Castle Of Cagliostro
Miyazaki directed and co-wrote the screenplay to light-hearted action romp The Castle of Cagliostro which brilliantly combines comedy, snappy dialogue, fun characters, great visuals and fast-paced chase sequences. Master thief Lupin III and his right-handed gunman Jigen are hot on the trail of a counterfeiter who has swindled them. Their search leads them to the secluded European country of Cagliostro, where they find more than they bargained for. Lupin unwittingly attracts the attention of the…
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Gojoe (Subtitled)
An extravagant adventure fantasy in the samurai tradition, ‘Gojoe’ is a special effects-filled joyride with that increasingly anomalous trait: a thoughtful story. Benkei is a former warrior who has become a Buddhist monk, but when the GoJoe Bridge turns into the scene of a massacre, with an unknown force beheading countless Heike soldiers, he receives the call to fight via a Sanskrit inscription that appears on his chest. He joins forces with an unlikely ally, Testukichi, a sword scavenger who r…
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Massai (Subtitled)
Played by warrior natives of the Masai Mara in South Kenya and inspired by Masai mythology, the film is a rare glimpse into the heart of a culture isolated from the rest of the world. Following the death of their Chief, a village is stricken by a drought which threatens the lives of its people and their livestock. The village elders dispatch a group of ten adolescents to hunt down a mythincal lion in orer to offer its man up as a sacrifice to the Red God. As the young men travel across…
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Little Norse Prince
Takahata?s Little Norse Prince tells the story of Horus, a young man who pulls a blade out of a Rock Giant only to discover that it is the Sword of the Sun and, if reforged, the sword?s destiny will transform the boy into the Prince of the Sun. Urged by his dying Father to return to the place where he was born, Horus travels back to his native village. Here, he encounters the evil ice demon Grunwald whose cunning method of destroying communities is manipulating people and turning them against ea…
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Killing Fields (Special Edition) (2 Discs)
Nominated for seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Directing), The Killing Fields is an intelligent and brutal exploration of loyalty and friendship set during the Khmer Rouge?s horrific 1970s Cambodian holocaust. Brilliantly scripted by Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I), the film is based on the true story of the relationship between Sidney Schanberg (Sam Waterston), a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent, and Dith Pran (Haing S Ngor), the Cambodian aide…
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13 Conversations About One Thing
THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING tells the interconnected stories of several New Yorkers who are searching for meaning in their lives. Troy (Matthew McConaughy), a promising attorney, puts his seemingly bright future at risk when he drives away from an accident. He injures Beatrice (Clea DuVall), a young cleaning woman, and her recovery from the accident severely tests her natural optimism and affects her friend Dorrie (Tia Texada). Tiring of the predictable routine of his life, university…
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Cinderella Man
Cinderella Man depicts the true-story of 1930?s boxer Jim Braddock, who faces poverty when an injury to his hand means that he can no longer fight and provide for his family. Set in the midst of the American Great Depression, with little opportunity for work available, Braddock and his family struggle to survive. Braddock however, refuses to give up and much to the horror of his wife Mae, he returns to the ring. No one, apart from his wife believes he can win but he proves the doubters wrong and…
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One Love
A modern-day version of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo And Juliet, ‘One Love’ tells the story of the forbidden love between a reggae artist and gospel singer….
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Whisky
Delightful deadpan comedy about the accidental couple Jacobo and Marta, who work in the sock factory owned by Jacobo. Day in, day out, they work together and follow the same gloomy routine, not mentioning their private lives. But one day, Jacobo’s routine is threatened by an unexpected visit from his estranged brother Herman, who has been living abroad for years. The two brothers have not had much contact, but now Herman feels the urge to get involved with placing a gravestone for thei…
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Kings And Queen
A huge hit in France, where it was nominated for seven Cesar Awards (the equivalent of Hollywood’s Oscars), KINGS AND QUEEN is an intelligent, extremely entertaining and complex film featuring a vastly talented cast. Cleverly mixing genres, director and cowriter Arnaud Desplechin (ESTHER KAHN, MY SEX LIFE…OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT) tells the story of an embattled, extraordinary single mother named Nora, played by the ravishing Emmanuelle Devos (READ MY LIPS). When Nora visits her father, L…
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King’s Game (Subtitled)
The leader of one of the Denmark’s largest parties is involved in a serious car accident three weeks before the general elections. Ulrik Torp is a young, ambitious journalist, who gets involved in a power struggle between the party’s two successors to leadership. Torp is determined to find out the truth but no one is prepared to listen to him. He is forced to face them on his own….
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Gone With The Wind
David O. Selznick’s production of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winner Gone With The Wind is ‘the pinnacle of Hollywood moviemaking’, Leonard Maltin’s view, ‘It looks better than it has in years.’ This sweepingCivil War-era romance won an Academt Award (Including Best Picture) and it’s immortal characters Scarlett (Vivien Leigh), Rhett (Clark Gable) Ashley (Leslie Howard), Melanie (Olivia De Havilland), Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) populate an epic story of endurin…
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Philadelphia
After a solid track record and a much-deserved promotion, Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks), a handsome, upwardly mobile Philadelphia lawyer, loses his high-paying corporate job when he starts developing full-blown AIDS. Though Andrew’s firm attributes his dismissal to his supposedly poor performance, he knows otherwise, and he won’t accept the firm’s discrimination lying down. Andrew will do whatever is necessary to prosecute. But when nine other lawyers refuse to help him, Andrew reluctantly hires Jo…
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Machuca
Set in autumn of 1973, amidst the backdrop of chaotic political upheaval, the Chilean film MACHUCA grounds a heartwrenching coming-of-age tale in a traumatic socio-historical moment. Directed by Andres Wood, a Chilean-born, NYU-schooled filmmaker of astonishing talent, the film unfolds through the eyes of Gonzalo, a quiet 12-year-old boy from an upscale Santiago suburb. With his freckled cheeks and bowl haircut, Gonzalo resembles Bud Cort in HAROLD AND MAUDE, awkward and wise beyond his years. W…
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Vital
A man awakes in a hospital after a car accident to discover that his memory has been lost. At first he is unable to even recognise his parents, but, as his memories return so does his earlier interest in medicine. After enrolling in a medical course he begins classes, one of which involves the dissection of a female corpse. As his memory begins to complete itself he begins to realise he has known the woman on the table who once inhabited this body? When the cult horror films Tetsuo: The Ironman…
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Yossi And Jagger (Subtitled)
An Israeli military outpost serves as the staging ground for this theatrical and tragic love story between Yossi and Jagger, young soldiers in the Israeli army. Yossi, the stolid captain of the outpost, and Jagger, nicknamed after the Rolling Stones front man, are lovers, but they struggle to hide their relationship from the rest of the troop. Private excursions through snowy trails serve to camouflage their trysts, but Jagger becomes dissatisfied with their secrecy, adding tension to this dynam…
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Gantz - Vol. 1 (Animated) (Subtitled And Dubbed)
Director Ichiro Itano presents a hellish vision of the afterlife in the brutal horror anime series ‘Gantz’. High school student Kei and his childhood friend Kato are helping a hobo who has fallen onto the subway tracks when they are run over and violently decapitated by an oncoming train in a spectacularly grisly fashion. Transported to a strange post-death limbo, the pair find themselves in a barren room overlooking Tokyo with a motley group of strangers - including two hotheaded gangsters and…
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Wolf’s Rain - Chapter 1: In The Company Of Wolves (Animated)
This anime fantasy created by Keiko Nobumoto follows a group of wolves, who live among humans, as they embark on a quest to find a legendary paradise on Earth rumoured only to reveal itself to wolves. Kiba, Hige, Toboe, and Tsume each have their own reasons for the journey, but they find they must band together to reach their goal - and to avoid the power-hungry humans who chase them every step of the way. Contains five episodes: ‘Streetcorner of Howls’, ‘Dry-Eyed Toboe’, ‘Bad Fellow’, ‘Scar of…
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The Hunt For Red October (Wide Screen)
It is the pre-Glasnost era, and the captain of a Soviet sub intends to betray his brutal government and defect, but as the deadly Red October approaches the eastern seaboard of the United States, only special agent Jack Ryan might be able to head off a nuclear confrontation. Based on Tom Clancy’s bestseller. Academy Award Nominations: 2. Academy Awards: Best Sound Effects Editing….
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Meatrack/Sticks And Stones
Double-bill of two gay exploitation films….
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