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In Good Company
(2004) [PG]
When his company is reorganised, an aging executive gets demoted and find himself with a much younger, 20-something boss. To further complicate the situation, the boss begins having an affair with the demoted man's daughter. Starring Dennis Quaid (Frequency), Scarlett Johansson (Lost in... More
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Vera Drake
(2004) [M]
Mike Leigh returns to the screen with the Golden Lion winning, Vera Drake, a beautifully crafted and effecting drama that finds the Director at a career highpoint. Vera Drake is a portrait of a selfless woman who is totally dedicated to her loving working class family, but Vera has a secret side.... More
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Being Julia
(2004) [M]
In the role that brought her amazing critical acclaim, an Academy Award® nomination, the Golden Globe® Award and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, Annette Bening plays a beautiful and beguiling actress who finds herself bored with her role as the toast of the town in Being... More
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Les Choristes (The Chorus)
(2004) [M]
When he takes a job teaching music at a school for troubled boys, Clement Mathieu is unprepared for its harsh discipline and depressing atmosphere. An inspirational story in the rich tradition of Music Of The Heart and Mr. Holland's Opus, THE CHORUS has moved critics everywhere to declare it one... More
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The Interpreter
(2005) [M]
New York’s United Nations building has been featured prominently in many movies - most notably, perhaps, in Hitchcock’s classic North By Northwest - but The Interpreter is the first film to be allowed to actually shoot inside the building - the ideal setting for a political suspense thriller.... More
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I Can Jump Puddles: (Disc 1 of 3)
(1981) [PG]
The autobiography of Alan Marshall who was struck down by Polio as a child and fought to overcome the crippling effects of the disease. It traces his life from childhood into early adulthood. Based upon his trilogy of autobiographical books I Can Jump Puddles, This Is The Grass and How Beautiful... More
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Birth
(2004) [MA]
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to... More
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Bad Education
(2004) [MA]
From two-time Academy Award®-winner Pedro Almodovar (2002 Best Original Screenplay, Talk to Her, 2000 Best Foreign Language Film, All About My Mother) comes Bad Education, an outrageous tale of desire, revenge and murder. Filmmaker Enrique (Fele Martinez) gets a visit from an aspiring actor... More
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Woyzeck
(1978) [M]
A poor soldier Woyzeck (Klaus Kinski) is tormented in private by visions of the apocalypse, and tormented in public by the unbearable weight of social pressure. He descends into madness and murder. A morality play with more than a nod toward Becket and Brecht, this adaptation of Georg Buchner's... More
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When Will I Be Loved?
(2004) [MA]
James Toback, a writer and director known for provocative explorations of race and sexual relations such as "Black and White" and "Two Girls and a Guy" has created a femme fatale for the 21st Century. Vera (Neve Campbell) is a beautiful, privileged, capricious young New Yorker exploring the... More
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Luther
(1973) [PG]
This adaptation of John Osborne's Luther was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Stacy Keach stars as Martin Luther, the German priest who, during the 16th... More
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Romeo and Juliet
(1976) [PG]
For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet when their children, Romeo and Juliet, inadvertantly meet, they fall passionately in love. Defying their parents' wishes, they are... More
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Macbeth (1978)
(1978) [PG]
Trevor Nunn's film of William Shakespeare's tragedy of ambition and witchcraft attempts to recreate his acclaimed 1976 staging of the play. Ian McKellen and Judi Dench play the ambitious pair who murder their way to the Scottish throne. Nunn's film retains the spare, simple look of his stage... More
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Born into Brothels
(2004) [M]
In this Oscar-winning documentary, photographer Zana Briski and director Ross Kaufman travel to Sonagchi, Calcutta, and film the relationships they develop with kids (ages 10-14) of prostitutes who work the city's red-light district. Amid the sadness and squalor lie faint glimmers of hope, as in... More
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The Motorcycle Diaries
(2004) [M]
This is the true story of a 23-year-old medical student from Argentina, Che Guevara, who traveled across South America on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado in 1951-1952, in a personal odyssey which would ultimately inspire him to become a revolutionary who had a profound impact on the... More
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
(2004) [M]
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined... More
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Samurai 2 : Duel at Ichijoji Temple
(1955) [M]
Part two in the Oscar winning Samurai Trilogy sees Musashi Miyamoto mature from a cynical wanderer into one of Japan's finest swordsmen. When Mushashi challenges a fencing school to prove his prowess, he begins to learn that mastery of the sword is also mastery of the self. More
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The Eel
(1997) [R]
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for... More
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Surviving Desire
(1991) [M]
A perfectly formed 60 minute film detailing the relationship between misanthropic college professor Jude (Martin Donovan, Hartleys favourite leading man) and Sofie (Mary B. Ward), a beautiful student in one of his literature classes. Sofie is the only member of his class not to be driven mad by... More
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Friday Night Lights
(2004) [PG]
Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer (8 Mile) and director Peter Berg team up with Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton to create what Newsweek called one of the "top ten films of the year". Friday Night Lights chronicles the 1988 season of a courageous bunch of friends, the Permian High... 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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Million Dollar Baby (2 disc set)
(2004) [M]
Eastwood plays boxing trainer, Frankie Dunn, a man who has become emotionally locked up and unable to allow himself to get close to anyone since a painful estrangement from his daughter. Frankie runs an LA gym with ex-boxer, Eddie Scrap-Iron (Morgan Freeman) who narrates the story. Into... 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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Tears of the Sun
(2003) [MA]
e between following orders and the dictates of his own conscience. Together, they begin a dangerous trek through the deadly jungle, all the while being pursued by a rebel militia group, with only one goal in mind: to assassinate Lt. Waters‚ unit and the refugees in his care. More
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Man On Fire
(2004) [MA]
In Man on Fire, Denzel Washington is Creasy, a troubled ex-Special Forces operative who travels to Mexico City to meet up with an old friend called Rayburn (Christopher Walken). The two men share memories of a violent past from which Rayburn seems to have escaped by settling into a new life.... More
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The Weeping Camel
(2003) [PG]
Springtime in the Gobi Desert, south Mongolia. A family of nomads assists with the births in their camel herd. One of the camels has a difficult delivery, and when her rare, white calf is born, she rejects it, refusing it the milk it needs to survive. In accordance with an ancient ritual, the... More
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Apres Vous
(2003) [M]
Antoine (Auteuil) is a maitre d’ at Chez Jean, an upmarket brasserie in Paris. One evening, while returning home from work, he saves an unknown man from suicide. But the stranger, Louis is furious. Feeling strangely guilty at having saved this unhappy man’s life, Antoine does everything he... More
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Breaking News
(2004) [M]
A violent gang of criminals take refuge in a Hong Kong apartment block- embarrassing the HKPD on local television by escaping from a whole battalion of police with ease. Inspector Rebecca takes aim at the gang by sending SWAT into the building - complete with wireless cameras on their helmets.... More
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