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Bubba Ho-Tep (2 disc set)
(2002) [M]
Bubba Ho-Tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams... More
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Stripes
(1981) [M]
Bill Murray has joined the Army, and the Army will never be the same! When John Winger (Murray) loses his job, his car, his apartment and his girlfriend, all in one day, he decides he only has one option: volunteer for Uncle Sam. He talks his friend Russell (Harold Ramis) into enlisting with him.... More
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L'Argent
(1983) [M]
Robert Bresson won Best Director at Cannes in 1983 for this contemporary revision of Tolstoy's short story. When an innocent prank goes wrong, it becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. A forged 500 franc note is accidentally passed to an unsuspecting young man. Ignorant of its origins, he... More
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Bear Cub
(2003) [R]
Pedro (Jose Luis Garcia-Perez) is an attractive homosexual dentist who lives a sexually active lifestyle. He offers to take care of his 9 year-old nephew Bernardo (David Castillo) for two weeks while the child's mother, Pedro's older sister Violeta (Elvira Lindo), goes off to India with her... More
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Christmas With The Kranks
(2004) [PG]
The Kranks have always celebrated a picture-perfect Christmas. But with their only daughter, Blair (Julie Gonzalo), away from home on her Peace Corps assignment, Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther (Tim Allen) are suffering from empty nest syndrome and decide to skip Christmas in favour of a... More
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The Short Films of Francois Ozon (2 disc set)
(1988) [MA]
This collection of four short films by Francois Ozon (WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS), one of France's most celebrated filmmakers of the 1990s, is characterized both by the director's startling imagery and the frankly humorous way he approaches his characters' sexuality. The first short, "X2000"... More
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The Barbarian Invasions
(2003) [MA]
Denys Arcand delivers a beautiful film with "The Barbarian Invasions", the story of a man on his deathbed who is joined by his distant son and all his closest friends throughout the last - wonderful and loving - days of his life. A follow-up to 1986's "The Decline Of The American Empire", the... More
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The Book of Life
(1998) [M]
The end of the millennium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and... More
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Happenstance
(2000) [M]
The Beating of The Butterfly's Wings is an innovative examination of the chaos theory in action, as the film follows a dozen or so characters whose tiniest and seemingly most random gestures create ripples and waves in other peoples lives. A woman on the morning train tells that the full moon... More
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Il Bidone (The Swindle)
(1955) [M]
Part of Fellini's "Trilogy of loneliness" - with 'La Strada' and 'Nights Of Cabiria' - Il Bidone is a powerful, humorous and heartbreaking portrait of an aging man's redemption from a life of crime and deception. Stars Giulietta Masina (Juliet of the Spirits) and Academy Award Winner Broderick... More
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Myra Breckinridge
(1970) [M]
Sex Goddess Raquel Welch was at the height of her big-screen fame when she starred as Myra in this offbeat cult favorite - considered one of the most notorious films ever released by a major studio. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Gore Vidal (who later denounced the film), it starred an... More
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La Chinoise
(1967) [M]
Godard's brilliant dialectical farce, distinctly disquieting as well as gratingly funny, in which five Parisian students, members of a Maoist cell, discuss the implications of the Chinese cultural revolution and the chances of using terrorism to effect a similar upheaval in the West. Dazzlingly... More
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Rhinoceros
(1973) [PG]
Director Tom O'Horgan, originator of the Broadway smash hit Hair, transforms Eugene lonesco's "Theatre of the Absurd" curio into a hilarious, outrageous screen comedy, with Wilder and Mostel displaying pitch-perfect comic timing, With Karen Black. More
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
(2004) [PG]
The Baudelaire children are clever and resourceful but since their parents died in a fire, they are also the target of nefarious deeds because when 14 year-old Violet Baudelaire comes of age, she and her 12-year-old brother Klaus and infant, Sunny, will come into an inheritance. But not if their... More
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One, Two, Three
(1961) [G]
James Cagney “gives one of the richest, funniest, most breathlessly paced performances of his career” (The New York Times) in this Billy Wilder comedy that defrosts the Cold War with gales of laughter! C. R. MacNamara (Cagney), a top-ranking executive stationed in West Berlin, is charged with... More
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Kitchen Stories
(2003) [PG]
With its dry Nordic humour and distinguished visual style - comparisons with Aki Kaurismaki abound - acclaimed Norwegian director Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories proved to be one of 2003's genuine and most idiosyncratic cinema highlights. In the early 1950's Sweden's Home Research Institute is... More
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Team America: World Police
(2004) [MA]
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the masterminds behind South Park, turn their attention to marionettes and politics in the riotous spoof Team America: World Police. Combining the puppetry of the mid-1960s series Thunderbirds with action/disaster flicks produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun,... More
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Napoleon Dynamite
(2004) [PG]
Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word. More interested in playing tetherball by himself and drawing pictures of his favourite animal, the "liger" (a combination of lion and tiger), Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston, Idaho.... More
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Sideways
(2004) [M]
This is the story of failed novelist Miles (Paul Giamatti) and his washed-up actor friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church). Jack is soon to be wed and, to toast their youth, the pair take a final road trip in the week before the nuptials. A serious wine enthusiast, Miles is determined to educate his... More
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Closer
(2004) [MA]
Set in contemporary London, this is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen) - their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals. This is a bitingly funny and honest look at modern relationships, from Academy Award winner Mike Nichols.... More
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Don's Party
(1976) [R]
On the night of the 1969 Australian election, Don holds a party in his suburban Sydney house, where his raucous, rude, embarrassing, extrovert friends discuss sex, politics, and their lives, and seduce each others wives. More
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Meet the Fockers
(2004) [M]
It took a bit of convincing, but Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) seems to have finally won the approval of his soon-to-be in-laws - Jack and Dina Byrnes (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner). Given his struggle to fit in with his fiancee's family, Greg thinks it will be smooth sailing from here... but... More
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A Touch of Spice (Politiki Kouzina) (2 Disc Set)
(2003) [M]
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Costantinoupolis, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor,teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor; they both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an... More
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Bride and Prejudice
(2005) [PG]
Director Gurinder Chadha and the team that created Bend It Like Beckham put an entirely different spin on Jane Austen's story of spirited courtship - Bollywood style! Bride & Prejudice shifts the comic tale of a witty young woman trying to find a suitable husband, to a cross-cultural setting that... More
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I Heart Huckabees
(2004) [M]
Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences, the meaning of which escape him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life; his relationships; and his conflict... More
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Bad Santa
(2003) [MA]
In this cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he’s wickedly funny, Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking department store Santa who is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year—on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the... More
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Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment
(1966) [PG]
A cult classic from the sixties directed by Czech born filmmaker Karel Reisz (The French Lieutenant’s Woman), Morgan – A Suitable Case For Treatment stars British character acting legend David Warner in his first and only lead role. A gorilla-fixated artist with a distinctly anarchist... More
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Shall We Dance (Japanese Version)
(1996) [PG]
Shohei Sugiyama is an accountant who spots a beautiful Japanese woman in a dance studio window. Hoping to get closer to her, even though he's married and has a child, he signs up for dance lessons in secret, and slowly begins to fall in love with the art form itself.
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Ocean's 12
(2004) [M]
Set three years after Ocean's 11, this sequel shows us Danny Ocean gathering up his complete gang of con artists and thieves from the first film in New York City before they all jet off to Amsterdam, Rome, and Paris to pull off three seperate heists. All the while, the boys must deal with... More
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Shark Tale
(2004) [G]
Oscar (voiced by Will Smith), a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian shark, Lenny (Jack Black), and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins... More
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