Fuled by the intense poverty of his youth Walter Valentino Liberace is detirmined to become the world's greatest enterainer. Explore the rises and falls the libel and palimony suits as this intensly driven man struggles for personal happiness as well as the desire for the title of 'Mr Showmanship'.
Irish football comedy starring Brendan Gleeson. Emmett Rovers FC are a team in trouble. With a hapless goalkeeper, a hopeless defence and a captain who has lost the will to win, this motley crew of Sunday league losers are facing the final whistle. The Rovers are holding out for a hero
Annie (Dir. Rob Marshall 1999): As seen on The Wonderful World of Disney this new production of the classic musical features an all-star cast belting out the beloved songs. Original Broadway Annie Andrea McArdle makes and appearance too! Fun for the whole family. Pollyanna (Dir. David Swift 1960): The heartwarming story of a young girl who brings goodwill and happiness to the residents of a New England town. Hayley Mills won an honorary Academy Award for her performance. Return To Oz (Dir. Walter Murch 1985): In 1899 Dorothy Gale returns to the land of Oz only to find the enchanting Emerald City in ruins and all her old friends have been captured by the Nome King and the evil Princess Mombi...
A psychological thriller about an obsessed serial killer and a writer who wants the story....
In The Line Of Fire:Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) is a tough, veteran Secret Service agent who has been plagued by feeling s of guilt and failure since the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As the agent on duty that fatal day, Horrigan feels that he should have reacted more quickly and taken the bullet for the President.Thirty years later, the current President of the United States is entering a re-election campaign, and following a number of death threats, Horrigan has been called in to assist in what should be a routine research operation.However, when he discovers that a professional assassin and master of disguise (John Malkovich) has been tracking the President, the assignment turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Leary uses his knowledge of the events in 1963 to mentally torture Horrigan in the ensuing psychological duel - a duel that will eventually put Horrigan 'In the Line of Fire'...The Eiger Sanction:Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this international intrigue action thriller that takes place on the Swiss Alps. Hemlock (Eastwood), a retired professional assassin who has turned toward the calmer pursuit of art collecting, is suddenly forced out of retirement to hunt a deadly double agent that murdered a close friend. The hunt takes Eastwood on a breathtaking journey up the Swiss Alps with a team of mountain climbers: one of whom is the man he seeks, through his identity is as yet unknown...
A bounty of five swash buckling adventures comprises this cracking boxed set. Contains: Disc 1 - The Black Pirate (1926) and Captain Kidd (1945) Disc 2 - Treasure Island (1960 TV) The Dancing Pirate (1936) and Shanghaied (1915) Disc 3 - Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island (1954) and The Love Nest (1923) Disc 4 - The Adventures Of Long John Silver -TV series with Robert Newton:The Necklace Ship O'The Dead Sword of Vengeance Miss Purity's Birthday Dead Reckoning Th
Anywhere But Here (Dir. Wayne Wang 2000): Adele is a flashy flirtatious dreamer. Her daughter Ann is a quiet no-nonsense realist. On the surface they're like oil and water but deep down they're two of a kind. ""Susan Sarandon makes magic"" (Chicago Tribune) and ""Natalie Portman soars"" (NY-1) in this funny and touching story about a mother who knows best...and a daughter who knows better! Where The Heart Is (Dir. Matt Williams 2000): Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman
A young man tries to tie up some loose ends before he goes to war in this independent drama from director Neil Abramson. Mike Holland (Nick Cannon) is nineteen years old and has just completed his basic training as a private in the United States Marine Corps. Mike has a four-day leave so he can visit his family for Thanksgiving and then has orders for combat duty in Iraq. Mike wants to spend time with his family and friends before he ships out but he doesn't want to tell anyone that he'll be stationed in Iraq. While taking the bus home to Bakersfield California Mike meets Cristina (Melonie Diaz) and it doesn't take long for him to realise he's infatuated with her. Mike makes a date to spend some time with Cristina but he already has a busy schedule over the next four days. Mike catches up with his little sister (Erica Gluck) his doting mother (April Grace) and her taciturn new husband (Tom Sizemore) and sees his estranged father (Chi McBride) for the first time in years. Mike also hangs out with his best friend Jake (Matt O'Leary) but discovers he's begun taking a different path in life while Mike was in boot camp. And Mike happens to meet a disabled soldier back from Iraq (Jay Hernandez) who gives him an idea of what he can expect during his tour of duty. AMERICAN SON was screened in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist he meets Camille Bliss who is in prison to interview her as researching for a book entitled Women Criminals... Camille is accused of having murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs...
Douglas Green's feature directorial debut based on Mitch Giannunzio's play A Smaller Place stars Kim Hunter as Muriel a home-bound senior frequently tended to by her just under 50-year-old son Jack (Timothy Bottoms). She's beginning to mention her deceased husband as if he were still alive and she frequently acts as if Jack is a young man who wants to date her.Distressed Jack is forced to admit her to a nursing home something his wife Holly (Kim Griest) has wanted all along and as he prepares to ship Muriel and her belongings away he's forced to face painful truths about his childhood and how it might have affected his adult life.
The sharks start to move in for a vulnerable man's money in this indie drama.
An intensely claustrophobic nail-biter to rival prime Hitchcock, 1964's Séance on a Wet Afternoon is a classic British thriller written and directed by Bryan Forbes. Set largely in an imposing Gothic house in north London, the film stars Richard Attenborough as Bill Savage, a man struggling to maintain his marriage to his increasingly unbalanced wife, Myra, played in an Oscar-nominated performance by the little-known but brilliant Broadway actress Kim Stanley. Myra, who believes she is a medium, plans a scheme that will make her famous, involving kidnapping then "psychically" locating a little girl. Attenborough (who won a BAFTA) and Stanley are both superb in what is part riveting battle of wills, part nerve-wracking kidnap thriller with, just possibly, a touch of the supernatural. Gerry Turpin's precise b/w cinematography and John Barry's chilling score add significantly to the atmosphere of dread, and if the plot has one or two gaping holes, Forbes's direction covers them deftly. Forbes explored female delusion again in The Whispers (1967) and The Mad Woman of Chaillot (1969); the film also marked a major entry in his long-term collaboration with John Barry and with his wife, the actress Nanette Newman. Séance clearly had an influence on Attenborough's own directorial contribution to the genre, the highly unsettling Anthony Hopkins vehicle, Magic (1978). On the DVD: Séance on a Wet Afternoon is presented in an excellent 16:9 transfer, anamorphically enhanced for widescreen televisions, that effectively captures the brooding look of Gerry Tupin's BAFTA-nominated cinematography. Unfortunately the print used, though generally very good, does show some damage, including some instances that appear to run through the best part of a reel. Though noticeable and sometimes distracting, they barely mar this gripping film. The mono soundtrack is fine, though there is the very occasional touch of distortion. The disc comes with optional English subtitles, the excellent original trailer and a new and first-rate 33-minute interview with Bryan Forbes in which he engagingly explains every aspect of the making of the film. --Gary S Dalkin
Liam moves away from Ireland to USA where he settles in Bronx. There he works in a little bar owned by Italian Mario and lives with other illegal immigrants who are afraid that they'll get thrown out of the country and are not sure of their place in his new life including his cousin Des.
Hometown Story: Released in May 1951 featuring a stunning young Marilyn Monroe on the brink of stardom. It is a rare glimpse of Monroe before her breakthrough roles in 'Niagara' and 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' which catapulted her to fame... and into history. Monroe plays Iris Martin a secretary whose boss is an editor of a newspaper who suspects that big business is reponsible for his recent defeat in a state legislature election. He begins a campaign against his opponent...
Gerald Harper stars as stylish young landowner James Hadleigh. A unique character - full of charm and dynamic energy and possessed of a sharp intelligence - he has inherited amongst other things the proprietorship of the Westdale Gazette. He is in fact a man of total privilege. Tempted by a powerful press magnate into a deal he would be silly to refuse Hadleigh is torn between the promise of eventual control over a press empire and his deep love of his native Yorkshire. Episodes Comprise: Invasion Exposure Ring of Fire Bow to the Lady A Quiet Place in the Country A Letter to David Nicola Penn Open Verdict The Diplomat Absolutely Feudal The Sealed Offer Breakdown Whose Life is it?
A disturbing true story set in Texas 1984. A large corporation producing toxic substances that might cause defects in an unborn child orders the female workforce to have compulsory sterilisation or be sacked. One poverty-stricken woman fights back...
Two close families' lives are shattered when it appears that the daughter of one family is shot dead by the son of the other. The two families search for the answer and ask themselves if they really knew their children. As the trial begins the families grow further apart but the accused is the only one who knows the truth of that night and of the pact that he made with the dead girl...
After a successful career in the army, Captain Robert Stephenson (Pat O’Brien) decides to take over at the notorious San Quentin prison and see if he can make men of the prisoners with army discipline. The night before he is due to take over at San Quentin he meets and falls for May (Ann Sheridan), a beautiful nightclub singer. Unknown to Stephenson, May’s brother is the wayward Joe ‘Red’ Kennedy (Humphrey Bogart) who is on the run from the police. Red is eventually cornered at the nightclub and tries to shoot his way out of trouble before being arrested in front of his sister and Stephenson. After being sentenced, Red is sent to San Quentin and when Stephenson realises that Red is his lover’s brother, he decides to try and reform him. But the harshness of prison and the inveterate convict ‘Sailor Boy’ (Joe Sawyer) have other plans for Red.
A high school senior branded uncool gets himself expelled so he changes his image to the cool new kid at the town's other high school.
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