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Cadillac Records
(2008) [M]

Cadillac Records chronicles the rise of Leonard Chess' (Adrien Brody) Chess Records and its recording artists including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer) and the great Etta James (Beyonce Knowles). In this...  More

Look Back in Anger
(1959) [PG]

Based on John Osborne's play in which a university graduate (Richard Burton) comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values. British cinema in the late 50s was dominated by the "angry young men", a term referring to both the writers and their subject matter. The movement also...  More

Young @ Heart
(2007) [PG]

Get ready to rock with the most entertaining Golden Oldies you'll ever meet, a fun loving senior citizens' choir called Young @ Heart - average age 81. Celebrating the unbreakable bonds of friendship and the life-affirming power of music, they prepare to perform a range of tunes from James Brown...  More

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
(2008) [PG]

Marina Zenovich's new documentary examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.  More

Michael Jackson: This Is It
(2009) [G]

Michael Jackson’s This Is It is a unique music event offering Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place beginning this summer in London’s O2 Arena....  More

Dirty Dancing
(1987) [M]

Dancing to the beat of their hearts, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey star in this electrifying and sensual film. A vivid love story, Dirty Dancing is set to pounding rhythms and vibrant dance - guaranteed to be the time of your life!

It's summer 1963, Baby (Grey), 17 years old and all...  More

Paris Blues
(1961) [M]

Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie...  More

Brasileirinho
(2005) [PG]

In Rio in the late 1800s, Brazilian musicians started to blend European melodies, Afro-Brazilian rhythms and a melancholic interpretation of the native Indians' music: Choro was born.

Uniquely Brazilian, it was the first musical expression of Brazil's identity as a cultural melting...  More

Nowhere Boy
(2009) [M]

Imagine John Lennon's childhood. A spirited teenager, curious, sharp and funny, growing up in the shattered city of Liverpool. Two extraordinary sisters tussle for his love - Mimi, the formidable aunt who raised him from the age of 5 and Julia, the spirited mother who gave him up to Mimis care....  More

Mao's Last Dancer
(2009) [PG]

From internationally acclaimed Australian film director Bruce Beresford comes the inspirational true story of a small boy's extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom. From a gruelling apprenticeship as a classical dancer in communist China, to the glory of creative freedom in...  More