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The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) + The Phantom Of The Opera (1929) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Nov. 9, 2013

The Phantom Of The Opera - The Ultimate Edition
1925 Original Version And 1929 Restored Version
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:47:03 + 01:34:37 | 13,35 Gb
Scores AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps (for details see below) with English intertitles
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Classics | FP/FS

Beneath the splendid riches of the Paris Opera House lie ancient catacombs with a dark and forbidden secret. Once used as torture chambers, these passages now house the Opera Ghost (Lon Chaney), vowing vengeance on the human race and obsessed with young opera ingenue Christine (Mary Philbin). Featuring terrifying make-up and gothic setpieces which remain thrilling today, this spine-tingling, macabre masterpiece can now be viewed in all its grand guignol glory.

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All or Nothing (2002) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 6, 2011

A love story about a couple whose deep feelings for each other are rekindled when they are hit by a major family disaster. Set on a run-down family estate, All or Nothing is both poignant and funny. Phil (Timothy Spall) is a sad but philosophical mini-cab driver, while his partner Penny (Lesley Manville) works in a supermarket. Their daughter works in a home for the elderly, and their overweight son is unemployed. The film paints a vivid portrait of their lives, and those of some of their neighbours.

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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) Movies

Posted by Efgrapha at Sept. 5, 2014

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
DVD9 | ISO | PAL, 16:9 (720x576) VBR | 01:59:09 | 8.03 Gb
Audio: AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each): English, German, Italian, Spanish
Subs: English, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Genre: Black Comedy, Erotic Drama, Satire

This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy French restaurant that he has recently bought. Having tired of her sadistic, boorish husband, the wife finds herself a lover (Alan Howard) and makes love to him in the restaurant's coziest places with the silent permission of the cook (Richard Bohringer). Though less cerebral than Greenaway's other films, featuring deadly passions reminiscent of Jacobean revenge tragedies of the early 17th century, the picture still offers the director's usual ironic and paradoxical comments on the relations between eating and sex, love and death.

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In the Realm of the Senses (1976) [The Criterion Collection #466] [ReUp] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 7, 2015

Still censored in its own country, In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida), by Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all time. A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, Oshima’s film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control. Less a work of pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.

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Island Of Lost Souls (1932) [The Criterion Collection #586] [Repost] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Nov. 30, 2012

A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, Island of Lost Souls is a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. In one of his first major movie roles, Charles Laughton is a mad doctor conducting ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked man (Richard Arlen) who finds himself trapped there. This touchstone of movie terror, directed by Erle C. Kenton, features expressionistic photography by Karl Struss, groundbreaking makeup effects that have inspired generations of monster-movie artists, and the legendary Bela Lugosi in one of his most gruesome roles.

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Triumph of the Will (1935) [Repost] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Nov. 10, 2014

Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The "Jewish question" is disposed of with a few fleeting closeups; filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler's climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors….

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Don't Look Now (1973) [Special Edition] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Oct. 13, 2011

Widely acclaimed as on of the greatest horror films ever made, Nicolas Roeg's masterful 'Don't Look Now' is based on Daphne Du Maurier's shattering short story.
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie give career-best performances as John and Laura Baxter, an art restorer and his wife struggling to recover from the trauma of their daughter's accidental drowning. To assuage their grief, the young British couple travel to wintry Venice, on a working holiday to restore a a church. Once there, they get involved with two otherworldly sisters, Heather and Wendy (Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania), one of whom is a blind medium who insists she can get them in touch with their late daughter and warns them of danger.

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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 23, 2011

A woman goes to a farewell party for soldiers going off to war. The next morning, she's drunk, married, and pregnant, but doesn't remember who her husband is. The incomparable Preston Sturges treads where other directors feared back in 1944 and miraculously gets away with it. Sturges milks the panic and desperation of the situation for all it's worth, turning into a fast-paced madcap comedy that's part screwball and part slapstick, with the usual Sturges undertones of social commentary. Eddie Bracken is the leading man, playing the shy straight arrow character that made him famous. Great fun.

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The Third Part of the Night (1971) [Second Run DVD] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at July 23, 2015

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The young man decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting Gestapo kills his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end a misery of a man mistaken by him and tortured where he seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.

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Maria Full of Grace (2004) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at May 1, 2015

A bright, spirited 17-year old, Maria Alvarez, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia and works stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation. The offer of a lucrative job involving travel–in fact, becoming a drug "mule"–changes the course of her life. Far from the uneventful trip she is promised, Maria is transported into the risky and ruthless world of international drug trafficking. Her mission becomes one of determination and survival and she finally emerges with the grace that will carry her forward into a new life.

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