One of the most stylish and beautiful films ever made and a cult classic that helped to repopularise French cinema over here. A courier obsessed with a beautiful black opera singer enters an underworld of visual splendour and tortuous emotions where love and desire go a long way to realising dreams. Brilliant!
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FREAKS (1932)
Certification12 Our Rating
A very strange little number which was released, then immediately withdrawn in 1932 to remain banned for over fifty years. Still pretty disturbing today, despite the triumph of the various aesthetically-challenged "freaks" over their so-called normal tormenters, showing the revenge taken by a group of circus freaks on a beautiful trapeze artist and her strongman lover after they have tried to kill a midget for his fortune.
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HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971)
Certification15 Our Rating
A death obssessed teenager and a 79 year old woman who lives life to the full gang up together in one of the wittiest black comedies ever made. An inventive, enduring classic which was far ahead of its time. You mean you haven't seen it?
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HEATHERS (1990)
Certification18 Our Rating
Veronica is a dissatisfied member of the in-crowd at high school until she meets JD, a cool newcomer to town, and they decide to play a practical joke on the 'queen bee', unaware she's about to become complicit in a series of murders. An offbeat, highly original and very black teen comedy. Brilliant, one to watch.
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HELLZAPOPPIN' (1941)
CertificationU Our Rating
The staging of a musical, a romance, a bumbling private eye and a man who keeps wandering on with a pot plant for 'Mrs Jones'! is almost incidental to the speed, imagination and sheer craziness in a film that gives the Marx brothers a run for their money. Justifiably described as ‘Pythonesque', Hellzapoppin is a hugely influential comedy classic that can now be seen as way ahead of its time..
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SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1978)
Certification15 Our Rating
Tony is an uneducated Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dancefloor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. A disco movie for people who don't go to discos, this is really about Growing Up - which the movie interprets as Growing Out of a Disco Mentality and into Personal Relationships. The relationship between Tony (Travolta) and Stephanie (Gorney) is at least as angst-ridden as anyth
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TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER (2001)
Certification18 Our Rating
Dum and Rumpoey fall in love as children and continue their affections into young adulthood until circumstances take them away from each other. When their paths next cross Dum has become a bandit and Rumpoey is about to reluctantly enter into an arranged marriage with Kumjorn, the local police captain; but though the two are now at opposite ends of the social pole their love still burns strong. Tears of the Black Tiger is a deliciously over the top homage to the melodrama of films past, to say
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