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The Squid and the Whale
(2005) [M]

Bernard (Jeff Daniels) and his restless wife Joan (Laura Linney) have given up on their marriage. Their two sons Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and Frank (Owen Kline) are left to grapple with their confusing and conflicted feelings. The experience is a tender, funny and ultimately moving coming-of-age...  More

Bombon (El Perro)
(2004) [M]

A recently-unemployed mechanic attempting to maintain his financial stability finds that sometimes living is defined by more than just an income in director Carlos Sorin's endearing existential comedy drama. The Patagonia garage in which Coco (Juan Villegas) works has gone out of business, and...  More

Producing Adults
(2004) [MA]

Antero (Kari-Pekka Toivonen) and Venla (Minna Haapkyla) are a modern, long-time unmarried couple in Finland. But their relationship is in crisis: Venla wants them to marry and have a family. Antero is fine with marrying, but definitely does not want children as he believes it will interfere with...  More

Volver
(2006) [M]

Pedro Almodovar makes a triumphant return to the screen in this rich tale of three generations of women who manage to survive everyday life by means of goodness, occasional lies and boundless vitality. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is struggling to make ends meet, holding down several jobs while...  More

Pan's Labyrinth (2 Disc Set)
(2006) [MA]

From Guillermo del Toro, director of Blade II and Hellboy, comes this fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain. Pan's Labyrinth is a gothic fairytale twist on Alice in Wonderland and The Changeling. 10 year old Ofelia is sent to an isolated...  More

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2 disc set)
(2005) [M]

The body of Mexican Melquiades Estrada is found in a shallow grave in the desert, where it was hastily buried after being fatally shot by a Border Patrolman, Mike Norton (Barry Pepper). Making no attempt to solve the crime, the local Texan authorities rapidly transfer the corpse to a pauper's...  More

Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - Murder At The Vicarage
(2004) [M]

When the vicar in Miss Marple's home village declares in exasperation that anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world a service, he does not realise his words will come back and haunt him. The Colonel's death at the vicarage throws up a long list of potential murderers as the...  More

Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - 4.50 From Paddington
(2004) [M]

Two trains draw briefly alongside each other as they race past a country house, and - to her horror - Miss Marple's freiend, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a man in a passing carriage brutally strangling a mystery woman. But with no body to be found, the police decide she must have dreamt the...  More

Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - A Murder Is Announced
(2004) [M]

A local advertisement announcing the date and location of a forthcoming murder has a small village buzzing with curiosity. Assuming it's a hoax, a crowd nonetheless is gathered at Letitia Blacklock's cottage at the appointed time when the lights go out and a gunman fires into the room. When the...  More

Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - The Body In The Library
(2004) [M]

When news comes through that a glamorous exhibition dancer has disappeared from the hotel where she worked, the victim - if not the murderer - seems to have been identified. But, as another body is discovered, Miss Marple realises that the roots of the killing go back to an earlier tragedy, with...  More