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Forbidden Lies
(2007) [M]
Weaving murder, deceit, politics, greed and an international literary scandal into an engrossing labyrinth, Forbidden Lie$ is a real life thriller for our time. Did author Norma Khouri con more than half a million readers, publishers and journalists across fifteen countries or is she a truly... More
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Valley of Flowers
(2006) [M]
Along the highest mountain passes of the Himalayas, tough, intrepid Jalan (Milind Soman) and his gang earn their living by stealing from unsuspecting travelers. Abiding by their own, unique codes of honor and dividing the spoils equally, all is routine until the arrival of the mystifying,... More
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Conversations with Other Women
(2005) [M]
Conversations With Other Women tells the compelling story of a couple whose reunion at a wedding reception ignites a mysterious attraction for each other that is deeper and more emotionally perilous than they are willing to admit.
At a New York City wedding reception two guests, seemingly... More
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Down to the Bone
(2004) [M]
In upstate New York, Irene (Vera Farmiga) struggles to raise two sons, keep her stale marriage together and manage a secret cocaine habit. Isolated by the strip malls and dying small towns that define the area, Irene's not sure when she went from high school partying to skimming off the grocery... More
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The Curiosity of Chance
(2006) [M]
Chance Marquis is an unusual boy. The openly gay son of a military man, he lives on his razor wit and curious fashion sense, happy to be the oddball at his average international high school. But standing out can have its downside, and Chance becomes the prime target for the school bully. To deal... More
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Tick Tock Lullaby
(2007) [MA]
None of us getting any younger. But what's a recovering-alcoholic, career-avoidant lesbian to do if she wants to get pregnant 'by accident'? And do straight people, as our heroine Sasha suspects, really have it easier? Over endless cups of coffee and copies of the Guardian, Sasha and girlfriend... More
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Naked Boys Singing
(2007) [MA]
This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning. More
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Whole New Thing
(2005) [MA]
Emerson Thorsen is an exceptionally talented and intelligent 13-year-old who has been raised and educated by his free-thinking parents, Rog and Kaya. Emerson is clever, witty and has recently written his first novel, but he doesn't mix well with others.
Rog and Kaya decide to enroll him in... More
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Same Sex Parents
(2001) [MA]
How does an insecure teenager become more self-assertive? That's the challenge for Olympia, a young girl stigmatized for being different. Same Sex Parents begins with Olympia and her classmate Leo enjoying their first romantic encounter at a weekend dance. Back at school, Geraldine, a jealous... More
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Nina's Heavenly Delights
(2006) [PG]
Nina Shah is a feisty young Indo-Scottish woman with an identity crisis. Nina previously left home under a cloud after a row with her father. When her father dies suddenly, Nina is forced to return and run the family owned curry house. This reunites her with her childhood friend Bobbi, a wannabe... More
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The Bridge (Documentary)
(2006) [MA]
People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and those drawn by its call. Steel and his crew filmed the bridge during... More
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This Is Spinal Tap
(1984) [M]
In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards... More
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (2 disc set)
(1990) [PG]
From Tom Stoppard the Oscar Winning Writer/Director of "Shakespeare in Love" comes another unique twist on the work of William Shakespeare. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gary Oldman & Tim Roth) are two incidental characters in "Hamlet", summoned to the court of the King of Denmark. This story is... More
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
(1970) [M]
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
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The Italian
(2005) [M]
Vanya is a 6 year old orphan living in a rundown orphanage in a remote Russian village. For Vanya and the other children, life is without hope, unless, of course, they are adopted by wealthy foreigners. For Vanya, hope comes in the form of an Italian couple. But while arrangements are being made... More
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Il Conformista (The Conformist)
(1970) [MA]
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor... More
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3 Women
(1977) [M]
Shy, reclusive girl Pinky starts work at a solarium and becomes emotionally attached to her fellow worker, Millie. After an accident, the women seem to inexplicably swap personalities, and then return back to normal. A third woman, a local artist, prowls around on the periphery of the story.
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The Door in the Floor
(2004) [MA]
Successful children's writer and illustrator Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) invites 16-year-old writing intern Eddie (Jon Foster) to summer in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, where he lives with his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger) and their young daughter Ruth. Ted and Marion are... More
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Venus
(2006) [MA]
Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) are veteran English actors and the oldest of friends. Now in their seventies, they continue to work a little, but their comfortable, dusty lives are disrupted when Ian's brash grand-niece, Jessie (Jodie Whittaker), arrives to stay. Jessie quickly... More
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The Method
(2005) [M]
During an anti-globalisation protest, seven candidates are assembled for the final stage of the selection process for a single high-level position at a multinational company. The tension becomes palpable when they realise they must compete against one another in a ruthless new American HR test... More
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Sherrybaby
(2006) [MA]
Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter, Sherry soon discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned. More
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
(1999) [M]
From Errol Morris, the award-winning director of The Thin Blue Line , comes the provocative true story of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr. The son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert, Leuchter was hired by prisons across the country to make capital punishment equipment more humane.
When... More
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Alice's Restaurant
(1969) [M]
Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgiving and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins.... More
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Swimming Pool
(2003) [MA]
Sarah Morton is a famous British mystery author. Tired of London and seeking inspiration for her new novel, she accepts an offer from her publisher John Bosload to stay at his home in Luberon, in the South of France. It is the off-season, and Sarah finds that the beautiful country locale and... More
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