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Singing Detective, The (2004)

Director

Jon Amiel

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 392 minutes), £19.99

Dennis Potter’s television mini-series that combines fantasy and reality with hit songs from the 1940s. Stars Michael Gambon as an unsuccessful thriller writer who is hospitalised with a terrible skin...

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Witch Hunt (1994 Film)

Director

Paul Schrader

Feature film made for cable. A surreal thriller set in a nostalgic world where magic is integrated into everyday life. Using a fantastical narrative to satirise the McCarthy era of the 1950s, Private...

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Jo Nesbo: Macbeth (2018 Audio)

Series

Nt Talks

Audio podcast. Rosie Goldsmith speaks to Norwegian thriller writer Jo Nesbo, who has written a crime novel set in the 1970s inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The books has been published as part of the...

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Supervolcano (2000 Video)

aka: Supervolcanos

Producer

Mark Hedgecoe

Subject

Geology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £15.99 (retail) £99.99 (BBC Active)

The year is 2020 and the world faces the ultimate threat. Not nuclear war or a terrorist attack, but the eruption of a gigantic ‘supervolcano’ simmering beneath Yellowstone Park. The last eruption of...

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Let the Devil Wear Black (1999 Film)

Director

Stacy Title

Producer

Matt Salinger

Feature film. A noir psychological thriller, loosely based on Hamlet, and set in modern-day Los Angeles. Jack (Penner), a troubled professional student, is convinced of treachery after the recent death of...

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Queen of Spades, The (1948)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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Se7en (1995 Film)

aka: Seven

Director

David Fincher

Producer

Phyllis Carlyle; Arnold Kopelson

Murder thriller revolving around a serial killer obsessed with the seven deadly sins, who uses the sins themselves as calling cards in a series of ritualistic murders. The gruesome murder of the prominent...

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Centrepoint (1990 Television)

Director

Piers Haggard

Producer

Frank Rosso; Joanna Smith

Four-part television thriller by Nigel Williams which loosely retells the Hamlet story set in London’s Docklands at the time of its commercial development. Roland (Firth) lives with his mother Maria...

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Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007)

Director

Ridley Scott

Subject

Drama; Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes + extras), £29.99

Adapted from Philip K. Dick’s novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', this existential thriller stars Harrison Ford as a tracker of renegade androids that are practically impossible to distinguish...

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Othello (1995 Film, Video)

Feature film version of the play by first-time director, Oliver Parker. The film was marketed as ‘an erotic thriller’ and Fishbourne, although physically powerful, fails to speak his lines with fluidity...

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