Scarface: In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbour was opened and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami... wealth power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name - Scarface! Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice...
World War II Morocco springs to life in Michael Curtiz's classic love story. Colourful characters abound in "Casablanca", a waiting room for Europeans trying to escape Hitler's war-torn Europe.
The Deer Hunter is an astonishing powerful and vivid epic about three men steelworkers from Pennsylvania whose lives are changed irrevocably in the tragic devastation of the Vietnam war. When Michael Steven and Nick are captured by the Vietcong they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical and spiritual wounds and when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfil an old vow to one of his friends he makes an unexpected horrific discovery. Director Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter won no less than 5 Oscars in 1978 for Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor Best Editing and Best Sound.
Following the release of the internationally award-winning Stroke and Clock In Wake Up 2 is the newest surf video from by Tiago Garcia. The name Wake Up imparts a message for all of us: to confront the problems we're facing and preserve nature and the oceans which are our playground. Tiago's idea was to produce another high-performance surf video that sends an ecological message. The film features champions Kelly Slater Mick Fanning Jaj Burrow Joel Parkinson Jordy Smith Adriano de Souza Hobgood Brothers and Bobby Martineez with a script written by local biologists. Narrated by the former World Champion CJ Hobgood.
Film detailing the Nazi occupation of France during WWII and a catholic boarding school's mission to protect Jewish children. Based on the director's own experiences during the period the film tells the story of a bright young French boy who shares a room with a new arrival who is hiding from German soldiers
A hard hitting thriller about urban Latino life...
The Fan (Dir. Tony Scott 1998): Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) is a big baseball fan. Separated from his wife and son and down on his luck Renard's love of baseball becomes an obsession and he stalks his favourite baseball celebrity Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes). When Rayburn falls into a career slump Renard's obsession takes a deadly turn and he secretly vows to stop at nothing including murder to restore his idol's reputation. About Schmidt (Dir. Alexander Payne 2002): Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) has arrived at several of life's crossroads all at the same time as he is forced to deal with an ambiguous future as he enters retirement. Soon after his wife of 42 years passes away and he must come to terms with his only daughters marriage to a man he does not care for. With no job no wife and no family Warren is desperate to find something meaningful in his thoroughly unimpressive life. Warren sets out on a journey of self-discovery exploring his roots across Nebraska and facing up to the failure that his life has become. 15 Minutes (Dir. John Herzfeld 2001): Robert De Niro stars as homicide detective Eddie Flemming a man who knows how to handle high-profile murders. But now with a crime that has ended in a grisly fire and a pair of Eastern European killers on a rampage across the city Flemming must team up with a rival: the low-key Arson Investigator Jordy Warsaw played by Ed Burns.
Featuring great performances from legendary artists of the golden age, classic archive offers a unique historical glimpse into our classical heritage, presented on DVD for the very first time . Lovingly restored, using the finest state-of-art technology, these generous, full-length programmes include complete musical performances, authoritative essay and rare bonus footage.Mozart:01. Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K216.02. Violin Concerto No.5 In A Major K219.03. Adagio For Violin In E Major, K261.Bach:04. Sonata For Solo Violin No.1 In G Minor, BWV1001 (Adagio and Fugue).Geminiani:05. Sonata For Violin And Basso Continuo in D Minor, Op.1 No. 12, Impetusosa.Kreisler:06. Schon Rosmarin.
Convicts escape from a prison bus and take the Haden family hostage. Don Haden an ex Vietnam soldier must resurrect his military expertise to save his family from death.
It is 1850 in the beautiful perfectly kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalise real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife Lucy (Isabel Adjani) begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the midst of a vampire. What he doesn't know however is the magnitude of danger he his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of the Nosferatu. Directed by Werner Herzog a leading figure in German Cinema's 'new wave' of the 1970's Nosferatu is widely recognised as one of the finest films of the vampire genre. A homage to F. W. Murnau's 1922 original Herzog's Nosferatu is driven towards tragedy and visual splendour rather than the gory bloodfests of later remakes. Herzog's frequent leading man and eccentric live wire Klaus Kinski (Android Lifespan Dr Zhivago) gives a sensational performance as the eerie goblin-like Dracula.
Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner is a vintage product of the old Hollywood studio system complete with sweeping scenery and breathtaking effects including the crossing of the Red Sea by thousands of Hebrew slaves. With a dramatic and gripping plot superbly acted by Heston as the Hebrew saviour Moses The Ten Commandments has lost none of the impact and power it held over audiences on its initial release back in 1956.
Blackbeard's Ghost (Dir. Robert Stevenson 1968): Award-winning actor Peter Ustinov stars in this hilarious fantasy as the ghost of the legendary pirate Blackbeard. The once blackhearted scoundrel materializes in a small New England town cursed to wander in limbo until he performs a good deed. He gets his chance when he decides to help a local college track team... that hasn't a ghost of a chance of winning! Blackbeard finds himself full of team spirit and dispensing his own brand of invisible coaching... in this warmhearted comedy that will have you laughing from his first fade-in to his final fade-out! Treasure Island (Dir. Byron Haskin 1950): In this swashbuckling high-seas adventure Walt Disney has vividly brought to life Robert Louis Stevenson's thrilling tale of buccaneers and buried gold - presented for the first time in it's original uncut theatrical version! Authentic locales and musket-roaring action set the stage for the stouthearted heroics of young Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) and the skullduggery of that wily one-legged pirate Long John Silver.
A collection of spine-tingling horror tales from the pen of bestselling horror novelist Stephen King... Salem's Lot (Dir. Tobe Hooper 1979): Ben Mears (David Soul) returns to his hometown Salem's Lot to complete work on his latest novel but finds himself increasingly disturbed by the object of his attention Mr Straker's (James Mason) mansion house which terrified Ben as a child. It seems that the residents have been acting up and some have even gone missing; all of which coincides with the arrival of Mr Straker and his mysteriously anonymous business partner Mr Barlow to Salem's Lot. Ben vows to get to the bottom of the disappearances and confront his childhood fears... It (Dir. Tommy Lee Wallace 1990): A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again they would come back to Derry to do battle again... Storm of the Century (Dir. Craig R. Baxley 1999): From Stephen King the best-selling novelist of all time comes the terrifying tale of a town besieged by evil. The inhabitants of a picturesque sleepy little town on a small island off the coast of Maine find themselves completely cut off from the rest of the world when they are hit by the worst storm of the century. As Snow steadily buries everything familiar terror arrives in the form of an evil stranger. As streets disappear and an eerie darkness envelops the town a series of bizarre murders creates a nightmare of fear. With no help coming from the outside world and no end to the storm in sight the towns folk are forced to take drastic action before it's too late... The Shining (Dir. Mick Garris 1997): A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers. TV miniseries remake of Stanley Kubrick's classic chilling 1980 film. Rose Red (Dir. Craig R. Baxley 2002): The chilling tale of Dr. Joyce Reardon (Nancy Travis) an obsessed psychology professor who commissions a team of psychics and a gifted 15 year old autistic girl Annie Wheaton to literally wake up a supposedly dormant haunted mansion: Rose Red. Their efforts unleash myriad spirits and uncover horrifying secrets of the generations who have lived and died there... Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (Dir. Craig R. Baxley 2003): This series is a prequel to the Stephen King mini-series Rose Red. At the turn of the twentieth century Ellen Rimbauer (Lisa Brenner) the young bride of charming Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer (Steven Brand) began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her anxieties about her new marriage express her confusion over her emerging sexuality and contemplate the nightmare that her life was becoming. The diary also follows the construction of the Rimbauer mansion Rose Red an enormous home that would be the site of so many horrific and inexplicable tragedies in the years ahead. Due in part so it seems to a murder that took place during its construction. After Ellen's daughter vanishes John's philandering ways and violent tendencies aggravate her desperation...
Play for love or money. Two people who have never met are chosen to play the biggest game show ever 'HUMDUM' the game of love and money. Prize money: 10 Crores each. To win the prize money all they have to do is NOT fall in love with each other... They think it is the simplest way to make money. That is till they actually start playing. 4 crazy rounds. 1 Final countdown. And then the ultimate question... Do you want 10 Crores or each other?!
World War II Morocco springs to life in Michael Curtiz's classic love story. Colourful characters abound in "Casablanca", a waiting room for Europeans trying to escape Hitler's war-torn Europe.
He bought six men out of hell and they brought it with them. Very much a traditional western 'The Revengers' stars William Holden (The Wild Bunch) as a peacful rancher driven to revenge when his family are murdered.
The Stud (1978): A waiter (Oliver Tobias) becomes manager of a hip discotheque by sleeping with his boss' insatiable wife (Joan Collins) but the life bores him and he returns to his East End roots... This look at the sexual cavortings of the super-rich revived Joan Collins' flagging career and paved the way for her success in the television series 'Dynasty'. The Bitch (1979): Joan Collins stars in the film version of her sister Jackie's novel about a rich woman who ha
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