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After a day of auditions for the female lead in his new play, writer-director Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) hasn't found anyone suited to the role.

As he is about to leave a brash, unschooled actress named Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner) unexpectedly bursts in and Thomas reluctantly agrees to let her try out for the part. Within seconds he is stunned by her immediate transformation into a living apparition of his character. But as the likeness begins to appear to be much more than skin-deep and the extended audition builds momentum, Thomas moves from attraction to obsession...

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After serving a sentence for drug dealing, Terry is released from prison. However, he is in no mood for reintegration and decides that society must be punished for treating him unjustly.

Terry sets about recruiting a team of outcasts, all of whom are either sadistic enough or stupid enough to follow his unorthodox orders. Ken is a psychopath who was sent to an asylum after he was found sodomising a calf at the slaughterhouse where he worked. Bill is impressionable and easily manipulated, while Kathy and Patricia prove to be greedy enough to allow Terry to manipulate with promises of financial reward. With his team assembled, Terry sets to work finding the unsuspecting victims to play in his film productions, each of which will record the vicious and brutal death of its star. With twisted minds at work, soon the frame will be filled with real images of branding, amputation and dismemberment using an array of tools, from power drills to pliers.

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Based upon the career of UFA studio star Sybille Schmitz and influenced by Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, Fassbinder’s savage satire stars Rosel Zech as forgotten screen icon Veronika Voss.

Dreaming of a triumphant return to the glories of her past, she encounters journalist Robert Krohm (Hilmar Thate), a younger man who falls under the spell of her still-alluring beauty. As the two embark upon an affair, Krohm begins to uncover the true tragedy of Veronika’s life.

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Reeling from the suicide of this ex-lover Armin Meier, Fassbinder poured his energies into one of his most remarkably personal films, "In a Year of Thirteen Moons".

Volker Spengler gives an extraordinary performance as the transgendered Elvira, a man who has become a woman in a desperate bid to please a former lover (Gottfried John). Relaying various episodes from Elvira’s life, Fassbinder’s film is an intense and powerful exploration of loss and compassion that numbers among his very finest achievements.

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How many times have you been in a restaurant and instead of a waitress, you got an actress? Carol Bever, Jim Harris and Carol Drake (along with special appearances by Chris Noth of 'Law and Order' and 'Sex In The City' and David Letterman's Larry 'Bud' Melman) star in this raunchy comedy about a

would-be actress, a teen magazine reporter and a pre-pubescent prep-school girl. Picture three waitresses in a crazy restaurant where there is chaos among the customers, an exploding kitchen and a drunken chef. Make sure you have an appetite for a lot of laughs... and lots of turn-ons!!!

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Dr. Charles Marlowe (Christopher Lee) has dedicated his life to the healing of disturbed minds.

Marlowe rejects the findings of Freud in his recently published papers for being too slow and decides to explore a more immediate and physical cure for his patients problems, namely character modifying drugs. To his solicitor Utterson (Peter Cushing) and friend Dr. Lanyon (Richard Hurndall) the Doctor confides that his experiments are causing some unpredictable character changes in his subjects - he daren't continue the experiments on others and decides to use himself as his test subject, with astounding and bloody consequences....

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A sinister and enthralling mystery thriller adapted from the novel by crime and suspense writer Agatha Christie. Starring Hayley Mills as an affluent heiress who marries a mysterious and charming chauffeur.

Soon after moving into their dream house strange things begin to happen, culminating in a tragic death. Murderous twists and thrilling turns with a stunning climax set to shock even the most devoted Christie fans.

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After his wife leaves him, a film director (ostensibly Antonioni's alter-ego, played by Tomas Milian) enters into a passionate affair with a striking young aristocratic woman (Daniela Silverio).

Soon a stranger warns him, with threats, to stop seeing her and some weeks later, after a lover's row, she vanishes...Whilst searching for her, he meets a beautiful young actress (Christine Boisson), whose curiosity is piqued to find the missing woman...

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Filmed in Germany, during Bergman's tax-related exile with a predominantly German cast and crew, 'From the Life of the Marionettes' continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in 'Scenes from a Marriage'.

This is an unusually raw and explicit drama in which all the scenes are shot in black and white except the opening sequence and the epilogue. Peter Egermann (Robert Atzorn), outwardly stable and well adjusted, suffers from depression, feelings of sexual inadequacy, and barely suppressed rage toward his wife, Katarina (Christine Buchegger). This eventually leads to the brutal rape and murder of a prostitute, known only as Ka, a nickname for Katarina.

A jealous businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair and hires an eccentric private detective to investigate. The suspected infidelity, however, is not what it appears, and an elaborate game of cat and mouse ensues...

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"Fanny and Alexander" is Bergman's dreamlike family chronicle. The Ekdahl's are an upper-middle-class theatrical family sheltered by their own theatrics from the deepening chaos of the outside world.

One tumultuous year in the life of the Ekdahl family is viewed through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve), whose imagination fuels the magical goings-on leading up to and following the death of his father. His mother's remarriage to a stern prelate banishes Alexander and his sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) from all known joys, and thrusts them and the movie into a kind of gothic horror. The bishop is a Bergmanesque character whose severity has gone awry - he has become sinister - and the film's round rejection of him in favour of "kindness, affection and goodness" may be Bergman's fondest farewell to cinema.

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One of the landmarks of Polish cinema, this film is based on the documented story of the 'possession' of a group of nuns that led to the burning of a priest at the stake in Loudun, France in 1634.

Mother Joan of the Angels is a spare, visually rigorous, and profoundly disturbing exploration of faith, repression, fanaticism, and eros. Anyone who is a fan of classics of the strange will find much to savour in Mother Joan Of the Angels.

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Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau. He is a renowned author and 'public intellectual'; she is 'the wife.

' Over the course of one day and the night into which it inevitably bleeds, the pair will come to re-examine their emotional bonds, and grapple with the question of whether love and communication are even possible in a world built out of profligate idylls and sexual hysteria.

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Fassbinder's first international success observes middle-class conformity and alienation with a finely judged balance of empathy and dark satire. Mild-mannered Herr R. works in an architectural practice and lives with his wife and son.

His time is spent ambling through the monotony of his daily routine and indulging in meaningless small talk. But one shocking evening, Herr R. finds he can take no more.

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An intimate exploration of a disintergrating marriage, this powerful drama features faultless performances from two of Bergman's greatest acting collaborators - Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.

When Marraine (Liv Ullmann) discovers that her husband, Johan (Erland Josephson), is involved with a younger woman she re-evaluates her life and the importance of her marriage. Time passes, their relationship changes and the couple divorce. Then - years later - they have an illicit affair during which they talk with frankness and understanding about their feelings for one another.