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Mulan
(1998) [G]

This retelling of the old Chinese folktale is about the story of a young Chinese maiden who learns that her weakened and lame father is to be called up into the army in order to fight the invading Huns. Knowing that he would never survive the rigours of war in his state, she decides to disguise...  More

The Draughtsman's Contract
(1982) [M]

The Draughtsman's Contract is a visual and narrative treat and established Peter Greenaway as one of Britain's most original and talented filmmakers. Set in the opulent 17th Century when double standards between the sexes prevailed, this elaborate conspiracy thriller tells of an opportunistic and...  More

The Truman Show
(1998) [PG]

He's the star of the show-but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead poets Society) about a man whose life is a non stop TV show. Truman doesn't realise that his quaint hometown is...  More

Mrs. Dalloway
(1997) [M]

Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In...  More

Radiance
(1998) [M]

Radiance is a captivating story of three young women who re-unite, after many years apart, for their mother's funeral, to grieve, reconcile and celebrate. Over the course of twenty four hours, the skeletons in the family closet emerge, and we discover that coming home means different things to...  More

Velvet Goldmine
(1998) [MA]

1984: It's the 10th anniversary of Brian Slade's disappearance and Journalist Arthur Stuart is sent out to expose the truth about the myth and through his investigation we are told the controversial and explicit story of Velvet Goldmine. 1971: Glam Rock explodes on the world, challenging the...  More

The Tango Lesson
(1997) [PG]

The director of Orlando, Sally Potter chronicles her obsession with the tango. Playing a female filmmaker who discovers the tango in between bouts of writing a screenplay, Sally places herself under the tutelage of Pablo, an Argentinean tango dancer living in Paris. As her lessons proceed, Sally...  More

What Have I Done To Deserve This?
(1984) [MA]

Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, the Luis Bunuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to...  More

The Interview (1998)
(1998) [M]

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the police blasted their way into Eddie's apartment and took him to the police headquarters. He's sitting in an interrogation room opposite detective John Steele who frequently interrupts the interview letting Eddie sweat until he comes back. He's suspected of car...  More

Twentyfour Seven
(1997) [M]

From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy...  More