Orphaned as a young boy Sikander has led a tough life but when he turns to handing smuggled goods to the police his fortunes start to change and with his new found wealth he buys a house close to the girl he fell in love with as a child Kaamna. But when she rejects his advances he turns to drink and prostitutes gaining enemies from jealous rivals. After one last attempt to woo Kaamna he believes she has finally given in to him but he catches her in the arms of his friend crazy with jealous rage he must make a decision end his life or seek out revenge from those who have done him wrong.
Ridley Scott's American Gangster is a brutal slick and stylish portrayal of real life cult figure and international drug smuggler Frank Lucas. With tangled webs deceit strong aggression shady characters and sinister plans American Gangster has the gritty and pleasurable nostalgia of classic gangster films such as The Godfather and Scarface. Drug-kingpin Frank Lucas smuggles heroin into the US by hiding it with the bodies of soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. By delivering a product that is far superior to his competitors Lucas has rapidly established his status as Harlem's most innovative drug dealer. While Lucas delicately constructs his own criminal empire Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) one of the few honest detectives in a corrupt system senses a sizeable shift within the hierarchy of the drug underworld and sets out to investigate this hitherto unknown power player that has come out of the shadows to dominate the drug trade. But with Detective Trupo (Josh Brolin) Roberts' crooked and jealous colleague wanting to obstruct and ruin the integrity of his idealistic counterpart Roberts is left with little option other than to take desperate measures to end Lucas' rule in Harlem. Academy Award winning lead actors Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe both turn in exhilarating and exceptional performances. With an engrossing story powerful dialogue realistic violence and sharp stylish scenes American Gangster delivers a complete memorable finely made and richly satisfying crime epic that can be savoured again and again.
Titles Comprise: Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (Dir. Chris Columbus) (2001): Harry Potter learns on his 11th birthday that he is the orphaned son of a powerful witch and wizard and possesses magical powers of his own. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Harry embarks on the adventure of a lifetime discovering a world of magic and fantasy where he is destined to live. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Dir. Chris Columbus) (2002): Cars fly trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year is a year of adventure and dange! Harry Ron and Hermione must use all their magical abilities and courage to save Hogwarts! Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Dir. Alfonso Cuaron) (2004): It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts but all is not well with the escaped prisoner Siruis Black on the loose! Harry and his friends spend their third year learning how to handle Divination. They also visit the wizarding village of Hogsmeade and the Shrieking Shack which is considered the most haunted building in Britain. In addition to these new experiences Harry must overcome the Dementors outsmart a dangerous werewolf and deal with the truth about Sirius Black. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Dir. Mike Newell) (2005): Beset by nightmares that leave his scar hurting more than usual Harry is all too happy to escape his disturbing dreams by attending the Quidditch World Cup with Ron and Hermione. But something sinister ignites the skies at the Quidditch campsite; the Dark Mark the sign of the evil Lord Voldemort. Harry longs to get back inside the safe walls of Hogwarts. But things are going to be a little different this year. Dumbledore announces that Hogwarts will host the Triwizard Tournament one of the most exciting and dangerous of the wizarding community's magical competitions. One champion will be selected from each of the three largest and most prestigious wizarding schools to compete in a series of life-threatening tasks in pursuit of winning the coveted Triwizard Cup... Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (Dir. David Yates) (2007): Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community has been denied the truth about his recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort. Fearing that Hogwarts' venerable Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is lying about Voldemort's return in order to undermine his power and take his job the Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore and the Hogwarts students. But Professor Dolores Umbridge's Ministry-approved course of defensive magic leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared to defend themselves against the dark forces threatening them and the entire wizarding community so at the prompting of his friends Hermione and Ron Harry takes matters into his own hands. Meeting secretly with a small group of students who name themselves Dumbledore's Army Harry teaches them how to defend themselves against the Dark Arts preparing the courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that lies ahead.
Jungle Street: The voluptuous Jill Ireland stars as Sue a striptease artist in this tough British crime drama that sees her playing opposite to her real-life husband of the time David McCallum. Jungle Street has McCallum playing Terry Collins a small time thug constantly at war with his family employers and the world. Whilst his friend Johnny (Kenneth Cope) is in prison taking the rap for a robbery they both committed Terry tries to muscle in on his girlfriend Sue. But when Johnny is released and comes looking for Terry and the money from the robbery the two men are on a collision course that can only end in murder... A Matter of Choice: Five people are soon to find their lives inextricably entwined for the worse. Two youths (Malcolm Gerard and Michael Davis) have been searching for girls and end up in a fight with a policeman. The policeman falls and is hit by a car driven by Lisa (Jeanne Moody) and her secret lover John (Anthony Steel). When Lisa's husband Charles finds the police waiting to interview his wife the tangle of lies and deceit that the night started with begins to slowly unravel.
Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A powerful and passionate journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again; a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times. Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother's close friend Roland Leighton as they go to University to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so volunteers as a nurse. She works tirelessly, experiencing all the griefs of war, as one by one her fiancé, her brother and their closest friends are all killed and the pillars of her world shattered. But, an indefatigable spirit, Vera endures and returns to Oxford, irrevocably changed, yet determined to find a new purpose, which spurs her towards a redemptive act of remembrance. Featuring an all-star cast including: Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Ex Machina, Anna Karenina), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Emily Watson (War Horse, The Book Thief), Hayley Atwell (Captain America, The Duchess), Colin Morgan (Merlin), Dominic West (The Wire, 300) and Miranda Richardson (The Phantom of the Opera, Empire of the Sun)
The Voyage
1943: A platoon of war weary Domobran soldiers prepares to defend a strategically valuable strip of land from outside forces wishing to invade the independent Croat state. 1993: A squadron of HVO soldiers from the Bosnian Croat Army battles to defend its homeland in the bloody Yugoslavian Civil War. Fifty years apart these two armies are fighting to defend exactly the same land. Although fighting for two different causes they are walking the same well trodden path and share the same motivations and ideologies. As they move toward a haunting and symbolically important cemetery can either escape the inevitable bloody end and break a cycle stretching back hundreds of years? The winner of 15 international film awards this powerful war film has a unique style seamlessly blending two parallel narratives toward one ultimately explosive finale.
A tough realistic war film that centers around a small platoon at a remote firebase in Vietnam. The platoon are sent relentlessly on search and destroy missions. On one particular mission the Platoon move into a village catching and killing a band of Viet-Cong they then destroy the arms cache. As the Platoon moves out of the village they discover they are surrounded by a battalion. They make for a rendezvous point where they will be lifted out by helicopter they manage to fight their way to the helicopter pick-up point most of the platoon are now dead and the handful of men left become trapped at the bottom of the ravine.
The Broadway musical Pajama Game was based on Seven and a Half Cents a comic novel about labour relations written by Richard Bissell. Doris Day stars as an employee at a pajama factory who becomes the spokesperson for her fellow workers when management refuses to give them a 7 '' cent pay rise. Complicating matters is the fact that Management is represented by handsome John Raitt who happens to be in love with Doris. A subplot involves Day''s freewheeling co-worker Carol Haney and her insanely jealous boyfriend factory-manager Eddie Foy Jr. Many of the cast members from the original Broadway production (Raitt Haney Foy Reta Shaw Peter Gennaro etc.) are here in this film version as are most of the Richard Adler / Jerry Ross songs: highlights include''Hey There'' ''Steam Heat'' ''Hernando''s Hideaway'' ''There Once Was a Man'' and the title song. The choreography was carried out by the world famous Bob Fosse and Pajama Game became a terrific success at the box-office.
Brewster's Millions (Dir. Walter Hill) (1985): Richard Pryor is Montgomery Brewster a minor league baseball pitcher who discovers he has to blow million in 30 days as a condition to inherit a much greater fortune. Here's The Catch: He will forfeit everything if he reveals to a soul the real reason he seems to be throwing away all that cash. With the help of his pal Spike (John Candy) they set off on a frantic spending spree the likes of which would bring any self-respecting accountant to his knees. Uncle Buck (Dir. John Hughes) (1989): An idle good natured bachelor is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. Unaccustomed to family life Buck soon charms his younger relatives but his style doesn't impress everyone including his girlfriend. The film charts his progress from slob to a reasonable human being by having to manage with girlfriend troubles unemployment a sex mad neighbour cooking breakfast and a beautiful but rebellious niece.
A frighteningly real exploration of the tribal culture of football hooligans from the Brit director of "Goodbye Charlie Bright."
Hitler's Henchmen is a twelve part series portraying the men who aided Adolf Hitler in his rise to power and serviced the infernal machinery of the Third Reich. Volume 1: With the use of newly discovered archive footage and interviews with surviving family members of Nazi insiders these fascinating programmes attempt to draw historical psychograms of Hitler's closest colleagues and offer in-depth personal and political profiles of the men who became architects of the destruction of Europe. Volume 2: Nuremberg was an historical first: the International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced leading Nazi paladins for their unparalleled atrocities while exposing to the world the infamy of the Hitler regime and its leaders. Newly discovered archive material and interviews with surviving family members and Nazi insiders to draw historical psycho grams of Hitler's closest aides' Hitler's Henchmen' is designed to offer in-depth personal and political profiles of the men who became architects of the destruction of Europe.
Screen Legends (8 Discs)
Boasting a classic rock 'n' roll soundtrack and an irresistible young cast Book of Love is a comic chapter in the life of hormone-stricken teen Jack Twiller. Whether throwing wild parties imitating James Dean or 'streaking' through the neighbourhood Jack will do whatever it takes to win the elusive girl of his dreams. But in his obsession for the prom queen he overlooks the one girl who really appreciates his unique charm. First love first kiss first car... It's all part of the Book of Love!
Columbus Day
This series chronicles the Royal Flying Doctors Service which operated a rescue service to the remote and dangerous outback of Australia.
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