Procedural
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the...Watch Movie
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The Trial
Adapted from the novel by Franz Kafka, THE TRIAL stars Anthony Perkins as Joseph K., an innocent victim charged with an unnamed crime. Masterfully directed by Orson Welles, who sets a riveting, maddening and brilliantly disturbing pace. While the source for THE TRIAL is described as "restored" it...Watch Movie
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Hannah Arendt
In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker...Watch Movie
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number 1 and is eventually condemned to a maximum-security prison where he writes his...Watch Movie
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Le petit lieutenant
A gripping police noir, LE PETIT LIEUTENANT tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives and developing an...Watch Movie
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
In this last installment of Steig Larsson's "Dragon Tattoo Trilogy," Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers,...Watch Movie
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Any Day Now
Winner of ten Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, ANY DAY NOW is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the loving family he's...Watch Movie
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Bon Voyage
A Scottish RAF air gunner (who escaped from a POW camp in Germany and made it safely back to Britain) is interrogated by a Free French Intelligence officer. As he explains how he was helped and guided by a Polish fellow-escapee, we watch (in flashback) the perilous last stages of his journey...Watch Movie
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
An Israeli woman seeking to finalize a divorce (gett) from her estranged husband finds herself effectively put on trial by her country's religious marriage laws, in this powerhouse courtroom drama from sibling directors Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz. In Israel, there is neither...Watch Movie
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Cone of Silence
Veteran pilot George Gort faces a Court of Inquiry as the result of the crash of a Phoenix jet airliner. He is severly cross-examined by Sir Arnold Hobbes Q.C. and found guilty of a pilot error. The pressure mounts on Gort when Captain Judd accuses him of bringing the aircraft in too low at...Watch Movie
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The Copper
Though many audiences are initially familiar with the extraordinary German actor Hans Albers from his role in Josef von Sternberg's THE BLUE ANGEL, his reputation was enhanced (and his fame soared) after his starring role in DER GREIFER (THE COPPER) released the following year. Nearly three...Watch Movie
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Terror by Night
Sherlock Holmes has been hired to safeguard the valuable Star of Rhodesia diamond belonging to Lady Margaret Carstairs during her train journey from London to Scotland. Holmes and Dr. Watson not only have to foil an attempted robbery but also catch a murderer. TERROR BY NIGHT, with its intricate...Watch Movie
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Gross Misconduct
This gripping drama explores the troubled life of famed Canadian ice hockey star Brian Spencer. During his illustrious career, Spencer played ten seasons in the NHL for the Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins. However, his life off...Watch Movie
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Haldane of the Secret Service
In his final film as an actor, Harry Houdini stars as Heath Haldane, an undercover operative assigned to infiltrate a band of counterfeiters within the dark alleys of New York’s Chinatown. Virtually unseen since its 1923 release, HALDANE OF THE SECRET SERVICE has been mastered...Watch Movie
