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Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, a.k.a. the hugely popular comedy duo Key and Peele, star as Clarence and Rell, two cousins who live in the city but are far from streetwise. When Rell's beloved kitten, Keanu, is catnapped, the hopelessly straight-laced pair must impersonate ruthless killers in order to infiltrate a street gang and retrieve the purloined feline. But the incredibly adorable kitten becomes so coveted that the fight over his custody creates a gang war, forcing our two unwitting heroes to take the law into their own hands. - Director:
- Peter Atencio
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele
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Rita (Julie Walters), a hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to Denny (Malcolm Douglas), and at 26 doesn't want a baby. She wants to discover herself - so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is a disillusioned university professor of literature. His marriage has failed, his girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without drowning a bottle or two of whiskey. He refers to himself as an appalling teacher of appalling students. What Frank needs is a challenge...along comes Rita. In this hilarious and often moving drama, the story tells how two people find a new lease of life through each other. - Director:
- Lewis Gilbert
- Cast:
- Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams
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Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch), a young university researcher, is sent to a country manor house in rural Shropshire to verify an ancient artifact that a family has uncovered during the renovation of their home. However, the artifact has a cursed history and it soon becomes apparent that the house holds a dark secret. While Isabelle sets to work verifying the object she becomes the obsession of the owner's dangerous daughter, Scarlet (Florence Cady), and they develop a strange sexual attraction. A chance finding of a 200 year old journal confirms Isabelle's suspicions that die family are not the only residents of the house and that there is something much darker lurking within its foreboding walls. Uncovering the truth, she finds herself trapped in the clutches of the house's malevolent occupants. - Director:
- Iain Ross-McNamee
- Cast:
- Babette Barat, Florence Cady, Angela Carter
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Growing up in the sheltered society of 1920s England, Gudrun (Jackson) and Ursula (Jennie Linden) know little about the ways of love. So when they pursue thrilling, torrid affairs with a notorious playboy (Alan Bates) and a brooding philanderer (Oliver Reed), what they discover about their lovers, and themselves, may be all consuming - and dangerously volatile - than they ever dared imagine. - Director:
- Ken Russell
- Cast:
- Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
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Based on Kevin Kwan's best-selling novel, "Crazy Rich Asians" follows New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend's wedding in Singapore and meets Nick's family for the first time. It soon becomes clear that the only thing crazier than love is family. - Director:
- Jon M. Chu
- Cast:
- Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh
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Loveless (2017)Nelyubov
Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin) are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page - even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov). Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears. - Director:
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast:
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin
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Double bill of classic comedy featuring Lou Abbott and Bud Costello.
Meet the KillerCasey Edwards (Bud Abbott) works as a house detective and Freddie Phillips (Lou Costello) as a bellboy at Lost Caverns Resort Hotel when a murder takes place. The hotel manager (Alan Mowbray) believes Freddie is the killer and several of the guests, all of whom have shady pasts, decide to make Freddie the fall guy. Swami Taipur (Boris Karloff), an Indian fakir, tries to hypnotise Freddie into signing a full confession and killing himself but Freddie is too dumb to be hypnotised...
Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello), two American police officers studying London police methods, begin a search for a monster who is terrorising London at the turn of the century, and meet Vicky Edwards (Helen Westcott), a militant suffragette and her admirer, Bruce Adams (Craig Stevens), a newspaper reporter. Vicky's guardian, Dr. Jekyll (Boris Karloff), conducts experiments in a laboratory at his home aided by a zombie-like character named Batley (John Dierkes).- Director:
- Charles Lamont
- Cast:
- Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
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Browning, a former circus contortionist, cast reai-life sideshow professionals. A living torso who, nimbly fights his own cigarette despite having no arms or legs, microcephalics (whom the film calls "pinheads")-they and others play the big-top troupers who inflict a terrible revenge on a trapeze artist who treats them as subhumans. - Director:
- Tod Browning
- Cast:
- Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
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This is a thousand percent a true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem absolutely lost its mind. High school senior Lily (Odessa Young) and her three best friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies, and chats - just like the rest of the world. Their small town gets turned upside down when an anonymous hacker starts to reveal personal messages and secrets of thousands of people. As anger erupts into full-blown violence, the four girls soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an armed mob. - Director:
- Sam Levinson
- Cast:
- Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse
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Peter Greenaway became a director of international status with this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery. In an apparently idyllic 17th century Wiltshire, an ambitious draughtsman is commissioned by the wife of an aristocrat to produce twelve drawings of her husband's estate, in return for which he will receive payment, board and bed - hers. Extravagant costumes, a twisting plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a score by Michael Nyman make the film a treat for ear, eye and mind. - Director:
- Peter Greenaway
- Cast:
- Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)Untitled Freddie Mercury Biopic
Bohemian Rhapsody is an enthralling celebration of Queen, their music, and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), who defied stereotypes and convention to become one of history's most beloved entertainers. Following Queen's meteoric rise, their revolutionary sound and Freddie's solo career, the film also chronicles the band's reunion, and one of the greatest performances in rock history. - Director:
- Bryan Singer
- Cast:
- Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee
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The year is 2293. Society as we know it has broken down centuries ago with the Earth's population split into three classes: the Brutals, who work the land and are forbidden from reproducing; their overseers, the Executioners; and the highly civilised Eternals, who are protected from the outside world by a force-field. But when an Executioner, Zed (Sean Connery), smuggles himself into their isolated paradise, he risks unbalancing the system and threatening the status quo... - Director:
- John Boorman
- Cast:
- Sean Connery, Reginald Jarman, Charlotte Rampling
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Charming comedy about the mostly true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) - from his daring prison escape at age 70 to an unprecedented string of bank heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who is captivated by Forrest's commitment to his craft, and jewel (Sissy Spacek), the woman who loves him despite his criminal ways. - Director:
- David Lowery
- Cast:
- Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek
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In 1943, two intelligence officers from the Royal Navy (Clifton Webb, Robert Flemyng) attempt to pull off the most daring espionage mission of the Second World War. The Allies are about to invade Sicily - but the Germans must be convinced that their real target is Greece. A briefcase containing plans for the fake invasion is attached to a body dressed as a British major and given an elaborate false identity. The 'man who never was' is then left at sea for the Germans to find. However, Nazi intelligence believes that the find may be just too good to be true - and a desperate cat-and-mouse game begins in the heart of war torn London... - Director:
- Ronald Neame
- Cast:
- Peter Sellers, Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame
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The second coming is upon us, and Jesus has returned to earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in the daylight. Combining kung-fu action with biblical prophecy and a liberal dose of humour, the film teams the Savior with Mexican wrestling hero El Santos against mythological horrors and science gone mad, and also manages to address contemporary sexual politics. And did we mention that it's a musical? This sure ain't Sunday School. - Director:
- Lee Demarbre
- Cast:
- Phil Caracas, Murielle Varhelyi, Maria Moulton
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