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Michael Clayton (George Clooney) has done his law firm's dirty work for years. Now the top lawyer's gone insane and there's a conspiracy against their biggest client from the inside. 'Michael Clayton' is heart-pounding, action-packed thriller that cuts a vicious path to the darkest heart of New York City. - Director:
- Tony Gilroy
- Cast:
- George Clooney, Danielle Skraastad, Tilda Swinton
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In the acclaimed performance that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress Sissy Spacek stars as legendary Loretta Lynn, the dirt poor Appalachian Mountains girl who rose from humble beginnings to become the "Queen of Country Music". At eighteen, the mother of four children and busy housewife still finds time to write and sing songs at small fairs and local honky-tonks. Recognising her raw talent and huge potential, her ambitious husband Mooney (Tommy Lee Jones) prods her into making a record and going to Nashville. After a performance at the Grand Ole Opry the record becomes a smash hit launching her career to super stardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever. - Director:
- Michael Apted
- Cast:
- Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm
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After saving the lives of his platoon during the Korean War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is hailed as a bona fide American hero. This couldn't have come at a better time for his mother (Angela Lansbury) who is hell-bent on boosting the career of his stepfather, a senator straight from the McCarthyite wing of the US political spectrum with designs on the Presidency. So far so familiar - but why does Shaw's former captain (Frank Sinatra) have recurring nightmares that suggest that his distinguished comrade-in-arms might not be all that he seems? - Director:
- John Frankenheimer
- Cast:
- Frank Sinatra, Paul Frees, Laurence Harvey
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Taking place over five days in the nation's music capital Nashville, Tennessee, the film follows two-dozen characters struggling for fulfilment, both personal and professional, amongst a backdrop of country and gospel musicians, outsider political campaigning, and the peripheries of life inbetween, building from one encounter at a time to create a wide-ranging tapestry of rich drama and human comedy. - Director:
- Robert Altman
- Cast:
- Keith Carradine, Joan Tewkesbury, Karen Black
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It Happened One Night (1934)Night Bus
When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) hops on a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne (Clark Gable), a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exchange for her exclusive story. - Director:
- Frank Capra
- Cast:
- Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
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Jack Nicholson in his very best in this highly-acclaimed dramatic comedy about three sailors on the loose. Two hard-boiled career petty officers, Buddusky and Mulhall, are detailed to take a young sailor, Meadows, from a Virginia Naval Base to a New Hampshire Naval Prison to serve an eight-year sentence for a trivial offence. Buddusky and Mulhall take a liking is Meadows and are determined to show him a food time on their journey north. Their escapades begin in Washington where they narrowly escape a bar fight, then get blink drunk in their hotel room. In New York City, they tangle with some Marines, and in Boston, Buddusky takes Meadows to a brothel for his first sexual experience. Finally, after reluctantly turning in Meadows, Buddusky and Mullhal realise they are as much prisoners of their won world as Meadows now is of his. - Director:
- Hal Ashby
- Cast:
- Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young
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Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore’s new movie SiCKO asks his fellow Americans: What is wrong with us? Moore shows that U.S. health care ranks last among developed nations despite costing more per person than any other health system in the world. Moore seeks answers in Canada, Great Britain, and France, where all citizens receive free medical care. Finally, Moore gathers a group of 9/11 heroes rescue workers now suffering from debilitating illnesses, unable to receive help at home, and takes them to a most unexpected place where they receive the tender care unavailable in the richest nation on earth. - Director:
- Michael Moore
- Cast:
- Michael Moore, Tucker Albrizzi, Tony Benn
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Rex Harrison reprises his signature role of Henry Higgins, the supremely assured phoneticist who wagers that under his tutelage, cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle can pass for a duchess at the Embassy Ball. In one of her best-loved roles, Audrey Hepburn plays Eliza. If ever there were a face that the professor could grow accustomed to, it's hers. In Hartford, Heresford and Hampshire (and elsewhere) no one's fairer than 'My Fair Lady' on of the most irresistible musicals ever. - Director:
- George Cukor
- Cast:
- Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
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With smoldering sensuality and biting humor, the surprising relationship between the three title subjects is revealed in sex, lies, and videotape, the most-talked about erotic comedy of the decade. James Spader (TV's "Blacklist", Crash) ran away with the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his brilliantly understated and seductive performance as Graham, a long-lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of John, a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife Ann, and her saucy sister Cynthia. One by one, each is drawn into the very "personal project" Graham is working on, leaving the relationships between them forever transformed. A monumental debut effort from first-time feature director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich), this comic original includes riveting performances from Peter Gallagher (American Beauty), Andie MacDowell (Michael) and Laura San Giacomo (TV's "Just Shoot Me"). - Director:
- Steven Soderbergh
- Cast:
- James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher
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Confessions (2010)Kokuhaku
Takako Matsu plays a middle-school teacher whose four-year-old daughter is found dead Shattered, she finally returns to her classroom only to become convinced that two of her students were responsible for her daughter's murder. No one believes her, and she may very well be wrong, but she decides, nevertheless, that it's time to take her revenge. What happens next is all-out psychological warfare waged against her students in an attempt to force them into confessing what she knows in her heart to be true: they are guilty and must be punished. - Director:
- Tetsuya Nakashima
- Cast:
- Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Guy Foucher (Nino Castelnuovo), a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Genevieve Emery (Catherine Deneuve), an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, the pair share a passionate night. Genevieve becomes pregnant and then must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an attractive offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant (Marc Michel). - Director:
- Jacques Demy
- Cast:
- Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
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The year is 2033, and the people of Earth have been suffering through a drought for over a decade. The planet's water supply is now controlled by megalomaniac businessman Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), the owner of the 'Water and Power' corporation. But in Australia, at least, there is resistance. If Kesslee wants to take control of the last water well in the Outback, he'll need to contend with the Rippers - mutant hybrids of human and kangaroo - and Rebecca Buck, alias Tank Girl (Lori Petty): a woman with a tank a bad attitude and a determination to rescue the world from the brink of oblivion. - Director:
- Rachel Talalay
- Cast:
- Lori Petty, Frank Welker, Ice-T
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Ten-year-old Lucie (Troian Bellisario) flees from the isolated warehouse where she has been held prisoner. Deeply traumatized, she is plagued by awful night terrors at the orphanage that takes her in. Her only comfort comes from Anna (Bailey Noble), a girl her own age. Nearly a decade later and still haunted by demons, Lucie finally tracks down the family that tortured her. As she and Anna move closer to the agonizing truth, they find themselves trapped in a nightmare - if they cannot escape, a martyr's fate awaits them… - Director:
- Kevin Goetz
- Cast:
- Troian Bellisario, Karly Rothenberg, Bailey Noble
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Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment in which people think they're delivering electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Subjects are told it's about memory, but the experiment is really about conformity, conscience, and free will. Milgram is trying to test people's tendency to comply with authority. His controversial experiments and results hit a nerve, and got him accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster. - Director:
- Michael Almereyda
- Cast:
- Winona Ryder, Taryn Manning, Peter Sarsgaard
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Inland Empire (2006)Inland Empire: A Woman in Trouble
The latest film from visionary director David Lynch, 'Island Empire' is a labyrinth mystery which reunites him with Laura Dern, star of his earlier masterpieces 'Blue Velvet' and 'Wild at Heart'. Dern plays Nikki Grace, an actress preparing for her biggest role yet; a Hollywood movie from an acclaimed director (Played by Jeremy Irons) opposite an amorous leading man (Justin Theroux), but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting, adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. - Director:
- David Lynch
- Cast:
- Laura Dern, Dominika Biernat, Jeremy Irons
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