Gentle and broken, a homeless man is coerced by two teens to fight other men on video for cash but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
An unusual new perspective on the life of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Viewed via the story of Ida Mussolini's mistress-cum-wife who had a relationship with him through his early years and rise to power. Director Marco Bellocchio brilliantly conjures up this extraordinary period in Italian history while managing to convey a very intimate and personal story. Highly acclaimed on it's Cannes debut Vincere is another significant film in the ultra-impressive canon of it's directors work.
Anne Hathaway stars in this poignant and biting drama from acclaimed director Jonathan Demme.
You've Got Mail - Delivers all the wit charm and warmth you'd expect from a reunion of the stars (Tom Hanks Meg Ryan) and director (Nora Ephron) of 'Sleepless In Seattle'. Greg Kinnear Parker Posey Jean Stapleton and more talented co-stars add perfect support to this valentine to modern - to modem - romance in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cosy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love unaware they are combative business rivals. You've got rare Hollywood magic when You've Got Mail.City Of Angels - What if angels walked among us and one of them fell in love with one of us?Two of the brightest stars in the Hollywood constellation spark the biggest romance under the heavens in City Of Angels a 'lyrical unabashedly romantic film [that] earns its wings' (David Ansen Newsweek). Nicholas Cage is Seth an angel who must decide if he'll forsake his immortality and become human - on the chance that the woman of his dreams might love him. That woman is Maggie (Meg Ryan) a pragmatic heart surgeon who doesn't believe in angels... until she meets Seth. Will love be their mutual destiny? Will they take the risks that shape that destiny? The choice is theirs to make. The movie is yours to see share and sweep you away.Addicted To Love - Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick take a funny look at love's obsessive side as Maggie and Sam teaming for revenge when their exes (Kelly Preston and Tcheky Karyo) team for romance. Sam simply wants his girlfriend back. Maggie wants to get back at her old flame. So all over New York's Soho they unleash their diabolical plot. If successful the two who spurned them will be hapless hopeless loveless. And if Cupid has his way Maggie and Sam just might go from a jilted Who's Through to a romantic Who's Who.
Absent: is all about the relationship between Martin, a 16 year old student, and Sebastian, his professor. But this is not the story of a teacher seducing a pupil but of a boy falling for a man.Plan B: Bruno is dumped by his girlfriend, Laura. Behind a calm, indifferent expression, his mind plots a cold, sweet vengeance. Being a modern girl, Laura continues to see him once in a while, but has another boyfriend - Pablo. Bruno becomes Pablo's friend, with the idea of eroding the couple, perhaps introducing him to another woman. But, along the way, the possibility of a Plan B arises. It may be a more effective one - and it is also one which will put his own sexuality into question, taking him into the secret, unexplored places of his own heart.
Angus Deayton and Simone Lahbib star in the original director's cut of this heart-warming comedy drama. Harry Holland (Deayton) is a charming yet ruthless and hedonistic barrister. Struck down in the middle of a major trial by a rare cardiac condition he is rushed to hospital where he wakes up three weeks later after a successful heart transplant operation. To Harry's dismay he has changed into a different man questioning the morals of his career and unable to enjoy his old bachelor
In Dennis Potter's Brimstone And Treacle Sting delivers one of his finest performances as Martin Taylor a mysterious stranger who arrives on the doorstep of the Bates household and soon worms his way into their lives. Mr and Mrs Bates (Denholm Elliott and Joan Plowright) soon grow to trust Martin but his intentions are less than honourable when it soon becomes clear that he is lusting after their comatose daughter...
Haru has an excellent sense of taste and surpassing skill in the kitchen but she and her first husband got divorced after just one year of marriage because of her impetuous character. One day Dennai Funaki samurai chef from Kaga proposes that Haru should marry his son and heir. The Funaki family serves the Lords of Kaga not with the sword but with the kitchen-knife and have been renowned as “Kitchen Samurai” for generations. But Haru's new husband Yasunobu wields a kitchen-knife with no skill whatsoever. In order to save the Funaki family name and its position as kitchen samurai Haru decides to teach Yasunobu the art of cuisine. The story is inspired by a real-life family in Kaga which has survived countless upheavals with its cuisine.
A compelling study of the seductive powers of fascism and violence directed by Pierre Boutron. The film looks at the deeply disturbing world of the Spanish Civil War and follows a young military cadet who is ordered to join the firing squad.
A celebration of youth friendship and the everlasting magic of the movies. The story of a lifelong love affair with the movies Cinema Paradiso tells of a young boy in a small Italian Village where the only pastime is a visit to the movies at the Cinema Paradiso. Enchanted by the flickering images Salvatore yearns for the secret of the cinema's magic and is overjoyed when Alfredo the projectionist agrees to reveal the mysteries of movie making to him. As their friendship grows so does Salvatore growing older with his good friend and the movies he adores learning from both of them how to court his first love and dreaming of one day making movies of his own. When the day comes for Salvatore to leave the village and pursue his dream Alfredo makes the young man promise to never look back to keep moving forward. And so he does for thirty years until the day a message arrives that beckons him back home to a secret beautiful discovery that awaits him there.
To escape the attentions of her lecherous boss, spry dental receptionist Janet Blake (Debbie Reynolds) accepts a lift home from a rain-soaked society party in rural Connecticut from handsome upcoming actor Bill Tremaine (John Saxon). But when Bill also comes on a little too strong she takes flight, knocking on the door of Bill's neighbour, actor-turned-horse-rancher Preston Mitch' Mitchell (Curd Jürgens). Short of options, Mitch and Janet agree she'll spend the night in his spare room. Mitch has chosen early retirement from theatrical life in the face of competition from a new tribe of wannabe Brandos: This is the age of dirty T-shirts and motorcycle jackets... If you don't know Method and how to mumble, slouch, and pick your nose, you haven't got a chance. But his worldy-wise on-off girlfriend Nita Holloway (Alexis Smith) is determined to drag him back onto the stage. Janet, now desperate for work, accepts a role as Mitch's secretary, and begins a playful flirtation with the older man, who in turn is seduced by her girlish charms. But Bill, right next door, is also smitten: cue a four-way tug-of-love between youth and experience, hope and wisdom from which all or none may emerge as victors. Adapted by Blake Edwards from the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money, This Happy Feeling is a whimsical chronicle of romance, rivalry, true callings and contentment in art and life.
Julien (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) a mature unmarried watchmaker meets the young beautiful and vulnerable Marie (Emmanuelle Beart). The intense love sparked off between the two leads them to shelter in a place where neither life nor death exist a house where dream and reality merge...
Greg Kinnear stars in this riveting true story based on inventor Robert Kearns' fight for the recognition he deserved
Based on Cecily Von Ziegesar's teen novels Gossip Girl follows the lives of the teenagers who attend an elite private school in New York City. The privileged prep school teens discover the latest on friendships relationships and jealousy in their complex world of Manhattan's Upper East Side from the blog of the all-knowing yet utterly secretive Gossip Girl.
Drawn into the twilight world of internet chat rooms and webcams computer buff Thomas Cross (Edward Furlong) meets a girl he knows only as Cathy. But no sooner has their 'virtual' relationship begun than it is brutally cut short when Thomas watches helplessly as Cathy is murdered on screen... before his very eyes. In a state of shock he calls the cops only to realise he can't even tell them the victim's real name and it's not long before the police finger Thomas as their prime suspect. Desperate to prove his innocence he turns to a specialist in internet crime and a notorious hacker for help and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer who will stop at nothing to guard his terrible secret.
This BAFTA award winning feature is a blackly comic look about the fragility of life and what family means. Starring Martin Compston (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) and James Cosmo (Game of Thrones). Alfred is 64. he has lost touch with his family and a threat to his health sees him wanting to make amends. But his past ways are going to prove an obstacle to his estranged family. Written by Lone Scherfig (An Education) and directed by Morag McKinnon.
The cynical yet tender tale of a group of gay friends living in Hollywood, all ultimately in search of one true love.
Don't Look Down
The story of the most notorious paedophile priest in the modern history is told in this Oscar-nominated documentary.
THE BIG WEDDING is an uproarious romantic comedy about a charmingly modern family trying to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco.
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