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Coal Miner's Daughter
(1980) [PG]

Sissy Spacek gives an extraordinary performance as Loretta Lynn in a drama that reveals the life of the "Queen of Country Music." Tommy Lee Jones is Loretta's ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away from her backwoods Appalachia home to be his child bride. At eighteen, the mother of four...  More

Christiane F
(1981) [R]

The shocking story of an alienated 14-year-old girl who, along with her boyfriend, becomes addicted to heroin and involved in prostitution to support their habit in the German metropolis of Berlin. Based on a true story, this gripping tale features a live performance by David Bowie, who also...  More

Fargo
(1996) [MA]

Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan for his wife to be kidnapped and the ransom from her wealthy father to be secretly split between Jerry and the perpetrators. Jerry, who is not the most astute of individuals, hires a couple of real losers from...  More

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
(2002) [MA]

George Clooney (Ocean's Eleven), Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) and Drew Barrymore (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) star in the comedy thriller that poses an irresistable question: what would happen if a wildly successful TV producer was also a top-secret CIA assassin? While Chuck Barris (Sam...  More

Nowhere in Africa
(2001) [MA]

A beautifully realised World War II-set love story spanning two continents, Nowhere In Africa (the 2003 Oscar winner of Best Foreign Language Film) is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment for a remote farm in Kenya. Torn from her...  More

Auto Focus
(2002) [R]

Bob Crane became a household name as the star of the hit comedy series Hogan's Heroes - but the flipside to fame and fortune was Crane's insatiable desire to love hard and live fast. Crane's life would spin out of control and eventually lead to his brutal murder, which remains one of the most...  More

Russian Ark
(2002) [G]

A groundbreaking feat of filmmaking, Alexander Sokurov's amazing journey through 300 years of Russian art and history is the first ever feature to be shot in a single, unedited take - the ultimate director's cut. Magically transported to St Petersburg's Hermitage museum in the early 1700s, a...  More

A Beautiful Mind (2 disc set)
(2001) [M]

Ron Howard's Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind is a compelling look at one man's genius, his debilitating mental illness, and the fine line between the two. The film begins with John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) at Princeton, where he struggles to think of an original idea, and the stroke of genius...  More

Amadeus: The Director's Cut
(1984) [PG]

It's 1781 and Antonio Salieri is the competent court composer to Emperor Joseph II. When Mozart arrives at court, Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish jokester. Maddened by envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by...  More

The Great Ziegfeld
(1936) [G]

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever bigger, more spectacular shows...  More