It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Bernie Lootz is one of the best coolers in the casino business and his boss, Vegas mobster Shelly Kaplow, knows it. Bernie's method of halting a punters lucky streak? All he has to do is get near them, because the secret to Bernie's success is that he's a loser of gargantuan proportions, everything he touches turns rotten, that is until he meets Natalie, a waitress that works in Kaplow's casino. Bernie is in love, but with this new found wellbeing Bernie's effectiveness as a cooler plummets, a p find out more...

In 1971 Clifford Irving achieved one of the heights of American journalism, telling whoppers of gargantuan proportions to delude publishers McGraw Hill into paying him $1,000,000 as an advance payment for an authorised biography of Howard Hughes the ultra-reclusive, immensely powerful, superstar billionaire, complete with a series of unprecedented interviews, his most intimate memories and controversial secrets. "The Hoax" is a very nicely done dramatisation of the journalist's fantastically aud find out more...

Two little boys in 1970s Afghanistan are the best of friends, but the circumstances of class, war and childhood betrayal will tear them apart. Years later, as an adult and in an act of redemption, ex-rich man's son Amir returns from his new American home to atone for his earlier behaviour and fulfill his loyalty dues. Adapted from the best selling novel of the same name. Classy. find out more...

A retired legal counsellor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior, both of which still haunt him decades later. The central performance by Ricardo Darin is a highlight of the film, counterbalancing its dark plot of catharsis and revenge with a beguiling warmth and humanity.
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A suspenseful documentation of the search for Zodiac killer, who made the headlines with his apparently random killings and his coded messages to the press as to his identity, whilst killing with impunity, largely in the San Francisco Bay area of Northern California, in the 1970s. The story follows that of puzzle solver and cartoonist Robert Graysmith and is reflected in the somewhat amateurish, if occasionally compulsive, efforts of various resource stretched California police units. find out more...