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A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.

A journalist is detained in Iran for more than 100 days and brutally interrogated in prison. (imdb)

Jodie Foster stars as headstrong visionary astronomer Ellie Arroway in Contact, a drama of discovery, based on the best-selling 1985 novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and noted astronomer Carl Sagan. (Warner Bros.)

A financier from New York rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousity of a bookkeeper. (imdb)

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany. (imdb)

A samurai sent through time fights to return home and save the world. (imdb)

A look at Vincent van Gogh's time in Arles. (imdb)

"Cry-Baby," starring a young Johnny Depp, shares aspects of its plot with "Grease." Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker (imdb)

Experimental short, featuring strobe-like homoerotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger. (imdb)

Jessica has just been released from a mental hospital. Wanting to "start over", she moves into an old New England farmhouse with her husband and a friend. Before they even arrive Jess starts having strange encounters, and after they find a young transient in their new home, things start getting rather nasty. Seems this redheaded hippie chick is in fact a vampire... (imdb)