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Jasmine Woman
(2004) [MA]

A grand saga spanning three generations tells of the struggle of mothers and their daughters in China. A realistic, intimate tale; full of powerfully candid insights, in a heart wrenchingly beautiful film for Mother, Wife, Daughter, and Lover. Set over fifty years, it follows the lives of Mo in...  More

Lady Chatterley (2006)
(2006) [M]

Drawing on the most scandalous summer romance in English literature, French director Pascale Ferran has beautifully adapted "Lady Jane & John Thomas", the second version of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Lawrence wrote the novel three times in two years, while suffering from the...  More

A Pin for the Butterfly
(1994) [M]

This complex political drama zeroes in on the life of a small bourgeois family living in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. It is set in the 50's. The family is falling apart from the pressure to think along party lines, even in private. The mere mention of the West could result in prison, or worse....  More

Beast, The (La Bete)
(1975) [R]

Having passed the censors for the first time in Australia, Umbrella proudly release Walerian Borowczyk’s Directors Cut of his controversial masterpiece. A black comedy of sexual manners set around an arranged wedding in an elegant château, the film gains its infamy from the final scene...  More

Under the Skin
(1997) [R]

Iris is nineteen, beautiful, impetuous, has a steady boyfriend, a cloying sister and a sick mother. When a family death shatters her precarious world, Iris - brilliantly played by Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (Minority Report) - embarks on a chilling journey of self-discovery, and...  More

Fateless
(2005) [M]

Director Lajos Koltai stunned the 2005 Berlin Film Festival with this Second World War drama based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Imre Kertész, a quasi-autobiographical work about his experiences as a 14-year-old deported from Budapest to the Nazi labour camps during the Holocaust....  More

The Lost Language of Cranes
(1992) [MA]

When a young gay man comes out of the closet. His friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship.  More

Masai: The Rain Warriors
(2004) [M]

From the creators of the acclaimed film Himalaya comes a universal tale of courage and friendship told through the eyes of ten young Masai warriors. When their village in southern Kenya is stricken by drought, the tribal elders send a group of adolescent boys to retrieve the mystical mane of...  More

Once
(2006) [M]

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story. Exquisitely simple and pure of heart, this Audience Award-winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is a musical gem from Ireland about a Dublin...  More

Tideland
(2005) [MA]

Director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas) takes us on a wild and surreal adventure with his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's cult classic novel. After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her...  More