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Three classic films starring and directing Buster Keaton.

Our Hospitality (1923)

Keaton is luckless William McKay, who must journey down South to view his lacklustre inheritance, only to be seduced along the way by one of the Canfields, Virginia, who lures him to her family's house so that the men of the clan can shoot him down. But William knows that the Canfield men won't kill him as long as he's in their house, so he endeavours to stay put there, against all obstacles.
Go West (1925)
Friendless abandons city life to ride the rails to an Arizona ranch, where his ineptitude at almost everything only makes his nickname even more accurate. But when his one beloved companion, a cow named Brown Eyes, seems to be headed to a slaughterhouse fate, Friendless intervenes, and the resulting cattle stampede through the streets of Los Angeles is one of Keaton's most understandably famous and acclaimed sequences.
College (1927)
Keaton is bookworm Ronald; whose high school girl Mary ditches him for someone with the athletic prowess that Ronald lacks. Determined to win her back, Ronald enters college with an eye on sports, but two left feet.

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Joe (Khalil Ben Gharbia) is about to be released from a detention centre. Should the judge approve his discharge, he will return to society and an uncertain life on the other side of the security fence.

But when a new detainee, William (Julien De Saint Jean), arrives in his facility, Joe starts to question his desire for freedom. 'The Lost Boys' is a compelling and sensitively observed portrait of burgeoning masculinity and sexuality.

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When callous thugs beat Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) senseless and viciously murder the gorgeous blonde he's been trying to help, the hard-boiled detective retaliates the only way he can: by hitting first and asking questions later.

Cutting a brutal swathe through the city's sleazy underside, Hammer uncovers a mysterious black container whose deadly contents not only solve the murder...but trigger an apocalyptic climax as well!

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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..

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Dante, a hind but somewhat naive school bus driver, falls in love with the beautiful and sophisticated Maria. Strangely, Maria seems equally enamoured of Dante and asks him to join her in Palermo.

There's only one problem, Maria is married to the Mafioso, Johnny "The Toothpick" Stecchino, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the hapless bus driver...

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A perfect stranger. The boy next door. A sparring partner. A friend from abroad.

'Boys on Film' presents eight encounters from across the globe, where the dangerous allure of a risky attraction yields emotional results - proving that the age-old adage of taking the plunge is as relevant - and sexy - as ever before.

My Uncle's Friend (2021/Brazil)
A man reflects on his childhood through old recordings from his father's camcorder. He fondly remembers one person in particular.
Chaperone (2022/USA)
An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. Driving to a secluded house, the details of their arrangement become frighteningly apparent.
Red Ants Bite (2019/Georgia)
Two men navigate the city of Tbilisi after a long night out. As day breaks, the true colours of their ambiguous relationship begin to show.
Budapest Closed City (2021/Hungary)
Hungarian teenager Peter (Péter Dániel Katona) takes his British friend, Adam (Adam Wadsworth), on a personal but political tour around his hometown of Budapest.
Break Me (2018/Norway)
A young Muslim cage fighter must choose between his head and his heart after his father discovers the truth about him.
Hornbeam (2022/UK)
Under cover of darkness, two strangers form an intimate bond over a shared secret. But how well do they really know each other?
Eden (2020/Belgium)
A restless young man in search of a connection roams the pulsating gay hotspots of a metropolis brimming with shadows and bodies.
By His Will (2021/Israel)
Young teen Elisha (Ido Tako), dealing with his attraction to men, is torn between two worlds: the religious, from which he comes, and the secular.
Jim (2021/UK)
London, 1982. Father Jim Fitzsimmons (Gary Fannin) waits nervously in the dark across the street from a line of rent boys. Among them, Simon (Cary Ryan) stands out.
Too Rough (2022/UK)
After a night of intoxication, Nick (Ruaridh Mollica) wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie (Joshua Griffin) and must conceal him from his dysfunctional family.

After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer Finn (Campino) almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman Flavia (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) help him calm himself down?

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Frank Skinner has created and started in a succession of hit comedy shows including The Frank Skinner Show, Fantasy Football, and Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned.

As well as live stand up and television, Frank has starred in London's West End, written a best-selling autobiography, had three number one hits with the iconic football anthem Three Lions, and created yet another number one hit with Baddiel And Skinners World Cup podcasts. Frank Skinner returned to live stand up in 2007 with his fifth sell-out tour of the UK, a decade since he played his last major live gig.

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A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery.

When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's masterful film - novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson - quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.

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During a long hot summer in south London, Jamie (Glen Berry) is bunking off school more than usual, scurrying back to the TV and the flat on the Thamesmead estate where he lives with his mother Sandra (Linda Henry).

Meanwhile his neighbour Leah (Tameka Empson), who's been kicked out of school, spends her days listening to Mama Cass records. In the same block is Jamie's sporty classmate Ste (Scott Neal), whose home life is punctuated by the regular beatings he receives from both his father and brother. One night, in a bid to escape the violence, Ste takes refuge in Sandra's flat and sleeps head to toe with Jamie. As Sandra struggles with a job promotion and her relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony (Ben Daniels), Jamie and Ste gradually discover their affection for each other.

Wall Street trader Jerry (Fredric March) is in love with his secretary, Julia (Claudette Colbert), but she turns him down to marry Philip (Monroe Owsley). A year later, realising the mistake she has made, she borrows money from Jerry, leading Philip to become dangerously jealous...

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This masterpiece by the acclaimed Italian director Marco Bellocchio tells the extraordinary story of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's secret mistress and her struggle for recognition.

Giovanna Mezzogiorno gives a raw and powerful performance as Ida Dalser, the woman loved by Mussolini and who bore him a son, only to be denied and erased from II Duce's official biography. Rising star Filippo Timi is superb as the young dictator whose ruthless ambition knows no bounds.

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From the Louvre to Buckingham Palace, to the gutters of Paris to the siege of La Rochelle…In a kingdom divided by religious wars and under threat of British invasion, a handful of men and women will battle and tie their fate to that of France.

'The Three Musketeers: Milady' Constance (Lyna Khoudri) is kidnapped before D'Artagnan's eyes. In a frantic quest to save her, the young musketeer is forced to join forces with the mysterious Milady de Winter (Eva Green). But as war is declared and Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmaï) and Aramis (Romain Duris) have already joined the front, a terrible secret from the past shatters all old alliances. As the King (Louis Garrel) falls further and further under the control of Cardinal Richelieu (Eric Ruf), D'Artagnan (François Civil) and the Musketeers are the last bastions before chaos. But, drawn into a plot that threatens to put the country to fire and sword, fate presents them with a terrible choice: will they have to sacrifice those they love to complete their mission?

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Clay Douglas (Ray Milland) arrives in London to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, who served as a Commando with the British Forces.

Suspecting it was not a German bullet that killed his brother, Clay's investigations uncover the fact that there was a mysterious thirteenth member of the raiding party...

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Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel star as Johnny Boy and Charlie; Italian-American cousins and small time criminals hustling, fighting and carousing, doing whatever it takes to survive in the mean streets of New York.

Johnny Boy spends his life getting into trouble, leaving Charlie to get him out of it. Charlie wants to rise up in the local mafia, but when Johnny Boy reneges on a debt, the local loan shark seeks revenge.