Two impoverished women, one a struggling single white mother and the other a Mohawk, join forces in a people smuggling racket from across the nearby Canadian border. Despite some plot glitches and its down beat nature this is a high class and superbly acted dramatic thriller. find out more...

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened Army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

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Ford plays a sexually ambiguous and misogynist drifter who gets adopted by a German casino owner in Buenos Aires only to get involved in a menage-a-trois with his wife. Never has the fear of the female been so intense as in this powerful piece of cinema. Hayworth is sizzling as the temptress.

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Gena Rowlands, winning an Oscar nomination, is typically superb as the tough talking New York moll - half-whore, half-mother - reluctantly lumbered with a child the Mafia want dead. Tired of running, Gloria decides to confront the gangsters head on... A superb noirish thriller. find out more...

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The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. This is a film that doesn't leave you: the images of gigantic waves and ice bergs and superhuman levels of courage and endurance are hard to process. If it were a work of fiction you would dismiss it as Hollywood hype: but it's not, find out more...

Lucie is haunted by terrifying manifestations of the horrors she endured when she was abducted as a child. With the help of Anna, her devoted friend from the orphanage where she grew up, she seeks revenge upon the people who hurt her. Things soon go horribly, violently, wrong and the gruesome shocks continue as the whole truth surrounding Lucie's abduction unfolds. This French 'arthouse' effort at torture-porn is truly disturbing and if, as a DVD retailer, you've ever been asked for something re find out more...

Jessica Chastain is brilliant as Elizabeth Sloane, the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. it seems nothing can bring her down, until she takes on the pro-gun movement. Faced with the bitter challenge of suppressing her rhetoric and forever pleading the fifth, Sloane's cool exterior starts to crack. Great courtroom drama / tense political thriller with stellar performances from the lead cast.

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Pushing thirty, and defined by a hideous crime involving her bosom friend, Nina, emotionally scarred medical school dropout, Cassie, knows firsthand that some wounds never heal. Leading an uneventful existence, still living with her parents, waiting tables at a cheap coffee shop to earn a living, Cassie has found the perfect way to deal with the painful past. Dressed to kill, at night, Cassie frequents the local bars and nightclubs, pretending to be dead-drunk, utterly helpless and vulnerable find out more...