The Shaw Brothers Collection - Human Lanterns (Subtitled)
In an attempt to get one up on his rivals, a rebel swordsman kidnaps those people closest to them and then constructs lanterns using their skin….
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The Shaw Brothers Collection - Death Duel (Subtitled)
A champion swordsman constantly challenged by rivals, fakes his death and sets up a new life with his mistress. But someone has other plans for the Master and his anonymity is threatened once again….
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An Eye For An Eye
Sean Kane, an undercover police officer working for the Narcotics division, is forced to resign after his partner is murdered. Determined to see that justice is done, Kane sets out on his own……
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CSI Miami 2.1
A crime series based in Miami. Horatio Caine the head criminologist in the team and his crime scene investigator colleagues crack multiple cases using evidence left at the crime scene. Episodes; 2.1 Blood Brothers. 2.2 Dead Zone 2.3 Hard Time 2.4 Death Grip 2.5 The Best Defense 2.6 Hurricane Anthony 2.7 Grand Prix 2.8 Big Brother 2.9 Bait 2.10 Extreme 2.11 Complications 2.12 Witness To Murder….
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The Shaw Brothers Collection - The Spiritual Boxer
‘The Spiritual Boxer’ concerns a pseudo-ghost catcher and apprentice to a spiritual boxing master, whose bogus ceremonies and demonstrations result in him falling foul of his fellow towns-folk and, more worryingly, local gangsters….
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The Shaw Brothers Collection - Heroes Two
When a Manchu general and his men burn a Shaolin temple to the ground, the only survivor is Hung, who manages to escape and go on the run. Attempts to capture him are foiled until Manchus tricks Fong into believing that Hung is a murderous thief. On capturing Hung, Fong realises his error and fights to free him….
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The Shaw Brothers Collection - The Heroic Ones
Centres around thirteen brothers who are the devoted sons and loyal generals of a Mongol King. When the King selects only nine of his sons to embark on a mission to assassinate his greatest rival, a bitter rivalry breaks out within the family itself….
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Reservoir Dogs (Special Edition)(2 Disc)
Former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut, RESERVOIR DOGS, is a brutally funny, supercharged introduction to his supremely distinct cinematic vision, which was later to become one of the most mimicked styles of the 1990s. Mastermind Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a crew of top-notch criminals to pull off a jewelry store heist. As the film opens it becomes immediately clear that the plan backfired, forcing the survivors, who have gathered at an abandoned warehouse, to…
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Escape From New York (Special Edition)
This is a John Carpenter cult classic. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK was one of the best entries in the once popular post-apocalyptic genre which included ROAD WARRIOR and THE TERMINATOR. In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world’s largest maximum security prison, a place where the worst of humanity is sent to rot. The U.S. Government finds itself in a major crisis when the president’s plane crash lands in New York only days before a vital peace summit between major warring…
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The Emerald Forest
Director John Boorman explores the tension between primitive and developed societies in this film starring Powers Boothe as engineer Bill Markham. While working on a dam on the Amazon in Brazil, Bill’s son, Tommy (William Rodriquez), disappears while wandering in the forest, presumably kidnapped by Indians. A decade elapses, and the father continues to comb the jungle in search of the missing child, while shepherding the dam to completion. During one such search, Bill is wounded after a showdown…
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The Face Of Fu Manchu
The long-presumed dead Fu Manchu may not be dead after all, as a spate of horrific murders appears to testify. Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard had witnessed the killer’s execution, but this is thrown into doubt by the discovery of a spray made from Tibetan berries….
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The Vengeance Of Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) plans to tarnish the reputation of his arch rival, Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith, as he plots to become the head of the most wanted criminals in the world….
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The Four Musketeers (Wide Screen)
Chapter two of Lester’s winking, rollicking takes on Dumas’s famous swordsmen produced at the same time as his Three Musketeers with the same leads. Great swordplay (executed by the stars; York claims each was injured during shooting) and two great female stars in Dunaway and Welch….
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The Three Musketeers (Wide Screen)
Richard Lester’s rendition of Alexandre Dumas’ classic swashbuckling adventure is a tongue-in-cheek comedy that thumbs its nose at its more serious predecessors. Having divided the story into two separate films, Lester manages to capture some of the more intricate details of book. The first film features the arrival of D’Artagnan in Paris and his efforts to become a King’s Musketeer, just like his father before him. In Paris he encounters three men who quickly become his friends and allies. T…
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Terminator 2 - Judgment Day
A deadly shape-shifting assassin (Robert Patrick) is sent back in time to succeed where his cyborg predecessor failed–to eliminate Sarah Connor’s son (Edward Furlong) before he gets a chance to make history, leading the humans in a war against the machines. The original cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) also returns, but this time as the boy’s protector….
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Hijack Stories
Zama is a criminal on the rough streets of Soweto for whom carjacking is a way of life. Sox is his old school friend whose life has headed in a different direction and is a now successful actor. When Sox wants to secure a role as a TV gangster, he turns to Zama for advice on the character. But the educational element of their activities becomes difficult to discern as Sox becomes drawn to the thrill of jacking cars and a criminal lifestyle….
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Mountains Of The Moon
In director Bob Rafelson’s MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON, Richard Francis Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen), two of history’s most remarkable adventurers, set out to Africa in 1854 to find the mysterious source of the Nile River, their expedition supported by the Royal Geographic Society. Their quest is treacherous–the two men face intense hardship in the African wilderness and must confront native tribes that proceed to capture them and hold Burton hostage while torturing him….
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Invincible
Futuristic action movie executively produced by Mel Gibson and Jet Li. Four ancient warriors have six days to save the world from destruction at the hands of a group of dark angels….
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Cutthroat Island (Wide Screen)
From Renny Harlin, the director of CLIFFHANGER and DIE HARD 2, and starring Geena Davis (THELMA & LOUISE) and Matthew Modine (MARRIED TO THE MOB), this action-packed adventure film sees a tough-as-barnacles lady pirate, named Morgan Adams fight off her villainous uncle while attempting to retrieve a buried treasure hidden away on Cutthroat Island. Before Morgan’s pirate father dies of a wound obtained in battle, he tells her about the hidden riches and the map that will lead her to them. Morg…
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Mr Forbush And The Penguins
JOHN HURT stars as Richard Forbush, biologist and womaniser who outlook on life is changed when he is sent to Antarctica to study the penguins. Alone apart from a radio telephone link and thousands of birds, Forbush has to battle to survive when a blizzard hits hard….
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