Directors: John Schlesinger | Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment | Release Date: 11 September 2006
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Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher the underachieving undertaker's assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname ""Billy Liar."" Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose free spirit just might inspire Billy to finally move out of his parents' house. Deftly veering from gritty realism to flamboyant fantasy Billy...
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Directors: Alexander MacKendrick | Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment | Release Date: 13 November 2006
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The Ladykillers director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce is the final comedy produced by the famous British studio and one of its most celebrated. Like the equally applauded Kind Hearts And Coronets the film is more sophisticated and blacker in tone than typically lighthearted Ealing fare (such as Mackendrick's Whiskey Galore!). Alec Guinness stars as the superbly shifty toothily...
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Directors: Michael Powell | Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment | Release Date: 26 March 2007
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Enter the insane mind of a psycho-killer obsessed with recording on film the most intense fear as it registers on the faces of desirable women. His camera tripod is fitted with a long blade designed to penetrate victims through the neck. And while they watch their own deaths reflected in a mirror attachment he captures their last gasps on celluloid for his evil home movie collection.
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Directors: Beeban Kidron | Publisher: 2 Entertain Video | Release Date: 30 June 2008
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A story of love freedom and choice based on Whitbread prize winning author Jeanette Winterson. Her adopted mother is a passionate Pentecostalist whose world view is so entirely governed by the Bible that she believes her daughter to be the Chosen One from God. But Jess's feelings for other girls and her mother's fury at her daughter's 'unnatural passions' leads to her abrupt expulsion from...
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Directors: Edward Dmytryk | Publisher: Universal Pictures Video | Release Date: 12 February 2007
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Hate Is Like A Loaded Gun! Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime there's motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating the beating death of a man. The man was killed because he was a Jew. ""Hate "" Finlay says ""is like a gun."" Robert Young portrays Finlay Robert Mitchum is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects...
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Directors: Ralph Thomas | Publisher: ITV DVD | Release Date: 06 October 2008
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Great Expectations (1946) - David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor and of the consequences for the young man as he establishes himself in the world. A Tale Of Two Cities - Dickens' epic tale set during the French Revolution follows the fortunes of a disillusioned...
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Directors: Elia Kazan | Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | Release Date: 30 April 2007
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On The Waterfront (Dir. Elia Kazan 1954): ""You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum which is what I am let's face it."" - Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) Marlon Brando is the longshoreman who finds himself increasingly isolated when he challenges the might and power of the tough new York City dockers' Union. Rod Steiger is his...
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Directors: Unknown | Publisher: Metrodome Distribution Ltd | Release Date: 26 February 2007
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Two of Shakespeare's plays are faithfully brought to life through animation in these excellent British/Russian co-productions. A perfect introduction to the world and themes of Shakespeare. Features A Midsummer Nights Dream and Richard III.
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Directors: Marcel Varnel | Publisher: ITV DVD | Release Date: 01 September 2008
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A collection of classic films starring British comic actor Will Hay. Films Incllude: 1. Ask A Policeman 2. Boys Will be Boys 3. Oh Mr Porter 4. Convict 99 5. Old Bones Of The River 6. Where There's A Will 7. Good Morning Boys 8. Hey! Hey! USA 9. Windbag The Sailor
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Directors: Richard Lester | Publisher: MGM Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. | Release Date: 01 January 2008
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Lieutenant Goodbody (Crawford) has absolutely no idea how to lead his British regiment in the North African battlefield of WWII. But what he lacks in experience he makes up for in enthusiasm. And when he's ordered to build a cricket playing field 100 miles behind enemy lines he's determined to succeed even if this means most of his men are killed in the process. Abandoned by his superiors ...
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Directors: Noel Coward | Publisher: ITV DVD | Release Date: 06 October 2008
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The Battle Of River Plate - Ten days before World War II Germany's crack battleship Admiral Graf Spee sails with orders to carry out action against Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic. Captained by Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch) Graf Spee with her superior speed sinks ship after ship. Meanwhile the net is tightening round the German Killer. Outwitted by British Intelligence the Germans...
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Directors: Terence Fisher | Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment | Release Date: 23 October 2006
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Revered as one of the best horror films produced by Hammer Studios The Devil Rides Out is a chilling battle between good and evil. Christopher Lee perhaps best known for his role as Dracula gets to show his good side as the heroic and cavalier Duc de Richleau who maintains the air of a gentleman throughout his tireless battle with a Satanic coven led by the wonderfully villainous Mocata...
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