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Nick and Nora Charles cordially invite you to bring your own alibi to The Thin Man, the jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing, Bantering in the boudoir, enjoying walks with beloved dog Asta or matching each other highball for highball and clue for

clue, they combined screwball romance with mystery. The resulting triumph nabbed four Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and spawned five sequels. Credit W.S. " Woody" Van Dyke for recognizing that Powell and Loy were ideal together and for getting the studio's okay by promising to shoot this splendid adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel in three weeks. He took 12 days. They didn't call him "One-Take Woody" for nothing.

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Later adapted as 'My Fair Lady' George Bernard Shaw's wonderful comedy of manners is given its finest screen outing in this 1938 production. Nominated for four Oscars, Shaw himself was one of the recipients of the award for best screenplay.

Snobbish Professor Higgins has a wager with his friend Colonel Pickering that with the right instruction he can pass off cockney 'gutter-snipe' Eliza Doolittle as a 'lady' among high society. Taken under his wing Eliza is given rigorous coaching in elocution and manners in preparation for the ultimate test, her appearance at an ambassador's reception.

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Ginger Rogers stars as a young lady determined to shake up polite society! Ginger plays Mary Grey, cheerful but unemployed. Wandering in central park, she meets and befriends Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly). Alfred's a millionaire but money can't buy him happiness - his family all ignore him.

Wanting to spice things up, he hires Mary to pose as his mistress but even he isn't prepared for the hilarious consequences that will ensue!

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Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony Jr. A mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home. A hot headed uncle. A not-too-secret mistress.

And a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss. These days, it's getting tougher and tougher to make a killing in the killing business. Just because you're made ...doesn't mean you've got it made.

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Film Director Preston Sturges applied his talents to a dramatic, but not without some humour, biography of an American dental surgeon, WTG Morton (Joel McCrea) who was one of the pioneers in the use of anaesthetics in dentistry, but who gained little reward for his endeavours.

McCrea, by now a Sturges regular, again demonstrates the quality of his acting, which enabled him to remain at the top of his profession until well into the 1970s. The doctor's great contributions to humanity and later tribulations as he shares his knowledge rather than hording it for monetary reward, are laced with typical Preston Sturges humour and insight.

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Deanna Durbin demonstrated her fine comedic skills as well as her unique singing talents in this charming story of a small town girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city.

Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) leaves small town America behind and heads for the bright lights of New York City. She's soon working as a theatre usherette - not quite the same as having her name in lights on Broadway, but at least she's in showbusiness!
Enter the rich and connected J. Conrad Nelson (Adolphe Menjou). He can make her a star - if only she'll succumb to his amorous advances. Naturally, Louise resists him, by pretending she's married to a casual friend of hers. What starts as a simple white lie soon spins completely out of Louise's control, with hilarious consequences for everyone around her.
A cracking romantic comedy musical, I'LL BE YOURS features Deanna Durbin singing "Cobbleskill High School Song", "Love's Old Sweet Song", "Granada", "Brahm's Lullaby" and an enthralling rendition of "It's Dreamtime"

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At the height of the 1944 Doodlebug offensive, a local postman is brought to an emergency hospital near London. His wounds aren't severe but he mysteriously dies on the operating table. The theatre sister, one of six hospital staff in attendance, stumbles across evidence that the man was murdered...

but she is stabbed to death before she can tell the police what she knows. Called in from Scotland Yard to investigate the crime, Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim) finds that each of the remaining suspects has an excellent motive for committing both murders. By staging a mock operation, with the five suspects in attendance, he reconstructs the circumstances of the postman's death and dramatically unmasks the killer...

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When fleeing Paris after the German invasion, Georg (Franz Rogowski) escapes to Marseille assuming the identity of a dead author whose papers he possesses. With nowhere to turn, he is confined to the corridors of a small hotel, the consulates, cafes and bars that line the harbour.

Everything changes when Georg falls in love with the mysterious Marie (Paula Beer) who is desperate to find her missing husband. Based on the eponymous novel by Anna Seghers, film tells the story of a nearly impossible love amid escape, exile and a longing for a place to call home.

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Comedy director John Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to give up his life of luxury and sets off on the road to research how the other half live. He plans to make "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?", a somber, social conscious movie inspired by his experiences of poverty and desperation.

A chance encounter with failed starlet (Veronica Lake) enables him to escape the studio publicity machine and learn at first hand the true value of entertainment.

During World War II, a group of G.I.'s are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. For the most part, they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them.

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From the team behind the worldwide success 'The Beatles: 8 Days a Week', comes Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard's documentary celebrating the life of the beloved opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who sold over 100 million records in his lifetime.

Thanks to a partnership with Decca Records and unique access to the Pavarotti family archives, home videos, behind the scenes and extensive live music footage, we see Pavarotti's personal story emerge: from his humble beginnings in Northern Italy through to global superstardom.

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Hotshot reporter Frank Burdon is thrilled to land a job at the only newspaper in the wee Scottish town of Baikie. His first assignment is to interview the local politician, wealthy William Gow, who is running for Parliament.

Burdon is shocked to find that despite Gow's glowing reputation, the man is totally insensitive. The final straw comes when the politician refuses to speak to a destitute ice cream vendor whose dog he impounded when she could no longer afford to pay the license. Indignant, Burdon's puff piece begins to take another direction... Despite himself, Burdon can't help but fall for Gow's beautiful daughter Vickie. When his piece breaks, hundreds of British press descend on the tiny town. When a pack of impounded dogs including the ice cream vendor's hound are set free, how will Burdon prove his innocence? This rare British foray into the Screwball genre sees Rex Harrison take his first starring role. If you don't watch 'Storm in a Teacup' for the hilarious script, impeccable acting, adorable doggy talent or fascinating anti-fascist undercurrents, watch it to see two burgeoning Hollywood icons at the very start of their huge careers!

When General Oleary (A.E. Matthews) goes to meet his maker after an unfortunate hunting mishap, his Irish estate is bequeathed to a distant relative, Jasper (David Niven). Jasper's new-broom tactics soon annoy the locals, however, and it's not too long before they decide he has to be "removed"...

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In 1939, the editor of the New York Daily Globe sends Haverstock, a crime reporter, into Europe in the hope of getting a fresh angle.

Naive and wholly ignorant of international affairs, Haverstock launches himself eagerly onto the London scene, where he meets and falls in love with Carol Fisher (Laraine Day), whose father heads an important peace organisation. Before long, Haverstock witnesses the assassination of a Dutch diplomat at terrifying close hand. Hot on the trail of the killer, he soon finds himself deeply embroiled in the evil workings of an international spy ring.

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Tom Volf's 'Maria by Callas' is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek/American opera singer completely in her own words.

Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs - nearly all of which have never been shown to the public - the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time. Assembling the material for the film took director Volf four years of painstaking research.