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Three Men and a Leg (Tre Uomini e una Gamba)
Three Men and a Leg (Tre Uomini e una Gamba) (M)  1997
Three friends leave Milan by car heading south. Two of them are married to two sisters, the third one is going to marry the third sister. The marriage is going to take place in the villa of their vulgar but very rich father in law. They are also bringing him a work of modern art: a wooden leg worth ...   more
Juliet of the Spirits
Juliet of the Spirits (M)  1965
From the Director of La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2 and La Strada. A film by Federico Fellini. A bored Italian housewife (Giulietta Masina, Fellini's real-life wife) finds relief from the mundane - and her philandering husband (Mario Pisu) - through sensual escapades in the spirit realm. Awash with...   more
Steal Me
Steal Me (PG)  2005
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...   more
History Boys, The
History Boys, The (M)  2007
Eight bright, funny history students in the north of England in the mid-1980s are pursuing an undergraduate place at the country's two finest universities. Their headmaster (Clive Merrison) is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and Cambridge ...   more
History Boys, The
History Boys, The (M)  2007
Eight bright, funny history students in the north of England in the mid-1980s are pursuing an undergraduate place at the country's two finest universities. Their headmaster (Clive Merrison) is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and Cambridge ...   more
Beast, The (La Bete)
Beast, The (La Bete) (R18+)  1975
After being banned for 25 years in Australia, Walerian Borowczyk's controversial film 'The Beast' is finally being released on DVD. It all takes place in an elegant chateau, on the eve of an American heiress' wedding to a French aristocrat.   more
Cremaster
Cremaster (M)  1985
Matthew Barney's 'The Cremaster Cycle' is a series of five art films, each with its own distinctive visual style and setting, but all linked by common themes of sexuality, transformation, transcendence, and the suspension of clearly differentiated categories. Apart from making films, Barney is a scu...   more
Love on the Run
Love on the Run (M)  1979
1979 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear - Francois Truffaut In Truffaut's fifth and final film of his semi-autobiographical "Antoine Doinel" series, we see Doinel in his 30's and newly divorced. Still ambivalent about relationships, the wrath of Doinel's mother forces him to confront his insecu...   more
Steal Me
Steal Me (PG)  2005
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...   more
Young Girls of Rochefort, The
Young Girls of Rochefort, The (G)  1967
In THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT, the follow up to the revolutionary UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1963), director Jacques Demy continues his experiments with narrative and the musical form, as well as his collaboration with composer Michel Legrand. Characters meet, story lines cross, families expand and a...   more
Idiots, The
Idiots, The (R18+)  1998
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...   more
Waydowntown
Waydowntown (M)  2000
Shot in jittery, supersaturated digital video, Gary Burn's waydowntown infuses the nine-to-five ritual with a palliative pharmaceutical rush, channeling the endemic coffee-addled buzz and narcotized haze into a hallucinogenic waking life. The film transpires over day 24 of a contest between ...   more
Venus
Venus (MA15+)  2006
Maurice and Ian are successful but aging actors, close friends whose conversation revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of septuagenarianism. Ian in particular is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter Jessie move in to his flat to ...   more
Steal Me
Steal Me (PG)  2005
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...   more
Venus
Venus (MA15+)  2006
Maurice and Ian are successful but aging actors, close friends whose conversation revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of septuagenarianism. Ian in particular is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter Jessie move in to his flat to ...   more

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