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Wolf Creek Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek and Shallow Grave
Bend It Like Beckham (Country: UK; Year: 2002; Director: Gurinder Chadha; Writer: Paul Mayeda Berges, Guljit Bindra, Gurinder Chadha; Stars: Parminder K Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Juliet Stevenson, Frank Harper, Kulvinder Ghir, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis)
An 18-year-old football-mad girl defies her parents' wishes to conform by pursuing her dream to play footie like David Beckham.
Brick (Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Rian Johnson; Writer: Rian Johnson; Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Noah Segan, Noah Fleiss, Emilie de Ravin, Meagan Good, Matt O'Leary)
A teenager investigates the underworld of a local high school.
Foxy Brown (Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Jack Hill; Writer: Jack Hill, David Sheldon; Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder)
A voluptuous vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
The Godfather: Part II (Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Francis Ford Coppola; Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, based on the novel by Mario Puzo; Stars: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Lee Strasberg, Michael V. Gazzo, G.D. Spradlin, Richard Bright, Gastone Moschin, Tom Rosqui, Bruno Kirby, Frank Sivero, Francesca De Sapio)
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in New York as his son Michael begins to tighten his grip on the family's crime syndicate.
A History Of Violence (Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: Josh Olson, based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke; Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes, Peter MacNeill, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk, Kyle Schmid, Sumela Kay, Gerry Quigley)
Violence begets violence in a study of retribution and small town defiance.
Walk The Line Walk The Line
Walk The Line and Pulp Fiction
The Little Princess (Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Walter Lang, William A Seiter; Writer: Ethel Hill, Walter Ferris, Frances Hodgson Burnett; Stars: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero, Arthur Treacher, Mary Nash, Sybil Jason, Miles Mander, Marcia Mae Jones, Beryl Mercer, Deidre Gale, Ira Stevens, E.E. Clive, Eily Malyon)
A little girl goes on a mission after refusing to believe her father is dead.
Love Jones (Country: US; Year: 1997; Director: Theodore Witcher; Writer: Theodore Witcher; Stars: Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson, Bill Bellamy, Leonard Roberts, Bernadette Speakes, Khalil Kain, Cerall Duncan, David Nisbet, Simon James, Oona Hart, Jaqueline Fleming, Manao DeMuth, Marie-Françoise Theodore)
Romance flourishes after a poet meets a photographer at an open mic night.
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Mr Smith Goes To Washington) (Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Frank Capra; Writer: Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster; Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell)
A naive man is persuaded to become a senator, but when he encounters corruption he discovers inner steel.
Ninotchka (Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Ernst Lubitsch; Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder; Stars: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire)
A Russian woman in Paris on business finds herself falling for a man of whom she strongly disapproves.
Only Angels Have Wings (Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth)
An Andean adventure sees a bold young woman trying to cut it as a freight pilot and falling for her boss.
Brick Brick
Brick and Bend It Like Beckham
Pulp Fiction (Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Quentin Tarantino; Writer: Quentin Tarantino; Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Tim Roth, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Amanda Plummer, Quentin Tarantino, Phil LaMarr, Maria de Medeiros)
Killers and junkies interact and outeract in a merry-go-mayhem ensemble of violent eccentricity.
Ratcatcher (Country: UK; Year: 1999; Director: Lynne Ramsay; Writer: Lynne Ramsay; Stars: William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, Michelle Stewart, Lynne Ramsay Jr., Leanne Mullen, John Miller, Jackie Quinn)
An insight into the anguish of a young boy in the wake of a tragic accident.
Shallow Grave (Country: UK; Year: 1994; Director: Danny Boyle; Writer: John Hodge; Stars: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Keith Allen, Colin McCredie, Victoria Nairn, Gary Lewis, Jean Marie Coffey, Peter Mullan, Leonard O'Malley)
Thriller showing what happens when three flatmates find and keep a suitcase of money.
Tell Me A Riddle (Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Lee Grant; Writer: Joyce Eliason, Alev Lytle, Tillie Olsen; Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams, Dolores Dorn, Bob Elross, Jon Harris, Zalman King, Winifred Mann, Peter Owens, Deborah Sussel, Lili Valenty, Nora Heflin, Peter Coyote, Nora Bendich, Robert Behling)
An elderly couple set out on a pilgrimage to visit their children and grandchildren after one of them receives a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Wolf Creek (Country: Australia; Year: 2005; Director: Greg McLean; Writer: Greg McLean; Stars: John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Gordon Poole, Guy O'Donnell, Phil Stevenson, Geoff Revell, Andy McPhee, Aaron Sterns, Andrew Reimer, Vicki Reimer, Isabella Reimer, David Rock, Jenny Starvall, Guy Petersen)
Backpackers go looking for hedonism in the Aussie outback... and find horror.
A History Of Violence A History Of Violence
A History Of Violence and Only Angels Have Wings
Wuthering Heights (Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: William Wyler; Writer: Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht ; Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Fitzgerald)
An adaptation of the literary classic, exploring the passion between an advantaged young woman and a troubled outsider.
Walk The Line (Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: James Mangold; Writer: Gill Dennis, James Mangold, based on Cash: An Autobiography by Johnny Cash and Patrick Carr and The Man In Black by Johnny Cash; Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Tyler Hilton, Waylon Payne, Shelby Lynne)
Johnny Cash biopic that feels the lurve.
Young Frankenstein (Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Mel Brooks; Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle)
The famous Baron Frankenstein's grandson inherits his Transylvanian castle and its many strange inhabitants.
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