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Wuthering Heights
(1970) [M]
Haunting, passionate and unforgettable, this “lovely, scenically rich” (Newsweek) version of Emily Bronte’s timeless masterpiece stars Emmy winner Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton (Licence to Kill) as Cathy and Heathcliff, two star-crossed lovers destined for doomed romance.... More
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Stealing Beauty
(1996) [M]
From the director of The Last Emperor, Stealing Beauty explores one girl's intriguing journey into womanhood in a provocative story of passion and self discovery. When 19-year-old Lucy arrives in Tuscany to spend the summer with her late Mother's free spirited Bohemian friends, she soon finds... More
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Persuasion
(1995) [G]
Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is... More
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A French Woman (Une femme francaise)
(1994) [M]
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades–in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayals, Louis takes his wife... More
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Pocahontas
(1995) [G]
Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (or, more precisely, for Governor Ratcliffe, who comes along for the ride). Meanwhile, in this "New World," Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to... More
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Yvonne's Perfume (Le Parfum D'Yvonne)
(1994) [R]
From Patrice Leconte, the director of The Hairdresser’s Husband, comes an intoxicating masterpiece of delicate eroticism.
Victor Charma (Hippolyte Girardot, Manon de Sources) looks back at an idyllic summer on Lake Geneva in the late 50s which he spent with the beautiful aspiring... More
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Endless Night
(1971) [M]
Gripping tale from the pen of Miss Agatha Christie, in which a young chauffeur, after marrying his beautiful and wealthy boss, thinks he has it made until he finds that their 'dream' house is more of a nightmare than a pleasure to live in. After taking up residence, their lives take a decided... More
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Sense And Sensibility
(1995) [G]
Elinor uses her head...Marianne follows her heart. Two sisters on very different paths, are about to discover there's only one road that leads to true love. SENSE & SENSIBILITY is the glorious adaptation of JANE AUSTEN's timeless story, brought to life with humour, heart and wonderful... More
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
(1943) [PG]
Based on the best-selling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, beautiful Technicolor cinematography and 9 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The story follows Robert... More
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Leaving Las Vegas
(1995) [R]
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Cage won Best Actor Oscar and the film received 3 other... More
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (2 disc set)
(1927) [R]
An attractive woman from the city, on vacation, stays in a small farming community and dazzles a young married farmer. The wicked woman suggests that the man's deceptively dowdy-looking wife might "accidentally" drown. Can he, will he go through with it? The scene changes; in unexpected company,... More
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Madame Bovary (1991)
(1991) [PG]
A classy adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel, directed by the great Claude Chabrol. In 19th century France, Emma Rouault (Isabelle Huppert), the daughter of a country squire, has visions of a romantic life, but she is sadly disillusioned by her marriage to Charles Bovary (Jean-Francois... More
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The Bridges Of Madison County
(1995) [M]
World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are behind them. Yet four days after meeting, they won't want to lose the love they've found. Meryl... More
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Farinelli (Il Castrato)
(1994) [M]
A period drama based on the lives of two brothers, castrato singer Farinelli and composer Riccardo. Their bond of friendship is threatened by the composer Handel and Farinelli's new love, Alexandra. French dialogue with subtitles.
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Il Postino (The Postman)
(1994) [G]
On a remote Mediterranean island, Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo Troisi), a shy and simple-minded fisherman's son, is hired to deliver mail to exiled "poet of love" Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret). As the two develop an improbable but tender relationship, Mario enlists Neruda's help to win the heart of a... More
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Notorious
(1946) [PG]
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia... More
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Nothing Sacred
(1937) [PG]
Starring Carole Lombard & Fredic March star in this screwball comedy classic. Lombard plays a small town girl Hazel Flagg who mistakenly thinks she is dying of radium poisoning. When reporter Wallace Cook played by Fredric March convinces his editors to bring her to New York for one last fling... More
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Marty
(1955) [G]
Marty has a problem. Middle-aged and trapped by a smothering mother, his future looks bleak. But when this butcher from the Bronx meets a lonely schoolteacher, suddenly everything is possible. Marty swept the Academy Awards in 1955, winning a Best Actor Oscar for Ernest Borgnine and a Best... More
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Circle Of Friends
(1995) [M]
Two girls escape the dull confines of distant Knockglen to attend college in Dublin, where their education really begins. Benny and Eve learn all about love and friendship. Their teachers are the worldly Nan and Jack, the handsome and charming star of the rugby team. Join them on a romantic... More
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Carrington
(1995) [M]
Written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce, Carrington is a provocative, hypnotic film. She was a gifted artist, he was an eminent writer and together they created a controversy that sent shock waves through polite society. This is the true story of... More
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Jedda (The Chauvel Collection)
(1955) [G]
On a lonely cattle station in the Northern territory, Sara McMann (Betty Suttor) adopts an orphaned aboriginal baby in place of her own baby who has died the day before. Sara names the baby Jedda (Ngarla Kunoth) after a wild bird, and raises her as a white child, forbidding her to have contact... More
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Before Sunrise
(1995) [M]
Before Sunrise is a passionate and intelligent romance between a young American (Jesse) and a French student (Celine). A change encounter on the train in cites intrigue, and Jesse provocatively suggests that Celine postpones her return to France and embarks instead on a spontaneous expedition to... More
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When Night Is Falling
(1995) [R]
Camille and Martin are in love and teachers at a christian college; they get the opportunity to get a better job, but they would have to marry for that. But when Camille's dog dies, she recognizes that her love for Martin is not even as big as the love for her dog. After that, Camille gets to... More
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Sense And Sensibility (BBC TV)
(1981)
Devoted sisters Elinor and Marianne are forced by tragic circumstances to set about the delicate task of finding suitable husbands. Marianne, with her passionate hunger for emotional experience, falls for the handsome, dashing but heartless John Willoughby. The outwardly collected Elinor is in... More
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A Handful Of Dust
(1988) [PG]
Critically-acclaimed story of a devoted couple who inadvertently invite an idle socialite to stay. He soon triggers off a series of events which will drastically change the course of all their lives, starting with the husband running off to the Amazon where he is held prisoner by a strange... More
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Little Women
(1994) [G]
With her husband off at war, Marmee (Susan Sarandon) is left alone to raise their four daughters -- her "little women." There is the spirited Jo (Winona Ryder); conservative Meg (Trini Alvarado, Paulie); fragile Beth (Claire Danes, Romeo & Juliet); and romantic Amy (played at different ages by... More
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Rich and Famous
(1981) [PG]
Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead... More
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Only The Brave
(1994) [R]
Two teenage Greek-Australian girls, Alex and Vicki, are wild and out of control. Their emotions are in tatters as they try to cope with sex, boredom, their families and much more. Their friendship reaches breaking point as their needs change and differ. More
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Legends Of The Fall
(1994) [M]
An epic adventure of brotherhood and betrayal, "Legends of the Fall" is a powerful story about a close-knit family which is forever changed when the youngest of three brothers brings home his dazzling bride-to-be, inadvertently sparking passions and creating a rivalry. More
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