Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering.
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident.
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Scene from Frank Clarke's great movie 'The Fruit Machine'. Michael and Eddie go to the nightclub were they meet the owner Annabel played by Robbie ...
THE FRUIT MACHINE - offizieller deutscher Trailer
Originaltitel: The Fruit Machine / Wonderland von: Philip Saville Produktionsland / Jahr: Großbritannien 1988 Label/Studio: PRO-FUN MEDIA GmbH ...
The Fruit Machine 1988
The Fruit Machine (known as Wonderland in the United States) is a 1988 British film thriller starring Tony Forsyth Emile Charles Bruce Payne and Robbie .
Tony Forsyth in 'The Fruit Machine' - dance off scene
Michael played by Tony Forsyth enters the dance competition and is a convincing winner.
THE FRUIT MACHINE trailer | BFI Flare 2019
Sarah Fodey's documentary details the Canadian government's systematic attempts to purge its armed services of queers following the anti-gay hysteria that ran ...
Tony Forsyth in 'The Fruit Machine' - Cafe scene
Scene from Frank Clarke's follow up to the international hit 'Letter to Brezhnev'. Michael and Eddie sit in a greasy spoon in Brighton and discuss Vincent the ...
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