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Luchino Visconti's masterpiece, The Leopard, is now available on DVD for the first time.

Featuring the complete and uncut version of the film, with fully restored picture and sound, this stunning high definition digital transfer from the film's original 70mm negative materials, overseen by the film's director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, is presented here in its original widescreen aspect ratio..

An intensely visual and surreal journey into the depths of a serial killer's mind, 'The Cell' is a riveting science fiction thriller that will shock you with the horrors of one man's frayed mind.

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When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion and a mysterious young girl, Mamie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality.

As the days go by, a magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh House again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding her strange new friend.

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Ryohei Watanabe's debut film concerns two teen¬age girls and their friendship. The first friend is Misa, a stocky girl who is viciously dubbed Pooh at school, due to her surname "Kumada" (bear + rice paddy) and masculine frame.

The other friend is Izumi, who says she can't make and keep friends because all the other girls are jealous of her looks. Together, the two become best of friends owed to them both being such firm outsiders. Their blossoming friendship starts off as endearing and as the two spend more and more time together the sheen of the relationship peels away. When the darkness and violence eventually bleed into the mix, that authenticity turns what could just be an¬other tale of teenage friendship gone awry, into a genuinely disturbing thriller.

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Based on J.K. Rowling's first novel, this film weaves a magical tale. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life.

But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard - with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There, he uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths...and about the villain who's to blame.

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3 generations of women share a name and an aversion to marriage. 3 husbands have reason to be afraid of water. Add to the equation 1 amorous coroner and 1 inventive little boy and so begins the game.

'Drowning by Number' is a sharp and witty tale of female camaraderie with Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson giving first-class performances. Peter Greenaway's charming pastoral setting overflows with metaphors and mathematical riddles in a film that will continue to amuse for countless viewings.

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The heat is on in this fast paced action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street smart Detroit cop tracing down his best friend's killer in Beverly Hills.

Axel quickly learns that his wild style doesn't fit in with the Beverly Hills Police Department, which assigns two officers (Judge Reinhold and John Ashton) to make sure things don't get out of hand. Dragging the stuffy detectives along for the ride, Axel smashes through a huge culture clash in his hilarious, high-speed pursuit of justice.

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Joan Crawford plays Vienna, a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and her property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit.

Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter who has a history with Vienna.

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With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams.

But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul. No matter what the cost, The Barefoot Contessa will dance to no-one's music but her own.

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In his stunning debut feature film, Aronofsky tells the story of Maximillian Cohen's (Sean Gullette) obsession with numbers and his theory that they hold the key to the answers of the universe.

His work causes him agonising migraines and his former teacher Sol (Mark Margolis) advises him to take a break from trying to discover patterns in the stock market. When Max's super computer crashes after spitting out a 216-digit number, Max initially dismisses it, until the prediction comes true, and he realises that the number which he consigned to the trash could be the key he has been searching for.

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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis).

The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill), her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cynical drama critic (George Sanders) sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe co-star in this acclaimed classic, which won six Academy Awards and received the most nominations (14) in film history.

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Set in Buenos Aires over the course of 24 hours, Nine Queens is a taut, highly seductive heist thriller in which nothing is what it seems and where no one can be trusted.

A naive young con artist (Gaston Pauls) teams up with an enigmatic, experienced master criminal (Ricardo Darin) for what could be the crime to end all crimes. But in a relationship propelled by brinkmanship and double-cross, corruption rarely has a happy ending.

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Bounty hunter Ben Brigade (tall-in-the saddle Western hero Randolph Scott) is a man of action and honour. He ventures to California with prisoner Billy John (James Best), but has a mind to use him to lure an even bigger fish - Billy John's evil brother Frank (Lee Van Cleef).

But at a frontier post the two find themselves in the middle of a Native American assault and are joined by the alluring Widow Lane (Karen Steele) who decides to accompany them on their perilous journey to Santa Cruz...

Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), naive insurance man. Falls for the seductive charms of his beautiful client Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) Together they plot to get rid of her dull husband and collect on the "double indemnity" life policy.

Ashby's film follows the burgeoning relationship between the gloomy, 20-year-old, suicide-staging Harold (Bud Cort), suffocated by his wealthy homestead, and the sprightly octogenarian Maude (Ruth Gordon), whose bohemian wiles and open-arms approach to living enable Harold's first gentle steps towards embracing existence.