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The Shootist
(1976) [PG]
Afflicted with a terminal illness, John Bernard Books (John Wayne), the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart). Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a... More
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I Shot Andy Warhol
(1996) [MA]
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical, preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum manifesto". She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story. More
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The Boys From Brazil
(1978) [M]
Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), alive and living in South America gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a mysterious project. Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), begins to unravel the conspiracy and discovers that Mengele has cloned 94 young Hitlers. Suddenly the terrifying extent of... More
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A Wedding
(1978) [M]
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the... More
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Secrets And Lies
(1996) [M]
Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA awards, Mike Leigh’s hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Secrets and Lies centres around Cynthia, a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with a confrontational... More
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Cyclo
(1995) [R]
One day, he is mugged and drawn into gangland crime to get money. He meets The Poet, the enigmatic gang leader. The Cyclo Boy is impressed by his power and wants to join the gang. This involves a gruesome period of initiation. As he rises in the world of crime, he sinks lower into despair,... More
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Careful He Might Hear You (2 disc set)
(1983) [PG]
In the turbulent years of the Great Depression an orphaned boy becomes a pawn in a bitter family feud as two aunts - snooty Anglophile Vanessa (Wendy Hughes), and working-class Lila (Robyn Nevin) - battle for his custody. Newly returned from a world tour, wealthy socialite Vanessa lavishes her... More
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Flirt
(1995) [M]
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Japan). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do ? More
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Nadja
(1994) [M]
This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good... More
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Immortal Beloved
(1994) [M]
When a cryptic letter from musical genius, Beethoven, turned up shortly after his death, it started one of history's most compelling romantic mysteries, an ending riddle that remains unsolved to this day. Who, among the scores of women that Beethoven seduced, was his Immortal Beloved?
Gary... More
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Cronos
(1993) [M]
The first feature from writer/director Guillermo del Toro (Mimic, The Devil's Backbone), Cronos caused a sensation upon its release, winning several awards at many international film festivals, including Cannes and the Mexican Academy Awards. A modern vampire tale, elevated from the usual... More
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Jean De Florette
(1986) [PG]
Jean De Florette is French director, Claude Berri's, first part of the stunning adaptation of the acclaimed Marcel Pagnol novel, and is the winner of numerous international awards and is the world's most popular foreign language film ever. City-dweller Jean de Florette moves his family to the... More
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Sleepers
(1996) [MA]
The judicial system is supposed to protect them. But when a youthful prank in New York's Hell's Kitchen spins out of control, the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Sentenced to the Wilkinson School for Boys, four pals are mistreated at will by a cadre of sadistic guards. Now, 15 years later, they... More
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Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
(1996) [MA]
Andy Garcia heads an outstanding all-star cast in this riveting and highly original thriller. When a powerful mob boss (Christopher Walken) gives ex-gangster Jimmy The Saint (Garcia) one last job, it's an offer he can't refuse. But when something goes wrong, Jimmy and his partners are marked for... More
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The Confessional
(1995) [M]
After three years in China, Pierre Lamontagne, has returned to Quebec. He meets up with Marc, his adopted brother. Feeling lost and adrift, Marc has begun to question his identity and is searching for his roots. The brothers embark on a quest to find Marc's unknown father, a quest that will lead... More
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Stealing Beauty
(1996) [M]
From the director of The Last Emperor, Stealing Beauty explores one girl's intriguing journey into womanhood in a provocative story of passion and self discovery. When 19-year-old Lucy arrives in Tuscany to spend the summer with her late Mother's free spirited Bohemian friends, she soon finds... More
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Cold Comfort Farm
(1995) [G]
Starring Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste, a London society girl, and Joanna Lumley as Flora's friend and mentor, this adaptation of Stella Gibbon's novel comes from director John Schlesinger (Billy Liar, Midnight Cowboy). This heart-warming comedy is full of charm and clever satire. Recently... More
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Love And Other Catastrophes
(1996)
Take a wild and wacky romp through the land of romance with five friends whose lives intersect and collide in unexpected and comical ways. Critics cheered this wildly refreshing film about the often hilarious catastrophes of love and dating in the 90s! More
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La Haine (Hate)
(1995) [MA]
La Haine is packed with sharp street humour, intense action and brutally brilliant camera work. Police viciously beat a 16-year-old housing estate kid they are questioning, leaving him almost dead. Responding to violence, teenagers from the estate turn their home into a 24 hour war zone. Among... More
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Underground (1995)
(1995) [M]
The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they... More
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Striptease
(1996) [MA]
Erin Grant (Demi Moore) must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she must first take it off. Bounced from her job, she needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. The pulsating gentlemen's-club world of exotic dreamgirls and whooping patrons is... More
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A Time To Kill
(1996) [M]
John Grisham's bestseller A Time to Kill hits the screen with incendiary force, directed by Joel Schumacher. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey portray the principals in a murder trial that brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint.... More
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Primal Fear
(1996) [MA]
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly un-winnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest. More
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Brilliant Lies
(1996) [MA]
Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00. More
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How To Make An American Quilt
(1995) [PG]
Berkeley graduate student Finn (Winona Ryder) is spending the summer at the home of her sparring grandmother and great aunt. Their house is a quiet haven where Finn intends to finish her latest thesis and think over a marriage proposal. But when she meets sexy, smouldering Leon, things begin to... More
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Trainspotting
(1995) [R]
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family..." This is the story of Mark Renton and his so-called friends - a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed seemingly towards... More
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Shanghai Triad
(1995) [M]
`Shanghai Triad" may be the last of the collaborations between the Chinese director Zhang Yimou and the gifted actress Gong Li. The story of a gang boss in 1930s Shanghai and his willful, troublesome mistress, it's seen through the eyes of a small boy from the country who loses his innocence in... More
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City Hall
(1996) [M]
In a performance both volatile and graceful, Al Pacino reteams with Sea of Love director Harold Becker as New York Mayor John Pappas in City Hall, a savvy thriller that's the first film ever shot inside the lower Manhattan structure that's ground zero for the city's government. That and other NYC... More
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White Squall
(1996) [M]
Directed by Ridley Scott, White Squall is based on the true story of a group of students in their senior year who, in 1960, sign up to crew a sailing ship on a voyage from the Caribbean to the South Pacific and back. Under the command of skipper Christopher Sheldon (Jeff Bridges), the teenage... More
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Casino
(1995) [R]
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes... More
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