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Sixteen Years of Alcohol (MA15+) 2003
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Set in Edinburgh in three distinct periods in the life of Frankie Mac, 16 Years of Alcohol provides a challenging introduction to a man’s belief in the meaning of hope. As a young boy Frankie Mac (Kevin McKidd - Trainspotting) watches the world around him drench itself in alcohol. His father, who ...
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Criminal Lovers (Amants Criminels, Les) (R18+) 1999
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Once upon a time in the suburbs, there lived a teenage girl named Alice. A pretty girl who liked to play games. Games of seduction. Games of violence. When Alice convinces her naive boyfrind Luc to prove his love for her by helping her murder a cocky classmate; the stage is set for a cross-country c...
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Adventure, The (L'Avventura) (PG) 1960
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When L’Avventura premiered alongside la Dolce Vita at the 1960 cannes Film Festival and won the Jury prize, it ignited a storm of controversy that sparked the international career of the great Michelangelo antonioni – he went on to direct some of the most influential art films of the 60s and 70s inc...
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Double Life of Veronique, The (M) 2005
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Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in Paris. They live their lives simultaneously, with just a hint that they are not completely alone. This 1991 film is perhaps the richest, densest, and most well-loved of all the Polish master's films. It features an unforgettable performance by Irene Ja...
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Fitzarraldo (Fitzcarraldo) (PG) 1982
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Peru. Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle at the turn of the century. On the outskirts, a few shacks are rotting in the mud. In the center are the splendid houses of the nouveaux-riches rubber barons. It is in this setting, rich in grotesque contrast, that Brian Sweeney Fitzger...
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Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (M) 1968
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Following from 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses (1968), the second film in Francois Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, opens with the now-grown Doinel sprung from military prison with a dishonorable discharge. He woos the perky but unresponsive object of his affections, Christine (Claude Jade), while engagin...
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I Stand Alone (R18+) 1998
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«My life today is very simple, it's a losers life. The story of an ordinary man. Only today I am starting my life over. Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Today I reset the meter at zero.» France 1980. Returning to Paris with his life in tatters, a horse meat butcher wanders the unforgiving stree...
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To Live (Huozhe) (PG) 1994
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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor (Ge You) awards at the Cannes Film Festival, this epic film from China's most renowned director, Zhang Yimou, (Oscar nominee for Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), with Gong Li, the acclaimed star of Farewell My Concubine, unveils an epic story of one fa...
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Sixteen Years of Alcohol (MA15+) 2003
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Set in Edinburgh in three distinct periods in the life of Frankie Mac, 16 Years of Alcohol provides a challenging introduction to a man’s belief in the meaning of hope. As a young boy Frankie Mac (Kevin McKidd - Trainspotting) watches the world around him drench itself in alcohol. His father, who ...
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Romeo and Juliet-The Bolshoi Ballet (G) 1955
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An Historic Performance by the legendary Galina Ulanova highlights this lavish production of the ever-popular ballet. Choreographed by Leonid Lavrovsky and conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, this film is rich in detail and characterised by its lovely interior and exterior location work. Yuri Zhdan...
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Promise, The (M) 1996
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Igor, a young adolescent, is helping his father, Roger, run an illegal immigrant labour ring while continuing to indulge in childhood pastimes (building a go-kart with two pals). For Igor taking part in his father's scams is part of the natural order of things like stealing a purse from the old lady...
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Mystery Train (MA15+) 1989
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A Japanese couple arrive on a pilgrimage to Elvis' hometown of Memphis, an Italian woman accompanying her dead husband receives messages from the King, while an ex-pat Englishman loses his job and his wife in the same day. One night in Memphis, the heart and soul of America, these three sets of para...
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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (MA15+) 2003
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A young boy lives in a small floating temple on a beautiful lake, together with an elderly master who teaches him the ways of the Buddha. Years later the boy, now a young man, experiences his sexual awakening with a girl who has come to the temple to be healed by the master. The youth runs away to t...
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Beautiful Troublemaker (La Belle Noiseuse) - Disc 2 (M) 1991
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Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters the ...
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Amants, Les (M) 1958
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Jeanne Moreau plays Jeanne Tournier, the wife of a newspaper publisher. Constantly distracted and unsatisfied, she finds solace in a young archeologist, played by Jean-Marc Bory. A sensation upon its release, this film contributed to the reputations of both Moreau and its director, Louis Malle, esta...
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