New York City detectives ""Popeye"" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover The French Connection. But when one of the criminals tries to kill Doyle he begins a deadly pursuit that takes him far outside the city limits. Based on a true story this action-filled thriller with its renowned chase scene won five Academy Award in 1971 including Best Picture Best Director (William Friedkin) and Best Actor for
H6 tells the story of Antonio Frau a serial killer set free after serving 25 years in jail for the violent murder of his girlfriend. After inheriting an old motel from a relative he never knew he sees this as a signal and takes to his holy task of relieving the grief of those who have lost the will to live. He takes his victims to room Number 6 in the motel where he 'purifies' them while at the same time continues his everyday life next to his wife. A mistake leads to his arrest and his plan to become rich and famous takes relevance.
A collection of action films starring the legendary John Wayne. Films comprise: 1. The Spoilers 2. Tycoon 3. Wake of the Red Witch 4. The Conqueror 5. The Magnificent Showman 6. Hellfighters
Six friends, talentless and unfit, form a seven-a-side football team.
Locked in a dark basement Laura a psychiatrist in her early thirties watches in horror as a video confession of a serial killer plays in front of her. Gagged and bound in a chair she realises that it's the same person who had just kidnapped her and who is now pacing the shadows a seemingly normal middle-aged man called Ramon. As he walks towards her Ramon takes off the gag and challenges Laura to play the 'Word Game'. If she wins she gets to go free but if she loses he'll start by poking out her eye...
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This mixed bill of ballets danced by one of the world's greatest ballet companies was recorded live from the War Memorial Opera House San Francisco in 1985 and includes complete short ballets in addition to extracts from full length works. Airs choreographed by Paul Taylor was his first work for American Ballet Theatre and features music by Handel. It was featured in Mikhail Baryshnikov's highly successful first season as Artistic Director. This is followed by Jardin aux Lilas with music by Chausson choreographed by Anthony Taylor. The Grand pas de deux from Act III Swan Lake choreography by Marius Petipa is danced by American Ballet Theatre stars Cynthia Gregory and Fernando Bujones. Then follows the Balcony Pas de deux from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan featuring the great Natalia Makarova and Kevin McKenzie. The last work is Great Galloping Gottschalk which was created by Lynn Taylor-Corbett for American Ballet Theatre in 1982.
Jack Barnes a tall handsome Texan once was part of a foiled bank raid and now works as a security guard in a sleepy Texas border town bank. His boss Ed asks Jake to moonlight and spy on his sultry and very sexy wife Rosalita who Ed suspects is fooling around. Ed owns the bank and is not adverse to handling a little money laundering for a drug cartel. He is expecting another money drop soon millions of dollars in unmarked bills that must be stored in his bank before being smuggled over the border. One evening Jack is crossing back over the border after a passionate liaison with his lover Rosalita when in the dark street he almost runs down Kristen a heart stopping blonde who tells him she has fought with her boyfriend and needs help. Kristen is really a set up. She is controlled by Barry a ruthless and violent man who has been following the drug money and is planning on robbing the bank the night the drop is made.
Law of Desire is an unbridled send-up of the absurdities of human desire a wildly funny film that took American and European audiences by storm and immediately established director Pedro Almodovar. Law of Desire features a fabulous trio - Pablo a famous Madrid director for whom men are prepared to die his new love-crazed boyfriend Antonio and Pablo's flamboyant and gorgeous transsexual sister Tina. Pablo is suffering because Juan his lover shares his steamy passion but not his commitment and has returned to his village in southern Spain. Trying to forget him Pablo is seduced by the tall dark handsome and heterosexual Antonio who in the space of 24 hours goes from having his first gay affair to being Pablo's demanding - and threatening - lover. Pablo makes the mistake of dismissing Antonio as inconsequential but Antonio intends to pursue his passions to their ultimate conclusion.
Recently freed after 25 years for killing his girlfriend Antonio Frau (Fernando Asaco) has just inherited an old motel from a relative he never knew. Old habits die hard and Antonio takes this as a sign from God to begin 'cleansing' those who have lost the will to live. He leads his naive victims to room 6 where he purifies them through excruciating pain and blood-soaked torture while at the same time continuing his everyday life next to his new wife.
Antony and Cleopatra is the 1972 film adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, directed by and starring Charlton Heston. After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
In a small town in the north of England an experimental pest-control device is being used with horrific consequences. Edna (Cristina Galbo) and George (Ray Lovelock) are unlikey travelling companions - they met en-route when she backed her car into his motorbike and subsequently offered him a lift to his destination. Stopping over near Manchester Galbo is attacked by a man that the locals say has been dead for days. Edna's sister Katie (Jeannine Mestre) is a prostitute addicted to heroin and when her husband is brutally murdered Katie is the chief suspect according to bitter local inspector (Arthur Kennedy). But Edna and George soon realise that inhabitants are being murdered as meals for the re-animated corpses of the morgue: the new pesticides used in the area are bringing the dead back to life and for sustenance they need human flesh. The Living Dead is widely recognised by horror fans as one of the best zombie movies ever made and the unlikely setting of pretty English countryside makes the flesh-tearing bone crunching zombies all the more shocking.
Honduran teenager Sabina Rivas (Greisy Mena) dreams of becoming a famous singer. She wants to travel to the United States in hope of realising her dream, and to distance herself from her boyfriend turned vicious gang member Jovany (Fernando Moreno). However, to do so she must travel across Mexico, with its brothels, ruthless gangs, drug trafficking and corrupt migratory agents. At the Mexican-Guatemalan border Sabina and Jovany, who has committed all necessary atrocities required to be accepted by the Mara Salvatrucha gang, meet again. Sabina's lack of any documents, passport or visa are preventing her from crossing, and she is forced to work for a brothel run by Doña Lita (Angelina Peláez), who does not want her to leave. The only person who can help her escape this life is her best customer and confessor Mexican Consul Don Nico (Miguel Flores), who infatuated by her beauty and innocence does not want her to leave either. However, Sabina believes that if she does everything she is told to do, she will eventually end up with that coveted Mexican visa. Winner of Best Supporting Actress (Angeline Pelaez), Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects at the Ariel Awards in Mexico in 2013, this dramatic story on the darker side of Mexico is adapted from Rafael Ramirez Heredia's novel La Mara.
Discover an early classic from the director of On the Road and Motorcycle Diaries. Walter Salles is one of cinema's most respected filmmakers; Foreign Land is one of his early works. After the death of his mother, Paco, decides to travel to her place of birth in Portugal and funds his journey by agreeing to smuggle a violing with raw diamonds. Once in Lisbon he finds love and danger in equal measure.
The slasher massacre of eight innocent nurses! A psychotic killer is brutally murdering the women from within their asylum... but who will be his next victim?
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