A successful novelist faced with writer's block invites a handsome young German poet into to his home to provide input for his troubled screenplay. However little does the author know that the guest had previously embarked on an affair with his wife and wishes to continue their relationship...
A kidnapped young boy is returned to his family after two years, but when the family notices strange differences they begin to question things...
The Naked Gun series must be the only successful big-screen franchise to have been a spin-off from a spectacularly unsuccessful TV series. Although Police Squad went on to become a cult favourite, at the time the American TV network was so unimpressed they only showed four of the six episodes before cancelling it. But Leslie Nielsen's bumbling Lt Frank Drebin just wouldn't go away. Supported in masterly deadpan style by George Kennedy and Priscilla Presley, Nielsen cemented his reputation as a gifted comic actor with The Naked Gun decades after he had first become known as a minor Hollywood leading man (in 1955's Forbidden Planet for example). The first movie appeared in 1988 and spawned two sequels that replayed exactly the same routines: in The Naked Gun series sight gags (some of which are worthy of the Marx Brothers, some not) combine with excruciating puns and lots of toilet humour to follow the same hit formula as the creators' earlier slapstick masterpiece, Airplane. By the third film the formula may have become more than a little overworked, and few including the filmmakers cared much about the increasingly creaky scenarios, but Nielsen's easygoing idiotic charm goes a long way towards saving the day. There are still a lot of laughs to be found in all three Naked Gun movies, even if some of them are the unintentional result of seeing OJ Simpson before notoriety overtook his budding film career. On the DVDs: All three features are anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen ratios, with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Each disc also has a jovial ensemble commentary featuring co-creator David Zucker with other producers and writers, which is only intermittently informative but is at least intermittently funny, too. --Mark Walker
BAFTA-nominated Julia McKenzie (Fresh Fields) stars alongside veteran comedy battleaxe Irene Handl in this engaging and highly popular LWT sitcom. Maggie (McKenzie) is a schoolteacher who lives on her own in a flat in London. Pensioner Mrs. P. is her : the nosy next-door neighbour whose continual presence means that divorcee Maggie is never truly alone. In this second series, it seems Maggie's luck may have finally changed; she has a new boyfriend, and for once all seems to be going well. But, inevitably, Mrs. P. insists on offering advice ...
After a one-night stand with a military officer a cabaret singer is imprisoned by the secret police without ever being informed of her alleged crime. For the next five years she is subjected to harrowing torture and harassment which she doggedly withstands in a struggle to maintain her dignity and sanity. Interrogation was banned by the Polish government for being 'inflammatory and dangerous'. Years later director Bugjaski smuggled a copy out of the country and it s
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Charlotte is a seemingly mild-mannered middle-aged housewife - who's decided to leave her husband and skip town. Her mind is made up and all that's left to do is go to the bank and withdraw her money. But while she's waiting in line her plans are suddenly changed when a desperate young man robs the bank - and takes Charlotte along as a hostage. What ensues is a wild and quirky road trip that includes car theft demolition derbies a cat named Murder and maybe even romance...
In the volatile era betweens wars two young men share a romantic view of life and its possibilities. They differ greatly: Paul a shy poet comes from a working-class family while daredevil Guenther hails from the wealthy upper class. Rebellious and passionate both boys reject their parents' empty world. They create a pact: At the point when love fails them they will end their lives. One weekend at a bohemian party this reckless agreement is put to the ultimate test... Based on
Searching a desolate area of the Irish coast for driftwood lonely sculptor Sarah (Brochet) discovers an injured man (Spader) lying unconscious on the shore. She rescues the stranger and takes him to her cottage where she begins nursing him back to health. When she learns the man is suffering from amnesia with no knowledge of who or where he is she decides to tell him they are isolated on a remote island visited only by a supply boat every few months. Totally dependent on Sarah the man believes her story and slowly comes to trust and even love her. But when his hunger for more information and a desire to return to civilisation threaten to draw him away the obsessed and seriously disturbed Sarah must take increasingly drastic measures to keep her lover...
Anna Faris charms as Shelley Darlington, a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex - only to learn that what boys really like is what's on the inside.
When radio reporter Martin (Reeves) falls for his sexy aunt Julia (Hershey) the station's zany soap opera writer Pedro (Falk) decides to play Cupid and broadcast the details! Courtship soon turns to chaos with Martin's love life in shambles Julia in disgrace and irate listeners rioting in the streets. Everyone will have to tune in tomorrow to discover how it all turns out!
A relic has been fought over by the forces of light and darkness for two thousand years. Missing for centuries, the sacred artefact turns up in the back of a camper van in 2001. A powerful secret society is slaughtering innocents to get hold of it. M
The tragic events that informed Jose Padilha's 2003 documentary BUS 174 serve as the inspiration for this docudrama detailing the events that unfolded when on the morning of June 12 2000 the passengers on a bus traveling through the wealthy Rio de Janeiro district of Jardim Bot''nico were taken hostage by a disturbed young man who had been abandoned by society. Marisa (Cris Vianna) is a drug addict whose baby Alessandro was taken from her by drug dealers after she failed to pay a lingering debt. Later after becoming sober Marisa becomes obsessed with finding her son and begins searching the local juvenile detention homes. Meanwhile on the outskirts of Rio a young boy named Sandro wanders into his mother's shop to find her lifeless body riddled with knife wounds. Wistfully recalling his mother's promises to take him to Copacabana the grieving boy runs away ultimately falling in with a group of street kids and becoming addicted to drugs. Later Sandro somehow manages to survive the notorious Candelaria massacre only to be locked away in a juvenile detention centre. It's there that Sandro meets Alessandro. When Marisa arrives at the centre in search of her son she mistakes Sandro for Alessandro and tenderly takes the troubled boy under her wing. But Sandro's scars run deeper than Marisa could ever imagine so deep that he believes his only hope for survival is taking a busload of hostages.
At the age of 12 Antoine's life is dominated by twin passions dancing to Arabic music and getting his hair cut by the voluptuous middle-aged local hairdresser who inadvertently provides him with his first experience of the opposite sex. Antoine reaches middle age with his passion undiminished: upon meeting shy hairdresser Mathilde he is so taken by her that he proposes marriage. She accepts and he moves into her salon where they pursue their romance with an intensity that blinds them to the mundane realities of the outside world.
Set Comprises: Derby Day: 1952 I Live In Grosvenor Square: 1945 The Lady Is A Square: 1959 The Lady With The Lamp: 1951 Sixty Glorious Years: 1938 Victoria The Great: 1937
Selected episodes from the smash comedy On the Buses
Based on the cult mystery novels by author, journalist and royal biographer Tim Heald, this quartet of light-hearted whodunits stars David Horovitch as a bungling but diligent Department of Trade investigator. Featuring guest performances from Patrick Troughton, John Le Mesurier, Glynis Barber, Peter Jeffrey and Elizabeth Spriggs, among many others, this set contains all four stories: Unbecoming Habits, Deadline, Let Sleeping Dogs Die and Just Desserts. John Steed, Simon Templar, Dick Barton... and Simon Bognor. Following in the footsteps of some illustrious predecessors, the principal agent of the Special Investigations Dept. of the Board of Trade ventures forth to take on wrongdoers wherever they may lurk! In Unbecoming Habits, he poses as a CID officer to investigate a friary suspected of passing agricultural secrets to the Soviets; Deadline sees him lowering journalistic standards as he goes undercover to probe the murder of a gossip columnist; in Let Sleeping Dogs Die he trails ruthless pedigree dog smugglers; Just Desserts finds him uncovering deadly intrigue in the world of haute cuisine. But will the assignments throw up more clues than Bognor can handle?
Hard-partying brothers Mike (Adam DeVine) and Dave (Zac Efron) place an online ad to find the perfect dates (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza) for their sister's Hawaiian wedding. Hoping for a wild getaway, the boys instead find themselves out-hustled by the uncontrollable duo. Click Images to Enlarge
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