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Certification18
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Certification18
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Disillusioned ex-LA cop turned private eye Kline is hired by a billionaire industrialist to search for his missing son. Following a trail that leads him to Asia Kline finds himself in Hong Kong where he is sucked into the world of the city’s most powerful gangster, Su Dongpo. Traumatized by his past and in particular the horrific memories of serial killer Hasford, Kline struggles to keep a grip of his sanity while attempting to fulfil his increasingly perilous remit.
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Stunning adaptation of James Ellroy's stylishly sinister 50s crime novel, cruelly robbed of its just desserts by a sinking ship at the Academy Awards farce. An awesomely authentic 1953 Los Angeles provides the backdrop, while the story focuses on a dodgy trio of LA's not-so-finest, united by mutual loathing, and all up to their necks in nefarious goings-on. Kim Basinger deservedly bagged the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her sultry Veronica Lake lookalike hooker, but all the performances are
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CertificationPG
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Harry's faithful, but emotionally cold, wife has become all but impossible to love. Smitten by the young and beautiful Kay, the emotionally fractured husband becomes terrified at the prospect of exposing his spouse to the social humiliation of divorce and decides poisoning her is the only morally decent option. But when Harry confides his intentions in conniving best friend Richard, the scene is set for a noir-like drama in which few, if any, will find peace.
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A superb modern thriller in the ultra-hardboiled Jim Thompson mould, in which a trio of criminals, wanted for a brutally murderous drugs heist, converge on a small, quiet Arkansas township where the local cop, treated with contempt by the LA officers in charge of the case, looks forward to a High Noon-style showdown. The asides on racial and sexual inequality are made subtly and succinctly; the performances and pacing are nigh perfect; the violence is explicit, disturbing but never gratuitous; a
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Certification15
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Certification18
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Marv is a lunkhead of incredible strength, an aggressive power he puts to merciless use when his one true love is murdered. Hartigan is the embittered, but moralistic cop who's sworn to protect a stripper and Dwight is the lover of Shellie and the inadvertent dark angel of Gail's Old Town girls, a feisty group of hookers. These are just a selection of the random characters in Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels and it's difficult to decide which of the two is the bi
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Certification15
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Our narrator is an unseen local videographer, who tells the story of star-crossed lovers Mardar and Moudan. Mardar is a motorcycle courier in Shanghai who meets and falls in love with Moudan, but when he becomes involved in a plot to kidnap and hold her for ransom, Moudan is heartbroken. Devastated by his betrayal she throws herself into the Suzhou River, apparently to her death, threatening only to come back and haunt him. Mardar vows to find her and soon becomes obsessed with a nightclub dance
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Certification15
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A Hamburg picture framer is persuaded that he is dying of an incurable and mysterious disease. A rich American, Dennis Hopper, approaches him with an offer he can't refuse - kill a mobster or two and his wife and child will lack for nothing. A superb, atmospheric thriller - one of Wender's best.
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