A romantic adventure for the dangerous at heart... Sean Penn is Glendon Wasey a quick-witted fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Madonna is Gloria Tatlock a determined missionary nurse seeking the healing powers of opium for her patients. She wants to help the suffering...he wants the boat fare back to the States. So fate sets them on a hectic exotic chaotic and quite often romantic quest for stolen drugs. The trouble is the opium they're after is also the target of every thug and smuggler in Shanghai. It's a wild rickshaw-race adventure with every concubine Kung Fu killer and crime boss in town in hot pursuit! You're in for a Shanghai Surprise as Sean Penn and Madonna star in this high-flying grand adventure set in 1937 China with music by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison.
Megan is an off-beat high school student struggling with the adolescent problems of acceptance and popularity so it's no surprise she would spend so much time in a fantasy world much of which takes place in front of an intriguing old mirror left behind by the curious dealer who sold them the house.
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An aspiring artist uses her talents to help police as a sketch artist. While sketching one victim's description of an attacker Sarah realises the sketch resembles her husband Michael.
Teen comedy starring Rob Schneider and Jenna Dewan. After involuntarily over indulging and becoming drunk for the first time in her life a freshman college girl discovers her sinful shenanigans have been caught on camera by a shoddy video producer. With her scholarship for college coming from an abstinence group who believe in no sex before marriage it is a race against time and across country as she and her friends attempt to retrieve the potentially damaging footage before it is exposed.
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation centre after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio. Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work which may finally set her free From multiple award winner Maïwenn (Polisse)comes the critically acclaimed MON ROI, the story of a passionate and destructive relationship featuring award winning performances from Emmanuelle Bercot (Polisse)and Vincent Cassel (Black Swan).
Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Lola an ageing woman dealing with loss: the loss of ""herself"" and her dreams twenty years before and the recent loss of her dog Sheba - in effect her replacement for a child. Burt Lancaster plays Doc Lola's husband; an ex-alcoholic dwelling on his belief that he was forced into marriage due to Lola's pregnancy which was subsequently lost. When a young college student named Marie rents a room in their house Doc f
January 1977. Utah State Prison. Double-murderer Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted killer in a decade to be executed on U.S. soil. Awaiting his fate on death row Gilmore agrees to a one-time only visit from Mikal the younger he barely remembers. Piecing together fragments of their shared past- born of a brutal father raised in a family haunted by death religion and superstition- Mikal searches for a reason to appeal against the execution or to accept that the moment of blood atonement has arrived. Meanwhile the killer's twisted celebrity fuelled by a media frenzy has the eyes of the world looking on. Based on Mikal Gilmore's award winning book 'Shot In The Heart' is the harrowing expose of a cold-blooded killer: A journey to the darkside of a mind tortured by the sins and secrets of his past.
When Vijay falls in love with Shivani an Air Hostess he meets whilst on a business trip he decides that he wishes to marry her. Unfortunately for him when he goes to her house to propose he witnesses her marrying another man an airpline pilot. After surviving an attempted suicide he decides to forget Shivani. Due to a twist of fate they meet again and Vijay becomes obsessed with getting Shivani back.
Jane Bonner (Shanna Reed) is a mid-western mother who is given custody of her young son. Her ex-husband Robert (Terry O'Quinn) a volatile policeman and harsh parent is furious about the decision. Later Jane meets soft-spoken Patrick Brouse (Pierce Brosnan) and a quick romance develops. Jane and Brouse marry and plan to move to Los Angeles. All at once Brouse becomes husband and father to her 9-year-old son. But when Jane and her son decide to drive across the country to their new home they find themselves stalked by her angry ex-husband and a mysterious third party.
Red Haines and John Thompson were childhood friends that chose two very different ways of life. Red became an excellent cop and John became a dangerous criminal spending most of his life in jail. Red volunteers to handle the relocation of his old friend from Leavenworth to Huntsville prison and whilst the two are travelling by train to make the transfer a mysterious woman helps John make a daring escape...
It's a non-stop party for a group of beautiful teens living it up in a posh area of Los Angeles. And one very sexy lady M.J. has found a congenial way to capitalize on her friendships and advance her position. But when the music stops and the mad whirl starts to slow down M.J. must suddenly face up to a void in her life.
Shy unpopular Sonny (Jeremy Davies) is on a train home to Indianapolis when he meets fellow veteran and hometown football hero Gunner (Ben Affleck). The two couldn't be more opposite. Together the two form a bond cemented by a mutial distaste for the conventional and set on a soul searching adventure that pushes the limits of sex friendship and social conventions. Going All The Way is an unforgettable coming of age story of two boys in search of live life and their future.
This TV movie focuses on the key years 1967 - 1971 with John Lennon's break from the Beatles his troubled relationship with his father his all consuming romance with Yoko Ono and his eventual move to America. In this exciting and powerful film Christopher Eccleston's portrayal of Lennon so spookily inhabiting the great man will give audiences a huge nostalgia trip whilst telling a story which until now hasn't been shown on screen. In Supporting roles are Naoko Mori (Torchwood) Chris Fairbank (Only Fools and Horses) Rory Kinnear (Margaret/Finchley First Men in the Moon) Claudie Blakley (Larkrise Cranford) and Andrew Scott (John Adams). The film is directed by BAFTA award winning director/producer Edmund Coulthard who recently received multiple awards (Cannes Sydney Bafta IFTA) as producer of Hunger a film about the hunger-striker Bobby Sands and a BAFTA as director of Soundproof and written by Robert Jones known for Party Animals and No1 Ladies Detective Agency.
Sex and love and eternity are things we all want and need but when they lead to murder it can only bring tragedy to Stuart Grady and Bill Nash. Fitz is soon pitched against two people who superficially survive as father and son when all the time they need more that ever to admit they love each other. In the background the legacy of Jimmy Beck continues to twist the knife in Fitz's relationship with the traumatised Penhaligon while Fitz's wife Judith desperately tries to cling to the wreckage of her marriage as she realises with awesome clarity the full impact of a new baby on their lives.
Veteran photojournalist Anne Marie Kerr suspects that her brother Alan's death in a remote town was not the accident it appeared to be and decides to find out what really happened. Assuming a false identity she goes to work for the wealthy and powerful Hollister family who control the town and may have had a hand in Alan's death. She soon finds herself drawn to eldest son Jason Hollister; dangerously handsome he has a violent temper and a reason to want Alan dead...
Unbridled passions sear under the hot Australian sun in this smoldering tale of desperation betrayal and redemption. Breathtakingly beautiful to watch this ""well made and well acted"" (Leonard Maltin) drama stars Rachel Ward Bryan Brown and Sam Neill in a haunting story of lost opportunities and unrequited love. Marge (Ward) a sensuous but proper wife lives with her quiet lumberjack husband Sonny (Brown) in a remote Aussie town. Lonely and unfulfilled Marge develops an attraction - and then an obsession - for the town's sexy new bartender Neville (Neill). And when Neville acts on Marge's desires he unleashes her insatiable sexual appetite. But word of her infidelity catches and spreads like wildfire through their small town leaving Sonny with no choice but to squelch the flames or lose everything he's got!
The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank a business school graduate returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift not only between labor and management but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.
Claire Of The Moon the film that defined a generation is back! The highly praised and captivating CLAIRE OF THE MOON is a defining chapter in modern Lesbian cinema the first time that an out lesbian director and cast made a lesbian film for a lesbian audience. Now re-mastered with exceptional sound and vision Peccadillo Pictures presents it for a new generation in an exquisite three disc box set that also includes her new blockbuster ELENA UNDONE alongside MOMENTS: The Making of Clare of The Moon and the first lesbian period bodice-ripper the scorching CYNARA. The one box set that every girl cant be without.
Martin Sweet (Ray Winstone) is from the poorer East End of London and now runs a successful exclusive menwear shop in a wealthier part of the city. He has everything he wants a beautiful wife (Carol Harrison) two daughters being educated at an expensive school a luxurious house outside London a Rolls Royce and an enormous overdraft. When the bank calls in its loans Martin is forced to sell everything and move with his wife and family back to the small and uncomfortable council fl
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