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Diva
(1981) [M]

Modern noir meets high opera in the French suspense flick Diva. Delivery boy Jules has an opera obsession. He spends his small disposable income on sophisticated sound equipment and manages to bootleg a live performance of his favorite diva, Cynthia Hawkins (played by real-life opera singer...  More

Evita
(1996) [PG]

She began life as an illegitimate country girl born into poverty. She ended it as the most powerful woman in all of Argentina. This is the astounding true story of a woman whose will to succeed saw her defy all odds to become a legendary figure in her own country and ultimately the world. Madonna...  More

Twelfth Night (1996)
(1996) [G]

Identical mixed-sex twins, separated during a shipwreck, both believe the other dead. When Viola dresses as her 'dead' brother for better protection, little does she realise that her living brother will be on the scene as well. Based on the William Shakespeare play, adapted for the screen by...  More

The Celluloid Closet
(1996) [M]

What That's Entertainment did for movie musicals, The Celluloid Closet does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar -winning moviemaker Rob...  More

Moulin Rouge (1952)
(1952) [PG]

A lively, colourful and riotous biopic of artist Toulouse Lautrec starring Jose Ferrer in the title role and Zsa Zsa Gabor as Jane Avril, Moulin Rouge is famous for its incredibly exhilarating twenty minute can-can sequence which sets the tone for a series of high energy dance routines. John...  More

Beaumarchais (The Scoundrel)
(1996) [PG]

A lavish costume-drama based on the life of the author of two famous eighteenth-century comedies - 'The Marriage Of Figaro' and 'The Barber Of Seville'. He was also an arms dealer, a spy, a woman-chaser, and a defender of human rights. French dialogue.  More

Ulysses' Gaze
(1995) [M]

Ulysses' Gaze traces the journey of Greek-American filmmaker, "Mr. A" (Harvey Keitel), across the Balkans in search of the past. He seeks three lost film reels made in the early years of cinema by two Greek brothers. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth....  More

Bolero - The Dance Of Life (Les uns et les autres)
(1981) [PG]

This movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1960s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several,...  More

Waiting For Guffman
(1996) [M]

A town of Blaine, Missouri is preparing for celebrations of its 150th anniversary. Corky St.Clair, an off-off-off-off-off-Broadway director is putting together an amateur theater show about the town's history, starring a local dentist, a couple of travel agents, a Dairy Queen waitress, and a car...  More

Jane Austen In Manhattan
(1980) [PG]

In this delightful Merchant Ivory production, past meets present and flamboyant egos collide as two Manhattan theatre companies compete to stage a literary gem: a lost play by one of Britain's best-loved authors. Jane Austen In Manhattan blends Jane Austen's charming "playlet", tracing the...  More