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Into the Wild
(2007) [M]
A young man leaves his middle class existence in pursuit of freedom from relationships and obligation. Giving up his home, family, all possessions but the few he carried on his back and donating all his savings to charity Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) embarks on a journey throughout... More
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Ground Zero
(1987) [M]
This classic Australian suspense thriller centres on the fall-out from A-bomb tests around Maralinga in the early 1950s. Harvey Denton (Colin Friels) is an apolitical cameraman drawn into a conspiracy after finding his father, an army photographer, compiled visual evidence of military wrong-doing... More
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A Fortunate Life (2 disc set)
(1985) [PG]
At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn to dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody... More
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Duet for Four
(1982) [M]
From the boardroom to the bedroom the battle lines are drawn! A wealthy toy manufacturer (Michael Pate) is having a mid-life crisis - his wife (Diane Cilento) is having an affair, his beautiful young mistress (Wendy Hughes) wants to get married, his drug addicted daughter (Sigrid Thornton)... More
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The Umbrella Woman
(1987) [M]
Marge, a sensuous but proper wife, lives with her quiet lumberjack husband Sonny in a remote Aussie town. Lonely and unfulfilled, Marge is both aroused and revolted when the town’s sexy new bartender, Neville, unsuccessfully forces his attentions on her.
However, with her passions unleashed... More
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Crimes of the Heart
(1986) [M]
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a... More
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The Other Boleyn Girl
(2008) [M]
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII. More
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Sleuth (2007)
(2007) [M]
Directed by critically-acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh, Jude Law and two-time Oscar-winner Michael Caine (1987, Best Supporting Actor, Hannah and Her Sisters; 2000, Best Supporting Actor, Cider House Rules) join forces in this sharp-witted, modern adaptation of the 1972 classic, Sleuth.... More
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In the Valley of Elah
(2007) [MA]
Hank Deerfield, a retired Army veteran (Tommy Lee Jones) receives a call from his son's CO telling him that his son has gone AWOL a few days after returning from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Deerfield gets into his pickup truck and travels to his son's base to try to find out the truth about what... More
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The Bucket List
(2007) [M]
Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) has worked hard his whole life to build his hospital corporation into a Fortune 500 company. As CEO, Edward is on top of the world when cancer comes knocking on his door. In the hospital, Edward is put into a room with another cancer patient, Carter Chambers (Morgan... More
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Dan in Real Life
(2007) [PG]
Advice columnist Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent in this heartfelt comedy. More
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Margot at the Wedding
(2007) [M]
From Academy Award nomiated writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) comes a daringly funny and bracingly honest exploration of the tender, absurd and sometimes excruciating relationship between siblings. "Played with an uncompromising fearlessness" by Academy Award® winner Nicole... More
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The Kite Runner
(2007) [M]
Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner is a tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies... More
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The Jane Austen Book Club
(2007) [M]
Explores Austen's adage that general incivility is at love's essence. Sylvia's husband dumps her for another woman, so Bernadette and Jocelyn organize a book club to distract her. They recruit Sylvia's daughter Allegra; Prudie, a young teacher whose marriage may be on the rocks; and Grigg, a... More
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Charlie Wilson's War
(2007) [M]
A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire. Charlie Wilson's War is the outrageous true story of how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to... More
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3:10 to Yuma (2007)
(2007) [MA]
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale star in this action-packed remake of the 1957 classic western in which a small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. More
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(2007) [MA]
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but... More
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I'm Not There
(2007) [M]
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads,... More
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The Promise
(2005)
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back... More
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Mala Noche
(1985)
Made for $25,000, the debut film from Gus Van Sant, MALA NOCHE, tells the story of Walt, a convenience store worker at the bad end of town. Walt likes the Mexican boys, and meets Johnny, a sexy illegal migrant who speaks no English. Walt harbours not only sexual but romantic feelings for Johnny,... More
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Fear Eats the Soul
(1974) [PG]
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film Angst Essen Seele Auf, (1974) a young Moroccan mechanic, "Ali," (El Hedi ben Salem) falls in love with an older German woman. The story takes off when Emmi, (Brigitte Mira) a widowed cleaning woman, is asked to dance by Ali at a local bar. Soon after Ali walks... More
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One Stays, One Leaves
(2005) [MA]
Two Paris art dealers find it difficult to juggle wives and mistresses in Claude Berri's compelling comedy drama One Stays, The Other Leaves. A powerful script, smart production values and brilliantly emotive performances from a stellar cast including Daniel Auteuil, Charlotte Gainsbourg and... More
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The Secret Of The Grain
(2007)
Lauded at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, and winner of multiple awards at the 2008 Cèsars (the French Oscars®) including Best Film and Best Direction, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a touching and resoundingly humanistic story set in the rustic port of Sète in southeastern... More
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Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs)
(2006)
Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who thinks a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, who's an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the... More
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Paranoid Park
(2007)
When Alex, a 16-year-old skater, plucks up the courage to go to Paranoid Park - Portland's most challenging and infamous urban skateboard destination - he didn't expect his night to end with the death of a railway security guard. Deciding to say nothing about the incident, Alex does all he can to... More
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Prague
(2006) [MA]
The story of Christoffer and Maja's trip to the city of Prague - a beautiful, aging city, but also a city choked by a rigid and dated eastern-block mentality. PRAGUE is the story of a distant, ever-absent father who, even after passing away, traumatizes all who have known him. And PRAGUE is the... More
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Reprise
(2006) [MA]
The multi-award winning Reprise is the thrilling debut from director, Joachim Trier (relation of Lars Von Trier). Best friends, Phillip and Erik share a love of punk, girls and parties. They also share a dream of getting published and becoming famous authors. But neither could predict the... More
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The Secret Life of Words
(2005) [M]
An isolated spot in the middle of the sea. An oil rig, where all the workers are men, on which there has been an accident. A solitary, mysterious woman who is trying to forget her past (Sarah Polley) is brought to the rig to look after a man (Tim Robbins) who has been temporarily blinded. A... More
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The Heart Is Elsewhere
(2003) [PG]
Nello Balocchi, a 35-year-old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father, the owner of the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. His father hopes Nello will find a soul mate in Bolgna and thus produce an heir for the business. Nello stays in a guesthouse run by Arabella, a wise woman... More
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Magnificent Obsession
(1954) [PG]
The story of a woman's need for a man that will become one of the great emotional thrills of your lifetime!
A wealthy, selfish man crashes his speedboat and is resusitated by a rescue team with equipment that is then unavailable to help a generous local hero, leading to his death. He then... More
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