The savage story of a city stripped naked! Detective Dan Madigan (Richard Widmark) runs roughshod over the police rule book - and over anyone who gets in his way during an intensive 72-hour police manhunt for a hit man. His superior officer Commissioner Anthony Russell (Henry Fonda) lives by and for the book as he copes with the workday problems of police administrative work. These two men's lives come together when the psychotic is cornered in a Manhattan tenement by a police raiding squad led by Madigan and Russell - a confrontation that only one of the two men will survive.
Randolph Scott plays Kirk Jordan a cattle herd driver who is instrumental in carving out the Chisholm Trail a commercial route from Texas to Kansas. Indians are only part of the problem as Kirk must also contend with the Ku Klux Klan and crooked carpetbaggers to fulfill his duties.
A story about friendship and pinot envy. A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's (Thomas Haden Church) final days as a bachelor careers woefully sideways as he and Miles (Paul Giamatti) hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth soon find themselves drowning in wine and women (Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen). Emerging from a haze of pinot noir wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future the two inevitably collide with reality. Now the wedding approaches and with it the certainty that Miles and Jack won't make it back to Los Angeles unscathed or unchanged... if they get there in one piece at all. Winner of the 2005 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
This time it's war! Louder longer even more brutal! Battle Royale 2 gets an extended version! Three years after the events of the original Battle Royale the survivor of the game Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist and leading his group known as Wild Seven is determined to bring down the government. To counter this new threat the government enacts the New Century Terrorist Counter - Measure Alternative program (a.k.a. the Battle Royale II act) and sends the forty-two students of Shikanotoride Junior High Class 3-B to hunt Nanahara and his cohorts down in their island stronghold. Shiori Kitano the daughter of the late headmaster of Nanahara's first Battle Royale signs up for the program to avenge her father. In order for the government to study the benefits of teamwork the new students are forced to work in pairs with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days or die... Director Kinji Fukasaku died during the making of the film and so it fell to his son Kenta to complete this apocalyptic vision in the process turning it into an even bigger box-office smash than the original in Japan. Liberally soaked in black humour and satirical comments on current world affairs the fight for survival is on!
Sword Of Doom: Tatsue (Nakadai) a man brought up to recognise only the way of the sword as the way of life finds that the art of killing is a pleasure. Ranged against him is Shimada (Mifune) who regards the use made of the sword as the manifestation of a man's spiritual state and vows to end Tatsue's spree in an era without values... Samurai Assassin: Threatened from the East and West Japan and the Tokugawa Shogunate are dangerously unstable. Lord Li Naosuke the 'Red Devil' has raised up a puppet figure to become the Shogun lemoshil. The year is 1860. Among his opposition is the Mito Clan. Undefeated they are planning his assassination. Amongst their numbers is one Niiro Tsurichiyo (Toshiro Mifune). The illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman Niiro has been brought up in a merchants household harbouring ambitions to become a samurai. A swordsman of outstanding ability a social outcast earning his living through brawling and blackmail. Now the Mito Clan suspect him of being a spy... Samurai Rebellion: Sasahara (Mifune) has spent his life as a retainer in the service of his lord. Yet when his lord seizes his daughter-in-law for his own gratification Sasahara is brought into conflict not only with his master but also his oldest friend Asano (Nakadai)...
The word 'cop' isn't written all over him - something more puzzling is. In one of his most memorable roles Steve McQueen stars as Detective Frank Bullitt a hard-driving tough-as-nails San Francisco cop. Bullitt has just received what sounds like a routine assignment: keep a star witness out of sight and out of danger for 48 hours then deliver him to the courtroom on Monday morning. But before the night is out the witness will lie dying of shotgun wounds and Bullitt a no-glitter all-guts cop won't rest until he nabs the gunmen and the elusive underworld kingpin who hired them. Famed for it's Lalo Schifrin score and one of the greatest car chases in cinema-history 'Bullit' won the 1969 Oscar for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller).
He'a armed deadly and just a little bit dumb. Hilarious martial arts action with Lo Lieh.
A blaxpoitation action/kung-fu flick about an undercover female cop (Playboy Playmate Jeanne Bell) headed to Hong Kong in order to find and help her missing brother who happens to be in trouble with the mob. TNT Jackson appears in many Kung Fu battles against the Chinese Mob and even a classic topless karate scene.
Terrorist Soong Chow's son Todd sustains a serious head injury but wakes from his coma to find he's been given a new life... Produced by action movie legend Jackie Chan this is one of the most acclaimed films in Hong Kong movie making history and winner of 10 awards at the year 2000 ""Hong Kong Critics Awards"" & ""Golden Horse Film Festival""!
Set in Burma during World War II the story tells of British P.O.Ws who are forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese while a British Commando team is sent to destroy it. Winner of seven Academy Awards
""A Miracle of a Film"" - Steven Spielberg This remarkable film follows the struggles of T.E. Lawrence (played by Peter O'Toole - My Favourite Year The Last Emperor) in uniting the hostile Arab factions during the First World War and leading them to victory over the ruling Turkish Empire. The film was released originally in 1962 to huge critical acclaim winning 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for David Lean.
The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a cyborg sent back through time joins forces with Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) a woman haunted by nightmares of mankind's inevitable nuclear destiny. Together they must protect her son John (Edward Furlong) - the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future - from the deadliest machine ever created the liquid metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick).
The story of Bravo Two Zero including 3 bonus programmes. Covert Mission 1: The SAS-Bravo Two Zero Covert Mission 2: US Green Berets Covert Mission 3: The Royal Dutch Marines Covert Mission 4: The German GSGS
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