Stella Raphael is in a suffocating, soulless marriage to the new deputy of a psychiatric hospital and ripe for the dark charms of inmate Edgar Stark. A passionate affair begins between the two, but the stronger their relationship becomes the further Stella's life begins to unravel. Adapted from Patrick Mcgrath's novel and from the same director of the excellent ‘Young Adam', Asylum is a comparatively un-engaging affair considering the impassioned anguish and tragedy that befalls all those involv
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MILDRED PIERCE/POSSESSED (1945)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Murder, mystery and obsession combine to produce a much studied noir classic. Please note that the DVD only contains 'Mildred Pierce'.
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MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944)
CertificationPG Our Rating
After two years in an asylum Stephen Neale is released into the insanity that is WWII England, where he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't know whom he can trust. An atmospheric, expressionistic, war time thriller, packed with unforgettable scenes, starring Ray Milland and directed by the wilfully left-field genius that is Fritz Lang.
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PRETTY POISON (1968)
Certification15 Our Rating
Made eight years after Psycho, Perkins again plays a mentally disturbed young man. Just released from an institution for, as a teenager, burning down his aunt's house with her inside, he lives in a fantasy world, pretending he's a CIA agent. This seems to work brilliantly as a chat up line for he picks up a beautiful, but very gullible, all American small town girl. This is a pure mix of Hitchcock and 60s rebellion. Watch it.
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STAY (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Psychiatrist Sam Foster takes on a colleague's patient, talented art student Henry, who announces his intention to kill himself at midnight on Saturday. As Sam pursues Henry, hoping to save him, the world around him begins to fracture and distort and Sam's mad world impinges on Henry's rational one. What's the meaning of the flashbacks to a car accident on the Brooklyn Bridge? Why are dead people seemingly alive? A hallucinatory New York becomes a dark, fractured, dislocated landscape. An intrig
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VANILLA SKY (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
David Aames has it all, but true love still eludes him, one night he believes he may have found the woman of his dreams but fate is about to deal him a brutal blow. David's rarified existence comes to a shuddering halt when he accepts a lift from an insanely jealous lover and as reality and fantasy begin to blur he is in danger of losing his sanity. Vanilla Sky is a remake of the Spanish film "Open Your Eyes" and despite my scepticism it is a gripping piece of cinema, impeccably performed, direc
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VERTIGO (1958)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Another Hitchcock masterpiece, featuring some of the most inventive and unsettling camera work in cinema. Stewart plays a retired detective who is hired by a friend to follow his unstable wife. However the plot is considerably more entangled than it appears from the outset as Stewart becomes a witness to the wife's death. A moody and considered psycho-drama...
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