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CertificationPG Our Rating

A young girl is murdered, and an Inspector calls on a prosperous Yorkshire household investigating the sad circumstances behind her death. The determined inspector must uncover the truth and each one of the family has a secret - and each one is partly responsible for the girl's fate. A shattering denoument reveals the truth. An adaptation of JB Priestley's classic play. find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

Superbly stylish and atmospheric thriller set in the steamy New Orleans of 1955. Down and out private eye Harry Angel is hired by the sinister Louis Cyphre to find a missing crooner who's been dabbling in the occult. But Harry's leads keep winding up ritually murdered. Chilling, erotic, brilliant. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

A blind man overhears a crime and winds up in a web of murder blackmail and industrial espionage. Haunting and sinister music by Morricone, gruesome set pieces and starlets in short skirts assist the cult feel of the era and cinematic style of Point Blank. find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

Polanski has a go at the film noir detective thriller, very bleak, very twisted and very menacing it is to. Nicholson plays a private-eye in pre-war LA who is hired to pursue an adultery case, but finds himself embroiled in a complicated murder investigation. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

At last the dirty mac attired super sleuth finds his way to 20th Century Flicks, and 3 episodes for the price of one, bargain! The first is the pilot from 1968 with a very youthful looking Peter Falk investigates the suspicious death of the wife of a prominant psychiatrist. Fade to Murder stars William Shatner as the star of a hit TV show who decides to take care of a pesky blackmailer...forever, and there's double trouble when twin brothers decide to secure their inheritance by nefarious means. find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

Local journalist Cameron is an idealist who sympathises with the underdog, which is probably why he's still a local journalist! When a serial killer begins preying upon the amoral capitalists that Cameron is attempting to expose the police, not surprisingly, begin to suspect the journalist of the murders and so he finds himself compelled to hunt down the real culprit or spend the rest of his life in jail. Based on a novel by Ian Banks, whose books rarely shy away from the shocking, this is a dar find out more...

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Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime there's motive. However he finds no usual motive when investigating a man beaten to death, this man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate", Finlay says, "is like a gun." A landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk directs a taught stylish tale that, certainly for its time, dared to explore a topic rarely covered in Hollywood; anti-Semitism in the US. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

The second live-action spin-off from the "Death Note" Manga series starring ‘L', the enigmatic detective, picks up where the first one left off. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

Brilliant but bored high school student Light Yagami suddenly finds himself holding the power of life and death in his hands, the power of the ‘Death Note'. He decides to rid the world of evil, by killing off criminals one by one. When the murders start to pile up, genius detective L is on the case, and an epic battle of wits unfolds. A slick slice of hokum from the highly popular Manga anime TV series. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Light Yagami is an ace student who finds the Death Note, a book dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written within the pages dies, and Light decides to use its power to rid the world of evil. Soon however detective ‘L' is hot on his trail and as the two face off in a battle of wits and will the line becomes drawn as to which of them is ‘good' and which ‘evil'. find out more...