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Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen star in this darkly comic thriller about the seedier side of Hollywood. Hopper plays Frankie, a kind-hearted gopher working for the Hollywood mafia, whose main line of business is making porno movies.

Constantly tyrannised by his violent, unpredictable boss, Sal (Madsen), Frankie sees the way out of the gutter lies in making his own movie. In return for placing his bets, Frankie enlists the halp of Joey (Kiefer Sutherland), a wannabe Hollywood director paying off his gambling debts to Sal by making his skin flicks. However Sal has many eyes on the street and sees what Frankie's up to. His reaction is swift and unrelenting, forcing Frankie to watch as he mockingly films the torture of Joey and Margaret (Darryl Hannah), a porn actress whom Frankie secretly loves. Vengeance, not escape, now plagues Frankie's mind as he vows to make Sal pay... in more ways than one.

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"Paradise Lost" is a tense, unsettling horror thriller centering around a diverse group of young adventure travellers.

After a terrifying bus accident maroons them in a remote Brazilian beach town, they slowly discover that the white sand beaches and lush jungles are concealing a darker, unsettling secret...

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Dale is captured and held hostage with Aura, Ming's daughter, in exchange for one of Ming's soldiers. Flash and his men find a way into Ming's palace to rescue her but not without first defying floods, electrified traps and gas bombs. Meanwhile Dr. Zarkov finds out the secret to the deadly dust.

However, Ming overhears and lets it be known that he has another source of power. Flash discovers this new destructive power - Solarite - on one of Ming's ships, set to destroy the earth. Just as Flash finds a way to the ship, Ming realises that Flash will probably use the Solarite against him, so he hides in the tower where he hopes to use the controls to shoot the solarite ship out of the sky. Flash sets the ship on a course for the tower and jumps into Dr. Zarkov's ship. At the end of this third and final Flash Gordon series, will Flash indeed Conquer the Universe?

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Frank reaches Mongo just in time to rescue Dr. Zarkov from Ming's torture chamber, but, he too is caught in the destroying ray and only at the last minute are they rescued. Zarkov is brought to Ming's throne room and agrees to use his genius to help Ming conquer the universe in return for his life.

Instead, in Ming's lab, Zarkov teams up with Karm to break Ming's evil power. Zarkov has created a new magnetic gun which will paralyse Ming's power plant. Meantime, Ming overhears and reveals to Aura that he has set a bomb for Zarkov and Flash. The bomb detonates and our heroes find themselves at the mercy of the Rock Men who threaten to kill them unless they find their King's son. Flash and Zarkov manage to escape from the caves and find the King's son. Flash sends Zarkov to inform the King, but Zarkov is delayed by a giant lizard. At that moment, Dale is being lowered into a fiery pit...

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Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal, hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. Robert Ford, meanwhile, is a nobody.

That, however, isn't something the ambitious 19-year-old will settle for. He'll befriend Jesse, join his gang and gain his confidence, and eventually become his downfall.

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Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton), Emperor of Mongo, has unleashed his latest terrible weapon for the destruction of Earth, a 'purple dust' that is killing the population. Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), Dale Arden (Carol Hughes) and Dr.

Zarkov (Frank Shannon) take off for the planet of Mongo to confront Ming and destroy his deadly factory. Before Flash Gordon can 'conquer the universe', he must confront Ming, the Rock Men and Annihilations and protect the mining for Polarite, the only known antidote to the purple dust.

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It's New Years Eve at Mon Signor hotel and a hapless bellboy named Ted (Tim Roth) is in for the wildest night of his life.

While delivering room service, Ted meets up with a series of outlandish eccentric guests - from a pair of pint-sized pranksters bent on destruction to a determined movie-star who makes Ted an outrageous offer he can't believe .. or refuse.

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Rogue CIA agent Sands (Johnny Depp) finds himself having to recruit the services of the legendary vigilante El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) in order to prevent an assassination attempt on the Mexican president.

Although Mariachi has been in hiding since the death of his lover (Salma Hayek), Sands manages to persuade him to help as they will be fighting a common enemy: General Marquez (Gerardo Vigil), who is leading the assassination attempt and with whom Mariachi has a score to settle.

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Anyone can make themselves unpopular - but it takes a past master like Monty Python's John Cleese to be really irritating.

The secret, he says, is to let the other person believe it's all totally unintentional - and that's just the first of many tricks of the trade he's giving away! With the help of Python pals Michael Palin and Graham Chapman, Connie Booth from Fawlty Towers and Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor, Cleese demonstrates the uncanny ability to keep his victims just the right temperature under the collar... one degree below boiling point! Parents, waiters, salesmen, chat-show hosts - for some people, irritation is a way of life, the rest of us have to work at it. After watching this video you'll possess the know-how you need to irritate for business or pleasure... as well as discovering where Basil Fawlty got so many of his ideas from! Find out just how to pay back job interviewers, cinema chatterboxes, garage staff, even bank clerks in the only way they deserve. And there's a gold-plated bonus for Monty Python fans to treasure in Cleese, Palin and Chapman's "Airline Pilot" sketch - an undiscovered classic of British comedy.

A hero steps forth, proclaiming his fame and his name. Beowulf! Slayer of monsters. Defender of the realm. He will kill the voracious beast ravaging the Viking land. He will claim gold and kingdom as his reward. But will his unchecked ambition ultimately demand a terrible toll of him?

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Five years ago Dennis was at the altar about to marry Libby, his pregnant fiance. He got cold feet and run for the hills and he’s been going in circles ever since. When Dennis discovers Libby’s hooked up with high-flying-go-getter Whit, he realises it’s now or never.

He enters a marathon to show he’s more than a quitter, but then finds out just how much sweat, strain and tears it takes to change. Nobody gives him a chance but Dennis knows this is his only hope to be more than a running joke.

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Each April Fool's Day, fabulously wealthy young Desiree Cartier hosts the most killer coming-out parties at her to-die-for southern mansion. And this social event is never complete without one of her patented pranks.

But when this year's joke turns deadly, Desiree, her brother Blaine and five of their friends all become the targets of a twisted killer who begins hunting them down one by one...

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Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michael's only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this mall town is anything but calm and peaceful.

Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin digging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of... The Children of the Living Dead.

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Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Nearby, a dying man (John Rhys-Davies) drifts alone on a stricken yacht.

He has been cheating death for countless years, trading broken bodies for new ones using a secret, deadly weapon. But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death is close and he wants payment to be made.

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Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is a bitter, angry and vengeful man ever since an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He's fed up with himself and everyone around him. All that changes when he's given Ella, a monkey trained to meet his every need.

But when Ella begins anticipating Allan's thoughts, strange and deadly things start happening. And as she stalks and wreaks havoc on Allan's fair-weather girlfriend (Janine Turner), incompetent doctor and meddling mother, Allan realizes he must stop the cunning maniacal creature... before she fully takes over his mind.