Mathew Horne's Cool List (10 titles)

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Brief Encounter

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• Brief Encounter on DVD (1945)
  Starring: Celia Johnson,  Trevor Howard,  Stanley Holloway
  Director: David Lean
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  David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »
  
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Predator

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• Predator on DVD (1987)
  Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Bill Duke,  Elpidia Carrillo
  Director: John McTiernan
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  In the remote jungle of a Central American country, an elite group of commandos led by Major Dutch Schaeffer (Arnold Schwarzenegger), embarks on a CIA mission to clear out a guerrilla stronghold and rescue the remaining hostages. However, the hunters become the hunted when a highly intelligent, ..read more »
  
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Harold And Maude

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• Harold And Maude on DVD (1971)
  Starring: Bud Cort,  Ruth Gordon,  Cyril Cusack
  Director: Hal Ashby
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  In the long ago days before video when access to anything but first-run Hollywood movies was limited to repertory houses and college film societies, Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE, while not what one would call an underground film, achieved cult status, becoming one of the most popular American films ..read more »
  
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Village of the Damned

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• Village of the Damned on DVD (1960)
  Starring: Alan Badel,  Alfred Burke,  Ian Hendry
  Director: Wolf Rilla
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  Classic English horror. Low-budget shocker about a group of strange, emotionless children who attempt to take over a small village by controlling the minds of the adults.
  
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The Birds

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• The Birds on DVD (1963)
  Starring: Rod Taylor,  Tippi Hedren,  Jessica Tandy
  Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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  In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Wealthy, reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief ..read more »
  
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Twenty Four Seven

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• Twenty Four Seven on DVD (1997)
  Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Bruce Jones,  Frank Harper
  Director: Shane Meadows
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  From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy strikes. ..read more »
  
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Con Air

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• Con Air on DVD (1997)
  Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
  Director: Simon West
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  Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
  
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Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls

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• Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls on DVD (1995)
  Starring: Jim Carrey,  Ian McNeice,  Simon Callow
  Director: Steve Oedekerk
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  Carrey's certifiable but cool alter ego, Ace Ventura, continues his pet sleuthing in the wilds of Africa as he tries to avert a tribal war by locating a kidnapped sacred bat.
  
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Withnail And I

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• Withnail And I on DVD (1986)
  Starring: Paul McGann,  Richard E. Grant,  Richard Griffiths
  Director: Bruce Robinson
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  WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann)--take a holiday in the Lake District at the home of Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard ..read more »
  
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The General

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• The General on DVD (1926)
  Starring: Buster Keaton,  Marion Mack,  Glen Cavander
  Director: Buster Keaton,  Clyde Bruckman
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  A young railroad engineer is prevented from enlisting in the Confederate Army because of his profession. A year later he is able to free his girlfriend who is a passenger on a train hijacked by Union soldiers. Historians consider this film to be the last truly classic comedy of the silent film era. ..read more »
  
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