In this classic tale of horror and perversion the infamous Jack the Ripper terrorizes the East End of London of the late 19th century by killing and mutilating prostitutes. Scotland Yard assigns Inspector Selby (Andreas Mannkopff) a young and ambitious police commissioner to the case. As his investigation goes nowhere and public pressure rises his beautiful girlfriend Cynthia (Josephine Chaplin) decides to help him out by posing as a hooker and secretly visiting the bars where the
There is a place on our planet which is stranger than any other - the least known and most mysterious. It is a juncture not unlike outer space where conventional notions of time and distance evaporate. It is a magical and dangerous place to which the human body as well as the human spirit must adapt. It is the only place where a man named Jacques Mayhol truly feels at home. It is the sea - The Big Blue.
Evil is a fifties era, coming-of-age tale that recounts the horror of life at a traditional boarding school.
Miles Pope (Lenny Henry) is a struggling black actor whose life takes a hilarious turn for the worse when he unwittingly discovers a ruthless mobster's most guarded secret. To save his neck Miles enlists the help of an eccentric makeup whiz who concocts a brilliant disguise to conceal his 'true identity'...
Firewall (Dir. Richard Loncraine 2006): Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft Jack's life is turned upside-down when he discovers that his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two kids have been kidnapped. The ransom? A mere $100 million which the kidnappers led by Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) want Jack to obtain for them via his expert computer skills. Initially compliant Jack is soon irked by Cox and his cronies to the point where he decides to risk everything to get his family back and bring the bad guys to justice... The Fugitive (Dir. Andrew Davis 1993): Catch him if you can. The Fugitive if on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones is Sam Gerard an unrelenting bloodhound of an U.S. Marshal. They are hunted and hunter. The non-stop chase has one exhilarating speed: all out.
In an effort to subdue a bout of depression a millionaire playboy (Cary Grant) makes a 50 000 British pound bet with a psychiatrist that he could become a famous business tycoon without using his family's inheritance. Based on the novel The Amazing Quest by Ernest Bliss.
Set in Russia in 1927 this much loved hilarious Mel Brooks comedy classic is the tale of a former aristocrat (Ron Moody) who is now a clerk under the new Soviet regime. When he learns that his dying mother in law sewed a fortune in family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs he sets off across Russia to find it - with an opportunist (Frank Langella) a priest (Dom DeLuise) and his former servant (Mel Brooks) all in equal pursuit. Although the plot of The Twelve Chai
After defeating Dracula Van Helsing is granted immortality by the church to pursue and eradicate vampires from the face of the earth. His hunt leads him through time across continents to a bloody showdown between his slayers and an army of demons led by Sebastian the vampire who took away the only woman Van Helsing ever loved.
A thriller that's nearly devoid of thrills? That's not a complaint--it's what makes The American Friend one of the most stylish (and at the time most expensive) films to emerge from the new German cinema of the 1970s. Loosely adapting Patricia Highsmith's mystery novel Ripley's Game, director Wim Wenders shifted priority from plotting to character, emphasising a richly colourful and atmospheric approach to locations in Hamburg, where a picture-framer (Bruno Ganz) is lured into an assassination scheme involving a mysterious Frenchman (Gerard Blain) and the titular American friend, Tom Ripley (played by Dennis Hopper, a far cry from either Matt Damon's portrayal of the same character in The Talented Mr Ripley or John Malkovich's in the 2003 version of Ripley's Game). The plotting is vague to the point of irrelevance; Wenders prefers to maintain the aura of mystery rather than generating any conventional suspense and expresses his affection for American movies by casting favourite directors Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller in pivotal supporting roles. The result is an intoxicating example of cinematic cross-pollination. --Jeff Shannon
Two fast-talking activists take on corporate America as they pose as members of the World Trade Organisation.
After an ecstatsy induced car accident 12 year old Lizzie lies dead on the roadside - slowly she is taken into the light - but is pulled back to earth when she is revived by the doctors. Lizzie feels sure that during the 184 seconds that she lay dead something latched on to her and came back into her world. The nightmares and visions that follow only crystalise her belief that she should have died in the crash... Then the disturbances start at first merely tappings and bad smells - but soon the activity escalates. Lizzie seems to be the focus but according to others she's just playing games for attention. Only when Kate her mother is confronted with inexplicable events does she face the possibility that they may be the victims of a poltergeist infestation.
In the not too distant future - technological advances means the quickest way to travel is to transfer your conciousness to another body. Stefan Toffler is called in to investigate a terrorist attack unknowingly he's transferred to the body of the main terrorist and has only two days to find himself.... or die!
Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria from the Theatre du Jeu de Paume, July 2002.
Chaliapin - The Adventures Of Don Quixote (1933)
The world's most brutal serial killer was born over 400 years ago. Sawney Bean and his family pillaged slaughtered and literally devoured thousands of victims. Even today the inbred clan of cannibals hides in seaside caves feeding on the flesh of those who pass by...
A witty sexy comedy which cleverly balances gay cynicism with old-fashioned romance Slutty Summer tells of one young gay guy's adventures in steamy New York City. Lanky blond Marcus (writer-director Casper Andreas) gets a sudden reality check in gay fidelity after catching his lover in bed with another. Picking up the pieces Marcus gets a job at a restaurant where he is befriended by a group of lovelorn waiters who school him on re-entering the dating scene. Taking
After the first year in her new career, singer Winona heads back to her home town for a few weeks to wind down and find inspiration to write new songs. She finally settles into a house her manager has rented for her, but becomes disturbed by the unsettling noises. When she meets some old friends in town she invites them over to keep her company. At the same time, something remains awake in the house at all times, roaming the corridors, waiting, watching them for the right time to strike. Scary and shocking, Blood Runs Cold has been officially selected for the 2011 Frightfest Film Festival.
If a witness wants protection or somebody needs to disappear it's Jason Price who erases their identities and Price's Daedalus Network can lose them for good. But a ruthless contract infiltrates the network blowing their security. Now no one is safe...
Exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan, Die Hard made Bruce Willis a star back in 1988 and established a new template for action stories. Here the bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis' visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis' wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Director Renny Harlin took the reins for the 1990 sequel, Die Harder, which places Bruce Willis in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington DC when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard sets new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank) and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Exceptionally well-directed by John McTiernan. --Tom Keogh
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