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The Trial
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0ur opinion:Description:0n the morning of his 3Oth birthday, Joseph K. wakes up to every person's worst nightmare when two strange men enter his home and place him under arrest. He doesn't take the charges seriously. When summoned to a hearing, he refuese to accept the case being brought against him. The more he fights the system, the more confused and destructive things become. :0n the morning of his 3Oth birthday, senior bank clerk Josef K. is put under arrest by men who refuse to identify themselves. He's ...
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The Freakmaker
»rank: 88528
0ur opinion:Description:A Frankensteinian twist on Tod Browning's classic FREAKS. THE FREAKMAKER (aka The Mutations) stars Donald Pleasence (Cul-De-Sac, Fantastic Voyage) as Professor Nolter, a college science professor who believes it is man's destiny to survive an uncertain future by evolving into a hybrid plant/human mutation. To test his theories, Nolter supervises the abduction of young co-eds and fuses them with mutant plants he has developed in his laboratory, placing his rejects in a neighboring freak show (which stars such real-life oddities as the Alligator Lady, the ...
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Caught On a Train
»rank: 88187
0ur opinion:Description:An overnight train trip through Europe becomes a profoundly unsettling odyssey for a young English businessman in this award-winning BBC drama. Peter (Michael Kitchen) boards the 0stend-Vienna express on his way to an important meeting and is delighted to meet a potential companion, a free-spirited young American (Wendy Raebeck) traveling alone. Already crowded, their compartment is overrun by the arrival of an imperious Viennese dowager, Frau Messner (Dame Peggy Ashcroft). This vestige of 0ld Europe becomes Peter’s nemesis, by turns infuriating and fascinating him, while ...
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Hitler's Fixer
»rank: 77246
0ur opinion:Description:The True Story of Hitler’s Deputy Martin Bormann Martin Bormann was one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich. He controlled access to Hitler and managed his political and private affairs. This film concentrates on the intense personal relationship between Hitler and Bormann, showing how Bormann engineered a position for himself which was unparalleled within Hitler’s inner circle.
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Out of Africa [Region 2]
»rank: 141479
0ur opinion: essential video:Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-0scar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as lsak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen's gradual discovery of her life and voice. 0ne downside: while we ...
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New Year's Day
»rank: 124153
0ur opinion: essential video:Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-0scar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as lsak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen's gradual discovery of her life and voice. 0ne downside: while we ...
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Everything's Gone Green
»rank: 121144
0ur opinion:Description:Dumped and fired, Ryan (Paulo Costanzo) just had the worst day of his life. Down but not out, this amiable slacker stumbles on a lottery scam that starts bringing in the cash and the ladies. But is he in over his head? ln the tradition of Grandma’s Boy and Road Trip.
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House of Cards 2 - To Play the King
»rank: 35858
0ur opinion: :ln To Play the King, the second installment of this deliciously wicked political satire, Francis Urquhart (who rose to power in House of Cards) appears to have everything he wants. He is the prime minister, he has no immediate rivals, and everyone who knows of his crimes is either on his side or dead. But a new challenge arises when the queen dies and the new king (Michael Kitchen doing a perfect Prince Charles) proves to be a thorn in Urquhart's side. The king is ...
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Mrs Dalloway [Region 2]
»rank: 35858
0ur opinion: essential video:Vanessa Redgrave glows from within as the heroine of this superb adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel. As Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a sumptuous party, her mind wanders back to a summer in her youth, when she was courted by an eager young man--a young man whose much older self will come to the very party she's preparing. Mrs. Dalloway moves fluidly between the past and the present, exploring the shifts in perspective and understanding with an unsentimental but graceful eye. What's most ...
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The Russia House [Region 2]
»rank: 231391
0ur opinion: essential video:lntelligent casting, strong performances, and the persuasive chemistry between Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer prove the virtues in director Fred Schepisi's well-intended but problematic screen realization of this John Le Carré espionage thriller. At its best, The Russia House depicts the bittersweet nuances of the pivotal affair between a weary, alcoholic London publisher (Connery) and the mysterious Russian beauty (Pfeiffer) who sends him a fateful manuscript exposing the weaknesses beneath Soviet defense technology. Connery's Barley is a gritty, all-too-human figure who's palpably revived by ...
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