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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2 Disc Set)
(1975) [M]
What do a Transylvanian transvestite, a cryogenically-preserved motorbiker and a Frankenstein's monster wearing golden underpants all have in common? They're all crucial parts of Rocky Horror Picture Show, the comedy cult classic which is at once hysterical, indispensable and truly disturbing.... More
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Edward Scissorhands
(1990) [PG]
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness... More
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
(1993) [G]
Bored and unhappy with the life of being "The Pumpkin King" Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers "Christmas Town" and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children. More
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Bagdad Cafe (Out Of Rosenheim)
(1988) [PG]
Jasmin Meunchstettner (Marianne Sagebrecht) is a German hausfrau who finds herself stranded at a run down cafe in the middle of the Mojave Desert. The proprietor, Brenda (CCH Pounder), an irascible black matriarch, takes an instant dislike to the homely Jasmin. However, as Jasmin cleans, the... More
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The Company Of Wolves
(1984) [M]
A bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotations. Granny tells her granddaughter Rosaleen strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smoldering look in their eyes; about sudden... More
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Man With A Movie Camera
(1929) [G]
Man With a Movie Camera is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking. An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going with energetic lyricism. A member of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov used a variety of... More
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Europa (Zentropa)
(1991) [M]
Lars Von Trier's Europa is an alluring film that follows Leopald Kessler (Jean- Marc Barr), an American pacifist of German descent as he travels to Germany to help the country rebuild and becomes involved in a surreal nightmare. His uncle gets him employment working on the giant railway complex... More
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Under Milk Wood
(1973) [PG]
Dylan Thomas only wrote one play and this is the first and only screen adaptation of that world famous Welsh classic. The original play has been presented in nearly every country in the world, and on celluloid it remains by turn moving, funny, beautiful and completely timeless - a kaleidoscope of... More
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El Norte
(1983) [M]
El Norte is a realistic picture of both the Guatemalan government's oppression of the Quiche Indians and the hard life of illegal immigrants in the United States. After the Guatemalan army destroys their village of San Pedro, two teenage Quiche Mayan Indian siblings journey north (hence El Norte)... More
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Before Night Falls
(2000) [MA]
Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls spans the whole of the brilliant Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas' life, from his poverty-stricken childhood to his persecution, torture and exile from Fidel Castro's Cuba. It is a vivid portrait of a remarkably talented and responsive man and a piercing account... More
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Summer of 42
(1971) [M]
Written by Herman Raucher, Summer of'42 is one of the screen's most haunting romances. A nation is caught up in a war that will forever change it. At a New England beach colony, 15-year-old Hermie (Gary Grimes) is caught up in a passion that will forever change him: he's infatuated with... More
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Prick Up Your Ears
(1987) [M]
'Prick Up Your Ears' is a celebration of the outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Olman), and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), which concluded with their violent and premature deaths. Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) was one of the 1960s golden boys, from working class Leicester... More
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Happiness
(1998) [R]
From the director of Welcome To The Dollhouse comes a wickedly comic and confronting tale of perversity and the desire in contemporary suburbia. Set in New Jersey, Happiness interweaves the stories of three sisters.
The hippiefied lost soul Joy Jordan, the self loathing best-selling author... More
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He Died With A Falafel In His Hand
(2001) [MA]
Danny (Noah Taylor) is a young man seemingly used to chaos, but he soon discovers that the fates are more than capable of dishing out more than he can handle in this offbeat Australian comedy. By his own count, thirty-ish Danny has found himself sharing living quarters with one or more friends... More
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Salvador
(1986) [MA]
A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press,... More
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What's Up Tiger Lily?
(1966) [M]
So you want Plot? Woody Allen bought a Japanese spy movie, removed the voice track, and replaced it with one of his own. He doesn't seem to have bothered with the original script at all. Typical Joke: "Back off! My secret spy camera has taken pictures of you all through your clothes. Unless you... More
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Death Of A Salesman
(1985) [PG]
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family More
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Clerks
(1994) [R]
It's a bad day for Dante Hicks, the 22-year-old cash-register jockey at the QuickStop convenience store in Leonardo, NJ. He was supposed to have the day off to play hockey with his pals. Instead he's stuck at work fending off irate and pushy customers. He is fighting with his girlfriend,... More
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The Ninth Gate
(1999) [MA]
Based on the book The Dumas Club, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its... More
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Dancer In The Dark
(2000) [MA]
Selma has emigrated with her son from east Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life... More
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(1989) [R]
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence, and gluttony. But when the cook (Richard Bohringer), a thief (Michael Gambon), his wife (Helen Mirren) and her lover (Alan Howard) all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and... More
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The Last Temptation Of Christ
(1988) [M]
The carpenter Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for him. But as his mission nears fulfillment, he must face the greatest temptation: the... More
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Being John Malkovich
(1999) [MA]
At last a movie for anyone who ever wanted to be someone... else. Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) an unappreciated puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the 7th-and-a-half floor of an office building. Bored with his ten-year marriage to Lotte (Cameron Diaz), he becomes obsessed with the beautiful... More
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American Psycho
(2000) [R]
The movie American Psycho is based on Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel of the same name. Director Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) and screenwriter Guinevere Turner (Go Fish) turned this story into a script and movie, which made for an interesting team considering the book and author had... More
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12 Monkeys
(1995) [M]
Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality, lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys... The year is 2035 and humankind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99% of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planet's surface... More
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The Silence Of The Lambs (2 Disc Set)
(1991) [MA]
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster deliver sensational Oscar®-winning performances in this "shockingly powerful thriller" (New York Magazine). "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter), this terrifying masterpiece garnered five Academy Awards®, including Best... More
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Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
(1967) [PG]
Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan... 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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