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October Gale
( 2015 )
A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to finish the job, while a storm has cut them off from the mainland.
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Conceiving Ada
( 1999 )
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
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Blackfly
( 1991 )
A young surveyor, new to northern Ontario, encounters the black flies. Over and over again, he encounters those black flies.
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My Voyage to Italy
( 2002 )
World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
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The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
( 2001 )
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick is a movie starring Paul Williams, Robert Anton Wilson, and Scott Apel. Philip K. Dick stories continue to inspire filmmakers, writers, technophiles and philosophers. And for the last ten years...
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Cemetery Junction
( 2010 )
A 1970s-set comedy centered on three young working class friends in a dreary suburb of Reading.
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Eleni
( 1985 )
A mother's love for her children leads to a son's revenge for her death in this dramatic thriller beginning during the Greece civil war. The powerful cast includes Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich and Linda Hunt.
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Searching for Debra Winger
( 2002 )
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.
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The Story of Esther Costello
( 1957 )
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband.
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Van Diemen's Land
( 2009 )
The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving.. the Australian wilderness. Abandon all hope you who enter.
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Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic
( 2021 )
This special sees Louis travel to America to investigate the story of a man who has become one of the most controversial and captivating icons of recent times: the gun-toting, self-described 'gay hillbilly' and 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic.
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Paradise Found
( 2003 )
A successful 19th century French stockbroker (Sutherland) leaves his profession to become an artist in Paris.
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City of Joy
( 1992 )
Independent of each other, the Pal family - parents Hazari and Kamla, and their three offspring Amrita, Shambu and Manooj - and Max Lowe arrive in Calcutta, their initial dealings there being less than positive. After losing their farm in the nearby countryside to the "money lender", the Pals are in the city in search of a better life, especially in wanting to build a dowry for Amrita who is now of marrying age. Max, a Houston based surgeon who fell into the career as a matter of family obligation, quit his job unable to cope with the emotional toll especially of losing patients, and has come to Calcutta in search of spiritual enlightenment.
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Land of the Blind
( 2007 )
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Your Name Here
( 2008 )
The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literally!) of one of sci-fi's most brilliant authors. Paranoid conspiracies of the highest order, drug-fueled interdimensional shifts, and 1970's pop culture combine for the mind-bending adventure of the century.
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Wastings & Pain
( 2010 )
Vancouver's Downtown East side is home to thousands of drug addicts, prostitutes, and the mentally ill. Amateur cameraman K.R.T. spent one summer on these mean streets getting to know longtime homeless drug addicts Ken and Lisa. This seemingly random footage was given to first time writer/director Josh Laner who found a story of people trying to connect in an area where no one seems connected to much of anything. An intimate and surreal look at life on the streets in Canada's most impoverished postal code. This is Josh Laner's first film.
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Our Queen
( 2013 )
Feature-length documentary filmed throughout 2012, providing an in-depth portrait of Elizabeth II during her Diamond Jubilee year. Prince Charles and other members of the royal family share their stories, providing insights into the Queen's life over an important and busy 12 months filled with celebrations. The programme also reveals what really happens when the Prime Minister sits down with the monarch, and the lid is lifted on that memorable 007 moment at the London Olympic Games opening ceremony.
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Sea Sorrow
( 2017 )
An examination of the historical context for the current migrant crisis.
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Bight of the Twin
( 2016 )
A documentary film that will take viewers to Ouidah, Benin, the geographic heart of the Vodoun religion, where friends and collaborators, director Hazel Hill McCarthy, III and cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, explore the relationship between Vodoun and Western secular art and performance by trying to answer the question of what embodiment is.
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Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute
( 2016 )
A unique celebration of the Queen's ninety years as she reaches her landmark birthday in April. Film-maker John Bridcut has been granted special access to the complete collection of Her Majesty's personal cinΓ© films, shot by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen herself, as well as by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Much of it has never been seen publicly before. Various members of the Royal Family are filmed watching this private footage and contributing their own personal insights and their memories of the woman they know both as a member of their own close family and as queen. Among those taking part are the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry, the Princess Royal, the Duke of Kent and his sister Princess Alexandra, who has never before given an interview.
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Women Make Film
( 2020 )
This epic, five years in the making, is made up of 14 episodes narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton and Debra Winger. Women Make Film follows in the footsteps of Mark Cousins' The Story of Film: An Odyssey, to give us a guided tour of the art and craft of the movies. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest directors β all of them women.
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The Story of Film: A New Generation
( 2021 )
Mark Cousins offers hope and optimism while he explores different movies and talks about how technology is changing the course of cinema in a new century and how Covid continues the process.
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Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
( 1995 )
A brief look at some of the highlights of film composer George Delerue's career. A few directors and even more image and sound editors are found in their workspaces, reviewing the films they made in conjunction with him. His artistry in supporting without dominating the image, his subtleties in dynamics, and his instincts for nailing the emotional impact of a scene are discussed - as well as observing him engrossed in the spark of creating with keyboard, pen and paper.
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Elizabeth: Our Queen
( 2018 )
Documentary series using interviews with those close to her to paint a personal picture of HM the Queen.
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ABBA: The Movie
( 1979 )
An incompetent radio DJ tries to get an interview with the Swedish pop group during their famous week-long 1977 tour of Australia.
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Melanie
( 1982 )
A young woman battles to regain custody of her son.
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Ticket to Heaven
( 1981 )
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
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The Reagans
( 2003 )
A non-partisan telling of the marriage and political career of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The movie tells a tale of love, devotion, controversy, and patriotism.
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Two Women
( 2015 )
A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.
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Last Year in Viet Nam
( 1971 )
One of Oliver Stone's first films, Last Year in Viet Nam presents part of his personal experiences after coming back as a war veteran from the Vietnam war, trying to cope with terrible memories from the front and the recurring sensation of isolation, anguish and alienation he felt while living in New York, still uncertain of what to do with his life.
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The Sergeant
( 1968 )
A story of a brilliant master sergeant with a great career behind him and transferred to yet another post, his attraction to a younger man eventually overrides him, to a point where his latent homosexuality, finally emerges.
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Purlie
( 1981 )
In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner holds his sharecroppers in virtual slavery. Purlie comes home as a preacher who will shake things up and bring freedom to his people.
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Oliver Stone's America
( 2001 )
A 2001 documentary that has Stone, in his own words, reflect on his life, beliefs and the changing face of America, and how it informs his work.
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The Savage Is Loose
( 1974 )
A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.
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Screen Two
( 1985 )
Screen Two is a anthology series of one-off drama's made especially for television.
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La Salla
( 1996 )
A tale of a man who has everything he needs in his one little room, and the disasters that befall him when he succumbs to the temptation of the world outside his door. An Italian opera, with subtitles and some cows and fish.
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The Government Inspector
( 2005 )
Peter Kosminsky's powerful factual drama about the Iraq dossier row and the subsequent death of Dr David Kelly, one of the top government experts on Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Not for Ourselves Alone
( 1999 )
Two women. One allegiance. Together they fought for women everywhere, and their strong willpower and sheer determination still ripples through contemporary society.Recount the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as they strive to give birth to the women's movement. Not until their deaths was their shared vision of women's suffrage realized.
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Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
( 2017 )
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge chronicles the last 50 years of American music, politics and popular culture through the perspective of a magazine that understood rock 'n' roll was more than music - it was a cultural force that helped shape America and defined generations.
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A Chorus of Disapproval
( 1989 )
A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening behind the scenes: seduction, romance, faction fighting, and the inevitable jealosy.
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Charles Manson: The Funeral
( 2019 )
The grandson of notorious killer Charles Manson embarks on an unusual journey to arrange the late cult leader's funeral.
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Wild Man Blues
( 1998 )
Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New Orleans jazz band's 1996 European tour. Allen's relationship with his wife Soon-Yi Previn is captured on film here for the first time, and others on the European jaunt include Allen's sister Letty Aronson. Followed by press, paparazzi, and gushing admirers, Allen returns home to face a more realistic critical assessment during "the lunch from hell" with his aged parents.
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elb11 : I totally agree! I watched it Friday babysitting my 3 granddaughters, 2, 4 & 6 and all 3 w...