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The Contractor
on DVD (2007)
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Lena Headey, Eliza Bennett
Director: Josef Rusnak
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A marksman (Snipes) living on his ranch in Montana is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist whom he missed killing while on duty. He is ultimately double-crossed and framed for killing a high ranking policeman, and is forced into hiding where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
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Scoop
(2006)
Starring: Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Charles Dance
Director: Wood Allen
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An American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) visiting London gets a hot tip on a notorious serial murder case after a ghostly encounter inside the disappearing cabinet of a neurotic vaudevillian (writer/director/co-star Woody Allen). But when she falls for the dashing aristocrat (Hugh ...
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Bleak House
(3 discs)
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Charlie Brooks
Director: Justin Chadwick, Susanna White
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Acclaimed writer Andrew Davies turns his talents to one of Charles Dickens' most brilliant novels - arguably the greatest ever depiction of Victorian London. Fresh and imaginative, yet faithful to the original, this thrilling fast-paced adaptation is shot with a contemporary edge. At its heart is ...
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Fingersmith
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Rupert Evans
Director: Aisling Walsh
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A BBC adaptation of Sarah Water's best selling novel about love, treachery in old England. It tells the story of two young women, one passion, mutual betrayal and final retribution. Petty thief Sue Tinder (Sally Hawkins) is enlisted by conman Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans) in an elaborate scam to ...
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Ladies In Lavender
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Natasha McElhone
Director: Charles Dance
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Set in 1936, Ladies in Lavender is the charming and sweetly melancholic story about two ageing spinster sisters whose peaceable Cornwall existence is disrupted when the take a young man into their care... and their hearts.
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Swimming Pool
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance
Director: Francois Ozon
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In Francois Ozon's SWIMMING POOL, Charlotte Rampling plays Sarah Morton, a prim and proper British author who has written a successful series of mystery-crime novels. However, when she visits her London publisher (Charles Dance) in a dour mood, wearing a depressive pout, and complains that she's no ...
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Ali G - Indahouse - The Movie
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Gambon, Kellie Bright
Director: Mark Mylod
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By the marginal-or-miss standards of British TV spin-offs, Ali G in da House is well above adequate, even though it drags out every smart line or decent routine until they lie dead on the screen just begging for a laugh track. The film pulls back a bit from the absolute obnoxiousness of the <...
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Black And White
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance, Kerry Fox
Director: Craig Lahiff
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In 1950s Australia, Max Stuart, an illiterate Aborigine, is suddenly arrested by police for murdering a nine year old white girl. He crumbles under interrogation and signs a confession to the killing, signing away his right to life. Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox play young, naive defence lawyers ...
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Dark Blue World
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance, Ondrej Vetchy
Director: Jan Sverak
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In 1939, as Hitler and Germany ran roughshod over Eastern Europe, many people escaped, including Czech pilots who joined up with the British Royal Air Force to fight the Nazis. Jan Sverak's moving war drama, DARK BLUE WORLD, details the story of one such group of Czech pilots who are at first ...
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Murder Rooms - The Dark Beginnings Of Sh...
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Charles Dance, Robin Laing, Ian Richardson
Director: Paul Seed
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The two-part drama MURDER ROOMS is based on the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle (Robin Laing) and his university tutor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell (Ian Richardson). Set in Edinburgh in 1878, this BBC production follows the pair as they become involved in a hunt for a ...
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Hilary And Jackie
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain
Director: Anand Tucker
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The story of the brilliant concert cellist Jacqueline du Pre, seen from the perspectives of her sister Hilary and brother Piers. While Jackie gains international fame and fortune, she secretly longs for the stable, normal life and family Hilary has built. Watson and Griffiths deliver impassioned, ...
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Rebecca
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Faye Dunaway
Director: Jim O'Brien
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This Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Rebecca is based on Daphne du Maurier's classic novel of the same name. Emilia Fox stars as Mrs. De Winter, a young middle class girl who meets her rich but aging husband, Mr. De Winter (Charles Dance), while he is travelling. The two fall in love ...
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Space Truckers
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar
Director: Stuart Gordon
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John Canyon initially refuses to join 'The Company', an outfit controlling intergalactic trucking, but he finds himself unable to resist when the pay is five times the going rate. Perils lie in store as there is a deadly cargo in the hold.
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China Moon
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Ed Harris, Madeline Stowe, Charles Dance
Director: John Bailey
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In this sumptuous erotic thriller, a small town detective has a passionate affair with a stunning local woman. When her wealthy husband is brutally murdered, her lover is immediately suspected and he must stumble through a maze of deceit to find out the truth and clear his name.
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Last Action Hero
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney
Director: John McTiernan
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A Schwarzenegger double-bill.THE 6TH DAY: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour pilot. On his birthday he comes home to discover an identical ...
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Alien 3
(2 discs)
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Director: David Fincher
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Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It is not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
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White Mischief
(1987)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Radford
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If there was a paradise untouched by the war in the winter of 1940, it was Kenya's Happy Valley. There the tall, blond and impeccably groomed Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Errol, enjoyed a decadent life of pleasure with his fellow aristocrats.
Their's was a society in which adultery was routine and ...
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The Golden Child
on DVD (1986)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Charlotte Lewis, Charles Dance
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Eddie Murphy follows up his hot streak of BEVERLY HILLS COP and TRADING PLACES with this mystical action-comedy directed by Michael Ritchie. Murphy plays Chandler "Chan" Jarrell, a man who tracks down lost children for a living. When the beautiful Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis), a Tibetan priestess, ...
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Raffles - The First Step
(2 discs)
on DVD (1975)
Starring: Anthony Valentine, Charles Dance, Christopher Strauli
Director: Christopher Hodson
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Dapper, debonair and suave Raffles is a gentleman of leisure. To spice up his life he takes to stealing jewels and cracking safes, and as such a pillar of high society he's the last person the police would suspect. Played with dashing Edwardian elan by Anthony Valentine (COLDITZ) and aided by ...
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Raffles - The Last Laugh
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Anthony Valentine, Charles Dance, Christopher Strauli
Director: Christopher Hodson
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AJ Raffles (Valentine) is, on the surface, a debonair young man about town who gets invited to all the best parties. However Raffles is also an accomplished thief and working with his partner-in-crime Bunny (Strauli), he is able to use his cover to remove jewellery from the safes of his hosts. ...
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To The Ends Of The Earth
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Neill, Jared Harris
Director: David Attwood
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Dramatic adaptation of William Golding's trilogy 'Rites Of Passage', 'Close Quarters' and 'Fire Down Below'. A young aristocrat boards a war ship heading for Australia, where he will take up a government post. It is not long, however, before the aristocrat's social status begins to cause tension ...
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Fallen Angel
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Charles Dance, Emilia Fox
Director: David Drury
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FALLEN ANGEL takes a look at the past of a murderer, looking at the factors that turned a woman into a sociopath. Based on the novel by Andrew Taylor.
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First Born
on DVD
Starring: Charles Dance, Philip Madoc, Gabrielle Anwar
Director: Philip Saville
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Genetic scientist Edward Forester (Charles Dance) successfully breeds a human-gorilla hybrid baby called Gor. But he becomes emotionally attached to the child and is unable to destroy it. So he hides Gor, passing him off as his adopted son, whilst going to painstaking lengths to teach him to walk ...
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Alien Quadrilogy
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Director: Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher
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A box set featuring 'Alien' which is the sci-fi story of seven astronauts who become the victims of a galactic horror when they stumble upon an alien life-form never seen before. The nightmare begins... 'Aliens' In this sequel to 'Alien', Ellen Ripley returns as the sole survivor of the spaceship ...
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A Film About Genius 19 November 2003
... incredible performance as Jackie. Rachel Griffiths is also good as Hilary, and Charles Dance puts in some brilliant scenes as the sister's slightly confused father, but thi...
Fantastic Film 16 July 2004
