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	Title	Year	Director	IMDb	Plot	Links
	Caligula	1979	Tinto Brass; Bob Guccione	4.5	Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.	IMDB; Amazon UK
	Calvaire	2004	Fabrice Du Welz	6.9	A singer's car breaks down deep in the woods.	IMDB
	Camera	2000	Richard Martini		A DV camera gets stolen from a video store and we follow the life of it from the camera's POV.	IMDB
	Carandiru	2003	Hector Babenco		Film based on real life experiences of doctor Drauzio Varella inside dreadful State penitentiary Carandiru...	IMDB
	Casino	1995	Martin Scorsese		Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.	IMDB
	Casino Royale	1967	Val Guest; Ken Hughes; John Huston	5.2	In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond (David Niven) comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Catch Me If You Can	2002	Steven Spielberg		Based on the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr., a successful con artist who managed to pass himself off as several identities and the FBI agent hot on his trail.	IMDB
	The Cats	1968	Duccio Tessari	6.3		IMDB
	Catwoman	2004	Pitof	3.4	A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.	IMDB
	Cecil B. DeMented	2000	John Waters	6.0	A lunatic indie-film director and his renegade group of teenage film makers kidnap an A-list hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film	IMDB
	Cellular	2004	David R. Ellis	6.4	A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. The catch? The woman claims to have been kidnapped; and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.	IMDB
	Charlie	2004	Malcolm Needs	5.4	"Bold, Bloody and Bone-Breaking!" - Daily Star In the tradition of Scarface and Snatch, this electrifying true story chronicles the violent rise and fall of Charlie Richardson, England’s most notorious gang leader. At times a trusted friend, Richardson was also unimaginably brutal -- stealing and strong-arming his way to success on the mean streets of London. Reaching a level of power that attracted South Africa’s ruling elite and threatened England’s Prime Minister, Richardson and his infamous "torture gang" were ultimately subjects in one of history’s most captivating criminal trials. Featuring "a magnetic performance" (Variety) by star Luke Goss, Charlie is a "bold, bloody and bone-breaking" (Daily Star) crime thriller.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Chelsea Girls	1966	Paul Morrissey; Andy Warhol	6.5	THE CHELSEA GIRLS, made up of 12 half-hour episodes, is the first of Warhol's experimental movies to become a critical and commercial success and to have broken through the confines of New York's underground world. It has an impact comparable to that of a Jean-Luc Godard movie. It was made from June to September 1966 and shot live with meager resources. The scenes, as in all previous movies, were films in one take following the conviction that, if the camera was left pointed at interesting people something interesting would surely take place. There is no editing, a choice also determined by the kind of camera that was used by Warhol where the reel last 30 minutes and the sound is tapes directly on the film.	IMDB
	Chetyre	2005	Ilya Khrjanovsky	6.5	Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives...	IMDB
	Chicago	2002	Rob Marshall		Murderesses Velma Kelly (Who blanked out and killed her cheating husband) and Roxie Hart (Who killed her boyfriend in a jealous rage) strive for fame at any costs including scandal and lies in 1920s Chicago.	IMDB
	Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski	8.5	A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Christiane F	1981	Uli Edel	7.6	This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F....	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry	2000	Paul Tickell			IMDB
	The Chumscrubber	2005	Arie Posin; Ann Posin	7.0	The Chumscrubber is a darkly satiric story about life crumbling in the midst of a seemingly idyllic suburbia.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Ciao Manhattan	1972	John Palmer; David Weisman	5.7	30th Anniversary Edition For some a primary source document of the 1960s, for others a transcendal viewing experience, Ciao! Manhattan (1972) is a groundbreaking American independent film best remembered as the last screen appearance of Andy Warhol "Superstar" Edie Sedgwick, after her 15 minutes of fame had elapsed. Shot by underground filmmakers John Palm & David Weisman in 1967 (black-and-white) and 1970 (color), its experimental plot careens between flashbacks of fabled celebrity, video surveillance, crackpot billionaires, UFOs, shock therapy and sexual addiction. The film also stars Warhol Factory luminaries Paul America, Viva, Brigid Berlin and Baby Jane Holzer, along with Texan hitchhiker Wesley Hayes, veteran Hollywood star Isabel Jewell, French director Roger Vadim, Christian Marquand and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Ciao! Manhattan parallels Edie's glory days, her inevitable downfall and the devastating addiction that would take her life only weeks after filming wrapped.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Cinderella Man	2005	Ron Howard	8.1	During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Circle	2005	Yuri Zeltser	5.9		IMDB
	City Of God	2002	Kátia Lund; Fernando Meirelles		Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.	IMDB
	Clash of the Titans	1981	Desmond Davis	6.2	A film adaption of the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess Andromeda.	IMDB
	Claudine	1974	John Berry	6.5	Claudine tries to provide for her six children in Harlem while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop...	IMDB
	Clean, Shaven	1994	Lodge H. Kerrigan		Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family...	IMDB
	Cleopatra Jones	1973	Jack Starrett	5.3	Cleopatra Jones is a United States Special Agent assigned to crack down on drug-trafficking in the U.S...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick		The adventures of a young man who loved a bit of the old ultra-violence, went to jail, was brainwashed and came out cured, or was he?	IMDB
	Closer	2004	Mike Nichols	7.3		IMDB
	Club Le Monde	2002	Simon Rumley	6.2	In the style of "24 Hour Party People", "Human Traffic", and "South West 9" comes a hilarious and exhilaratingly realistic slice of '90s club culture... Rave on! It's Saturday night and the place to be is Club Le Monde. It may be smoky, happy, messy, drug-fuelled, and underground, but it's the most happening club in London. There's Ali, who's out with her mate Jackie (Dawn Steele, "Tinsel Town") to snog as many men as possible in front of her cheating boyfriend (Brad Gorton). In the club tonight as well are bimbos Yas and Kelly (Tania Emery, "The Bill"), who never leave the toilets and gossip all night long; Mr. Sunglasses, who's everyone's mate, even if they don't want him to be; three outrageous drag queens who realize they have come to the wrong party; and Danny (Frank Harper, "Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels", "Bend It Like Beckham"), the club's owner, who's about the be caught having his wicked way with his wife's mate. Featuring Ibiza DJs Brandon Block and Alex P together with The Shamen's Mr. C mixing a superb club classic soundtrack "live" (808 State, Alison Limerick, The Shamen, and Bizarre, Inc.), capturing the real feel of the '90s club culture.	IMDB
	Cockfighter	1974	Monte Hellman	6.3	Southern action drama film about cockfighting.	IMDB
	Cold Moon	1991	Patrick Bouchitey	7.3	Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid...	IMDB
	Collateral	2004	Michael Mann		A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA. He must find a way to save both himself and one last victim.	IMDB
	Color Of Pomegranates		Ron Holloway; Sergei Paradjanov		A poetic evocation of the life of Armenian poet Sayat Nova The Color Of Pomegranates: (1969) Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) has been acclaimed as the greatest Russian filmmaker to appear since the golden age of Eisenstein and Dovzhenko. His baroque masterpiece, The Color Of Pomegranates, was banned in Russia for its religious sentiment and nonconformity to "Socialist realism"; its director, a tirelessly outspoken campaigner for human rights, was convicted on a number of trumped up charges and sentenced to five years of hard labor in the gulag. A wave of protest from the international film community led to his release in 1978. Aesthetically the most extreme film ever made in the USSR, Pomegranates his hallucinatory epic account of the life of the 18th century Armenian national poet Sayat Nova, conveys the glory of what a cinema of high art can be like. Conceived as an extraordinarily complex series of painterly tableaux that recall Byzantine mosaics, the film is a dreamlike icon come-to-life of astonishing beauty and rigor. It evokes the poet's childhood and youth, his days as a troubadour at the court of King Heraclius II of Georgia, his retreat to a monastery, his old age and death. There has never been a film like this magical work. Paradjanov: A Requiem: (1994) An absorbing portrait of one of the most colorful and revered figures in world cinema, Paradjanov: A Requiem: offers an affectionate and insightful look at the tumultuous career of the late Sergei Paradjanov -- artist, dissident, romantic and iconoclast. From his early years as a protégé of silent film legends Dozhenko and Eisenstein, Paradjanov charts the evolution of the controversial director's artistry, which culminated in the creation of brilliant, hallucinatory film fantasies of Ukranian poetry and folk legends. Rather than being celebrated for this mesmerizing work, the Armenian director was branded a "surrealist" by Soviet authorities and imprisoned for his artistic and intellectual challenges to the reigning dogma of socialist realism. Rare, extensive interviews with the outspoken director are laced with clips from Paradjanov's filmic seductions of the eye and imagination, including Ashik Kerib, The Legend of Suram Fortress, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Scenes from the director's earlier films, unavailable in the west (such as Andriesh, The First Lad, Ukranian Rhapsody), can be seen for the first time. Drawings, photographs and fragments of uncompleted films coalesce to make Paradjanov: A Requiem a revealing account of an unforgettable artist.	DVD Empire
	La Comunidad	2000	Álex de la Iglesia		Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish...	IMDB
	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	2002	George Clooney		An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impressario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.	IMDB
	Confessions of a Police Captain	1971	Damiano Damiani		One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reaches everything and everybody...	IMDB
	Confidence	2003	James Foley	6.8	Jake Vig (Burns) is a consummate grifter about to pull his biggest con yet, one set to avenge his friend's murder. But his last scam backfired, leaving him indebted to a mob boss (Hoffman) and his enforcer.	IMDB; DVD Empire; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	The Constant Gardener	2005	Fernando Meirelles	7.6	A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Cooler	2003	Wayne Kramer		In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.	IMDB
	Cornbread, Earl and Me	1975	Joseph Manduke; Joe Manduke	6.1	A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Crimen ferpecto	2004	Álex de la Iglesia	7.1	Coming Soon1	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Criminal	2004	Gregory Jacobs	6.4	Two con artists try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfiet copy of an extremely rare currency bill.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Criminal Lovers	1999	François Ozon	6.4		IMDB
	Cronicas	2001	Gabriela Odreman; Sebastian Cordero		If it's on TV, it must be the truth. "One Hour with the Truth" is broadcast nightly from Miami across Latin America, carrying the hardest sensationalistic stories it can find. Star anchorman Manolo Bonilla (John Leguizamo) has flown down to a small town in Ecuador with producer Marisa (Leonor Watling) and cameraman Ivan (José María Yazpik) on the trail of a child serial killer and rapist, "The Monster of Babahoyo." The accidental death of a young boy brings the town to the verge of lynching Vincio Cepeda (Damián Alcázar), a humble traveling salesman. Manolo's intervention saves the man's life, and makes a great story for his show. Vinicio is put in jail for involuntary manslaughter and he offers Manolo information about the "Monsturo" in exchange for a news story on TV about his wrongful imprisonment. Manolo accepts, powerfully drawn to the dark side he senses in Vinicio. He begins to break the rules, determined to be the hero who single-handedly stops the killer. The official Oscar® selection from Ecuador in the Best Foreign Language category, Crónicas is the gripping crime drama from writer/director Sebastián Cordero (Ratas, Ratones, Rateros). Produced by acclaimed filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón (Y Tu Mamá También, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Mimic).	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Croupier	1998	Mike Hodges	7.4	An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Cruel Intentions	1999	Roger Kumble	6.5	Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until love). If he loses, Kathryn gets his Jaguar, if he wins, he gets Kathryn.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Cruel Intentions 2	2000	Roger Kumble	4.1	This takes place several years before the malicious movie (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar), back to when Kathryn first meets Sebastian, their sexual attraction to each other and their enjoyment in destroying the lives of their peers.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Cruel Intentions 3	2004	Scott Ziehl	5.0	Two guys at a college prep school make wagers on seducing naive young girls, and then meet their match when they agree to see which one can seduce the most popular and devious girl who has her own agenda to everything.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Curdled	1996	Reb Braddock	5.6	Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Dancer in the Dark	2000	Lars von Trier	7.8	An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Dandelion	2004	Mark Milgard	7.0	In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where...	IMDB
	Daredevil	2003	Mark Steven Johnson		A man blinded by toxic waste which also enhanced his remaining senses fights crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero.	IMDB
	Dark Justice	2005	Glenn Klinker	3.4		IMDB
	The Day After Tomorrow	2004	Roland Emmerich		A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age.	IMDB
	Dead Man	1995	Jim Jarmusch	7.6	On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Indian named "Nobody" who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Dead Man's Shoes	2004	Shane Meadows	7.4		IMDB; All Movie Guide; Amazon UK
	The Dead Mountaineer Hotel	1979	Grigori Kromanov	7.7	Film is based on the novel by Strugatsky brothers. Police inspector is called to a mountain hotel, but there's no crime. When snow avalanche blocks hotel from the rest of the world, strange things start to happen.. Brilliant soundtrack from Sven Grünberg.	IMDB
	Death and the Compass	1992	Alex Cox			IMDB
	Death Blow	1979	Tim Spring	1.4		IMDB
	Death Wish	1974	Michael Winner		Paul Kersey, New York Archtitect, is a bleeding-heart liberal whose world is suddenly torn apart by...	IMDB
	Death Wish 3	1985	Michael Winner	4.1	Architect Kersey arrives in New York City and fights street crime.	IMDB
	Death Wish 4: The Crackdown	1987	J. Lee Thompson	3.6	Paul Kersey, LA architect and part-time vigilante, is fed up with violence and wants a quiet life. However...	IMDB
	Death Wish II	1982	Michael Winner		Paul Kersey, the vigilante, now lives in LA with his daughter, who is still recovering from her attack...	IMDB
	Death Wish V: The Face of Death	1994	Allan A. Goldstein	3.8		IMDB
	La Decima vittima	1965	Elio Petri			IMDB
	Demonlover	2002	Olivier Assayas	5.5	Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Derailed	2005	Mikael Håfström; Mikael Hafstrom	5.9	When two married business executives (Owen and Aniston) having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Desperate Living	1977	John Waters	7.2	A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Detention	1998	Andy Anderson	7.6		IMDB
	Detroit 9000	1973	Arthur Marks	5.5	Cops go after jewel thieves.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Diane Linkletter Story	1969	John Waters	6.6	A John Waters film where Divine plays Diane Linkletter, daughter of Art Linkletter and commits suicide.	IMDB
	Diary Of A Chambermaid	1964	Luis Bunuel		This wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Bunuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with Bunuel regular Michel Piccoli as her philandering employer. Filmed in luxurious black-and-white Franscope, Diary Of A Chambermaid is a raw-edged tangle of fetishism and murder -- and a scathing look at the burgeoning French fascism of the era.	DVD Empire
	Die Another Day	2002	Lee Tamahori	6.3	It's up to James Bond to discover the connection between a North Korean terrorist and an adventurous diamond broker whose looks may be deceiving.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Die Hard	1988	John McTiernan	8.0	New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Disco Godfather	1980	J. Robert Wagoner	3.4	A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco-- he's the "Disco Godfather!" All is...	IMDB
	Dogville	2003	Lars von Trier	7.9	A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds her their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Dolemite	1975	D'Urville Martin	5.2	Dolemite has to deal with Willie Green, Mitchell and White, Mayor Daly, and assorted production equipment...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Domino	2005	Tony Scott	5.7	A recounting of <a href="/name/nm2062128/">Domino Harvey</a>'s life story. The daughter of actor <a href="/name/nm0002131/">Laurence Harvey</a> turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Donnie Darko	2001	Richard Kelly		Highschooler Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit who orders him to commit acts of violence and predicts the impending end of the world.	IMDB
	Donnie Darko (Directors Cut)	2004	Richard Kelly	8.3	Highschooler Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit who orders him to commit acts of violence and predicts the impending end of the world.	IMDB
	The Doom Generation	1995	Gregg Araki		Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.	IMDB
	Dot.Kill	2004	John Irvin	5.0		IMDB
	Down	2001	Dick Maas	4.5	When the express elevators in the Millennium Building, one of New York's most famous landmarks, start to malfunction and behave in erratic ways...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Dr. No	1962	Terence Young	7.2	James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a colleague; the trail leads him to the ill-reputed island of Dr. No, a criminal genius who may have been involved in the disappearance.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Draughtsman's Contract	1982	Peter Greenaway	7.1	An English noblewoman employs a haughty artist to paint portraits of her husband's estate in exchange for sex...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Dreamers	2003	Bernardo Bertolucci		A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.	IMDB
	Dressed to Kill	1980	Brian De Palma	6.9	A transsexual murders one of his psychiatrist's patients, and now he's after the prostitute who witnessed it. Caine plays the part of a psychiatrist to a woman who is murdered early in the film. He is initially reluctant to help the police. The detective assigned to the murder seems happy to do nothing, leaving the investigation to a prostitute who witnessed the murder and the son of the deceased.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Duel	1971	Steven Spielberg	7.7	A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.	IMDB
	Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God	2005	Gerry Lively		Based on the phenomenally successful role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons 2 takes you deeper into the dark and fantastical world of this fantasy epic...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Dusty and Sweets McGee	1971	Floyd Mutrux	6.4	A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.	IMDB