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A Simple Plan
(1998) [M]
Two brothers discover over four million dollars of stolen money. Their attempts at keeping the money a secret from the authorities lead to mistrust, lies and finally murder... More
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Twentyfour Seven
(1997) [M]
From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy... More
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The Interview (1998)
(1998) [M]
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the police blasted their way into Eddie's apartment and took him to the police headquarters. He's sitting in an interrogation room opposite detective John Steele who frequently interrupts the interview letting Eddie sweat until he comes back. He's suspected of car... More
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The Thief
(1997) [M]
A boy and his mother try to get by in the Soviet Union of the 1950s in this tragedy written and directed by Pavel Chukrai. The joint Russian-French production opens with a woman falling down in the snow and mud to give birth to a child in 1946. The boy's father is a soldier who died in the war.... More
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What Have I Done To Deserve This?
(1984) [MA]
Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, the Luis Bunuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to... More
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Happy Together
(1997) [M]
Lai and Ho, arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong as lovers, but Ho leaves for Buenos Aires to become a good-time boy. Lai attempts to regain his emotional state but finds that he is consumed with the dream of being "happy together" once again with Ho. Wong Kar-Wai, winner for Best Director at... More
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The Tango Lesson
(1997) [PG]
The director of Orlando, Sally Potter chronicles her obsession with the tango. Playing a female filmmaker who discovers the tango in between bouts of writing a screenplay, Sally places herself under the tutelage of Pablo, an Argentinean tango dancer living in Paris. As her lessons proceed, Sally... More
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Velvet Goldmine
(1998) [MA]
1984: It's the 10th anniversary of Brian Slade's disappearance and Journalist Arthur Stuart is sent out to expose the truth about the myth and through his investigation we are told the controversial and explicit story of Velvet Goldmine.
1971: Glam Rock explodes on the world, challenging the... More
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Radiance
(1998) [M]
Radiance is a captivating story of three young women who re-unite, after many years apart, for their mother's funeral, to grieve, reconcile and celebrate. Over the course of twenty four hours, the skeletons in the family closet emerge, and we discover that coming home means different things to... More
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Mrs. Dalloway
(1997) [M]
Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In... More
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The Truman Show
(1998) [PG]
He's the star of the show-but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead poets Society) about a man whose life is a non stop TV show. Truman doesn't realise that his quaint hometown is... More
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The Draughtsman's Contract
(1982) [M]
The Draughtsman's Contract is a visual and narrative treat and established Peter Greenaway as one of Britain's most original and talented filmmakers. Set in the opulent 17th Century when double standards between the sexes prevailed, this elaborate conspiracy thriller tells of an opportunistic and... More
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Live Flesh
(1997) [MA]
This Pedro Almodovar melodrama examines how several lives are changed by a single gunshot. Adapting the novel Live Flesh by British mystery author Ruth Rendell, Almodovar has given the material a Spanish makeover with added political thrust. Beginning in 1970 in Franco's Madrid, when a prostitute... More
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Mulan
(1998) [G]
This retelling of the old Chinese folktale is about the story of a young Chinese maiden who learns that her weakened and lame father is to be called up into the army in order to fight the invading Huns. Knowing that he would never survive the rigours of war in his state, she decides to disguise... More
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The Sweet Hereafter
(1997) [M]
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer (Ian Holm) visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is... More
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (2 Disc Set)
(1998) [R]
An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a wacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out... More
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Lethal Weapon 3 (Director's Cut)
(1992) [M]
They come, they see, they kick butt in a caper that has L.A. police detectives Riggs and Murtaugh ripping into a vicious crime ring dealing guns to the streets. Joe Pesci returns as shady ex-mob acountant Leo Getz, and Rene Russo adds a lethal kick as Internal Affairs investogator Lorna Cole,... More
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Lethal Weapon 2 (Director's Cut)
(1989) [M]
Buddy-cops Martin Riggs and Murtaugh are back, trying to keep a key witness - and themselves - alive in Lethal Weapon 2. Murtaugh is still the rock-solid family man. Riggs is still the reckless daredevil, but now he counts the odds before bucking them. He cracks more jokes too. 'I thought in this... More
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Lethal Weapon (Director's Cut)
(1987) [M]
Martin Riggs is no ordinary cop. He's a Mad Max gone maniacal, a man whose killing expertise and suicidal recklessness make him a Lethal Weapon to anyone he works against. Or with. Lethal Weapon is the thrill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common:... More
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Backdraft
(1991) [M]
Ron Howard directs an all-star cast in an exciting action-thriller that shows you the mystery, drama and devastation of fire as you've never seen it before! Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a... More
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Funny Games
(1997) [R]
Funny Games is a thriller that will take you beyond terror, beyond suspense, beyond evil... Anna, George and their son are about to begin a holiday that they will never forget. Two young psychopathic outsiders invade their remote lakeside home and announce that none of the family will be alive in... More
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Lethal Weapon 4 (Director's Cut)
(1998) [MA]
Pure dynamite! The Lethal Weapon team has done it again, putting the match to the fuse and putting the WOW! back on screen for Lethal Weapon 4. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as buddy-cops Riggs and Murtaugh, with Joe Pesci riding comedy shotgun as chatterbox Leo. Murtaugh is still the family... More
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Kundun
(1997) [PG]
In 1937, in a remote area of Tibet close to the Chinese border, a a two year old child is identified as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, the compassionate Buddha. Two years later, the child is brought to Lhasa where he is schooled as a monk and as head of state amidst the color and pageantry... More
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Head On (Australian)
(2000) [R]
In this gritty Australian drama, the nihilistic son of Greek immigrants indulges in 24 hours of hedonism in ethnically conflicted inner-city Melbourne. Ari (Alex Dimitriades), a 19-year-old layabout, spends his time picking up strange men for furtive sex; dealing, and doing, speed with his... More
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Walkabout
(1971) [M]
Nicolas Roeg's mystical masterpiece chronicles the physical, spiritual and emotional journey of a sister and brother abandoned in the harsh Australian outback. They are helped by a young indigenous Australian boy (David Gulpilil), and though there is no common language between them, they are able... More
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Dial M For Murder
(1954) [PG]
A woman slowly realises that her husband is trying to murder her. When the wrong person falls victim, a deadly series of events begins. A Hitchcock masterpiece More
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The Rainmaker
(1997) [M]
Francis Ford Coppola directs and scripts a compelling, star-packed adaptation of John Grisham's novel about an idealistic young attorney who takes on the case of a lifetime. Matt Damon plays Rudy Baylor, a rookie lawyer in over his head on a high-profile case. Opposing him: an army of seasoned... More
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The Fringe Dwellers
(1986) [PG]
Trilby Comeaway (Kristina Nehm) is an Aboriginal teenager living in a squalid shantytown with her extended family who are divided between those more assimilated to the white world, like Trilby and her sister, and an older generation still attuned to the mythology of their culture. A quietly... More
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The Apostle
(1997) [PG]
Eulis 'Sonny' Dewey is a preacher from Texas living a happy life with his beautiful wife Jessie. Suddenly his stable world crumbles: Jessie is having an affair with young minister Horace. Sonny gets enraged and hits Horace with a softball bat, putting him into a coma. After that he leaves town,... More
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The King Of Comedy
(1983) [PG]
In Martin Scorsese's masterful black comedy, Robert De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin (his motto: "Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime"), a wannabe comic who will go to any lengths to further his career. A joke writer who has never performed anywhere except his mother’s... More
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