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Dune
(1984) [PG]
The long-awaited film version of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction epic, Dune, explodes on the screen with dazzling special effects, unforgettable images and powerful performances. The saga of intergalactic warrior Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) and his messianic rise to leadership... More
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Sid And Nancy
(1986) [R]
Screaming and abrasive as safety pins on a blackboard, "Sid and Nancy" chronicles the sordid lives of two of punk's most notorious poster children, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his junkie girlfriend Nancy Spungen, brilliantly performed by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Director Alex Cox... More
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My Own Private Idaho
(1991) [M]
Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his... More
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Voyager
(1991) [M]
Walter Faber (Sam Shepard) has survived a crash in an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth (Julie Delpy) and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind... More
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Light Sleeper
(1992) [M]
John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) is loyal, decent, lumbering--a 40-year-old drug runner who suffers from insomnia but seems to be sleep-walking through life in Light Sleeper. When John's boss, the bubbly but sharp-witted Ann (Susan Sarandon), decides to retire, John must rethink his life's path. But... More
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The Wedding Party
(1969) [G]
This comedy examines the pre-wedding day misadventures of a young man named Charlie, who's visiting his fiancee Josephine at her vast estate. Charlie's experiences there would make anyone reconsider taking the plunge, as he meets an endless stream of future in-laws, has a revealing conversation... More
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Heathers
(1989) [M]
Veronica mingles with the social clique the Heathers to be as popular as them, even though she hates them. She hates them enough to wish they were dead, but she would never want to be their cause of death. When she starts dating Jason Dean, however, she finds herself involved in the murder of... More
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Johnny Suede
(1991) [M]
Johnny Suede is a young man with an attitude and an immense pompadour, who wants to be a rock n' roll star like his idol Ricky Nelson. He has all the stylistic accouterments, except a pair of black suede shoes. And one night, after leaving a nightclub, like manna from heaven, a pair of black... More
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Greenkeeping
(1992) [PG]
Lawn bowling is a very different sport from the kind that occurs indoors; it is an almost meditative exercise resembling nothing so much as horseshoes and is much favored by the elderly in one Sydney suburb. In this low-key comedy, the lad who works very diligently to keep the bowling green... More
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The Stolen Children
(1992) [M]
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. At first the relationship between Antonio and the children is... More
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Passion Fish
(1992) [M]
May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had eagerly left years before. She drinks heavily and vents her bitterness on the succession of nurses who are... More
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The Heartbreak Kid
(1993) [M]
Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a schoolteacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a... More
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Eat The Rich
(1987) [M]
Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to... More
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Roadside Prophets
(1992) [M]
Bizarre and surreal road movie about a biker and his unlikely sidekick. On a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road on his 1957 Harley-Davidson and meets a succession of odd characters, including Sam. Sam begins following Joe, on a quest of his own, which necessitates... More
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Highway 61
(1991) [M]
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way. More
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Without You I'm Nothing
(1990) [M]
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience. More
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Malcolm X
(1992) [M]
Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on... More
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Trust
(1991) [M]
From director Hal Hartley Trust is a biting, provocative comedy of suburban Middle America. An America riddled with violent, miraculous, hilarious and occasionally lifesaving accidents. A landscape where philosophical bourbon-swilling nurses share the streets with confused grenade-wielding... More
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Gas Food Lodging
(1992) [M]
In the stark desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to fight their way out of their loneliness. Shade attempts to escape via her fantasies and Trudi through her rebelliousness. More
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Liquid Sky
(1982) [R]
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm... More
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Un Homme Et Une Femme (A Man and A Woman)
(1966) [PG]
Critically acclaimed around the world, A Man and A Woman stars Anouk Aimee as a widowed script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a racer who lost his wife to suicide. The film is a study of moments between the time they meet and the point at which they begin to read each other intuitively. A Man... More
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Woman Of The Dunes
(1964) [M]
When entomologist Jumpei (Eiji Okada) travels to sand dunes on an expedition, he is met by a group of people who offer him a place to spend the night. They soon lead him to a house at the bottom of a sandpit. Upon climbing into the pit, he finds a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) living alone. Placed... More
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Projections
(1993) [M]
In 1989 The Pet Shop Boys invited influential filmmaker Derek Jarman to direct their upcoming tour. This collection is the only one of its kind available of the images used for the background projections of a concert tour. Also included are two additional films set to the Pet Shop Boys music:... More
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Stranger Than Paradise
(1984) [M]
Willie (John Lurie) is annoyed to learn that his younger cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), is flying in from Hungary and plans on staying with him for ten days. When she arrives, she and Willie waste their days doing nothing. Eventually, Eva gets bored and leaves New York in order to visit her Aunt... More
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Obsession
(1976) [M]
This intriguing mystery/thriller by Brian DePalma (Mission: Impossible, Carrie) will leave you breathless. A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) discovers that his wife (Genevieve Bujold) and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. When... More
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Dressed To Kill
(1980) [R]
In this film that combines Hitchcock's slick premises with modern-day gore, a lonely wife follows her shrink's advice and seeks comfort in a stranger. After a seductive, dangerous encounter, the wife meets a homicidal maniac. The prostitute who discovers the body and the victim's son must track... More
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One From The Heart
(1982) [M]
Francis Ford Coppola directed this experimental theatrical music drama about love in Las Vegas. The film stars Frederic Forrest (Hank) and Teri Garr (Frannie) as an unhappy couple breaking up on their five-year anniversary. Frannie is courted by a piano player/waiter, Ray (Raul Julia), who... More
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In The Soup
(1992) [M]
Aldolpho Rollo, a struggling screenwriter-filmmaker longing for international success, lives in a run-down building where he can barely make his rent. When his landlords menace him with foreboding promises to do him bodily harm, they frighten the jejune artist into taking charge of his financial... More
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Another Woman
(1988) [PG]
Writer/director Woody Allen delivers a powerful drama, examining the life of an accomplished philosophy professor teetering on the brink of self-understanding. Boasting a superb cast led by Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm and Gene Hackman, Another Woman was Allen's 17th film. Stylistically... More
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Tempest
(1982) [M]
John Cassavetes is Phillip Dimitrious, the consummate dissatisfied man in this extraordinary comedy. No longer able to tolerate the compromises he has made, Phillip flees from his stormy marriage with Antonia (Gena Rowlands). He wants to wander and dream; so with his teenage daughter Miranda... More
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