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Centre Stage: Collector's Edition
(2000) [PG]
After competitions, 12 young dancers make it to the American Ballet Academy. They'll prepare for a recital to determine who will be asked to join the American Ballet Company. Tensions mount between Jonathan, the company's aging choreographer, and Cooper, his best dancer, who also wants to... More
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Cast Away
(2000) [M]
Tom Hanks "gives one of the towering screen performances of all time" (New York Post) as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his... More
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Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2 disc set)
(2001) [MA]
The year is 1764 and for the past two years a mysterious beast has been killing scores of women and children in the Gevaudan region of France. With the whole country shaken by these inexplicable killings, the King decides to send scientist Gregoire du Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan) and his taciturn... More
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Amadeus: The Director's Cut
(1984) [PG]
It's 1781 and Antonio Salieri is the competent court composer to Emperor Joseph II. When Mozart arrives at court, Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish jokester. Maddened by envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by... More
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24 Hour Party People: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [MA]
Tony Wilson: a young Cambridge graduate and TV presenter, inspired by the Sex Pistols' first Manchester gig, founds Factory Records and the Hacienda night-club. The bands he signs include: Joy Division (New Order) and the Happy Mondays, while the Hacienda transforms Manchester into "Madchester" -... More
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A Beautiful Mind (2 disc set)
(2001) [M]
Ron Howard's Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind is a compelling look at one man's genius, his debilitating mental illness, and the fine line between the two. The film begins with John Forbes Nash (Russell Crowe) at Princeton, where he struggles to think of an original idea, and the stroke of genius... More
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Mississippi Burning
(1988) [M]
Prepare to be shaken and moved as three young men in the 1960s meet their violent and untimely deaths on a dark Mississippi highway in this powerful and poignant drama. Based on the real-life murder investigation of three civil rights activists and starring two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman and... More
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Paradise Found
(2003) [M]
Based on a true story of the French post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, who abandoned his career, wife, children and homeland to live and paint in Tahiti. More
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The Best Man's Wedding
(2000) [M]
Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Roros best friend, Mans, has his own problems: He has serious problems getting an erection... More
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Time Out
(2001) [PG]
Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) seems to contentedly spend weeks on the road, busy with business trips and meetings. He shares vague details with his loving wife, Muriel (Karin Viard) and their three children. But Vincent's professional life is fiction. Unable to bear telling family and friends that... More
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Raising Victor Vargas
(2002) [M]
Summer time and New York's sweltering East Side provides the setting for Victor Vargas (Victor Rasuk), a self-styled teenage Casanova, in his quest to become a man. Living in a cramped apartment with his younger "Victor wannabe" brother Nino (Silvestre Rasuk), his antagonistic sister Vicki... More
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The Night We Called It a Day
(2003) [M]
A surprisingly entertaining comedy about a young Aussie promoter (Joel Edgerton) who manages to convince Frank Sinatra and his crew to visit Australia for a few shows. All goes well until Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) runs into a TV reporter (played by Ally McBeal's Portia de Rossi) who claims he... More
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Ripley's Game
(2002) [MA]
How do you turn an innocent person into a murderer? That's the diabolical game that Tom Ripley is playing in Liliana Cavani's sleek thriller Ripley's Game, based on Patricia Highsmith's novel (and previously filmed by Wim Wenders as The American Friend). Three years after walking off with... More
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West Side Story (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1961) [PG]
Winner of no less than ten 1961 Academy Awards, including a special Oscar for Jerome Robbins for his choreography, West Side Story is Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' transported to the slums and racial tensions of contemporary New York. A tough and trenchant musical, its highlights include a... More
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West Side Story
(1961) [PG]
Winner of no less than ten 1961 Academy Awards, including a special Oscar for Jerome Robbins for his choreography, West Side Story is Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' transported to the slums and racial tensions of contemporary New York. A tough and trenchant musical, its highlights include a... More
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Battle Royale
(2001) [R]
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated... More
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The Shooting Party
(1985) [PG]
Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate's peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir... More
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The Safety Of Objects
(2001) [MA]
In a modest house in suburban America, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) lies ill in his bedroom, nursed by his mother, Esther (Glenn Close). A stone's throw away, Annette Jennings (Patricia Clarkson), is in the midst of a messy divorce. Meanwhile, after years dedicated to his job, Jim Train (Dermot... More
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Song for a Raggy Boy
(2003) [MA]
Based on a true story, "Song for a Raggy Boy" is the story of one man's courage to stand up and fight against the tough fascist regime in a boys Irish Reformatory School in 1939. More
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Welcome to Collinwood
(2002) [M]
In caper comedy Welcome To Collinwood, a bunch of hapless inner-city low-lifes (Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Michael Jeter, and Isaiah Washington) attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but wind up gaining more than they lose. George Clooney cameos as an expert safe cracker. More
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Princess Blade
(2001) [MA]
In an unknown country closed off from the outside world for well over 500 years, the ruling dictatorship enlists the help of the Takemikazuchi family, a clan of skilled assassins who sought asylum from their nation years ago. The most highly trained member of the family is Princess Yuki, killing... More
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Volcano High
(2001) [M]
Volcano High is a visually stunning, fast-moving, live action manga movie that has to be seen to be believed. Expelled from eight other schools because of his telekinetic powers, Kim Kyung-soo is transferred to Volcano High where he discovers his new school is populated by similarly gifted... More
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The Dancer Upstairs
(2002) [MA]
John Malkovich made an explosive directorial debut with this taut political thriller about an honest man caught in a tantalising web of intrigue, power and passion. Javier Bardem stars as lawyer-turned-policeman Agustin Rej, who must catch the mysterious guerilla leader "Ezequiel" before his... More
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A Man Called Horse
(1970) [PG]
Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th century. When an English lord is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the chief’s aging mother (Dame Judith Anderson) as a servant.... More
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Funeral in Berlin
(1966) [M]
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany. Michael Caine... More
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Man on the Train (L'Homme du Train)
(2002) [M]
A mysterious stranger, Milan (Johnny Hallyday), steps off a train in a place he has never been to before. Looking for a pharmacy to buy some aspirin for a raging headache, he comes across a retired school teacher, Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men are complete opposites. Or at least they... More
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Auto Focus
(2002) [R]
Bob Crane became a household name as the star of the hit comedy series Hogan's Heroes - but the flipside to fame and fortune was Crane's insatiable desire to love hard and live fast. Crane's life would spin out of control and eventually lead to his brutal murder, which remains one of the most... More
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Callan: The Movie
(1974) [M]
David Callan, top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retired because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman. His former boss promises Callan that he'll be returned to active status if he follows... More
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