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Based on true events, Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis—the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades. On November 4, 1979, as the Iranian revolution reaches its boiling point, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 Americans hostage. But, in the midst of the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the six are found out and likely killed, a CIA “exfiltration” specialist named Tony Mendez comes up with a risky plan to get them safely out of the country. A plan so incredible, it could only happen in the movies.
Academy Award Winner
All ten episodes of the American drama starring Michael C. Hall as a
former police forensics expert who moonlighted as an avenging serial
killer. Ten years after faking his own death, Dexter (Hall) is living a
quiet life in Iron Lake, New York under the assumed identity of Jim
Lindsay.
Howard Vernon returns as the demented Dr Orloff, who, in this chiller, creates an invisible human in order to kidnap his partner's daughter, with whom he's obsessed.
South Korean horror. In order to achieve their dream of travelling to Europe, two teenage girls start up their own prostitution business so they can save up the money they need. When one of the girls is killed in a police raid, the other undergoes a lengthy period of penance, and travels with the dead girl's father on a trip in the hope of gaining redemption.
Cry, the Beloved Country is the BAFTA nominated film of the acclaimed novel by Alan Paton. A black minister, Stephen Kumalo lives a quiet life as a parish priest in the back country of South Africa. When his son, Absolom, leaves the small valley where he grew up for the bright lights of the city, he goes missing. After several months of silence, the minister goes to search for him and comes face to face with the squalor and poverty of the Johannesburg slums. Reverend Msimangu is a young clergyman who joins him in his search, but neither are prepared for what they will discover.
Fourth volume of episodes from the Italian crime drama based on the series of novels by Andrea Camilleri. Salvo Montalbano (Luca Zingaretti) plays a key role maintaining law and order in the town of Vigata in Sicily. Navigating his way around the fraught terrain of the Italian justice system isn't the only issue faced by Montalbano - his dual indulgences, food and his girlfriend, Livia (Katharina Böhm), often threaten to derail him. The episodes are: 'August Flame', 'The Wings of the Sphinx', 'Track of Sand' and 'Paper Moon'.
From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, this triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston is a no-holds-barred portrait of the complex and multifaceted woman behind the voice of a generation. Follow the inspirational, poignant—and so emotional—journey through Houston's trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon's most beloved hits as you've never heard them before.
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From David Cronenberg, the master of body horror, comes a beguiling new tale. As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Better Call Saul's final season concludes the complicated journey and transformation of it's compromised hero, Jimmy McGill into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. From the cartel to the courthouse, from Albuquerque to Omaha, season six tracks Jimmy, Saul and Gene as well as Jimmy's complex relationship with Kim, who is in the midst of her own existential crisis. Meanwhile, Mike, Gus, Nacho and Lalo are locked into a game of cat and mouse with mortal stakes.
Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family - power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Brothers Mitch and MikeMcClusky function as brokers between prisoners and the community of Kingstown, Michigan, where prisons operate like big business. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither. As unrest in the prison system reaches a breaking point, the dynamics of the McClusky family also teeters on the brink of chaos.
A sixteen year-old orphan, Sylvie, is sent as a boarder to a special school where the malaise Anglaise is the rule and every misdemeanour an excuse for baring female rumps and administering a sound spanking. The head-mistress is in fact a man in disguise, and Sylvie the pupil soon becomes Sylvie the lover in this bizarre gallic homage to chastisement.
Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin star in this Academy Award-nominated crime comedy drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Private Detective Doc Sportello (Phoenix) is happily getting on with his life when his ex-wife Shasta (Katherine Waterston) shows up at his office with a story that her billionaire boyfriend Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts)'s wife is plotting to kidnap her husband and get him committed to a psychiatric facility so that she can stake a claim on his money. As Doc reluctantly takes on the case he pays a visit to tight-fisted cop Bigfoot Bjornsen (Brolin) to see what he knows about the alleged kidnap victim. The all-star cast also includes Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro and Martin Short.
Belgian director Lucas Belvaux's ambitious debut is a trilogy of films, all set in the same 24-hour period, in which the characters' lives intertwine through a series of cross encounters and unexpected events. In 'One', Marxist revolutionary Bruno (Lucas Belvaux) escapes from prison after a 15-year incarceration, and heads off to settle some old scores and to enjoy a reunion with his beautiful ex-lover (Catherine Frot). But although he is always looking over his shoulder to keep tabs on Pascal, the cop assigned to track him down (Gilbert Melki), Bruno cannot imagine just how close to him Pascal really is. In 'Two', Ornella Muti plays Cecile, a teacher who adores her husband Alain (François Morel). But Alain is a hypochondriac, and, convinced that a routine operation he has to undergo will kill him, he keeps the operation a secret from his adoring wife. Sensing his secrecy, and coming to the conclusion that he must be having an affair, Cecile hires Pascal to track him down - but it isn't long before Pascal has fallen in love with her himself. In 'Three', Pascal finally captures escaped convict Bruno, who it turns out has been sheltered from the law by Pascal's estranged wife, schoolteacher and morphine addict Agnes (Dominique Blanc). His relations with Agnes become even more strained when he admits that he is passionately in love with her friend and colleague, Cecile.
All episodes from all five seasons of the hard-hitting American detective drama following the investigations of Kojak (Telly Savalas), the bald, no-nonsense cop who is never without a lollipop in his hand. Season 1 episodes are: 'Siege of Terror', 'Web of Death', 'One for the Morgue', 'Knockover', 'Girl in the River', 'Requiem for a Cop', 'The Corrupter', 'Dark Sunday', 'Conspiracy of Fear', 'Cop in a Cage', 'Marker to a Dead Bookie', 'Last Rites for a Dead Priest', 'Death Is Not a Passing Grade', 'Die Before They Wake', 'Deliver Us Some Evil', 'Eighteen Hours of Fear', 'Before the Devil Knows', 'Dead On His Feet', 'Down a Long and Lonely River', 'Mojo', 'Therapy in Dynamite' and 'The Only Way Out'. Season 2 episodes are: 'The Chinatown Murders: Part 1', 'The Chinatown Murders: Part 2', 'Hush Now, Don't You Die', 'A Very Deadly Game', 'Wall Street Gunslinger', 'Slay Ride', 'Nursemaid', 'You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler', 'The Best Judge Money Can Buy', 'A Souvenir from Atlantic City', 'A Killing in the Second House', 'The Best War in Town', 'Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die', 'The Betrayal', 'Loser Takes All', 'Close Cover Before Killing', 'Acts of Desperate Men', 'Queen of the Gypsies', 'Night of the Piraeus', 'Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard', 'The Goodluck Bomber', 'Unwanted Partners', 'Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred' and 'I Want to Report a Dream'. Season 3 episodes are: 'A Question of Answers', 'My Brother, My Enemy', 'Sweeter Than Life', 'Be Careful What You Pray For', 'Secret Snow, Deadly Snow', 'Life, Liberation and the Pursuit of Death', 'Out of the Frying Pan...', 'Over the Water', 'The Nicest Guys On the Block', 'No Immunity for Murder', 'A Long Way from Times Square', 'Money Back Guarantee', 'A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves', 'How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars', 'The Forgotten Room', 'On the Edge', 'A Wind from Corsica', 'Bad Dude', 'A Grave Too Soon', 'The Frame', 'Deadly Innocence', 'Justice Deferred' and 'Both Sides of the Law'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Birthday Party', 'A Summer Madness', 'Law Dance', 'Out of the Shadows', 'A Need to Know', 'An Unfair Trade', 'A Hair-Trigger Away', 'By Silence Betrayed', 'A Shield for Murder: Part 1', 'A Shield for Murder: Part 2', 'The Pride and the Princess', 'Black Thorn', 'Where Do You Go When You Have Nowhere to Go?', 'Dead Again', 'The Godson', 'The Condemned', 'When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead', 'I Was Happy Where I Was', 'Kojak's Days: Part 1', 'Kojak's Days: Part 2', 'Monkey On a String', 'Kiss It All Goodbye', 'Lady in the Squad Room', 'Sister Maria' and 'Another Gypsy Queen'. Season 5 episodes are: 'The Queen of Hearts Is Wild', 'A Strange Kind of Love', 'Laid Off', 'Cry for the Kids', 'Once More from Birdland', 'Caper On a Quiet Street', 'Letters of Death', 'Tears for All Who Loved Her', 'The Summer of '69: Part 1', 'The Summer of '69: Part 2', 'Case Without a File', 'I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer', 'Justice for All', 'Mouse', 'Chain of Custody', 'The Captain's Brother's Wife', 'No License to Kill', 'The Halls of Terror', 'May the Horse Be With You', 'Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton', '60 Miles to Hell' and 'In Full Command'.
Dark French thriller. Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas) is a travelling cabaret singer whose van breaks down in the middle of the Ardennes forest on his way to a concert. His luck seems to change when he meets a kindly inn-keeper who offers him shelter while he arranges for his van to be fixed. Unfortunately for Marc, he reminds the inn-keeper of his long-dead wife, and it soon becomes clear that he has no plans to let Marc go. Stuck in the middle of nowhere with no means of escape, Marc's ordeal is only just beginning.
The entire third series of the BBC crime drama set on the tropical Caribbean island of Saint-Marie. When DI Richard Poole (Ben Miller) is discovered murdered the island is shaken to its core. DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) arrives to lead the investigation into his predecessor's death and has a number of suspects in mind. Elsewhere, one of Fidel (Gary Carr)'s old school friends is murdered, prompting another investigation on the lush island.
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Gustaf Molander, this drama is set in neutral Sweden during the Second World War. Bo (Birger Malmsten) is a sailor recently returned from the Navy who starts courting Eva (Eva Stiberg), despite his reawakened feelings of guilt about a childhood accident in which he was responsible for a young girl's death. Although they become happily married, and Eva becomes pregnant, Bo is still plagued by nightmares and guilt, including a dream that he is about to brutally murder his best friend. When Eva is about to give birth, Bo's fear that he will be responsible for another death sends him back to the high seas.
All ten episodes from the first season of the mystery thriller series starring Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore. A modern reimagining and contemporary prequel to the 1960 Hitchcock classic 'Psycho', the series follows the strange relationship between Norman Bates (Highmore) and his overbearing mother Norma (Farmiga). After the recent death of her husband, Norma moves to White Pine Bay, Oregon, with her son to start afresh running a motel business on the Pacific coast. It isn't long before the mother-son relationship becomes something of a community concern, but Norman and Norma both soon realise that White Pine Bay's citizens have many secrets of their own...
Marina de Van writes, directs and stars in this intense and visceral psychological drama about a young woman who spirals into a cycle of physical self-harm. When Esther (de Van), a sweet and self-conscious young woman with a good job and a steady boyfriend, falls and suffers injuries to her leg, she gradually becomes obsessed with her own body and skin to the point where she is aggressively carving wounds in her own flesh. Her boyfriend, Vincent (Laurent Lucas) is understandably concerned and angry, but his inability to understand her disturbed psychological state forces Esther into further isolation and torment. Modern jazz supremos Esbjorn Svensson Trio provide the soundtrack.
Meditative coming-of-age drama by Korean director Kim Ki-duk. The film, which is divided into five sections to reperesent the stages of a man's life, is set entirely on and around a remote mountain lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst the breathtakingly beautiful landscape. Here an old Buddhist monk (Oh Young-Su) instructs his young child apprentice (Kim Jong-Ho) in Buddhist philosophy and shows him how to live in harmony with nature. But as the boy grows older, he becomes consumed by guilt, jealousy and sexual longing, and leaves the monastery to pursue his worldy desires. However, he eventually returns, exhausted and drained by his experiences, and (now played by the director, Kim Ki-duk) slowly matures and rebuilds himself to become a teacher himself. The film won the Audience Award at the 2003 San Sebastian film festival, among numerous other international awards.
An unfinished film by acclaimed director, Jean Renoir. Whilst on an idyllic country picnic with her family and fiancé, a young girl leaves for a short period of time and succumbs to an all-too-brief, romantic encounter.
Nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the 2004 Academy Awards, this unusual and disturbing documentary charts the scandal that surrounded the Friedman family from Long Island in the 1980s. Arnold, a well-respected schoolteacher, and his wife Elaine were a seemingly typical middle class couple who, along with their three boys, enjoyed making home movies of their daily lives. Their world was shattered in November 1987 when the police raided their home after Arnold and his eldest son Jesse were accused of multiple counts of child molestation. Arnold's home computer was found to contain a sizeable collection of child pornography. But how much truth was there behind the tide of allegations against the family? Andrew Jarecki pieces together footage from the Friedmans' home videos, news clips from the time and recent interviews with the family to assemble this thought-provoking film, which asks as many questions as it answers - and paints an intimate and devastating portrait of the collapse of a family.
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, the film tells a sombre, powerful fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by swineherds after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, upon discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge. This cruel and sensational medieval allegory, made all the more powerful for the luminous, hauling black and white photography and Bergman's meticulous direction, was later to be re-made by horror director Wes Craven as Last House on the Left. In black & white. |
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