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Mrs Henderson Presents
(2005) [M]
London, 1937: Mrs Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), a woman of wealth and connections, has just buried her beloved husband and finds herself widowed, alone... and bored! Her friends suggest she take up a hobby and, to their surprise, she buys the derelict Windmill Theatre in London’s West End. She... More
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The Emperor's New Groove
(2000) [G]
Join in the fun as arrogant Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his devious adviser, Yzma, and her hunky henchman, Kronk, who want to rid the knigdom of his rule. Now this emperor who once had it all must form an unlikely alliance with a pleasant peasant named Pacha. But can the royal pain... More
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Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks
(1992) [M]
The beautiful Hebe has been cast out by her family after a teenage pregnancy to a masked stranger during a fiesta in Italy. She makes ends meet and pays for her son's school fees by cooking for old ladies and sleeping with a small syndicate of adoring men (the "peacocks" of the title - from Greek... More
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Sugar Town
(1999) [PG]
An unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen (Jade Gordon), on her quest to reach the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer (Ally Sheedy), she tries to steal her boy friend, (Larry Klein), who is a music producer, by... More
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Volver
(2006) [M]
Pedro Almodovar makes a triumphant return to the screen in this rich tale of three generations of women who manage to survive everyday life by means of goodness, occasional lies and boundless vitality. Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is struggling to make ends meet, holding down several jobs while... More
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Stranger Than Fiction
(2006) [M]
Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs... More
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Man with the Screaming Brain
(2005) [MA]
Wealthy Industrialist William Cole has nothing in common with a poor cab driver....until now.
Sharing one brain and one body they must work together to find the women who murdered them both.
Man with the Screaming Brain is a story of greed, betrayal and revenge in the big, bad city. William... More
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The Boat That Rocked
(2009) [M]
In 1966 - pop music's finest era - a bunch of ramshackle DJs play rock and pop 24 hours a day, broadcasting from Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the North Sea.
On board arrives 18 year old Carl, who is instantly plunged into a series of hilarious and life-changing adventures and... More
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Up (Disney-Pixar)
(2009) [PG]
A comedy adventure about 78 year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfils his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed... More
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Up (Disney-Pixar) (Blu-Ray) (2 disc set)
(2009) [PG]
A comedy adventure about 78 year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfils his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed... More
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The Closet (Le Placard)
(2001) [M]
An inspiring, laugh-out-loud social comedy about an office assistant, Francois Pignon, who pretends that he is gay in order to save his job, The Closet looks at the hilarious attempts of Pignon's confused colleagues to come to terms with his hitherto secret sexuality. Written and directed by... More
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He Died With A Falafel In His Hand
(2001) [MA]
Danny (Noah Taylor) is a young man seemingly used to chaos, but he soon discovers that the fates are more than capable of dishing out more than he can handle in this offbeat Australian comedy. By his own count, thirty-ish Danny has found himself sharing living quarters with one or more friends... More
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An American Werewolf In London
(1981) [M]
David Naughton and Jenny Agutter star in writer/director John Landis' classic cult black comedy. American backpackers David Kessler (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) take off for a three month European jaunt. Walking in the desolate English countryside, they come across some locals who... More
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Newsfront
(1978) [PG]
An insight into Australia in the 1950's, whilst portraying the turmoil through the tangled love affairs and business ambitions of two brothers in the news media.
The lives, loves and loyalties of the newsreel cameraman. When the news ran out... they made their own.
Newsfront is the story of... More
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Law Of Desire
(1987) [R]
Law of Desire is an unbridled send-up of the absurdities of human desire, a wildly funny film that took American and European audiences by storm and immediately established director Pedro Almodovar. Law of Desire features a fabulous trio - Pablo, a famous Madrid director for whom men are prepared... More
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Closely Observed Trains (Closely Watched Trains)
(1966) [M]
Jiri Menzel's tragicomic Closely Observed Trains is generally regarded as one of the finest examples of the Czech New Wave movement of the mid-1960s. Universally acclaimed by critics, in 1968 the film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The story concerns Milos Hrma, a trainee... More
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Betty Blokk-Buster Follies
(1976) [M]
The gay-themed, enormously popular stage act of the Australian female impersonator/impressionist/comedian Reg Livermore, is recorded here on film. His song impressions include Lou Reed, Billy Joel, and Charles Azanavour. The characters he enacts include Betty Blokk-Buster, a German maid who wears... More
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Love And Human Remains
(1993) [R]
A dark comedy symbolic of the 90s, Love and Human Remains is a disturbing exploration of the desperate search for relationships in an age of uncertainty. This is the first feature film in the english language by internationally acclaimed director Denys Arcand (Invasion of the Barbarians, Jesus of... More
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The Ballad Of Narayama
(1983) [R]
In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some scenes of violence and ritual sex that are shocking and were absent in the first, 1958 film. The story is set in the 19th century in a remote and severely impoverished mountain... More
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Bullets Over Broadway
(1994) [M]
Big city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting, all-star comedy from Woody Allen that had audiences and critics rolling in the aisles. David Shayne (John Cusack), an idealistic young writer, will do anything to get his first Broadway play of the ground - even... More
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Gadjo Dilo (The Crazy Stranger)
(1997) [MA]
From the director of Latcho Drom, Gadjo Dilo (The Crazy Stranger) is the story of Stephane (Romain Duris) a young Frenchman who travels to Romania in search of a Gypsy singer. He befriends an old Gypsy man, Isidor (Izidor Serban), who takes him to stay at his house in a Gypsy village. Stephane... More
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Bad Santa
(2003) [MA]
In this cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he’s wickedly funny, Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking department store Santa who is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year—on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the... More
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Casanova
(2005) [M]
Set in the beautiful location of eighteenth century Venice, the story begins with Casanova as older figure, writing the memoirs of his life and his conquests, "ten thousand pages; that's about one woman per page." As the action moves to Casanova as a young man, we see his talent for seducing the... More
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Starstruck
(1982) [PG]
Jackie Mullens (Jo Kennedy) is a reluctant barmaid in her family's struggling Sydney pub. She wants to be a singing star and her 14-year old oddball cousin Angus (Ross O'Donovan) has a crazy showbiz idea that might just make it happen for her. Manipulating the media, Angus pulls off a brazen... More
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Priceless
(2006) [M]
Irene (Audrey Tautou) is an old-fashioned gold-digger, seducing rich older men in return for dresses, trinkets and baubles. When she mistakes shy barman Jean (Gad Elmaleh) for one of her usual prey, she is abhorred to discover his lowly status and flees to the Riviera. Jean tags along hopefully... More
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Open Cam
(2005) [R]
A DC-based gay sex website becomes home for a serial killer with a flair for exhibitionism. The life of controversial young artist Manny Yates is shattered when murder penetrates his close knit circle of friends causing him to question those friendships, life in general, and all the relationships... More
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HOP
(2011) [G]
E.B., the Easter Bunny's teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock 'n' roll band. In LA, he's taken in by Fred after the out-of-work slacker hits E.B. with his car. More
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Paul (2011)
(2011) [MA]
Two sci-fi geeks take a pilgrimage to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military... More
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Two Men Went to War
(2002) [PG]
This comedy drama is the true story of two Army dentists Sergeant Peter King (Kenneth Cranham) and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill) who, in 1942, stole a bag of hand grenades, two revolvers and a set of the best dental equipment that money could buy and went off to invade occupied France on... More
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Intolerable Cruelty
(2003) [M]
From Joel and Ethan Coen comes this outrageously funny comedy about a man who wins in court and a woman who courts to win. Top divorce attorney Miles Massey (George Clooney) has got it all. Serial gold-digger Marilyn Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones) wants it all. When Miles falls for the... More
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