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| A Bout De Souffle DVD VHS |
Director: Jean-Luc
Godard Michel is a young thug who romantically models himself on Humphrey Bogart. While driving a stolen car, Michel shoots a policeman who follows him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to his American girlfriend Patricia in this French New Wave classic. |
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| A Bug's Life DVD VHS |
Director: John Lasseter & Andrew
Stanton The movie is loosely based on one of Aesop's famous fables 'The Ants and the Grasshopper'. Our hero Flik's ant colony is under attack and he takes on a dangerous mission to Bug City to enlist the support of tougher bugs to help. Inadvertently he gets a troupe of unemployed circus performers and the fate of Ant Island rests in their hands. 
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| The Adventures Of
Huck Finn DVD VHS |
Director:
Stephen Sommers Adaptation of Twain's novel, published over 100 years ago. The story follows characters Jim and Huck's adventures as they follow the course of the Mississippi river.
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| The Age Of Innocence DVD VHS |
Director:
Martin Scorsese Adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The film reflects the traditions and rigid social order of the period in which this love story is set.
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| All About My Mother DVD VHS |
Director:
Pedro Almodóvar Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identiy of his father that has so far been carefully concealed by his mother, Manuela.
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| Amadeus DVD VHS
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Director:
Milos Forman The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is told in flashback format by Antonio Salieri. Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine, but he can't understand why God favored such a vulgar creature to be his instrument. In his own eyes, Salieri's envy made him an enemy of the God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.
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| Amélie DVD VHS |
Director:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet Amelie is looking for love, and perhaps for the meaning of life in general. We see her grow up in an original if slightly dysfunctional family. Now a waitress in central Paris, she interacts curiously with her neighbors and customers, as well as a mysterious Photomaton-image collector and one of his even more mysterious photo subjects. Little by little, Amelie realizes that the way to happiness requires her to take her own initiative and reach out to others.
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American Movie
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Director:
Chris Smith
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| Amistad DVD VHS |
Director:
Steven Spielberg Based on the true story of Sengbe Pieh. 53 captive Africans aboard the slave ship 'La Amistad' break free of their shackles, arm themselves and take charge of the ship reclaiming their freedom. However, the 'Amistad' is captured by an American naval ship and the Africans are put on trial for the murder of the crew.
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| Anastasia VHS |
Director:
Don Bluth & Gary Goldman The evil monk, Rasputin when she is only eight years old, puts Anastasia’s family under a curse. Luckily Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian Czar, manages to escape with the help of her grandmother. However, during her escape she falls and hits her head, losing her memory. Anastasia grows up in an orphanage as ‘Anya’ until she leaves to travel to St. Petersburg to find her true identity. There she meets Dimitri, a boy who helped to save her along with her grandmother ten years ago. Dimitri helps to reunite Anastasia with her grandmother, the Empress, and protect her from the evil Rasputin who is trying to kill her.
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| An Angel at My Table VHS |
Director:
Jane Campion Saga of childhood and adolescence based on Janet Frame's autobiography. Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters, obviously different from the other children from an early age. She trains as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal is locked up in a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she becomes an author.
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| Animal Farm (1999) DVD VHS |
Director:
John Stephenson Filmed on location in Ireland, this is a dramatic new telling of George Orwell's classic 1945 novel. The production features state of the art animatronic technology developed by Jim Henson's Creature Shop and a cast of hundred of live animals. Starring Pete Postlethwaite with a voice cast including Ian Holm, Kelsey Grammer and Peter Ustinov.
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| Anita & Me DVD VHS |
Director:
Gurinder Chadha Meena, a twelve-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of the ultra cool and yet dangerous Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family. Meena becomes part of Anita's world but events do not run smoothly for Anita and her pals in this rites-of-passage comedy drama.
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| Apocalypse Now VHS DVD |
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola Based loosely on Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', this is a controversial film about the Vietnam War. The story follows Captain Willard's mission into Cambodia to assasinate renegade Colonel Kurtz.
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| Apollo 13 DVD VHS |
Director:
Ron Howard Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and America have already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this 'routine' flight... at least until things go very wrong.
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As
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Director: Kenneth
Branagh A film adaptation of Shakespeare's play by Kenneth Branagh. Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior (the banished duke), is raised at the court of Duke Frederick (who is younger brother to Duke Senior and took over his dukedom), with her cousin Celia (daughter to Duke Frederick). She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but before she can even think twice about it, she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia, being Rosalind's best friend, goes with Rosalind (who is disguised as a boy, Ganymede) and Touchstone, the court's fool, to the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing the wrath of Orlando's eldest brother. What follows is an elaborate scheme devised by the cross-dressing Rosalind to find out the verity of Orlando's supposed passion for her, and to further capture his heart, through the witty and mischievous façade of Ganymede.
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| Awakenings DVD VHS
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Director:
Penny Marshall Story of the victims of the rare disease encephalitis. Robin Williams plays a neurologist who finds himself working on a ward full of patients that have been catatonic for many years from the disease. He attempts to revive them with the trial of a new drug. |
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