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True North
(2006) [M]

Inspired by a true story. TRUE NORTH is an unflinching thriller dealing with the horrendous consequences of human trafficking. The providence, a heavily-indebted Scottish trawler, calls at a Belgian port on its return voyage. The ship's mate Sean, desperate to help reduce this debt, contacts...  More

Yella
(2007) [M]

Yella is an East German businesswoman whose life is ruled by her explosive relationship with her ex-husband. In a bid to escape his haunting presence, Yella searches for a job in the West.

With the help of Philipp, a handsome venture capitalist, Yella rekindles her passion for...  More

Martha (Fassbinder on Melodrama)
(1974) [M]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, drew much of his inspiration from the work of his idol, the German-born king of Hollywood melodrama, Douglas Sirk. Each of these three films is centred on a woman who is under pressure from those around her to conform, and...  More

Shotgun Stories
(2007) [M]

Son Hayes never speaks of the scars on his back. The shotgun pellets left under his skin are a sporadic pattern of blue-black dots. The men he works with take bets on how he got them, but his brothers, Boy and Kid Hayes, don?t discuss it. His past, just like these scars, is never far behind him....  More

Frontier(s)
(2007) [R]

In the not-too-distant future in France, the districts are over-run with violence. A group of small-time crooks use the riots to set up a heist; but when things go horribly wrong, the gang splits up and arranges to meet at a seedy hotel on the French border.

Unknown to the crooks, is...  More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Disc 1 of 3)
(2003) [MA]

THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES follows the titular character on a series of cross-country adventures starting in 1928 - the year uranium was discovered - until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Traveling through such diverse terrain as the mid-West of America, Japan, Manchuria and Siberia, Tulse...  More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (Disc 2 of 3)
(2004) [MA]

Tulse Luper is a 20th century everyman whose collection of 92 suitcases intersects with every person, event and movement in history.

Here in the second of a three part story, we find him working in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every...  More

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (Disc 3 of 3)
(2003) [MA]

The Tulse Luper Suitcases is Tristan Shandy gone haywire - or Monty Python taken to even more absurd depths The contents of the suitcases are revealed one by one. Suitcase number twelve : frogs. 92 Ways of Representing the World: #5 The bath. The number 92 is derived from the element number of...  More

Restraint
(2008) [M]

Two fugitive lovers seek refuge in an abandoned mansion after a series of brutal crimes have been committed. However what they believe is a deserted estate actually belongs to a rich agoraphobic, an eccentric loner who becomes their hostage - or is it the other way around? As time passes, the...  More

Monkey Puzzle
(2008) [M]

Monkey Puzzle follows five intrepid twenty-somethings who set off on an adventure into New South Wales' Blue Mountains in search of the world's rarest tree, the wollemi pine or 'monkey puzzle' tree.

After abseiling down into the rainforest gorges, a series of mishaps delay their...  More