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I Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single
(2006) [M]

Luis (Alain Chabat) is living the charmed life: successful, handsome, carefree and single. He dates whom he pleases and lives alone in the luxury of a man who has everything he wants. Luis' happy existence is threatened when his mother and five sisters decide it's time for him to marry. They are...  More

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(2004) [PG]

When Lima’s most famous bridge suddenly and mysteriously collapses, plunging five people to their certain deaths, one man discovers his mission. He was the only apparent eyewitness and nothing will stop him from unearthing the truth. Was this fate or some other hand preying upon these victims?...  More

Jasmine Woman
(2004) [MA]

A grand saga spanning three generations tells of the struggle of mothers and their daughters in China. A realistic, intimate tale; full of powerfully candid insights, in a heart wrenchingly beautiful film for Mother, Wife, Daughter, and Lover. Set over fifty years, it follows the lives of Mo in...  More

The Devil's Playground (1976)
(1976) [M]

Fred Schepisi’s celebrated first feature is a lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy’s coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Victoria.

A semi-autobiographical retelling of the director’s own training for the priesthood, the story follows...  More

The Cherry Orchard
(1999) [PG]

Set in Russia during the Nineteenth Century, The Cherry Orchard is based on the play by Anton Chekhov and is concerned with the effects of industrialisation and social change in Russia. In the film, aristocratic Madame Ranevskaya returns to her cherry orchard after a sojourn in Paris. She is...  More

Wuthering Heights (1992)
(1992) [M]

Captivating and truly magnificent, this is a soul-stirring adaptation of Emily Bronte's immortal classic about love and vengeance. Set in the unforgiving Yorkshire moors, it tells the timeless tale of Heathcliff and Cathy and their passion born of need but forbidden by convention.

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Jane Austen's Emma
(1996) [PG]

Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not...  More

Wuthering Heights (Granada-TV)
(1998) [M]

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights remains one of the most powerful and passionate novels ever written. It is a classic tale of love, jealousy and pain that defies social boundaries and challenges death itself. This acclaimed adaptation of Bronte's classic novel stars Orla Brandy (The Heart...  More

Samurai III - Duel At Ganryu Island
(1956) [M]

The final instalment of the Oscar winning Samurai trilogy follows the hero Musahi Miyamoto on his quest for enlightenment. Renouncing his samurai skills in favor of a search for inner peace, Musahsi is drawn into protecting a village from violent bandits. Followed by the obsessive swordsman...  More

Chokher Bali
(2003) [PG]

Mahendra is a doctor circa British rule in India, who lives a comfortable life in a city in Bengal (which is now known as Bangla Desh). He is friendly with a young man, a bachelor named Behari. Both Mahendra and Behari are of marriage age, and do get a lot of proposals. One day they receive a...  More