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(0)Joss Ackland
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What do you get when you combine four bumbling American tourists, a puppy and a dead body? Inspired lunacy! Sean Young and Richard Lewis are two down-and-out Americans attempting to return a lost dog to its Monte Carlo socialite owner for a $5000 reward. But when the owner is murdered, they become the prime suspects. But who's the real killer? The roulette loser? The gigolo? Or could it possibly be... the dog? John Candy, James Belushi, Cybill Shepherd...
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Mentor. Lover. Philanderer.Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins delivers a stunningly brilliantportrait of an obsessed artist. He lives life on a scale that consumesand destroys the women drawn to him--until he meets the one woman whoproves his equal.Based on the book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by AriannaStassinopoulos.
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A magical storyline about a desert-stranded pilot (Richard Kiley) and a wandering child from a faraway place. Together, the two share encounters that amuse, charm and touch the heart. Have you ever acquired wisdom from a fox (Gene Wilder)? Cared for a rose that was special beyond all other roses? Visited a far-off, far-out king? Witnessed the wily dance of a snake (Bob Fosse)? The universe-no, life-is an enchanting place, even more so when it's shared...
7) The Sicilian
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Biography of Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit who became a folk hero during the years after WWII.
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Captain Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer has being given command of the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, K-19, at the height of the Cold War in 1961. The vessel's executive officer, Captain Polenin, asserts that the flagship is not yet ready for deployment. But, political pressure forces Vostrikov to sail his crew into the North Atlantic anyway, for a missile fire test that serves as a warning to the U.S. The test is a success, but a leak...
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A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba, loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald, fixate on their wives’ bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition. With this follow-up to his acclaimed...
11) Moscow zero
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An anthropologist doing research in an underground city in Moscow goes missing and it's up to a priest and a rescue team to find him, learning terrifying secrets along the way.
12) Lady Jane
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In 1553, England's idle rich were anything but idle. With the blessing of the royal family, they plundered the riches of the church, stole the finest farmlands, and generally took all the best things the country had to offer. A cousin to the infamous Henry VII, Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter) disapproved of the way her fellow nobles behaved, and disagreed with their religious beliefs. But as a sheltered 16-year-old, there wasn’t much she could...
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The story of James Bond spans more than 30 years, spawning 14 books and even more movies. But even more fascinating is the man behind the phenomenon, who drew on his own true-life adventures to create James Bond: spy-turned-author Ian Fleming. Loosely based on the adventures of the creator of secret agent 007, The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming follows Fleming (Jason Connery) from his privileged upbringing with an aristocratic mother, Lady Evelyn (Patricia...
17) Firelight
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In the winter of 1838, two strangers meet and strike a secret bargain. Elisabeth (Marceau) is a beautiful Swiss governess desperate to pay off her father's debts. Charles (Dillane) is the only son of a British aristocrat who, married to an invalid, desperately wants to sire a child. The deal is made. Charles will pay off her father's debts on the condition that Elisabeth bear him a child. For three nights they meet at a remote hotel in France. During...
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For seven long years, Jacob has labored to earn the right to marry beautiful Rachel. Now the seven years are up-but Rachel's devious father substitutes his elder daughter on the wedding night. Matthew Modine and Lara Flynn Boyle play Jacob and Rachel in one of the greater love stories from the Bible. Highlights of Jacob's life-how he usurped his brother Esau's birthright and blessing, the pillow of stone, the ladder to heaven, wrestling with God-are...
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Hogfather volume 2
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From the imagination of best-selling novelist Terry Pratchett comes a deliriously twisted take on the holiday season. In the parallel universe of Discworld, it's the night before Hogswatch, that special time when the Hogfather delivers presents to the kiddies at the mid-winter festival in the medieval melting pot of Ankh-Morpork. But when the Hogfather is kidnapped by a cadre of villains called the Auditors, the inspiring belief in Hogswatch could...
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Hogfather volume 1
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From the imagination of best-selling novelistTerry Pratchett comes a deliriously twisted take on the holiday season. In the parallel universe of Discworld, it's the night before Hogswatch, that special time when the Hogfather delivers presents to the kiddies at the mid-winter festival in the medieval melting pot of Ankh-Morpork. But when the Hogfather is kidnapped by a cadre of villains called the Auditors, the inspiring belief in Hogswatch could...
