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High Art
(1998) [MA]
A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other. More
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The Age Of Innocence
(1993) [G]
Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive... More
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Hurly Burly
(1998) [MA]
Hurly Burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting and decadent lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes whose personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything peddled by the studios. More
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The Shining
(1980) [MA]
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. More
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Lolita (1962)
(1962) [M]
From Stanley Kubrick, the director of A Clockwork Orange, comes this powerful, provocative and profoundly moving adaption of Vladimir Nabokov's twentieth century literary masterpiece. It tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, who travels to... More
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Bulworth
(1998) [MA]
Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty) takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. But his impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is. Suddenly the senator is the surprise political favourite... More
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Rounders
(1998) [MA]
Set against the backdrop of New York's high-stakes underground poker world, Rounders is the tale of Mike McDermott, a master card player who trades the poker-playing rounds for law school and a shot at a new life with his girlfriend Jo. For Mike, the new life he's staking out seems like a... More
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The Acid House
(1998) [R]
Three twisted tales of abuse, drugs, displaced personalities and insect life by Scottish writer Irving Welsh.
- 1st story: "The Granton Star Cause":
The first story is a black comedy that combines revenge, football, and religion. After a disastrous 24 hours where Boab is sacked from his... More
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He Got Game
(1998) [MA]
Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother. More
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Year Of The Horse
(1997) [M]
This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Jim Jarmusch interviews the band about their long history, and we see backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s. More
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What Have I Done To Deserve This?
(1984) [MA]
Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, the Luis Bunuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed in by her wildly eccentric relatives. Her principal purpose in life is a balancing act: to... More
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Full-Tilt Boogie
(1997) [MA]
A docu-drama about filming From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Sarah Kelly takes a non-union film crew onto the set and on location near Barstow of this independent, non-union production. Camaraderie and a constant eye on the shooting schedule dominate interactions. Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney... More
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Velvet Goldmine
(1998) [MA]
1984: It's the 10th anniversary of Brian Slade's disappearance and Journalist Arthur Stuart is sent out to expose the truth about the myth and through his investigation we are told the controversial and explicit story of Velvet Goldmine.
1971: Glam Rock explodes on the world, challenging the... More
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Homegrown
(2007) [MA]
Life is good for Jack, Carter and Harlan, three inept ne'r-do-wells who help run master dope-grower Malcoms flourishing marijuana plantation somewhere in northern California. But then Malcom is suddenly bumped off by a mysterious assailant, after a moment of panic, the naive trio decide to take... More
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The Sweet Hereafter
(1997) [M]
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer (Ian Holm) visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is... More
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Dark City
(1998) [M]
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the... More
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (2 Disc Set)
(1998) [R]
An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a wacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out... More
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The Apostle
(1997) [PG]
Eulis 'Sonny' Dewey is a preacher from Texas living a happy life with his beautiful wife Jessie. Suddenly his stable world crumbles: Jessie is having an affair with young minister Horace. Sonny gets enraged and hits Horace with a softball bat, putting him into a coma. After that he leaves town,... More
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The King Of Comedy
(1983) [PG]
In Martin Scorsese's masterful black comedy, Robert De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin (his motto: "Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime"), a wannabe comic who will go to any lengths to further his career. A joke writer who has never performed anywhere except his mother’s... More
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Welcome To Sarajevo
(1997) [MA]
Starring Woody Harrelson (White Men Can't Jump, The People Vs. Larry Flynt) and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny), this Cannes Film Festival favourite reveals the shocking account of life in one of the most dangerous places on earth, war-torn Sarajevo.
Follow a group of international... More
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Pretty In Pink
(1986) [M]
80s teen sensations Molly Ringwald (Sixteen Canles, The Breakfast Club) and Andrew McCarthy (St. Elmo's Fire) drew raves for their starring performances in this hit love story by John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off).
She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy... More
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The Gingerbread Man
(1998) [M]
Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon... More
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Deconstructing Harry
(1997) [M]
Harry Block (Woody Allen) is a well regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly veil his own experiences in his work and his fondness for pills and prostitutes, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. At the same time as he is about to be honoured for his writing by the college that... More
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The Sound Of One Hand Clapping
(1998) [M]
36-year-old Sonja Buloh visits his father Bojan in Tasmania's capital after 20 years absence. She left him when he beat her up in a drunken rage, and she finds him a sad alcoholic. That brings back the memories of their hard life 30 years ago when they emigrated to Australia from Slovenia. More
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Romeo and Juliet (Romeo + Juliet)
(1996) [M]
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. The gun-toting members of the families wage a vicious war on the streets as the star-crossed lovers, their tragic destiny. More
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The Big Lebowski
(1998) [MA]
When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the... More
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Good Will Hunting
(1997) [M]
A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student who wants to save... More
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Trees Lounge
(1996) [M]
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he... More
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Women In Revolt
(1971) [R]
Three beautiful girls from different walks of life are drawn together through their problems relating to men. High society girl Candy suffered incest, middle class Jackie is frigid and street-level Holly is a self confessed nymphomaniac. Lost and in need of direction, the group integrate with the... More
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