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Withnail And I (Blu-Ray)
(1987) [M]
London. The 60s. Two unemployed actors - acerbic, elegantly wasted Withnail (Richard E Grant) and the anxiety-ridden I (Paul McGann) drown their frustrations in booze, pills and lighter fluid. When Withnail`s Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) offers them his country cottage for a week, they escape... More
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In the Loop (Blu-Ray)
(2009) [MA]
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller (James Gandolfini) doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander). But, after Simon... More
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Dogs In Space (Blu-Ray)
(1987) [R]
The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events are surrounded by a chaotic myriad of sub-plots. A homicidal chainsaw maniac's lust for his machine and a... More
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Wake in Fright (Blu-Ray)
(1971) [M]
Believed lost for many years, Wake in Fright has been painstakingly restored by Australia's National Film and Sound Archive and AtLab Deluxe, and is presented in its original uncompromising form.
Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded... More
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Me and Orson Welles
[PG]
New York, 1937: Richard (Zac Efron) is a starry-eyed student obsessed with Broadway. When he lands a role in Orson Welles' landmark Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar, his life changes dramatically... Struggling to keep up with Welles' exacting standards, his eye falls on assistant... More
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Edge of Seventeen
(1998)
A gay teen finds out who he is and what he wants, who his friends are, and who loves him, in this autobiographical tale set in middle America in the 1980s. Growing up, learning about life, love, sex, friends, and lovers. More
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In Search of Beethoven
(2009) [G]
From award winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky, this unique motion picture explores the romantic myth of Beethoven. Delving beyond the image of the tortured and unhinged personality, In Search of Beethoven takes you further than any previous biography of history's greatest composer. More
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The French Kissers
(2009) [MA]
The breakout comedy sensation of Cannes 2009, graphic artist Riad Sattouf's debut THE FRENCH KISSERS is a brilliantly hilarious and painfully true-to-life portrait of the humiliations and tribulations of being a teen, reminiscent of the best films of the late, great John Hughes.
Hervé... More
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New York, I Love You
(2009)
From the producers of Paris Je T'aime comes New York, I Love You, a series of love stories set in and featuring the city of New York, and starring some of the world's finest actors.
Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that... More
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The Last Station
(2009)
As Sofya, Helen Mirren portrays the wife of Leo Tolstoy, a woman locked in a battle with her husband's admirers during the final year of his life, over the disposition of his royalties. Mirren herself comes from a family with a deep Russian heritage, as she was the daughter of an educated,... More
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Liza: Love to Eternity
(1972) [M]
Starring two of European cinema's biggest names, Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni, LIZA: LOVE TO ETERNITY is an exercise in erotic sadomasochism, '70s style. Giorgio decides to leave society to live on a desert island with a dog as his only companion. But his hermit's life is disturbed... More
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Une femme mariée
(1964) [M]
Charlotte is young and modern, not a hair out of place, superficial, cool; she reads fashion magazines - does she have the perfect bust? She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. Assignations with him, dinner with her husband and a... More
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The Joy of Learning (Le Gai Savoir)
(1969) [M]
Patricia and Emile meet nightly on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris' 1968 student riots, the Vietnam War, and other big events of the late '60s, posters, books, photographs and cartoons, serve as a backdrop to their discourse. Words... More
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The September Issue
(2009) [M]
Anna Wintour, the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine for twenty years, is the most powerful and polarising figure in fashion. Hidden behind her trademark bob and sunglasses, she has never allowed anyone to scrutinise the inner workings of her magazine. Until now. With unprecedented... More
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Derek Jarman: Life as Art
(2004) [M]
This documentary features interviews with British filmmaker Derek Jarman's actors, most notably Tilda Swinton as well as Jarman's set designer, composer, producer, sister and biographer who pay tribute radical gay director's life and oeuvre. This documentary covers both obscure films like... More
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Herb and Dorothy
(2008) [G]
HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and... More
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A Single Man
(2009) [M]
Torn apart by the shattering impact of the death of his long-time lover, college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) experiences the most transformative day of his life, blending past and present, desire and despair, and discovering that love persists even after the object of love is gone.... More
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In the Loop
(2009) [MA]
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller (James Gandolfini) doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander). But, after Simon... More
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
(2009)
Precious Jones, an inner city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight and pregnant...again. Naive and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative schoolteacher. She is faced with her first opportunity to shine, test her boundaries and finally realise... More
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Up in the Air
(2009) [M]
Ryan Bingham (Academy Award winner George Clooney) is truly living the high life. Flying all over the world on business, he never stops moving... until he meets Alex, a fellow passenger, and learns that life isn't about the journey, but the connections we make along the way. Acclaimed by critics... More
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Paranormal Activity
(2007) [M]
What Happens When You Sleep?
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night; especially when they sleep. Or... More
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Capitalism: A Love Story
(2009) [M]
When the Global Financial Crisis hit its lowest point America was in meltdown. Still amidst a country in the grip home foreclosures, losing 25% of its national worth and laying off up to fourteen thousand blue collar workers a day, the fat cats on wall street asked the very people they were... More
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A Serious Man
(2009) [M]
Academy Award-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen return to their comedy roots with this original and darkly humerous story about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) can't believe his life: His wife is leaving him for his best... More
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The Hurt Locker
(2009) [MA]
Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. More
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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
(1989) [PG]
This film recounts the lives and deaths of various victims of AIDS who are commemorated in the AIDS quilt. It is a massive cloth collecting each piece as a memorial for each victim of the disease to both show the death toll and to show the humanity of the victims to those who would rather... More
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Sand and Sorrow: The tragic story of Darfur
(2007) [MA]
Offered exclusive and unparalleled access to the situation on the ground inside Darfur, Peabody award-winning filmmaker, Paul Freedman ("Rwanda - Do Scars Ever Fade?"), joins a contingent of African Union peacekeeping forces in Darfur while a tragic and disturbing chapter in human history... More
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Young @ Heart
(2007) [PG]
Get ready to rock with the most entertaining Golden Oldies you'll ever meet, a fun loving senior citizens' choir called Young @ Heart - average age 81. Celebrating the unbreakable bonds of friendship and the life-affirming power of music, they prepare to perform a range of tunes from James Brown... More
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Quiet Chaos (Caos calmo)
(2008) [MA]
Successful media exec Pietro has a beautiful wife and a lively young daughter, Claudia. When his wife suddenly dies, he is shell-shocked with grief and anxiety for Claudia. And so, career forgotten, Pietro chooses to sit in the park near Claudia's school everyday, tenderly and patiently waiting... More
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Adoration
(2008) [M]
What would you do if you found out your father may have been a terrorist? A high school boy writes a story for class that makes this claim. Is it true? Friends, family, teachers and Internet chat room partners start to wonder and worry. Now he must journey through a maze of family secrets to find... More
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Look Back in Anger
(1959) [PG]
Based on John Osborne's play in which a university graduate (Richard Burton) comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values. British cinema in the late 50s was dominated by the "angry young men", a term referring to both the writers and their subject matter. The movement also... More
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