A Choice Of Coward (2 Discs)
The narrator of the film is little Oscar a precocious child of a permissive petty bourgeois couple. He decides to stop growing on his third birthday as if refusing to enter the sordid sexuality of his surroundings and the unstoppable growth of Nazism the same year that Hitler came to power. With his noisy tin drum always at his side and a piercing scream that can shatter glass Oscar makes his disturbing but often darkly comic way through Hitler's Germany... This powerful adapt
From King John in 1899, film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays proved popular with early filmmakers and audiences. By the end of the silent era, around 300 films had been produced. This feature-length celebration draws together a delightful selection of thrilling, dramatic, iconic and humorous scenes from two dozen different titles, many of which have been unseen for decades, See Hamlet addressing Yorick's skull, King Lear battling a raging storm at Stonehenge, The Merchant of Venice in vibrant stencil colour, the fairy magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and what was probably John Gielgud's first appearance on film, in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. These treasures from the BFI National Archive have been newly digitised and are brought to life by the composers and musicians of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
From director Spencer Schilly The Houseboy is fearlessly raw yet surprisingly tender. Aimless and barely in his twenties disarmingly cute Ricky is content to play boy toy to a pair of hot thirty-something lovers. That is until he overhears them whisper about a new toy for Christmas. Crushed and totally alone while his couple vacations Ricky binges on internet hookups random tricks and hardcore drugs. Unable to kill the pain Ricky contemplates the end. But a chance meeting with Blake a sweetheart college kid with a thousand watt smile makes Ricky wonder if there's something to live for after all.
The Edwardians (2 Disc)
Anne (Juliette Binoche) is a journalist who, during her investigation into prostitution, encounters two young girls who use their bodies as a way to make easy money. Fascinated by them, she is drawn into their world, which stands in marked contrast to her own bourgeois life. Juliette Binoche gives a characteristically committed performance in Malgorzata Szunowska's frank drama, whose camera never shies away from the details of the girl's work, always capturing Anne's response to it.
He was smart athletic clean-cut conscientious - the ideal soldier in fact. What the US military did not know when they accepted him at one of their top training academies was that he was also a murderer completely in thrall to his controlling and possessive fiance Diane Zamora.
The story of an exotic dancer with multiple personalities struggling to remain true to herself while fighting against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child named Genius and a Southern white racist woman named Alice. In order to stop the multiple voices in her head Frankie works together with a psychotherapist to uncover and overcome the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her. Featuring a scintillating performance from Halle Berry that was nominated for a Golden Globe®
A collection of Classic WWII films featuring: We Dive at Dawn, Sea of Sand, The Silver Fleet and Waterloo Road.
Hollywood's top stars and directors were assembled for this stunning 1952 adaptation of O.Henry's finest short stories, each with a delicious twist in the tail! The Cop and The Anthem (Directed by Henry Koster) A tramp decides to spend winter in a nice warm jail cell - only to find it impossible to get arrested! Guest-starring Marilyn Monroe. The Clarion Call (Directed by Henry Hathaway) A cop (Dale Robertson) discovers an old friend (Richard Widmark) is a murderer - an old friend to whom he owes a big debt... The Last Leaf (Directed by Jean Negulesco) An artist (Gregory Ratoff) must find a way to help a young girl dying of a broken heart and her desperate sister (Anne Baxter and Jean Peters)... The Ransom of Red Chief (Directed by Howard Hawks) Two city slickers (Fred Allen and Oscar Levant) decide to kidnap a country boy for ransom. After all, kids are easier to control... aren't they? The Gift of The Magi (Directed by Henry King) On Christmas Eve, an impoverished young couple decide to buy each other Christmas presents they can't possibly afford... Special Features: Digitally Remastered Picture and Sound Commentary by Dr Jenny Lind Porter The Life and Writing of O'Henry Featurette Stills Gallery 2 Additional O'Henry Shorts Collectors Booklet
Fasten your seatbelts for the flight of a lifetime! What do pilots and cabin crew get up to both in and out of uniform? Mile High is the sexy drama series which follows the lives and loves of six airline crew from sharing a house in London to travelling across different countries and time zones. Young and sexy they work hard and play even harder!
A little girl is so badly affected by her parents' divorce she decides to run away from home...
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
""Atmosphre? Atmosphre? Est-ce que j'ai une gueule d'atmosphre?"" Hotel du Nord is the second part of Marcel Carne's ""fatalistic romantic melodramas"" following Quai des Brumes and later completed by Le Jour se Leve. Renee (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) take a room at the shabby Parisian Hotel du Nord with the intention of seeing through a suicide pact. However Pierre shoots Annabella but cannot turn the gun on himself. Seedy pimp Monsieur
Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
Johnny Rebel is a charismatic hetrosexual man who makes his living acting in gay porn movies. Sean is a 22 year-old who wants to get into the business. His obsession with Johnny will change both of their lives forever.
The complete second season of the '90s teen favourite Episodes Comprise: 1. Beach Blanket Brandon 2. The Party Fish 3. Summer Storm 4. Anaconda 5. Play It Again David 6. Pass Not Pass 7. Camping Trip 8. Wildfire 9. Ashes to Ashes 10. Necessity Is a Mother 11. Leading from the Heart 12. Down and Out of District in Beverly Hills 13. Halloween 14. The Next Fifty Years 15. U4EA 16. My Desperate Valentine 17. Chuckie's Back 18. A Walsh Family Christmas 19. Fire and Ice 20. A Competitive Edge 21. Everybody's Talking 'Bout It 22. Baby Makes Five 23. Cardio-Funk 24. The Pit and the Pendulum 25. Meeting Mr. Pony 26. Things to Do on a Rainy Day 27. Mexican Standoff 28. Wedding Bell Blues
Director Dan Ireland shows a talent for authenticity with this heartbreaking love story based on Novalyne Price's 1988 account of her prickly romance with 1930s pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard the creator of Conan the Barbarian. She was a schoolteacher in a small Texas town; he was the odd-ball writer who lived at home and created comic-book characters that were sexier and more violent than was considered decent by the locals.
Tensions escalate when a tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral land, which lies on the border of a wealthy landowner's fields.
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