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Hoffman
(1970) [M]
Hoffman is an odd cross between There's a Girl in My Soup and The Collector and is clearly one of the few film projects Peter Sellers took seriously enough to work hard on, rather than one of the many he breezed through on a talent for funny voices and unleashed chaos. The set-up is that... More
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Audition
(1999) [MA]
Ever felt lonely and decided you wanted some romance back in your life?
That’s how Shigeharu Aoyama, a film director, feels. To find the ideal woman, he holds an audition, and chooses the attractive but enigmatic Asami. But the more he investigates her past, the more of a mystery she... More
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The Darling Buds of May: Series 1 (2 disc set)
(1991) [PG]
Wallow in the nostalgia of the 1950s as Britain's best loved family are back in this celebration of love, family, life, romance, fun, food and wine in the idyllic country setting of Kent. Loveable rogue Pop Larkin (David Jason), ample-bosomed Ma (Pam Ferris) and their six children radiate... More
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Crimes of the Heart
(1986) [M]
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a... More
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A Breath of Scandal
(1960) [G]
It's 1907 in Vienna, the "City of the Waltz." Beautiful Sophia Loren is the Austrian princess who, despite her exile from the familial estate for "scandalous indiscretions," scorns her mother's wish to marry a prince. Instead, she sets her sights on handsome John Gavin, a visiting American mining... More
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The Other Boleyn Girl
(2008) [M]
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII. More
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The Jane Austen Book Club
(2007) [M]
Explores Austen's adage that general incivility is at love's essence. Sylvia's husband dumps her for another woman, so Bernadette and Jocelyn organize a book club to distract her. They recruit Sylvia's daughter Allegra; Prudie, a young teacher whose marriage may be on the rocks; and Grigg, a... More
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Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs)
(2006)
Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who thinks a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge, who's an angry, nasty bedridden old man; his son, a patient bartender; the... More
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
(1958) [PG]
Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die is set in the devastating ruin of burnt-out Germany during the dying days of World War Two. Amid this tumult and desolation is Private Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) who, having... More
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Prague
(2006) [MA]
The story of Christoffer and Maja's trip to the city of Prague - a beautiful, aging city, but also a city choked by a rigid and dated eastern-block mentality. PRAGUE is the story of a distant, ever-absent father who, even after passing away, traumatizes all who have known him. And PRAGUE is the... More
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Reprise
(2006) [MA]
The multi-award winning Reprise is the thrilling debut from director, Joachim Trier (relation of Lars Von Trier). Best friends, Phillip and Erik share a love of punk, girls and parties. They also share a dream of getting published and becoming famous authors. But neither could predict the... More
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The Secret Life of Words
(2005) [M]
An isolated spot in the middle of the sea. An oil rig, where all the workers are men, on which there has been an accident. A solitary, mysterious woman who is trying to forget her past (Sarah Polley) is brought to the rig to look after a man (Tim Robbins) who has been temporarily blinded. A... More
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The Heart Is Elsewhere
(2003) [PG]
Nello Balocchi, a 35-year-old teacher of Greek and Latin, is invited to Bologna by his father, the owner of the Papal tailor's shop in Rome. His father hopes Nello will find a soul mate in Bolgna and thus produce an heir for the business. Nello stays in a guesthouse run by Arabella, a wise woman... More
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There's Always Tomorrow
(1956) [PG]
Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Alone and depressed, he meets old flame Norma, and one thing leads to another. While their relationship is still fairly innocent, his son Vinnie sees them... More
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Baran
(2001) [PG]
From Iranian director Majid Majidi (CHILDREN OF HEAVEN), BARAN is the story of Lateef, a 17-year-old boy who lives in Tehran and works in the kitchen on a construction site. Hotheaded and always ready for a fight, Lateef resents his boss Memar for holding his wages to send to his father at the... More
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Cashback
(2006) [MA]
A grocery-store worker who can freeze time spends his hours undressing women and sketching their portraits.
When art student Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local... More
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The Tarnished Angels
(1958) [PG]
In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene... More
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Valley of Flowers
(2006) [M]
Along the highest mountain passes of the Himalayas, tough, intrepid Jalan (Milind Soman) and his gang earn their living by stealing from unsuspecting travelers. Abiding by their own, unique codes of honor and dividing the spoils equally, all is routine until the arrival of the mystifying,... More
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All I Desire
(1953)
The king of Hollywood melodrama does not disappoint in this drama about the imprisoning nature of provincial America.
When Naomi Murdock returns to the family she abandoned ten years earlier for a life on the stage, her reception is not as she hoped. Her return conjures memories of her... More
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You'll Get Over It
(2003) [MA]
A star of his high school swim team, Vincent (Julien Bamgartner) has everything the average teenager could wish for: a gorgeous girlfriend, great buddies and a close family. However, something is bubbling up within that threatens this existence. Enter Benjamin (sexy Jeremie Elkaim from Come... More
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Sun Kissed
(2006) [MA]
Teddy, a budding novelist, has traded the big city for his professor's desert home in California to work on completing his first novel. There he meets Leo, the estate's handsome young caretaker who shows Teddy the ropes of living in the arid wilderness. Teddy is instantly smitten by Leo's sexy... More
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Thieves Like Us
(1974) [M]
Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest of the three falls in love along the way with a girl met at their hideout, the older man is a happy professional criminal with a... More
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Gun Crazy
(1950)
Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival, where he meets the perfect girl, Annie, a sharp-shooting sideshow performer who loves guns as much as he. The two run off and marry, but Annie isn't happy with their financial... More
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Never on Sunday (Pote tin Kyriaki)
(1960) [M]
Illia is Piraeus's most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Every day, she swims at the pier, entertaining the dock hands. Sundays she has an open house with food, drink and song. Homer Thrace, an amateur philosopher from Middletown, Conn., arrives in town to... More
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Fallen Angel
(1945) [M]
Eric Stanton, a penniless drifter, falls in love with Stella, who works in a small-town coffee shop. She refuses to marry him because of his poor financial condition. Desperate for money, Eric marries a wealthy local spinster, who he plans to divorce. His plans go awry when someone ends up dead... More
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Home from the Hill
(1960) [PG]
Captain Wade Hunnicutt is the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his Texan town; he is also a notorious womanizer, which has turned his wife Hannah against him. She has brought up their son Theron to be dependent upon her; but as he reaches adulthood, Hunnicutt insists on taking over his... More
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Imitation of Life (1934): (2 disc set)
(1934) [PG]
Brought Back to thrill you again! Fannie Hurst's stirring drama of a mother and a daughter in love with the same man.
Special Features:
* O-Ring Packaging
* Audio Commentary by Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis, University of Melbourne
* Original theatrical trailer
*... More
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Imitation of Life
(1959) [PG]
Aspiring actress Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) meets Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore) a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, though Annie's little girl Sarah Jane (Karen Dicker and, later, Susan Kohner), is by far the worse.... More
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