Tense spy drama about a German traitor who offers his services to the Allies towards the end of WWII. Claiming he wants to help save his country German prisoner Karl Maurer (Oskar Werner) offers himself as a spy to the American forces. But shortly after he is sent behind enemy lines his overseer Lt. Dick Rennick (Richard Basehart) begins to have serious doubts about whether he can trust the new recruit. With Rennick becoming ever more suspicious about Maurer's motives the pair soon find themselves in the thick of battle but uncertainty remains as to who the common enemy is.
This TV-mini series starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and George C. Scott is based on the tragic event that shocked the world and still today remains a great tragedy. Untold stories of the passengers and crew on the ill-fated liner's maiden voyage. - 3 Hour Complete Mini-Series - EMMY Award winning production - Limited Edition 100th Anniversary Edition on 2 Discs
A writer falls in love with a model but their relationship is threatened by insecurity jealousy and murder. Thriller based on the novel 'Les Veufs' by Boileau Marcejac.
Martha Marcy May Marlene creates a sense of uneasy suspense within seconds of coming on screen: a young woman, who will be known by all the title names at various times in the movie, is escaping from a rural commune of some sort. And not just a commune, but by the looks of it, a cult--an impression that will grow as Martha flashes back to her experiences once she reaches the safety of her sister's antiseptic country place. It is part of director Sean Durkin's design that we experience the film as Martha's point of view, which means there may be some question about whether she's an emotionally unstable person to begin with or simply in a legitimate terror about the traumatising events that have unfolded for her in recent months. Although the film has one storytelling contrivance (Martha withholds her experiences from her sister, when a little exposition would help matters tremendously), in general Durkin keeps a lid on this simmering situation, and he's got a good compositional eye that only occasionally tips over into preciousness. Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy play Martha's complacent but concerned sister and brother-in-law, and John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) is a spellbinder as the commune leader, a manipulator of subtle skill. (With some stories like this, you have a hard time believing cult followers could fall for these creepy charismatics; in this one, Hawkes demonstrates how such things might happen.) The movie's most unexpected and alluring touch is the performance by Elizabeth Olsen, as Martha; this younger sister of the child-star Olsen twins brings a zonked-out centre of gravity to the part. She's got just a bit of blankness, too, which enhances the movie's well-wrought guessing game. --Robert Horton
In this Hispanic re-telling of Ang Lee's acclaimed kitchen-based romantic comedy Eat Drink Man Woman Hector Elizondo is Martin Naranjo, a Mexican-American master chef and father of three daughters who has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Stage and screen star Godfrey Tearle perhaps best-known for his brilliantly menacing turn as the treacherous Professor Gordon in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps plays a financier whose suicidal plan has unexpected results in this absorbing drama from the 1930s. To-morrow - We Live is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Sir Charles Hendra, a prominent City financier now facing ruin, decides to take the one last step in life from which there is no return. As the final moment approaches he pauses to reflect, and it occurs to him that there must be others in the same frame of mind and predicament. Hendra then conceives a plan: he will place an advertisement inviting twelve people, similarly weary of life, to dinner, and present them with a choice...SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF
My Brother The Devil tells the story of two brothers tested loyalty as their paths collide amidst a violent world of drugs and gangs. Mo is a young boy growing up in a traditional Egyptian household, but beyond the front door of the family's modest London flat is a completely different world - the streets of Hackney. The impressionable Mo idolizes his handsome and charismatic older brother Rashid and wants to follow in his footsteps. However, Rashid wants a different life for his little brother and will do what ever it takes to put him through college. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events that threatens to tear the brothers apart. My Brother The Devil creates a vivid picture of growing up on the streets and the pressures that surround them. Bold and uncompromising, this will be unlike any other urban drama you have seen.
Coronation Street was first broadcast in December of 1960 and since then has gone from strength to strength in establishing itself as the nation's favourite soap opera. With a more light hearted slant on the genre Coronation Street has always drawn viewers from across the generations and its longevity is tribute to it's across the board appeal. On this DVD we take a look back to 1978 and eight classic episodes from that year.
The unluckiest man in Vegas (William H. Macy) is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love which throws the situation into reverse.
Join Kevin Kline Glenn Close William Hurt Jeff Goldblum Tom Berenger Mary Kay Place Jobeth Williams and Meg Tilly as they reunite for the funeral of a college pal. During the weekend that follows these friends compare their sixties ideals with the harsh reality of their lives in the eighties. Old friendships shared experience and a soundtrack featuring Marvin Gaye Aretha Franklin Creedance Clearwater Revival Procal Harum and Smokey Robinson make The Big Chill an irresistible trip down memory lane.
Gangster No. 1: It's 1968. Gangster has come to work for Freddie Mays the Butcher of Mayfair and he's enjoying his job. He likes the money the girls the suits the power the violence. And gangster is good at what he does very good. He frightens people and he's going to frighten Freddie Mays. The Limey: British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's accidental death. His prime suspect the wealthy heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda) is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth Wilson with single-mindedness and terrifying precision moves unstoppably toward revenge. Sexy Beast: A contented ex-villain is forced to do one last spectacular robbery by a psychotic face from his past in this mould-breaking stylish thriller by one of the UK's hottest new talents Guinness surfer ad director Jonathan Glazer
Based on the novels ""Chances"" and ""Lucky"" by Jackie Collins this miniseries features the rise of Gino Santangelo in the Las Vegas casino industry... After the brutal murder of her mother the wild teenage Lucky Santangelo is packed off to an elite Swiss finishing school by her heavy-handed father Gino. Frustrated by her over-protective father the self-destructive Lucky soon skips school to go thrill-seeking in Europe's glittering hot spots. The exasperated Gino is not to be denied
Environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio narrates this documentary on global climate change and what we can do to help stem the tide.
What happens when the people we count on to hold us together... are barely holding it together themselves? Jonas Pate's Shrink is a striking fast-paced expos'' of the other Hollywood featuring folks living outside their comfort zone and the people who put them there. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) is a psychiatrist with an A-list clientele including a once-famous actress (Saffron Burrows) an insecure young writer (Mark Webber) and a comically obsessive-compulsive superagent (Dallas Roberts). Henry is not in a good place however. He has been asked to take his first pro bono case a troubled teenage girl from a neighborhood far from the Hollywood hills. Considering his present state of mind is he ready for the real-life troubles of a young woman who loves the world of movies he has become so jaded by? At its core Shrink is a study of control and our endless need for it even when it grows increasingly impossible to obtain. Writer Thomas Moffett uses classic archetypes in this modern Hollywood tale but never pushes them over the edge of credibility. Performed by a well-matched cast at the top of their form the result is both satisfying and exhilarating. Watching Shrink makes us feel like voyeurs looking through a window into the lives of people who look great feel worse and end up behaving badly.
A photo-journalist witnesses a car accident where he sees the driver die but the next day he finds him alive and well?! The police find this fits a pattern of recent deaths followed by resurrection that could be linked to the drowned village of Sweethope...
George C. Scott plays Thomas Hudson a sculptor whose self-imposed isolation in the Bahamas is ended by two forces; the visit of his sons and the outbreak of World War II... The film is touching in its details of a father's love and heroic in its defiance of tyranny based on the posthumous novel 'Papa' by Ernest Hemingway.
The Baby And The Battleship (Dir: Jay Lewis) (1956): After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiance able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board. It's Great To Be Young (Dir: Cyril Frankel) (1956): Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band the pupils and Mr. Dingle must unite and use their musical skills to save the school band. The Gentle Gunman (Dir: Basil Dearden) (1952): Terrance Sullivan is a member of the IRA and has moved to London along with his brother and a group of IRA members to wreak havock on London. However Terrance becomes weary of the constant violence and refuses duirect orders to blow up a railway station. The IRA soon place a price on the Gentle Gunman's head and brand him a traitor. The Family Way (Dir. Roy Boulting) (1966): When newly-wed Arthur Fitton (Hywel Bennett) fails to consummate his marriage his nervous bride Jenny (Hayley Mills) thinks it's her fault. But the root of the problem lies with his bullying father Ezra (John Mills) whose presence in the same Lancashire household has an inhibiting effect on his shy sensitive son. Features soundtrack composed by Paul McCartney.
Patricia Neal (fresh from her 1963 award-winning role in Martin Ritt's Hud) stars as a woman suffering from hysterical blindness, and a blank in her memory which may hide the cause of her affliction. When she and her sex-addict husband (Curt Jurgens The Enemy Below, The Spy Who Loved Me) move in with her younger sister (Samantha Eggar The Collector, The Brood), she begins to piece together the events leading to her psychological trauma. Ahead of its time in its discussion and depiction of all manner of taboo subjects (rape, child abuse, nymphomania, psycho-sexual disorder, masochism), Psyche 59 is one of British cinema's most daring and provocative adult dramas. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio The BEHP Interview with Walter Lassally (1988, 94 mins): an archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the renowned cinematographer in conversation with Roy Fowler Come to Silence (2019, 12 mins): award-winning actor Samantha Eggar recalls her work on Psyche 59 Intangible Visions (2019, 14 mins): composer Kenneth V Jones discusses his score An Abstract Quality (2019, 11 mins): critic, lecturer and broadcaster Richard Combs analyses Psyche 59 and the career of director Alexander Singer Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Gods And Generals:'God's And Generals' recounts the fierce allegiances and combat of the early Civil War. Ronald F. Maxwell directs this epic prequel to his Gettysburg framing the story with three bold men and three fateful battles. The men: Joshua Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) ""Stonewall"" Jackson (Stephen Lang) Robert E. Lee (Robert Duvall). The battles: Manassas Fredericksburg Chancellorsville. Through these combatants and conflicts we witness the bravery and strife of a na
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