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Manon Des Sources (Jean de Florette Part 2)
(1986) [PG]
The equally extraordinary, highly successful and award-winning sequel to Jean de Florette based on the classic. The timless story continues when the late Jean de Florette's daughter Manon, now grown up into a beautiful free-spirited shepherdess on her father's Provence farm. But when she finally... More
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Les Amants Du Pont-neuf
(1991) [M]
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and... More
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Full Metal Jacket
(1987) [R]
A two-segment story that follows young men from the start of recruit training in the Marine Corps to the lethal cauldron known as Vietnam. The first segment follows Joker, Pyle and others as they progress through the hell of USMC boot-camp at the hands of the colorful, foul-mouthed Gunnery... More
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In The Realm Of The Senses
(1976) [R]
Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima's controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art - making Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris of four years earlier look like children's programming in comparison. The story concerns servant and... More
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The Negotiator
(1998) [MA]
Maverick hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) is framed for embezzlement and murder. Newly married and unjustly faced with prison, Roman turns hostage-taker to smoke out the guilty ones. Squaring off against him is respected, methodical negotiator Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey). Under... More
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Heat (1995)
(1995) [MA]
When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro square off, Heat sizzles. Written and directed by Michael Mann, Heat includes dazzling set pieces and a bank heist that USA Today calls "the greatest action scene of recent times." It also offers "the most impressive collection of actors in one movie this year"... More
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A Streetcar Named Desire
(1995) [M]
A spoilt Southern belle is forced to stay with her poverty-stricken sister and her husband. There she is bullied and pilloried by her brother-in-law to the edge of sanity. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Winner of the Golden Globe Best Actress Award. More
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Drunken Angel
(1948) [PG]
Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered myself," he explained later. "It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else." Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of... More
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Jazz Singer, The (Neil Diamond)
(1980) [G]
Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his dream. He grows apart... More
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Meantime
(1984) [M]
This wry and amusing working class comedy is an early work by writer/director Mike Leigh. Frank (Jeff Robert) and his two deadbeat sons, Mark (Phil Daniels) and Colin (Tim Roth) are unemployed and living in a cramped apartment in London's East End. Wanting to escape the doldrums of his mediocre... More
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Caro Diario (Dear Diary)
(1994) [M]
CARO DIARIO (Dear Diary) is a warm, charismatic and intimate semi-autobiographical travelogue by Italian cult director Nanni Moretti. The story is split into three separate tales, all of which beautifully encapsulate Moretti’s penchant for whimsical observations and wry humour. The journey... More
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A Matter Of Life And Death
(1946) [PG]
It's night over Europe, the night of the 2nd of May 1945. A crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead save for the young pilot (David Niven) desperately scanning the radio for signs of life. His prayers are answered, June (Kim Hunter), a young radio... More
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Hammers Over The Anvil
(1991) [M]
Its the summer of 1910 and in the small country town of Turalla the young polio stricken Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhred) is on the cusp of teenage hood, dreaming of becoming a great horseman just like the town's hero, East Driscoll (Crowe).
When East commences a passionate affair with Grace... More
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Twelfth Night (BBC)
(1980) [G]
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new... More
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Salmonberries
(1991) [M]
Singer K.D.Lang makes her acting debut in this moving parable of impossible love and the struggle for identity. Stunningly shot in remote north-western Alaska, the film sees Kothebue (Lang), an androgynous, inarticulate Alaskan pipeline worker, search out her family origins in a small town... More
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Hammett
(1982) [M]
Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett's early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam) involved in an elaborate extortion plot by his former detective agency mentor, Jimmy Ryan. Ryan shows up at... More
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Dekalog: Parts 6-10 (2 Disc Set)
(1988) [M]
Parts six to ten of a ten part series made for Polish television. Each programme focuses on the inhabitants of an apartment block and the ethical dilemmas that they face each day. Dekalog, from the acclaimed director of the Three Colours trilogy, was premiered at the 1989 Venice Film Festival,... More
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Dekalog: Parts 1-5 (2 Disc Set)
(1988) [M]
Parts one to five of a ten part series made for Polish television. Each programme focuses on the inhabitants of an apartment block and the ethical dilemmas that they face each day. Dekalog, from the acclaimed director of the Three Colours trilogy, was premiered at the 1989 Venice Film Festival,... More
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Barton Fink
(1991) [M]
New York, 1941. Socially conscious scriptwriter Barton Fink has made it big on Broadway. Now Tinsel Town is taking notice. Hired by Hollywood to write a wrestling picture, Barton quits the city smog for movie stardom. L.A. has got the Barton Fink feeling. Barton Fink has got writer's block.... More
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The Fabulous Baker Boys
(1990) [M]
'The Fabulous Baker Boys' is about two brothers, cocktail lounge piano players, whose lives are disrupted when an attractive young woman joins their act and revitalises their career. Starring together for the first time are real-life brothers, Jeff and Beau Bridges as Jack and Frank Baker.... More
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Dead Ringers
(1988) [M]
The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing.... More
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The Passenger
(1975) [M]
The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the compelling psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson, in one of his finest performances, plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North... More
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Bullitt
(1968) [M]
Detective Frank Bullitt's new assignment seems routine: protecting a star witness for an important trial. But before the night is out, the witness lies dying and the cool, no-nonsense Bullitt won't rest until the shooters - and the kingpin pulling their strings - are nailed. From the opening shot... More
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In The Line Of Fire
(1993) [M]
In a performance that won universal acclaim, Clint Eastwood stars as Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect JFK from assassination. Thirty years later, he gets a chance to redeem himself when a brilliant psychopath threatens to kill the current president,... More
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Stand By Me
(1986) [M]
In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends -- sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough-guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O'Connell) -- are in search of a missing teenager's body. Wanting to be heroes in each others' and their hometown's... More
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The Shawshank Redemption (2 Disc Set)
(1994) [MA]
Having been wrongly convicted of murdering both his wife and her lover, Andy Dufresne is sentenced to two life sentences, and is sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison. During his first night, the barbaric treatment by prison guards, most notably the chief guard Byron Hadley, leads to the... More
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The Family Man
(2000) [M]
High powered Wall Street investment banker Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is at the top of his profession, and he has the luxurious lifestyle to prove it. Life is just about perfect: that is until one snowy Christmas Eve night when Jack unwittingly stumbles into the middle of a grocery store... More
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Bring It On
(2000) [M]
The U.S. No. 1 hit Bring It On stars Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku. The Toro cheerleader squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected... More
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Breaker Morant
(1980) [PG]
Hero or villian? His exploits shook an empire... and made him a legend. South Africa, 1901: The British war against the Boers has deteriorated into bitter guerilla warfare. A unit of the Bushveldt Carbineers made up mainly of Australians is ordered by the British High Command to fight the Boer on... More
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Frequency
(2000) [M]
A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is... More
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