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Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs)
(2006)

Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who thinks a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, who's an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the...  More

The Secret Of The Grain
(2007)

Lauded at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, and winner of multiple awards at the 2008 Cèsars (the French Oscars®) including Best Film and Best Direction, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a touching and resoundingly humanistic story set in the rustic port of Sète in southeastern...  More

Fear Eats the Soul
(1974) [PG]

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Angst Essen Seele Auf, (1974) a young Moroccan mechanic, "Ali," (El Hedi ben Salem) falls in love with an older German woman. The story takes off when Emmi, (Brigitte Mira) a widowed cleaning woman, is asked to dance by Ali at a local bar. Soon after Ali walks...  More

Mala Noche
(1985)

Made for $25,000, the debut film from Gus Van Sant, MALA NOCHE, tells the story of Walt, a convenience store worker at the bad end of town. Walt likes the Mexican boys, and meets Johnny, a sexy illegal migrant who speaks no English. Walt harbours not only sexual but romantic feelings for Johnny,...  More

The Jane Austen Book Club
(2007) [M]

Explores Austen's adage that general incivility is at love's essence. Sylvia's husband dumps her for another woman, so Bernadette and Jocelyn organize a book club to distract her. They recruit Sylvia's daughter Allegra; Prudie, a young teacher whose marriage may be on the rocks; and Grigg, a...  More

The Kite Runner
(2007) [M]

Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner is a tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies...  More

The Other Boleyn Girl
(2008) [M]

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.  More

The Umbrella Woman
(1987) [M]

Marge, a sensuous but proper wife, lives with her quiet lumberjack husband Sonny in a remote Aussie town. Lonely and unfulfilled, Marge is both aroused and revolted when the town’s sexy new bartender, Neville, unsuccessfully forces his attentions on her. However, with her passions unleashed...  More

Duet for Four
(1982) [M]

From the boardroom to the bedroom the battle lines are drawn! A wealthy toy manufacturer (Michael Pate) is having a mid-life crisis - his wife (Diane Cilento) is having an affair, his beautiful young mistress (Wendy Hughes) wants to get married, his drug addicted daughter (Sigrid Thornton)...  More

A Fortunate Life (2 disc set)
(1985) [PG]

At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn to dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody...  More