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Five friends return home from a cocktail party to their cottage deep inside the woods of the Peak District. Having rubbished the notion of urban legends our main characters find themselves weaving through the nightmare reality of their very own horror story! Cut is a claustrophobic thrill ride only relenting on its increasingly unbearable tension and heart stopping shocks to inject a little humour to soften the blow and increase the fun! Because the film takes place in a single continuous shot the audience feel more connected to the action that ever before there is no escape! - Director:
- Dominic Burns
- Cast:
- Deborah Burns, Dominic Burns, Lewis Copson
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10 to Midnight (1983)Ten to Midnight
Charles Bronson is a hero all the way as a rogue cop pursuing a deranged killer in this action-packed suspense thriller. Serving up vigilante justice as only he can, Charles Bronson delivers one of his most riveting performances in this exceedingly well-made film. Charles Bronson plays Leo Kessler, a cynical Los Angeles cop on the trail of Warren Stacey (Gene Davis), a homicidal maniac who turns rejection from beautiful women into the ultimate revenge. When the legal system sets Stacey free, Kessler plants evidence to put him behind bars for good. But Kessler's plan backfires, leaving him with only one option: to hunt down Stacey on his own...before the crazed killer strikes again! - Director:
- J. Lee Thompson
- Cast:
- Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens
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Cheating husband Laurent has it all - a beautiful wife, a good job and two adorable children. Somehow that isn't enough - he just can't stop having affairs. Loli, his gorgeous wife, fed up with Laurent's unexpected evening appointments, meets and is seduced by Marijo, a butch, cigar-smoking lesbian. When Loli hears of her husband's adulterous activities, she is outraged and Marijo moves in to become her live-in lover. With Laurent's male ego in tatters, the stage is set for a sexy, hilarious menage-a-trois battle for Loli's sexual favours. Will Laurent go to where no man has gone before to win his wife back? - Director:
- Josiane Balasko
- Cast:
- Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat
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It was 1965 in rural Australia. "Flirting", the sequel to "The Year My Voice Broke", follows the adolescent Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) as the 'the school dag' at a strict boys' boarding school. Relief from peer group pressure comes from Thandiwe Adjewa (Thandie Newton), daughter of an African nationalist lecturer, who is 'doing time' at the girl's boarding school nearby. Danny and Thandiwe become kindred spirits, lovers and problems for their teachers, whose methods of maintaining control are long detention sessions and a good thrashing with the cane. The only support the couple receive is from Nicola Radcliffe (Nicole Kidman), the head prefect who is sympathetic to their plight. - Director:
- John Duigan
- Cast:
- Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton, Nicole Kidman
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Against a raw, unforgiving backdrop of parched desert and frozen mountains, MacConnachie (Robert Shaw) and Ansell (Malcom McDowell) run for their lives. But even as they cross a seemingly endless expanse of open territory, the walls of their "cage" begin to close in as a relentless helicopter pilot stalks them in a deadly game of cat and mouse. - Director:
- Joseph Losey
- Cast:
- Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf
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Black Angel (2002)Senso '45
Italy - 1945: The war and Fascism is coming to an end. Livia, the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz (Gabriel Garko), an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair. During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny. Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but amongst the madness, a surprise awaits Livia (Anna Galiena)...a surprise that sees her personal setbacks reflected in historic and political events. - Director:
- Tinto Brass
- Cast:
- Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko, Franco Branciaroli
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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)Chroniques sexuelles d'une famille d'aujourd'hui
Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences in this passionate and daring erotic drama. Encouraging each family member to push the boundaries of their sensuality, 'Sexual Chronicles of a French Family' paints a portrait of a unique family taking their next steps in exploring their sexual lives and desires. - Director:
- Pascal Arnold
- Cast:
- Mathias Melloul, Valérie Maës, Stephan Hersoen
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action and saves his customers and friends in the self-defence killings of two-sought-after criminals. Heralded as a hero, Tom's life is changed overnight, attracting a national media circus, which forces him into the spotlight. Uncomfortable with his newfound celebrity, Tom tries to return to the normalcy of his ordinary life only to be confronted by a mysterious and threatening man (Ed Harris) who arrives in town believing Tom is the man who's wronged him in the past. As Tom and his family fight back against this case of mistaken identity and struggle to cope with their changed reality, they are forced to confront their relationships and the divisive issues which surface as a result. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris
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As a young girl, Nessa Stein witnessed the assassination of her father by the armed wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Now in her late thirties, Nessa is at the forefront of the Middle East peace process. Ennobled for her campaigning work, the newly made Baroness must fight forces that are conspiring against her as she awards a highly lucrative contract to a Palestinian businessman. When he is subsequently killed, Nessa and her brother come under the close scrutiny of Whitehall and the Secret Intelligence Service. Set against the gripping backdrop of government paranoia and espionage, 'The Honourable Woman' tells the story of one woman's personal journey to right the wrongs conducted in a past life. - Director:
- Hugo Blick
- Cast:
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lubna Azabal
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Framed for a crime he didn't commit, street racer Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) , joins an adrenaline-charged cross country supercar race with only one thing on his mind: revenge. When Tobey's main rival Dino (Dominic Cooper) learns of his plan to complete, he places a bounty on his head for anyone who stops him from reaching California. With Tobey's reputation on the line and his life in danger, the race is on! - Director:
- Scott Waugh
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- Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots
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U.S. Federal Air Marshall Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) is all washed up; a former cop struggling to deal with his violent past and wrought with self-doubt. On a routine flight from New York to London, he receives a threatening text message from an unknown caller ordering him to deposit $150 million into a secret account or a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes. It's now up to Marks to hunt down the culprit and save the passengers the only way he knows, with brute force. It's a race against time and a race against death as this frequent flyer is about to experience something far more explosive than mere turbulence. - Director:
- Jaume Collet-Serra
- Cast:
- Liam Neeson, O-T Fagbenle, Julianne Moore
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Farewell, Friend (1968)Adieu l'ami
Arriving in Marseille from the Algerian War, a military Doctor (Alain Delon) and Mercenary (Charles Bronson), who once worked together for the French Foreign Legion, part company and go their own separate ways. However coincidence soon brings the pair back together... Finding themselves trapped inside a vault, the pair soon realise they aren't there for the same reasons. The Doctor is making a deposit whilst the Mercenary plans on stealing the contents of the safe. Stuck together they reluctantly agree to work with each other in order to open the safe and escape, but will honour amongst thieves keep them from the trouble that awaits from the law? - Director:
- Jean Herman
- Cast:
- Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Brigitte Fossey
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Written and directed by Godard, 'Alphaville' is the strangely beautiful futuristic tale of Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an American private eye sent to a planet ruled by Von Braun (Anna Karina), a malevolent scientist who has outlawed human emotions in favour of logic. The film deals with the fight between individualism in the face of inhumanity and blind conformity... - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
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- Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
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When Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) discover that their new next-door neighbours are none other than a University fraternity club - led by charismatic president Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron) - they try to play along and make the best of an awkward situation. But when the frat's parties grow increasingly more epic, both sides of the property line begin to fend for their turf. As the neighbours' relentless sabotage and one-upmanship threaten to either get the college kids kicked off the block or make the newlyweds lose what's left of their sanity, thus begins an epic Greek war for the ages. - Director:
- Nicholas Stoller
- Cast:
- Seth Rogen, Bettina Kenney, Rose Byrne
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The blood-pumping action and special effects of this edgy, satisfying thriller from filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) are even more spectacular in this exclusive Blu-ray edition! Included are the high-definition 3D and BD, a look at the journey from novel to film, and a graphic novel about the secret origins of vampires in America. When vicious vampires plot to make the U.S. their own nation, President Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker sets out to pulverise the bloodthirsty undead killers one by one in an epic fight for life and freedom! - Director:
- Timur Bekmambetov
- Cast:
- Benjamin Walker, Ashley Lambert, Rufus Sewell
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