Meyer Lansky was an enigma. Few knew him. Many feared him. He was passionately loyal to his friends and ruthless towards his enemies. He was calm and calculating. He seemed above reproach. Lansky is based on the true story of a young Jewish immigrant from Poland who grew up on the impoverished streets of the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the 20th Century. Turning his back on poverty Lansky (Richard Dreyfuss) embarked on a life of crime. He monopolised racketeering bootlegging gambling and organised crime with a keeness of mind and shrewdness never before seen. Partnered with his childhood friend Ben Bugsy Siegel (Eric Roberts) and young Italian street thug Charlie Lucky Luciano (Anthony LaPaglia) Lansky earned notoriety that eventually made him the object of several FBI investigations and congressional hearings. Directed by John McNaughton this HBO production is a fascinating tale of loyalty and deception innocence and guilt crime and murder.
Drama-documentary on the final days of Margaret Thatcher's premiership.
Scott Barnes is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun selling crack cocaine in an organisation run by Carlos. Posing as a drug dealer to infiltrate their ranks Scott soon discovers that Tommy isn't the only victim; hundreds of children have been abducted and freeing them all is going to take a miracle!
Bad Boys (Dir. Michael Bay 1995): When $100 million of seized heroin is stolen from the Miami Police lockup Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence) Miami's most mismatched cops are called upon to solve the case before the FBI close their department. Julie (Tea Leoni) is their only lead to the case but will only speak to Lowrey. As he is not around when she calls Burnett impersonates his cool slick partner. A hilarious role reversal begins in order to
One big score. One final seduction. One deadly affair... Maya (Bobbie Phillips) and Tony (Benjamin Sadler) are grifters. They do well at their small time cons until their attempt at that last big score causes them get in well over their heads...
Written by Steven Moffatt the series is set in the fictional offices of the Junior Gazette a student newspaper ran with an iron fist by its editor Linda Day (Julia Sawalha)...
A chilling psychological horror film from Hong Kong about a blind girl, who soon regrets her corrective corneal surgery operation as she starts to see images which are not her own...
Since its debut in 2003, US teen drama The OC captivated audiences with its fresh dialogue, clever wit, steamy storylines and the mesmerising power of Peter Gallagher's eyebrows! During its four-year run it became a trendsetting force in terms of popular fashion and music tastes among teenagers worldwide, and it will remain a series regarded with great affection by many of its audience. Following the trials and tribulations of a misfit collection of rich and glamourous residents of Newport Beach, California, The OC was at times witty, moving and downright bizarre, often in the same episode. Storylines were at times laughable, but somehow it still managed to carry it off, due perhaps to the acting ability of its ensemble cast. And when the show eventually came to an end, with just 16 episodes made in the final season, the finale encapsulated what many audiences already knew - that despite the show's popularity and cultural impact, it never took itself too seriously. For the first time, all four seasons are brought together in one box set, comprising 28 discs with every episode and some bonus extras such as unseen OC footage and The Atomic County comic. --Sally Giles
More episodes from the long running TV sci-fi series. It is the year 2050 and mankind has established a space city on Jupiter's Moon. In orbit around the moon is the spaceship Ilea home of Columbus College University of Space.... What is in the SAM files? Brelen wants to see them but the Ilea's computer keeps moving them secretly from place to place. So now Brelen is interested in the computer. The most remarkable computer perhaps in the Solar System....
A documentary history of witchcraft.
This DVD is part of the Britten-Pears DVD Collection. This collection features four historically and musically significant films from the BBC archives of works and performances by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears one of the greatest English tenors and Brittens long-term partner and artistic inspiration. None of these films have been available before on any home video format. Two recitals with Peter Pears accompanied by Benjamin Britten at the piano. The 1964 black-and-white ""Celebrity Recital"" film of the pair performing a selection of Britten's folk song arrangements is unique for featuring Britten performing his own music. The 1970 colour film of Peter Pears singing Schubert's great song cycle Winterreise (sung in German) was produced by the legendary Decca producer John Culshaw. The songs are staged (Britten accompanying on the piano is not in view) and introduced with a brief voice-over.
The Priory School: The son of the Duke Of Holderness is abducted and the school's German teacher disappears in a taxing case for Holmes and Watson. The Second Stain: Holmes is called in to investigate a missing letter stolen from the home of the secretary for European Affairs...
Broken Silence features five documentaries from around the world about the Holocaust presented by Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The titles are: Lusi Puenzo's Some Who Lived Janos Szasz's Eyes Of The Holocaust Pavel Chukhraj's Children of The Abyss Andrzej Wajda's I Remember and Vojtech Jasny's Hell On Earth.
RJ and Chris are two teenage boys raised in Mormon communities. Though both are poster boys for their church with perfect academic records and pretty girlfriends, buried feelings soon rise to the surface when they are assigned to serve a mission together as part of their rite of passage. Now, they will have to make sense of the conflict between their desires and the rules that govern the only world they know.
The romance/ drama Blue Is the Warmest Colour has entered Umbrella's sub-label 'Sensual Sinema'. This volume includes extra features, O-ring packaging and art.Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.Interview with director Abdellatif KechicheInterview with actress Adèle Exarchopoulos Deleted Scenes: Family Lunch (4:46) Nightmare (1:03) Snack (2:17)Theatrical Trailer
An animated adventure from the artistic team behind Watership Down. A pair of dogs Rowf (Christopher Benjamin) and Snitter (John Hurt) escape from an animal research facility situated in a remote part of the English countryside. Rowf is cynical and mistrusting of humans having only known the tortured existence of being a laboratory animal. Snitter on the other hand had previously enjoyed life as a domestic pet and longs to be loved and cared for by a human master once again. Unprepared for life in the wild the pair befriend a fox The Tod (James Bolam) who helps them learn to survive in the bleak environment by feeding on the area's livestock. As the authorities attempt to track down the escapees things take a turn for the worse when a deliberately leaked story suggests the dogs may be infected with the bubonic plague...
Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin along a broken East US coastline. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving. The cabin unused for years, still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family. Plagued by her childhood and nightmares of her murdered family; Ellie anxiously prepares for an unwelcome visitor. Before long her nightmares turn real and those horrors that stalk her mind transform into the reality of everyday life. Imprisoned by her own actions and haunted by the ghosts of her past, Ellie soon starts to spiral out of control. The waiting is over...Ellie finally confronts her fears, her family and the truth
Opera in two acts from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1978. Sung in German.
Series 2 of the BAFTA award-winning children's series from 1990. A family drama which follows the lives of the teenagers who run the 'Junior Gazette' a newspaper for the kids written by the kids under the iron-fist of the Editor Linda Day.
Young and beautiful Sally still mourning the loss of her deceased husband has resigned herself to work in the textile mill care for her elderly mother and worry about her beautiful rebellious teenage daughter Vicky. However when British charmer Charlie comes to town he woos Sally until he sweeps her off her feet; that is until she finds out that Charlie is not the person he claimed to be when they met...
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