British agents engage in hazardous duty working together in an attempt to confuse the enemy and further the war effort in this thrilling Ealing adventure!
One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors. Reinvented with a new identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred Hitchcock was well along the road to mastery as a filmmaker and, more importantly, knew what it was he wanted to say for the rest of his career. --Tom Keogh
It is 1850 in the beautiful perfectly kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalise real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife Lucy (Isabel Adjani) begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the midst of a vampire. What he doesn't know however is the magnitude of danger he his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of the Nosferatu. Directed by Werner Herzog a leading figure in German Cinema's 'new wave' of the 1970's Nosferatu is widely recognised as one of the finest films of the vampire genre. A homage to F. W. Murnau's 1922 original Herzog's Nosferatu is driven towards tragedy and visual splendour rather than the gory bloodfests of later remakes. Herzog's frequent leading man and eccentric live wire Klaus Kinski (Android Lifespan Dr Zhivago) gives a sensational performance as the eerie goblin-like Dracula.
Cary Grant teams with Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper judged one of the American Film Institute's Top 100 American Films and spruced up with a new digital transfer and remixed Dolby Surround Stereo. Grant plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted framed for murder chased and in another signature set piece crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from that famed carved rock (for which back lot sets were used). But don't expect the Master Of Suspense to leave star or audience hanging...
Suicide (Dir. Raoul Heimrich 1982): Two filmmakers offer people who want to commit suicide the opportunity to get their 15 minutes of fame. As the filmmakers become torn between sympathy for the victims and greed for the money they are being paid for the project how far will they go? Dungeon (Dir. James Wood 1982): The Dungeon is run by Dr. Jekyll who is a sadistic evil terrifying madman! Dr Jekyll conducts bloody experiments on human bodies in a desperate attempt to recreate his grandfather's serum to control man's innate urge to kill. He prowls the streets and snatches up innocent people for his gruesome ends. He uses his rage serum on his kidnapped captives who viciously beat each other to death in The Dungeon. Aiding Dr. Jekyll in his experiments is a brain-damaged cripple named Boris (whom Dr. Jekyll whips) and his lobotomized wide-eyed sister Hilda (who he pours scalding water on)! Meanwhile his beloved fiance Julia is kept drugged and tied in his bedroom as her father Professor Atkinson is lured to Jekyll's mansion for her alleged funeral...
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