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The Million Dollar Hotel
(2000) [MA]
A gang of outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles flea-pit, known locally as "the Million Dollar Hotel". When one of the residents comes to a grisly end, the hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation led by FBI hardliner Detective Skinner (Mel Gibson). Every inhabitant of the... More
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Annie Hall
(1977) [M]
Arguably the best of all of Woody Allen's movies, Annie Hall portrays with candour the fragility of relationships in an amusing and touching manner. As with Allen's other movies you don't have to look far to find the idiosyncratic neurosis that is innate in most of his work but his handling of... More
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Dogma
(2000) [MA]
The plot is set in motion by two banished angels, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck). After a few millenia in Wisconsin, they've discovered a loophole in Catholic doctrine that would allow them back into heaven - but prove the fallibility of God and destroy the universe. Unaware of the... More
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Boys Don't Cry
(1999) [R]
In Falls City, Nebraska, Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) was a newcomer with a future, who had the small, rural community enchanted. Women adored him and almost everyone who met this charismatic stranger was drawn to his charming innocence. But Falls City's hottest date and truest friend had one... More
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Down By Law (2 disc set)
(1986) [M]
Jim Jarmusch's quirky follow-up to his groundbreaking STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a comic fable about finding the American dream in the most unlikely of places. After being thrown out of the house by his girlfriend, Zack (Tom Waits), an out-of-work DJ, takes a job driving a stolen car with a body... More
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Small Faces
(1996) [M]
Teenage brothers: gang-member Bobby, troubled mama’s boy Charlie and self-assured prankster Lex, live in a slum suburb of Glasgow, Scotland circa 1968. While Bobby and Charlie are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex’s downward spiral after he... More
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A Pure Formality
(1994) [M]
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a recluse. When he is picked up by the police one stormy night, without any identification, out of breath and running madly, without clear memory of recent events, the Inspector is suspicious. Through... More
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Kids
(1995) [R]
An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate. More
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Empire Records
(1995) [M]
The director of Pump Up the Volume cranks it up another notch with this comedy about an eventful day in the lives of the young slackers, doers and dreamers who work at the bustling store called Empire Records. "This music is the glue of the world", one of Emprire's clerks says. "It holds it all... More
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Crush
(1992) [M]
A passionate story of lives turned upside-down. Crush is a darkly comic tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge. Wreaking havoc is brash Lane (Marcia Gay Harden), whose reckless driving leaves her friend Christina hospitalised. Fleeing the scene, Lane then crashes into the lives of a novelist and... More
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The Basketball Diaries
(1995) [R]
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in... More
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Butterfly Kiss
(1995) [MA]
From director Michael Winterbottom (9 Songs, 24Hr Party People) comes a film full of macabre humour, centered around two extraordinary women, Eunice, unpredictable and highly dangerous, paces the highways of the North of England in search of Judith, the only person who has ever loved her. She... More
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An Awfully Big Adventure
(1995) [MA]
Stella leaves the doldrums of Liverpool and looks for life in the theatre. She soon meets the heartless director, Meredith Potter, and falls in love. She also charms the rest of the cast and observes their sordid lives... More
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The Secret Of Roan Inish
(1994) [G]
10 year old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a selkie -- a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother washed out to sea in a cradle, and some think... More
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Sweetie
(1989) [M]
Oscar®-winning director Jane Campion's stunning debut feature is a feast of colourful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters. Tough and tender, Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director as well as the breakthrough of antipodean cinema, which would take the... More
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The Conversation
(1974) [M]
A paranoid and secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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Before Sunrise
(1995) [M]
Before Sunrise is a passionate and intelligent romance between a young American (Jesse) and a French student (Celine). A change encounter on the train in cites intrigue, and Jesse provocatively suggests that Celine postpones her return to France and embarks instead on a spontaneous expedition to... More
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Talk Radio
(1988) [M]
An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love... More
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Ed Wood
(1994) [M]
You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened, on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on a secret testimony, of the miserable souls,... More
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Tess
(1979) [PG]
Roman Polanski's beautiful, Oscar-winning adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel. In 19th-century England a peasant named John Durbeyfield discovers he descends from a noble family, the d'Urbervilles. He sends his eldest daughter Tess (Nastassja Kinski) to live with Alec d'Urberville (Leigh... More
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Bad Timing
(1980) [R]
Art Garfunkel stars in this powerful psychological drama directed by Nicolas Roeg. Told in flashback, it tells the story Alex (Garfunkel) who whilst lecturing in Vienna begins a passionate affair with a young American Milena (Theresa Russell). Unable to cope with her promiscuity Alex becomes... More
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Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle
(1994) [M]
An evocative portrait of renowned writer and wit Dorothy Parker which chronicles her boozy adventures both in Manhattan as a writer for The New Yorker and member of the celebrated Algonquin roundtable and later in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Jennifer Jason Leigh delivers a stunning performance... More
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Christine
(1983) [M]
She was born in Detroit on an assembly line...but she is no ordinary automobile. She is Christine - a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose standard equipment includes an evil, indestructible presence that will destroy anyone in her way. More
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Insignificance
(1985) [M]
A New York night in 1953. Fans crowd the sidewalks and the famous hide out in bars. Four 20th Century icons, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio and Senator Joseph McCarthy are dropped into a melting pot of the sexual and the cerebral. The group is forced into conversation and each of... More
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Death And The Maiden
(1994) [R]
Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed third World country. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime... More
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Buffalo Bill And The Indians
(1976) [PG]
Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer. More
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Shallow Grave
(1994) [MA]
Three friends push the boundaries of trust in this hermetically sealed shocker from the creators of Trainspotting. Starring Kerry Fox (The Hanging Garden, Intimacy), Christopher Eccleston (Elizabeth) and Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace), Shallow Grave is a masterpiece... More
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Tank Girl
(1995) [M]
In the year 2033, the world's water supply is controlled by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), a maniacal dictator who presides over the Water & Power company. Tank Girl (Lori Petty), a tough punk water poacher, struggles alongside her comrades to deliver the valuable resource to parched persons around... More
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Boxcar Bertha
(1972) [R]
Free-spirited Bertha (Hershey) is a small-time crook with a "love 'em and leave 'em" philosophy until she falls hard for union man – and Robin-Hood-of-the-rails – Big Bill Shelly (Carradine). Stealing from the rich and giving to the workers, Bertha and Bill soon become the most notorious... More
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Bullets Over Broadway
(1994) [M]
Big city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting, all-star comedy from Woody Allen that had audiences and critics rolling in the aisles. David Shayne (John Cusack), an idealistic young writer, will do anything to get his first Broadway play of the ground - even... More
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