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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Miniseries) (2004) TMDB NeoDB Douban
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Season 1 part of TV Series: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
director: Richard Ayoade / Paul King actor: Matthew Holness / Matt Berry …
In the 1980s horror writer Garth Marenghi wrote, produced, directed and starred in Darkplace, a groundbreaking series set in a hospital and exploring the depths of the author's imagination. At least that's what Marenghi and his publicist/co-star, Dean Learner, claim in modern-day interviews which both bookend and interrupt the episodes. In fact the show is cheap, chiché'd, full of gaping plot holes and startlingly misogynist. Garth Marenghi is a creation of comedian Matthew Holness, who won a Perrier award with the character at the 2001 Edinburgh festival. Written by Richard Smeltzer.
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Event Horizon (1997) NeoDB Douban TMDB Skybridge IMDb WikiData
Event Horizon
5.7 (16 ratings) director: Paul W. S. Anderson actor: Larry / Richard T. Jones …
other title: Punto di non ritorno / O Enigma do Horizonte …
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
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Night and the City (1950) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Night and the City
director: Jules Dassin actor: Richard Widmark / Francis L. Sullivan …
other title: I trafficanti della notte / Foragidos da Noite …
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Scala!!! (2024) TMDB IMDb
Scala!!!
director: Jane Giles / Ali Catterall actor: John Waters / Adam Buxton …
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
Dec. 28, 2025 to watch 1984-1989 the Scala was my local cinema!

Trigger: watching The Ladykillers (1955) & recognizing the Scala as someone leaves King's Cross Station
London Documentary 2020s Cinema UK
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Lavender Hill Mob
7.4 (5 ratings) director: Charles Crichton actor: Alec Guinness / Stanley Holloway …
other title: L'incredibile avventura di Mr. Holland / Masser af guld …
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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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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Comfort and Joy (1984) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Comfort and Joy
director: Bill Forsyth actor: Bill Paterson / Eleanor David …
other title: Joie et Réconfort / Når isen smelter
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) TMDB 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 Asphyx (1972) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Asphyx
4.4 (5 ratings) 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 Skybridge IMDb WikiData
Sunshine
7.5 (10 ratings) director: Danny Boyle actor: Cillian Murphy / Mary 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.