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Sweetie
Genres: Drama
Starring: Paul Livingston, Geneviève Lemon, Michael Lake, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Jon Darling, Dorothy Barry
Directors: Jane Campion
Country: Australia
Year: 1989
Available Quality: Hi Def
Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of love when he plants a tree in their yard. Sweetie is plump, imperious, self-centered, and seriously mentally ill. The parents see none of the illness, seeing only their cute child. Kay mainly feels exasperation at her sister's impositions. Slowly, the film exposes how the roots of Sweetie's illness have choked Kay's own development. Can she be released?
The Long Good Friday
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McNally, Helen Mirren, Daragh O'Malley, Bob Hoskins, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan
Directors: John Mackenzie
Country: UK
Year: 1980
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Manhunter
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Brian Cox, Dan Butler, Stephen Lang, Kim Greist, Patricia Charbonneau, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan
Directors: Michael Mann
Country: USA
Year: 1986
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Will Graham is a former FBI agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a 'profiler'; one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the 'Tooth Fairy', who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Wil...
Maniac Cop
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Robert Z'Dar, Tom Atkins, Richard Roundtree, Lou Bonacki, William Smith, Sheree North
Directors: William Lustig
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Genres: Drama
Starring: Stephen Lang, Jerry Orbach, John Costelloe, Sam Rockwell, Stephen Baldwin, Burt Young, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Directors: Uli Edel
Country: USA, UK, West Germany
Year: 1989
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.
Swann in Love
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ornella Muti, Jeremy Irons, Fanny Ardant, Anne Bennent, Alain Delon, Jacques Boudet, Marie-Christine Barrault
Directors: Volker Schlöndorff
Country: West Germany, France
Year: 1984
Available Quality: Hi Def
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone's great politeness.
Messenger of Death
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Starring: Tom Everett, Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett, Charles Dierkop
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Country: USA
Year: 1988
Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation - and finds out about economic motives for the murder.
Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
Genres: Action, Comedy
Starring: Mark Houghton, Xin Xin Xiong, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Chia Yung Liu, Po Tai, Fung Woo, Irene Britto
Directors: Chia Yung Liu
Country: Hong Kong
Year: 1990
Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon (Chinese: ????, Chinese: ????, pinyin: shòu h? féi lóng) aka Skinny Tiger & Fatty Dragon aka Nutty Kickbox Cops from the German distributor is a 1990 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Lau Kar Wing (Liu Chia Yung), starring Sammo Hung and Karl Maka. The trio had worked together in the late 1970s, making two films for Lau and Hung's short-lived Gar Bo Motion Picture Company. Whilst Lau continued to appear in Hung's films for Golden Harvest throughout the 1980s, Maka had gone on to co-run Cinema City. Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon was therefore something of a reunion for the three actors.
The Twilight Zone - Season One
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Starring: Rod Serling
Directors: Robin Ward, Charles Aidman, Luci-Lynn Norris
Country: USA
Year: 1985
A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.
The Twilight Zone - Season Two
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Starring: Rod Serling
Directors: Robin Ward, Charles Aidman, Luci-Lynn Norris
Country: USA
Year: 1986
The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode (156 in the original series) is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television and also through a wide variety of Twilight Zone literature.
Yes Minister - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds
Directors: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Country: UK
Year: 1980
Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC Television between 19801982 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988. In total there were 38 episodesof which all but one lasted half an hour. Several episodes were adapted for BBC Radio, and a stage play was produced in 2010.
Yes Minister - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds
Directors: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Country: UK
Year: 1981
Set principally in the private office of a British government cabinet minister in the (fictional) Department for Administrative Affairs in Whitehall (the sequel was set in the Prime Minister's offices at 10 Downing Street), the series follows the senior ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and enact legislation or effect departmental changes are opposed by the will of the British Home Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually cau...
Yes Minister - Season Three
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds
Directors: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Country: UK
Year: 1982
A huge critical and popular success, the series received a number of awards, including several BAFTAs and in 2004 came sixth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll. It was the favourite television programme of the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.
Open All Hours - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Directors: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Country: UK
Year: 1981
The series features a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for being able to sell anything to any buyer, no matter how unwilling. His nephew Granville (David Jason), is his put-upon errand boy, whose attempts at a love-life or even just a meaningful social life fall flat. He blames his uncle, in particular, that, he has to be up early to open the shop, stay up late to close it with only an odd hour of free time and deliver large numbers of goods on a battered bicycle. Almost every mistake Arkwright makes is followe...
Open All Hours - Season Three
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Directors: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Country: UK
Year: 1982
The shop is crowded and most goods can only be reached from behind the counter allowing Arkwright a chance to hawk more goods. The till is old, and an overtightened spring on its drawer terrifies Granville and Arkwright, as it results in many a close call as the till snaps shut, almost trapping the pair's fingers. Arkwright does not replace it partly because replacements are too expensive, and partly because it prevents people from taking his precious money.
Open All Hours - Season Four
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Directors: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Country: UK
Year: 1984
Across the road lives Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron), Arkwright's long-standing fiancée; much of the skinflint's time is dedicated to trying to persuade her to marry him, or at least sleep with him. Nurse Gladys has her rounds and her elderly mother to occupy her. The only one with any influence over Arkwright, she forces him to give Granville more freedoms and spend money to modernize his archaic lifestyle. In the pilot episode, Nurse Gladys was played by Sheila Brennan with an Irish accent, and the character was slimmer than the buxom creature she became, played by Lynda Baron.
The Muppet Show - Season Five
Genres: Comedy, Family, Music
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt
Directors: Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
Country: USA
Year: 1980
"The Muppet Show Theme" was played at the beginning and end of every episode of The Muppet Show. Although it evolved visually over the course of the show's five seasons, the musical composition remained sequentially the same.
The Bunker
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Hopkins, James Naughton, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Martin Jarvis, Michael Lonsdale
Directors: George Schaefer
Country: USA, France
Year: 1981
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Steaming
Genres: Drama
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Diana Dors, Patti Love, Anna Tzelniker, Sarah Miles, Felicity Dean, Brenda Bruce
Directors: Joseph Losey
Country: UK
Year: 1985
A film about self-discovery and triumph based on the popular play.
The Young Riders - Season One
Genres: Romance, Western
Starring: Josh Brolin, Stephen Baldwin, Brett Cullen, Anthony Zerbe, Melissa Leo, Christopher Pettiet, Don Franklin
Directors: Unknown
Country: USA
Year: 1989
Set just before the American Civil War, this series presented a highly fictionalized account of the heyday of the Pony Express. Its focus was a group of young Express riders based at the waystation in Sweetwater, Kansas. Running the station was ex-Texas Ranger and all-around eccentric Teaspoon Hunter. The role of cook, housekeeper and mother hen was filled first by Emma and later by Rachel. The riders included the future "Buffalo Bill" Cody and James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok, as well as Ike, a mute, Buck, a half-White/half-Kiowa scout and the Kid, a quiet Southerner. Their final member was Lou, a young woman who lived and worked with the r...