Brilliantly directed story about a psychotic Hollywood scriptwriter, who is suspected of murder but given a false alibi by his gorgeous neighbour. Bogart's character never lets up and you're never sure if he's guilty or not, and nor is his lovestruck neighbour. As the police close in, it develops into a beautifully tense psychological thriller, did he do it and will the girl stand by her man? Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!
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THE DEPARTED (2006)
Certification18 Our Rating
Billy Custigan is a rookie cop, but his background in the city's underbelly makes him the perfect man to infiltrate the mob and bring down kingpin Frank Costello. Police officer Colin Sullivan is as straight as an arrow to most who know him, but he's Costello's main man within the police department. Each knows of the existence of the other, but neither knows his identity. This is a world where every piece of information gleaned carries with it the possibility of discovery and death and the relen
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THE FUGITIVE (1993)
Certification15 Our Rating
A superb action packed thriller with Ford as the hounded Dr Kimble who, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, escapes from a prison bus and tries to find out why she was killed and who the murderer really was. Jones is superb (Oscar winning!) as the laconic but obsessed Fed, following him like a bloodhound. The big stunts will take your breath away, and the breakneck pace never slackens.
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ZODIAC (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
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.
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