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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 Cienaga
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 :
'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
A Streetcar Named Desire
Belle Toujours
Blindness
Body Of Lies
Choke
Choking Man
Conversations With My Gardener
Fine, Totally Fine
IOUSA
Special People
Stone Of Destiny
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Waltz With Bashir
Zack And Miri Make A Porno
Other Films Out Now
Latest reviews:
Choke
War Requiem
Devil Hunter
Waltz With Bashir
Body Of Lies
Body Of Lies
Conversations With My Gardener
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