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	Anna Karenina 1948 Directed by Julien Duvivier Starring Vivien Leigh and Ralph Richardson © Hollywood Classics 2007 All rights reserved

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	And Now For Something Completely Different

Origin		UK
Genre		Comedy
Date		1971
Length		85 mins

Director		Ian MacNaughton
Starring		Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
Monty Python's Flying Circus is regarded as a milestone in British comedy. This, their first feature film, is an anthology of the funniest sketches from the legendary BBC Television series. A must for Monty Python fans and for everyone with a taste for black and outrageous humour.


	Appointment in Honduras

Origin		USA
Genre		Drama
Date		1953
Length		79 mins

Director		Jacques Tourneur
Starring		Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan
Colourful thrills in Central America, brimming with revolutionary fervour at the turn of the century. The busy action handsomely shot in Technicolor by Joseph Biroc includes flesh-eating tiger fish, king-size alligators, a cloud of hornets and a jungle fire, enhancing the exciting story of an affair between one of the protagonists and the wife of an acquaintance.

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	Battle of the Sexes

Origin		UK
Genre		Comedy
Date		1960
Length		84 mins

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Director		Charles Crichton
Starring		Peter Sellers, Robert Morley
Peter Sellers has a jolly good time with his Morningside accent playing the elderly accountant of an Edinburgh tweed-makers, who plans to bump off American efficiency battleaxe (Constance Cummings).


	Biggles: Adventure in Time

Origin		UK
Genre		Adventure
Date		1986
Length		108 mins

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Director		John Hough
Starring		Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White
Jim Ferguson, a successful young businessman, suddenly discovers he is trapped in a hole in time which hurls him back and forth across the decades. From running a fast-food enterprise in today's New York, he finds himself back in WWI Britain helping to save his time twin, the daring aviator Biggles from certain death, and helping save the world into the bargain!


	Black Beauty

Origin		UK
Genre		Family Film
Date		1971
Length		106 mins

Director		James Hill
Starring		Mark Lester, Ursula Glas
In this appealing, faithful version of the Anna Sewell children's classic, Mark Lester (of 'Oliver' fame) stars as the young owner of the spirited horse, which is passed to several owners including evil squire Patrick Mower, circus owner Walter Slezak... before being reunited with young Mark.


	Black Torment

Origin		UK
Genre		Horror
Date		1964
Length		91 mins

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Director		R. Hartford-Davis
Starring		John Turner, Ann Lynn
A baronet whose first wife apparently committed suicide returns to his estate with his new bride. He begins to fear for his sanity following a series of nasty incidents that appear to be his own handiwork.


	Bride of the Wind

Origin		UK
Genre		Drama
Date		2001
Length		99 mins

Director		Bruce Beresford
Starring		Jonathan Pryce, Sarah Wynter, Vincent Perez
A sensual epic saga of a woman for whom genius was the ultimate aphrodisiac. The greatest talents of the early twentieth century Europe were drawn to Alma Schindler and she became their muse, inspiring masterpieces of art, music and literature. What drove "the most beautiful woman in Vienna" to inspire the hearts and mind of composer Gustav Mahler, painter Oskar Kokoshka, architect Walter Gropius and novelist Franz Werfel?

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	Confidential Report a.k.a. Rapporto Confidenziale

Origin		France/USA
Genre		Thriller
Date		1954
Length		99 mins

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Director		Orson Welles
Starring		Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave
To prevent his daughter Raina from discovering his past, financier Welles faking amnesia, hires a detective. Each time the latter meets a former contact of Arkadin, a murder is committed.


	Cul de Sac

Origin		UK
Genre		Comedy
Date		1966
Length		114 mins

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Director		Roman Polanski
Starring		Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac
Golden Bear Award, Berlin 1966 - Cabeza d'oro, Acapulco 1967 Startling black comedy with Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran as wounded gangsters on the run who terrorise a pathetic man (Donald Pleasence) and his beautiful young wife (Françoise Dorléac).

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	Dedee d'Anvers

Origin		France
Genre		Drama
Date		1947
Length		90 mins

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Director		Yves Allégret
Starring		Simone Signoret, Bernard Blier
Simone Signoret's first starring role and one of her finest. She plays a prostitute who plies her trade at the docks but tries to start afresh with the help of a kindly sailor. A good dark melodrama. Also featuring Jane Marken.


	The Disappearance

Origin		Canada
Genre		Thriller
Date		1977
Length		88 mins

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Director		Stuart Cooper
Starring		Donald Sutherland, David Warner
Professional assassin Donald Sutherland is obsessed with his wife's disappearance. He discovers she's behind his latest murder contract and blames his boss, Christopher Plummer. Also starring David Hemmings, this upmarket mystery is based on Derek Marlowe's novel 'Echoes of Celandine'.

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	East of Elephant Rock

Origin		UK
Genre		Drama
Date		1979
Length		93 mins

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Director		Don Boyd
Starring		John Hurt, Judi Bowker
Set against the beautiful background of the island of Sri Lanka, this is a story of passion and political intrigue. Scenes of violence and revolt parallel the emotional drama that unfolds among the small group of Europeans involved in the collapse of colonial power in a distant outpost of the Empire.