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Blow Up
(1966) [M]
Director Michelangelo Antonioni packs nonstop action into a controversial cinematic close-up of mid-sixties mod London where Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles star with David Hemmings in this expose of British counterculture. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city... 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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Mala Noche
(1985)
Made for $25,000, the debut film from Gus Van Sant, MALA NOCHE, tells the story of Walt, a convenience store worker at the bad end of town. Walt likes the Mexican boys, and meets Johnny, a sexy illegal migrant who speaks no English. Walt harbours not only sexual but romantic feelings for Johnny,... 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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Crimes And Misdemeanors
(1990) [M]
Poignant, penetrating and scathingly hilarious, Crimes and Misdemeanors is a deftly rendered tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosm that they represent. Showcasing Allen’s brilliant grasp of the link between the funny and the fatal, his nineteenth movie, Crimes and... 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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Palindromes
(2004) [R]
Todd Solondz's modern American fairy tale tackles poignant themes of abortion and identity. After having an abortion, Aviva is desperate to get pregnant again. She meets an oddball mix of people sharing a variety of views and forcing her into different paths of action. More intriguingly, Aviva is... More
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Running with Scissors
(2006) [MA]
Based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and directed by Ryan Murphy (Creator of TV's Nip/Tuck), Running With Scissors is a wickedly funny, brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood.
Augusten's mother (Annette Bening) is an unpublished and unstable poet whose... More
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The Hudsucker Proxy
(1994) [PG]
Norville Barnes (TIM ROBBINS) has arrived in New York fresh off the bus from Muncie, Indiana. A graduate of the 1958 class of the Muncie College of Business Administration, Norville is ready to start at the bottom and work his way up to the top of the corporate world. Waring Hudsucker (CHARLES... More
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Underground (1995)
(1995) [M]
The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they... More
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Reservoir Dogs (2 Disc Set)
(1992) [R]
Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless... More
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Reservoir Dogs (Blu-Ray)
(1992) [R]
Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino. They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless... More
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Elephant
(2003) [MA]
Winner of the Palme d'Or and the award for Best Director at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Gus Van Sant's Elephant is a powerful experience. Inspired by the tragic events of the Columbine High School shootings, Elephant begins as just another ordinary day at a typical American high school.... More
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The Finished People
(2003) [MA]
The lives of three young men in their late teens and early twenties, all living desperate lives on the streets of Cabramatta, Sydney: Tommy (Jason McCormack) is a longtime heroin addict who's once again trying to reform himself and get a job, with the help of his friend Sara (Sarah Vongmany). Van... More
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Spartan
(2004) [M]
In David Mamet's thriller Spartan Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is recruited to find Laura, the daughter of a government official and is paired with novice Curtis (Derek Luke). Scott and Derek stumble upon a white slavery ring, which may have some connection to Laura's disappearance... More
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Owning Mahowny
(2003) [M]
Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers another staggering performance in Richard Kwietniowski's follow-up to LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND. Dan Mahowney (Hoffman) is a well-respected assistant bank manager with a pretty fiance, Belinda (Minnie Driver). But Dan also happens to be a compulsive gambler.... More
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The Party's Over
(2001) [M]
Philip Seymour Hoffman hosts this compelling exploration of the state of democracy in America. The Party's Over chronicles the scandalous 2000 Presidential Elections and journeys deep into the belly of the beast that is American politics. More
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The Dreamers
(2003) [R]
Set among the rebellious currents of 1968 Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci's THE DREAMERS centers on three university students who adore the Cinematheque Francaise, and are fascinated by '60s culture--the music of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, the films of Jean-Luc Godard, and the writings of Susan... More
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Pieces of April
(2003) [M]
In Peter Hedges' PIECES OF APRIL, April (Katie Holmes) has invited her family to Thanksgiving dinner. However, April's home is hardly up to the standards that her family expects--it's a tenement, the oven doesn't work, and the neighbors are strange and eccentric characters. More
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Letters to Ali
(2004) [PG]
Clara Law's LETTERS TO ALI is at once a personal, a humanistic and a political film that echoes Australia’s growing public concern over the treatment of refugees, especially children, in Australian detention centres. The documentary chronicles one exceptional ‘average’ Australian family the... More
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Osama
(2003) [M]
Osama tells the touching story of a 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a "legal companion." With her husband and brother dead there is no one left to... More
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Headrush
(2004) [MA]
Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignment of drugs for a local gangster. It's set in the present day in Dublin, Ireland against the backdrop of the end of the Celtic Tiger: the... More
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Touching the Void
(2003) [M]
May, 1985 - Peru. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, ambitious young mountaineers, set off to scale the hitherto unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande, a remote and treacherous peak in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson and Yates reach the summit but shortly after starting the descent, an accident turns their... More
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Straight to Hell
(1987) [M]
A gang of greedy thieves rob a bank, double-cross their boss and escape into the desert. But when the trigger-happy bandits try to hide in a strange town, they find themselves at war with a sadistic family of coffee-addicted outlaws known as The McMahons. Desperate, deranged and cranky, their... More
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004) [M]
In Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr.... More
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The Company
(2003) [PG]
With THE COMPANY, maverick director Robert Altman brings his idiosyncratic vision to Chicago and the acclaimed Joffrey Ballet. Neve Campbell is Ry, an aspiring performer who gets her chance to shine when a fellow dancer is injured. Stepping into the spotlight, Ry finally reaches her true... More
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Big Doll House
(1971) [MA]
Director Jack Hill (COFFY, SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy, funny, thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines, new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier), rebel girl... More
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Before Sunset
(2004) [M]
The sequel to Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. On the last stop of his book tour, at the tail end of a reading in a Paris book shop, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) finds Celine (Julie Delphy) watching from the back of the room. She lives in Paris now, he in New York. He's flying out that evening and they... More
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