Mass in Motion
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November 1963
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| The story of the Killing of a President as told by Joseph Giancana, who was with his brother, Sam Giancana during those days. Written by their nephew and told in real time about the underbelly that pulled off this crime.
Someone's Daughter
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| François Arnaud stars in the forthcoming thriller Someone’s Daughter, written and directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld.
Sam, a criminal defense lawyer in her 50s, who is kidnapped and abandoned on a remote island with Paul, a former client she successfully defended a decade earlier when he was accused of raping the kidnapper’s daughter. As the pair struggles to survive the brutal Canadian backcountry, an uneasy bond forms. However, Paul’s behaviour turns increasingly toxic, leading Sam to an impossible choice.
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Project Hail Mary
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| Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship light-years from Earth. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing the sun, and save Earth. An unexpected friendship may be the key.
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Crucible of Horror
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| Experience Crucible of Horror as never before. Painstakingly restored by Hammer from 4K scans of the original film negatives, this stark and unsettling psychological horror returns with newly revealed detail and intensity.
Michael Gough stars as Walter Eastwood, a tyrant within his own home: a domineering sadist whose quiet cruelty governs every moment of family life. Leaving behind gothic excess for cold, vérité-style realism, director Viktors Ritelis crafts a film of mounting dread, where violence simmers just beneath the surface, and escape feels impossible.
With powerful performances from Sharon Gurney and BAFTA-winner Yvonne Mitchell, and an unnerving score by John Hotchkis, Crucible of Horror stands as one of the most disturbing and overlooked entries in British horror cinema.
This definitive Hammer Presents release marks the film’s first restoration from the original negatives and its first availability anywhere in the world at this level of quality.
State of Grace
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Featuring an all-star cast of 90s icons, including Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John Turturro, and John C. Reilly, director Phil Joanou has personally overseen this 4K restoration and grading, giving the project his seal of approval.
After Dark: Neo Noir
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| Take another walk After Dark with six more seedy films from the grimy underbelly of cinema:
Wild At Heart (1990), Unlawful Entry (1992), The Getaway (1994), Mulholland Falls (1996), Freeway (1996), City of Industry (1997):
Tow
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| The true story of Amanda Ogle (Rose Byrne), a homeless Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to reclaim her life and car after receiving a tow bill for $21,634.
Exit 8
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| A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realises he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.
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Body of Evidence
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|When the wealthy Andrew Marsh is found dead of a heart attack in bed, the police don't know what to make of the homemade sex-tape he died watching, nor the fact that he was discovered handcuffed. As it comes out that his much younger, BDSM-inclined girlfriend Rebecca Carlson was not only on that sextape, but also in his will for an $8M inheritance, district attorney Robert Garrett goes after her. Accusing Rebecca of having cunningly made her own body the murder weapon, and with public opinion against her, only Carlson's defense attorney, Frank Dulaney, seems to believe that she's innocent. But that's before things get considerably rougher, both in the court and in the uneasy confidence between Rebecca and her chosen counsel.
Released at the height of the 1990's erotic thriller boom, Body of Evidence took the bold step of casting a pop culture superstar arguably at the peak of her fame, Madonna (Desperately Seeking Susan). Helmed by a master of the complicated character drama, Uli Edel (Christiane F.), with a nail-biting performance from four-time Oscar® nominee Willem Dafoe (To Live and Die in L.A.), this racy noir builds tension and mood to a dizzying climax. It also boasts a stacked supporting cast including Joe Mantegna (House of Games), Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction), Jürgen Prochnow (In the Mouth of Madness), and Julianne Moore (The Big Lebowski). Vinegar Syndrome is achingly excited to present the UHD debut of this twist-filled thriller in both its unrated director’s and R-rated theatrical cuts, in brand-new, director-approved 4K restorations.
Mantrap
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|Mantrap (1953), the stylish crime thriller directed by Terence Fisher, returns in a stunning new 4K restoration, bringing renewed clarity to one of Hammer’s most fascinating noir-era films.
Starring Paul Henreid in an offbeat turn as a former intelligence officer turned amateur detective, Mantrap follows an unlikely sleuth as he becomes entangled in a dangerous web of deception, murder, and misplaced trust. Shot on real London locations still scarred by the Blitz, the film captures a city and nation in transition.
This Limited Collector’s Edition marks the first-ever home video release of Mantrap, anywhere and in any format, and includes both the UK version (Mantrap) and the US release (Man in Hiding), newly restored from the original film negatives.
Exclusive features include new audio commentaries from Film Noir UK’s James Harrison and film historian Sergio Angelini, alongside cult cinema writers Toby Roan and Heath Holland, plus newly produced featurettes exploring the film’s literary origins, its cast, and its place within Hammer’s crime-era output. Archival behind-the-scenes footage, stills, and a deluxe booklet of newly commissioned essays complete this definitive edition.
A gripping rediscovery of British noir, presented in its most visually striking form now.
Corporate Retreat
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| Corporate executives on a team-building retreat face a deadly struggle when their leader turns violently against them.
How to Make a Killing
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| Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
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Pompei: Below the Clouds
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|Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.
Lord of the Flies
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|A group of British boys become stuck on a tropical island that is unoccupied, and gradually slide into anarchy as social conventions disappear and attempts to rule responsibly fail.
A new four part adaptation of the William Golding novel, coming to BBC One.
The Stunt Man
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|Cameron (Steve Railsback, Lifeforce) is a man who finds himself unmoored from American life: recently returned from Vietnam, he is now a drifter on the run from the law. While evading police, he stumbles upon the filming of a World War I movie helmed by the megalomaniacal Eli Cross (Peter O’Toole, Lawrence of Arabia). When Cameron discovers that he bears a striking resemblance to the lead actor, he hatches a plan: to hide from his potential captors by disguising himself as a stunt double and agreeing to perform a series of increasingly dangerous stunts.
But nothing is what it first seems on an Eli Cross set, and as illusion and make-believe start to bleed into one another, Cameron finds himself locked in a battle of wits with a possibly insane genius, and in danger of becoming unmoored not just from society, but from reality itself…
Newly restored in 4K, The Stunt Man was a critical smash that suffered from distribution issues on its original release in 1980 - it was nevertheless nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Director for Richard Rush, and has earned a reputation as one of the most beloved cult films of all time. Featuring one of Peter O’Toole’s greatest performances, and enough action-packed mayhem to power several blockbusters, The Stunt Man is - to use the words of Eli Cross - pure movie magic.
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Departures
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|It’s instant chemistry when Benji encounters Jake at an airport departures gate. Their on-going relationship unfolds through intimate trips to Amsterdam, revealing a complex power dynamic. Inspired by true life events, what begins as thrilling monthly getaway unravels into a relationship of inconvenience. The only for Benji to move forward, is to go back...
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Idiotka
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| In West Hollywood's Russian district, Margarita lives out the American Dream: competing on a reality show. Will she slay, serve, or survive?
Plainclothes
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|Writer-director Carmen Emmi handcuffs obsession to power in this confident debut set in ‘90s New York, detecting erotic fixations in homophobic policing. With one furtive eye on William Friedkin’s cult classic Cruising (1980), Plainclothes searches fuzzy videotape surveillance footage for forbidden desire.
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