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Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One)
(1968) [MA]
Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France... More
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Dead Man
(1995) [R]
Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native... More
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The Fly (1986) (2 disc set)
(1986) [R]
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Seth Brundle is a scientist working on teleportation. Just when he thinks he's ironed out the last bug in his system, the intervention of a common house fly turns Seth into a 6 foot insect. The transformation from man to fly is gradual but horrific, and is witnessed by... More
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Dead Ringers
(1988) [M]
The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing.... More
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Mr and Mrs Bridge
(1990) [PG]
Directed by James Ivory, Mr and Mrs Bridge stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as Walter and India Bridge, a traditional couple living in Kansas City in the 1940s. The Bridges have three children: the strong-willed Ruth (Kyra Sedgwick); Douglas (Robert Sean Leonard), a carbon copy of his... More
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Barton Fink
(1991) [M]
New York, 1941. Socially conscious scriptwriter Barton Fink has made it big on Broadway. Now Tinsel Town is taking notice. Hired by Hollywood to write a wrestling picture, Barton quits the city smog for movie stardom. L.A. has got the Barton Fink feeling. Barton Fink has got writer's block.... More
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Hammett
(1982) [M]
Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett's early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam) involved in an elaborate extortion plot by his former detective agency mentor, Jimmy Ryan. Ryan shows up at... More
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Goodbye Paradise
(1983) [M]
In a somewhat far-fetched premise (not uncommon to the genre), this action film has some Australians (including soldiers) joining up with Asian forces, all backed by American money, ready to take over Surfers Paradise, a resort and retirement area on the Gold Coast of Queensland. They are not... More
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My Crazy Life (Mi Vida Loca)
(1993) [M]
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world... More
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Meantime
(1984) [M]
This wry and amusing working class comedy is an early work by writer/director Mike Leigh. Frank (Jeff Robert) and his two deadbeat sons, Mark (Phil Daniels) and Colin (Tim Roth) are unemployed and living in a cramped apartment in London's East End. Wanting to escape the doldrums of his mediocre... More
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The Atomic Cafe
(1982) [PG]
Atomic Cafe is a review of the atomic age and the beliefs held by Americans at the time. Many things such as Burt the Turtle who was the figurehead the "Duck and Cover" campaign are featured. Along with these film clips are portions of Army training films and demonstration films concerning atomic... More
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Dogs In Space (2 disc set)
(1987) [R]
The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events are surrounded by a chaotic myriad of sub-plots. A homicidal chainsaw maniac's lust for his machine and a... More
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S.F.W.
(1994) [MA]
Cliff Spab (Stephen Dorff) is a guy who doesn't really care about anything. He gets held hostage at a store for 36 days by terrorists, who demand that the entire thing be broadcast on national television. Cliff ends up taking a bullet for fellow hostage Wendy (Reese Witherspoon)- making him a... More
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The Adjuster
(1991) [R]
A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for the Board of Censors. They live with their son Simon and Hera's sister in a show-flat. One day, they meet... More
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The Little Shop Of Horrors
(1960) [PG]
Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The plant needs food to grow up, so it convinces him to start killing people. More
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The Night Of The Living Dead
(1968) [R]
George A. Romero's masterpiece of horror. Falling radiation from a satellite brings the recently deceased back to life and looking for the living for food! A group of living people barricade themselves inside a farmhouse desperate to survive the night as the zombie horde swarms outside. More
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Shaft
(1971) [M]
John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter. More
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Full Metal Jacket
(1987) [R]
A two-segment story that follows young men from the start of recruit training in the Marine Corps to the lethal cauldron known as Vietnam. The first segment follows Joker, Pyle and others as they progress through the hell of USMC boot-camp at the hands of the colorful, foul-mouthed Gunnery... More
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Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
(1967) [PG]
Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan... More
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The Silence Of The Lambs (2 Disc Set)
(1991) [MA]
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster deliver sensational Oscar®-winning performances in this "shockingly powerful thriller" (New York Magazine). "Stunning" (Los Angeles Times) and "spellbinding" (The Hollywood Reporter), this terrifying masterpiece garnered five Academy Awards®, including Best... More
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12 Monkeys
(1995) [M]
Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality, lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys... The year is 2035 and humankind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99% of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planet's surface... More
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Being John Malkovich
(1999) [MA]
At last a movie for anyone who ever wanted to be someone... else. Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) an unappreciated puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the 7th-and-a-half floor of an office building. Bored with his ten-year marriage to Lotte (Cameron Diaz), he becomes obsessed with the beautiful... More
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The Last Temptation Of Christ
(1988) [M]
The carpenter Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for him. But as his mission nears fulfillment, he must face the greatest temptation: the... More
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(1989) [R]
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence, and gluttony. But when the cook (Richard Bohringer), a thief (Michael Gambon), his wife (Helen Mirren) and her lover (Alan Howard) all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and... More
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The Ninth Gate
(1999) [MA]
Based on the book The Dumas Club, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its... More
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Clerks
(1994) [R]
It's a bad day for Dante Hicks, the 22-year-old cash-register jockey at the QuickStop convenience store in Leonardo, NJ. He was supposed to have the day off to play hockey with his pals. Instead he's stuck at work fending off irate and pushy customers. He is fighting with his girlfriend,... More
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Death Of A Salesman
(1985) [PG]
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family More
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What's Up Tiger Lily?
(1966) [M]
So you want Plot? Woody Allen bought a Japanese spy movie, removed the voice track, and replaced it with one of his own. He doesn't seem to have bothered with the original script at all. Typical Joke: "Back off! My secret spy camera has taken pictures of you all through your clothes. Unless you... More
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Salvador
(1986) [MA]
A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship, including the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press,... More
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Happiness
(1998) [R]
From the director of Welcome To The Dollhouse comes a wickedly comic and confronting tale of perversity and the desire in contemporary suburbia. Set in New Jersey, Happiness interweaves the stories of three sisters.
The hippiefied lost soul Joy Jordan, the self loathing best-selling author... More
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