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The Big Heat (Country: US; Year: 1959; Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Sydney Boehm, William P McGivern; Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby)
A tough cop takes on a powerful crime syndicate.
His Girl Friday (Country: US; Year: 1939; Director: Howard Hawks; Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy)
When a notorious criminal escapes from jail, a newspaper editor goes all out to keep his top reporter on the case, even though she's supposed to be getting married the next day - to the man she fell for after divorcing him.
The Mahabharata (Country: UK/France; Year: 1989; Director: Peter Brook; Writer: Jean-Claude Carriere, Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne; Stars: Erika Alexander, Maurice Benichou, Amba Bihler, Ryszard Cieslak, Georges Corraface, Robert Langdon Lloyd)
A marathon drama based on the Indian epic poem about rivalries in a family.
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Pusher (Country: Denmark; Year: 1996; Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; Writer: Nicolas Winding Refn and Jens Dahl; Stars: Kim Bodina, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbaeck, Slavko Labovic, Mads Mikkelsen)
Seminal gangster film about an unrepentant drug dealer. Out to own as part of the European Mavericks Heart Of Darkness box set.
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Silken Skin (La Peau Douce, The Soft Skin) (Country: France; Year: 1964; Director: Francois Truffaut; Writer: Francois Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard; Stars: Jean Desailly, Francoise Dorleac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laurence Badie, Sabine Haudepin)
A man begins an ill-fated affair with an air stewardess.
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