Pusher (Wide Screen)
This film has all the necessary elements of an independent feature; drugs, sex, drugs, jail, drugs, impending doom, and of course drugs. Frank (the heroin pusher), Milo (the smack supplier), and Frank’s girlfriend (the prostitute) experience a series of ups and downs as Frank gets busted, released, and then is given 2 days to pay back debts or be introduced to a 9mm bullet….
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Peril
Walter is an ambitious young architect who believes he is at the turning point of his career. He speeds towards a wealthy new client in LA unaware of the turn of events that will change his life or end it altogether……
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Lady In A Corner
Grace Guthrie is editor and boss of the fashion magazine ‘Grace’. On returning from her holiday she finds that there has been a nasty take-over bid worth some 21 million dollars, made by the publisher of a pornographic magazine. Grace knows that her life’s work will be worth nothing at all unless she can find an alternative investor……
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Hiroshima
Chronicling America’s top-secret Manhattan Project, this made-for-TV drama follows the two-year storm of scientific rivalry, intrigue, disappointment, and triumph in the quest to build the ultimate weapon of mass destruction–the atomic bomb. The all-star cast includes Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, and Hume Cronyn….
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Making A Case For Murder
A courtroom drama based on a true story which exposes the horrors of racial violence. On a cold night in 1986, three black men struggled to repair their car in a middle-class neighbourhood of New York City. Unable to start the vehicle, they sought refuge in a small restaurant nearby. What happened next sent shockwaves throughout the world….
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Little Girl Lost
LITTLE GIRL LOST, starring Tess Harper and Frederic Forrest, is an inspiration tale of a couple who struggles to reclaim their foster daughter from an abusive natural father….
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When He’s Not A Stranger
In WHEN HE’S NOT A STRANGER, Annabeth Gish portrays Lyn McKenna, a young woman who is raped by her best friend’s popular boyfriend, Ron (John Telersky). Confused and ashamed, Lyn must decide whether or not to press criminal charges, despite hostility from many of her peers. A powerful drama, this made-for-TV film addresses the sensitive issues surrounding acquaintance rape….
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CSI Grave Danger (Tarantino Episodes)
This is very special stuff. Quentin Tarantino Writes and directs this two part special. It is full of fantastic ‘Tarantino ‘ moments and should not be missed. Tarantino’s style fits C.S.I. perfectly. The CSI team jump into action when they discover that Nick has been kidnapped and, subsequently, buried alive. The whole team comes together in an effort to rescue their colleague. Will they find him before it’s too late? …
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The Door In The Floor
Delicately balancing a young man’s coming-of-age with a married couple’s experience of trauma and loss, this adaptation of John Irving’s A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR compares with THE CIDER HOUSE RULES as a successful and faithful adaptation of the popular author’s work. The film details a summer of trial separation between husband and wife Ted (Jeff Bridges) and Marion (Kim Basinger), whose union was shattered by the loss of their two sons. Though they have one remaining daughter (Elle Fanning), Ted–a…
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Downfall (Two Discs)
Set in Berlin 1945, DOWNFALL retells the final days of the Second World War as recorded in the diaries of Adolf Hitlers private secretary, Traudl Junge, while barricaded with Hitler and his closest confidents in the Fuehrers secret bunker. This unprecedented and controversial insider\’s perspective is a gripping insight into the madness and desperation of Hitler in the final hours of the war as theRussian Army closes a ring around Berlin. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Experiment) and…
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Raise Your Voice
Terri Fletcher (Hilary Duff) is your typical sweet-hearted, small-town girl and she always obeys her intensely overprotective dad (David Keith), but when she gets accepted to a summer program at a prestigious Los Angeles music school and he forbids her to go, she realises it’s time to break away. With the help of her cool aunt (Rebecca De Mornay), Terri figures out a ruse to sneak off to LA and seize the chance to actualise her musical dreams. Once there, it’s harsh wake-up time however, as she…
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CSI- Season 4 - Part 2
Featuring more episodes from the Crime Scene Investigation Series which features the inner workings of the investigators as they search for the truth. Episodes include: ‘Suckers’, ‘Paper Or Plastic’, ‘Early Rollout’, ‘Getting Off’, ‘XX’, ‘Bad To The Bone’, ‘Bad Words’, ‘Dead Ringer’, ‘Turn Of The Screws’, ‘No More Bets’ and ‘Bloodlines’….
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Football Factory
A gripping story of football violence in middle England, based on John King’s best-selling novel. Tommy Johnson is a typical twenty-something drug-taking lager-lout. Provoked into giving someone a good kicking on a Saturday afternoon he gets embroiled in an escalating petty war of violence and revenge….
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The Keeper
Dennis Hopper and Asia Argento star in this tense and terrifying thriller. An exotic dancer, Gina, is attacked after a show. Her boyfriend is killed in the attack- but the killer flees before he can kill Gina as well. Things go from bad to worse for Gina when she is later kidnapped and held prisoner by one of her police investigators……
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American Cousins
Scottish-Italian cafe owner Roberto lives a simple, fish-frying, waitress wooing, stamp collecting existence. When his distant cousins Gino and Settimo visit from New Jersey it seems like a great opportunity to get to know more about the American side of the family. However, when a debt collector pays Roberto a visit and is ‘dealt’ with by the American cousins, the mystery of his extended Italian-American origins becomes a little more clear……
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Nathalie (Subtitled)
Social opposites converge when Catherine employs a call girl, Marlene, to sleep with Bernard, her adulterous husband. In transforming Marlene into Nathalie, Catherine hopes to expose Bernard’s most intimate secrets……
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One Last Chance
When Fitz, Nellie and Seany strike gold in their sleepy Highland town, Tullybridge, life starts to look a whole lot better. That is until local hood Big Man Harry hears of the discovery….
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Together With You
Director-writer-producer-star Chen Kaige–well known for his visually sumptuous tales of historical China (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE)–directs this sweet-natured coming of age tale set in modern day Beijing. An impoverished cook, Liu Chen (Liu Peiqui), gives up his provincial life to move his 13-year-old violin virtuoso son, Xiaochun (Tang Yun), to Beijing so that he can audition for a prestigious music school. Once in the crowded industrial city Liu is bewildered by the big money and corruption and…
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Fresh
Michael (or Fresh as he`s well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become homeless, but is still there if Fresh requires his `street` knowledge. Fresh aspires to live the good life but his sister`s prostitution for the drug heavies along with the senseless murder of friends push him to re-evaluate his life. He then decides that dealing isn`t what he wants and that revenge is. In a world where criminals make the rule…
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Wise Girls
Meg (Mira Sorvino), Raychel (Mariah Carey), and Kate (Melora Walters) are waitresses at a Staten Island Italian restaurant with a mob-heavy clientele. Meg is a former med student new to the Island. Kate is a take-no-guff native. Kate is a would-be actress who has moved from Manhattan. As the three girls bond amongst the male-dominated business, Meg is witness to a murder–which puts her life in danger. Fortunately, Raychel and Kate are up to protecting their friend on the mean streets of the Isl…
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