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Liam
(2000) [MA]
Liam is growing up in an Irish Catholic quarter of Liverpool in the 1930's, the youngest of three. While he is at school trying to rid his seven-year-old head of the wicked thoughts that stand between him and the salvation of his immortal soul, his older brother is working, adding his wage packet... More
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What's Cooking
(2000) [M]
What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Enjoy this generous and charming tale of four very different families as they cook up some tasty holiday surprises. More
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Chocolat
(2000) [M]
In the small French village of Lansquenet where life has remained the same for 100 years, the wind of change is about to sweep through it, altering it forever... Free-spirited wanderer, Vianne Rocher has arrived with her daughter to set up a chocolaterie during the Lenten period of abstinence.... More
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You Can Count On Me
(2000) [M]
A lot happens at once to Sammy, a single mom living in the Catskill town of her birth, where her parents died in a car crash when she was small. Her son Rudy, who's 8, begins imagining his unseen father as a hero; she picks up, sort of, with last year's boyfriend; she gets a new boss who imposes... More
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All The Pretty Horses
(2000) [M]
Academy Award-winner Matt Damon stars in director Billy Bob Thornton’s action-filled tale of love and loss based on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling novel. John Grady Cole (Damon) and his best friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) leave Texas and head south of the border in search of adventure... More
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Lost Souls
(2000) [MA]
Both haunting and horrific, "Lost Souls" is a suspenseful thriller starring Winona Ryder as a young woman who becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the earth in human form. To defeat the prophecy, she must convince a respected New York crime journalist that he is the target of... More
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Finding Forrester
(2000) [M]
Jamal Wallace (Robert Brown) is an inner-city kid from the Bronx who has an aptness at basketball and a genius at writing. While always a C student, Jamal comes to the attention of a prestigious New York prep school when he scores highly on his standardized tests. While Jamal is given a heavy... More
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Harry He's Here To Help
(1999) [M]
When Michel (Laurent Lucas) bumps into old school acquaintance Harry (Sergi Lopez) en route to his summer holiday with his young family he thinks nothing of it. But when Harry buys Michel a brand new jeep to replace his broken down car and invites himself to the family's remote holiday home,... More
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The Limey
(1999) [MA]
British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's "accidental" death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth,... More
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Songcatcher
(2000) [M]
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she leaves the city to visit her sister in the beautifully rugged mountains of Appalachia. It is here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants... More
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Cul De Sac
(1966) [M]
Immediately after the box–office success of his macabre masterpiece Repulsion, Roman Polanski returned to a theme he had explored in his early classic Knife in the Water – the destruction of a fragile relationship by a maligned outsider. The resulting film was Cul-De-Sac. Donald Pleasence and... More
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The Gift
(2000) [MA]
Widow and mother of three, Annie Wilson (Blanchett), makes her living by foretelling others' futures... though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by client's violently jealous husband (Reeves) and plagues by visions of a missing town-girl (Holmes), Annie is unwittingly... More
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Show Me Love
(1998) [MA]
Amal is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she has never done *it*. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her but is... More
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Croupier
(1998) [M]
Croupier, directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter) is a compelling thriller/character study set against the dark backdrop of London's gambling world. Clive Owen plays Jack Manfred, an aspiring writer forced to take a job as a croupier to make ends meet. The job gradually takes over his life,... More
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Proof Of Life
(2000) [M]
Alice Bowman is world-traveled and savvy but nothing could prepare her for this. Rebels in a politically volatile Latin American country have kidnapped her husband for ransom. The asking price: $3 million. Meg Ryan plays Alice and Russell Crowe is Terry Thorne, the hostage retrieval expert who... More
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Pay It Forward
(2000) [M]
Just imagine. You do a favor that really helps someone and tell him or her not to pay it back, but to pay it forward to three other people who, in turn each pay it forward to three more - and on and on into a global outpouring of kindness and decency. Impossible? Junior high student Trevor... More
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Almost Famous
(2000) [M]
From the writer/director of Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe brings us Almost Famous, nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of Best Original Screenplay. Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming-of-age of 15-year-old music fanatic William (Patrick Fugit). Having managed to... More
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Traffic
(2000) [MA]
A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who's just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband's drug business,... More
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Innocence
(2000) [M]
Retired organist and music teacher, Andreas Borg (Tingwell), discovers that his first true love, Claire (Blake), lives in the same city as he does. Claire hesitantly responds to his plea to meet again, and it soon becomes evident that their love has not faded. Nothing feels as if it has changed;... More
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The Contender
(2000) [M]
When the Vice President of the United States suddenly dies, Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) is chosen by the President (Jeff Bridges) to be the first woman to hold the office. The selection however meets with strong opposition from a powerful political adversary, Senator Shelly Runyon (Gary... More
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Remember The Titans
(2000) [PG]
Academy Award winner Denzel Washington gives a victorious performance in this stirring and uplifting film. Based on a real-life drama, Remember the Titans is a rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. After leading his... More
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Requiem For A Dream
(2000) [R]
The film depicts the lives of four different people living in Brooklyn on their quest for satisfaction in life. It shows the direct and indirect effects that drugs and various addictions have on each of the individuals, and then portrays their downward spirals from the hopes of blossoming dreams... More
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Hannibal (2 disc set)
(2001) [R]
Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) escaped from custody: ten years since FBI Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) interviewed him in a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Europe, pursuing his own interests, savouring... More
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The Legend Of Bagger Vance
(2000) [PG]
Set in the America's Deep South, Robert Redoford's The Legend of Bagger Vance tells the story of Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon), the town of Savannah's very own golfing hero who once appeared to have it all, including captivating Southern Belle Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron). This idyllic... More
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Birthday Girl
(2001) [M]
Birthday Girl is a romantic comedy thriller about mild mannered bank official John (Ben Chaplin) who decides to spice up his non existent love life by finding himself a sexy mail order bride (Nicole Kidman)! The fact that she's Russian, an obvious sex maniac and can't speak a word of English,... More
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The Navigators
(2001) [M]
Set in Yorkshire during the privatisation of British Rail, a group of rail track workers learn the stark reality of redundancy and life as casual agency workers, or work for the new company, under the new rules. More
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Shadow Of The Vampire
(2000) [M]
Somewhere in Eastern Europe, 1922… Filming of F.W. Murnau’s classic vampire movie, Nosferatu, is being disrupted not only by funding problems, but by rumours of disappearances amongst the cast and crew. Leading man Max Shreck (Willem Dafoe) is never introduced to the crew, and he is never... More
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Himalaya
(2001) [PG]
Karma returns from a journey with the sad news that Tinle's son has died in an accident. As head of the village, Tinle uses all his power to punish Karma for his son's death, and forbids him to lead an upcoming yak caravan. The conflict divides the village into two factions, with both men... More
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Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
(1999) [R]
Canadian Gough Lewis' documentary takes an unflinching look at two years in the life of Singaporean-born porn star/artist Annabel Chong (nee Grace Quek), during which she has sex with 251 men in 10 hours for a porn shoot in order to break the record held by an Amsterdam sex worker. To offset... More
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Wives And Daughters (2 disc set)
(1999) [PG]
Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866 and adapted for television by the BBC in 1999.
The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial... More
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