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Great Literature on Film
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
(2009) [MA]
As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name. The second installment to the hugely successful "Millennium" book trilogy and now film series. More
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Tomorrow, When the War Began
(2010) [M]
Ellie and her friends never thought their quiet country life would ever change much. Heading into their last year of high school,they decide to camp for the weekend in a remote bush clearing. When they return, their parents have disappeared, their phones are dead, and all power is out. Soon, the... More
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The African Queen (Special Restoration Edition) (Blu-Ray)
(1951) [G]
Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn... More
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The African Queen (Special Restoration Edition)
(1951) [G]
Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn... More
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Robin Hood
(2010) [M]
Academy Award winner Russell Crowe reunites with legendary Gladiator director Ridley Scott for epic action adventure in Robin Hood.
Discover the untold story of the man behind the legend as Robin, a heroic warrior, turns outlaw when he assembles a band of skilled marauders to confront... More
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A Streetcar Named Desire (2 disc set)
(1951) [M]
A Streeetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual... More
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Bright Star
(2009) [PG]
Bright Star tells the story of John Keats the great romantic poet through the eyes of his love and inspiration - Fanny Brawn. Inspired by the actual love letters between the couple and Keats' sublime poetry, Bright Star will reveal a great untold love story from the heart of one of literature's... More
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
(2009)
Precious Jones, an inner city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight and pregnant...again. Naive and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative schoolteacher. She is faced with her first opportunity to shine, test her boundaries and finally realise... More
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The Lovely Bones
(2009) [M]
Based on the bestselling book by Alice Sebold, THE LOVELY BONES tells the story of 14-year-old girl, Susie Salmon, from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbour. She tells her story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they all change all while attempting... More
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1945)
Handsome, young, but morally corrupt Dorian Gray has his portrait made. As the years pass, he does not age, but evidence of his sins are apparent in his portrait, which grows uglier with each transgression. He keeps it safely hidden in the attic. But his mysterious behavior and ageless appearance... More
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(2009) [M]
During Harry Potter's 6th year at Hogwarts, Lord Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast... More
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Brideshead Revisited (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [PG]
Whilst at Oxford University a chance encounter with the charming and decadent Sebastian Flyte, son of Lord Marchmain, draws Charles Ryder into the exclusive world of British high society. For the impressionable Charles, Sebastian's world of money, glamour and outrageous behaviour makes for a... More
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Valkyrie (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [M]
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honour have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and the... More
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Angels and Demons
(2009) [M]
In Ron Howard's thrilling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, expert symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. With the Cardinals' lives on the line, and the... More
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
(2008) [MA]
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book.
From the producer of Downfall comes an explosive film about one of the... More
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Valkyrie
(2008) [M]
In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honour have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and the... More
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Body of Lies (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [MA]
He is the best man US Intelligence has on the ground, a sophisticated operative negotiating hot zones while no one close to him makes it out alive. But Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a man with no identity beyond his last blown cover, trusting his life to the dispassionate voice on the other... More
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Brideshead Revisited
(2008) [PG]
Whilst at Oxford University a chance encounter with the charming and decadent Sebastian Flyte, son of Lord Marchmain, draws Charles Ryder into the exclusive world of British high society. For the impressionable Charles, Sebastian's world of money, glamour and outrageous behaviour makes for a... More
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Savage Grace
(2007) [R]
Based on the award-winning best selling novel, Savage Grace tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. The birth of their son Tony rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. As Tony... More
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I Served The King of England
(2006) [M]
Based on the best selling book by Bohumil Hrabal, winner of the Critic’s Award at the Berlin Film Festival and pleasing crowds wherever it goes, this hugely entertaining saga from veteran Czech director Jiri Menzel (winner of an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his feature film Closely Watched... More
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Body of Lies
(2008) [MA]
He is the best man US Intelligence has on the ground, a sophisticated operative negotiating hot zones while no one close to him makes it out alive. But Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a man with no identity beyond his last blown cover, trusting his life to the dispassionate voice on the other... More
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Casino Royale
(2006) [M]
Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. Bond is and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to "00" status. "M" (Judi Bench), head of the British Secret Service, sends the newly-promoted 007 on his first mission that takes him to... More
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The Painted Veil
(2006) [M]
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920’s about a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who marry for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where Kitty falls in... More
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There Will Be Blood (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [M]
The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.
When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil... More
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There Will Be Blood
(2007) [M]
The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.
When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil... More
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No Country for Old Men (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [MA]
Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision
to take the... More
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-Ray)
(2003) [M]
Based on author Patrick O’Brian’s series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the movie is set during the Napoleonic Wars. Crowe is Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey, renowned as a fighting captain in the British Navy, and Paul Bettany is ship’s doctor Stephen Maturin. Their ship, the H.M.S. Surprise, is... More
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