Johnny Handsome (Mickey Rourke) is a small time crook with a grotesquely deformed face. When thrown in prison for a crime he did not do he befriends a kind doctor (Forest Whitaker) who believes that Handsome would change his ways if he had a normal face. Handsome undergoes plastic surgery and reappears unrecognisable to anyone who knows him. When given parole it seems that Johnny plans to live a straight life... until the past catches up and shows that he only has one aim: to ful
Featuring an all-star cast including Henry Fonda Paul Newman Lee Remick and Michael Sarrazin Sometimes A Great Notion is based on the novel by Ken Kesey (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest). A family of Oregonian loggers led by patriarch Henry live and work by the family motto 'never give an inch.' When the townspeople go on strike the determined Stamper family refuse to join in and continue logging. When Henry is incapacitated by a broken arm it is left to his son Hank to take charge and pull the family together. Whilst Hank is distracted by the family's struggle to meet their targets his bored wife Viv is reconnecting with the errant Leland Hank's brother who has suddenly reappeared after leaving the town ten years before. When sabotage by the townspeople destroys vital logging equipment Henry turns to increasingly desperate methods and events threaten to build to an explosive climax.
n this light-hearted wartime comedy, three WWII Nave men orchestrate a 4-day leave for themselves in San Francisco. Once ashore, they immediately set out to make it a swinging celebration - to last as long as possible! Chief among the party-bound is Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant). Desperat to keep the men on the straight and narrow, Lieutenant Walter Wallace (Werner Klemperer) commits the shipyard that's owned by a local tycoon. But before long, the rowdy Crewson is courting the shipmaker's voluptous daughter (Jayne Mansfield) with hilarious results.
It is the late 1940's. In Merriwether County Georgia john Wallace is 'King'. He has almost total control of agriculture and the illegal whiskey trade. Wallace's rule is assured by intimidation bribery and bloodshed. When Wallace commits the crime in Coweta County he has entered the territory of Sheriff Lamar Potts a man of determination and unquestioned integrity...
Maddie and her daughters are on their way to visit her mother for the Christmas holidays. They run into her soon-to-be-ex-husband and are soon all stranded at the airport due to snow. The two soon realise that they have nothing to do but fall in love again...
Alois Nebel is an adaptation of the graphic novel by Jaroslav Rudis and Jaromir 99 and is made with the Rotoscoping technique. A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland.
You can't live without it. HBO Films presents Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah (Chicago) in a heartbreaking story of one woman's journey to the brink of self-destruction and despair and her inspirational fight to regain her dignity and her family. Ana is an HIV-positive former drug addict from Brooklyn desperately struggling with her past and passionately trying to make things right with her involvement in an AIDS outreach group Life Support. Inspired by a true story it's a touching poignant tale of loving losing and letting go.
The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman, in the time leading up to establishing his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Harry Sands is a self made man happily married with two children. When he learns that Olivia his daughter has gone missing in istanbul he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror he discovers from Olivia's best friend Manda that they have been working as dancers in a nightclub and not as the charity workers that Harry was led to believe. So begins the hunt for his missing daughter and a journey that turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own prejudices and mounti
Thomas Arnold is the new headmaster of Rugby School, where the students have developed a reputation for being wild, disruptive and dishonest. Arnold instils a new discipline to the school, resulting in the expelling of several boys, at much the same time a new boy, Tom Brown arrives.
When a classified ad grabs the attention of Chicago Times editor Brian Kelly (Lee J. Cobb) he sends ace reporter P.J. McNeal (James Stewart) to dig up new evidence in the 11-year-old case of a cop killer: It appears that Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) has taken a fall and been wrongly imprisoned for the murder. Although hard-nosed McNeal is initially skeptical he eventually believes that Wiecek was in fact a patsy. And although McNeal hits one dead end after another the avid newsma
Ingmar Bergman's dramatisation of four Birgit Tengroth short stories novel which interweaves several episodes from the lives of Rut (Henning) and her husband Bertil (Malmsten)... Intricate and intense this powerful psychological drama is based on works by Birgit Tengroth (who also plays Viola in the film) and stands as a true Ingmar Bergman classic. Upon its original release in 1949 the lesbian relationship featured in the film was removed by censors: Bergman's original vision is
A drama centered around three women: A 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago, and an African American woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
The killer whale is the only creature other than man to kill for revenge; Orca the giant killer whale is the monarch of the ocean. Like others of his kind he hunts in packs and is ferociously loyal to his one mate. However when she is harmed Orca's instinct is to hunt down and kill he who harmed her. Across seas across time across all obstacles nothing can come between the killer whale and his natural spirit of vengeance...
The war has cast a dark shadow over the valley with men of its men killed in action and Paul worries because of the opportunism that has erupted. He is adament that his trees should not be cut down for the Army and is appalled by people making a profit from the war. Featuring Episodes The Profiteers The Bad Season The Service The Old And The New
The two detectives are called in to investigate the death of a retired music teacher.
Meet Iris (Kate Winslet) and Amanda (Cameron Diaz), two women who couldn't be more different one lives in a cosy English cottage, the other in a swanky Hollywood estate- but both are alike in their mutual bad luck with men. In desperate need of an escape, they meet online and impulsively switch homes. Both find the last thing either wants or expects- a new romance- and discover that a change of address really can change your life. From the Director of Something s Gotta Give and What Women Want comes two hole hours of sheer heart-warming romantic comedy.
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