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Set in 1990s Turin, Valerio Mastandrea (Perfect Strangers') stars as an accomplished journalist whose sudden panic attacks leads him to confront devastating events from years earlier, when an idyllic childhood was shattered by the death of his mother.

Forced to relive his traumatic past, he is helped along by a compassionate doctor (played by the Academy Award-nominated Berenice Bejo), who is dedicated to helping her latest patient embrace the past in order to make sense of the present.

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"Why do you make me do it?" New York cop Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) asks the hoodlum he's about to smash senseless. Jim has seen it all on the city's shadowy streets: killers, thugs, pimps, sadists. And the experience has cost him his soul.

Ironically, his redemption may come in his next case, a brutal murder that brings him into the open sky and white light of the countryside...and into the arms of a beautiful blind woman.

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A young bank clerk (Flavio Bucci), denied a loan by his employer, decides to exact his revenge on the local butcher (Ugo Tognazzi) who is not only a nasty, violent, greedy piece of work but also one of the bank's star customers.

Quitting his job, the clerk devotes all of his time to tormenting the butcher, stealing his possessions one by one, including his mistress (Daria Nicolodi).

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Double classics of Georges Franju...

Judex (1963)

The magical, dreamlike, rarely seen Judez was largely unappreciated at the time of it's release in 1963. A remake of Louis Feuillade's own 1916 Judex, it is as evocative of the silent master's own works as it is the later films of Cocteau and Dali.
Nuits Rouges (1973)
Released in the UK as 'Shadowman', 'Nuits Rouges' conjures a pulp atmosphere out of a series of outrageous events.

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They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn't finish the job. Big mistake. He - someday, somehow - is going to finish them.

Lee Marvin is in full antihero mode as remorseless Walker, talking the talk and walking the walk in John Boorman's (Deliverance) edgy neo-noir classic filled with imaginative New Wave style, blunt dialogue and Walker's relentless quest that, one by one, smashes into the corporate pecking order of a crime group called the Organisation. Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker's prey.

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When her young son Minato (Soya Kurokawa) starts to behave strangely, single mother Saori (Sakura Andô) knows that there is something wrong. Discovering that one of his teachers might be responsible, she storms into the school demanding answers.

But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, shocking truths begin to emerge.

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The Academy Award - winning "Woodstock" by wide consensus the best concert film ever made, has never looked or sounded better than in this director-approved edition with its sights restored and its sounds revitalixed.

Best of all, 40 minutes of previously unseen footage has been incorporated into the film by director Michael Wadleigh. Seen in its ground-breaking widescreen multi-image format, it's a once-in-a-lifetime celebration that captured its era like no other movie before or since.

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After a hold-up and a murder, outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) and his gang are captured. Wade's men break out of jail and wait for a chance to rescue him. The authorities suspect that a daring escape plan is underway, so they look for a guard to escort Wade by train to Yuma to stand trial.

The marshal offers a bounty and Dan Evans (Van Heflin), a poor rancher hit hard by a crippling drought, takes the job. His wife pleads with him to save his own life by letting Wade go free, but for Evans, it's a matter of principle as well as money. He takes Wade and begins the dangerous trek to the station.

Silent movies are giving way to talking pictures - and a hoofer-turned-matinee idol (Gene Kelly) is caught in that bumpy transition, as are his buddy (Donald O'Connor), prospective ladylove (Debbie Reynolds) and shrewish costar (Jean Hagen).

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The great Walter Matthau stars as Henry, a once-rich playboy who has obliviously spent his entire inheritance. Desperate to marry into further financial support, he meets Henrietta (Elaine May), a shy, awkward, though independently wealthy botany professor.

What follows is a giddy tale of dubious legal advice, ruthless skullduggery and ferns.

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In an astonishing piece of screen acting, Donald Sutherland portrays Casanova in his waning days, engaging in various amorous and political adventures with an air of bored detachment as he travels through a disease-ridden Europe.

Imbued with a romantic pessimism, the film debunks the myth of Casanova as a great lover and instead presents him as an ordinary man swept along by extraordinary circumstances.

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Many years after the actor Julio Arenas (Jose Coronado) vanished in the middle of a film shoot, the director Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo) - (who subsequently abandoned film-making) is invited to a TV show about the mysterious disappearance.

This leads him to examining both his past and the unfinished film, and when someone claims to have seen Arenas, it becomes a quest to identify his old friend and revive his memory.

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Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others.

His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel.

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Bresson's classic film, adapted from a story by Tolstoy, tells of the tragic chain of events which ensue when two schoolboys pass a forged banknote in a photography shop. The note is transferred to the unwitting Yvon (Christian Patey), a delivery driver, who is arrested for possessing it.

Despite being cleared by the court, Yvon loses his job and becomes trapped in a disastrous spiral of theft, imprisonment and murder. Considered to be the last masterpiece of his

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"The Parallax View", a superb drama about one man's paranoia that turns out to be total, incredible fact, ranks among the best political thrillers. Warren Beatty is a news reporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of a political candidate.

When the other seven die in "accidents", the newsman begins to doubt the official position: that a lone madman was responsible for the crime. He imagines a sophisticated network of highly trained murderers. But his nightmares pale against the bizarre truth he uncovers.