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I Confess
(1953) [PG]
Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto... More
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Eleni
(1985) [PG]
Based on the autobiographical novel by Nicholas Gage. A New York times reporter returns to his homeland in search of answers regarding the death of his mother, who was executed while helping her children escape from a communist forced labour camp. More
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
(1962) [M]
Ask Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) and he'll say that Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is a hero worthy of the Medal of Honour. But despite what he says, Marco suspects otherwise. A bizarre, recurring nightmare gives him the uneasy feeling that Shaw is something far less heroic and... More
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Come In Spinner (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]
COME IN SPINNER is a mini-series adaptation of the Australian wartime novel of the same name. It's an insightful look into the lives of three women in 1944 who work in the beauty salon of a top hotel in Sydney. The show was directed by Robert Marchand and stars Lisa Harrow and Kerry Armstrong.... More
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The Carpetbaggers
(1964) [M]
George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting... More
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Chaplin
(1992) [M]
Containing an abundance of screen talent, Richard Attenborough's critically acclaimed Chaplin is a captivating recreation of the life of movie legend Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr's BAFTA winning performance in this wonderful film takes you on a journey through the laughter and misery of the... More
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Damage
(1992) [R]
Jeremy Irons plays Stephen Fleming, a respected Member of Parliament and Junior Minister, comfortable with his life as he approaches his fiftieth birthday. Secure in his enduring marriage, he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he is drawn to an attractive woman... More
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The City Of Women
(1980) [M]
The culmination of Fellini's life-long obsession with the fairer sex, City of Women stars Fellini's favourite alter-ego, Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2) as a modern-day Don Juan who tackles middle-age, and feminism, by attempting to bring together all the women in his life - past,... More
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Raging Bull (2 Disc Set)
(1980) [M]
Based on the true story of Jake LaMotta. An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
Won 2 Oscars (Best Actor and Best Film Editing) and was nominated for 6 others including Best... More
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La Belle Noiseuse (2 disc set)
(1991) [MA]
Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters... More
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Dingo (Dog of the Desert)
(1991) [PG]
Traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson, an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris, to meet his idol, jazz trumpeter Billy Cross. More
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Bitter Moon
(1992) [R]
Roman Polanksi explores the uttermost depths of sexual perversion and experimentation in this erotic drama with more than a hint of black comedy. Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott-Thomas), a repressed English couple eager to rekindle their fading marriage by taking a luxury cruise, get... More
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Britannia Hospital
(1982) [M]
A spectacular farce set in an old hospital that alarmingly resembles Britain at its most chaotic. Everything starts to go wrong when the medical administrators are faced with a threatened strike, angry scenes, and a Royal visit. Third instalment in Lindsay Anderson's "Mick Travers" trilogy with... More
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Night On Earth
(1991) [M]
A hip and hilarious comedy from cult director Jim Jarmusch. The action takes place in five cities in one night, with a brilliant cast of cabbies and customers. The stories, stretching from sunset to sunrise, range form the ridiculous to the sublime, punctuated by a haunting theme song by Tom... More
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Glengarry Glen Ross
(1992) [M]
Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris and Kevin Spacey shine in this powerful story set in world of real estate. Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak.... More
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Pauline At The Beach (Pauline A La Plage)
(1983) [M]
The third film in director Eric Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series in which Pauline has her fifteen-year-old eyes opened to the duplicity, hypocrisy and plain silliness of adult sexual politics. French language with subtitles. More
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Winter Light
(1962) [PG]
Local pastor Tomas Ericsson has been left cold and hardened by the untimely death of his wife, his religious convictions severely shaken. The characters’ anguish, isolation, and despair at the prospect of an absent or uncaring God are mirrored by the film’s stark setting, flawlessly captured... More
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Knife In The Water
(1962) [M]
A couple driving along a deserted road to a lake almost run over a young man, a student, who flags down the car almost too closely. The driver is a self absorbed husband, the woman his pretty, irritated wife. They take him along and the husband, out of the sheer patronizing will, invites him to... More
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Les Valseuses
(1974) [R]
Originally released in 1974, Les Valseuses(French slang for 'balls') was universally decreed as shocking and nothing short of scandalous. It is the tale of two aging juvenile delinquents, furious with the world, who take to the road and go on an orgy of petty thievery and much much worse.... More
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We Of The Never Never
(1982) [G]
This fine Australian drama is based on the memoirs of Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, the first white woman ever to journey into the Australian Outback. It received six Australian Academy Award Nominations. More
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Shadows And Fog
(1992) [PG]
A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of... More
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Romper Stomper
(1989) [R]
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the... More
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Born On The Fourth Of July
(1989) [M]
Tom Cruise delivers a riveting and unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone's Academy Award winning masterpiece. Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran... More
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Local Hero
(1983) [PG]
David Puttnam's first production after "Chariots of Fire" and director Bill Forsyth's follow up to "Gregory's Girl", this delightfully observed comedy looks at the conflict between a Texas oil company and the canny residents of a Scottish fishing village, whose land is needed by the Americans for... More
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The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
(1947) [PG]
Pure cinematic gold! This triple Academy Award - winner well deserves its status as a renowned classic. Both a riveting adventure story and richly sardonic tale, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre digs into the depths of the human soul, producing one of Hollywood's all-time richest finds. Directed... More
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The Player
(1992) [M]
Movie executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving death threats from an anonymous screenwriter. Deducing that the letters are coming from rejected hopeful David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio), Griffin sets up an 'accidental' meeting with the writer and, during an argument, kills him. While the... More
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Patriot Games
(1992) [M]
Harrison Ford stars as Jack Ryan in this explosive thriller based on Tom Clancy's international best-seller. His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife (Anne Archer, Fatal Attraction) and child (Thora Birch, All I... More
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Diary Of A Chambermaid
(1963) [PG]
Luis Bunuel's sharp, unrelenting remake of Jean Renoir's 1946 film concerns fascism in 1939 France and how the bourgeoisie are viewed by maid Celestine played by Jeanne Moreau who stirs the desires of her new household and neighbours. French dialogue with English subtitles.*MR More
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Tristana
(1970) [PG]
An orphaned girl is taken into the care of a rich local man. But she discovers that his intentions are not entirely honourable. French dialogue *MR More
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The Power Of One
(1992) [PG]
From the Academy Award-winning director of Rocky and The Karate Kid come a story as explosive as today's headlines. Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact), John Gielgud (Arthur) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) star in The Power Of One, a compelling, hard-hitting movie from hitmaker John G. Avildsen. Based on the... More
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