive, he must kill. Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater and newcomer Kirsten Dunst also star. One lifetime alone offers plenty of opportunities for the savage revelries of the night. Imagine what an eternity can bring. - Director:
- Neil Jordan
- Cast:
- Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas
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