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AN INSPECTOR CALLS (1954)

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A young girl is murdered, and an Inspector calls on a prosperous Yorkshire household investigating the sad circumstances behind her death. The determined inspector must uncover the truth and each one of the family has a secret - and each one is partly responsible for the girl's fate. A shattering denoument reveals the truth. An adaptation of JB Priestley's classic play. find out more...

CHINATOWN (1974)

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Polanski has a go at the film noir detective thriller, very bleak, very twisted and very menacing it is to. Nicholson plays a private-eye in pre-war LA who is hired to pursue an adultery case, but finds himself embroiled in a complicated murder investigation. find out more...

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2014)

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At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

COMPLICITY (1999)

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Local journalist Cameron is an idealist who sympathises with the underdog, which is probably why he's still a local journalist! When a serial killer begins preying upon the amoral capitalists that Cameron is attempting to expose the police, not surprisingly, begin to suspect the journalist of the murders and so he finds himself compelled to hunt down the real culprit or spend the rest of his life in jail. Based on a novel by Ian Banks, whose books rarely shy away from the shocking, this is a dar find out more...

CROSSFIRE (1947)

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Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime there's motive. However he finds no usual motive when investigating a man beaten to death, this man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate", Finlay says, "is like a gun." A landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk directs a taught stylish tale that, certainly for its time, dared to explore a topic rarely covered in Hollywood; anti-Semitism in the US. find out more...

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DEATH NOTE 2: THE LAST NAME (2007)

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The second live-action spin-off from the "Death Note" Manga series starring �L', the enigmatic detective, picks up where the first one left off. find out more...

DEATH ON THE NILE (1978)

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An Agatha Christie thriller in a sumptous setting; Mia Farrow is superb as the woman scorned, obsessively stalking her ex-fiancee and his new wife on their luxury honeymoon. Ustinov plays the chocolate-swilling sleuth Poirot and, as always, there's a cunning twist. One of the best. find out more...

DECISION TO LEAVE (2022)

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What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? Winner of Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) returns with a seductive romantic thriller that takes his renowned stylistic flair to dizzying new heights. From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-i find out more...

DETECTIVE (1985)

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Set in a Paris hotel this comic tribute to the noir B-movie follows the efforts of a ridiculously incompetent detective trying to solve a murder with the dubious assistance of his inspector nephew. To add to the confusion the hotel patrons, a boxer's entourage, an arguing couple and the Mafia, are all up to devious activities of their own. Hilarious. find out more...

EDGE OF DARKNESS (PART 1) (1986)

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Part One of the hit BBC series in which one man delves into the dark and deadly world of the nuclear state. In "Into The Shadows" Ronald Craven's determination to discover the truth about his daughter's murder leads him into a nightmare web of political corruption, secrets, terrorism and death. find out more...