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Dekalog: Parts 6-10 (2 Disc Set)
(1988) [M]

Parts six to ten of a ten part series made for Polish television. Each programme focuses on the inhabitants of an apartment block and the ethical dilemmas that they face each day. Dekalog, from the acclaimed director of the Three Colours trilogy, was premiered at the 1989 Venice Film Festival,...  More

Salmonberries
(1991) [M]

Singer K.D.Lang makes her acting debut in this moving parable of impossible love and the struggle for identity. Stunningly shot in remote north-western Alaska, the film sees Kothebue (Lang), an androgynous, inarticulate Alaskan pipeline worker, search out her family origins in a small town...  More

Hammers Over The Anvil
(1991) [M]

Its the summer of 1910 and in the small country town of Turalla the young polio stricken Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhred) is on the cusp of teenage hood, dreaming of becoming a great horseman just like the town's hero, East Driscoll (Crowe). When East commences a passionate affair with Grace...  More

Drunken Angel
(1948) [PG]

Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered myself," he explained later. "It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else." Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of...  More

In The Realm Of The Senses
(1976) [R]

Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima's controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art - making Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris of four years earlier look like children's programming in comparison. The story concerns servant and...  More

Les Amants Du Pont-neuf
(1991) [M]

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and...  More

Manon Des Sources (Jean de Florette Part 2)
(1986) [PG]

The equally extraordinary, highly successful and award-winning sequel to Jean de Florette based on the classic. The timless story continues when the late Jean de Florette's daughter Manon, now grown up into a beautiful free-spirited shepherdess on her father's Provence farm. But when she finally...  More

The Garden Of The Finzi Continis
(1970) [M]

Dominique Sanda plays the daughter of a cultured Italian Jewish family of immense wealth, languishing in aristocratic privilege on their estate, oblivious, until the end, to the danger that Fascism poses for their precious world.

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Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train
(1998) [M]

In the twilight of his life the Parisian painter Jean-Baptiste says that he wants to be buried in Limoges: 'Those who love me can take the train'. So begins a sad, wild and marvellous journey which unites all the people that he had touched during his lifetime - his lovers, lovers' lovers,...  More

Death Of A Salesman
(1985) [PG]

Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family  More