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Nuclear physicist Alvah Jesper (Gary Cooper) is recruited by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services to become a reluctant undercover agent, traveling to Switzerland to meet with a fellow scientist regarding information on Germany's plans to construct an atomic bomb.

After this colleague is assassinated, Jesper must sneak into Italy via the underground resistance, to contact another scientist. While there, Jesper falls in love with resistance fighter Gina (Lilli Palmer, in her first Hollywood role), and the two must battle shootouts, double crosses, and narrow escapes to smuggle the scientist out of Italy.

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Nighttime, LA. Our hero opens his eyes, regaining consciousness. Above him, the Hollywood sign and an empty hill. Parked nearby, there's a car and a dead cop. And next to the cop, a gun. Judging by the way it fits the holster he's wearing, it looks like our man's the killer.

And he can't remember a damned thing - how he got there; what happened; who he is. Sirens scream through the night - time to run. Our hero gets into the dead cop's car and splits. In the car, his cell phone rings A voice tells him the job's done and the money will be wired into his account? Our man enters a hellish world of lethal deception and limitless depravity, desperate to regain his identity at the heart of a black, white and blood-red nightmare where the only thing filthier than the lies is the sex, and the only sure thing is that nothing is what it seems.

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Once a decorated war hero, Danny Haley (Charlton Heston) now leads a group of small-time card sharks who know a sucker when they see one.

They cheat their latest mark, Arthur (Don DeFore) out of $5000 at the poker table; but when Arthur hangs himself in despair, his unstable, hulking older brother (Mike Mazurki) seeks violent revenge on the grifter's responsible. As the bodies pile up, Danny and his lover, nightclub singer Fran (Lizabeth Scott), flee to Las Vegas...but Danny is about to learn he can't hide from the consequences of his actions.

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Based on the sensational international best seller 'One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed' Melissa P is about a steamy tale of raw emotions and frank sexuality.

Lonely, neglected by her parents and feeling the loss of her grandmother fourteen-year-old Melissa turns to sex as an outlet of expression. Propelling herself into impossibly risky liasons, the details of which she records in her diary, this modern day Lolita suddenly and dangerously turns into a bold seductress. by turns erotic and harrowing, Melissa P's disturbing look into a teenage girl's secret life pushes the envelope of human desires.

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After Wyatt Earp's (Henry Fonda) brother James is murdered by cattle rustlers, the frontier legend becomes Tombstone's marshal and sets out to avenge the younger man's death.

Torn between his badge and his fury, Earp confronts the likely killers, the notoriously lawless family of Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan), setting the stage for the famed shoot-out at the O.K. Corral. Along the way, Earp falls in love with a schoolteacher named Clementine (Cathy Downs), which pits him against the cantankerous Doc Holliday. While 'My Darling Clementine' never loses its dynamism as a hard-hitting western, it is also a tender love story.

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Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA "volunteer" who reluctantly takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (Forest Whitaker), stationed in Northern Ireland.

When the kidnapping goes terribly wrong, Fergus escapes to London and tracks down Jody's glamorous girlfriend Dil (Jaye Davidson), spurred on by a promise made to his former hostage. Tailing Fergus are two fiercely loyal IRA operatives.

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Fields plays small-town grocer Harold Bissonette – Pronounced ‘Bee-son-ay’ by his wife – who puts up with difficult customers and annoying neighbours.

Bissonette has ambitions to own a California orange grove and, aided by an inheritance – and from selling his business – acquires what, on their arrival, turns out to be a worthless shack set in scrubland. Her suspicions confirmed, Mrs.. Bissonette begins to leave with their children but the land turns old to be more valuable than it looks…

This powerful portrait of urban racial tension sparked controversy everywhere it played while earning popular and critical praise. The hottest day of the year and an explosive day in the life of Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The community will never be the same again.

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Based on a John le Carre novel and directed by Sidney Lumet, 'The Deadly Affair' is a cold war thriller centred in the world of espionage. When foreign Office official Samuel Fennan and his wife (Simone Signoret) are anonymously accused of Communist affiliations, their world is turned upside down.

Fennan is subsequently found dead from an apparent suicide, although Secret Service agent Charles Dobbs (James Mason) suspects otherwise. When Dobbs' suspicions hit a dead end with his superior officer, the veteran agent decides to resign his government post and join forces with retired CID inspector Mendel (Harry Andrews). As the two men continue their pursuit of the truth, their investigation unearths a spy ring and much more than they ever expected along the way.

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After the brutal murder of two British agents, secret agent Quiller (George Segal) is assigned to West Berlin where he must uncover the operations of the mysterious neo-Nazi organisation believed responsible. His methods of exposing this menace are as unorthodox as the ruthless men he encounters.

His investigations lead him to school where he falls for beautiful teacher, Inge. Soon after this encounter he is brought before the menacing "Oktober", Reichsfuhrer the man in charge of the new Nazis. A dangerous game ensues of uncovering the truth, but at what cost?

Grieving for the loss of their infant son, a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) retreat to the solace of their remote woodland cabin to repair their troubled marriage. But once there, nature itself turns against them and a terrifying journey into violence and chaos begins.

1976: A timid sound engineer (Toby Jones) arrives in Italy to work on a mysterious horror film, mixing bloodcurdling screams with the grotesque sounds of hacked vegetables. But as the onscreen violence seeps into his consciousness reality and fantasy become blurred and a nightmare starts to awake...

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Humphrey Bogart stars as an American who gets caught up with a warlord and missionaries in China in the late 1940s. Humphrey Bogart stars as Joe Brody, an American fighter pilot turned adventurer in 1947 China. To escape the wrath of a savage warlord (Lee J. Cobb), he masquerades as a man of God.

While hiding out in a remote Catholic mission, Brody finds he is comfortable posing as a priest and restores some order to the feuding villages in the area. However things change when he falls in love with a beautiful nurse, Anne (Gene Tierney) who, though ashamed of her feelings, is drawn to him. When the warlord catches up with him, Bogart must take the most desperate gamble of his life.

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Tetsu (Tetsuya Watari) and his boss Kurata (Ryûji Kita) want to put their life of crime behind them and go straight.

But the past is not so easy to escape and when Kurata comes under threat from old adversaries, loyalties soon draw his number one bodyguard back into a world of gangland rivalry and bloodshead.

While a police-eluding serial killer prowls the New York streets, newspaper publisher Walter Kyne pits his three top newsmen against each other to catch the maniac and scoop the story, but in the ensuing chase the hounds become entangled in professional rivalry and romantic complications - with deadly consequences.