Genres:Action | Thriller Countries:USA Directors:Jesse V. Johnson Actors:Eric Roberts | Robert Davi | Keith David | Geoffrey Lewis | Irina Björklund | Paul Dillon | Jerry Trimble | Michael Ironside | Bokeem Woodbine | Guillermo Díaz | Julie Carmen | Vernon Wells | Maddy Howard | Anthony V. Pugliese III | Duane Whitaker
For nearly twenty years after his boxing career ended Merle Hench works for Murdoch, the capo of a San Fernando mob outfit. Merle spends his days cracking heads and collecting debts, it is not a job he enjoys. Cool, calm and collected, soft spoken even, Merle's an anachronism, a man out of place and out of time. His Boss thinks Merle has outlived his usefulness and is expendable. So they set him up to take the fall for a multi-million $ heist of a rival mob boss. A habitual gambler on a 20 year losing streak, Merle's luck turns as he survives the trap and winds up with a piece of the take and the girl. Merle might have been content to just disappear and spend his windfall with Jacqueline. But the betrayal of his loyalty for 20 years snapped something inside. Merle Hench, otherwise known as the Butcher is slow to anger yet quick to act, he's learned to live and let live to keep on going, but not this time. Everyone thought his nickname was a joke, what they didn't know was that Merle had a dark side, a secret past that earned that awful name. Merle finds himself in the cross-fire of a gang war, with all the guns aimed at him. It's an all-out race to win his freedom, win the girl and win redemption. They tried to bury him twice, but twice he got away. Underestimating Merle Hench is their biggest mistake and their final career move.
Genres:Drama | Thriller Countries:France | UK Directors:Fred Zinnemann Actors:Edward Fox | Terence Alexander | Michel Auclair | Alan Badel | Tony Britton | Denis Carey | Adrien Cayla-Legrand | Cyril Cusack | Maurice Denham | Vernon Dobtcheff | Jacques François | Olga Georges-Picot | Raymond Gérôme | Barrie Ingham | Derek Jacobi
When President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group and make attempts at De Gaulle and fail. When several of their key members are killed or caught and eventually executed, the three top members decide to hire a professional assassin to take out De Gaulle. The man that they chose agrees to do it on the condition that he be alllowed complete autonomy. He also advises them to go into hiding until the job is done. And they do. When the French Security force learns that they have shut themselves off from the rest of world are curious what they are doing. So they abduct their errand boy, and once interrogated all he says is the assassin's code name, "The Jackal", they hypothesize that they have hired an assassin to go after DE Gaulle. Once De Gaulle is informed he refuses to alter his plans and will not allow extra security added. So his ministry decides that they should find the Jackal before he makes his move. They appoint the best detective in France, Claude Lebel to find him. Lebel plan is to contact every police department in the world and see if the Jackal comes from their country and if so to provide him with a description and/or a photo. Now Scotland Yard has a small lead but unfortunately they miss him but they have his passport so assuming that he is out of the country, they try and find the passport that he is using. Now when they think that they have him, he discards the identity that he is using and assumes another one. Can they find him before he gets De Gaulle?
Genres:Drama | Horror | Thriller Countries:UK | USA Directors:William Wyler Actors:Terence Stamp | Samantha Eggar | Mona Washbourne | Maurice Dallimore | Gordon Barclay | William Bickley | David Haviland | Kenneth More | Allyson Ames | Edina Ronay
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.
Genres:Horror Countries:USA Directors:Daniel Dowding Actors:Thomas Daniel | Rocco George | Bobby Max | Theresa Galeani | Jeanine Hill
Dr. Wethers has invited a group of damaged juveniles to her estate for a group therapy session. They all share a fear of clowns. Dr Wethers brother - Seth Wethers, also known as Snuffles the clown, has been incarcerated for over ten years after killing his parents. He comes home tonight just in time for group therapy! A woman, Patient X, is back at the asylum. She knows everything but no one believes her. She is linked to the events that unfold and Snuffles may be her missing baby.
Genres:Comedy | Romance Countries:USA Directors:Martha Coolidge Actors:Nicolas Cage | Deborah Foreman | Elizabeth Daily | Michael Bowen | Cameron Dye | Heidi Holicker | Michelle Meyrink | Tina Theberge | Lee Purcell | Richard Sanders | Colleen Camp | Frederic Forrest | David Ensor | Joanne Baron | Tony Plana
Julie Richman is a sweet-natured, if shallow, Valley Girl. After breaking up with her jerk boyfriend Tommy, she is at her friend Suzi's party ("the social event of the season") when two boys from Hollywood crash the scene. One of them, the sensitive and adventurous Randy, is immediately smitten with Julie, and she with him. Julie's friends, however, are not smitten with Randy purely because he is from "Holly-weird" and want Julie to dump Randy and get back together with Tommy. Julie must decide which is more important: her heart and the boy she loves, or the approval of her friends. A side story involves Suzi and her stepmom vying for the attention of Skip the grocery delivery boy.
Genres:Documentary Countries:USA Directors:Jason Brown Actors:Styna Whatman
A look at how the quiet Northwestern town of Forks, Washington became a tourist hotspot for fans of the "_Twilight_ " books and films.
Genres:Drama Countries:UK Directors:Geoffrey Sax Actors:Rachael Stirling | Keeley Hawes | Anna Chancellor | Jodhi May | Hugh Bonneville | Johnny Vegas | Alexei Sayle | John Bowe | Sally Hawkins | Louis Alderton | Nick Bartlett | Carl Chase | Edward Clayton | Benedict Cumberbatch | Ray Donn
Dramatised from Sarah Waters' acclaimed debut novel, "Tipping the Velvet" tells the story of Nancy Astley (Rachael Stirling), a young girl who works as cook and waitress in her Father's seaside restaurant - that is until she witnesses the extraordinary performance of a new-to-town male impersonator - Kitty Butler (Keeley Hawes) - and begins to undergo a complete life transformation. Suddenly whipped up - and quickly flung down - by her love affair with Kitty, she experiences both euphoria and deep disillusion as she embarks on a seven-year journey of self-discovery - finally realizing that a life of sensation just isn't enough.
Genres:Comedy | Drama Countries:USA Directors:Lawrence Kasdan Actors:Tom Berenger | Glenn Close | Jeff Goldblum | William Hurt | Kevin Kline | Mary Kay Place | Meg Tilly | JoBeth Williams | Don Galloway | James Gillis | Ken Place | Jon Kasdan | Ira Stiltner | Jake Kasdan | Muriel Moore
A group of friends who attended the University of Michigan together in the 1960's convene for the funeral of one from their group, Alex, who committed suicide. The group, each now in their thirties, have kept in touch over the years, but have drifted somewhat apart as their respective lives changed. Their individual ideals have also changed from their socially conscious and radical days in college, to where they mostly now live outwardly comfortable and financially lucrative lives. With Alex's young and socially naive girlfriend, Chloe, added to the mix, the friends spend the weekend together at married couple Harold and Sarah's house in South Carolina following the funeral. Especially in light of Alex's suicide, the friends discuss their lives and collective relationships with each other, then and now.
Genres: Action | Comedy
