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Shall We Dance (Japanese Version)
(1996) [PG]

Shohei Sugiyama is an accountant who spots a beautiful Japanese woman in a dance studio window. Hoping to get closer to her, even though he's married and has a child, he signs up for dance lessons in secret, and slowly begins to fall in love with the art form itself.

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Bad Santa
(2003) [MA]

In this cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he’s wickedly funny, Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking department store Santa who is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year—on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the...  More

I Heart Huckabees
(2004) [M]

Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences, the meaning of which escape him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life; his relationships; and his conflict...  More

A Touch of Spice (Politiki Kouzina) (2 Disc Set)
(2003) [M]

"A Touch of Spice" is a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Costantinoupolis, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor,teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor; they both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an...  More

Meet the Fockers
(2004) [M]

It took a bit of convincing, but Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) seems to have finally won the approval of his soon-to-be in-laws - Jack and Dina Byrnes (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner). Given his struggle to fit in with his fiancee's family, Greg thinks it will be smooth sailing from here... but...  More

Sideways
(2004) [M]

This is the story of failed novelist Miles (Paul Giamatti) and his washed-up actor friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church). Jack is soon to be wed and, to toast their youth, the pair take a final road trip in the week before the nuptials. A serious wine enthusiast, Miles is determined to educate his...  More

Napoleon Dynamite
(2004) [PG]

Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word. More interested in playing tetherball by himself and drawing pictures of his favourite animal, the "liger" (a combination of lion and tiger), Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston, Idaho....  More

Kitchen Stories
(2003) [PG]

With its dry Nordic humour and distinguished visual style - comparisons with Aki Kaurismaki abound - acclaimed Norwegian director Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories proved to be one of 2003's genuine and most idiosyncratic cinema highlights. In the early 1950's Sweden's Home Research Institute is...  More

One, Two, Three
(1961) [G]

James Cagney “gives one of the richest, funniest, most breathlessly paced performances of his career” (The New York Times) in this Billy Wilder comedy that defrosts the Cold War with gales of laughter! C. R. MacNamara (Cagney), a top-ranking executive stationed in West Berlin, is charged with...  More

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
(2004) [PG]

The Baudelaire children are clever and resourceful but since their parents died in a fire, they are also the target of nefarious deeds because when 14 year-old Violet Baudelaire comes of age, she and her 12-year-old brother Klaus and infant, Sunny, will come into an inheritance. But not if their...  More