Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. Episodes comprise: 1. The Senator the Movie Star and the Mob 2. Blast from the Past 3. Always a Blonde 4. Atomic Fallout 5. Shockwaves 6. Robbery Armed 7. Little Girl Lost 8. Love Hurts 9. MIG-21 10. Moulin Rouge 11. Seize the Time 12. Femme Fatal
Even good cops lose their way. An undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been ""in"" too long. The line between her job and her assumed lifestyle as girlfriend to the crime boss (Pete Postlethwaite) has become blurred. As her double life begins to unravel she must do whatever it takes to stay alive and keep New York City's biggest drug bust from going up in smoke...
Paul and Agns have been going out for quite some time and Agns is shocked to learn that Paul would rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. Each year the French government filters out students who are potential candidates for high-ranking government positions. They are shipped off to schools known as Grande Ecoles where they are trained to become the country's future leaders. It is here that Paul meets his roommate Louis-Arnault. Paul is strangely attracte
In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up in dubious battle against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism-on the courage never to submit or yield. Published in 1936, In Dubious Battle is considered the first major work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.
An heiress hires a former CIA agent to rescue her son who has been kidnapped. The search for the boy takes them to Morocco, where it is planned the boy will become leader of the tribe...
When Joanna Kendall accidentally knocks an eight-year-old girl off her bike it is the start of a nightmare that slowly begins to destroy her cosy suburban life. Afraid to admit to being the hit and run driver Joanna finds herself in a race against time between the little girl's survival and the investigators' search for the driver...
Every morning Daniel Pascoe (McGann) pilots his seaplane from his luxury home to the Docklands - the financial capital of the world. Pascoe is a city high flier and high roller. A man used to winning. But when things go wrong he has to pay the price. That's when he discovers he's merely another pawn in the game that's far bigger than he could ever imagine. To stay in the game he decides to take the biggest gamble of his life. Dealers is a yuppie thriller that cleverly evokes the best and worst of the eighties boom and also stars Rebecca DeMornay as Maria Schuman who takes the coveted job of running the dollar block from under Daniel's nose.
9/11. A country in shock. Amidst the confusion of the terrorist attacks a lonely flight attendant, Montine, and a 10 year old Pakistani-American boy, Omar, find themselves on a plane grounded in Texas. When Montine learns of Omar's direct connection to the terrorist attack she makes the difficult decision to drive the boy across the vast heartland of America to his uncertain future in New York City. As they go cross country in the days following the attacks, they come to realise the importance of tolerance and friendship.
The film that launched the career of Al Pacino and earned him a role in The Godfather was originally banned in the UK for its stark portrayal of heroin addiction in New York. Jerry Schatzberg directs this hard-hitting drama following lost soul Helen as she slides into the world of drug dependency. Following an illegal botched abortion she has a chance meeting with small-time crook Bobby. The pair fall hard for each other and soon Helen becomes embroiled in Bobby's world of heroin addiction in Manhattan's Needle Park. Surrounded by prostitution overdoses and the panic of a mnajor drug bust the couple weather the storm of their bleak existence.
Gay Lawrence (George Sanders) is the debonair and ruthless amateur detective known only as The Falcon. He learns that his brother Tom (Tom Conway) has been reported murdered on a ship arriving from South America. The Falcon swoops to investigate and stalks the would-be murderers before learning that his brother is still alive. His hunt leads him into murky waters with a variety of spies spivs and racketeers arriving into New York. The Falcon pursues the gangsters and comes off worse when protecting a diplomat so the scene is set for the Falcon's mantle to be passed to his brother. When Tom takes over the case his investigations lead to the doors of a fashion magazine and a ring of Nazi spies...
Peter Bowles (To The Manor Born) returns as major Sinclair Yeates in the third series of this comic drama series about a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in turn of the century West Ireland. Episodes Comprise: 1.The Muse in Skebawn 2.Apollo Riggs 3.A Friend of Her Youth 4.In The Curranhilty Country 5.Lisheen Races 6.The Devil You Know
Dear Frankie: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress
Forever Green: Series 2 (3 Discs)
Set against the background of the Depression in the 1930s and the Second World War the story centres around Abel Mason and his desperate search for love and happiness in relationships with four women. After an affair ends in tragedy he leaves his vicious wife Lena and travels North with his ten year old son Dick. To secure a home for the boy and employment for himself he makes an illegal marriage with the widow of a wealthy garage owner. But later Abel falls hopelessly in love with her sister Florrie...
After Prince Sohan contrives a hunting accident for his rival Prince Ranjit so that he might inherit his lands Ranjit foils his ploy by remaining alive thanks to the intervention of a nearby medicine man. Falling in love with his daughter Sunita only inflames Sohan's jealousy further and on the eve of Ranjit's wedding Sohan presents him with his gift of some exquisitely tooled dice and suggests a game while thinking of revenge. Ranjit cannot resist. Based on the pivotal gambling episode from the Mahabharata this is a classic Indian silent film from the German director Franz Osten with a new score by Nitin Sawhney.
A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organisation behind a gang of safebreakers who will stop at nothing not even murder to achieve their goals. The mysterious Mr G is boss of a gang undertaking daring safe robberies. Jimmy Baxter (Wayne Morris) of Anglo American Investigations is on his trail. Also on the trail is feeble Inspector Felby (Lloyd Lamble) who wants this lot badly after the theft of Lady Wilshaws diamond tiara ends in murder. The showdown is at a pawnbrokers where the crooks send the police a hail of bullets.
Raja a criminal escapes the hangman's noose and is sent away to another city under a new identity by his gang who think he is too important to fall into the hands of the police. In this unknown city Sudha a widow love Raja and inspires him to change for the better and give up his life of crime and violence. Raja wants to marry Sudha but there is a hue and cry and ultimately ACP Bali a police officer uses his good offices to get them married. On being blackmailed by his old gang
Sucker Free City is an original film directed by Spike Lee that takes a riveting look at the seductive dangerous world and life choices of a diverse group of young people inextricably caught up in the unique gang culture of San Francisco. When racial tension erupts and emotions collide three young men from different ethnic backgrounds perpetrate low-level crimes that eventually infringe upon each other's neighbourhoods. As their lives intersect on the streets will they com
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons Frederic daydreams about other women but has no intention of taking any action. One day Chloe who had been a mistress of an old friend begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends irregularly in the afternoons till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic causing him a moral dilemma.
This is one of Valentino's best films he plays a bullfighter in a small town in Spain and becomes one of the most idolised matadors in his country. The swaggering but sincere Valentino marries a good Catholic girl Lila Lee a coy innocent with bow-tie lips but is seduced by Nita Natal a high society man-eater who decides to add a bullfighter to her conquests.
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