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Edmond
(2005) [MA]
"You are not where you belong," says the fortune-teller. Thus Edmond begins his brutal descent into a hilarious and horrifying contemporary urban hell in David Mamet's savagely funny black comedy. The encounter with the fortune-teller has caused bland businessman Edmond (William H. Macy) to... More
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Hidden (Haneke) (2 Disc Set)
(2005) [MA]
Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) live the perfect life of modern comfort and security in modern day Paris. They have a teenage son and Georges hosts a popular literary review television program while Anne works in publishing. One day they start receiving packages on their... More
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Only Yesterday (Studio Ghibli)
(1991) [PG]
Only Yesterday revolves around Taeko, a single woman working a desk job in Tokyo in 1982, taking a vacation in the countryside with the family of her sister in-law. During her vacation, Taeko finds herself looking back at her time as a young schoolgirl growing up in 1966. The film flips back and... More
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16 Blocks
(2006) [M]
Action starring Bruce Willis. Aging cop Jack Mosley (Willis) has seen better days, and all that the force expects out of him these days is to stay out of trouble while he's on the clock. Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) is set to testify before a grand jury at 10am, and it's up to Mosley to make sure that... More
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Proof
(2005) [M]
The biggest risk in life is not taking one.
From the acclaimed director of Shakespeare in Love, Proof stars Oscar winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins, along with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hope Davis. It's a powerful story of a young woman haunted by her father's past and the shadow of her... More
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Miami Vice
(2006) [MA]
Brooding big-screen adaptation of the classic 1980s television crime drama from director Michael Mann. Undercover Miami-Dade police detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Rico Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) are summoned to help out on an FBI undercover operation that has gone disastrously wrong.... More
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Separate Lies
(2005) [M]
Adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel 'A Way Through the Wood', Julian Fellowes’ directorial debut revolves around upper middle class barrister James Manning (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife Anne (Emily Watson). James and Anne’s wealth affords them life’s finest luxury accoutrements, including... More
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Wah Wah
(2005) [M]
Actor and author Richard E. Grant's directorial debut. Set at the end of the '60s, as Swaziland is about to achieve independence from Great Britain, the film follows the young Richard E Grant, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14. It is based on true events from Richard... More
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Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - The Body In The Library
(2004) [M]
When news comes through that a glamorous exhibition dancer has disappeared from the hotel where she worked, the victim - if not the murderer - seems to have been identified. But, as another body is discovered, Miss Marple realises that the roots of the killing go back to an earlier tragedy, with... More
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Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - A Murder Is Announced
(2004) [M]
A local advertisement announcing the date and location of a forthcoming murder has a small village buzzing with curiosity. Assuming it's a hoax, a crowd nonetheless is gathered at Letitia Blacklock's cottage at the appointed time when the lights go out and a gunman fires into the room. When the... More
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Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - 4.50 From Paddington
(2004) [M]
Two trains draw briefly alongside each other as they race past a country house, and - to her horror - Miss Marple's freiend, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a man in a passing carriage brutally strangling a mystery woman. But with no body to be found, the police decide she must have dreamt the... More
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Miss Marple (Agatha Christie) - Murder At The Vicarage
(2004) [M]
When the vicar in Miss Marple's home village declares in exasperation that anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world a service, he does not realise his words will come back and haunt him. The Colonel's death at the vicarage throws up a long list of potential murderers as the... More
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2 disc set)
(2005) [M]
The body of Mexican Melquiades Estrada is found in a shallow grave in the desert, where it was hastily buried after being fatally shot by a Border Patrolman, Mike Norton (Barry Pepper). Making no attempt to solve the crime, the local Texan authorities rapidly transfer the corpse to a pauper's... More
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Little Children
(2006) [MA]
Life is not quite what it seems in this haunting and sensual masterwork from Academy Award nominated writer/director Todd Field (In the Bedroom), Oscar nominees Kate Winslet and Jackie Earle Haley star along with Oscar winning Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Wilson in this "beautiful, provocative... More
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Pan's Labyrinth (2 Disc Set)
(2006) [MA]
From Guillermo del Toro, director of Blade II and Hellboy, comes this fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain. Pan's Labyrinth is a gothic fairytale twist on Alice in Wonderland and The Changeling. 10 year old Ofelia is sent to an isolated... More
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Rocky Balboa
(2006) [M]
30 years after the clang of the first bell, Rock Balboa dons his gloves for the last time...and delivers a "knockout" (Us Weekly)! Armed with a highly credible, hart-wrenching story, Sylvester Stallone leaps "back in the ring with a champ" Rolling Stone): this "triumphant final chapter for one of... More
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Volver
(2006) [M]
Pedro Almodovar makes a triumphant return to the screen in this rich tale of three generations of women who manage to survive everyday life by means of goodness, occasional lies and boundless vitality. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is struggling to make ends meet, holding down several jobs while... More
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Producing Adults
(2004) [MA]
Antero (Kari-Pekka Toivonen) and Venla (Minna Haapkyla) are a modern, long-time unmarried couple in Finland. But their relationship is in crisis: Venla wants them to marry and have a family. Antero is fine with marrying, but definitely does not want children as he believes it will interfere with... More
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Junebug
(2005) [M]
When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a British-born dealer in regional, “outsider” art, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local painter for her gallery, she and her brand-new husband George (Alessandro Nivola) extend the trip to include an introduction to his family. Madeleine... More
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Jindabyne
(2006) [M]
Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find... More
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Bombon (El Perro)
(2004) [M]
A recently-unemployed mechanic attempting to maintain his financial stability finds that sometimes living is defined by more than just an income in director Carlos Sorin's endearing existential comedy drama. The Patagonia garage in which Coco (Juan Villegas) works has gone out of business, and... More
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The Caterpillar Wish
(2006) [M]
Emily never knew her father. According to her mother, he was a “tom cat” - a tourist who wandered into town one summer and was never seen again. Susan is struggling to forget the past. She hasn't spoken to her fervently religious parents for years, not since she shamed the family by falling... More
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The Squid and the Whale
(2005) [M]
Bernard (Jeff Daniels) and his restless wife Joan (Laura Linney) have given up on their marriage. Their two sons Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) and Frank (Owen Kline) are left to grapple with their confusing and conflicted feelings. The experience is a tender, funny and ultimately moving coming-of-age... More
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Water (India) (2 Disc Set)
(2005) [M]
A Widow should be long suffering until death, self restrained and chaste.
A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven.
A women who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal.
The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 verse 156-161, Dharamshastras (Sacred... More
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Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story
(2005) [M]
Award-winning iconic actor John Malkovich headlines the cast in this true tale of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick despite knowing little about his work or looking anything like him. From the producers of Eyes Wide Shut and The Professional and co-starring Richard E. Grant, Honor... More
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Ushpizin
(2004) [PG]
Jerusalem. Moshe and Mali, a poor childless Orthodox couple, find themselves penniless on the eve of the Jewish holy day of Succoth. As they both pray desperately to the Lord to help them, the impossible happens. Their prayers are heard and they receive an unexpected charitable donation. However,... More
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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
(2005) [MA]
The final instalment in Chan Wook Park's brilliant vengeance trilogy. At the age of 19, Geum-ja is imprisoned for the murder of a child - a murder committed by her accomplice Mr Baek.
Geum-ja prepares her revenge by winning the hearts of her fellow prisoners.
Upon release 13 years later and... More
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Kokoda
(2006) [M]
The moment in history depicted in this film is the invasion by the Japanese into New Guinea in World War 2. A situation that directly threatened Australia as most of the Allied forces were consumed with fighting their own battles many thousands of miles away. For Australia it was a matter of... More
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L'Enfer (Hell)
(2005) [M]
Director Danis Tanovic picks up where the late-Krzysztof Kieslowski left off by taking on the second installment of Kieslowski's "Heaven," "Hell," and "Purgatory" trilogy.
Featuring a superb all-star cast, Hell is a whirling portrait of a family torn apart by the past. Three sisters, Sophie... More
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Where the Truth Lies
(2005) [R]
Now into this pantheon of legendary partnerships, Atom Egoyan, the acclaimed Director of Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter introduces us to Lanny Morris and Vince Collins.
No debonair double act sparkled more than Lanny (Kevin Bacon) the manic comedian, and Vince (Colin Firth), his urbane... More
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