Three stories that centering around the African-American fight against racial prejudice.
Following the gruesome murder of the Bryce family by their own son at a plantation house legend is born that the house and it's surrounding land is cursed causing anyone trespassing to become possessed by insanity. Twenty years on Mark a sociology student is researching myths and lore for his thesis. He is intrigued by the legend surrounding the Bryce incident and convinces his friends to visit the house with him in order to prove that the stories are just stories. But when things
Acclaimed progressive rock band Spock's Beard are filmed during their gig at the iO Pages Festival in May 2007.
In the California apple country, nine hundred migratory workers rise up in dubious battle against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own-stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism-on the courage never to submit or yield. Published in 1936, In Dubious Battle is considered the first major work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons Frederic daydreams about other women but has no intention of taking any action. One day Chloe who had been a mistress of an old friend begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends irregularly in the afternoons till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic causing him a moral dilemma.
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Discover the rituals and rites at the dark heart of America's most controversial organisation.At times, it has been among the most powerful and largest fraternal organizations in America, boasting up to four million members. It has survived for more than a century by wrapping its doctrine of hate and intolerance around the sacred cloth of Christianity and the fabric of American patriotism.The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History goes beyond the flaming crosses and beneath the robes, to reveal the dark heart of this controversial organisation.
There's not much sleeping going on in the beachside suburb of Crescent Bay. Come and meet Fliss Lyndz Kenny Rosie & Frankie; all members of a secret society called The Sleepover Club' - no boys or parents allowed! Constantly in conflict with their arch rivals - three boys called the M&Ms - life couldn't be more serious... or more funny! The Sleepover Club has a bit of everything for everyone... You'll laugh... You'll cry... But most of all you'll love The Sleepover Club; It's seriously cool!
This box set features three films all directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol using his 'factory' actors. The films loosely form a trilogy designed to encapsulate the 60's generation. Flesh (1968): Joe 'the hustler' earns money to pay for his girlfriend's abortion. Taking to the streets he meets an artist obsessed with body worship a couple of transvestites an ex-girlfriend working as a topless dancer and a friend whose arm-pits have been torched with a fla
Giorgia a short-tempered but quick-witted investigator works in her father's private detective agency in Bologna. She spends most of her time trailing cheating spouses with a telephoto camera. One day she receives a box of video cassettes - taped diaries of her younger sister Ada sixteen years after her mysterious death. The tapes show a happy extroverted girl fully involved in her future - struggling to start an acting career and keeping an affair secret from her boyfriend. As she negotiates the twists and turns of the mystery and her own complex love life Giorgia finds herself descending deeper and deeper into her sister's past...and ultimately her own. Soon Giorgia begins to suspect that Ada's death was something far more sinister... Making atmospheric use of its Bologna locations and effective and subtle use of music Quo Vadis Baby? is one of the most distinctive European thrillers of recent years.
Young boy Griffin witnesses the slaughter of his parents at the hands of a serial killer dubbed 'The Sandman'. Years later Griffin is now a young man at peace knowing that the murderer who has spent the last years languishing on death row and is about to die. At the very moment of the Sandman's execution evil is reborn as he becomes the malevolent 'Sleep Stalker'. Freed from mortal chains and capable of unimaginable powers he sets off to finish the job he started years ago - to kill Griffin.
Adapted from Clive Cussler's international best-seller 'Raise the Titanic' depicts the amazing efforts of an American special agent to recover vital material for the United States' defence. It was believed that the mighty 'unsinkable' ship contained vital material which could be used to make the US impregnable to atomic attack. The ship is down too deep for divers so the only solution is to raise it. The Herculean project must be managed in absolute secrecy despite interference from a rival nation and the need to invent technology never before conceived. The extraordinary task is interlaced with the stories of the people and the forces working against them.
Jane Birkin live in concert. Tracks include: 'Ces Petits Riens' 'C'est Comme Ca' 'Elisa' 'Les Cles Du Paradis' 'La Javanaise' and many more.
Basque director Julio Medem makes films like no one else's. Quirky, audacious, visually startling, they play teasing games with themes of doubling and fate. Symbolism runs riot, ironies abound, narratives stop dead to focus on seemingly absurd details--and in fact the whole shebang would risk being terminally pretentious were it not for Medem's subversive humour, inviting us into the joke and daring us to take him seriously.Lovers of the Arctic Circle is typical of his idiosyncratic brand of free-wheeling fantasy. In Madrid, two foster-siblings grow up to find themselves gripped by irresistible, quasi-incestuous passion. Flashbacks reaching back to the Spanish Civil War show us how their destinies, those of the parents, and of their parents' lovers, have become entwined. The siblings are parted by circumstance, but seek each other out in Finland's Arctic north. Medem plays sleight-of-hand with doublings and wordplay, cutting deftly between the past, present and future, constantly challenging us to guess where he's heading next in the circling convolutions of his plot. --Philip Kemp
Billionaire mogul Magnus Martel (Terence Stamp) stands on the threshold of perhaps the most significant discovery in the history of all mankind: the secret of the Loculus. His cult of truth-seeking scientists globetrot the world in search of the enigmatic box feted by theologians and historians through the ages and said to hold the nails from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ himself. Flayed bodies ravenous rotweilers flaming corpses severed tongues torturous traitors arcane myths and the legendarily savage Knights Templar - these are but some of the gruesome obstacles that fall in the perilous path of Martel's estranged son Jake (James D'Arcy) as he is lured into this sinister sequence of fateful events. On a quest for vengeance following his father's untimely death he and alchemist Mira must search for and destroy the awesome power of the Loculus before it falls into the hands of the villainous Grand Master (Udo Kier) a demonic figure steeped in malevolent mystery - the deathly nemesis of all who have held the key to Loculus within their grasp!
More controversial than The Exorcist; more terrifying than The Omen... Ben Cross Hal Holbrook Ned Beatty and the legendary Trevor Howard star in 'The Unholy' a supernatural thriller of demonic proportions. After a miraculous recovery from a seventeen-storey fall Father Michael (Cross) is appointed pastor of St. Agnes church which has been closed for three years following the mysterious and violent deaths of his predecessors. When the young priest is told he is the Chosen One Father Michael sets out on a search for the answer to these mysteries... but what he encounters is a life and death battle with the demon of desire The Unholy.
A superb ensemble cast falls in for action in Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanising process that turns people into trained killers. Joker (Matthew Modine) Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin) Gomer (Vincent D'Onofrio) Eightball (Dorian Harewood) Cowboy (Arliss Howard) and more are all plunged into a boot-camp hell pitbulled by a leatherlung D.I. (R. Lee Ermey) who views the would-be devil dogs as grunts maggots or something less. The action is savage the story unsparing the dialogue spiked with scathing humour. 'Full Metal Jacket' from its rigors of basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City scores a cinematic direct hit.
The seventh and final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer begins with a mystery: someone is murdering teenage girls all over the world and something is trying hard to drive Spike mad. Buffy is considerably more cheerful in these episodes than we have seen her during the previous year as she trains Dawn and gets a job as student counselor at the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High. Willow is recovering from the magical addiction which almost led her to destroy the world, but all is not yet well with her, or with Anya, who has returned to being a Vengeance demon in "Same Time, Same Place" and "Selfless," and both women are haunted by their decisions. Haunting of a different kind comes in the excellent "Conversations with Dead People" (one of the show's most terrifying episodes ever), in which a mysterious song is making Spike kill again in spite of his soul and his chip. Giles turns up in "Bring on the Night" and Buffy has to fight one of the deadliest vampires of her career in "Showtime". In "Potential" Dawn faces a fundamental reassessment of her purpose in life. Buffy was always a show about female empowerment, but it was also a show about how ordinary people can decide to make a difference alongside people who are special. And it was also a show about people making up for past errors and crimes. So, for example, we have the excellent episodes "Storyteller", in which the former geek/supervillain Andrew sorts out his redemption while making a video diary about life with Buffy; and "Lies My Parents Told Me," in which we find out why a particular folk song sends Spike crazy. Redemption abounds as Faith returns to Sunnydale and the friends she once betrayed, and Willow finds herself turning into the man she flayed. Above all, this was always Buffy's show: Sarah Michelle Gellar does extraordinary work here both as Buffy and as her ultimate shadow, the First Evil, who takes her face to mock her. This is a fine ending to one of television's most remarkable shows. --Roz Kaveney
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