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Reality Bites
(1994) [M]
In this study of Generation X manners, Lelaina, the valedictorian of her college class, camcords her friends in a mock documentary of post education life. Troy is her best friend, a perpetually unemployed musical slacker. Vickie is a manager at the Gap who worries about the results of an AIDS... More
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
(1993) [PG]
Johnny Depp is Gilbert, the eldest brother in a family whose obese mother (Darlene Cates) hasn't left the house since her husband committed suicide years before. Leonardo DiCaprio, who received an Academy Award nomination for his role, is Arnie, Gilbert's retarded teenage brother who needs... More
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Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
(1993) [M]
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'The Countess' sends her to his ranch in CA to shoot a commercial, set against the background of mating whooping cranes. There, she befriends... More
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The Crow
(1994) [MA]
Devil's Night: for rock star Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his girlfriend Shelley, the night they meet their brutal demise at the hands of the inner city's most notorious characters. Exactly a year later, Eric is brought back to life and granted the powers of superhuman strength and vision in... More
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Fearless
(1993) [M]
San Francisco architect Max Klein can see clearly now. He’s been transformed ever since he stared death in the face – and discovered he was unafraid. Jeff Bridges plays Max, more wildly alive and taking more risks then ever since surviving a plane crash. Isabella Rossellini is Laura,... More
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Short Cuts (2 Disc Set)
(1993) [MA]
Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a jumping-off point, Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several couples - a... More
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Scarecrow
(1973) [M]
Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he's never seen. The dreams may not be glorious but you'll want Max and Lion to... More
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The Swimmer
(1968) [M]
The Swimmer takes place in an affluent Connecticut suburb and for Ned Merrill (Award-winner Burt Lancaster), it is where he confronts all of his dreams...and deceptions. According to Judith Crist, of the Today Show, "Burt Lancaster gives the best performance of his career" as Ned, the troubled... More
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Taxi Driver
(1976) [R]
New York City cab driver Travis Bickle constantly, almost obsessively, reflects on the ugly corruption of life around him, and becomes increasingly disturbed over his own loneliness and alienation. In nearly every phase of his life, Bickle remains a complete outsider, failing to make emotional... More
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Raining Stones
(1993) [M]
Bob Williams (Bruce Jones) is a survivor. He supplements his dole by becoming embroiled in whatever scam is on offer, from rustling sheep to rodding drains. But now life has dealt him a bitter blow. His van has been stolen and his daughter, Coleen, is approaching her first communion. She needs... More
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Running On Empty (1988)
(1988) [M]
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today,... More
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Rosemary's Baby
(1968) [M]
Rosemary and her new husband, Guy, move into a new apartment in New York, befriending an elderly couple who live near by. When another girl in the block commits suicide, Rosemary starts getting more attention than she desires, from all the wrong people. When Rosemary become mysteriously pregnant,... More
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Shock Corridor
(1963) [MA]
Young and ambitious newspaper reporter Johnny Barrett will pay any price for success. Sometimes, the price can be too high... With the help of his editor and a leading psychologist, Johnny feigns insanity inorder to get into an asylum where a brutal murder is witnessed by three patients. With the... More
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Rumble Fish
(1983) [M]
Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother - The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang... More
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Accident
(1967) [PG]
Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. Things begin to change for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful student who is engaged to William, another of Stephen's... More
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The Outsiders
(1983) [PG]
Based on the S.E. Hinton novel of the same name. The Outsiders was the film that launched a new generation of actors. Together they would become know as the 'brat pack', and dominate the box office over the next decade. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, it was made back-to-back with Rumblefish,... More
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The Lover
(1992) [R]
The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese... More
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True Stories
(1986) [G]
Why do hot dogs come 10 to a pack and buns in packs of eight or 12? Did the woman who claims she knows "the real Rambo" also write songs for Elvis and Michael Jackson? Maybe you haven't wondered about these things. But David Byrne has. "I deal with stuff that's too dumb for people to have... More
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Band Of Outsiders (Bande a part)
(1964) [PG]
Two small-time, self-conscious toughs Franz (Frey) and Arthur (Brasseur) begin a dalliance with local girl Odile (Karina) whose Aunt (Colpeyn) just happens to have a large pile of banknotes lying in a cupboard at home. Gently coerced into taking part in the robbery - largely because she has... More
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True Romance
(1993) [R]
Clarence Worley (Slater) is a loner who has little experience in the ways of love until he meets Alabama Whitman (Arquette), a sex kitten with an irresistible innocence. The day she enters his life his world changes for the better - and the worst. After a whirlwind courtship Clarence commits a... More
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The Nostradamus Kid
(1993) [M]
Ken Elkin is a randy young man who is told that the world is about to end. In a race against time, there’s only one goal he wants to accomplish -- bedding the love of his life, who just happens to be the local pastor’s daughter. Stars Noah Taylor ('Shine', 'Max') & Miranda Otto (Lord of the... More
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Wide Sargasso Sea
(1993) [M]
A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love blooms, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect... More
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Simple Men
(1992) [M]
Director Hal Hartley's third feature film follows two brothers on as they travel across Long Island, New York. Bill McCabe (Robert Burke), a tough-talking ladies' man, has just pulled a robbery and has been double-crossed by his lover. Shortly thereafter, his younger brother, Dennis (Bill Sage),... More
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Bad Lieutenant
(1993) [R]
He's the kind of cop who steals drugs off a dead man's body, the kind of father who'd rather feed his drug habit than his family... His badge means nothing to him other than the right to act like the very criminals he's supposed to be chasing and the fierce anger beneath his personality is only... More
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
(1992) [R]
Twin Peaks, a beautiful town filled with beautiful people, or is it... nothing is as it seems. The last seven days of Laura Palmer. David Lynch invites you to return to The Red Room... Cinema's supreme stylist draws us back into the uniquely haunting world of Laura Palmer in this prequel to the... More
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Another Woman
(1988) [PG]
Writer/director Woody Allen delivers a powerful drama, examining the life of an accomplished philosophy professor teetering on the brink of self-understanding. Boasting a superb cast led by Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm and Gene Hackman, Another Woman was Allen's 17th film. Stylistically... More
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One From The Heart
(1982) [M]
Francis Ford Coppola directed this experimental theatrical music drama about love in Las Vegas. The film stars Frederic Forrest (Hank) and Teri Garr (Frannie) as an unhappy couple breaking up on their five-year anniversary. Frannie is courted by a piano player/waiter, Ray (Raul Julia), who... More
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Dressed To Kill
(1980) [R]
In this film that combines Hitchcock's slick premises with modern-day gore, a lonely wife follows her shrink's advice and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The prostitute who discovers the body and the victim's son must track... More
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Obsession
(1976) [M]
This intriguing mystery/thriller by Brian DePalma (Mission: Impossible, Carrie) will leave you breathless. A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) discovers that his wife (Genevieve Bujold) and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. When... More
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