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Saloon Bar (1940) IMDb WikiData
Saloon Bar
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Elizabeth Allan …
On Christmas Eve, a group of pub regulars led by a bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempt to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man the next day.
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Bernard and the Genie (1991) NeoDB IMDb Douban
Bernard and the Genie
director: Paul Welland actor: Lenny Henry / John Gabriel …
other title: Bernie und der Weihnachtsgeist
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
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Stalled (2013) Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Stalled
director: Christian James actor: Dan Palmer / Antonia Bernath …
A janitor gets trapped in a women's restroom and encounters an all-out attack by a horde of zombies.
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Comfort and Joy (1984) IMDb
Comfort and Joy
director: Bill Forsyth actor: Bill Paterson / Eleanor David …
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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Eclipse (1977) IMDb
Eclipse
director: Simon Perry actor: Tom Conti / Gay Hamilton …
A bereaved brother is troubled by memories of his twin who died at sea. Having returned to his childhood home, a Christmas celebration with his brother’s widow and her son goes horribly awry, as dark secrets and sibling rivalries return to haunt them - before the past can be laid to rest.
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The Wrong Mans (2013) WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Wrong Mans
director: James Corden / Mathew Baynton actor: Mathew Baynton / James Corden
other title: The Wrong Mans - Falsche Zeit, falscher Ort / The Wrong Mans - Mauvaise pioche
Comedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption.
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The Asphyx (1972) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Asphyx
director: Peter Newbrook actor: Robert Powell / Robert Stephens …
other title: Asphyx / Experiments …
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
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Sunshine (2007) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Sunshine
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Danny Boyle actor: Cillian Murphy / Rose Byrne …
other title: Missão Solar / Sunshine: Missão Solar
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
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Absolute Beginners (1986) IMDb WikiData
Absolute Beginners
director: Julien Temple actor: Eddie O'Connell / Patsy Kensit …
other title: Principiantes / Absolute Beginners – Junge Helden …
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
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Cinema of Vengeance (1994) IMDb TMDB
Cinema of Vengeance
director: Toby Russell actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Yuen Biao …
other title: Le furie del cinema
A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favorite Chow Yun-Fat.
Nov. 23, 2025 watched
Fascinating (for us fans) documentary on the history & development of Hong Kong martial arts & action films, featuring interviews with the people who make the magic happen. And lots of great clips from movies! (Which I have put into a collection here: https://eggplant.place/collection/69ChUBekkGbNHa0VeIGmSz

I'm sure watched this on VHS in the 90s. Rewatched in #KungFuSat #WatchParty on Mastodon.
1990s Action Documentary HongKong MartialArts
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Four Lions (2010) Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Four Lions
director: Chris Morris actor: Riz Ahmed / Nigel Lindsay …
other title: Quatro leões / We Are Four Lions
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Draughtsman's Contract
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Anthony Higgins / Janet Suzman …
other title: I misteri del giardino di Compton House / Tegnerens kontrakt …
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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Mona Lisa (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mona Lisa
director: Neil Jordan actor: Bob Hoskins / Cathy Tyson …
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
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Trespasses (Limited Series) (2025) TMDB NeoDB Douban
Trespasses Season 1 part of TV Series: Trespasses
director: 道恩·沙德福思 actor: 洛拉·佩蒂克鲁 / 汤姆·库伦 …
1975年，在贝尔法斯特郊外的一个小镇。一个晚上，天主教教师库什拉在她家开的酒吧里工作，酒吧里聚集着各种人群，包括驻扎在当地的士兵。库什拉遇到了迈克尔，一个年长的已婚新教徒男人，他经常为爱尔兰共和军嫌疑人辩护，并与一群富有文化气息的波西米亚人交往，这些人让库什拉既愤怒又好奇。两人来自截然不同的世界，库什拉知道这样的关系会带来各种麻烦，但他们却无法抗拒对彼此的吸引。
在一个话多可能招致性命之危、危险潜伏于阴影中的地方，在恐惧与偏执之中，库什拉与迈克尔的禁忌之恋点燃并炽烈燃烧……