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Kurt And Courtney
(1998) [M]

After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain's aunt who provides home movies and recordings, the estranged father of Cobain's widow Courtney Love, an L.A. private investigator who...  More

The Bounty
(1984) [PG]

Robert Bolt's screen adaptation of Richard Hugh's book 'Captain Bligh and Mister Christian' (itself a widely acclaimed account of The Mutiny On The Bounty) is directed here by Roger Donald (No Way Out, Species, Dante's Peak). Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, and particularly the emminently...  More

Head On (Australian)
(2000) [R]

In this gritty Australian drama, the nihilistic son of Greek immigrants indulges in 24 hours of hedonism in ethnically conflicted inner-city Melbourne. Ari (Alex Dimitriades), a 19-year-old layabout, spends his time picking up strange men for furtive sex; dealing, and doing, speed with his...  More

Hilary And Jackie
(1998) [M]

Hilary and Jackie tells the remarkable story of one of the world's best-known cellists, the late Jacqueline du Pre. The exquisite passion of Jackie's playing provides a magnificent backdrop to a story of volatile passions, thwarted ambitions and sibling rivalry. Both Emily Watson as Jackie and...  More

All That Jazz
(1979) [M]

All That Jazz is a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its celebrated writer/director/choreographer, Bob Fosse. The multi-talented performer was an Oscar®, Tony and Emmy Award winner. Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane is the award-winning musical...  More

Gods And Monsters
(1999) [M]

Ian McKellen delivers a riveting, award-winning performance as Hollywood horror director James Whale. It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past....  More

The Miracle Worker
(1962) [M]

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke deliver remarkable, Oscar-winning performances in Arthur Penn's film The Miracle Worker. Locked in a frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness since infancy, 7-year-old Helen Keller (Duke) has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her...  More

The Winslow Boy
(1999) [G]

Based on real life events in 1912 England, this exquisitely crafted film tells of Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old navel cadet expelled from the Academy for stealing a five-shilling postal note, and his father, London Banker Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) all-consuming attempt to prove his...  More

It All Starts Today
(1998) [M]

Based upon the experiences of director Bertrand Travernier's screenplay collaborator, Dominique Sampiero, 'It All Starts Today...' revolves around Daniel Lefebvre, the director of a kindergarten in Hernaing, a poor area in Northern France. Appalled by the deprivation that his pupils must endure,...  More

The Hurricane
(1999) [M]

Academy Award winner Denzel Washington plays Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man who in the prime of his boxing career, found himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir 'The Sixteenth Round' inspired a teenager (Vicellous Reon Shannon) from Brooklyn...  More