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Vanity Fair
(2004) [PG]
One of the great female characters of English literature returns to the big screen. This fresh film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate and calculating Rebecca (Becky) Sharp (Reese Witherspoon). The daughter of... More
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Heavy
(1995) [M]
Victor is the overweight, underappreciated cook at "Pete and Dolly's" - a roadside diner where the regulars are even staler than the coffee, and just as bitter. Callie the enchanting new waitress, is a breath of fresh air who breezes her way right into Victor's heart. Heavy has the critics... More
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The Secret Lives of Dentists
(2002) [M]
An insightful dramatic comedy by award winning director Alan Rudolph (Afterglow, Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle) who employs this dental observation as a powerful metaphor for the complexities of marriage and human relationships. Dr. Dave Hurst (Campbell Scott) shares a private clinical... More
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Springtime in a Small Town
(2002) [PG]
An exquisitely constructed romantic drama, Springtime in a Small Town is the first film by Tian Zhuangzhuang since the controversial The Blue Kite in 1993. Set in a bomb-scarred Chinese town in the aftermath of World War II, the film tells the story of the passionless marriage of the ailing Liyan... More
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A Perfect Murder
(1998) [M]
Wall Street titan Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like A Perfect Murder. It isn't. In fact, little is what it seems in this sleek thriller.... More
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
(2003) [PG]
Set in mid 17th Century Delft in Holland, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a coming-of-age drama about the imagined relationship between Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and a quietly beautiful peasant girl Griet (Scarlett Johansson). More
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The Cooler
(2003) [MA]
Everything Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) touches turns sour, particularly a past gambling habit that has left him seriously in debt to Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), a violent old-school wise guy who runs the Shangri-La Casino. Having realised the potential of Bernie's seemingly contagious bad... More
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The Human Stain
(2003) [M]
Academy Award® winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence Of The Lambs*) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours**) along with Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump) and Ed Harris (The Hours) star in the dramatic thriller THE HUMAN STAIN, based on the Philip Roth novel and directed by Academy Award® winner Robert Benton... More
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15 Amore
(2000) [M]
Two Italian POW's, Alfred and Joseph, and two Jewish refugees from Germany, Madame Guttman and her daughter Rachel, have been interred by the government on a farm at Mount Macedon. They are there to assist Dorothy, a beautiful and independent mother of three, in the upkeep of her property while... More
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Under the Tuscan Sun
(2003) [M]
Diane Lane plays a San Francisco author whose recent divorce leaves her suffering from depression and a nasty case of writer's block. On the advice of her best friend (Sandra Oh), the 35-year-old woman takes a vacation to the Tuscany region of Italy. She likes it there so much that she buys a... More
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Cold Mountain
(2003) [MA]
At the dawn of the Civil War, the men of Cold Mountain, North Carolina, rush to join the Confederate army. Ada (Kidman) has vowed to wait for Inman (Law), but as the war drags on and letters go unanswered, she must find the will to survive. At the war's end, hearts will be dashed, dreams... More
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The Man from Snowy River 2
(1988) [PG]
In this sequel to The Man From Snowy River, a frontiersman returns to the Australian highlands after a three-year absence to claim the girl he left behind. He soon discovers he has made an enemy in her father and a rival in an arrogant banker's son. After spending some time away from his... More
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Sayonara
(1957) [PG]
Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he has fallen in love with a Japanese entertainer, despite the policies and standards set by the American government.... More
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The Sea is Watching
(2002) [MA]
Set in a 19th-century brothel, The Sea Is Watching is the story of a beautiful young geisha, O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno), who harbors a samurai (Rhapsody in August's Hidetaka Yoshioka) seeking refuge. Falling in love with O-Shin, the samurai hopes to cleanse her of the sins of her profession. But fate... More
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Mogambo
(1953) [PG]
This romantic pot-boiler adventure directed by John Ford finds Clark Gable as a safari leader in the jungles of Kenya who becomes the target of affections of the boss' wife (Grace Kelly) and a Broadway showgirl (Ava Gardner). More
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Beyond Borders
(2003) [MA]
Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London who is trapped in an unhappy marriage to the son of a wealthy banker. But one night at a charity event she meets Nick Callahan (Clive Owen), a renegade doctor running dangerous relief efforts in war-torn... More
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Toute Une Vie (And Now My Love)
(1974) [PG]
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents. From the director of "Une Homme et Une Femme"
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Immoral Tales
(1974) [R]
Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being... More
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Respiro
(2002) [M]
For some, village life can be as cruel as it is heartwarming, as suffocating as it is charming...Grazia is the affectionate young mother of a teenage girl and two boys. She sings along to Patti Bravo hits and finds ways to amuse herself and her children. But her free-spirited attitude causes talk... More
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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
(1988) [M]
In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly... More
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Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
(2001) [PG]
Jacques Rivette's delightfully bittersweet and highly entertaining comedy follows the romantic escapades of Camille (Jeanne Balibar), an actress who returns to Paris for the first time in three years to star in a play directed by her Italian lover, Ugo (Sergio Castellitto). But then she meets up... More
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Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres)
(2001) [MA]
Deaf secretary Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) is bullied by her mean spirited male colleagues. When they suggest she needs an assistant it seems like the final insult, but, when the first applicant is ex-con Paul (Vincent Cassel) she seizes the chance to change her life. Carla covers his mistakes and... More
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Spellbound (1945)
(1945) [PG]
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature-or so she thinks. When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, the bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled... More
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A Farewell To Arms
(1957) [PG]
In the Winter of 1917 an American ambulance driver (Rock Hudson) enlists in the Italian army and is wounded in action. He is gradually restored to health by a beautiful young nurse (Jennifer Jones). When they find themselves falling in love, they try to escape the horrors of the war by fleeing to... More
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Daisy Miller
(1974) [G]
Cybill Shepherd is Daisy Miller, a woman who did as she pleased, but seldom pleased anyone except herself. Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller is adapted from Henry James’ classic novella about an expatriate American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is... More
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I Capture the Castle
(2002) [PG]
The film follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain (Romola Garai), and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Her father (Bill Nighy) is desperate to repeat the spectacular success of his first novel, but hasn't written a word for 12 years; her... More
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Casablanca (Special Anniversary Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1942) [PG]
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no... More
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The Rules of Attraction
(2002) [R]
It's the mid-1980's at Camden College. The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of the College are the backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate. More
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The Man Without A Past
(2002) [PG]
A delirious mixture of black comedy, film noir and love sory, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's rapturously received The Man Without A Past triumphed at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, carrying off the Best Actress and Grand Jury Prize. Markku Peltola plays 'M', who arrives in Helsinki only to be... More
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The Last Kiss / L'Ultimo bacio
(2001) [M]
Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and Alberto reluctantly grapple with their own responsibilities. More
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