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Returning to themes he had touched upon in his earlier films Polanski develops the idea of Pinter's "two people in a room and then a third enters" with a couple on a remote island invaded by two on-the-run gangsters. Gradually the power positions shift... underlined with great black humour. find out more...

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Nick Porter sells salesmanship for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone, thanks in no part to his ever losing battle with alcohol. Finally fired and discovering his wife has also decided it’s all over on the same day, Nick finds himself on his front lawn with all that is left of is worldly belongings. An adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story, don’t expect an archetypal Will Ferrell movie, this a bitter sweet drama...with some humour. A low key, thoughtful and tou find out more...

A pair of charlatans pose as mediums, another, more sinister, pair trade in kidnapped VIPs and stolen jewelry. In a complex, but subtle, plot the lives of the two pairs become increasingly entangled, linked amongst other things by a missing child and an empty grave. Witty, urbane and extremely funny, Hitchcock's swan song and one of his best, a must see. find out more...

When snowplow driver, Nils receives news that his son has died of a heroin overdose, he is disbelieving of the official report and soon uncovers evidence of his son s murder an innocent victim of local crime boss, The Count . Armed with heavy machinery, Nils embarks upon a quest for revenge that inadvertently ignites a full-blown underworld gang war, with the body count spiraling ever higher and higher. A hugely entertaining, darkly comic thriller from the reliably idiosyncratic Norwegians

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Jim Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, is short of money, his 17-year-old daughter has reached an expensive age and so he accepts Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and becomes Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories, but these stories start to becoming disturbingly true. Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this was the final collaboration between him and director Carol Reed, whom had previously worked together on T find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

With the responsibilities of world peace, the national debt and dessert choices at state dinners constantly on his mind, it seemed like a good idea to get the President of the United States an analyst to help him deal with these burdens. Dr Sidney Schaefer wins the coveted job, but it turns into a surrealist nightmare; a man privy to the deepest thoughts of the most powerful man on earth must either be tortured for information or shot on sight for the sake of national security. A crazy, farcical find out more...

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