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Mao's Last Dancer
(2009) [PG]

From internationally acclaimed Australian film director Bruce Beresford comes the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. From a gruelling apprenticeship as a classical dancer in communist China, to the glory of creative freedom in...  More

The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) (2 disc set)
(2007) [M]

Directed by Fatih Akin (Head On) and awarded Best Screenplay at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, The Edge of Heaven is a powerful and thought-provoking meditation on the great divide which exists between different cultures, generations and people.

When Ali, a Turkish immigrant living in...  More

The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)
(2008) [PG]

An orphaned boy holds the key to one man's journey home.

Featuring Natar Ungalaaq, the star of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner.

In 1952, a consumptive Inuit hunter named Tivii (Natar Ungalaaq, star of Atanarjuat:The Fast Runner) leaves home and family in the Artic to recuperate...  More

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
(2009)

Precious Jones, an inner city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight and pregnant...again. Naive and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative schoolteacher. She is faced with her first opportunity to shine, test her boundaries and finally realise...  More

Shutter Island
(2010) [MA]

Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that critics say "sizzles with so much suspense that it's hot to the touch." When U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on...  More

A Single Man
(2009) [M]

Torn apart by the shattering impact of the death of his long-time lover, college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) experiences the most transformative day of his life, blending past and present, desire and despair, and discovering that love persists even after the object of love is gone....  More

Crazy Heart
(2009) [M]

Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one to many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician.  More

Man of Iron
(1981) [M]

This exhilarating, seemlessly woven "documentary" of fictional footage tells the story of the 1980 Polish Solidarity strike at the Gdansk shipyard through the eyes of an alcoholic TV journalist.

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his...  More

Toys in the Attic
(1963) [M]

Sisters Carrie and Anna Berniers have been supporting their ne'er-do-well brother Julian through various failed businesses; now, he returns home with a sudden fortune and his young bride. Jealousies both old and new will play a part as the sisters try to understand what Julian's been up to, and...  More

The Joy of Learning (Le Gai Savoir)
(1969) [M]

Patricia and Emile meet nightly on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris' 1968 student riots, the Vietnam War, and other big events of the late '60s, posters, books, photographs and cartoons, serve as a backdrop to their discourse. Words...  More