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![Snatch / Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels [1998]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006FN67.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Snatch / Lock, Stock
And Two Smoking Barrels [1998]
~ Brad
Pitt, Steven Mackintosh
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Features 'Snatch' in which Turkish and Tommy, unlicensed boxing
promoters, become unwillingly involved with a underground
criminal called Brick Top. When they are persuaded to stage
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![Les Vacances De M.Hulot [1953]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CJKE.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Les Vacances De
M.Hulot [1953]
~ Jacques
Tati, Nathalie Pascaud
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Forefather of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, Jacques Tati's Monsieur
Hulot--a recurring character in several of his movies--is a
blithely clumsy troublemaker, an insouciant twit who leaves
uproar in his wake without being aware of it. Trying to describe
this 1953 comedy is next to impossible except to...
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![The Last Of The Mohicans [1992]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CN46.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
The Last Of The
Mohicans [1992]
~ Daniel
Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe
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The Last of the Mohicans is a large-scale adventure set
during the colonial conflicts between Britain and France 20
years before the American War of Independence. Based loosely on
the
novel by James Fenimore Cooper, but actually inspired by
director Michael (Manhunter, Heat) Mann's boyhood
love of...
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![The Mission [1986]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CJKA.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
The Mission [1986]
~ Robert De
Niro, Jeremy Irons
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Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy
effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of
emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting
collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission,
which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who
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![Tango (1998) [1999]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004UEZW.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Tango (1998) [1999]
~ Miguel
Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova
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Los Angeles
Times
Mesmerizing experience, a smokey, lush blend of muted light and
colour of intoxicating dance and the rishest tango music you
could ever imagine.
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![Babe [1995]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004R6RV.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Babe [1995]
~ Christine
Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes
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The surprise hit of 1995, this splendidly entertaining family
film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best
picture, director, and screenplay, and deservedly won the Oscar
for its subtly ingenious visual effects. Babe is all
about the title character, a heroic little pig who's been
taken...
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![Under The Sand [2001]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NZHO.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Under The Sand [2001]
~ Charlotte
Rampling, Jacques Nolot
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When Marie's husband goes missing on a crowded beach in France,
he has left no clues to his whereabouts. Marie carrys on as if
he was still around...
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![Derek Jarman's Blue [1993]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CNW1.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Derek Jarman's Blue
[1993]
~ Derek
Jarman, John Quentin
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Derek Jarman records his thoughts and experiences as he battles
with the HIV virus. His own words are delivered by John Quentin,
Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton and Derek Jarman himself. The music
is provided by Simon Fisher Turner.
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![Ugetsu Monogatari [1953]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CXLF.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Ugetsu Monogatari
[1953]
~ Masayuki
Mori, Machiko Kyô
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A haunting film set in sixteenth-century war-torn Japan. Two
potters leave their wives to pursue their ambitions - one for
wealth, the other for glory as a samurai warrior. Japanese
dialogue.
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![Highway Patrolman [1992]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005BCFI.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Highway Patrolman
[1992]
~ Vanessa
Bauche, Roberto Sosa
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Diminutive Highway Patrolman, Pedro Rojas (Roberto Soza)
is small in stature but high on morals. While his Mexican
traffic cop compadres are taking bribes left, right and
centre he prefers the straight-and-narrow route to law and
order. But life on the highway is not as clear-cut as Pedro
would like...
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![Une Partie De Plaisir [1974]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CPZ6.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Une Partie De Plaisir
[1974]
~ Paula
Moore, Clemence Gégauff
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A happily married man encourages his wife to take a lover.
Craving the indulgence for himself he takes a male lover. All is
well until he suddenly becomes enraged at his wife's behaviour
and he sets about humiliating her at every turn. French dialogue
with English subtitles.
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![Snatch / Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels / Reservoir Dogs / Killing Zoe [1991]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000085RM1.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Snatch / Lock, Stock
And Two Smoking Barrels / Reservoir Dogs / Killing Zoe [1991]
~ Brad
Pitt, Steven Mackintosh
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Features 'Snatch' in which Turkish and Tommy, unlicensed boxing
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criminal called Brick Top. When they are persuaded to stage
rigged bare knuckle fights things don't go exactly to plan...
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![The Legend Of 1900 [1999]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004S8J8.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
The Legend Of 1900
[1999]
~ Tim Roth,
Pruitt Taylor
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Aboard Virginian, a passenger ship at the turn of the century, a
baby boy is found. He is called 1900 and is brought up by the
ship's coal room worker. When his adoptive father is killed in
an accident the rest of the ship becomes aware of the boy's
presence. 1900 starts to play the piano aboard...
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![Unfinished Piece For Mechanical Piano [1977]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CM8O.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Unfinished Piece For
Mechanical Piano [1977]
~ Nikita
Mikhalkov, Aleksandr Kalyagin
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An adaptation of an Anton Chekhov play 'Platonov.' A middle-aged
man meets up with two ex-lovers on a wealthy woman's estate.
Russian dialogue with English subtitles.
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![The Scarlet Letter [1995]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CRZY.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
The Scarlet Letter
[1995]
~ Demi
Moore, Gary Oldman
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In yet another example of Demi Moore's astonishing narcissism,
this appalling adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Great
American Novel becomes a teary, talk-show-worthy story of a
woman rediscovering the erotic, of interrupted love, of a
brave-but-beleaguered heroine's personal struggle against
male...
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![Jean De Florette [1986]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004R808.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Jean De Florette
[1986]
~ Yves
Montand, Gérard Depardieu
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A truly impressive French film destined to become a modern
masterpiece, Jean de Florette is an evocative adaptation
of the highly regarded French novel. Two 1920's farmers engage
in a bitter rivalry as one tries to tend to a plot of land and
the other deviously undermines his efforts in order to...
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![Orfeu Negro [1958]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004COH3.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Orfeu Negro [1958]
~ Breno
Mello, Marpessa Dawn
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Marcel Camus's 1959 update of the Greek myth features an
all-black cast and a story set in the frenetic energy of
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus, a trolley car conductor and
superb samba dancer, is engaged to Mira but in love with
Eurydice. For his change of heart, Orpheus and his new doomed...
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![Harry, He's Here To Help [2000]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JI09.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Harry, He's Here To
Help [2000]
~ Laurent
Lucas, Mathilde Seigner
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Michel is re-united with his old school friend Harry whilst on
holiday, and finds that his old acquaintance is determine to
solve all of his problems for him... French language with
English subtitles.
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![The Man Who Wasn't There [2001]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000634CO.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
The Man Who Wasn't
There [2001]
~ Billy Bob
Thornton, Frances McDormand
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Ed is a chain-smoking barber who blackmails his wife's boss so
he can invest in a dry-cleaning business - but it all goes
wrong...
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![Wings Of Honneamise [1989]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CPWI.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Wings Of Honneamise
[1989]
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In an alien world similar to Earth a young cadet makes his first
trip into space.
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![Indochine [1991]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005LDDN.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Indochine [1991]
~ Catherine
Deneuve, Vincent Perez
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Sitting through Indochine, Régis Wargnier's 1992 Oscar
winner for Best Foreign Film, is a bit like watching paint dry,
despite its exotic locale and lead performance by the legendary
Catherine Deneuve (Belle de Jour, The Umbrellas of
Cherbourg). Deneuve plays a wealthy French landowner,
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![Demon [1985]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000071WKI.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Demon [1985]
~ Ken
Takakura, Yuko Tanaka
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Shuji gives up his life as a gangster and moves to a remote
fishing village but when a new bar opens and its beautiful owner
arrives his peaceful existence is about to change. Japanese
dialogue.
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![Three Colours Blue [1993]](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CO4G.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg) |
Three Colours Blue
[1993]
~ Juliette
Binoche, Benoît Régent
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The first instalment of the late Polish director Krzysztof
Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the
three colours of the French flag. Blue is the most sombre
of the three, a movie dominated by feelings of grief. As the
film begins, a car accident claims the life of a well-known...
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