Blue Gate Crossing (Subtitled)
Two teenage girls are best friends, when one doesn’t have the courage to talk to a boy she likes the other acts as messenger. However the boy mistakes the messenger as the girl who likes him, and the messenger starts to wonder about her own feelings for her friend….
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Westler
Felix –a gay West Berliner–falls in love with a young man in East Berlin. With a physical, political and social divide between them, they struggle to maintain their relationship. Felix’s frequent trips arouse the suspicion of border guards, and the couple are forced to plan a dangerous escape to secure a more stable future. WESTLER includes footage shot secretly in East Berlin….
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Proteus (Subtitled)
A recreation of the decade-long love affair in the 18th century in a Cape Town penal colony on Robben Island. The two lovers were a Dutch sailor imprisoned there for sodomy and a young Khoi herder. The Khoi were part of the Hottentot tribal group and as such were the untouchables of that time. The two were placed on trial and this love affair and the legal battles are the grist of Greyson and Lewis’ film based partly on court transcripts from the time. In South Africa, during the 1700s, sodomy w…
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Torso
The case of Evelyn Dick is one of the most notorious in Canada’s history. The Black Widow, as she was known, was convicted of the brutal 1946 murder of her streetcar conductor husband–only the bloody torso of the corpse of her husband was ever found. Mrs. Dick, a stunning beauty, admitted to numerous affairs and was suspected of killing her husband as a means for her to gain a new financial foothold. Many questions still surround the case and this 2001 dramatization of the events attempts to ex…
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Donnie Darko (Vanilla Version)
Writer-director Richard Kelly’s bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal). DONNIE DARKO is not your typical teen comedy. But, like GHOST WORLD and RUSHMORE, it uses the trappings of the teen comedy as the entry point for a subversive and trenchant (and also wonderfully ente…
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The Honeymoon Killers
In this stark film based on the true-life Lonely Hearts murders of the late 1940s, handsome gigolo Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) cons lonely women out of money with the promise of marriage. When he meets lonely nurse Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler), the two find themselves actually falling in love. Posing as brother and sister, the duo cross the country swindling needy women and, when necessary, killing them. As their passions become more inflamed, their crime spree grows bloodier. A stark film fe…
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3 A.M.
Three stories about New York City cab drivers are linked by a murder. It’s a lonely and dangerous profession–working the night shift. One day you could just pick up a killer fare!…
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The 60s
Originally a TV miniseries in the winter of 1999, this tale of 2 American families revolves around the turbulent events of the mid to late 1960’s, most notably the Vietnam War. Produced by Lynda Obst, producer of Sleepless in Seattle and Hope Floats….
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A Very British Coup
The complete television drama series ‘A Very British Coup.’ A steel worker is elected as Prime Minister. Based on the novel by Chris Mullen MP….
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A Place In The Sun / Roman Holiday / To Catch A Thief (3 Disc)
Roman Holiday Audrey Hepburn’s Oscar-winning performance in her first starring role. Roman Holiday was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and Audrey Hepburn captured an Oscar for her portrayal of a modern-day princess rebelling against her royal obligations who explores Rome on her own. She meets Gregory Peck, an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. Eddie Albert contributes to the fun as Peck…
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In Harm’s Way
A navy man goes out to capture strategic islands held by the Japanese during World War II. It doesn’t get more macho than this: IN HARM’S WAY was directed by Otto Preminger and stars John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, and many more tough guys….
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Chase
When lawyer Sandy Albright returns to her hometown to defend an accused murderer, the battle is not contained within the courtroom as local residents turn against her….
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Coach Carter
In the tradition of LEAN ON ME and DANGEROUS MINDS comes COACH CARTER, an inspirational drama starring Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson portrays real-life figure Ken Carter, who graduated from California’s Richmond High only to return there year later, in 1999, and take over as head coach of the boys’ basketball team. Unfortunately, the troubled school he remembered as a teenager is an even more insufferable place in his adulthood. Determined to make a change in his players’ lives, Carter makes each y…
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Lady In A Cage
Mrs Hilyard’s life turns into a living nightmare when she gets trapped between floors in her mansion’s elevator. Raising the alarm, she attracts the attention of a wino, who ransacks her house before inviting a prostitute and three hoodlums to join him. Things soon spiral out of control, with devastating consequences……
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Alfie (Wide Screen)
Jude Law stars in this trenchant dramatic-comedy, a remake of the 1966 British counterculture classic that launched the career of Michael Caine. This version is set in New York City and is pumped up with giddy, cleverly experimental editing. The story has Alfie (Law), a Don Juan-esque limo driver, speaking directly to the camera as he seduces the lovely ladies of the city. Eventually he’s forced to take stock of the damage he’s caused, and acknowledge the emptiness at the core of his chosen life…
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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days / Sliding Doors / Ghost (3 Disc)
Three features. In ‘How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days’ a young political journalist takes a job writing an advice column for a women’s magazine to make some money. In ‘Sliding Doors’ a PR assistant is sacked from her job and returns home early. Sliding Doors looks at two possible scenarios on her return. In ‘Ghost’ a stockbroker and his girlfriend move into an apartment and look forward to a lovely future. Unfortunately Sam is murdered and Molly is left bereft….
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Twisted
Against the moody, fog-laden backdrop of the San Francisco waterfront, police detective Jessica Shephard (Ashley Judd) becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this Hitchcockian psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman (THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, QUILLS). Jessica, a San Francisco street cop, has been appointed detective by Police Commissioner John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), her surrogate father and mentor. Together with her new partner Mike Delmarco (An…
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Fire In The Sky
Based on fact, the movie follows a controversial UFO incident in the mountain region of North Eastern Arizona in 1975. A group of young loggers encounter an alien and then encounter hostile public reaction to their claims….
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The Little Prince
Based on the children’s fantasy by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and embraced by the soaring music of Lerner and Loewe, the musical story of a pilot’s crash in the Sahara Desert and his encounter with a strange little boy receives the glowing attention to detail, colour, and charm that a film adaptation of such a beloved book deserves. As the downed pilot listens to the little boy’s story of his travels to distant planets and the strange people and animals he encounters, the airman realizes that the…
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