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Hammett
(1982) [M]

Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett's early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam) involved in an elaborate extortion plot by his former detective agency mentor, Jimmy Ryan. Ryan shows up at...  More

Goodbye Paradise
(1983) [M]

In a somewhat far-fetched premise (not uncommon to the genre), this action film has some Australians (including soldiers) joining up with Asian forces, all backed by American money, ready to take over Surfers Paradise, a resort and retirement area on the Gold Coast of Queensland. They are not...  More

Meantime
(1984) [M]

This wry and amusing working class comedy is an early work by writer/director Mike Leigh. Frank (Jeff Robert) and his two deadbeat sons, Mark (Phil Daniels) and Colin (Tim Roth) are unemployed and living in a cramped apartment in London's East End. Wanting to escape the doldrums of his mediocre...  More

S.F.W.
(1994) [MA]

Cliff Spab (Stephen Dorff) is a guy who doesn't really care about anything. He gets held hostage at a store for 36 days by terrorists, who demand that the entire thing be broadcast on national television. Cliff ends up taking a bullet for fellow hostage Wendy (Reese Witherspoon)- making him a...  More

The Adjuster
(1991) [R]

A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for the Board of Censors. They live with their son Simon and Hera's sister in a show-flat. One day, they meet...  More

12 Monkeys
(1995) [M]

Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality, lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys... The year is 2035 and humankind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99% of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planet's surface...  More

American Psycho
(2000) [R]

The movie American Psycho is based on Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel of the same name. Director Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) and screenwriter Guinevere Turner (Go Fish) turned this story into a script and movie, which made for an interesting team considering the book and author had...  More

Being John Malkovich
(1999) [MA]

At last a movie for anyone who ever wanted to be someone... else. Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) an unappreciated puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the 7th-and-a-half floor of an office building. Bored with his ten-year marriage to Lotte (Cameron Diaz), he becomes obsessed with the beautiful...  More

The Last Temptation Of Christ
(1988) [M]

The carpenter Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for him. But as his mission nears fulfillment, he must face the greatest temptation: the...  More

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(1989) [R]

At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence, and gluttony. But when the cook (Richard Bohringer), a thief (Michael Gambon), his wife (Helen Mirren) and her lover (Alan Howard) all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and...  More