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Made in U.S.A
(1966) [M]
Set in Atlantic City, France, the tale centers on Paula Nelson's search for her old flame Richard Politzer. With comic-book bright colors and playful sound effects, Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American filmmakers Nicholas Ray and Sam Fuller with Made in USA, his take on the American gangster... More
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Detective
(1985) [M]
In a Paris hotel, two detectives investigate the death of a mysterious character. Meanwhile, Jim Fox Warner, a boxing trainer, is hoping his boy will win, so he can pay back the mafia… More
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Black Book
(2006) [MA]
Set during the end of WWII, Black Book is the story of Rachel Stein (van Houten) who is separated from her family and forced into hiding. Trying to flee to Allied territory, she is briefly reunited with her family, until they are murdered by the Nazis. Suspecting they have been double crossed,... More
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Purple Rain (Prince) (2 Disc Set)
(1984) [M]
Take a richly-human story of survival and triumph, a now soundtrack by the hottest bands around and the startling presence and musicality of rock superstar Prince - the man who lived the music - and you've got what may be in Rolling Stone's words "the smartest, most spiritually ambitious... More
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Knocked Up
(2007) [MA]
Allison Scott (Heigl) is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-night-stand with slacker Ben Stone (Rogen) results in an unexpected pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to... More
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Would I Lie to You, Again?
(2001) [M]
Business isn't what it used to be in the Paris garment district, and shops are folding left, right and center. The pressure is taking its toll on the friendship of five young entrepreneurs who were doing well not so long ago. Add wives and girlfriends to the picture, and you've got trouble spelt... More
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The Light
(2004) [M]
When Antoine (Gregori Derangere) is wounded in the Algerian war in 1963, he relocates to the petite Breton island of Quessant to rebuild his life. Despite inexperience, he wins a job at the local lighthouse, a romantically lonesome citadel in wild seas. The dour locals of the island are none too... More
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Familia
(2005) [MA]
An aerobic instructor and gambling addict, Michele's life is turned upside down when her fiance, unwilling to cover her debts, stops supporting her financially. With her 14-year old daughter, Marguerite, in tow, and now homeless, Michele pays a visit to her childhood friend Janine, who has a... More
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A Few Days in September
(2006) [MA]
September the 1st, 2001. Elliot (Nick Nolte), an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irene (Juliette Binoche), a French agent who used to work with... More
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Innocent Voices
(2005) [M]
1980s El Salvador: Government forces are recruiting 12 year olds. Chava has just one year of innocence left before he too will be conscripted to fight against the peasant rebels. Armed only with the love of his mother and a small radio that broadcasts a forbidden anthem of peace, and faced with... More
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Dynamite Warrior
(2006) [MA]
From the makers of Ong Bak and Born To Fight. Dan Chupong (Born To Fight) returns as Zieng 'The Rocket Thief'. Bent on revenge after witnessing his parents' murder, the only clue to the killer is the memory of a mysterious tattooed man. The trail leads to an evil warlock and the fight for justice... More
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Reign Over Me
(2007) [M]
Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Liv Tyler headline the cast in this "funny, engaging and quietly touching (Daily Express)" drama from Mike Binder, the acclaimed director of The Upside Of Anger. Five years after losing his wife and children in the terrorist attacks of 9/11,... More
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Family Law
(2006) [M]
Family Law is the third film in a trio created by Argentinean film-maker Daniel Burman that explores the relationship between Ariel Perelman and his family. Perelman is a lawyer, like his father, and not. While his father represents a variety of colourful petty criminals and cuts a lively figure,... More
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16 Candles (Sixteen Candles)
(1984) [PG]
Teen angst abounds in this classic comedy written and directed by John Hughes. Samantha Baker’s (Molly Ringwald) 16th birthday should be perfect and memorable. Unfortunately, her whole family is preoccupied with her sister’s impending wedding and completely forgets Samantha’s big day. To... More
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The Plainsman
(1936) [PG]
Cecile B. DeMille brings you Gary and Jean in their grandest picture... the story of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, the hardest boiled pair of lovers who ever rode the plains... a glorious romance set against the whole flaming pageant of the Old West... More
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U-Carmen
(2006) [M]
One of the most celebrated and acclaimed operas of all time, Georges Bizet's Carmen, is revisited in this contemporary version set in a modern-day township in South Africa. In a thrilling synthesis of African culture and classic European opera, U-Carmen contrasts love and obsession, duty and... More
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Factory Girl
(2006) [MA]
A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to... More
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Heading South
(2005) [M]
On the sun drenched island of Haiti in the '70s, foreigners idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach resorts. Brenda (Karen Young), Ellen (Charlotte Rampling) and Sue (Lousie Portal), three North American women, meet on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and... More
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The FJ Holden
(1977) [M]
"One of the most vital, energetic, honest and uncompromising of Australian films" - David Stratton. Suburban Australia in the late 70's. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic... More
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Babel (2 disc set)
(2007) [MA]
Pain in universal...but so is hope. From acclaimed Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) comes the third film in his trilogy, Babel, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate human kind. A tragic accident in Morocco sets off a... More
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The Lives of Others
(2006) [MA]
Following in the footsteps of the German hit "Downfall" is the extraordinary film "The Lives of Others". Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of three prestigious European Film Awards including Best Film, it goes to the very heart of recent German history, tackling the East... More
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Daft Punk's Electroma
(2006) [G]
Two robots drive through the desert to arrive at a town in Inyo County, California visiting an avant-garde facility in their quest to become human. The French musical outfit Daft Punk whose hits include 'Around the World', 'Technologic' and Grammy nominated 'One More Time'; have turned their... More
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Benny's Video
(1992) [MA]
14 year-old Benny is the only son of a successful Austrian couple. Somewhat absorbed in their own lives and careers, he is often left to his own devices with his hi-tech gifts. Surrounded by TV and video images, electronic games and his beloved camcorder, Benny becomes increasingly removed from... More
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
(1994) [M]
Inspired by a real-life shooting spree in Vienna on December 23, 1993, Hidden director Michael Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance addresses the various societal influences and cultural factors that drive a young middle-class man to commit such an act. Haneke traces the lead-up to the... More
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
(2006) [M]
One summer's afternoon on London's Hampstead Heath, Scenes of a Sexual Nature delves into the finer points of love, attraction and relationships. Widowed Iris meets Eddie on a park bench. Jamie tries to hide his wandering eye from girlfriend Molly. Pete and Sara are divorcing. Julia puts on a... More
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Notes on a Scandal
(2006) [MA]
Academy Award Winners Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give wickedly entertaining, Oscar-Nominated performances - one as a woman consumed by her colleague's guilty secret, the other, a victim to her own dark obsessions - in this sexy, stylish thriller. Dench mesmerizes as Barbara Covett, a teacher... More
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Maadadayo
(1993) [PG]
Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's last film is a homage to the man who inspired him. Warm, sentimental and rousing, Maadadayo means not "not yet" in English, and tells the story of a retired teacher with a renowned lust for life, and the devoted students who maintain contact with him.... More
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Dumplings
(2004) [MA]
Featuring the stunningly beautiful Bai Ling, in a sexually-charged performance and the sumptuous cinematography of Christopher Doyle, Dumplings is squirm-inducing voyage through the nightmarish perils of vanity. Mei (Ling) is a trashy, former doctor who shuttles back and forth across the HK-China... More
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