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  1. Sweet Charity (1969)

    Director
    Bob Fosse
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £5.00

    A dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, is a woman whose faith in the virtues of old-fashioned romance is knocked by a string of disastrous romances. Robbed of her earnings by her absconding boyfriend,...

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  2. Freud (1962)

    aka: Freud - The Secret Passion

    Director
    John Huston
    Subject
    Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 minutes), 9 euros

    1962 feature film starring Montgomery Clift looking at the development and initial rejection by the medical community of Sigmund Freud’s controversial theories on Psychoanalysis. ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN THE...

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  3. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    Director
    Robert Mulligan
    Producer
    Alan Pakula
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99 (DVD); £17.99 (Blu-ray)

    Feature film. Story of racial prejudice and injustice set in the American South. Gregory Peck plays the lawyer, widower and father of two children who stirs up hostility when he agrees to defend a black man...

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  4. Romanoff and Juliet (1960 Film)

    aka: Dig That Juliet

    Director
    Peter Ustinov
    Producer
    Peter Ustinov
    Subject
    Drama

    Satirical feature film setting the Romeo and Juliet story into Cold War politics. Igor Romanoff, the son of a Russian ambassador from an obscure Eastern European country, Concordia, falls in love with Juliet...

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  5. Vertigo (1958)

    Director
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 124 minutes), £4.62

    Alfred Hitchcock’s dream-like story of doomed love, mental breakdown, phobia and doppelgängers stars James Stewart as a detective who suffers from a fear of heights. Hired to protect the wife of an old...

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  6. Killers, The (1946)

    Director
    Robert Siodmak
    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 105 minutes), £12.99

    This adaptation of the celebrated short story by Ernest Hemingway, about a man calmly waiting for the hitmen sent to assassinate him, is now considered a noir classic for its chiaroscuro cinematography,...

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  7. Frozen Ghost, The (1945)

    Director
    Harold Young

    Feature film. Stage hypnotist Gregor the Great becomes enraged when a drunken audience member belittles his act. When the man dies suddenly, Gregor convinces himself that his hypnotic powers are to blame....

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  8. Double Indemnity (1944) (1944)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £15.99

    Celebratred film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurrary as doomed lovers who plan an insurance scam. Directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Raymond Chandler from James M. Cain’s bestselling...

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  9. Murder, My Sweet (1944)

    aka: Farewell, My Lovely

    Director
    Edward Dmytryk
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £9.99

    Raymond Chandler’s celebrated novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ was turned into a classic film noir in 1944 with Dick Powell as the private eye Philip Marlowe.

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  10. This Gun for Hire (1942)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £9.99

    An adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1936 novel about a hired killer on the run ‘A Gun For Sale’, starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and Laird Cregar with the action relocated to the United States.

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