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Persepolis
(2007) [M]
Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. More
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Nights in Rodanthe
(2008) [PG]
Diane Lane and Richard Gere, who previously played a couple in UNFAITHFUL, star here as an unhappily married woman and a conflicted man drawn together by a storm in the town of Rodanthe, North Carolina. More
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
(2008) [M]
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. More
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Roman de Gare
(2007)
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in... More
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2 disc set)
(2008) [M]
"I was born under unusual circumstances."
And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time.
We follow his... More
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The Wrestler
(2008) [MA]
The Wrestler is exhilarating entertainment - dynamic and humane, awesome and poetic - and marks an astounding comeback by actor Mickey Rourke (Sin City, Nine 1/2 weeks) under the masterful direction of Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream).
Back in the late 1980's, Randy "The Ram" Robinson... More
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Frost/Nixon
(2008) [M]
From Academy Award-winning director, Ron Howard The Da Vinci Code, Apollo 13), comes the electrifying, untold story behind one of the most unforgettable moments in history.
When disgraced President Richard Nixon agreed to an interview with jet-setting television personality, David... More
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Australia
(2008) [M]
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the... More
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Waltz With Bashir
(2008) [MA]
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term service in that conflict More
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I've Loved You So Long
(2008) [M]
Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life together isn't easy to begin with.... More
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Slumdog Millionaire
(2008) [MA]
Slumdog millionaire is the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who wants to be... More
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The Story of Richard O (L'Histoire de Richard O.)
(2007) [R]
Richard is in the thrall of his desire for women. He is in a constant search for lust and above all - love. In the company of his friend Le Grande, he will explore the mysteries of the erotic underground, through Paris and its inhabitants one sweltering August. More
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Savage Grace
(2007) [R]
Based on the award-winning best selling novel, Savage Grace tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. The birth of their son Tony rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. As Tony... More
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The Fallen Idol
(1948) [PG]
Based on the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, The Fallen Idol is told entirely from the perspective of a young boy, Phillipe, (Bobby Henrey) who is the son of an Ambassador. Phillipe idolizes his butler Baines (Ralph Richardson) whom he discovers is having an affair with the Embassy typist... More
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Downhill Racer
(1969) [PG]
Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. More
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
(1976) [M]
Some little girls can be murder! Thirteen-year-old Rynn (Foster) is a gifted prodigy who lives in a big old house with her reclusive father...all alone. Or does she? When Rynn's nosy landlady and a lecherous neighbor (Sheen) begin to susupect that this little girl is hiding a dark and dangerous... More
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Stavisky
(1974) [PG]
Stavisky was a man haunted by his father's desire to be accepted by French society. Stavisky pushed his Russian Jewish father's dream to its extreme. A charmer, a gambler and a crook, he became the darling of French High Society. But when his father found out that his son was wanted by the police... More
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Farewell Friend (Adieu l'ami)
(1968) [M]
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited by a coincidence. The doctor has made a promise to a friend which involves his breaking into a safe to return some improperly removed bearer bonds.... More
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The Third Generation (Fassbinder on Terror)
(1979) [MA]
Made during the 2nd Generation of the violent left-wing West German group, Red Army Faction, the film speculates on what lay behind increased security and domestic terrorism in Germany. The first third of the movie plays as a comedy of the inside shenanigans of how such a group would behave. The... More
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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder on Terror)
(1975) [MA]
Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son. Mother finds herself a media celebrity, which only serves to make herself and her late husband look like idiots. Later, Mother is "adopted" by a Communist couple who wish to... More
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Othello (2007)
(2007) [PG]
Performed for the first time at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, with its racing concentrated plot and intense dramatic detail, Othello is one of Shakespeare's most exciting, atmospheric and heartbreaking plays.
This is a tale of uncontrollable jealousy, deception and murder driven by one... More
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La Chamade
(1968) [PG]
The expensively kept girlfriend of a wealthy older man, Lucille (Catherine Deneuve) is beautiful, bored and blissfully blind to her shallow existence…until she meets Antoine. Passionate but poor, Antoine offers a whole new world experience and kindles Lucille’s smouldering desires.
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Shadows
(1959) [M]
Benny's a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan's beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. His sister Lelia, who looks less African-American than White, is vulnerable and about to fall in love. Hugh, their older brother, is a struggling singer whose agent, Rupert, may be the only person... More
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Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder on Society)
(1976) [R]
A wealthy couple, with a daughter Angela, a young teen who walks with crutches, tells each other they are off for the weekend on business (he to Oslo, she to Milan). Actually, both are meeting their lovers, and both go to the family's county home, Traunitz castle. Surprising each other, there's... More
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Katzelmacher (Fassbinder on Society)
(1969) [R]
Jorgos, an emigrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home. More
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Transylvania
(2006) [M]
The latest musical odyssey from Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Exils, Swing) sees Zingarina, played by the magnetic Asia Argento, arrive deep in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a word of explanation. With her friend, Marie,... More
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L: Change the World
(2008) [MA]
A God of Death dropped a notebook which had the power to kill any person. light Yagami (Tatsuya Gujwara) found the notebook and tried to become Kira, God of a new crime-free world, by executing criminals with the notebook. L (Kenichi Matsuyama) confronted Kira and a battle for the fate of... More
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Brick Lane
(2007) [M]
At the tender age of seventeen, Nazneen's life is turned upside down. After an arranged marriage to an older man, she exchanges her Bangladeshi village home for a block of flats in London's East End. In this new world, pining for her home and her sister, she struggles to make sense of her... More
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The Nines
(2007) [M]
THE NINES is a clever, mind-bending thrill-ride through the mind of an actor, a videogame designer and a screenwriter who arguably controls them all. Ryan Reynolds (VAN WILDER, DEFINITELY MAYBE), Hope Davis (AMERICAN SPLENDOR) and Melissa McCarthy (THE GILMORE GIRLS) star in the three short films... More
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Body of Lies
(2008) [MA]
He is the best man US Intelligence has on the ground, a sophisticated operative negotiating hot zones while no one close to him makes it out alive. But Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a man with no identity beyond his last blown cover, trusting his life to the dispassionate voice on the other... More
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