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Chinatown
(1974) [M]

A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her...  More

Last Exit To Brooklyn
(1989) [R]

Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter...  More

My Left Foot
(1989) [M]

Based on the life story of Christy Brown, this touching film depicts his struggle for a normal life. Born with cerebral palsy into a very poor family, Christy was able to control movement in his left foot and speak in guttural sounds. With the help of his strong-willed and dedicated family and...  More

Rain Man
(1988) [M]

In his Oscar winning role Dustin Hoffman joins Tom Cruise to bring a funny and moving tale of brotherly love to the screen. Heartless Charlie Babbitt expects a vast inheritance after his estranged father dies. But Raymond, his institutionalised older brother, someone he's been totally unaware of,...  More

Phantom Of Liberty
(1974) [M]

Luis Bunuel's dreamlike comedy of irony, composed of surreal, randomly connected anecdotes. Highlights include a dinner party in which the openness of eating and the privacy of defecating are reversed and adults fretting over a young girl's disappearance - even though she's present all along....  More

Do The Right Thing
(1989) [R]

It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the center of the action.  More

Sex, Lies And Videotape
(1989) [M]

With smouldering sensuality and biting humour, the surprising relationship between the three title subjects is relvealed in Steven Soderbergh's Palme D'Or-winning debut sex, lies, and videotape. James Spader won the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his brilliantly understated and...  More

The Commitments
(1991) [M]

Dubliner Jimmy Rabbitte, is a man with a vision - to bring soul music to Dublin. His friends Derek and Outspan ask him to manage their band and Jimmy agrees, but only on his terms. He places an ad in the local paper which simply reads "have you got soul? If so, the World's Hardest Working Band is...  More

Blood Simple
(1984) [R]

Deep in the heart of Texas, a jealous bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife and her lover. The sleazy hitman double-crosses the husband, killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime, or so it seems, but disposing of the corpse is not so simple. Blood Simple uncoils its...  More

Henry And June
(1990) [M]

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros) meets Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and his wife June (Uma Thuman). Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo (Richard E Grant) as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to...  More