A masked naked clay covered band of jungle primitives are disturbed in the middle of a human sacrifice by the sudden intrusion of a croquet ball. Led by their high priestess they trek through the forest in search of its origins and arrive at an immense deserted manor house. They occupy the mansion which begins to have a civilizing effect on the savages; individual personalities emerge and with them pasts futures family connections ambitions and other trappings of society. Ov
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
Hologram Man
Jack returns to Gallowshields from New York having lost his money in the Wall Street crash. Episodes include: 'Back To Dear Old Blighty' 'A Gift From Heaven' 'A Medal For The Argentine' and 'Flies And Spiders'.
Based on another of the notorious novels by the Marquis De Sade, the story is of Eugenie Radeck, who lives with her widowed stepfather, a renowned writer in Berlin. One day she accidentally discovers her fathers true sadistic, perverse character. Instead of being shocked, she becomes his accomplice and they plan to commit the perfect crime together. They decide to kill an unknown photo model just for the thrill of it. Their perverse, deadly relationship thrives until Eugenie meets a young mus...
Everyone thought the RMS Titanic was the safest ship in the world - a leading shipbuilding journal proclaimed it 'unsinkable' because of its watertight compartment design. On its first trip from England to New York City, it collided with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. The much-publicized 'unsinkable' watertight compartment design was never designed to cope with such extensive damage, and the 'unsinkable' ship starts to go down. Even worse, more than half the 2200+ passengers & crew on board are already doomed, as the Titanic is only carrying lifeboats for about 1200. This is the frightening and untold story of the passengers & crew's struggles to stay alive on the ill-fated liner’s maiden voyage. Isabella Paradine (Catherine Zeta Jones) is a wealthy woman mourning the loss of her aunt, who reignites a romance with old flame, Wynn Park (Peter Gallagher). Meanwhile, a charming ne'er do well named Jamie Perse (Mike Doyle) steals a ticket for the ship, and falls for a sweet innocent Irish girl on board. But their romance is threatened by the villainous Simon Doonan (Tim Curry), who has discovered about the ticket and makes Jamie his unwilling accomplice, as well as having sinister plans for the girl. Director Robert Lieberman and scripter’s Ross Lamanna and Joyce Eliason easily convey tension as the great ocean liner approaches what we know to be certain doom. This box set also contains replicated memorabilia of the original documents and information for The Titanic including: Letter of Condolence Distress Call Large Poster Transcript Identity Card 2nd Class Menu Illustration of the ship Dear Brother letter Advert Small Poster Black and White photographs Music Sheet
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.
Anna is a charismatic but struggling filmmaker facing a midlife crisis having turned 40; she lives in her friend's garage in L.A. dances in a vagina costume for money and has neither job nor girlfriend. Just when she's about to give up on both she meets sexy post-feminist Katia. To impress her new muse Anna decides to write and direct an all-female remake of 'whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf?' casting Katia and her best friends Chloe and Penelope in the film. Along the way with the help of those around her she discovers some home truths with hilarious results. From director Anna Margarita Albelo (A Lez in Wonderland Hooters) comes this eccentric semi-autobiographical romantic comedy with Albelo in her first feature fiction film alongside Guinevere Turner (Go Fish The L Word) in a show-stopping and award-winning performance Carrie Preston (True Blood) and Janina Gavankar (True Blood).
The story of a beautiful woman who explores her sexuality and helps a young man achieve sexual maturity under her expert tutelage....
Modern Cuban cinema - borne out of a revolution that took place 50 years ago - is celebrating its golden jubilee this year. To mark the occasion Mr. Bongo Films is releasing a box set of landmark films from this iconic and turbulent nation. Cuban cinema is vibrant and exciting and yet not as widely known as films from other countries - but all that is set to change with the release of 50 Years Of The Cuban Revolution a stunning box set featuring four outstanding films including the never before released on DVD Lucia along with I Am Cuba Memories Of Underdevelopment and Strawberry & Chocolate. There will also be a run of Cuban films at the Barbican commencing on 11 July 2009 full listing below. Shocking moving and above all groundbreaking these four films are the work of esteemed directors Humberto Solas Tom''s Guti''rrez Alea Juan Carlos Tabio and Mikhail Kalatzov and tell outsiders what it means to be Cuban in the past present and future.
Ricky Tomlinson and Phil Daniels star in this dark new British comedy about two neighbours whose disagreements soon escalate.
College friends and ex lovers, Beth and Susan plan a long awaited reunion in Oregon with current loves Chloe and Jessie, who are instantly attracted to each other upon first meeting. While Susan and Beth attend daytime conferences, their partners are left alone with very little to do. They try to suppress their feelings but it's only a matter of time before passion explodes and they embark upon a torrid sultry affair enticing the lovers to take bigger risks with increasingly reckless conseq...
On 13 May 1992 17-year-old Amy Fisher had an accomplice drive her to the house of Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa New York. When Mary Jo answered the door Amy shot her in the head. Mary Jo survived the attack but sustained injuries that left her paralysed. The case caused a sensation. Amy was dubbed ""The Long Island Lolita"" by the media and became the most notorious teenager in America. Portrayed as promiscuous and immoral Amy claimed to have started a passionate affair at a yea
Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski) is a 17-year-old Goth with multiple face-piercings and a fondness for graveyards. Randall (Albert Brooks) is a middle-aged salesman with an obsessively tidy life and a fear of anything new. When these two opposites collide the chain reaction sparks a life-altering meltdown for them both in this wickedly perceptive critically acclaimed comedy from director and actress Christine Lahti. Desperate to escape the world of her infuriatingly cheery mother (Carol
A telephone relationship erupts between an artist and a call girl who who share their morbid and erotic fascinations. Just as he thinks he's finally met her she's dead... or is she?
Marla Hanson's dreams of becoming a top New York model were shattered when she was attacked and slashed across the face sustaining wounds requiring nearly 150 stitches. Marla's modelling career was finished but her ordeal had only just begun. When her case came to court the defence attorney tore into her accusing her of being a prostitute and using sex to further her career. But Marla fought back against these accusations and her exceptional courage made her not only America's most famous victim but a champion for others who had suffered in the same way.
Having made the heartrending decision to break away from her one true love and father of her child ambitious and married politician Adam Warner Jennifer (Jaclyn Smith) sets about rebuilding her career and finding happiness again. Dangerous ghosts from her past come back to haunt her though in the shape of ruthless mobster James Moretti. His brother Michael had been obsessed with Jennifer and had died because of it. Now the vengeful James is out to blackmail both Jennifer and Adam over their illicit love - and ultimately wants Jennifer dead. But hell hath no fury like the 'Rage of Angels'... based on the Sidney Sheldon novel.
Won't Any Women Give Him A Shot? Three best friends mess up their already flagging love lives with an ill-fated bet. They each put two thousand dollars in a bank account the winner being the one who can not only get a girlfriend but also live with her for three months. Nick decides to hoodwink his two friends by faking a relationship with an old girlfriend from college while Al proceeds to embark on a series of the worst dates imaginable and Les finds himself getting deeply
Tony Palmer's The Mystery of Chopin combines two short films about the composer. In the late 1940s, a newly Communist Poland needs its national heroes to be squeaky clean: The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka documents the persecution and mysterious death of Paulina who claimed to own letters showing Chopin to be a viciously anti-Semitic egomaniac; Penelope Wilton is stunning as the dogged, and possibly deranged, Paulina and John Shrapnel, Corin Redgrave, John Bird and John Fortuneare memorable as the men who persecute her to protect Chopin's good name. These scenes are shot in a gritty black and white; colour is reserved for the dreamy and passionate scenes in which a brooding Paul Rhys moves through pastoral and revolutionary landscapes as Chopin and the inserted moments of Valentina Igoshina playing the music which is Chopin's true legacy. In the other film, Igoshina plays a selection of the standard works featured in excerpts in the film; she is a technically adroit performer, keen on the poetry of the work--but Palmer's camera is at times a little too in love with her luminous good looks. On the DVD: The DVD has subtitles in German, French and Spanish; the sound quality is excellent--the piano recital has a particularly fine acoustic. --Roz Kaveney
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