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Tideland
(2005) [MA]
Director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas) takes us on a wild and surreal adventure with his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's cult classic novel.
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her... More
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Once
(2006) [M]
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
Exquisitely simple and pure of heart, this Audience Award-winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is a musical gem from Ireland about a Dublin... More
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Masai: The Rain Warriors
(2004) [M]
From the creators of the acclaimed film Himalaya comes a universal tale of courage and friendship told through the eyes of ten young Masai warriors. When their village in southern Kenya is stricken by drought, the tribal elders send a group of adolescent boys to retrieve the mystical mane of... More
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The Lost Language of Cranes
(1992) [MA]
When a young gay man comes out of the closet. His friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship. More
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Fateless
(2005) [M]
Director Lajos Koltai stunned the 2005 Berlin Film Festival with this Second World War drama based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Imre Kertész, a quasi-autobiographical work about his experiences as a 14-year-old deported from Budapest to the Nazi labour camps during the Holocaust.... More
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The Kingdom
(2007) [MA]
Jamie Foxx stars as FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury, who has just received the assignment of his career: assemble an elite team to hunt down and capture the Islamic terrorist mastermind responsible for a deadly suicide attack on Americans working in Saudi Arabia. There’s a catch: The Feds have... More
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Under the Skin
(1997) [R]
Iris is nineteen, beautiful, impetuous, has a steady boyfriend, a cloying sister and a sick mother. When a family death shatters her precarious world, Iris - brilliantly played by Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (Minority Report) - embarks on a chilling journey of self-discovery, and... More
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Blue Murder - Series 3
(2005) [M]
Exciting Crime Drama Blending Gritty Murder Investigations With The Realities Of Family Life
Passionate about her work and her children, talented top ranking detective Janine Lewis strives to balance the stress of her high pressure career with the demands of home.
In Series Three, DCI... More
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Beast, The (La Bete)
(1975) [R]
Having passed the censors for the first time in Australia, Umbrella proudly release Walerian Borowczyk’s Directors Cut of his controversial masterpiece.
A black comedy of sexual manners set around an arranged wedding in an elegant château, the film gains its infamy from the final scene... More
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Manual of Love, The (Manuale d'amore)
(2005) [M]
Tommaso and Giula are falling in love. Barbara and Marco are falling out of love. Ornella's husband is with another love. Geffredo has been abandoned by his love.
A box-office smash in Italy, The Manual of Love is a charming, bittersweet comedy about the mysterious nature of love. The ups and... More
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How Much Do You Love Me?
(2005) [MA]
This audacious, buoyantly choreographed ballet of fluctuating allegiances is played to perfection.
Extending the erotic thesis from multi-award winning Too Beautiful for You and My Man, controversial French writer and director, Bertrand Blier brings us the highly provocative How Much Do You... More
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Mr. Brooks
(2007) [MA]
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) is a loving family man and a local business icon. But Mr Brooks is deeply flawed and very aware of it. He is addicted to killing. Struggling with his... More
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A Pin for the Butterfly
(1994) [M]
This complex political drama zeroes in on the life of a small bourgeois family living in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. It is set in the 50's. The family is falling apart from the pressure to think along party lines, even in private. The mere mention of the West could result in prison, or worse.... More
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Lady Chatterley (2006)
(2006) [M]
Drawing on the most scandalous summer romance in English literature, French director Pascale Ferran has beautifully adapted "Lady Jane & John Thomas", the second version of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Lawrence wrote the novel three times in two years, while suffering from the... More
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Jasmine Woman
(2004) [MA]
A grand saga spanning three generations tells of the struggle of mothers and their daughters in China. A realistic, intimate tale; full of powerfully candid insights, in a heart wrenchingly beautiful film for Mother, Wife, Daughter, and Lover. Set over fifty years, it follows the lives of Mo in... More
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Close to Leo
(2002) [M]
Close To Leo concerns family…namely Leo’s. At 21, he’s the eldest of four. His youngest brother Marcel is just 11. The family loves Leo and accepts his homosexuality, but when they learn of his HIV-positive status, they face a situation that will eventually test all bonds. The family... More
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(2004) [PG]
When Lima’s most famous bridge suddenly and mysteriously collapses, plunging five people to their certain deaths, one man discovers his mission. He was the only apparent eyewitness and nothing will stop him from unearthing the truth. Was this fate or some other hand preying upon these victims?... More
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Hairspray (2007)
(2007) [PG]
Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show... More
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Lucky You
(2007) [PG]
In the world of high-stakes poker, Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) is a blaster – a player who goes all out, all the time. But in his personal relationships, Huck plays it light, expertly avoiding emotional commitments and long-term expectations.
When Huck sets out to win the main event of the 2003... More
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Evening
(2007) [M]
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the... More
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First Name Carmen
(1983) [R]
First Name: Carmen is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen.
The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) if she can borrow... More
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After the Wedding
(2006) [M]
Jacob Petersen has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jorgen, offers him a donation of 4 million dollars. There are, however, certain conditions... Not only must Jacob... More
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Becket
(1964) [PG]
Peter O'Toole delivers an electrifying performance as the mischievous Henry II, who surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted valet Thomas Becket (Richard Burton in a career defining role) as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop Of Canterbury, Becket shocks the... More
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Premonition (US)
(2007) [M]
Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well,... More
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Lucky Miles (2 disc set)
(2007) [MA]
It's 1990 and an Indonesian fishing boat abandons Iraqi and Cambodian refugees in a remote part of the Western Australian coastline. Whilst most are quickly caught by officials, three men with nothing in common but their misfortune and determination escape arrest begin their epic journey into the... More
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This Is England (2 disc set)
(2006) [MA]
From Shane Meadows the award-winning director of Twenty Four Seven comes the story of Shaun, a 12-year-old kid growing up without a father in the north of England. Set in the summer of 1983, a time of rising unemployment, Rockers, New Romantics, Mods, Punks and Skinheads, This is England charts... More
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The Aura
(2005) [M]
Esteban Espinoza is an introverted taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams are unexpectedly made reality with one squeeze of the trigger. Espinoza accidentally kills a man who turns out to... More
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Four Last Songs
(2007) [M]
Larry (Stanley Tucci) is a chronically unsatisfied ex-pat residing on a remote island village in the Mediterranean. The village is tiny but famous for having been the home of one of Europe's most celebrated composers. Although Larry hoped to absorb some of the great man's glory, his modest... More
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Romulus My Father (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [M]
The story of Romulus (Eric Bana), his beautiful wife, Christina (Franka Potente), and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is the tale of a boy trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking... More
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The City of Violence
(2006) [MA]
From the director of ARAHAN comes CITY OF VIOLENCE a tale of brotherhood and brutality. Organised crime detective Tae-su returns home to bury his high school buddy Wang-jae. At the funeral, old friends reminisce, but something isn't right and they begin to investigate Wang-jae's death as... More
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