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Taxi Driver
1976 113mins USA (18) Crime

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).

Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
1973 122mins Mexico, USA (18) Western

Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is ordered by Governor Wallace (Jason Robards) to go after the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) because the cattle businessmen want him caught. Although Garrett and Billy are old friends, the lawman must abide by his duty. However, Garrett and his deputies have great difficulty catching Billy, who is very cunning. Along the way, Billy also gains the assistance of Alias (Bob Dylan), a mysterious knife-wielding stranger.

La Haine
1995 98mins France (15) Crime

Hatred breeds hatred...

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

It Follows
2014 100mins USA (15) Psychological Horror

After carefree teenager Jay (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh (Jake Weary), for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
1966 180mins Italy, Spain, USA, West Germany (18) Western

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

Under the Silver Lake
2018 139mins USA (15) Neo Noir

When aimless slacker Sam (Andrew Garfield) wakes up one morning to find his beautiful neighbour Sarah (Riley Keough) has vanished without a trace, he embarks on a quest across the city to find her. This is an epic, code-cracking, acid-spiked amateur sleuth story that tips its hat to Hitchcock, Lynch and everything in between.