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Goldfish Memory
(2003) [M]
Goldfish Memory is a light-hearted look at the dangers and delights of dating in contemporary Dublin. When Clara sees her lover kissing another, it sets off a chain reaction of romances and heart breaks until the entire cycle has turned full circle, each character trying to solve the pressing... More
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The Turning Point
(1977) [PG]
Deedee (Shirley MacLaine), gave up her ballet career 20 years ago for motherhood at the turning point of her life. Now, as the promising career of her teenage daughter Emilia (Leslie Brown), is launched, Deedee must come to terms with herself. Emilia is enmeshed in a love affair with Yuri... More
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(2005) [MA]
Three stories of human interaction aboard a single train trip from Eastern Europe to Rome. Throughout the twentieth century, critics and filmmakers alike have often commented upon the interactive relationship between transit and cinema, interpreting train travel as a visual metaphor which fuses... More
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Machuca
(2004) [M]
In 1973, in Santiago of Chile of the first socialist president democratically elected in a Latin-American country, President Salvador Allende, the principal of the Saint Patrick School, Father McEnroe (Ernesto Malbran) makes a trial of integration between students of the upper and lower classes.... More
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Hidden Blade
(2004) [MA]
Set in 19th Century Japan, feudal traditions are beginning to fade as Western alliances are changing the government of the country. Munezo, a low-ranking samurai who serves a clan that is trying to adapt to new gun culture. Whilst trying to save his unhappy marriage, he’s also battling his... More
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All The President's Men: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(1976) [M]
Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning book and hailed as the most devastating detective story of this century, All The President's Men was released only 3 years after the sensation of Watergate. It tells of two unknown reporters who took on the colossus of the White House, the FBI, the CIA and... More
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
(2005) [M]
Based on a true story – the case of Michel is well known among those who study exorcisms. In 1976, the Catholic Church officially recognized the demonic possession of an 19-year-old German college freshman. During her exorcism, the young woman died, and the priest stood trial for causing her... More
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Crash (Director's Cut 2 disc set)
(2005) [MA]
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his... More
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The Five Obstructions
(2003) [M]
Danish auteur Lars von Trier directs the documentary-of-sorts The Five Obstructions (De Fem Bensp?nd). In 2001, von Trier convinces veteran filmmaker Jorgen Leth to create five remakes of his 1967 short The Perfect Human. Calling himself the Obstructor, von Trier orders Leth to make his films in... More
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Cries and Whispers
(1972) [M]
The relationship between three sisters is masterfully explored by Bergman in Cries and Whispers. In rural Sweden around the turn of the century, three sisters reside in a vast manor house with their housekeeper. Agnes lives out the last days of her life in pain, hoping for companionship and... More
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Last Days
(2005) [M]
An official selection in the 2005 Cannes Film festival, GUS VAN SANT'S LAST DAYS is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. The film introduces us to Blake (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers), a brilliant, but troubled musician. Success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his... More
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City of Men (2 disc set)
(2003) [MA]
From the makers of City of God: City Of Men (Cidade dos Homens) is a nine-part mini series, based on Fernando Meirelles' modern classic, City Of God (Cidade de Deus), which follows inhabitants of the Rio de Janeiro favelas through their lives. Like its parent film, City Of Men is an exciting... More
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The Miracle of Bern
(2003) [PG]
Set in the summer of 1954, The Miracle of Bern is the story of 11-year-old Matthias who lives in a German mining town with his mother, sister and brother. He is adopted as the bag carrier and lucky mascot for the local football team by top player Helmut Rahn (Sascha Gopel). Meanwhile, after years... More
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Vixen!
(1968) [R]
Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won't do the wild thing with... More
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An Autumn Afternoon (2 Disc Set)
(1962) [PG]
Alarmed by the pathetic state of his old teacher's daughter—the young woman has sacrificed herself to take care of her father and now passed the age of marriage—the aging salaryman Hirayama realises that he must find his daughter Michiko a husband. His son Koichi understands that Michiko is... More
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Mysterious Skin
(2004) [R]
When they were eight, Brian (Brady Corbett) and Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) experience events that still greatly affect them ten years later. For one, he’s left with nightmares and is convinced he was abducted by aliens and is determined to find out where they came from. For the other he seeks... More
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Boccaccio 70
(1962) [M]
Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top filmmakers. Each story is written in the style of the famed Italian essayist Boccaccio, albeit told in contemporary terms. First up is "The Raffle", written by Cesare Zavattini and directed by Vittorio De Sica:... More
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We Don't Live Here Anymore
(2004) [MA]
Jack and Terry. Hank and Edith. They're married couples and best friends with much in common. Jack and Hank are professors at Cedar County College, Terry and Edith are stay-at-home moms. And Jack and Edith are secret lovers. Based on stories by Andre Dubus (In The Bedroom was also from one of his... More
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The Constant Gardener
(2005) [M]
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's travelling companion, an African doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that... More
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Look Both Ways
(2005) [M]
Meryl imagines disaster coming from every direction—train crashes, man-eating sharks, baby-eating killer whales...and then there's Nick. An innovative mix of animation and live action, set over a scorchingly hot weekend, when people dealing with unexpected events find their lives intersecting.... More
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A Common Thread (aka Brodeuses)
(2004) [PG]
A Common Thread is an exquisite debut film by director and co-writer Eleonore Faucher. It is the unsuspecting story of two women and the art of embroidery - it is also about friendship across generations and overcoming sorrow and adversity through a common bond. More
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Palindromes
(2004) [R]
Todd Solondz's modern American fairy tale tackles poignant themes of abortion and identity. After having an abortion, Aviva is desperate to get pregnant again. She meets an oddball mix of people sharing a variety of views and forcing her into different paths of action. More intriguingly, Aviva is... More
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The Trip
(2002) [M]
Romance, politics, sex and humor all collide during two men’s journey of passion, self-discovery and adventure. Tommy (Steve Braun) meets Alan (Larry Sullivan), at a swinging party in 1973. An intense love affair begins, setting in motion a torrid and unpredictable relationship that steers its... More
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Urbania
(2000) [MA]
A darkly humorous portrayal of urban legends and one man’s plunge into mania. Charlie (Dan Futterman) is a tormented young gay man who has recently split from his long-time companion. Unable to reconcile himself to his loss, Charlie decides to live on the edge. One night, as he aimlessly... More
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Oyster Farmer
(2004) [M]
23 year old Jack Flange (Alex O’Lachlan), moves from Sydney to a small oyster-farming community to work for Brownie (David Field) and his old man Mumbles (Jim Norton), one of the founding families of the river who are now almost bankrupt. Jack has moved to the river to be closer to his sister... More
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Turtles Can Fly
(2004) [M]
Set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border. Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after... More
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The Beat My Heart Skipped
(2005) [M]
Romain Duris gives an extraordinarily intense performance as a young man torn between a life of crime and music in Jacques Audiard's smash hit noir thriller. Set in a seedy and dangerous Paris underworld, Duris plays Tom, who seems set to follow the crooked path of his sleazy father as a ruthless... More
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Somersault
(2004) [MA]
Following a thoughtless attempt to seduce her mother's boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) runs away to the ski-resort town of Jindabine, where she launches herself into an string of one-night-stands and stalled attempts at friendship - a process that heralds her sexual and... More
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Millions
(2004) [PG]
Two young boys come across the loot from a bank robbery, but have only a week to spend it before the UK switches to the euro. More
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Cinderella Man
(2005) [M]
During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the... More
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