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The Apostle
(1997) [PG]

Eulis 'Sonny' Dewey is a preacher from Texas living a happy life with his beautiful wife Jessie. Suddenly his stable world crumbles: Jessie is having an affair with young minister Horace. Sonny gets enraged and hits Horace with a softball bat, putting him into a coma. After that he leaves town,...  More

Walkabout
(1971) [M]

Nicolas Roeg's mystical masterpiece chronicles the physical, spiritual and emotional journey of a sister and brother abandoned in the harsh Australian outback. They are helped by a young indigenous Australian boy (David Gulpilil), and though there is no common language between them, they are able...  More

Head On (Australian)
(2000) [R]

In this gritty Australian drama, the nihilistic son of Greek immigrants indulges in 24 hours of hedonism in ethnically conflicted inner-city Melbourne. Ari (Alex Dimitriades), a 19-year-old layabout, spends his time picking up strange men for furtive sex; dealing, and doing, speed with his...  More

Funny Games
(1997) [R]

Funny Games is a thriller that will take you beyond terror, beyond suspense, beyond evil... Anna, George and their son are about to begin a holiday that they will never forget. Two young psychopathic outsiders invade their remote lakeside home and announce that none of the family will be alive in...  More

Live Flesh
(1997) [MA]

This Pedro Almodovar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodovar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute...  More

Happy Together
(1997) [M]

Lai and Ho, arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong as lovers, but Ho leaves for Buenos Aires to become a good-time boy. Lai attempts to regain his emotional state but finds that he is consumed with the dream of being "happy together" once again with Ho. Wong Kar-Wai, winner for Best Director at...  More

The Thief
(1997) [M]

A boy and his mother try to get by in the Soviet Union of the 1950s in this tragedy written and directed by Pavel Chukrai. The joint Russian-French production opens with a woman falling down in the snow and mud to give birth to a child in 1946. The boy's father is a soldier who died in the war....  More

He Got Game
(1998) [MA]

Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.  More

The Dreamlife Of Angels
(1998) [MA]

In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or...  More

Western
(1997)

Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction...  More