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Collection of three documentaries by the filmmaker Marc Isaacs. After working as an assistant to the renowned filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, Isaacs has created three films that each capture a part of modern life in Britain. The first, 'Lift' (2001), is filmed in the elevator of a tower block in the East End of London, and captures the different reactions and behaviour of those who enter it. The second, 'Travellers' (2002), is a touching film about the human need for love, which is shown through the stories of five different people Isaacs meets on trains and at train stations across England. The third film, 'Calais - The Last Border' (2003), examines a host of interesting characters that includes refugees and migrants desperate to cross The Channel to England, and Steve who runs an English pub in the French harbour town.
British director Nicholas Roeg's first film in 15 years is a supernatural drama set amidst the rolling hills of the Irish countryside. Needing to escape the city and her demanding boss Lars (Donald Sutherland), young architect Liffrey (Kelly Reilly) and boyfriend Richard (Oscar Pearce) buy a cottage in the Irish hills to restore. The Tucker family, who lived there previously and have now moved to a nearby farm, soon make the couple uneasy, especially mother-of-three daughters Mabs (Miranda Richardson), who can't hide her desire to have a son. The atmosphere takes a turn for the worse when Liffrey announces she's pregnant, mainly because Mabs's mother Molly (Rita Tushingham) has been trying, through use of the black arts, to finally have her own grandson. Isolated in her pregnancy, Liffrey is soon surrounded by a family convinced that the baby she is carrying rightly belongs to Mabs.
Betrayed by Vesper Lynd, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr White who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined. Forensic intelligence links Dominic Greene, a ruthless business man, to the mysterious organization. On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world’s most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano. In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel Greene’s sinister plan and stop his organization.
Comedy starring Tina Fey as Kate Holbrook, a successful single businesswoman who realises in her late 30s that, owing to an unforeseen gynaecological problem, she has left it too late to have a baby. Undaunted, Kate approaches a surrogacy agency run by the formidable Chaffee Bicknell (Sigourney Weaver), and engages working class girl Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to be a surrogate mother. Once she finds out that Angie has become pregnant, Kate throws herself into reading childcare manuals, researching good schools and installing baby equipment in her apartment in between her business engagements - but the course of motherhood never did run smooth and Kate soon finds herself in circumstances way beyond her control.
Lavish historical action film telling the story of a trio of warriors in the era of the Qing Dynasty - General Ma Xinyi (Jet Li), Cao Er-Hu (Andy Lau) and Zhang Wen-Xiang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) - who make a pact of brotherhood to one another vowing that anyone who harms one of the brothers will be killed. When the country is plunged into chaos and political upheaval following the Taiping Rebellion, the three blood brothers must struggle to maintain their loyalty as war rages around them.
David Lean directs this film based on the true story of a Glasgow woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857. Madeleine (Ann Todd) is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian Glasgow family. She begins an affair with Frenchman Piere Emile L'Anglier (Ivan Desny) without her father's knowledge. Meanwhile, Madeleine's father (Leslie Banks) insists on her seeing various suitors. When Madeleine becomes engaged to William Minnoch (Norman Wooland), Pierre threatens to reveal their relationship. Five weeks later, Pierre is found dead, and Madeleine is arrested for his murder.
A sumptuous and darkly comic costume drama about three upper-class young women and their quest for romance just before World War II.
Valerie, a young village girl on the cusp of adolescence, indulges in Gothic daydreams and fantasies. Vampires, witches and religious and mystic images are intricately woven into a dreamlike fairytale.
Dziga Vertov's groundbreaking film accompanied by a new, specially-written score by composer Michael Nyman. Vertov's film is widely acknowledged as one of the landmark achievements of early modern cinema; its use of such radical effects as dissolves, split screens, slow motion, superimpositions and freeze frames have made for one of the most enduring representations of early 20th century city life.
Fourth instalment in the slasher horror franchise. Ten years on from the events of the previous film, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has finally managed to put the horrific events of her past behind her, and returns to her hometown of Woodsboro on a promotional tour for her recently published self-help book. Unfortunately for her and her childhood friends Dewey and Gale (David Arquette and Courteney Cox), the Ghostface Killer has chosen the ten-year anniversary of the Woodsboro murders to begin a new killing spree in the town - and this time he is broadcasting the whole thing live on the internet.
When a struggling British Earl (Grant) opens his manor to the public, what he wants is some badly needed money... what he gets is a handsome American millionaire (Mitchum) who sweeps the Earl's gorgeous wife off her feet. Encouraged by his wife's chatterbox best friend (Simmons), the jealous Earl challenges his Yank rival to a duel. The romantic royal is fighting for love and honor, but he could lose something more - his life! In black & white. Kindly note: Due to the the transfer from film to DVD, the picture and sound quality of this film may have deteriorated.
A man (Alan Bates) on the run for murder hides out at a nearby barn. Through a series of bizarre twists he is discovered by three children (Hayley Mills, Diane Holgate and Alan Barnes), who believe they have stumbled across Jesus and attempt to keep him hidden from the grown-ups. Based on the novel by Hayley Mill's mother, Mary Hayley Bell.
Epic re-telling of the life of Wyatt Earp from law student, through petty crook to lawman and entrepreneur. The much-filmed Gunfight at the OK Corral is only a minor part of the tale and almost slips by without anyone noticing. Kevin Costner stars as the famous lawman and most feared gunslinger of his time, embittered by the death of his wife, while Dennis Quaid plays the dying Doc Holliday, his close friend who helps him at the OK Corral gunfight.
Stanley Kubrick directs this chilling adaptation of the Stephen King shocker. Seeking solitude in order to write a novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as an off-season caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Eager to get started, Jack disregards warnings that the isolation drove a former caretaker mad, and moves into the massive resort with his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd). But Danny has a supernatural gift which makes him aware of an evil lurking in the hotel, and sure enough, as winter storms cut the hotel off from civilisation, Jack gradually becomes murderously insane.
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in Lahore provides a mirror image of the political and social events happening in the outside world. The same actors are used for both inmates and rulers. This powerful film was made 40 years after partition by artist and director, Ken McMullen, adapted in collaboration with Tariq Ali from the short story, 'Toba Tek Singh', by acclaimed Urdu writer, Sadaat Hasan Manto.
In this Powell/Pressburger production set in World War Two Britain, stuffy ex-soldier Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) recalls his career which began as a dashing officer in the Boer War. As a young man he lost the woman he loved (Deborah Kerr, who plays three roles) to a Prussian officer (Anton Walbrook), whom he fought in a duel only to become lifelong friends with. Candy cannot help but feel that his notions of honour and chivalry are out of place in modern warfare. The film's title comes from 'Evening Standard' cartoonist David Low's satirical comic creation, Colonel Blimp.
Drama set in Huntingdon, West Virginia, telling the true story of Marshall University's 'Thunder Herd' football team. For the team and the community, Marshall football is more than just a sport: it's a way of life. But on a fateful night in 1970, while travelling back to Huntingdon after a game in North Carolina, 75 members of Marshall's football team and coaching staff were killed in a plane crash. As those left behind struggled to cope with the devastating loss of their loved ones, the grieving families found hope and strength in the leadership of Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey), a young coach who was determined to rebuild Marshall's football programme and, in the process, help to heal a community.
Film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical. Gerard Butler plays a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. But when he falls in love with Christine (Emmy Rossum), the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera.
Czech surrealist director Jan Svankmajer's comic horror tale of a young man who falls under the influence of the Marquis de Sade. Inspired by the works of de Sade and Edgar Allen Poe, the story follows Jean (Pavel Liska), who is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. After attending the funeral of his mother, he is invited to dine with a man who claims to be the Marquis de Sade (Jan Tríska), whereupon he soon witnesses various acts of debauchery. As he attempts to leave, Jean is persuaded by de Sade that he can conquer his fears by attending a nearby lunatic asylum with him. But as he enters the madhouse, he quickly realises that things are not what they seem...
The newly regenerated Doctor (Tom Baker), assisted by Sarah, Harry and the Brigadier, has to track down the theft of the components for a powerful new laser gun, and the death of a prominent politician. Sarah investigates the mysterious Think Tank, where it becomes clear that robot K-1 is being misused by its political extremist masters and the Doctor has to prevent the robot from being used to start an atomic war. Tom Baker's first story as the Doctor.
Sarah Hopson (Valerie Edmond) realises that her glamorous New York lifestyle is essentially empty, and decides to move back to her home town in the Scottish Borders and pursue her only true love - her childhood sweetheart Sam (Gerard Butler). This comes as something of a surprise to Sam, and his wife is not too thrilled when Sarah turns up on the doorstep and wants to spend some quality time with her husband.
Cult Belgian road movie, following two irascible neighbours, Gus (Gustave Kevern) and Ben (Benoit Delepine) who are injured in a freak accident with a tractor and find themselves paralysed from the waist down. Determined to sue the makers of the tractor, the inept duo set off in their wheelchairs across Europe to the border with Finland in their quest for justice and a large cash payout.
A teenage hustler (Vanessa Paradis) lives on the streets and lives for kicks. She is constantly reminded, however, of the suicide of her mother when she was only three and she vows to take revenge on the men who drove her mother to that course of action. One man is her mother's pimp, the other is her missing father (Gerard Depardieu). When she discovers her drunken father she decides not to reveal who she is but instead tries to seduce him before taking revenge.
French festive-themed horror tale with a decidedly unholy subtext. A young tearaway has had a hard Christmas Eve on the tiles in Paris with a gang of punky friends and decides to returns home to the country, with her pals in tow, in the wee hours. Her dad runs an estate and the shepherd there, Joseph, whose wife is with child, invites the group in. They soon wish they'd shared a hostel room in the city.
Languorous sexual drama directed by Clement Virgo, which premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival. Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) and David (Eric Balfour) meet during a hot steamy summer in Toronto. Leila is a strong and demanding young woman who has formed her sexual identity around anonymous one night stands, but when she meets the sensitive David, she finds that she must allow herself to be emotionally vulnerable if she wants to form any kind of relationship with him. |
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