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The Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock creates a spellbinding portrait of a disturbed woman, and the man who tries to save her, in this unrelenting psychological thriller. 'Tippi' Hedren is Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar who goes to work for Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), then attempts to rob him. Mark impulsively marries the troubled beauty and attempts to discover the reasons for her obsessive behaviour. When a terrible accident pushes his wife to the edge, Mark forces Marnie to confront her terrors and her past in a shattering, inescapable conclusion. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel
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"The Wrong Man" is like and unlike any other Alfred Hitchcock movie. The story packs tension, the images are spellbinding and the dilemma genuinely frightening. But this time the master of suspense dramatizes the harrowing true experiences of a man tried for crimes committed by a lookalike robber. Henry Fonda plays musician Manny Balestrero, a man full of visible but unspoken rage at his wrongful arrest. Vera Miles is his distraught wife Rose, driven to madness by the ordeal. And the right man to bring the unsettling facts of the case to vivid screen life with documentary precision is Hitchcock. He made New York City a star of the film and cast real-life Balestrero case witnesses in small roles. He shot in many actual locations, among them the Stork Club, Manny's jail cell and Rose's sanitarium. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Henry Fonda, Frances Reid, Vera Miles
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'The Big Crunch' is the fifth story from the internationally acclaimed series 'Cracker', winner of two BAFTA Awards, and created by the celebrated writer Jimmy McGovern. Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) is a brilliant Criminal Psychologist with a dark side - a side dependent on a cocktail of alcohol and gambling. He lectures at the local university and profiles suspects for the Manchester Police Force. An illicit rendezvous witnessed in a park initially appears to be a clear case of adultery, but on closer inspection a darker picture develops. A man abuses his position of trust to recruit young girls into his religious sect. Morality is turned on its head when an innocent young girl is 'punished' for the wrong doings of her 'priest'. Bearing all the symbolism of the serpent rearing its ugly head in the Garden of Eden, a world of religious fanaticism, hypocrisy and perversity unfolds. Appearances prove to be deceptive as Fitz attempts to unearth the most sinister truths behind the religious facade with spine-chilling consequences. - Director:
- Julian Jarrold
- Cast:
- Robbie Coltrane, Barbara Flynn, Barbara Flynn
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I Confess (1953)Alfred Hitchcock's 'I Confess!'
In Alfred Hitchcock's 'I Confess', Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift), apparently a model of clerical piety, hears a killer's confession. Eyewitnesses point to a priest as the murderer, and the sacrament of penance forbids Logan to speak out - even in his own defense - when circumstantial evidence targets Logan as the prime suspect! Academy Award winners Anne Baxter and Karl Malden costar as a former flame and a police inspector whose attempts to clear Logan only entrap him further. Filmed in Quebec on locations highlighting that city's Old World traditions, 'I Confess' races toward a climax that's unforgettable. And in true Hitchcock fashion, you'll confess to being hooked all the way. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
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Recently orphaned Mary Yellan (Maureen O'Hara in her first major film role) arrives at Jamaica Inn from Ireland to live with her aunt. Unaware that it serves as the headquarters for a murderous gang responsible for shipwrecks along the Cornish coast, she soon finds herself embroiled in backstabbing, conspiracy and villainy presided over by the local squire, Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton). - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton
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Karl Verloc (Oskar Homolka), manager of a London cinema, is secretly involved with a gang of European saboteurs who are plotting a massive bomb attack in Piccadilly Circus. With the police already suspicious of Verloc, they place an undercover detective on his trail - can he bring the saboteurs to justice before they perpetrate their outrage on London? - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
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Alfred Hitchcock's exciting 1942 wartime thriller starring Robert Cummings as a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent. During the deadly explosion, Cumming's best friend is killed and he, himself, is wrongly accused of sabotage. To clear his name, Cummings begins a relentless cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall, and finally to a harrowing confrontation a top the Statue of Liberty. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
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This rare Hitchcock costume drama unfolds in 1831 Sydney, Australia and concerns Irish noblewoman Lady Henrietta Flusky and her working-class husband Sam whom are escaping a secret and tragic past. Cotton has become a man of wealth but is not accepted socially and Lady Henrietta is a raging alcoholic and verging on madness, enter Hon. Charles Adare whom she had known in Ireland an a passionate love triangle ensues as their tragic past is revealed. Under Capricorn had a troubled production due to Bergman's infamous love affair with the Italian director Robert Rossellini which resulted in her exile from Hollywood, but nevertheless it is an underrated masterpiece that is surely on of the best 'costume' films of the 1940's. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding
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A seminal figure in the world of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock produced some of the most famous films ever made. "I Am Alfred Hitchcock" delves deep into the man behind the camera, exploring his infamous controlling personality and his complex, fascinating relationships with his family and his muses. A genius director whose legacy in cinema casts a long shadow and continues to inspire, we learn what influenced him and how this eccentric outsider tore up the rule book and become a legend of film. - Director:
- Joel Ashton McCarthy
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- Ingrid Bergman, Tere Carrubba, William Friedkin
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Reunite with the "Master of Suspense". Alfred Hitchcock, for more of the mind-boggling twists and devious thrills synonymous with one of TV's greatest shows, 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'. In the fifth season, delve into 38 stories of greed, larceny, revenge and murder where every character holds a guilty secret and a misleading "MacGuffin" lurks in every corner. Featuring some of Hollywood's brightest guest stars, including Walter Matthau, Steve McQueen. Peter Lorre, Dick Van Dyke. William Shatner and Burt Reynolds, it's five discs of delicious mysteries from the icon whose highest hope for his audience was 'to give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up for a nightmare'. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Harvey, Hazel Court
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A Brighter Summer Day (1991)Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian
Among the most highly praised titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, was unavailable for years and much sought after. Set in the early 1960s, 'A Brighter Summer Day' is based on the true story of a crime that rocked Taiwan. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual but inexorable fall of a young teenager (Chang Chen, in his first role) from innocence to delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil. - Director:
- Edward Yang
- Cast:
- Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang
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In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall (Charles Laughton) meets young Mary Gray (Ella Raines), who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him with exposure and scandal, driving him to kill her. Thereafter, fortune seems to smile on Philip Marshall; but does fate have a surprise in store? - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens
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When Uncle Charlie comes to visit his relatives in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa, the foundation is laid for one of his most engaging and suspenseful excursions. Joseph Cotten stars as the charming Uncle Charlie, a beguiling killer who travels from Philadelphia to California just one step ahead of the law. But soon his unknowing niece and namesake, "Young Charlie" (Teresa Wright), begins to suspect her uncle of being the Merry Widow murderer, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins. As his niece draws closer to the truth, the psychopathic killer has no choice but to plot the death of his favourite relative in one of Hitchcock's most riveting psychological thrillers. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
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The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)El Secreto De Sus Ojos
When a retired criminal prosecutor decides to try his hand at writing a novel he finds himself inextricably drawn into the harrowing events of an unsolved crime. Re-investigating the brutal rape and murder of a beautiful woman he discovers devastated lives, corrupt government officials and a lost love. But as he delves deeper he finds himself at the dark heart of society, where mysteries lurk in the shadows and danger waits around every corner. - Director:
- Juan José Campanella
- Cast:
- Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago
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On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College took a trip to Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During that idyllic sun-drenched afternoon some of the party left the rest of the group and having climbed higher, stopped to rest and fell asleep. They awoke as though still in a dream and silently ventured further through a passage in the imposing rock face. Some of the girls were never seen again. - Director:
- Peter Weir
- Cast:
- Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray
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