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Belonging (M) 2004
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A bittersweet drama with an award-winning all star cast, based on a novel by Stevie Davies. At first glance its just a domestic tale about marital breakdown. But a closer inspection reveals a tender, perceptive and at times deeply funny story of family life and human endurance.
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Yesterday (M) 2004
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The first international film ever made in the Zulu language, Yesterday is a story of courage, compassion and hope, set in contemporary South Africa ten years after the arrival of democracy. With little money and no modern conveniences, Yesterday finds joy in her 7-year old daughter,...
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Short Film About Killing, A (MA15+) 1988
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One of director Krzysztof Kieslowski's greatest achievements, A Short Film About Killing has become both a politically and artistically influential masterpiece. The relatively simple story about a young man, sentenced to death for his murder of a cab driver, makes an important statement about...
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Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le Pianiste) (PG) 1960
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François Truffaut's second feature is the tender but tragic story of a man embroiled in past betrayals. Charlie, a once-renowned concert pianist, is unable to forgive or forget his former wife’s infidelity and now plays background music in a run-down bar. Having rejected the love of a waitress, his ...
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Steal Me (PG) 2005
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Steal Me is a rare independent picture made in a rural setting that captures an authentic feel and rhythmof the locale without self consciousness, awkwardness or sentimentality. Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photo sho...
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Alice (M) 1998
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When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to Alice's trial before the King and Queen of Hearts.
Czech animator Jan Svankmajer has created a masterpiece of cine...
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Idiots, The (R18+) 1998
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A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally re...
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Cave Of The Yellow Dog (PG) 2005
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The oldest daughter of a Mongolian nomad family finds a small dog one day while out in the fields. When she brings him home, her father is afraid he could bring bad luck and demands that she immediately get rid of him. Despite her father's orders, she keeps the puppy and tries to hide him from her s...
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Guernica Tree, The (R18+) 1975
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The surreal trilogy is complete
Finally released, for the first time ever, Fernando Arrabal's The Guernica Tree is arguably the most brutal of the trilogy which includes Viva la Muerte and I Will Walk like a Crazy Horse.
This film begins back in Spain again during the Civil War where the actio...
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Belonging (M) 2004
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A bittersweet drama with an award-winning all star cast, based on a novel by Stevie Davies. At first glance its just a domestic tale about marital breakdown. But a closer inspection reveals a tender, perceptive and at times deeply funny story of family life and human endurance.
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Bubble (M) 2006
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In this unique cinematic experiment, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh brings to life a tragic story with startling realism. A truly bizarre love triangle is born at a doll factory in a small town in America's Midwest. During the drudgery of their daily doll-making, Martha-a forty-ish spinster wh...
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Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles (PG) 2005
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Takada, a Japanese fisherman, has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. When his son refuses to see him, Rie gives him a videotape about the work his son was doing on a documentary film in...
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Noise (MA15+) 2006
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Graham McGaham is a cop - self-centred, disenchanted and afflicted with tinnitus. After violent murders rock the local community, McGahan is sent to man a police information van in a suburban shopping strip. As he starts to engage with traumatised locals, he learns to come to grips with his role as ...
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Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride (M) 2006
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The twisted life and times of Dr Gonzo featuring Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Benicio Del Toro, Gary Busey, Tom Wolfe, Ed Bradley and many more.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone," Hunter S.Thompson once wrote, "but they've always worked for me....
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Five Obstructions, The (M) 2003
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With The Five Obstructions , notoriously mischievous director Lars von Trier performs yet another cinematic experiment. This time around, the Danish prankster tries to outwit his mentor, director Jorgen Leth, forcing him to remake his classic 1967 short, "The Perfect Human," five different tim...
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