Joseph Conrad
89) Apocalypse now
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A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
90) The secret agent
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The Russians are furious with the English establishment's indifference to the anarchist threat gripping the rest of Europe. So Verloc, a Russian spy, is assigned a mission: blow up the Greenwich Observatory and make it look like a terrorist attack to provoke a crackdown. Should he fail, Verloc's real identity as a spy could be exposed to his vicious comrades.
92) Apocalypse now
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A soldier travels upriver from Vietnam into Cambodia to kill a colonel who has gone mad and is planning unauthorized attacks by his native troops. Features both the original cut and the Redux version.
93) The horror
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"Travel with Kurtz and his family as they enter the "heart of darkness" on a humanitarian mission for Belgian King Leopold's Congo Free State, opening a trading post in the uncharted interior of the Congo jungle to promote free markets and end slavery. With the help of a local tribe, they establish the post, but to survive in this lawless jungle, they must contend with murderous slave traders from Zanzibar, corrupt Belgian officials, evil imperialists,...
94) Almayer's folly
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Adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, in a tiny lost village on a wide, fast moving river, a European man clings to his day dreams out of love for his daughter. A story of passion, loss and madness.
97) Sabotage
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London theater owner Carl Verloc is a quiet man who would not hurt anyone, or maybe not. As the city is rocked by terrorist attacks, Carl's wife begins to suspect that her husband is not who he seems. As she edges closer to the truth, Scotland Yard moves in and a mysterious package is entrusted to an innocent boy. This sets the stage for terrifying destruction.
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In turn-of-the century Africa, colonial traders driven by greed brave forbidding dangers to exploit the continent's vast treasures. One of these is sea captain Marlow, who penetrates the Congo's jungles in pursuit of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz, deranged chief of a remote trading station.
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Sabotage: An undercover Scotland Yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage. When the saboteur suspects he is being watched, he asks his nephew to deliver an explosive parcel across town.
The lodger: The central character, called simply "The Lodger", is caught in the trap of other peoples' suspicions. Because this lodger, who is renting a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, seems mysterious, he is...
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Includes the original theatrical cut of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece Apocalypse Now and the extended version, Apocalypse Now Redux, both in stunning transfers supervised by Coppola. Also included is the feature-length documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now, Hearts of Darkness.