At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be
The searing classic of paradise lost. The 24-year old idol-to-be James Dean plays Cal a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favored brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris Dean's performance earned one of the film's four Academy Award nominations. Among the movie's stellar performers Jo Van Fleet won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Three veteran Riot Squad cops have had enough of a society ruled by hatred, where no one follows the rules anymore in this hard-hitting thriller!
Ira Levin's scary novel about forced conformity in a small Connecticut town made the Stepford Wives a compelling 1975 thriller. Katharine Ross stars as a city woman who moves with her husband to Stepford and is startled by how perpetually happy many of the local women seem to be. Her search for an answer reveals a plot to replace troublesome real wives with more accommodating fake ones (not unlike the alien takeover in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers). The closer she gets to the truth, the more danger she faces--not to mention the likelihood that the men in town intend to replace her as well. Screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) made this a taut, tense semi-classic with a healthy dose of satiric wit. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Two men who become friends inspire on another soar to heights of self-delusion and lose themselves in a madness that shatters the norms of culture and civilisation. This award-winning three-part docudrama tears open the veil of myths and half-truths obscuring a central figure of the Nazi regime. A man of profound contradictions Albert Speer was a cultivated intellectual who allied himself with the 20th-century's most horrifying embodiment of evil. A brilliant architect he built ostentatious monuments and controlled Germany's wartime industry. During Hitler's final moments Speer the protg would turn against his master. Rare archive and home film footage interviews with Albert Speer's children and a cast led by Sebastian Koch (Black Book The Lives Of Others) provide a revealing look behind the staged self-portrayals of Hitler and his architect.
A sales clerk wins the heart of a little boy and his widowed mother amidst the magic of Christmas in New York City. Jodie (Cynthia Gibb) is a widow with a six-year-old son. Her life is settled and comfortable until the day she goes shopping in the smart Manhattan store where Steve Mason (David James Elliott) works. A sales clerk working in the kids' toy department Steve instantly falls in love with Jodie. But she is only there to buy a train for her company to use in a commercial. She has no interest in the train or the magic of Christmas expecting to return the toy the next day. Her son Timmy changes everything. The train his mother brings home for Christmas is his dream come true. Like Steve young Timmy believes anything is possible and wishes with all his heart that the train is for him. And Steve is wishing for Jodie. But will their wishes come true? Will Jodie be won over by the power of Christmas magic?
In a small Irish village, strong-willed Tara shocks the townspeople by having a baby out of wedlock and refusing to name the father. During Sunday mass she goes into labour giving birth to a baby boy. The town's constable, Brendan Hegarty, and Mick, a local landowner, vie for Tara's hand in marriage, but she refuses them both. When Tara instead falls for Tom Casey, an actor in a lewd wandering theater troupe called the Playboys, Hegarty plots to keep Tara and Tom apart.
In the Depression era passions rise when Bridget McQueen arrives home with a black husband and their mixed race daughter Rose Angela faces many difficulties...
Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on a big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters) he finds a haul bigger than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption the Right versus the Reds and passion ag
Christian Slater and Winona Ryder star in this black comedy set amidst the bitchy politics of high school.
Emergency Ward 10 - Vol. 3 (4 Discs)
Gabriel (Christian Campbell) is a sophisticated New York composer. Mark (Jean Paul Pitoc) is a sexy muscular dancer. Thrown together by chance on a crowded subway train the pair must find somewhere to be alone - which is going to be tough when they have Gabriel's roommate his annoying best friend and a bitchy drag queen to contend with! Could a potential one-night-stand turn into something more special for Gabriel and Mark?
Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Francoise, a young washerwoman, and Basile, without a family or a name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution. With their friends and the working-class people of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in the newly formed assembly where they witness, with both hopes and doubts, the creation of a new political system. Their debates and the riots on the streets hold the fate of their once sacred king and the birth of a republic. Freedom has a story.
Following the death of her mother, Ida (Sandra Kampp) moves in with her aunt (Sidse Babette Knudsen) and her grown sons. Though her Aunt's home is filled with physical tenderness and love, the family leads a violent and criminal life. And when an unforeseen murder puts pressure on the family and their loyalty to each other, tension builds as love and violence become impossible to separate.Featuring a breakout performance from Kampp, the acclaimed debut feature from Jeanette Nordahl is an enthralling, brooding and utterly gripping thriller that packs a powerful emotional punch.
First aired on British television in 1996 This Life chronicles the lives of a group of house-sharing twentysomething professionals as they try to make sense of life love and each other. Providing a timely shake-up of TV drama conventions This Life's refusal to conform was its key to success. While critics deemed it 'immoral' for its graphic depictions of homosexuality and blas attitude to drug-taking fans revelled in its honest and objective portray
A dream of falling from the sky... and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home greeted by a group of females with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka's own wings grow a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Brie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall a tall impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga is all
Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) a medical school dropout has been repeatedly burned by bad relationships. So while everyone around him including his roommate Allan (Adam Driver) seems to be finding the perfect partner Wallace decides to put his love life on hold. It is then that he meets Chantry (Zoe Kazan) an animator who lives with her long term boyfriend Ben (Rafe Spall). Wallace and Chantry form an instant connection striking up a close friendship. But there is no denying the chemistry between them leading the pair to wonder: what if the love of your life is actually your best friend?
Legendary recording artist and Oscar nominee Diana Ross stars with multi-platinum Grammy Award winning singer and actress Brandy in this compelling story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child. With dazzling performances from both stars the film includes an exclusive duet ""Love Is All That Matters."" Eighteen years after leaving her baby daughter in pursuit of fame Olivia (Diana Ross) returns to seek out Kayla (Brandy) and make amends for the past. With years of experience and well placed contacts Olivia helps Kayla realize her own dream of singing stardom. But their fragile mother-daughter bond is tested when Kayla's success threatens to surpass her mother's... Together they must discover that love is more powerful than ambition and family more important than fame.
In an Oscar-winning performance Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unioniser (Ron Leibman) and with increasing courage and determination Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story Norma Rae is the mesmerising tale of a modern day heroine!
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