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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
(1999) [MA]
A professional hitman with a difference, Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) conducts himself with strict adherence to the philosophies of the Samurai. Living in a dishevelled roof top shack his usual means of communication with his clients is by carrier pigeon. When Ghost Dog’s code is dangerously... More
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Bringing Out The Dead
(1999) [R]
The fantastic cast of Nicholas Cage, Patricia Arquette and John Goodman (to only name a few) come together in 'Bringing out the Dead', Scorsese's story of rebirth. The audience follows Frank, a burnt out ambulance medic who is haunted at every turn by the people whose lives he couldn't save. We... More
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Magnolia (2 disc set)
(1999) [MA]
Throughout one tumultuous day in the San Fernando Valley, a group of fractured lives collide and intertwine through a series of chance encounters, secret betrayals, shared histories and divine intervention....finally building to one of the most unforgettable climaxes in cinematic history. Some... More
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Sleepy Hollow
(1999) [MA]
In the early United States of America, young policeman Ichabod Crane is sent to from New York to the fledgling settlement of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of ghoulish murders. On his arrival, the town council informs him that the three victims were killed in open ground, and the heads had... More
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Happy Texas
(1999) [M]
Two escaped convicts (Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn) arrive in the town of Happy, Texas, where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town's Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant. Enjoying the celebrity and using their skill as con-men, the two adopt their persona to take on the... More
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Get Real
(1999) [M]
There's no time quite as awkward as adolesence. Between the sky-high expectations of parents, the constant scrutiny of peers, and one's own raging hormones, something's got to give. And if, like Steven Carter, you also happen to be gay, navigating your way through adolescence can be like hiking... More
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Eyes Wide Shut
(1999) [R]
Cruise plays Dr. William Hartford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery - after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick... More
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Election
(1999) [MA]
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul... More
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Limbo
(1999) [M]
Set in small-town Alaska, John Sayles' Limbo is the story of Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn), a fisherman traumatised by an accident at sea years before. Into Joe's landlocked life comes Donna de Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), a nightclub singer with a habit of picking rotten male... More
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PI
(1998) [M]
Max, a mathematical genius and number theorist, theorizes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers, and that if you graph the numbers properly patterns will emerge. He works on finding patterns within the stock market, using its billions upon billions of variables as his data... More
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The Red Violin
(1998) [M]
In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in... More
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The Brood
(1979) [R]
A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric psychiatrist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with mom and she's covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from... More
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Pecker
(1998) [M]
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. However, Pecker soon discovers that instant over-exposure has its negative side and when his subjects become objects of public derision, he... More
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Celebrity
(1998) [M]
With an incredible all-star cast, this critically acclaimed Woody Allen comedy takes an hysterical look at the pleasures and pitfalls of fortune and fame. Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in outrageously unpredictable directions. While Lee... More
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Existenz
(1999) [M]
Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her... More
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Gummo
(1997) [R]
Xenia, Ohio, is a small poor and boring city that never fully recovered after a tornado in the 1970s. Teenager Solomon and his slightly older friend Tummler, have nothing to do but kill time, buying glue to sniff and get high. More
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Summer Of Sam
(1999) [R]
The dynamic John Leguizamo is teamed with Academy Award® winner Mira Sorvino in an electrifying, must-see movie that takes you back to New York City's infamous summer of 1977! The heat is soaring to record highs, blackouts are filling the streets with looters...and the murders of a man who calls... More
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The Winslow Boy
(1999) [G]
Based on real life events in 1912 England, this exquisitely crafted film tells of Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old navel cadet expelled from the Academy for stealing a five-shilling postal note, and his father, London Banker Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) all-consuming attempt to prove his... More
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Go
(1999) [MA]
Ronna needs to make some extra cash. Simon wants to escape to Vegas for the weekend. Adam and Zack just want to stay out of trouble. But it's not going to be just another night in the life of these L.A. twenty-somethings - they're about to embark on a wild ride that won't end until the sun comes up! More
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Cookie's Fortune
(1999) [M]
Life in small town Mississippi means fishing, drinking and singing the blues. But when a dead body is discovered, everyone in Holly Springs soon becomes involved in the liveliest and funniest murder mystery the South has ever seen. A wonderfully warm-hearted comedy, Cookie's Fortune boasts superb... More
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Two Hands
(1999) [MA]
A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl, who Ledger starts a... More
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Gods And Monsters
(1999) [M]
Ian McKellen delivers a riveting, award-winning performance as Hollywood horror director James Whale. It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past.... More
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Manhattan
(1979) [M]
Isaac Davis is a divorced TV writer unhappy with his job. His ex-wife left him for another woman and is writing a revealing book about her relationship with Isaac. He presently dates a seventeen year old high-school student, Tracy, who idolises him, though he does not love her. When he meets... More
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Love And Death On Long Island
(1996) [M]
Stuffy British Author Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) has been completely untouched by the modern world. One day, after an interviewer asks if he's ever considered adapting his best-sellers for the screen, he decides to investigate cinema costume drama. By accident, he views the teen movie Hotpants... More
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Hilary And Jackie
(1998) [M]
Hilary and Jackie tells the remarkable story of one of the world's best-known cellists, the late Jacqueline du Pre. The exquisite passion of Jackie's playing provides a magnificent backdrop to a story of volatile passions, thwarted ambitions and sibling rivalry. Both Emily Watson as Jackie and... More
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Rushmore
(1998) [M]
Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's... More
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Pleasantville
(1998) [M]
David, single, lonely and not happy with his life, flees reality by watching Pleasantville - a 1950's b&w soap opera, where everything is just...pleasant. His sister Jennifer, sexually far more active than her brother, gets in a fight with him about a very strange remote control - given to them... More
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Clay Pigeons
(1998) [MA]
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Into this comes a serial killer who befriends... More
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Lolita
(1997) [R]
When schoolteacher Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons), marries his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith), it's purely to get close to her daughter Lolita (Dominique Swain) who reminds him of the childhood sweetheart he lost in tragic circumstances. But Humbert's forbidden love becomes an... More
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