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A stylish and fast-paced crime thriller from France this week. Six people travel from Marseilles to Paris. One of them is murdered when they arrive. The police are quick to investigate, but soon the other occupants begin turning up dead across the city... Starring Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, and Catherine Allégret. Directed by Costa-Garvas. Dubbed in English.
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George Coe, an original member of "Saturday Night Live's" Not Ready for Prime Time Players who also appeared in such films as "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The Stepford Wives," has died. He was 86...
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For years, pitmasters outside of Texas turned a blind eye to the glory of an immaculately smoked brisket. Now brisket’s the darling of the BBQ world, which leaves room for more lesser-known regional BBQ delicacies to jump into the low-and-slow limelight. These seven old-school meats deserve new-school attention...
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The Civil War is over, and amnesty has been granted to many folks, including Jesse James and the Younger Gang. Not everyone is happy about that, however, and a series of twists and turns lead to the idea of one last bank robbery to set things right... Starring Cliff Robertson, and Robert Duvall.
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Aubrey Morris, the character actor who played probation officer Mr. Deltoid in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, has died. He was 89...
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Tonight's second feature is a classic bit of dark science fiction from the 1970s. Astronaut and pilot Tony Cellini (Gianni Garko) is in the throes of what most people on Moonbase Alpha believe is a mental breakdown. The only survivor of a disastrous mission that wrecked his career some years before, Cellini is once again claiming the existence of an impossible alien creature, one that Cellini is obsessed with destroying...
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A weary and jaded knight (Max Von Sydow) returns home from the Crusades to his native Sweden, only to find both the plague, and Death himself, waiting for him. Gripped by a deep crisis of faith, he will figuratively and literally play games with Death long enough to find some concrete proof of God's existence.
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The bodies of 36 US Marines have been found on a remote Pacific island more than 70 years after they died in a bloody World War II battle [Tarawa], a member of the recovery team said...
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Irwin Keyes, an actor with credits ranging from The Jeffersons to The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas, died July 8. He was 63. Keyes appeared in a number of horror films...
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A pointless, but kinda neat video, from the weird part of the internet.
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The most laid back cat ever gets a massage by a beach tourist in Thailand...
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A gang of ruthless gunman, led by the mysterious and icy Mr. Blue (Robert Show) has taken an subway train hostage, and unless the city pays a million dollar ransom within one hour, the hostages onboard will be put to death, one by one. Lt. Zachary Garber (Walter Matthau) must figure out a way to save the hostages and stop the hijackers from getting away with their plan in this tense, stylish thriller. Co-starring Martin Balsam, Hector Elizando, and Jerry Stiller.
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A double feature tonight. McQueen (James Remar) is a gifted guitarist who never quite got the big break, and works gig-to-gig as a session man. All that might change, though, when he gets a last minute call to work with a hot band with some major internal problems... 1991 Oscar winner for Best Short Film.
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An early Alfred Hitchcock film tonight. A well-meaning tourist vacationing in London (Robert Donat) finds his life turned upside down when a strange and desperate woman comes to him claiming secret agents are after her. He agrees to put her up for the night, only to find her murdered the next morning. With himself now the prime suspect, he must evade both the law and uncover who the woman was, and why someone wanted her dead... in 1080p resolution.
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A sharp card dealer named Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) is back in town after a stretch in the joint for heroin addiction. Frankie's clean now, and wants to stay that way for a new start in life. But some of the people in Frankie's life have other plans... Co-starring Kim Novak, Darren McGavin, and Eleanor Parker. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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Long before Frank Underwood, there was Francis Urquhart. Ian Richardson stars in this sublime political thriller from the BBC. Long-serving and highly respected Tory Chief Whip Urquhart has hopes of a spot in the new PM's Cabinet. When those hopes are dashed by the new - and rather feckless - Prime Minister Henry Colingridge (David Lyons), Urquhart begins to have his own ideas of how to run a country...
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A former solider (Robert Redford), weary and jaded by war, trades civilization for a new life in the mountains as a trapper and a loner. Life in the wild is far more difficult that it seems, however, and Johnson must learn to survive both nature, and the wrath of those he inadvertently crosses... Co-starring Will Geer (Grandpa from The Waltons). Loosely based on the life of legendary mountain man "Liver-eatin' Johnson."
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A personal fave tonight. Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler's superb film noir of a femme fatale (Barbara Stanwick) who draws an unscrupulous insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) into her arms and into her plans to rid herself of a troublesome husband...
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Neat little training film about the M73 MG...
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Life in post-WW2 Italy is a difficult one for a working man. Jobs are scarce, and only a handful of men even get considered for most positions. Antonio Ricci is one of the lucky ones this day. He lands a job delivering handbills, with the only requirement being that he have a bicycle to make all of his stops in the city. Joy quickly turns to fear, however, when a local thief steals Antonio's bike on the eve of his new job. Fearful of losing his job, and panicked at the thought of not being able to provide for his...
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