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• Paisa (1946) (PG) Paisa (1946) (PG)
  Synopsis
  Rossellini's neo-Realist account of the liberation of Italy during World War II, told in six episodes. The film has a documentary feel, with grainy camerawork and non-professional actors.
• Paisa Vasool (2003) (E) Paisa Vasool (2003) (E)
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• Paisa Yeh Paisa (1985) (15) Paisa Yeh Paisa (1985) (15)
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• Paiyaa (2010) (TBC) Paiyaa (2010) (TBC)
  Synopsis
  Tamil-language action romance. Shiva (Karthi) may be poor but he has fun and enjoys life. When he meets the beautiful Charulatha (Tamanna Bhatia), he instantly falls for her, and a series of coincidental meetings with her only serve to confirm his passion. When Shiva finds out that Charulatha's life is in danger, he pledges to save her from the clutches of the henchmen hired by her evil stepmother - but how can one man take on the powerful might of a notorious Mumbai gang?
• Pajama Party (2000) Pajama Party (2000)
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  A Martian scout sent to Earth to prepare for an invasion lands amidst a teenage swim party and tries to convince everyone that he really is who he says. Meanwhile, a plot is afoot by two neighbor con men to steal the hostess's money. The Martian falls in
• Pakeezah (1972) (PG) Pakeezah (1972) (PG)
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  Bollywood drama set in Lucknow at the turn of the 20th century. Nargis (Meena Kumari) wants to leave her brothel and set up house with her husband Shahabuddin (Ashok Kumar). But she is rejected by his family and dies after giving birth to a baby girl, Sahibjaan (Meena Kumari). Sahibjaan grows up to become a courtesan but when she falls in love with a mysterious and noble stranger, he turns out to be her cousin Salim (Raaj Kumar).
• Pal Joey (1957) (PG) Pal Joey (1957) (PG)
  Synopsis
  Pal Joey (Frank Sinatra) is a womanizing nightclub singer who arrives in San Francisco with the dream of making it big. He toys with the affections of Linda (Kim Novak), a young innocent chorus girl, whilst a rich widow (Rita Hayworth) falls in love with him. She offers to finance his own nightclub if he marries her and cuts off all ties to Linda. Songs include 'My Funny Valentine' and a definitive version of 'The Lady is a Tramp'.
• Palais Royal! (2006) (12A) Palais Royal! (2006) (12A)
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• Palais Royale (1988) (15) Palais Royale (1988) (15)
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  Set in Toronto in 1959, this drama follows the fortunes of Gerald Price, an advertising executive new to the town. He falls in love with the picture of a girl from a cigarette advert, and meets up with her in a chance meeting at a bus stop. He soon realises that she is a gangster's moll and he ends up acting as the gang's front man, offering a legitimate facade behind which the criminals can act with immunity from the law.
• Palay Khan (1986) (18) Palay Khan (1986) (18)
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• Pale Rider (1985) (15) Pale Rider (1985) (15)
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  An unscrupulous landowner threatens to throw gold-miners off their land and take the riches for himself. As the law turns a blind eye to their troubles, the miners desperately need a saviour - who happens to arrive in the form of a mysterious preacher with formidable gunfighting skills. Western, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, alongside Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress and Richard Dysart
• Palermo Shooting (2008) (TBC) Palermo Shooting (2008) (TBC)
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• Palindromes (2004) (15) Palindromes (2004) (15)
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  Controversial coming-of-age drama from director Todd Solondz. After attending her cousin's funeral, 13-year-old Aviva (played by eight different actors over the course of the story) determines to have as many children as possible, outraging her conservative parents Joyce (Ellen Barkin) and Steve (Richard Masur). Getting pregnant in one random encouter, Aviva is forced into having an abortion that leaves her sterile. Running away from home, she finds herself in the company of a strange, fanatically…
• Palki (1967) (U) Palki (1967) (U)
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• Palm Springs Weekend (1963) Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
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• Palmetto (1997) (15) Palmetto (1997) (15)
  Synopsis
  Fresh out of prison, bitter and disillusioned, journalist Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) returns to the town of Palmetto with his girlfriend, Nina (Gina Gershon). When Harry is given the opportunity to earn $50,000 by the wife (Elisabeth Shue) of ailing millionaire Felix Malroux, he jumps at the chance. Harry has to arrange the fake kidnapping of Malroux's daughter in order to obtain a $500,000 ransom. Although Malroux pays up, Harry soon finds himself inextricably trapped in a web of murder and…
• Palmy Days (1932) (U) Palmy Days (1932) (U)
  Synopsis
  Eddie Cantor stars as a stooge for a group of fraudulent fortune tellers in this musical, which includes dance numbers by Busby Berkeley.
• Palookaville (1997) (15) Palookaville (1997) (15)
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  Russ (Vincent Gallo), Sid (William Forsythe) and Jerry (Adam Trese) are a trio of unemployed men living in New Jersey. Sid is recently divorced, Jerry's wife has just been sacked for complaining of sexual harassment, and Russ wants to run away to Los Angeles with his lover. Desperate for money, they turn to a life of crime, with less than successful results. When they attempt to break into a jewellers, they end up in a bakery by mistake. Then the boys hatch a plan to use an armoured car.
• Pammal K Sambandam (2002) (PG) Pammal K Sambandam (2002) (PG)
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• Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (15) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (15)
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  In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, inquisitive youngster Ofelia is taken by her pregnant mother to live with the sadistic Capitan Vidal. In the surroundings of her new abode, the fairytale-obsessed girl ventures into an elaborate stone labyrinth, where she encounters a mysterious faun. The creature sets Ofelia a series of disturbing tasks which she must complete to journey to an underground kingdom, where she will be restored to the throne as a princess. Guillermo del Toro's period fantasy,…
• Panakkaran (1990) (PG) Panakkaran (1990) (PG)
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• Panchalam Kurichi (1996) (12) Panchalam Kurichi (1996) (12)
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• Panchathanthiram (2002) (PG) Panchathanthiram (2002) (PG)
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• Pancho Villa (1972) (PG) Pancho Villa (1972) (PG)
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  Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa plots revenge on a US cavalry fort when he is doubled crossed in an arms deal. Western, starring Telly Savalas, Clint Walker, Chuck Connors and Anne Francis
• Panda! Go Panda! (1972) (U) Panda! Go Panda! (1972) (U)
  Synopsis
  Japanese children's manga animation about the adventures of a little girl called Mimiko and her extraordinary family.
• Pandaemonium (2000) (12) Pandaemonium (2000) (12)
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  Biopic from director Julien Temple about the relationship between the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roache) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Meeting in the ferment of late-18th century radical politics, the two aspiring writers become firm friends and occasional rivals. Moving to the country with his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton), Coleridge is joined by Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy (Emily Woof). While the rigours of country living takes its toll on the struggling poets,…
• Pandemic (2009) (15) Pandemic (2009) (15)
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  Japanese sci-fi disaster movie directed by Takahisa Zeze. Hospital doctor Matsuoka (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is shocked when he examines a patient displaying the advanced stages of a previously unknown but extremely virulent disease with symptoms including multiple organ failure and convulsions. As the number of cases rises, it's not long before panic starts to spread among the population, and an embattled World Health Organization fights to control the potential pandemic.
• Pandian (1992) (PG) Pandian (1992) (PG)
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• Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (1951) (PG) Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (1951) (PG)
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  Albert Lewin's adaptation of the 'Flying Dutchman' legend transposes the story into an upper-class English-speaking community in a small port in 1930s Spain. James Mason stars as Hendrick van der Zee, a man cursed to travel the seven seas until he can find a woman willing to die for his love. He certainly does not think he has discovered her when he meets beautiful, spoiled, nightclub singer and femme fatale Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner), who is engaged to be married to racing driver Stephen Cameron…
• Pandora Peaks Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers (2001) (18) Pandora Peaks Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers (2001) (18)
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  Double-bill from the cult director, Russ Meyer. 'Pandora Peaks' (2001) is a documentary about the massively well-endowed eponymous stripper, while 'Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers' (1968) is a more typical Meyer feature. A strip-club owner's sexually repressed wife (Anne Chapman) finds the courage to attempt a strip dance herself while her husband is in a drunken stupor, and is seduced by Ray the bartender (Gordon Wescourt). When the husband wakes up he heads over to the club to find her, only to…
• Pandora's Box (1929) (PG) Pandora's Box (1929) (PG)
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  New print of G.W. Pabst's celebrated 1929 film, adapted from Frank Wedekind's play Lulu. Seductive performer Lulu is adored by all men, not least rivals Schigolch and Schon. The latter introduces Lulu to his son Alwa, who hires her as a dancer in a show he is producing. Passions explode with devastating consequences when Alwa and his fiancee discover Lulu and Schon in flagrante in her dressing room.
• Pandora's Promise (2013) () Pandora's Promise (2013) ()
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• Pandorum (2009) (15) Pandorum (2009) (15)
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  Sci-fi thriller in which two astrounauts awake to find themselves drifting alone in space, or so they think. Awakening from their hyper-sleep chambers on a seemingly deserted spaceship, Lt. Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) have no recollection of who they are or what their mission is. In the dark, all that can be heard is a low rumble coming from the centre of the ship. With Payton staying behind to guide him on the radio, Bower sets off to explore the spaceship and soon uncovers…
• Pangaali (1992) (15) Pangaali (1992) (15)
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• Panhandle (1948) (U) Panhandle (1948) (U)
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  A former gunslinger vows to turn his back on violence and make a fresh start. But when his newspaper reporter brother is brutally killed, he sets out to get revenge on those responsible. Western, starring Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley and Anne Gwynne
• Panic (1963) (PG) Panic (1963) (PG)
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  1960s British crime drama directed and co-written by John Gilling. When a diamond merchant is robbed in a violent attack, employee Janine Heining (Janine Gray) is left with amnesia. With both the criminals and the police, who believe her to be the culprit, on her trail, Janine struggles to remember who she is and what exactly happened to her..
• Panic (2000) (15) Panic (2000) (15)
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  Darkly comic gangster thriller. William H. Macy plays Alex, a disillusioned husband and father who just happens to be a hitman as well. Forced into the 'family business' by his overbearing father (Donald Sutherland), Alex is finding it difficult to reconcile his work with his family life. Deciding to go into therapy to discuss his problems, Alex meets Sarah (Neve Campbell) in the doctor's waiting room. Feisty and sexually adventurous, Sarah gradually becomes the object of Alex's obsessions. But…
• Panic (2001) (18) Panic (2001) (18)
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  Amanda Reeve (Rachel Hunter) is a police detective on the trail of a dangerous serial killer. When she is pulled off the case, her surprise leads her to wonder why her superiors would make such a decision. She then becomes drawn into an investigation which uncovers the deepest secrets of some of the most powerful men in the city.
• Panic At Rock Island (2011) (15) Panic At Rock Island (2011) (15)
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  A three-day rock festival on an island in Sydney harbour is plunged into chaos when a deadly virus breaks out. The city's chief medical examiner tries to keep the situation under control, but his job is complicated by the news that his family are on the island and that the outbreak was not an accident. Thriller, with Grant Bowler and Viva Bianca
• Panic Button (2011) (18) Panic Button (2011) (18)
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  Four people win a luxury flight to New York on a private plane through a social networking site, and are offered a sneak preview of a new online game. They soon realise they are being manipulated by an unseen figure who knows all of their secrets - and that their lives are at stake. Thriller, starring Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson and Ellen Rhys
• Panic In The Skies (1996) (PG) Panic In The Skies (1996) (PG)
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  The three pilots of an airliner are killed during a thunderstorm, leaving the authorities on the ground with a chilling decision to make that could cost hundreds of passengers' lives. Disaster drama, starring Kate Jackson, Ed Marinaro, Erik Estrada and Billy Warlock
• Panic In The Streets (1950) (PG) Panic In The Streets (1950) (PG)
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  A gangster murders an illegal immigrant during a card game on the docks of New Orleans. A doctor is alarmed to discover the victim was ill with pneumonic plague, and must turn detective and trace the killer quickly to halt the contagion. If he fails, there will be pandemonium as the terrified population flees the city. Thriller, starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance and Zero Mostel
• Panic In Year Zero (2005) Panic In Year Zero (2005)
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  After Los Angeles is demolished by a nuclear attack, looting and robbing run rampant. Seeking shelter from the chaos, a family hides out in an isolated fishing cabin only to find that the chief danger comes from a a band of violent, crazed juvenile delinq
• Panic Room (2002) (15) Panic Room (2002) (15)
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  A single mother is determined to keep her daughter safe from harm when burglars break into their home. The pair hide out in a specially constructed sealed room, but the shelter becomes a prison when the robbers refuse to leave empty-handed. Thriller directed by David Fincher, starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto and Dwight Yoakam
• Panja (2011) (18) Panja (2011) (18)
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  Fast-paced Indian action feature following the life of an orphan who is raised by a family of gangsters. Jai (Pawan Kalyan) is initially grateful to be taken in by Bhagawan (Jackie Shroff), a tough local criminal. He is raised in the law-defying ways of the family yet doesn't lose his own identity entirely. When he meets Sandhya (Sarah-Jane Dias), an idealistic Greenpeace activist, she reawakens impulses and ideas in him that life with the family had threatened to bury. Jai decides to change his…
• Panjaban Love Rules Hearts (2010) (12A) Panjaban Love Rules Hearts (2010) (12A)
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  Bollywood drama. Miss Pooja stars in a dual role as Gurjot and Gurpreet, twin sisters in a rich Punjabi family who hold very different attitudes to their elders and the traditional society in which they have grown up. When their careers and love lives take a series of unpredictable twists and turns, both young women learn a lot about themselves and the world around them, and are finally able to become fully-fledged 'Punjabans'.
• Pankh (2010) (18) Pankh (2010) (18)
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  Bollywood arthouse drama. As a boy, Jerry (Maradona Rebello) was pushed into advertising and film roles by his pushy, cash-strapped mother, which required him to assume a false identity and gender as female child star Baby Kusum. Now, as a young adult, Jerry is suffering from an identity crisis that has thrown his whole life dangerously off balance. As he struggles to cope with the trauma of his past experiences, he seeks comfort in recurring visions of his surreal dream woman, Nandini (Bipashu…
• Pankhida Ho Pankhida (1996) (PG) Pankhida Ho Pankhida (1996) (PG)
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• Panther (1995) (18) Panther (1995) (18)
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  Set in sixties America, where racial tension was at its highest, a black Vietnam Vet returns to find a racism war in his own back yard. So he joins a group of black men out to defend his local community against police attacks. They call themselves the Black Panthers and as their ranks grow rapidly so does the pressure, as he is forced to be a double agent in order to uncover the FBI's brutal and final solution to it's 'Panther Problem'.
• Pantyhose Hero (1990) (18) Pantyhose Hero (1990) (18)
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  A serial killer is terrorising the city's gay community, the only clue to his identity being that he always wears a Batman T-shirt and cap. Two cops (Sammo Hung and Alan Tam) go undercover to put a halt to the killing, trading a number of martial arts blows along the way. Billed as a comedy kung-fu remake of Al Pacino's 'Cruising'.