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Roger And Me
(1989) [M]
A comic documentary which chronicles life in Flint, Michigan where thirty five thousand jobs were lost when the Chairman of General Motors closed the local factory and turned the thriving community into a ghost town... More
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Everyone Says I Love You
(1996) [M]
Holden and Skylar are in love with each other. Skylar lives with a large and extended family on Manhattan. Her parents, Bob and Steffi have been married to each other for many years. Joe, a friend of theirs, who has a daughter, DJ, with Steffi. After yet another relationship, Joe is alone again.... More
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Dune (Extended Version)
(1984) [PG]
Dune: 3-hour Extended Edition (1.33:1 4:3 Fullscreen/Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
This special version of "Dune" is the Alan Smithee cut - a three hour resembling of the film prepared for airing on television. David Lynch had his directorial credit removed from this version, primarily due to his... More
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Pretty Baby
(1979) [M]
This acclaimed director has taken a taboo subject - child prostitution - and has created a film of humanity and beauty. More
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
(1982) [M]
Teeming with all the beauty of an impressionist painting, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy is one of Woody Allen's lightest and most sensual films. Starring Allen, Mia Farrow (here directed by Allen for the first time), Jose Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts and Mary Steenburgen, A Midsummer... More
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Zelig
(1983) [PG]
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
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Play It Again Sam
(1972) [M]
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. With the encouragement of his two married friends, he actually tries... More
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The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
(1991) [PG]
Three Academy Award winners—Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger—are the stars of this extraordinary 1991 film, directed by British actor Simon Callow. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, based on the Carson McCullers novella and Edward Albee play, is both a grotesque black comedy and a... More
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Welcome To The Dollhouse
(1995) [M]
Insightful look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities. More
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Basquiat
(1996) [M]
1981. Jean-Michel Basquiat becomes catapulted from being an unknown graffiti artist living rough on the streets, to being to darling of New York's art critics. After a chance meeting, he sells some sketches to Andy Warhol (David Bowie) and it isn't long before Basquiat is the talk of the town.... More
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The Portrait Of A Lady
(1996) [PG]
Nicole Kidman stars in this dark, elaborate adaptation of Henry James's novel, director Jane Campion's follow-up to The Piano. American Isabel Archer (Kidman) visits her wealthy relatives in 1872 England, where she turns down an offer of marriage by a kind and rich suitor (Richard E. Grant) in... More
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The Pillow Book
(1996) [MA]
In Kyoto, Japan, in the 1970s, a calligrapher delicately writes a birthday greeting on his daughter's face. When she grows up, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) remembers the event with much affection and excitement and begins a search for an ideal calligrapher-lover who will use her whole body as his personal... More
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Crash (1996)
(1996) [R]
The controversial film by David Cronenberg that won the 1996 Won Jury Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Advertising executive James Ballard and his wife Catherine lead complex, if hollow sexual lives. However in a near fatal car crash with Dr. Helen Remington, Ballard finds himself being... More
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Palookaville
(1995) [M]
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelery store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them... More
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Withnail And I
(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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Kansas City
(1996) [M]
Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she lauches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local... More
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I Shot Andy Warhol
(1996) [MA]
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 60s radical, preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum manifesto". She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story. More
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A Wedding
(1978) [M]
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the... More
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Fool For Love
(1985) [M]
Robert Altman's adaptation of Sam Shepard's play takes the characters off the stage and places them deep in a barren New Mexico locale. Eddie (Sam Shepard) is a mysterious cowboy drifter who returns to the seedy El Royale Motel with the hope of resuming his romance with May (Kim Basinger), a... More
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Secrets And Lies
(1996) [M]
Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA awards, Mike Leigh’s hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Secrets and Lies centres around Cynthia, a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with a confrontational... More
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Flirt
(1995) [M]
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Japan). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do ? More
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Nadja
(1994) [M]
This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good... More
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Underground (1995)
(1995) [M]
The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they... More
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The Doom Generation
(1995) [R]
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts. More
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Chasing Amy
(1997) [MA]
It's a case of BOY MEETS GIRL, BOY LIKES GIRL AND GIRL ALSO LIKES GIRLS...? For Holden, love isn't blind, it just needs corrective eye wear. One night, while out on the town Holden meets Alyssa, he finds that she is very beautiful, has a razor sharp humour, is very intelligent and is very gay!... More
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Living In Oblivion
(1995) [M]
Following up his debut, Johnny Suede, director Tom DiCillo presented this filmmaking comedy that allegedly draws much from DiCillo's experiences on the set of the 1991 Brad Pitt vehicle. Steve Buscemi stars as Nick Reve, the long-suffering director of a no-budget independent film. If he's not... More
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Mighty Aphrodite
(1995) [M]
Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top... More
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The Cotton Club
(1984) [M]
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. More
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Blue Velvet
(1986) [R]
Possibly the most influential American film of the 1980's, David Lynch's bizarre erotic mystery spawned a whole raft of imitations with its portrayal of the dark underside of American small-town life. Critics and audiences responded to Lynch's original and startling images of sex and violence and... More
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Leaving Las Vegas
(1995) [R]
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Cage won Best Actor Oscar and the film received 3 other... More
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