SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)

 




















Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
Based on the novelette "Tell Me About It Tomorrow" by: Ernest Lehman
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, Joe Frisco, Emile Meyer, Edith Atwater, David White, Lawrence Dobkin, Lurene Tuttle, Lewis Charles, William Forrest, Jay Adler, Autumn Russell, Queenie Smith, Joseph Leon, Bob Carson, Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Paul Horn

96 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
A powerful Broadway columnist coerces an unscrupulous press agent into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.

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A VERY STRAIGHT NECK (2025)

 




















Directed by: Neo Sora
Based on the short story "I Will Go Ahead" by: Momoe Narazaki
Starring: Sakura Ando, Kodachi Kitagata

11 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)
Country of origin: Japan

PLOT:
A woman struggles with a painful kink in her neck. As she revisits memories of a childhood friend, her body becomes an unconscious mirror, reflecting the hidden violence and contradictions that permeate her life and the world around her.

YASUKE (2021)

 




















Directed by: LeSean Thomas, Takeru Sato
Music by: Flying Lotus
Starring: (voices) Lakeith Stanfield, Jun Soejima, Takehiro Hira, Kiko Tamura, Maya Tanida, Fusako Urabe, Ming-Na Wen, Rie Tanaka, Gwendoline Yeo, Yu Kamio, Paul Nakauchi, Eri Kitamura, Dia Frampton, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Darren Criss, Hiroki Nanami, Julie Marcus, Kenji Kitamura, William Christopher Stephens, Shigeru Ushiyama, Dan Donohue, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Amy Hill

6 episodes
(TV-MA - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, animated sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:
He came from Africa and fought alongside a mighty feudal Lord in brutal 16th century Japan. They called him the Black Samurai, and he became a legend.

ANIME SERIES

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EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960)

 




















Directed by: Georges Franju
Based on the novel "Les Yeux sans visage" by: Jean Redon
Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Edith Scob, Alexandre Rignault, Beatrice Altariba, Francois Guerin

90 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
A surgeon causes a car accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

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THREE O'CLOCK HIGH (1987)

 




















Directed by: Phil Joanou
Starring: Casey Siemaszko, Richard Tyson, Anne Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor, Philip Baker Hall, John P. Ryan, Stacey Glick, Jonathan Wise, Theron Read, Liza Morrow, Guy Massey, Mike Jolly, Scott Tiler, Charles Macaulay, Caitlin O'Heaney, Alice Nunn, Paul Feig, Mitch Pileggi, Yeardley Smith

101 minutes
(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
Mild-mannered Jerry Mitchell gets into hot water with quiet bad boy bully Revell, who challenges Jerry to a fight on high school grounds after the school day ends.

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ATTACK THE BLOCK (2011)

 















Directed by: Joe Cornish
Starring: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, Danielle Vitalis, Paige Meade, Sammy Williams, Michael Ajao, Jacey Salles, Karl Collins, Joey Ansah, Chris Wilson

88 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, drug content)

PLOT:
An unlucky woman and a gang of tough inner city kids make an unlikely alliance as they try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, turning a South London apartment complex into an intergalactic war zone.

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THE RITUAL (2017)

Directed by: David Bruckner
Based on the novel by: Adam Nevill
Starring: Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, Sam Troughton, Paul Reid, Maria Erwolter, Hilary Reeves, Francesca Mula, Matthew Needham

94 minutes
(TV-MA - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore, nudity)

PLOT:
A group of old college friends reunite for a hiking trip in a remote area of Sweden. A wrong turn leads them into a forest of Norse legend where ancient evil exists.

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