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Wake in Fright
(1971) [M]
Believed lost for many years, Wake in Fright has been painstakingly restored by Australia's National Film and Sound Archive and AtLab Deluxe, and is presented in its original uncompromising form.
Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded... More
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Burn After Reading (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [MA]
An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilde Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness!
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in... More
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A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
(2008) [R]
Dumped and despondent over an endless string of disastrous relationships, filmmaker Chris Waitt attempts to root out the source of his romantic woes by asking each of his ex-girlfriends point-blank about his shortcomings as a boyfriend. Later taken to task by his own mother, the long-suffering... More
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Sunshine Cleaning
(2008) [M]
Rose (Amy Adams) is a beautiful woman, who fears that the best years of her life were at high school many years ago, discovers that there's money to be made by cleaning up after death. A new business is formed and with it a chance for self-respect. Norah (Emily Blunt), Rose's carefree younger... More
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Paris 36
(2008) [M]
Paris 36 is set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary" period of the Popular Front, the period that introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week. Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where... More
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
(2008) [MA]
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book.
From the producer of Downfall comes an explosive film about one of the... More
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
(2008) [M]
From Miramax Films, the studio that brought you the Academy Award®- winning Life Is Beautiful (Best Foreign Language Film, 1998) comes The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. Bored and restless in his new home, Bruno, an innocent and naive eight-year-old, ignores his mother and sets off on an adventure... More
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Milk
(2008) [M]
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Milk is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. This compelling film follows... More
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
(2006) [M]
Before Iraq, before the Bush Administration, before the Dixie Chicks, Bruce Springsteen, and Pearl Jam ... there was John Lennon, the celebrated music artist who used his fame and his fortune to protest the Vietnam War and advocate for world peace. It was a move that incensed 1 the U.S.... More
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The Grocer's Son
(2007) [M]
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed - driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants.... More
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The Wackness
(2008) [MA]
During the summer of 1994, New Yorker Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) has just graduated high school. Now faced with three hot months in the city before going off to college, Luke spends the time dealing pot, listening to hip hop and exchanging his wares for therapy sessions with psychiatrist Dr.... More
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Up the Yangtze
(2007) [M]
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards... More
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
(2008) [M]
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. More
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I've Loved You So Long
(2008) [M]
Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) are sisters. Juliette has just been released from prison after serving a long sentence. Léa was still a teenager when Juliette, a doctor, was convicted of the murder of her six-year-old son. Life together isn't easy to begin with.... More
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Shadows
(1959) [M]
Benny's a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan's beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. His sister Lelia, who looks less African-American than White, is vulnerable and about to fall in love. Hugh, their older brother, is a struggling singer whose agent, Rupert, may be the only person... More
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The Nines
(2007) [M]
THE NINES is a clever, mind-bending thrill-ride through the mind of an actor, a videogame designer and a screenwriter who arguably controls them all. Ryan Reynolds (VAN WILDER, DEFINITELY MAYBE), Hope Davis (AMERICAN SPLENDOR) and Melissa McCarthy (THE GILMORE GIRLS) star in the three short films... More
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Taxi to the Dark Side
(2007) [MA]
Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in' U.S. custody during the "war on terror". Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an innocent Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was wrongly arrested and sent to Bagram Prison. Five days after his arrest,... More
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Burn After Reading
(2008) [MA]
An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilde Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness!
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in... More
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CSNY-Deja Vu
(2008) [M]
Since their debut in the late 'sixties, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have functioned as the "town criers" of their generation. With songs like "Ohio" and "Find the Cost of Freedom", CSNY were in the forefront of Vietnam-era protest and anti-war sentiment. Though fondly remembered for their... More
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Standard Operating Procedure
(2008) [MA]
Witness one of the worst debacles in American military history. Enter Abu Ghraib. You've seen the photographs on the nightly news: the naked prisoners, the pyramid of degraded captives and the infamous thumbs-up grin of the young female corporal standing guard over them all. Now, come inside and... More
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Teorema (Theorem)
(1968) [MA]
Terence Stamp plays a mysterious figure who appears in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family. He engages in sexual affairs with all members of the household: the devoutly religious maid, the sensitive son, the sexually repressed mother, the timid daughter and, finally, the tormented... More
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Love in the Time of Cholera
(2007) [M]
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza,... More
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In Bruges
(2008) [MA]
Bruges (pronounced "broozh"), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hitmen Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the... More
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Fear(s) of the Dark (Peur(s) du noir)
(2007) [MA]
FEAR(S) OF THE DARK is a unique collection of fearful tales by the world's most cutting-edge, acclaimed graphic artists. Their intertwined stories make up an unprecedented epic where phobias, disgust and nightmares come to life and reveal fear at its most naked and intense.
The concept... More
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The Tracey Fragments
(2007) [MA]
She’s just an ordinary girl who hates herself, says 15-year old Tracey Berkowitz (Best Actress Oscar-nominee Ellen Page) as she shivers, naked under a shower curtain at the back of bus. She’s out on the street looking for her little brother Sonny, who is missing after she hypnotised him into... More
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All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane
(2007) [M]
Charlotte Gregg, Matt Zeremes, Gyton Grantley, Cindy Nelson, Romany Lee, Sarah Kennedy and Ryan Johnson star in this romantic comedy about leaving home, set in Australia's biggest and most loved small town.
Anthea is 25, single and hates her job - and all her friends are leaving Brisbane.... More
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