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Trust
(1991) [M]
From director Hal Hartley Trust is a biting, provocative comedy of suburban Middle America. An America riddled with violent, miraculous, hilarious and occasionally lifesaving accidents. A landscape where philosophical bourbon-swilling nurses share the streets with confused grenade-wielding... More
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Europa Europa
(1990) [M]
First posing as a fervent young Stalinist, Perel - who harbored aspirations to be Clark Gable - then becomes an accepted and respected member of the Nazi Youth, burying his true background in a desperate bid for survival. Directed with deft intelligence by former Zanussi collaborator Holland,... More
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Malcolm X
(1992) [M]
Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on... More
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Hail Mary (Je vous salue Marie)
(1985) [R]
Condemed by the Pope and banned across Europe and the US, Jean-Luc Godard's notorious retelling of the birth of Christ is the great French director's most daring cinematic work.
In Godard's contemporary twist on the story of the Virgin, the Virgin Mary is a Swiss gas station employee, and... More
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Murder At The Gallop
(1963) [PG]
The old and wealthy Mr. Enderby dies of a heart attack but the ever suspicious Miss Marple has her doubts. Who or what gave him a heart attack? Enderby's poor relatives gather at the The Gallop, a combined boarding-house and riding school. Miss Marple also gets there to find out if any of them... More
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Murder She Said
(1961) [PG]
When Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) witnesses a murder on a passing train carriage the lack of a body means the police won't take her story seriously. Of course, she begins her own investigation. The killing took place while the train was passing Ackenthorpe Hall, so Miss Marple poses as a... More
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Murder Ahoy
(1964) [G]
Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is a trustee overseeing a fund used to rehabilitate young criminals. When one of her fellow trustees is murdered, Miss Marple goes aboard the ship that is used to train the youngsters in her search for information. Despite the distress of the Captain (Lionel... More
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Cliffhanger
(1993) [M]
Sylvester Stallone takes you to the edge and over it in this mountain of an action movie that scaled box office heights around the world to become a smash hit. John Lithgow (in a brilliant turn as ice-cold villain Eric Qualen), Michael Rooker (Days of Thunder) co-star in the high-altitude story... More
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Raise The Red Lantern
(1991) [M]
China in the 1920's. After her fathers death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in seperate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as... More
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The Last Days Of Chez Nous
(1992) [PG]
Vicki returns to her elder sister Beth's house in Australia after an affair in Italy. Beth, with a teenage daughter, has become involved in something of a marriage of convenience with Frenchman J.P., and her rather prickly house proud ways are causing frictions counterpointed by Vicki's more... More
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Reservoir Dogs (2 Disc Set)
(1992) [R]
Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless... More
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Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
(1954) [G]
Things are different for the Pontipee men now that big brother Adam's fetched a bride and brought her to their cabin. Indeed, the unwed brothers are so inspired that they raid the town and carry off brides of their own! Like a favourite flannel shirt, everything fits right in this rugged... More
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Show boat
(1951) [G]
From novel (by Edna Ferber) to Broadway smash (by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) to three film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) to stage revivals. Like Ol' Man River, Show Boat just keeps rollin' along. Produced by Arther Freed and directed by George Sidney, this 1951 version of the saga of... More
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The Heartbreak Kid
(1993) [M]
Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a schoolteacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a... More
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Passion Fish
(1992) [M]
May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had eagerly left years before. She drinks heavily and vents her bitterness on the succession of nurses who are... More
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High Heels (Tacones Lejanos)
(1991) [M]
A girl's mother returns after 15 years to find her daughter has married one of her (the mother's) old boyfriends. They try to mend their broken mother/daughter relationship and deal with their common lover. Released in the U.S. under the title High Heels, Tacones Lejanos was nominated for several... More
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A Few Good Men
(1992) [M]
Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner's unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. A brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with... More
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A River Runs Through It
(1992) [PG]
A moving drama revolving around the lives of the two sons of a Montana preacher; their contrasting characters, changing relationships, and their mutual love of fly-fishing. Won Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1993. More
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Thelma And Louise
(1991) [M]
Fasten your seat-belts as Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis take it on the road in this modern classic, a high-speed adventure that bristles with the thrilling, life-affirming energy of the best road movies. Directed with great style by Ridley Scott, Thelma And Louise (written by Oscar winner Callie... More
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Lord Of The Flies (1990)
(1990) [M]
The second big screen adaptation of William Golding's novel. After a harrowing plane crash into the sea, a group of American military cadets finds itself marooned on a deserted island. Realising the minimal chances of being rescued, the boys band together out of fear and desperation. But as the... More
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My Own Private Idaho
(1991) [M]
Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his... More
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Sid And Nancy
(1986) [R]
Screaming and abrasive as safety pins on a blackboard, "Sid and Nancy" chronicles the sordid lives of two of punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his junkie girlfriend Nancy Spungen, brilliantly performed by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Director Alex Cox... More
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American Friends
(1991) [PG]
Francis Ashby, an Oxford University Professor, ventures into the Swiss Alps for a timely and well earned holiday before his prospective appointment as president of his college. What Ashby in his secure, well ordered life does not expect to face is a mid-life crisis in the chance meeting of two... More
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One False Move
(1992) [R]
With the assistance of two Los Angeles Police Department detectives, Star City, Arkansas Police Chief Dale "Hurricane" Dixon prepares to take on several criminals heading to his small town after a crime-filled road trip from California. More
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The Long Day Closes
(1992) [PG]
Set in Liverpool in the years 1955 and 1956, 'THE LONG DAY CLOSES' tells the story of 11-year-old Bud, a joyous time of long summer days and trips to the cinema, music forever on the radio and the boundless love of his mother, older sister and brothers, his contentment clouded only by his... More
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Once Upon A Time In America (2 Disc Set)
(1984) [R]
Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends... More
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Scent Of A Woman
(1992) [M]
Al Pacino won his first "Best Actor" Oscar for his brilliant portrayal of an overbearing, blind retired Lieutenant Colonel who hires a young guardian (Chris O'Donnell), to assist him. It's a heart-wrenching and heartwarming tale of opposites attracting when they embark on a wild weekend trip that... More
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Riff Raff
(1990) [M]
Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site. Here he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying, but usually failing, to control his workers, Shem, Mo and Larry and the other lads as they duck and dive the... More
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For A Few Dollars More
(1965) [M]
This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing Man With No Name. Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal... More
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Hear My Song
(1991) [M]
Popular 1950's singer Josef Locke (Ned Beatty - 'The Big Easy'/ 'Deliverance'), fled from England 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the taxman and Police Chief Jim Abbott (David McCallum). What he also left behind was the love of his life, Cathleen Doyle (Shirley Anne Field). Now Mickey... More
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