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(1987 Percy Adlon) 50:-
Driving through the Mojave Desert somewhere between Las Vegas and Disneyland, Jasmin (Marianne Sagebrecht) strikes out on her own following a row with her husband. Trudging down the highway, she catches the attention of Brenda (CCH Pounder), the irascible proprietor of the Bagdad Café.
So begins a hilarious and touching account of these two women of different cultures, joined together in the middle of desolation in an oasis of friendship.
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| Batman
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(1989 Tim Burton)
Gotham City, not the safest of places to live, but that is about to change with the emergence of a new super hero, who intends to inspire fear into the hearts of the evil, and hope into the hearts of the honest citizens of that city! Who is Batman?
2-Disc Special Edition
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| Be Cool
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(2005 F Gary Gary) 50:-
When Chili Palmer (John Travolta) decides to try his hand in the music industry, he romances the sultry widow (Uma Thurman) of a recently whacked music exec, poaches a hot young singer (Christina Milian) from a rival manager and discovers that the record industry is packin' a whole lot more than a tune!
2-Disc Special Edition
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(2019 Marielle Heller) 50:-
Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood', a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbour.
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(2017 Sofia Coppola) 50:-
svensk titel: De Bedragna
From acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola comes an atmospheric thriller that unfolds at a secluded girls' boarding school in Civil War-era Virginia.
When a wounded Union soldier, Corporal McBumey (Colin Farrell), is found near the school he's taken in by its headmistress, Miss Martha (Nicole Kidman). As the young women provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries when McBumey seduces several of the girls. Taboos are broken and events take an unexpected turn in this gripping and haunting thriller also starring Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning.
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(1992 Fernando Trueba) 50:-
"Belle Epoque" is a sensual, uninhibited comedy starring Penelope Cruz.
Set in a sun-drenched Spanish countryside of 1931, the film tells the story of Fernando, a deserter from the war who is befriended and given shelter by an amiable artist. When his hosts four beautiful daughters arrive a classic farce ensues as Fernando is seduced by one amorous sister after the other in this funny, sexy and heart-warming celebration of love and desire.
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| Belle et la Bête, La
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(1946 Jean Cocteau, René Clément) 125:-
svensk titel: Flickan och Odjuret
A landmark feat of cinematic fantasy in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, desire and death that have never been equalled.
Josette Day is luminous yet feisty as Beauty, and Jean Marais gives one of his best performances as the Beast, at once brutal and gentle, rapacious and vulnerable, shamed and repelled by his own bloodlust. Henri Alekan's subtle black and white cinematography combine with Christian Berard's masterly costumes and set designs to create a magical piece of cinema, a children's fairytale refashioned into a stylised and highly sophisticated dream.
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(1959 William Wyler) 125:-
Ben-Hur's creators made this film the best, the greatest Biblical-era epic ever. Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to the role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, a bold escape from an embattled slave gallery, vengeance against his tormentors with Jesus Christ.
4DVD Box Set; also includes the 1925 silent version, plus plenty of extra material!
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(1959 William Wyler) 50:-
The numbers speak volumes: 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and a staggering budget in its day the largest in movie history. Ben-Hur's creators made it the best, the greatest Biblical-era epic ever.
Charlton Heston brings a muscular physical and moral presence to the role of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, a bold escape from an embattled slave gallery, vengeance against his tormentors with Jesus Christ. Heston's charismatic performance brought him the Best Actor Oscar!
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| Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
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(2011 John Madden) 50:-
When seven cash-strapped Brits journey to a retirement resort in India, friendship and romance blossom as they touch each other's hearts in the most unexpected ways. In the end, they will all discover that life and love can begin again when you embrace today and let go of the past.
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(2014 Geoff Moore, David Posamentier)
A small town pharmacist's uneventful life is turned inside out when a chance encounter with a lonely trophy wife turns into a walk on the wild side in this murderously funny dark comedy starring Sam Rockwell and Olivia Wilde.
Doug Varney (Sam Rockwell) has been disregarded for years by everyone from his domineering wife Kara (Michelle Monaghan) to the goldbricking employees at the drugstore he bought from his insufferable father-in-law. When Doug embarks on an exhilarating drug-and-alcohol fuelled affair with Elizabeth (Olivia Wilde) - the most glamorous woman he has ever met - no-one is more surprised than he is.
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| Between Heaven and Hell
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(1956 Richard Fleischer) 50:-
svensk titel: Djävulsön
Robert Wagner, Broderick Crawford and Buddy Ebsen star in this absorbing drama about a recruit who comes of age during WWII.
Sam Gifford (Robert Wagner) is a young, successful cotton planter who lacks compassion for others, especially his own sharecroppers.
But once in combat, he answers to a sadistic officer (Broderick Crawford), and must rely on the friendship of a "cropper" (Buddy Ebsen). Nominated for a 1956 Oscar for Best Music, "Between Heaven and Hell" is an action-packed story of men in battle - sometimes with themselves.
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(1948 Vittorio de Sica) 225:-
originaltitel: Ladri di Biciclette
'Bicycle Thieves' tells the story of Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani), a long unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle.
His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem their already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until it is stolen. Antonio and his son take to the streets in a desperate search to find the bicycle which is so crucial to his livelihood.
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| Big Boss, The
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(1971 Wei Lo, Chia-hsiang Wu) 50:-
originaltitel: Tang shan da xiong
In his first starring role, legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee sets the screen ablaze in this thrilling tale of revenge and retribution.
Having made a vow never to fight again, a factory worker named Cheng (Lee) does his best to put up with an abusive boss. But when Cheng's beautiful cousin is kidnapped by company thugs, Cheng is forced to take matters into his own hands - and fists - to save her.
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(2015 Adam McKay) 50:-
When the banks committed the greatest fraud in US history, four outsiders risked it all to take them down.
Based on the unbelievable true story and best-selling book from the author of 'The Blind Side' and 'Moneyball', critics are calling 'The Big Short' "slick and funny".
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(2000 Stephen Daldry) 80:-
"Billy Elliot" is a heartwarming tale of an 11 year old coal miner's son (Jamie Bell) in the north of England who's life is forever changed when he stumbles upon Mrs Wilkinson's (Julie Walters) ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson.
Before long, he finds himself immersed in ballet, demonstrating a raw talent never seen before and reaching for a dream that changes the lives of everyone he touches.
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(1970 Dario Argento) 50:-
originaltitel: L'uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo
Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorising Rome, he launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall)...
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(2005 Jee-woon Kim) 80:-
originaltitel: Dalkomhan insaeng
Sunwoo is no ordinary hotel manager. He is also the ruthlessly efficient right hand man of underworld boss, Kang. But tough guy Kang has a weakness; his young girlfriend. Suspecting she's unfaithful, Kang orders Sunwoo to take care of the problem.
When Sunwoo discovers her with another man, he uncharacteristically grants them mercy. Kang is furious and orders his gang members to hunt down Sunwoo. With nerves of steel, Sunwoo battles the gang alone. With each kill, he takes one step closer to his final confrontation with Kang.
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(1947 Michael Powell) 50:-
svensk titel: Svart Narcissus
Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) leads a group of Anglican nuns to a remote Himalayan range of mountains, there to set up a mission in an abandoned harem.
This is her first position of authority and she finds both her physical and her spiritual limits being taxed as she has to maintain order and discipline in a claustrophobically hostile environment. Slowly but surely, however, the privations and hardship they must endure, the extremes of climate and the peculiar amorality of the local natives all combine to slowly corrupt the women's faith, pushing them further into jealousy, anger and madness...
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(1947 Michael Powell) 175:-
svensk titel: Svart Narcissus
Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) leads a group of Anglican nuns to a remote Himalayan range of mountains, there to set up a mission in an abandoned harem.
This is her first position of authority and she finds both her physical and her spiritual limits being taxed as she has to maintain order and discipline in a claustrophobically hostile environment. Slowly but surely, however, the privations and hardship they must endure, the extremes of climate and the peculiar amorality of the local natives all combine to slowly corrupt the women's faith, pushing them further into jealousy, anger and madness...
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(1959 Marcel Camus) 175:-
originaltitel: Orfeu Negro
Interwoven with the spectacle, madness and vibrancy of the Rio carnival, comes the multi-award winning retelling of the classic legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.
"Black Orpheus" is awash with intoxicating samba music, frenzied dancing and vibrant costumes, as French auteur Marcel Camus unfolds the melancholy tale of love and tragedy of two people who fall rapturously in love during the annual carnival.
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(1979 Volker Schlöndorff) 50:-
originaltitel: Die Blechtrommel
When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then - and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass. As a result, he retains a permanent child's-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the 'free city' claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II.
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(2009 John Lee Hancock) 50:-
Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) knows little about family. Less about sports. What the homeless teen knows are the streets and projects of Memphis. Well-to-do Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) knows little about his world. Yet when she and Michael meet, he's found a home. And the Tuohys found something just as life-changing: a beloved new son and brother.
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(1993 Philip Kaufman) 50:-
originaltitel: Rising Sun
Special liaison officer (Wesley Snipes) is called to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation.
Accompanied by a detective with unusual knowledge of the Japanese culture (Sean Connery), the two men must unravel the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground "shadow world" of futuristic technology, ancient ways and confusing loyalties.
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(1930 Josef von Sternberg) 175:-
originaltitel: Der Blaue Engel
Emil Jennings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Immanuel Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon as he enters the shadowy Blue Angel nightclub and steals one glimpse of the smoldering Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich), commanding the stage in a top hot, stockings and bare thighs, Rath's self-righteous piety is crushed. He finds himself fatefully seduced by the throaty voice of the vulgar siren, singing, "Falling in Love Again".
Consumed by desire and tormented by his rigid propriety, Professor Rath allows himself to be dragged down a path of personal degradation. Lola's unrestrained sexuality was a revelation to turn-of-the-decade moviegoers, thrusting Dietrich to the forefront of the sultry international leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, who were challenging the limits of screen sexuality.
2-Disc Special Edition
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(1961 Norman Taurog) 50:-
The year was 1961. Fallout shelters dot suburban backyards. Ken joins Barbie. Roger Maris slugs 61 home runs. And Elvis Presley is in paradise, playing an ex-G.I. who comes home to Blue Hawaii. His mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to climb the corporate ladder.
But Elvis would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar, so he goes to work as a tour guide. Lucky Elvis: his first customers are a careful of cuties. Elvis, lovely scenery, lovelier girls and rock-a-hula songs - now that's paradise!
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(2013 Woody Allen) 50:-
The story centres around Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), a former New York socialite teetering on an emotional tightrope, balancing between her troubled east coast past and a fresh start in San Francisco.
Having moved into her sister's humble apartment, Jasmine ricochets between the tumultuous acceptance of her new limitations and the dreams of reclaiming her past life's glamour.
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(1934 Robert N Bradbury) 50:-
svensk titel: Dynamitpasset
When Sheriff Jake observes a man close to a robbery he immediately follows him suspiciously. He soon learns that Melgrove, the town's leading citizen, is intending to deviously buy the worthless town, which actually stands on top of a huge gold mine.
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Live Fast. Drive Faster. "Boost" centres around Jimmy (Grazi DiPaolo), a car thief from Detroit who comes out to L.A. to 'start fresh'. At least that's what he tells his step brother Clyde (Jonathan LaVallee), an LAPD officer, when he first arrives. But it's obvious from the start that he hasn't changed his ways at all, only his locale. So when Jimmy gets hired by Roy (Danny Trejo), a slimy gangster who owns an auto shop, to steal a certain car on a certain day for big money, we're not too surprised when he breaks all own rules.
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(1981 Wolfgang Petersen) 50:-
"Das Boot" is a graphic and gripping tale that follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-Boats known as ‘The Grey Wolves’. Prowling the North Atlantic, they challenged the British Navy at every turn.
The crew abroad the U-96 is portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle, coping with life beneath the waves quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy...
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(1993 Morgan Freeman) 80:-
Micah Mangena is sitting on a powder keg and doesn't know it. He's a sergeant in South Africa's police force, an unquestioning supporter of the powers that be. But the strife tearing at the fabric of 1980 South Africa is about to rip Micha's own world violently apart. His son is waking up to the fact that the system of apartheid is evil... and that Micah is part of that system.
"Bopha" is a Zulu word meaning "to arrest" or "to detain". For the oppressive regime, it's an act of empowerment. For the swelling crowds of activists, it's an outraged cry of protest, a cry who real-world impact is still felt today.
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(2000 Peter Sheridan) 50:-
Based on Brendan Behan's acclaimed autobiography, "Borstal Boy" is a hard-hitting, rites-of-passage story where the harsh realities of prison life are revealed.
Brenden is a teenage Republican, going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during World War II. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in England. Locked in closed quarters Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those who perceives as the enemy.
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| Brazil
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(1985 Terry Gilliam) 250:-
It's only a state of mind. Jonathan Pryce stars as Sam Lowry in this surrealistic spectacle about a daydreaming bureaucrat trapped in a future dystopia where love is forbidden from interfering with efficiency.
But with the help of an underground superhero (Robert De Niro) and a beautiful mystery woman (Kim Greist), Sam learns to soar to freedom on the wings of his untamed imagination, or so he thinks.
3-DVD Box Set
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(1961 Blake Edwards) 50:-
svensk titel: Frukost på Tiffany's
Blake Edwards' screen adaptation of Truman Capote's novella stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, an eccentric high-class escort working in New York.
Rubbing shoulders with Hollywood agents and wealthy politicians at glamorous parties, Holly plans to marry into money and save up to help support her brother who is due to return from the army. However, when young writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) - the kept man of a wealthy older woman - moves into Holly's apartment block, the pair soon find their worlds turned upside down.
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(1973 Clint Eastwood) 50:-
svensk titel: Breezy - Fri som Kärleken
Breezy (Kay Lenz), a young, footloose hitch-hiker escaping from a lecherous driver, takes refuge in the car of Frank Harman (William Holden). He's a divorced, middle-aged real estate agent and these two very different people don't see eye to eye when they come across an injured dog. But somehow he and Breezy come to forge an unusual relationship, against conventional expectations.
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(1935 James Whale) 50:-
svensk titel: Frankenstein's Brud
The acclaimed sequel to the original 'Frankenstein', one of the most popular horror classics in film history, has now been restored in stunning high definition. The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most misunderstood monster, now longing for a mate of his own.
The last horror film directed by James Whale features a haunting musical score that helps make 'The Bride of Frankenstein' one of the finest and most touching thrillers of its era.
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(2001 Sharon Maguire) 30:-
originaltitel: Bridget Jones' Diary
On New Year's day, hung over and still single, Bridget Jones -- a 30-something London girl -- decides to get a grip on her life and start a diary: "Resolution number one: obviously, will lose twenty pounds. Number two: will find nice sensible boyfriend and not continue to form romantic attachments to peeping-toms, megalomaniacs, emotional f***wits or perverts." But it's not that easy for Bridget; choosing between bona-fide sex-god-with-big-car Daniel Cleaver and aloof-looking-but-thoughtful-sensitive-man Mark Darcy ...
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| Bright Star
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(2009 Jane Campion) 50:-
London, 1818. A secret, love affair begins between a struggling poet, John Keats, and the respectable girl next door, Fanny Brawne. By the time Fanny's mother discovers their relationship, it is too late -the young lovers are swept away by powerful new emotions, riding a wave of romantic obsession that can only end in heartbreak.
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| Bruden bar Svart
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(1968 Francois Truffaut) 50:-
originaltitel: Le Mariée était en Noir
Julie (Jeanne Moreau), a beautiful young bride, has just married her childhood sweetheart and love of her life. But just moments after the ceremony, her beloved is murdered on the steps of the church. Emotionally distraught, Julie becomes obsessed with her bridegroom's death and begins a descent into madness as she relentlessly pursues the men responsible.
One by one, Julie sees to their demises, and, with each murder more bone-chilling and diabolically clever than the last, the question is now who will be next - but rather how they will meet their ghastly end.
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(1947 Jules Dassin) 175:-
svensk titel: Med Våldets Rätt
Burt Lancaster is Joe Collins, one of a number of convicts squeezed into cell R17 intent on staging a prison break. Not only does he need to return to the side of his cancer-ridden girlfriend (Ann Blyth), he also wants to escape the clutches of sadistic warden Captain Munsey (an unforgettable performance from Hume Cronyn) who enjoys a reign of terror over the inmates.
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| Bugsy Malone
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(1976 Alan Parker) 50:-
New York, 1929: a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded 'splurge gun'. As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone (Scott Baio), an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy.
His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah (Jodie Foster) who wants Bugsy for herself.
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