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AGENCY (1980)

Certification15 Our Rating

A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all.

This story is pretty terrible but the subliminal message big reveal is really enjoyable. 

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Based on a true story, the film begins in 1932 with the killing of a Chicago cop and the sentencing of two young men for his murder. Fast-forward eleven years, and the boss of the Chicago Times newspaper is intrigued to find an advert by the mother of one of the killers, Frank Wiecek, asking for information about the crime, clearly Wiecek's mother thinks her son is innocent. PJ O'Neal (Stewart), one of the Times' top reporters, is dispatched to find out whether Mrs Wiecek's opinion is clouded by find out more...

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Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...


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Set in an alternate-universe fictional location of Atlantic-Cité, "Made in USA" is a typically oblique Godardian blend of political intrigue and self-referential humour in the guise of a nominal thriller plot. Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detective, is a journalist who has been covering the war in Morocco and has just returned to Atlantic-Cité. She has received a telegram from her one-time fiancé, Richard, but when she arrives there she finds that find out more...

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An ambitious journalist wants to get to the top of his profession. In order to get the inside scoop on a murder, he feigns mental illness and goes undercover in the county hospital's psychiatric unit, where the murder was witnessed by three of the inmates. Immersed into the world of the mentally unsound and subject to intense shock treatment, he soon tips the balance of sanity and pays the ultimate price for his "rehearsed nightmare". More harrowing than "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Shock find out more...

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Nerve-wracking suspense surrounds The Bedford Incident, the tale of a US naval vessel on a routine NATO patrol that ends up in a freakish showdown with a Russian submarine. Richard Widmark is Capt Eric Finlander, the maniacal commander and Sidney Poitier is Ben Munceford, a photojournalist assigned to record a 'typical' mission. His moral indignation is put to the test by the captain's obsession with forcing the sub to the surface and several crew members are driven to the brink of of nervous ex find out more...

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Journalists at the London Daily Express investigate reports of strange phenomena occurring all over the world; flooding in the Sahara, unseasonable blizzards in New York, violent tornadoes in the Soviet Union. The investigation leads to the discovery of a cover-up and the revelation that nuclear explosions have altered the Earth's orbit, its destination THE SUN! As the temperature rockets, water becomes scarce and mass hysteria breaks out. The only solution is a radical one, the detonation of fu find out more...