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Polish Wedding
(1998) [PG]

The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes...  More

Bad Santa
(2003) [MA]

In this cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he’s wickedly funny, Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking department store Santa who is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year—on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the...  More

Noi The Albino
(2003) [M]

Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year-old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland, cut off from the outside world by a shroud of snow. He dreams of escape from his white-walled prison with Iris, a pretty young city girl who works in a local gas...  More

I Heart Huckabees
(2004) [M]

Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences, the meaning of which escape him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life; his relationships; and his conflict...  More

The Weather Underground
(2002) [M]

In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path. This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's "Days of Rage." Outraged...  More

Tibet, Cry of the Snow Lion
(2003) [M]

Tibet: Cry Of The Snow Lion is a dramatic documentary that takes viewers through the astonishing recent political history of the country. Spending over ten years making the film, director Tom Piozet presents a clear, concise, educational chronology that tracks the major events and developments in...  More

Closer
(2004) [MA]

Set in contemporary London, this is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen) - their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals. This is a bitingly funny and honest look at modern relationships, from Academy Award winner Mike Nichols....  More

Sideways
(2004) [M]

This is the story of failed novelist Miles (Paul Giamatti) and his washed-up actor friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church). Jack is soon to be wed and, to toast their youth, the pair take a final road trip in the week before the nuptials. A serious wine enthusiast, Miles is determined to educate his...  More

Napoleon Dynamite
(2004) [PG]

Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word. More interested in playing tetherball by himself and drawing pictures of his favourite animal, the "liger" (a combination of lion and tiger), Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston, Idaho....  More

Saw
(2004) [MA]

Two strangers awaken, chained side-by-side to the wall of a filthy bathroom. Neither knows how they came to this awful predicament, nor what might await them. But the man lying on the floor and missing part of his head might be a clue. Soon, they'll discover they are the latest victims of a...  More