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Amelie
A girl with an eccentric, repressed childhood grows up attracted to the odd detail in everyday life and to the strangest people.
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The Anniversary Party
A couple's anniversary proves to
be a test of their fidelity as well as
of friendship.
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Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner
First movie ever made in Inuit, it
tells a tale of love, tradition and
revenge.
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Bangkok Dangerous
A deaf mute gunman tries to escape the deadly Bangkok underground.
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Battle Royale
Futuristic Japanese survival gameshow where school children fight for their lives.
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The Believer
An intelligent Jewish boy grows up into an urban terrorist who hates Judaism.
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Boyhood Loves
A young Frenchman returns from the city to the rural home of his youth to visit his dying father in this subtle, effective drama.
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Chain Camera
High school life seen through the
eyes of 16 student videologues.
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The Chateau
Decent culture clash comedy in which two very different American brothers inherit a dilapidated French chateau.
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The Chimp
A teenage boy confronts adulthood as he waits to join the army.
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Chop Suey
Cinematic scrapbook.
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La Ciénaga
A long hot summer on
Argentinian estate for
dysfunctional extended family.
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The Circle
Women from prison try to stay clean and out of trouble in a country where they are not respected.
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Cool And Crazy
Norwegian documentary telling the tale of a male voice choir and its members in the remote fishing village of Berlevag.
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CQ
Idealistic young film maker must
decide where his loyalties lie as
the 1970s approach.
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Cry For Bobo
Tartan short: a hilarious,
old-fashioned slapstick comedy
about a criminal clown.
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The Deep End
A mother tries to protect her son
from suspicion after his lover is
found dead.
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The Devil's Backbone
Ghosts haunt an isolated
orphanage during the last year of
the Spanish Civil War.
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Dogtown And Z-Boys
Absorbing documentary about
the birth of modern
skateboarding, told by those who
were there.
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Down From The Mountain
Nashville concert for those who played on the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou.
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Enigma
A complex World War Two tale of intrigue, romance and
code-breaking.
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Eureka
All aboard the magical mystery
bus.
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Fat Girl
Two teenage sisters at French
holiday resort respond to agony
and ecstasy of first time sex.
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Freaks
Infamous exploitation shocker with real-life barnyard oddities.
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Friends Have Reasons
A loan undermines three friends
relationship.
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Gabriel And Me
A boy tries to become an angel
so he can save his dad from
dying.
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Gas Attack
Something unthinkable happens in Glasgow.
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Ghost World
Teenage rebel makes friends with middle-aged jazz collector and discovers alienation.
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Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Musical, in which a transsexual
punk rocker recounts her life
story.
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Here To Where
Documentary (or mockumentary)
about one man's life in an airport.
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Her Father's Daughter
A man decides to pose as his
friend and claim to be the father
of a child that isn't his.
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The Icelandic Dream
Likeable Icelandic comedy.
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In July
Quirky German romantic comedy
road movie that should raise a
few smiles.
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The Inner Tour
Documentary sees a busload of
Palestinian tourists visit Israel.
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Jump Tomorrow
Unpretentious, entertaining
romantic comedy of culture
clashes.
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Kandahar
A woman returns to Afghanistan
to save her suicidal sister.
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Lawless Heart
Relationship ensemble drama, as lives intersect following a death.
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Left Turn
A woman gets more than she
bargains for when she picks up
an old lady hitchhiker.
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L.I.E.
A disaffected youth on Long
Island becomes involved with a
rich paedophile, after his father
has been arrested for fraud.
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Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's
Adventures in Plastic
Documentary about a Jewish
lesbian folk singer who switches
career to sell Tupperware.
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Little Dieter Needs To Fly
The life of an extraordinary Vietnam war hero.
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Little Otik
Grotesque take on the story of
the little wooden boy.
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Lucky Break
British cons plan an escape by
staging a prison musical.
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Maids
A look at the lives of five maids in
Sao Paulo.
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Manji
A widowed garage owner deals
with his wife's death while trying
to patch up his relationship with
his son.
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The Man Who Wasn't There
An introspective barber in a small
Californian town in the Forties
initiates a blackmail that goes
wrong.
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Mullet
A man returns to his hometown...
and regrets it.
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My Brother Tom
Two school loners fall in love.
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The Natural History of the
Chicken
Homage to hens.
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Night Shift
Would you be friends with this guy?
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No Man's Land
Black comedy about the Bosnian
conflict told from the viewpoint of
a trench between warring
factions.
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The Orphan Of Anyang
Drama about a man who decides to protect a baby, whatever the cost.
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Possible Loves
The effect of a single twist of fate
on a lifetime of love.
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Princesa
Do girls have more fun?
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Promises
Illuminating documentary
showing the realities of the
Arab-Israeli conflict through the
eyes of seven children.
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Rain
Coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of a family holiday.
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Raw Deal - A Question of
Consent
A disturbing investigation of an
alleged rape at a frat house.
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Rivers And Tides
A portrait of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy whose fleeting natural artworks have earned him international renown.
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Runaway
Documentary about the plight of Iranian girls who run away from home.
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Samia
Straightforward, honest drama
about culture and generational
clashes in a French-Algerian
family.
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Southern Comfort
A female-to-male transsexual "hillbilly" is diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
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Startup.com
Documentary charting the rise and fall of a dotcom company.
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The State I'm In
Old revolutionaries still on the
run flee from Portugal to
Germany with their teenage
daughter.
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Station Jim
Whimsical tale about a station porter.
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Storytelling
Dual storyline explores suburban hypocrisy.
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Tangerine
A painter on a large rail bridge finds the life-change of retirement difficult.
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Tattoo
Stylish German Se7en style thriller.
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Taurus
The last days of Lenin.
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Tears Of The Black Tiger
Tongue-in-cheek Thai tale of love and revenge, in glorious technicolor.
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This Filthy Earth
Two sisters scrape a living farming muddy land, without hope or release.
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The Travelling Salesman
This weird Italian effort takes far too long to reach its destination.
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Trouble Every Day
A tale of a depressive American
doctor, honeymooning in Paris,
and a nymphomaniac who eats
men.
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The Warrior
A repentant murderer is pursued
through the mountains.
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Wit
University don fights cancer by treating it as she does the sonnets of John Donne.
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Yellow Asphalt
Three stories of the clash between traditional and modern cultures set among the Bedouin people, economically told.
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You Really Got Me
A loser gets mixed up in the kidnapping of a rock star.
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Movies out this week include :
A Dangerous Method
Bombay Beach
Carnage
Casablanca
Chronicle
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Man On A Ledge
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Rampart
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
The Muppets
Young Adult
Other Films Out Now
Latest reviews:
If Not Us, Who?
Shadow Dancer
How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
Sergeant
Three Walls
Fini
Repressed
Possessed
Shirin
Decapoda Shock
Birth Of A Nation
Kin
We, the Masses
Twiggy
Midnight In Paris
The Cat 'O Nine Tails
Girl Model
Beauty
Position Among The Stars
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