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Woman Of The Dunes
(1964) [M]
When entomologist Jumpei (Eiji Okada) travels to sand dunes on an expedition, he is met by a group of people who offer him a place to spend the night. They soon lead him to a house at the bottom of a sandpit. Upon climbing into the pit, he finds a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) living alone. Placed... More
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Un Homme Et Une Femme (A Man and A Woman)
(1966) [PG]
Critically acclaimed around the world, A Man and A Woman stars Anouk Aimee as a widowed script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a racer who lost his wife to suicide. The film is a study of moments between the time they meet and the point at which they begin to read each other intuitively. A Man... More
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Trust
(1991) [M]
From director Hal Hartley Trust is a biting, provocative comedy of suburban Middle America. An America riddled with violent, miraculous, hilarious and occasionally lifesaving accidents. A landscape where philosophical bourbon-swilling nurses share the streets with confused grenade-wielding... More
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Malcolm X
(1992) [M]
Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on... More
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Reservoir Dogs (2 Disc Set)
(1992) [R]
Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless... More
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The Heartbreak Kid
(1993) [M]
Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a schoolteacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a... More
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Passion Fish
(1992) [M]
May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had eagerly left years before. She drinks heavily and vents her bitterness on the succession of nurses who are... More
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Johnny Suede
(1991) [M]
Johnny Suede is a young man with an attitude and an immense pompadour, who wants to be a rock n' roll star like his idol Ricky Nelson. He has all the stylistic accouterments, except a pair of black suede shoes. And one night, after leaving a nightclub, like manna from heaven, a pair of black... More
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My Own Private Idaho
(1991) [M]
Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his... More
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Sid And Nancy
(1986) [R]
Screaming and abrasive as safety pins on a blackboard, "Sid and Nancy" chronicles the sordid lives of two of punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his junkie girlfriend Nancy Spungen, brilliantly performed by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Director Alex Cox... More
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Dune
(1984) [PG]
The long-awaited film version of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction epic, Dune, explodes on the screen with dazzling special effects, unforgettable images and powerful performances. The saga of intergalactic warrior Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) and his messianic rise to leadership... More
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One False Move
(1992) [R]
With the assistance of two Los Angeles Police Department detectives, Star City, Arkansas Police Chief Dale "Hurricane" Dixon prepares to take on several criminals heading to his small town after a crime-filled road trip from California. More
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The Long Day Closes
(1992) [PG]
Set in Liverpool in the years 1955 and 1956, 'THE LONG DAY CLOSES' tells the story of 11-year-old Bud, a joyous time of long summer days and trips to the cinema, music forever on the radio and the boundless love of his mother, older sister and brothers, his contentment clouded only by his... More
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Husbands And Wives
(1992) [M]
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they too are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to move on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy becomes... More
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Riff Raff
(1990) [M]
Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site. Here he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying, but usually failing, to control his workers, Shem, Mo and Larry and the other lads as they duck and dive the... More
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For A Few Dollars More
(1965) [M]
This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing Man With No Name. Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal... More
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A Fistful Of Dollars
(1964) [R]
The first of the 'spaghetti westerns', a Fistful of Dollars was an instant cult hit. It also launched the film careers of Italian Writer-Director Sergio Leone, and a little known American television actor named Clint Eastwood. As the lean, cold-eyed corbra-quick gunfighter - Clint became the... More
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Midnight Cowboy
(1969) [M]
A "cowboy," Joe Buck, moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo, who had said he would manage him for a $20 fee. Bent on getting his money back, Buck finds the rapidly... More
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Of Mice And Men
(1992) [M]
John Steinbeck's classic comes magnificently to life in this stirring film. Best friends Lennie and George find themselves unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to keep jobs because of Lennie's childlike mentality. But once they get hired at the Tyler Ranch, they enjoy a brief period of... More
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Take The Money And Run
(1969) [PG]
Woody Allen sends up criminals and gangster movies in his first comic masterpiece as writer, director and star. This is vintage Woody Allen and with his trademark visual gags and inspired one-liners, this hilarious comedy established him as a major force in filmmaking. Psychologically unfit for... More
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Bananas
(1971) [PG]
Woody Allen's second film as a director, co-writer and star takes parody to the extreme with a brilliant send-up of everything from relationships to dictatorships. An early example of what Allen called his 'slapdash' approach to comedy, Bananas' broad, fast humor and rapid-fire witticisms form a... More
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Body Double
(1984) [R]
A beautiful young woman performs a seductive striptease at the window of her fabulous Hollywood home. A struggling young actor (Craig Wasson) watches, entranced from a house nearby, drawn into her obsession. Suddenly, he becomes a helpless witness to her savage murder. Compelled to track down the... More
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The Graduate
(1967) [M]
Benjamin is home from school, having graduated with honors from college with no idea of what to do with his life. Mrs. Robinson, a close family friend old enough to be his mother, tells him that she's "available." As Ben begins the affair, he finds that it fills his time, but depresses him. Under... More
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Chaplin
(1992) [M]
Containing an abundance of screen talent, Richard Attenborough's critically acclaimed Chaplin is a captivating recreation of the life of movie legend Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr's BAFTA winning performance in this wonderful film takes you on a journey through the laughter and misery of the... More
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Raging Bull (2 Disc Set)
(1980) [M]
Based on the true story of Jake LaMotta. An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
Won 2 Oscars (Best Actor and Best Film Editing) and was nominated for 6 others including Best... More
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Bitter Moon
(1992) [R]
Roman Polanksi explores the uttermost depths of sexual perversion and experimentation in this erotic drama with more than a hint of black comedy. Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott-Thomas), a repressed English couple eager to rekindle their fading marriage by taking a luxury cruise, get... More
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Night On Earth
(1991) [M]
A hip and hilarious comedy from cult director Jim Jarmusch. The action takes place in five cities in one night, with a brilliant cast of cabbies and customers. The stories, stretching from sunset to sunrise, range form the ridiculous to the sublime, punctuated by a haunting theme song by Tom... More
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Knife In The Water
(1962) [M]
A couple driving along a deserted road to a lake almost run over a young man, a student, who flags down the car almost too closely. The driver is a self absorbed husband, the woman his pretty, irritated wife. They take him along and the husband, out of the sheer patronizing will, invites him to... More
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Mean Streets
(1973) [R]
This groundbreaking movie, with its sharp dialogue and bristling energy, brought together the incredible talents of Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for the first time and launched Harvey Keitel's brilliant career. A small time hood's feelings of responsibility for his girlfriend's foolhardy... More
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Shadows And Fog
(1992) [PG]
A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of... More
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