Rewatched (2024)

As a means to escape the humdrum of his everyday life, young Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) takes comfort in watching action movies featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). After being given a magic ticket by theatre manager Nick (Robert Prosky), Danny is sucked into the screen and bonds with Slater. When evil fictional villain Benedict (Charles Dance) gets his hands on the ticket and enters the real world, Danny and Jack must follow and stop him. However, much of Jack's fiction-based knowledge and abilities are rendered useless in the cold, hard logic of this alien world. Therefore, he must find ways to adapt to his new surroundings, using Danny, as his point of reference.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are the leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The West is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they go.

The story centers on Tse Man Mo, a man who was sentenced to life in jail in 1971 after being framed for the bloody murder of a family. Thirteen years later, Man Mo is found to be innocent and released. Though he regains his freedom, he has to contend with the grim reality of what his life has become. His former wife is now married to the corrupt inspector who sent him to jail. His son has become withdrawn from society and his daughter is veering towards the wrong side of the tracks. Luk Gwok Wing, the actual perpetrator of the murder Man Mo was jailed for, has become a wealthy and powerful mogul. In the face of all this, Man Mo decides to pursue justice and unveil the truth behind the murder, but it is Luk who strikes first, going after Man Mo with all his might.

The story was based on the Six States Installation of Minister and The Eight Immortals Restaurant murder cases. The antagonist's name 'Luk Gwok' is a reference towards the name of the former.

When Hong Kong is rocked by multiple gruesome murders, the police forms a task force to investigate. Jun (Sean Lau), once a brilliant detective who suffered a mental breakdown, begins his own investigation. Eventually, the police learn that the murder victims are all suspects of cold cases being rubbed out by a figure known as "The Sleuth". Now, Jun and a detective from the task force are on a race against time to beat the brutal killer at its own game.

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Delve into the psyche of America's most notorious serial killers.

This re-make of the 1932 Howard Hawks classic has up-and-coming gangster Tony Montana (Al Pacino) arriving in Miami as a Cuban refugee. With his friend Manny (Stephen Bauer), Tony carries out a hit on a politician, earning him the gratitude of drug dealer Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia). Tony rises rapidly in the 'organization', but courts disaster when he becomes involved with Lopez' cocaine-addicted wife, Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer).

Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

Two boys are brought up in a sadistic neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. Later, they adopt diverse professional paths, with one of them becoming a photographer and the other boy becoming a drug dealer.

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

In this fact-based film, British working class teens Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston) and Chris Craig (Paul Reynolds) take to behaving like the film noir antiheroes they idolize, and Chris begins carrying a gun to look the part. Unfortunately, the boys have a run-in with a police officer that takes a tragic turn, and Derek and Chris end up on trial for murder. While Chris is still a minor and faces only a prison sentence, the older Derek will be put to death if he can't prove his innocence.

Of the cities in the world, few are depicted in and mythologized more in film and television than the city of Los Angeles. In this documentary, Thom Andersen examines in detail the ways the city has been depicted, both when it is meant to be anonymous and when itself is the focus. Along the way, he illustrates his concerns of how the real city and its people are misrepresented and distorted through the prism of popular film culture. Furthermore, he also chronicles the real stories of the city's modern history behind the notorious accounts of the great conspiracies that ravaged his city that reveal a more open and yet darker past than the casual viewer would suspect.

A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 play of the same name. It tells the coming-of-age story of an Italian-American boy, Calogero, who, after encountering a local Mafia boss, is torn between the temptations of organized crime and the values of his honest, hardworking father, as well as racial tensions in his community.

The play was largely based on Palminteri's own childhood experiences.

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Bill Douglas’s award-winning films My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home are three of the most compelling and critically acclaimed films about childhood ever made.

Autobiographical in nature, the trilogy is a searing portrait of a young boy's progress from growing-up in the most extreme poverty in a small mining village during post-war Scotland, to conscription into the RAF and then finally to emancipation through friendship and the Arts.

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning. However, although he is very mature for his age, his youth eventually catches up with him, thereby revealing his deficits. The responsibility of parenting several children was a heavy mantle to bear, which sees Akira making unwise decisions that threaten the family's survival.

A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

The World at War is a 26-episode British documentary television series that chronicles the events of the Second World War. It was produced in 1973, at a cost of £900,000 (equivalent to £11,600,000 in 2021), the most expensive factual series ever produced. It was produced by Jeremy Isaacs, narrated by Laurence Olivier and included music composed by Carl Davis.

The show focused on the imperialist exploits of the Axis powers, who were hellbent on establishing hegemony over Europe and Asia. They met resistance in the Allied forces, who after six gruelling years of fighting, were able to finally put an end to their campaigns of mass terror and destruction.

The World at War attracted widespread acclaim and now it is regarded as a landmark in British television history.

An ex-cop turned private eye uses his bionic eye that can hack into any computer system in the world and his mechanical quarterstaff to fight organized crime.

A former cop rejoins the police department to investigate a drug ring that employs ghosts and vampires.

A legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to return a young woman, who has been seemingly abducted by a vampire, to her family.

The History of Trunks tells the story of Future Trunks and his life during the time when the androids have the world under siege. It is unique among Dragon Ball movies/specials since it is actually based on a brief chapter in the Dragon Ball manga, called "Trunks The History - The Lone Warrior".

The second film of the All's Well, End's Well series of Lunar New Year comedies, Clifton Ko's All's Well, End's Well Too is a screwball comedy of errors set in the Northern Song Dynasty. An all-star cast that includes the late Leslie Cheung, Sam Hui, Rosamund Kwan, Teresa Mo, Ricky Hui, Sandra Ng and Raymond Wong serve up laughs in this hilarious film filled with mistaken identities, cross-dressing, parodies and nonsensical hijinks.

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger’s bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

Henry grows up idolising mobsters in his impoverished neighbourhood. Things take a turn for the worse when he along with his friends Jimmy and Tommy decide to make their way up the mob hierarchy.

Bonnie Parker joins convict Clyde (Guy) Barrow to terrorise the vulnerable communities of the Southwest during the 1930s.

Three notorious gangsters who have never crossed paths find themselves in the same restaurant at the same time, and their fates are changed forever.

"Long Arm of the Law" is a Hong Kong crime film released in 1984. It was directed and produced by Johnny Mak. It is the first film in the "Long Arm of the Law" film series. The movie is based on the Guangzhou criminals who were ravaging Hong Kong at that time, telling the story of their robberies and murders from the mainland to Hong Kong. It is adapted from the sensational "Nantong Bank" case committed by Zhu Guorong (formerly known as Zhu Zizhao), the president of Guobao Group in 1980.

According to scriptwriter Philip Chan, the majority of those who played the gangsters in the film were (formerly) "Big Circle Boys" themselves. One of them even attempted to rob a department store after production wrapped up, believing the crime was as easy as it was depicted in the movie he had just been a part of. Not surprisingly, he was captured after injuring himself while running through a glass door; a predicament that would've been avoided had he known the difference between breakaway props to real glass.

"Long Arm of the Law II" is a Hong Kong police and gangster film released in 1987, subtitled "Two Routes", directed by Michael Mak, starring Elvis Tsui and Alex Man. It is the second part of the "Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" movie series. The plot tells the story of the Hong Kong police using mainlanders to deal with mainland criminal groups in Hong Kong.

The rat torture scene is regarded as a classic moment in the history of Hong Kong cinema. Dai Dai, played by Alex Man, is caught by the Big Circle Gang and was forced to reveal the whereabouts of his three police colleagues Xiang Dong, Jingsheng and Xuejun. They tried to break him, by tying a sack filled with rats around his neck, allowing the rodents to feast on his head while being hung upside down. Dai Dai refused to squeal on his pals and was eventually beheaded with an axe thus perishing in the line of duty.

A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

Seventeen-year-old Rose hails from an aristocratic family and is set to be married. When she boards the Titanic, she meets Jack Dawson, an artist, and falls in love with him.

On a mission to retrieve a princess from a fire-breathing dragon, gruff ogre Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot — a wisecracking donkey.

India’s Daughter is a heart-wrenching documentary by filmmaker Leslee Udwin on the horrific rape and killing of young medical student Jyoti Singh.

Casino tycoon Benny Ho Hsin wields great power, but conflict with his former partner and an unscrupulous fraud scheme threaten his family and his empire.

When a stock market crash causes the sudden collapse of a multibillion-dollar company, an ICAC Senior Investigation Officer uncovers a criminal conspiracy involving its founder.

Hyo-sun Choi is taken to an unfamiliar area to escape an investigation.

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in a tribute to 1960s pulp novels and Technicolor melodramas.

Shade of Darkness is a 1994 horror series by Hong Kong television broadcaster TVB. Produced by Mui Siu-ching it featured a cast which included Canti Lau, Kenix Kwok and Ada Choi.

After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost.

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Shattered Glass is a 2003 film written and directed by Billy Ray. It's about the rise and fall of Stephen Glass, a writer at The New Republic magazine who spent years making up fictitious stories for the magazine before he was finally exposed.

A mockumentary in which a camera crew follows Ben, a serial killer who has a particular liking for elderly and middle-class victims.

A rookie policeman and a former detective with supernatural capabilities work hand-in-hand and do everything in their power to nab a serial killer.

The story was loosely based on the case of PC Tsui Po-ko, a rogue Hong Kong police officer turned criminal mastermind.

The Greatest is a 1977 biographical sports film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries. The film follows Ali's life from the 1960 Summer Olympics to his regaining the heavyweight crown from George Foreman in their famous "Rumble in the Jungle" fight in 1974.

Carol Reed's timeless classic, one of the greatest British films, lavishly marries a perfect script, an unforgettable theme tune and the star power of Orson Welles.

Ricky Gervais dishes out controversial takes on political correctness and oversensitivity in a taboo-busting comedy special about the end of humanity.

A comedy about a man who poses as mentally disabled in order to fraudulently enter the Special Olympics.

A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.