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Stardust
(2007) [PG]
A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the beautiful but cold object of his desire, by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. His journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the walls of his village. On his odyssey, Tristan... More
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Love's Brother
(2004) [G]
Despairing of ever finding love, the insecure Angelo uses a photo of his handsome brother Gino to convince a beautiful Italian girl across the sea to marry him. Gino is delighted for Angelo, until he finds out what happened. To complicate matters further, when Angelo introduces his brother to... More
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Tan Lines
(2006) [R]
To find himself, he will have to risk it all.
A ‘gay surf movie’, a ‘coming-of-age’ story, or a punk’s view of teenage sexuality, Tan Lines is a wild ride full of passion, laughs, sex & drugs against the backdrop of the sea in all its different moods… More
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An Italian Romance
(2004) [MA]
Set in Tuscany in 1936, this is the story of two lovers, Giovanni (Stefano Accorsi) and Maria (Maya Sansa). Their first meeting, as teenagers, was a brief infatuation in the seaside town of Livorno, but it isn’t until a chance encounter, years later, that their romance kindles.
Giovanni, now... More
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First Name Carmen
(1983) [R]
First Name: Carmen is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen.
The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) if she can borrow... More
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Journey in Italy
(1954) [PG]
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she didn't love him, the memory... More
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Valmont
(1989) [M]
Based on the classic French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Valmont stars Colin Firth (Bridget Jones's Diary) and Oscar nominee Annette Bening (American Beauty) as embittered aristocrats who weave a wicked web of cruel intentions and savage seductions. Directed by... More
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Becoming Jane
(2006) [PG]
Fictional romantic biopic of author Jane Austen. A young girl's future prospects in English society of 1795 are based around marrying for financial gain. As a rebellious twenty-year-old, Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) contemplates a future mapped out for her by her parents, when into her life rides... More
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The Science of Sleep
(2006) [M]
In director Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep life seems to be looking up for shy and withdrawn Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) when he is coaxed to return to his childhood home with the promise of a job.. in the mundane world of copy setting. Wildly creative, his fanciful and sometimes... More
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Angel-A
(2006) [M]
Luc Besson, the director of The Big Blue, Nikita and The Fifth Element, presents his first film in seven years-the romantic fable Angel-A. Down on his luck, and up to his neck in debt, Andre (Amelie's Jamel Debbouze) decides it's easier to end it all than repay his loan-sharks. As he is about to... More
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The Illusionist
(2006) [M]
Nothing Is What It Seems. A supernatural mystery that combines romance, politics and magic, The Illusionist is the latest film from the producers of Crash and Sideways, starring Oscar nominees, Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as... More
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Devdas (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [PG]
One of the most lavish and expensive Indian films ever made. Devdas is the story of a love beyond all else...even life. The saga of a man called Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) who loved, loved and just loved. Devdas shared a magnetic childhood with his lovely playmate Paro (Aishwarya Rai) where supreme... More
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Trust the Man
(2005) [M]
Friends meets Sex And The City in this battle of the sexes comedy. Trust The Man centers on the hilarious escapades of two couples in love. Rebecca a successful actress (Julianne Moore) and her sex obsessed Mr Mum husband Tom (David Duchovny) try to salvage a marriage on the verge of falling... More
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Darling Lili
(1970) [M]
Musical set in World War II starring Julie Andrews as Lili Smith, a famous femme fatale music-hall singer with a dark secret: she is also working as a German spy. Things are further complicated for Lili when she is ordered to seduce the dashing Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), and finds... More
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The White Masai
(2005) [M]
At once a captivating romance and a breath-taking travelogue into the Kenyan outback, The White Masai is an epic journey based on the autobiography of Corinne Hofmann. It tells the unbelievable - yet true - tale of a white European woman who becomes the wife of a Masai warrior. The exotic African... More
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The Libertine
(2004) [MA]
Centuries before Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Bruce and John Belushi, there was the Earl of Rochester. He sounds like a modern day rock star. He lived on the edge, partied like there was no tomorrow and pushed the boundaries of art and wild behaviour to new extremes. Yet the Second Earl of Rochester aka... More
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River Queen
(2005) [MA]
A woman who has come to a strange land is torn between the life she knows and the new life around her in this epic-scale historical drama. In 1854, New Zealand's indigenous Maori tribes were engaged in an ongoing battle to drive away European settlers eager to establish colonies in the nation's... More
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Candy
(2006) [MA]
A powerful and intimate mapping of a decade-long love affair between a bohemian poet (Heath Ledger) and a free-spirited art student (Abbie Cornish). hooked as much on one another as they are on heroin, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair. Their... More
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Miss Potter
(2006) [G]
Miss Potter is an enchanting love story inspired by Beatrix Potter's life and love affair with her publisher Norman Wayne. Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her overbearing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men to... More
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The Lake House
(2006) [M]
A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with a frustrated architect (Keanu Reeves) who resides in the same house two years in the past. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late. More
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White Countess
(2005) [M]
James Ivory directed this historical drama of a man who has shut himself away from a world he cannot change. Todd Jackson (Ralph Fiennes) is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late '30s. While Jackson was once an American diplomat who came to Shanghai with great optimism about... More
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Yes
(2004) [M]
Filmmaker Sally Potter directed this artful meditation on the dynamics of the romantic and sexual relationship. She (Joan Allen) is an intelligent and gifted genetic scientist of Irish-American heritage who feels smothered in her marriage to a British politician (Sam Neill). While dining at a... More
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Casanova
(2005) [M]
Set in the beautiful location of eighteenth century Venice, the story begins with Casanova as older figure, writing the memoirs of his life and his conquests, "ten thousand pages; that's about one woman per page." As the action moves to Casanova as a young man, we see his talent for seducing the... More
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Memoirs of a Geisha
(2005) [M]
This epic motion picture from the director of the Academy Award-winning Chicago (Best Picture, 2002) is based on the international best-selling novel by Arthur Golden. Torn from her impoverished family before World War II and sent to work in a geisha house, a child will blossom into the legendary... More
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Brokeback Mountain
(2005) [M]
From Academy Award-winner Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, Brokeback Mountain. Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong... More
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Tristan and Isolde
(2006) [M]
One of the great stories of doomed love is given a new screen interpretation in this historical drama. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, King Donnchadh (David O'Hara) of Ireland has become the de facto ruler of England, but one of his underlings, Lord Marke (Rufus Sewell), dreams of uniting... More
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Match Point
(2005) [M]
Passion. Temptation. Obsession. Woody Allen's Match Point is a drama about a young man's rise in society and the terrible consequences of his ambition. The protagonist is torn between two women, and finding no way out, resorts to extreme action. The actors are all English and it is set amongst... More
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Shadows of Time
(2004) [M]
For Ravi and Masha, who are forced to work as child laborers, it is the beginning of a tragic love story. Realising that money determines whether one is free or enslaved, the ambitious and resolute Ravi works his way up from common worker to best carpet knotter, with just one goal - to leave the... More
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The Legend of Zorro
(2005) [M]
Having spent the last 10 years fighting injustice and cruelty, Zorro (Antonio Banderas) is now facing his greatest challenge: his wife Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has thrown him out and found comfort in the arms of Count Armand (Rufus Sewell), a dashing French aristocrat. But Zorro knows... More
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The Manxman
(1929) [PG]
Although he was established as a master of suspense by 1929, Alfred Hitchcock was still under contract to British International Pictures, and thus still obliged to direct everything his studio chose for him. Hitch's last silent film was The Manxman, a "romantic triangle" imbroglio based on a... More
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