Linda Hamilton and Jacqueline Bisset star in Sex and Mrs. X an erotic comedy drama that explores how a woman regains her sense of self-worth through sexual reawakening. Joanna (Hamilton) is a woman secure in the knowledge of who she is; a perfect wife a successful magazine journalist and a woman who's just celebrated her wedding anniversary with her husband Dale. When Dale suddenly leaves her for another woman Joanna's world collapses her self-esteem shattered. Joanna questions her attractiveness as a woman and her value as a human being... How did this happen to her? Follow Joanna as she escapes to Paris where she learns the many secrets of seduction under the tutelage of Madame Simone (Bisset). Slowly empowered by her newfound knowledge and self-confidence Joanna comes to understand her true self-worth.
From exotic threesomes in 'Black Venus' to decadent antics in 'Love Circles', these 5 classic erotic films from Playboy Cinema offer some of Playboy's sexiest women together for the first time in one boxed set.Includes:- Black Venus- Christina- Ecstasy- Frank and I- Love Circles
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
The story takes place in England around the beginning of the 20th Century. Sensually exploring a young schoolgirl's awakening to love during her summer vacation. The young girl, Bilitis, is shocked when she witnesses her friend Melissa and her husband making love. Melissa encourages Bilitis to discover the aspect of love by seeing a young photographer, Lucas. He tries to make love to Bilitis, and she rebuffs him and runs to Melissa, who in comforting Bilitis finds herself responding to her kisses. But she tells Bilitis there must be nothing more between them. Bilitis discovers Melissa's husband is with another woman, so she decides to find another man for Melissa. Doing so Bilitis is realising she is not yet ready herself for adulthood.The English photographer David Hamilton has achieved unusual visual beauty in making his first motion picture enhanced by the music of Francis Lai.
A beautiful female disc-jockey is mistaken for the girlfriend of a geriatric millionaire by the millionaire's grandson. Includes the songs: 'The Turntable Song' 'Happy-Go-Lucky and Free' 'You Gotta Keep Your Baby Lookin` Right' 'Something In The Wind' 'It's Only Love' and 'Il Miserere'.
A psychopath kidnaps a teenage girl and buries her alive in a capsule that will become her tomb in 83 hours unless her father pays a huge ransom. Based on a true story.
Patrick Hamilton's trilogy is brought to life in this adaptation. A story of unrequited love set against the backdrop of the grimy streets and public houses of 1930s London revolving around The Midnight Bell a bar off the Euston Road; it follows the painful pursuit of love from three different perspectives: barman Bob who yearns for penniless street-walker Jenny; his colleague Ella torn between the attentions of an older wealthier man and her secret desire for Bob; and Jenny forced onto the streets through circumstances and now struggling to keep her head above water. This beautifully observed three-part series captures the milieu who stand at the side of the bar and pour out their passions: unrequited love ambition and disappointment.
Jacqueline Dr Pre was an artist with an exuberant personality and seemingly infinite talent who already in her youth was recognised as one of the finest cellists of the century. It is a tragedy that her career was cut short when she was 28 years old. She died in 1987 as the age of 42. This film directed by Christopher Nupen and now available on DVD for the first time contains previously unpublished footage that is at once inspiring and intimately revealing - you can see the musician her friends knew and how spontaneous and natural was her response to the music. The film also contains landmark performances of great music including an excerpt from her memorable performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto.
It's No Picnic! Brace yourself for mutant mayhem and pestilent payback in this scary (Los Angeles Times) and repulsively convincing (The Hollywood Reporter) creature feature about good bugs gone BAD! Starring queen of mean Joan Collins this incredible insect extravaganza is swarming with flesh-crawling chills hair-raising thrills and spine-tingling terror...with a venge-ANTS! A heavenly paradise becomes a hellish nightmare when a toxic spill turns harmless ants into rampaging radioactive reprobates! Stumbling into their creepy lair a sleazy land developer (Collins) and her clients are horrified to realize that the ants are having a picnic...and humans are on the menu! Fleeing for their lives - only to be squashed underfoot - they soon discover that these bad-boy bugs are hell-bent on exterminating mankind and building an evil empire where humans check in...but they can't check out!
Black Sunday was such a huge hit that a follow-up was swiftly demanded, and horror maestro Mario Bava duly devised this three-part horror anthology blending modern and period stories. In the giallo-style The Telephone', a woman is terrorised by her former pimp after his escape from prison, and tries to escape him with the help of her lesbian lover, who has a dark secret of her own. In the Victorian-era The Drop of Water', a nurse steals a ring from the corpse of a dead spiritualist, which naturally tries to get it back. But it's the 19th-century Russian story The Wurdalak' that comes closest to Bava's earlier classic, with the great Boris Karloff as a much-loved paterfamilias who might not be entirely what he seems. Features: Bava's direction is as stylish as ever, and Black Sabbath is almost a compendium of his favourite themes. High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of two versions of the film; I tre volti della paura' the European version with score by Roberto Nicolosi & Black Sabbath' the re-edited and re-dubbed AIP version with Les Baxter score, on home video for the first time English SDH subtitles for English Audio and a new English subtitle translation of the Italian audio Audio Commentary with Bava biographer and expert Tim Lucas
Double Oscar nominated film including Best Actor for Albert Finney. Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney) British Consul to Mexico has quit his job after divorcing Yvonne (Jacqueline Bisset) and takes solace with a bottle of booze. However Yvonne decides to return to Cuernavaca along with Geoffrey’s half-brother (Anthony Andrews) in order to get Geoffrey sober again. But a self-destructive drunk is not an easy man to reclaim…
Before the night is out the star witness for an important trial lies dying and Detective Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) won't rest until the shooters - and the kingpin behind them - are nailed. From the opening shot to the closing shootout Bullitt crackles with authenticity: San Francisco locations crisp dialogue and to-the-letter police hospital and morgue procedures. An Oscar winner for Best Film Editing (1969) this edgy thriller features one of cinema history's most memorable car chases. Buckle up for unbeatable action.
A scientist acquires a mutant born out of toxic sewage but can not prevent the homicidal little critter from escaping...
She's either the love of his life... Or the end of it. Jacqueline Bisset stars in this dramatic thriller as a woman who just a few weeks after her husband's mysterious death returns from a cruise with a handsome Brit in tow and announces that she's engaged. Her son played by Adam Garcia is immediately suspicious especially since he still can't believe his father a world-class athlete drowned. He teams up with his stepfather-to-be's attractive daughter to uncover the tru
A normal day is transformed into a magical roller coaster ride when Bloom an everyday girl discovers she has fairy powers. Transported to the mystical dimension of Magix Bloom makes five new friends Stella Musa Tecna Flora Aisha at the school for fairies in a fantastic new world. Join Bloom on her adventures in Magix and on Earth as she fights evil and looks for her origins in 6 classic episodes from season 1.
In Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect and Sophie proves to be ""a bit bizarre but a real pearl"" according to Madame Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset). Sophie remains distanced from the family and only comes out
An African-American baby abandoned by his crack addicted mother is adopted by a white social worker and her husband. When the mother struggles through rehab to kick her habit she then seeks to reclaim her lost son...
The characters in this delightful series live on the shelves of a kitchen dresser. Late at night while the 'Big Ones' are sleeping The Gingerbread Man and his friends 'Salt' and 'Pepper' and 'Herr Von Cuckoo' come alive and create much mischief! 'The Old Bag' a long forgotten teabag living in the teapot on the top shelf and 'Sleek the mouse' do their best to spoil the adventures of the four friends. Episodes: 1. A Pinch of Salt 2. Locked Clock 3. Weekend Break 4. Old Bag in Danger 5. While the Cat's Away 6. It's Not Fair 7. The Gingerbread Ghost
Tony Rome (Dir. Gordon Douglas 1967): Tony Rome a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD. The Detective (Dir. Gordon Douglas 1968): A hard-boiled mystery starring Frank Sinatra as the tough-as-nails Detective Joe Leland 'The Detective' was based on a novel by Roderick Thorp. Called in to investigate the murder of Teddy Leikman the homosexual son of a well-connected department store mogul Leland executes an open-and-shut investigation. He quickly elicits a confession from Teddy's crazy roommate and the defendant is convicted and executed while Leland scores a promotion. But when the widow of an accountant seeks out the Detective to look into the circumstances of her husband's death Leland uncovers some startling evidence implicating a corrupt New York City political machine; an attempt on Leland's life further convinces him that the authorities have a stake in keeping this case closed. Lee Remick ('The Omen') plays Leland's estranged wife Karen. The Manchurian Candidate (Dir. John Frankenheimer 1962): One of the ""most poundingly suspenseful political thrillers ever made "" (People Magazine) and ""one of the best and brightest of modern American films"" (Roger Ebert). Ask Major Bennett Marco (Sinatra) and he'll say that Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is a hero worthy of the Medal of Honor. But despite what he says Marco suspects otherwise. A bizarre recurring nightmare gives him the uneasy feeling that Shaw is something far less heroic and far more insidious. Is it possible that Shaw is a traitor? Can Marco convince the Army of his suspicions? How does Shaw's powermad mother (Lansbury) figure into this all? So many questions. So little precious time...
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