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American Splendor
(2003) [M]

Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with...  More

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
(2001) [M]

Vaslav Nijinksy was one of the most celebrated dancer/ choreographers of the 20th century, and undisputedly the greatest male dancer of his era. Yet at the height of his career - as with many artists ahead of their time - Nijinsky's modernist works fiercely divided the ballet world. Based on the...  More

The Jolson Story/Jolson Sings Again
(1946) [G]

Together for the first time and for the first time on DVD, comes these two true-life tales that capture the music, the memories and the magic of Al Jolson. Larry Parks is unforgettable in the role of America's greatest performer, in two films that follow Jolson's career and life from renowned...  More

Seabiscuit
(2003) [M]

A homeless jockey, a millionaire, a washed-up cowboy and a horse named Seabiscuit are the four unlikely heroes who found hope in each other and inspired an entire generation. Tobey Maguire, Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges and Academy Award winner Chris Cooper star in the critically acclaimed...  More

Wonderland
(2003) [MA]

In 1981, at the lowest point of his career and the height of his drug addiction, larger-then-life porn superstar John Holmes (aka Johnny Wadd) was implicated in the gruesome murder of 4 people at a house on L.A.'s Wonderland Avenue. An A-list cast headed by Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow and hot rosing...  More

Angela
(2002) [M]

True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.  More

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi)
(2000) [M]

One Hundred Steps (I Cento Passi) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody...  More

In America
(2002) [M]

Johnny (Paddy Considine), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton) and their two young daughters, Christy and Ariel (Sarah and Emma Bolger) arrive in Manhattan to make a new start in the land of dreams. Immigrants from Ireland, they have left behind everything they knew in their own country, including...  More

Sylvia
(2003) [M]

In Sylvia, Gwyneth Paltrow plays Sylvia Plath, a Cambridge student with some poems already published when she meets Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Attracted to each other and full of mutual passion and fire the two quickly fall in love and marry. The film explores their troubled and ultimately tragic...  More

I Want to Live!
(1958) [M]

Robert Wise's powerful I Want To Live is based on a true story of Barbara Gramham (an Oscar-winning Susan Hayward), executed for a crime she allegedly did not commit. So gruelling were the gas chambers scenes considered originally, they were cut entirely from the British cinema release, despite...  More