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Sweeney Todd – Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The aptly named cult horror favourite Todd Slaughter stars in this 1936 British chiller as the insane barber who kills and butchers his customers – and then sells them as ‘Mutton Pies’.
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Sweeter Than Wine
Sweet seventeen Christiane is the heiress to a chateau and extensive vineyards. After her grandfather’s death, she finds she has to share her inheritance with a distant American relative who is also her guardian.
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Tod Slaughter is secretly the fiend known as the Spine-breaker! When the police come to suspect him he leaves London but has to return to save his daughter from a cruel police chief!
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The Jealous God
A drama set in Yorkshire in 1960’s about a schoolteacher who falls in love with the wrong woman and ends up battling against his fiercely religious mother and family.
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The Last Movie
After a film shoot in Peru is shut down when an actor is killed, the unit wrangler decides to give up film-making and stay. But his dreams of a simple life are cut short when the local priest asks him to help: the villagers are killing one another by re-enacting scenes from the film because they don’t understand that a film’s violence is not real.
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The Libertine
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th Century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life’s work.
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The Painted Smile
Jo and Mark fall foul of the sinister Kleinie. Jo is persuaded by Mark to find victims to rob. At the club she persuades a wealthy, drunken man to go back to her room. Mark, hiding in wait, hears footsteps, but instead of Jo, Kleinie appears and stabs Mark, leaving the body to be discovered in Jo’s bedroom.
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The Pillow Book
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko’s father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from “The Pillow Book”, the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a “parfait mélange” of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
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The Pleasure Girls
A beautiful young girl arrives in London to pursue a modeling career, and finds herself caught up in the whole “swinging ’60s” scene.
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The Scavengers
Renegade Confederate soldiers take over a frontier town, but after they molest a young black woman, a group of ex-slaves arm themselves and counter-attack.
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The Second Coming
Depictions of famous Biblical stories as well as the end times accompany the overarching plot of a man who continues to avoid church even as the end of the world looms ever closer.
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The Shop at Sly Corner
A fine British thriller about an antique shop owner being blackmailed by his assistant. Desperate to hide the truth from his daughter, his thoughts turn inevitably towards murder…
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Ticket of Leave Man
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called “The Tiger.” He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer.
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Tomorrow We Live
This British wartime classic sees a French mayor and his daughter appear to collaborate with the Germans, while secretly commanding the resistance. Based upon a true story of everyday French people.
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Untamed Mistress
Two men search the jungle for a woman who has been captured by a tribe of murderous gorillas. When they finally find her, they must fight off attacks by the gorillas, who are determined to keep her.
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Voodoo Macbeth
Long before Citizen Kane, a leading Broadway actress and producer gambled on the 20-year-old Orson Welles directing Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. Based on true events.
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Way Up Stream
The Taylors and the Windgates take a boating holiday together. Their business is faltering, friendship fading; and their marriages are falling apart. When a mysterious stranger comes aboard, they learn what trouble is all about.
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What’s Cooking?
Four ethnically diverse families prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Gurinder Chadha’s movie is a comedy of table manners and a feast of fun!
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
A story of a rich Edwardian widow who marries a handsome Tuscan dentist but dies in childbirth. Her English family travel to Italy in order to bring the child back home to England, but are unprepared for what unfolds…
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Wife Swappers
Margie, the wife of a young up-and-coming lawyer, reluctantly joins a wife-swapping club and finds that she is to be the hostess for the next party.
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Wonderwall
An eccentric absent-minded professor Oscar Collins, becomes fascinated with a model, Penny Lane, and her boyfriend who move in next door. He drills holes in the walls and ceiling and peeps on her day and night fantasizing and daydreaming constantly about her.