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Intimacy
(2000) [R]
Jay (Mark Rylance) and Claire (Kerry Fox) are total strangers but every Wednesday they meet to have sex. Passionate, wordless, and until Jay begins to follow her home, seemingly meaningless sex. Being the manager of a trendy bar and recently split from his wife and young family, Jay's days are... More
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Hedwig And The Angry Inch
(2007) [MA]
Hedwig is the “internationally ignored” post punk, neo-glam rock legend who was an off-Broadway sensation and now comes to life in a motion picture written and directed by and starring the enormously talented John Cameron Mitchell.
Born a boy in Communist East Berlin, Hansel makes the... More
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Zoolander
(2001) [M]
Imagine the love-child of Jim Carrey’s ‘Dumb and Dumber’ character and Cindy Crawford…and you have Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller). Zoolander is the most beautiful creature in the world and nearly as good looking as he thinks he is…
With the face of an angel, the locks of a god and the... More
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Lantana
(2001) [M]
Lantana is an intriguing psychological thriller about love, infidelity and mistrust. It's about the mistakes we make, the consequences we suffer and the attempts we make to fix things up. Detective Leon Zat (Anthony LaPaglia) moves through a dark labyrinth of human relationships on his journey to... More
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La Spagnola (The Spanish Woman)
(2002) [M]
This darkly comic story of love and revenge, set in a barren Australian industrial town, explores the tempestuous relationships, and sexual adventures, of Lola (Lola Marceli) and her family. The day that Lola's husband Ricardo (Simon Palomares) walks out on her to live with Wendy (Helen Thomson)... More
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The Pledge
(2001) [R]
The Pledge stars Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black, a homicide detective who undertakes one last case on the day of his retirement. An eight year old girl has been found murdered in the snow-covered mountains of Mexico and her mother begs Black to unravel the mystery of her daughter's death. With the... More
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The Yards
(2000) [M]
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm... More
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Way Of The Gun
(2000) [MA]
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one. More
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State And Main
(2000) [M]
A big-budget movie descends upon a quaint town, sowing a bumper crop of corruption, vanity and greed. Thrown out of his original location, director Walt Price (William H. Macy) certainly has his work cut out for him as he moves the production to a new town. The movie's star (Alec Baldwin), is a... More
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The Man Who Cried
(2000) [M]
A young girl and her loving father (Oleg Yankovsky) are separated when he goes to America, intending to send for her. Shortly after his departure, their village goes up in flames, and the girl is forced to go to England, where she takes on the name Suzie, and finds that although she is... More
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What's Cooking
(2000) [M]
What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Enjoy this generous and charming tale of four very different families as they cook up some tasty holiday surprises. More
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You Can Count On Me
(2000) [M]
A lot happens at once to Sammy, a single mom living in the Catskill town of her birth, where her parents died in a car crash when she was small. Her son Rudy, who's 8, begins imagining his unseen father as a hero; she picks up, sort of, with last year's boyfriend; she gets a new boss who imposes... More
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Series 7
(2000) [R]
In Series 7 six contenders are randomly chosen in a lottery to participate in a lethal game of cat and mouse. Armed with a gun and followed by a camera crew, each contestant must kill or be killed, until one sole contestant remains as winner. This is not merely a satire on reality TV. It is an... More
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Best In Show
(2000) [PG]
The tension is unmistakable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air at the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show. Director Christopher Guest takes a hilarious look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them). Meet the contestants - a fly-fishing... More
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The Limey
(1999) [MA]
British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's "accidental" death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth,... More
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Memento
(2000) [MA]
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on... More
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Cul De Sac
(1966) [M]
Immediately after the box–office success of his macabre masterpiece Repulsion, Roman Polanski returned to a theme he had explored in his early classic Knife in the Water – the destruction of a fragile relationship by a maligned outsider. The resulting film was Cul-De-Sac. Donald Pleasence and... More
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In The Mood For Love
(2000) [PG]
Hong Kong, 1962. Chow (Tony Leung) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His new neighbour Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) is a secretary whose husband seems to spend all his time on business trips. They become friends, making the lonely evenings more bearable. As their relationship develops... More
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Traffic
(2000) [MA]
A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who's just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband's drug business,... More
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Requiem For A Dream
(2000) [R]
The film depicts the lives of four different people living in Brooklyn on their quest for satisfaction in life. It shows the direct and indirect effects that drugs and various addictions have on each of the individuals, and then portrays their downward spirals from the hopes of blossoming dreams... More
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Small Time Crooks
(2000) [G]
An ex-con (Woody Allen) and his manicurist wife (Tracey Ullman) find their get-rich-quick scheme leaves them rolling in dough in the hilarious comedy, Small Time Crooks. When a bank heist takes a comical twist, the couple discovers that cookies pay better than crime! Romantic comedy favorite Hugh... More
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The Navigators
(2001) [M]
Set in Yorkshire during the privatisation of British Rail, a group of rail track workers learn the stark reality of redundancy and life as casual agency workers, or work for the new company, under the new rules. More
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Shadow Of The Vampire
(2000) [M]
Somewhere in Eastern Europe, 1922… Filming of F.W. Murnau’s classic vampire movie, Nosferatu, is being disrupted not only by funding problems, but by rumours of disappearances amongst the cast and crew. Leading man Max Shreck (Willem Dafoe) is never introduced to the crew, and he is never... More
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000) [M]
Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series... More
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Felicia's Journey
(1999) [M]
A lonely middle-aged catering manager (Bob Hoskins) spends all of his time studying tapes of an eccentric TV chef (Arsinee Khanjian). Meanwhile, a young woman (Elaine Cassidy) is making her way from Ireland to find her boy friend (Peter McDonald), who moved to England to get a job in a lawn-mower... More
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High Fidelity
(2000) [M]
Adapted from Nick Hornby's best-selling novel, High Fidelity stars John Cusack as Rob Gordon, the owner of a semi-failing record store located on one of the back streets of Chicago. He sells music the old-fashioned way, with his two wacky clerks - the hysterically funny rock snob Barry (Jack... More
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The Virgin Suicides
(1999) [MA]
Based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, then adapted for the screen and directed by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a story about five sisters and their mysterious existence, told in the words of the neighborhood boys who worshiped them from a distance. It is a solitary story of the girls... More
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Wonder Boys
(2000) [M]
English Professor, Graddy Tripp tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, his married mistress falling pregnant and the various other problems that his friends and associates involve him in. Professor Tripp used to be a... More
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The War Zone
(1999) [R]
In Tim Roth's directorial debut, Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) and Jessie (Lara Belmont) have recently moved to rural Devon with their parents. Tom finds the move particularly difficult and somewhat isolating, which results in him becoming more of an observer of the family than an active member. His... More
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Jesus' Son
(1999) [R]
Based on a highly acclaimed collection of short stories by Denis Johnson, "Jesus' Son" is the intense, edgy, often hilarious story of a young man's journey from addiction and petty crime to redemption through the startling discovery of his own capacity for compassion. Set in the drug subculture... More
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