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In the Folds of the Flesh
In a genre defined by shocking violence and psychosexual kink, it remains perhaps the most over-the-top "giallo" in EuroCult history: former MGM starlet and doomed James Dean paramour Pier Angeli (two decades past her Golden Globe award for "Most Promising Newcomer" and just...Watch Movie
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Potiche
It's 1977 and women's liberation is in the air, but Suzanne (Catherine Deneuve) is still the self-effacing, elegant housewife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol (Fabrice Luchini). Pujol oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and trophy...Watch Movie
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The Guard from Underground
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, one of Japan's most respected directors, delivers a twisted tale of psychotic, bone-snapping violence that pays homage to the slasher movies of the 1980s. One thing's for sure... it'll make you think twice about doing overtime ever again! It's not just the...Watch Movie
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A Time to Kill
In the grounds of a dark, deserted mansion, a blackmailer collects money from his victim. Meanwhile, Peter (John Horsley, THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN), chemist and philanderer, realises that the drinks of himself and his mistress, Madeline, have been poisoned. He phones Dr. Cole but...Watch Movie
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The Flesh is Weak
Tony Giani (John Derek, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS) preys on naпїЅve young women who arrive in London looking for fame and fortune. He wines and dines them and gets them a place to stay but soon blackmails them into prostitution. One such girl is pretty Italian Marissa (Milly...Watch Movie
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It Happened in the Park
There is something uniquely fascinating about a large municipal park, with its natural beauties, its formal arrangements and its array of visitors to be observed. Amid its inducements to serenity, one may invariably catch intriguing glimpses of people and their behavior that...Watch Movie
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Cut Snake
CUT SNAKE is a tense, psychologically driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him may be only himself. Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, CUT SNAKE tells the story of Sparra Farrell, an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself...Watch Movie
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Jungle Street
The voluptuous Jill Ireland stars as Sue, a striptease artist, in this tough British crime drama that sees her playing opposite to her real-life husband of the time, David McCallum. JUNGLE STREET has McCallum playing Terry Collins, a small time thug, constantly at war with his family, employers...Watch Movie
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Street Days
A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of interest in the family’s survival, even as the bank...Watch Movie
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The Shop at Sly Corner
Desius Heiss is the French-born owner of an antique shop on Sly Corner who bears a grudge against society. His imprisonment and tortue on Devil's Island has left him with scars down his back from repeated whippings. With little care for the authorities, Heiss has allowed his...Watch Movie
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The Crusader
A woman is facing the electric chair for murder. Was it a crime of passion? Or was she "defending her honor" against a playboy heel who'd hoped to blackmail her District Attorney brother on behalf of some gangsters? Flashbacks eventually reveal what really happened in this pre-Code melodrama. It...Watch Movie
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Silas Marner
Frederick Warde stars as the bent and twisted miser whose life of selfishness is changed by the influence of a child. From the very beginning, Thanhouser had a knack for pictorializing classic plays and novels, especially quaint period stories. The title character, a kindly weaver, is wrongly...Watch Movie
