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LAWLESS (2012)

Certification12 Our Rating

 

The brothers Bondurant set up as bootleggers in prohibition rural Virginia, life was good. But when the mob and the authorities start to muscle in on the boys’ turf all hell breaks loose. Based on the biographical novel by one of the main character’s grandsons and adapted for the screen by Nick Cave, ‘Lawless’ is an atm find out more...

NIKITA (1990)

Certification18 Our Rating

Nikita is a junkie who murders a cop during a robbery and is caught. Faced with the option of a death sentence or life as a secret-service hitwoman, she becomes a ruthless killer executing without remorse or feeling, until she falls in love, that is. A stylish, dynamite and brilliant film. find out more...

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Undoubtedly one of Hitch's best. An innocent businessman is mistaken for a spy by enemy agents and learns the true meaning of persecution, while a deceptively beautiful blonde in the pay of his tormentors steals his heart. A tense and compulsively gripping nice-guy's nightmare. Obligatory viewing. find out more...

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Hitchcock's masterpiece. A news photographer is confined to his apartment by an injury and spends his days watching the neighbours. He comes to believe that he is witnessing the preparations for a murder. Based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich. Suspense, ambiguity and voyuerism; total brilliance! find out more...
SNEAKERS (1992)

Certification15 Our Rating

This is a bizarre hybrid, a hi-tech caper movie with lo-tech charm, an action pic with incongruously mellow Californian pacing, a post-Cold War thriller with sassy wit. Redford heads a team of 'sneakers' - freelance tech-heads who execute computer heists to test corporate security systems. It's basically an old folk's operation, with crusty CIA vet Poitier, wild card conspiracy nut Aykroyd, blind genius Strathairn, and McDonnell as a mature femme fatale, only Phoenix guarantees the teen market. find out more...

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State of Play is a classic conspiracy thriller that promotes the belief that New Labour has betrayed the longing for a new ethical politics, replacing the sleaze scandals of the Major years with more of the same. The script, the dialogue and the acting are all top drawer in this gripping, pacey, multi-layered tale of ambitious and talented young men tragically failing. find out more...

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A young tennis star meets a looney on a train who proposes that they swap murders. The looney, to the star's dismay, starts to carry out his side of the bargain. A film that shows Hitchcock's technique at its suspenseful best. find out more...

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In this follow-up to his critical success Read My Lips, Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's cult 1978 noir Fingers to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. Romain Duris, in a standout performance, portrays the 28-year-old Tom who seems destined to follow in his amoral father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark taking work in a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. However, a chance encounter with h find out more...


Certification12 Our Rating

Paul Exben is a success story - partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error. Paul knows that his perfect life has gone for good, but by assuming a different identity and fleeing for an isolated part of the beautiful Adriatic coast, Paul gets another shot at being hims find out more...


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The original and best version of the detective thriller classic. Philip Marlowe is hired to investigate the gambling debts of a rich man's daughter, but is plunged into a twilight world of intrigue, blackmail and violence. Stylish and gripping. find out more...