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The Battle Of Algiers
(1965) [M]

Gillo Pontecorvo's passionate and devastating study of terrorism, “The Battle of Algiers” was garlanded with honours upon its release in 1966, banned in France for fear of inciting civil unrest and served as the prototype for the mainstream political cinema of the next two decades from...  More

Nostalghia
(1983) [M]

A haunting, enigmatic film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, his first made outside of the Soviet Union. It is a portrait of a misanthropic poet, Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky): an expatriate in Italy who is researching the life of an exiled Russian composer who committed suicide. Gorchakov finds himself...  More

Wrong Move (Wrong Movement)
(1975) [R]

Based on Goeth's Wilhelm Miester's Apprentice. The film follows aspiring writer Wilhelm as he travels through Germany - fleeing an existence he finds stultifying. On the road he meets and travels with an array of dysfunctional characters.  More

Mon Homme (My Man)
(1995) [MA]

In Lyons, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her...  More

Broken English
(1996) [MA]

From New Zealand comes this drama about a brutal Croatian father living in Auckland, who sorts out his family problems with a baseball bat. His problems become even greater when he finds his daughter is pregnant by her boyfriend but who has married a Chinese refugee for money...  More

Chungking Express
(1995) [PG]

This astonishing feature from acclaimed director Wong Kar Wai is a double tale of two cops, two girls, and a neon city. Ditched by a girl he can’t forget, Cop No 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) picks up a be-wigged and mysterious woman (Brigitte Lin) in a late night bar, little dreaming she’s a...  More

Boogie Nights
(1997) [R]

Set during disco's heyday, Boogie Nights is a hilarious and hysterical expose of the pornography industry as seen from those inside. Eddie is a 17 year-old busboy looking for a break when he is spotted in a disco by veteran porn director Jack Horner. Jack immediately senses that the virile and...  More

The Sound Of One Hand Clapping
(1998) [M]

36-year-old Sonja Buloh visits his father Bojan in Tasmania's capital after 20 years absence. She left him when he beat her up in a drunken rage, and she finds him a sad alcoholic. That brings back the memories of their hard life 30 years ago when they emigrated to Australia from Slovenia.  More

Like Two Crocodiles
(1994) [M]

When this movie starts, you may feel that you are being given pieces from two different jigsaw puzzles to put into place, as a complex and intriguing story is interwoven from fragments of a man's life, constantly flashing back, first to his childhood, and then to his adolescence, and finally...  More

Welcome To Sarajevo
(1997) [MA]

Starring Woody Harrelson (White Men Can't Jump, The People Vs. Larry Flynt) and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny), this Cannes Film Festival favourite reveals the shocking account of life in one of the most dangerous places on earth, war-torn Sarajevo. Follow a group of international...  More