Naked Lie - Jo Daniels a beautiful and successful lawyer has everything a woman could wish for including a prominent judge as a lover. But could he be linked to a prostitute who has turned up dead? Stranger in the Family - Steve Thompson's bright future is destroyed when he is injured in a car crash. With no recollection of his former self Steve must try re-establish some kind of meaningful identity. A Change of Heart - Unable to have a child of their own Kim and Keith Lussier are overjoyed when they learn that they can adopt a Korean orphan but a devastating family tragedy threatens to stand in the way. A Child's Cry - There's an early role for Tobey Maguire in which a loving mother brings her sick son to a hospital for treatment and is suspected of deliberately harming her child.
A collection of films from controversial Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski. The Pianist (2002): Roman Polanski's remarkable Oscar and Palme D'Or winning film 'The Pianist' tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody). Managing to survive in the Krakow ghetto while the vast majority of the Jewish population have been transported to concentration camps Szpilman leads a lonely dangerous existence sheltering in abandoned houses... Directed by a film artist who
Northfork: Northfork is a mythical tale of loss and resurrection continuing The Polish Brothers' cinematic obsession with the American heartland and the country's shifting dreams and visions. It is 1955 and the barren town of Northfork is quite literally about to be 'dammed'. Plans for a new hydro-electric plant in the area mean that the plains on which the town stands are soon to be flooded. With most of the townsfolk already evacuated several stoic citizens remain among them a lustful young couple a modern-day Noah who has built an ark for his two wives and a frail orphan boy who dreams he is the lost member of a host of wandering angels. Charged with removing the last of the residents is an Evacuation Committee comprising of six trench-coated agents some of whom will discover their own lives profoundly changed before the deluge is over. (Dir. Michael Polish 2003) Twin Falls Idaho: A different kind of love story. The minute he wakes up and the minute before sleep - for two minutes each day Blake Falls feels alone. He tries to grab those minutes before they vanish. They are enough to remind him who he is. Francis Falls understands that if it weren't for Blake he wouldn't be able to make it. His conjoined twin's heart is very strong. Blake he knows could live without him. The brothers live quietly in an eccentric hotel peopled with odd characters talking in a shorthand formed over 25 years. They dress impeccably in a custom-tailored suit adjusting each other's ties; they dine on cotton candy and on their birthday their only meal is their trademark chocolate cake; they blow out two candles one at a time. They can keep straight faces while telling outrageous tales from their earlier days in show business. When Francis becomes ill Blake holds him through the night the way he always has. Together they feel complete. When Penny (Michele Hicks) a beautiful young woman enters their lives for the first time someone sees the brothers' world from the inside. She makes them think of possibilities when they're certain there aren't any. They start to wonder how it would be to feel complete in new ways. ""Maybe I'll call you when I'm single "" Blake quips. They imagine living not as medical anomalies but as individuals who can breathe walk and dream on their own. (Dir. Michael Polish 1999)
When a couple of small town cops stumble upon a pile of cash after a criminal's drug deal goes bad they decide to keep the money. However is there honour amongst even these usually law abiding thieves?
A tantalising erotic thriller... Vicky an ambitious young blonde living in Hollywood gets hired to be the 'Toy' of her favourite rock star who is in desperate need of inspiration. Starry-eyed and reckless she enters a world of fantasy fuelled by addiction and an obsession for fame. Can she survive her ordeal at the hands of a superstar madman?
8mm: Nicholas Cage is Tom Welles a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Respected but still waiting for the big break that will improve his professional status Welles spends most of his time on routine cases. Nothing too dangerous nor too threatening - until a case involving a small innocuous-looking plastic reel of film turns Welles' life upside down sending him down a sordid and terrifying path into society's deepest corners. Drifting away from his family life Welles is aided by streetwise Max California (Joaquin Phoenix) as he pursues a bizarre trail of graphic and disturbing evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his obsession with the case grows Welles enters the seedy world of pornography and sees things beyond his worst nightmares - coming to realise how far-reaching and deadly a small reel of 8mm film can be. Bitter Moon: Roman Polanksi explores the uttermost depths of sexual perversion and experimentation in this erotic drama with more than a hint of black comedy. Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott-Thomas) a repressed English couple eager to rekindle their fading marriage by taking a luxury cruise get more than they bargained for. Enroute they meet Oscar (Peter Coyote) a crippled American and his beautiful wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) who both enthral and appal Nigel with rivetting accounts of their wildly sensuous exploits. Before they reach their journey's end Nigel and Fiona become the unwitting participants in a tragedy with the most extraordinary outcome... Eyes Of Laura Mars: Fashion Photographer Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) world-renowned for her erotic portraits of transparently-gowned models in settings of urban violence becomes the focal point for a series of bizarre murders. The victims are witnessed by Laura in her mind's eye - as if through the lens of her camera. These terrifying experiences bring Laura together in an intimate relationship with homicide detective John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones) who while unraveling the mystery makes a shocking discovery.
A tantalising erotic thriller... Vicky an ambitious young blonde living in Hollywood gets hired to be the 'Toy' of her favourite rock star who is in desperate need of inspiration. Starry-eyed and reckless she enters a world of fantasy fuelled by addiction and an obsession for fame. Can she survive her ordeal at the hands of a superstar madman?
Red Letters has all the makings of a classic Hitchcock thriller: a hapless hero who thinks he's smarter than he is, an unpredictable femme fatale, snaky plot twists, and an all-around excellent cast. Professor Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote) wrote a sizzling erotic novel called Red Letters 20 years ago--but since then his wife has died from a protracted illness and he's been fired from a job because of an affair with a student. So he's grateful to be given a second chance at a small California college where he lectures on Hawthorne--only all his students are more interested in Burke's own writing than Hawthorne's. Burke starts receiving letters for the former resident of his apartment that are from a woman in prison named Lydia (Nastassja Kinski) with a 30-year sentence for murder. Burke writes back and their correspondence takes a turn for the intimate when she asks him to visit her. Burke isn't sure what he's getting into, and his life is further complicated when the daughter of the college Dean (Fairuza Balk) starts making advances. Suddenly Lydia has escaped, his best friend (Jeremy Piven) is arrested for hacking into the prison computer system, and the Dean suspects Burke of trifling with his daughter. The movie loses focus at the very end, but until then it's a smart, well-written, subtle, and unpredictable film that actually gives its characters some depth and grit. Even the more implausible moments are fun and engaging, making this well worth checking out. --Bret Fetzer
With a voracious trio of mako sharks wreaking havoc, Deep Blue Sea dares to up the ante on Jaws, but director Renny Harlin trades the nuanced suspense of Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster for the trickery of the digital age. In other words, why build genuine terror when you can show ill-fated humans getting torn into bloody chunks? It's inevitable that Saffron Burrows should end up in her underwear like Sigourney Weaver in Alien, but even then the movie offers a credible reason for the strip-down; that Deep Blue Sea can be simultaneously ridiculous and sensible is just another one of its shlocky charms. Space Cowboys is a slice of cornball Americana that's so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one--a comedy about retired pilots given one last shot at glory and an Apollo 13-like thriller with all the requisite heroics. Space Cowboys earns its wings, once again demonstrating Eastwood's comfort with any genre he chooses. From yet another derivative science fiction novel by Michael Crichton comes the equally derivative and flaccid movie Sphere, in which three top Hollywood stars struggle to squeeze tension and excitement out of material that doesn't match their talents. There are moments of high intensity and psychological suspense, and the stellar cast works hard to boost the talky screenplay. But it's clear that this was a hurried production (Hoffman and director Barry Levinson made Wag the Dog during an extended production delay), and as a result Sphere's look and feel is like a film that wasn't quite ready for the cameras. Though it's by no means a waste of time, it's undeniably disappointing. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Lynn Hershman Leeson's moving and innovative film Strange Culture tells the terrifying story of how one man's personal tragedy was turned into persecution by a government made paranoid of a terrorist threat. Art professor Steve Kurtz's nightmare began on May 11 2004 when he awoke to find his wife Hope dead of a heart attack. Paramedics responding to his 911 call discovered what they believed to be a suspicious collection of petri dishes and scientific paraphenalia in his house and contacted the FBI. For Kurtz whose reason for the scientific experiments was that he was preparing for an art project on modified food his world was turned upside down. Only hours after his wife's tragic death he was suddenly accused of being a bioterrorist and became a pariah to all but his closest friends. Told through a unique blend of interviews documentary footage and reconstructed scenes starring Tilda Swinton Thomas Jay Ryan and Peter Coyote Hershman's critically-acclaimed film is a sophisticated look at how the traumatic events of 9/11 altered American society and undermined its long-held values.
In middle America a grieving father swears revenge after his young daughter is killed by armed robber Stone during his getaway. Now a hired assassin is pursuing Stone and it's about to get worse when the chase continues across the Atlantic to London. Based on one of the 'Parker' novels written by Richard Stark.
Steven Spielberg's 1982 hit about a stranded alien and his loving relationship with a fatherless boy (Henry Thomas) struck a chord with audiences everywhere, and it furthered Spielberg's reputation as a director of equally strong commercial sensibilities and classical leanings. Henry Thomas gives a strong, emotional performance as E.T.'s young friend, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore make a solid impression as his siblings, and Dee Wallace is lively as the kids' mother. The special effects almost look a bit quaint now with all the computer advancements that have occurred since, but they also have more heart behind them than a lot of what we see today. --Tom Keogh
In an explosive plot against the government in this road film Rex encounters conspiracies & political paranoia.
Deep Water is the true journey of Donald Crowhurst, a electronics inventor who enters the most daring nautical race ever.
Deadline tells the story of four college students who go on a camping trip to the woods. When one girl starts getting strange phone calls the whole trip takes a grizzly turn!
Lena Baker is the story of one woman's attempt to rise above the challenges of life the choices she makes and the consequences of those choices. The moment Lena Baker (Tichina Arnold) thinks she has overcome her inner demons she is called to work for a tyrannical white man Elliot Arthur (Peter Coyote) a father a mill worker and a drunk. They develop a highly charged relationship that society deems inappropriate for the time. His regular physical and mental abuse keeps Lena away from her children and mother (Beverley Todd). After imprisoning her in his home Lena finally stands up and attempts to free from his bondage. A struggle ensues and Elliot Arthur a white man is shot by Lena Baker an African -American woman on a hot humid night in Southwest Georgia in 1945. Following her arrest a jury of 12 white men her subpoenaed peers found Lena guilty of murder in less than 6 hours. Lena Baker received the death penalty ''- earning her a place in history as the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by electric chair in the state of Georgia. Lena Baker was posthumously pardoned in 2005.
Rex roams the country doing various assignments for a mysterious group of people called 'Our Friends.' Also known as Out the film is structured ten part journey from New York to Los Angeles.
In the Warren House if you're not part of the problem you're not part of the family. Edward and Jill Warren have always done what they thought was best for their children. Their good intentions however eventually strangle the children emotionally making it impossible for them to break the ties and grow up. When a family secret surfaces and results in tragedy the Warren family is forced to finally face each other...and life.
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