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BBC - Santa Claus: The Serial Killer (2022) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at Nov. 12, 2022

A shopping mall Santa targeted and terrorised Toronto's gay village - murdering eight men in a seven-year killing spree. Why wasn't he stopped sooner? Mobeen Azhar investigates.

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Spartacus: Vengeance - The Complete Second Season (2012) Movies

Posted by Mindsnatcher at Dec. 17, 2018

Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus, a Thracian warrior captured by Romans, is enslaved into a gladiator training school owned by Batiatus and his wife Lucretia. He is forced to fight daily for his life against deadly foes, under the brutal whip of trainer Doctore. Against all odds, Spartacus' rebellious instincts, his intense love for his wife Sura and his powerful fighting skills drive him to win a series of near-impossible battles - setting in motion a revolution against the tyranny of Rome. To survive, he must become more than a man, more than a gladiator. He must become a legend.

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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1962-1973) [The Criterion Collection #679] Movies

Posted by angus77 at Nov. 20, 2014

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters. The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall. This deluxe set features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time.

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The Genius of Photography (2007) Movies

Posted by vivid23 at Nov. 8, 2013

In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography's true genius. Follow the story of photography in BBC Four's six-part series 'The Genius of Photography'. See some of the most famous photographs ever taken and find out more about what made them so very special.

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Whisper (2007) Movies

Posted by Tavaz at Aug. 14, 2018

Convicted felon Max Truemont (played by Josh Holloway) is hired to execute a kidnapping of the son of one of the richest women in the state. Along with his fiancée Roxanne (played by Sarah Wayne Callies), Max joins two other …

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Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011) Movies

Posted by Tavaz at July 24, 2018

A sharp-witted comedy that follows a group of apparent strangers in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one evening throughout Los Angeles.

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Félix et Meira (2014) Movies

Posted by NaVi7 at July 28, 2015

Félix and Meira is a story of an unconventional romance between two people living vastly different realities mere blocks away from one another. Each lost in their everyday lives, Meira (Hadas Yaron), a Hasidic Jewish wife and mother and Félix (Martin Dubreuil), a Secular loner mourning the recent death of his estranged father, unexpectedly meet in a local bakery in Montreal's Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two wayward strangers find comfort in one another. As Félix opens Meira's eyes to the world outside of her tight-knit Orthodox community, her desire for change becomes harder for her to ignore, ultimately forcing her to choose: remain in the life that she knows or give it all up to be with Félix. Giroux's film is a poignant and touching tale of self-discovery set against the backdrops of Montreal, Brooklyn, and Venice, Italy.

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Köntörfalak / Question in Details (2010) Movies

Posted by Rare-1 at Feb. 3, 2015

Eszti (Kátya Tompos) is in a park waiting for a date, when Zoli (Ferenc Elek) turns up to snatch a few quiet minutes for himself. It’s all a misunderstanding, and the girl wants to make it clear there is no chance of them being together. Two total strangers in the heart of Budapest on a date that goes astray, they start talking and it is a meeting of two totally different worlds. Yet they are just about to start getting to know one another when Gábor (Roland Rába), Eszti’s rude and unruly brother shows up

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Nothing's All Bad (2010) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at March 6, 2011

Four people struggle with their sexual needs and their desire to be loved in this offbeat drama from Danish filmmaker Mikkel Munch-Fals. Anna is a lovely woman in her early 30s; however, after a bout with breast cancer she's has a mastectomy, and with only one breast she feels disfigured and incapable of finding a man. Jonas is a man so good looking that he's constantly propositioned and has more lovers than he can count, but he still doesn't feel fulfilled. Jonas's father Anders is a nerdy, seemingly ordinary man with a humiliating secret – he's an exhibitionist who can't control his need to expose himself to strangers. And Anna's elderly mother Ingeborg feels increasingly isolated and lonely after the death of her husband and leaving her job.

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Agnès Varda-Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961) Movies

Posted by FNB47 at Aug. 20, 2007

Agnès Varda-Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961)
730.7 MB | 1:29:49 | French with English s/t | XviD, 960 Kb/s | 464x304

Visionary of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda captures the atmosphere of Paris in the ’60s with this portrait of a singer searching for answers as she awaits test results from a biopsy. A chronicle of two crucial hours in one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama. The film features a score by Michel Legrand (Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Legrand, Jean-Luc Godard, and Anna Karina.

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