STREET OF SHAME
DVD
Kenji Mizoguchi is often referred to as a director of "women's pictures", thanks to his sympathetic female characters and the passionate way in which he told women's stories. Never has this been more clear than in Street of Shame, his hymn to the economic uncertainty of post-war Japan and the silent victims of the war's barbarism: the women who have been left behind.
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HER MOTHER'S PROFESSION
DVD
Masterful filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi adapts this story of forbidden love from a traditional Japanese puppet theater repertory, and succeeds in making a touching and gripping tale which is, undoubtedly, essential viewing for any film lover. Based on a centuries-old tale with roots in real events, Her Mother's Profession tells the hauntingly tragic story of a forbidden love affair between a merchant's wife, Osan, and her husband's employee, Mohei, in an era when the punishment for adultery was crucifixion.
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MOTHER
DVD
Hye-ja is a single mum to 27-year-old Do-joon. Though an adult in years, Do-joon is like a child and dependent on his mother, sometimes behaving in ways that are stupid or simply dangerous. One day a young girl is found dead in an abandoned building and Do-joon is accused of her murder. An inefficient lawyer and an apathetic police force that close Do-joon's case too quickly inspire his mother to act on her own - to act as Mother in its purest form.
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SUICIDE CLUB
DVD
A wave of unexplainable suicides sweeps across Tokyo after 54 smiling high school girls join hands and throw themselves from a subway platform into an oncoming train. The police are baffled as the bloodbath triggers waves of more suicides across the city. The only clues are a mysterious website keeping a morbid tally and the cryptic phone calls made by a child.
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SPETTERS
DVD
Rien, Eef and Hans are three young working-class guys stuck in an industrial town on the outskirts of Rotterdam. They couldn't be more different except for one thing: their shared passion for motorcycle racing, which each sees as his ticket to a better life.
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BALLAD OF NARAYAMA
DVD
From two-time Palme d'Or-winning director Shohei Imamura comes an unforgettable erotic human drama and a milestone in Japanese Cinema. In a small village in a remote valley, everyone who reaches the age of 70 is banished to the top of a mountain to die.
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TAMPOPO
DVD
When two truck drivers help a widow with her noodle shop, it's just the launch-pad for Juzo Itami's utterly original, utterly unforgettable collision of yakuza film, Western and slapstick comedy which veers from one crazy food and sex obsessed scenario to the next!
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WOMEN OF THE DUNES
DVD
Hiroshi Teshigahara's haunting, erotic, unforgettable classic. When teacher Junpei Niki (Eiji Okada:Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Ugly American) takes shelter in a young widow's hut, he finds himself trapped at the bottom of a sandpit accessible only by rope ladder. Junpei is forced into an uneasy life with the woman, finally becoming her lover and joining her fight against the sand that threatens to engulf them.
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FRENCH KISSERS, THE
DVD
Herve and his mulleted best mate Camel are fourteen and in possession of some serious hormones. They are forever fantasising over the girls in their class, but they just can't work up the guts to talk to them. When Herve catches the eye of cool-girl Aurore, he's suddenly pushed straight into the strange world of hand-holding, tongue-kissing and heavy petting.
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CAMINO
DVD
Camino is a beautiful and bubbly thirteen-year-old whose life is controlled by her mother's devotion to the Opus Dei sect. Camino wants only to join the local theatre group with her best friend's cute cousin and star as Cinderella in the end-of-year production. But when Camino experiences searing pains in her back and is diagnosed with a rare cancer of the spine, her life changes in terrible and unexpected ways... Her mother becomes obsessed with the possibility of Camino being canonised and urges her to silently offer her pain to God.
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NOODLE
DVD
Miri is a flight attendant for Israel's El Al airlines. Beautiful yet plagued with sadness - the result of losing two husbands to Israel's wars - Miri lives with her sister, Gila, who is in the process of divorcing her husband. After arriving home from a flight, Miri is confronted by her Chinese cleaning lady, who pleads with her in broken English to look after her six-year -old son for "one hour."
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KILLING, THE
3 DVD
'The Killing' is an innovative thriller in 20 episodes from Danish Radio TV Drama. In the course of 20 gripping days we follow leads and observe the consequences of a heinous crime that seem to ramify throughout Copenhagen. As the investigation unfolds, Copenhagen opens up like a Chinese box, full of secrets and power struggles. It all starts when head of investigations in the homicide department has her last day at work before embarking on a new chapter in her life.
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SANSHO THE BAILIFF
DVD
Set in medieval Japan, Mizoguchi's widely-lauded masterpiece is one of his finest and most heartfelt meditations on the inhumane nature of the caste system, and its effects on the individual. When a compassionate governor is sent into exile, his wife and two young children try to join him. Armed only with the father's mantra to be kind to others if not to yourself, the family are soon forced into serfdom, with mother sent to a distant island far from her son and daughter.
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MADEMOISELLE
DVD
Jeanne Moreau delivers a sultry and powerful portrayal of a frustrated school teacher whose suppressed sexual desire leads her to commit devilish acts of destruction in this erotic tale of eccentric human behavior.
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MAN OF IRON
DVD
This exhilarating, seemlessly woven "documentary" of fictional footage tells the story of the 1980 Polish Solidarity strike at the Gdansk shipyard through the eyes of an alcoholic TV journalist.
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BUTTERFLY LOVERS
DVD
Life is fleeting as the butterfly, beautiful yet transient. As legends has it, a pair of butterfly lovers reappears once more after having gone through three lifetimes of repeated pain and tears. In 3 A.D., during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Butterfly Lovers find each other in the world of martial arts.
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SAMURAI, THE - SEASON THREE: IGA NINJA
3 DVD
Having tired of recent violence with the Koga Ninja, Shintaro turns down an offer from High Priest Donkai to protect Sadanobu on his journey to Kyoto where he must oversee the rebuilding of the Imperial Palace on behalf of the Emperor. Meanwhile, 10 Iga Ninja are hired by Lord Owari to assassinate Sadanobu.
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TONY MANERO
DVD
In the midst of the tough social context of Pinochet's dictatorship, Raul Peralta, a man in his fifties, is obsessed with the idea of impersonating "Tony Manero", John Travolta's character in "Saturday Night Fever'. His urge to reproduce his idol's likeness drives him to commit an escalating series of crimes and thefts.
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SIN NOMBRE
DVD
Sayra's father was risking everything to take her to a better life in the USA. Tough new gang recruit Casper was caught up in the brutal world the Mara Salvatrucha. When he tried to escape, his gang put a price on his head. Then he met the one person who would change his life forever...
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SISTER SMILE
DVD
Jeannine's dull parents want her to marry and take over their bakery, but Jeannine an aspiring musician longs for adventure. When she suddenly decides to enter a convent to escape her parents, she is encouraged by her Mother Superior to indulge her dreams of singing for the good of her Order
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CHAW
DVD
The town of Sameri is peaceful, picturesque and crime-free. That is, until the human body parts start showing up. A former hunter arrives claiming that the murder was not by a human but a man-eating boar called "Chaw". With the town now in a fearful state of siege, a team is thrown together to hunt down the killer boar
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CURE
DVD
Against the backdrop of a decaying Tokyo, Detective Takabe investigates a series of baffling murders occurring all over the city. In all cases, each victim is killed the same way, but the murderers are always different, always ordinary people who remember nothing of the crime afterwards. The only link appears to be a mysterious man who came into brief contact with each of the murderers, and who seems to possess an unusual power of suggestion over others. Detective Takabe must place his own sanity on the line in an attempt to end this wave of inexplicable terror.
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STILL WALKING
DVD
Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking is a touching and gentle drama about a family, the grown-up children of which journey to visit their elderly parents on one long summer day. The rare family reunion has been organised to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years before.
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RUDO Y CURSI
DVD
Mexican half brothers Beto and Tato - who will eventually be appropriately nicknamed Rudo (rough) and Cursi (corny), respectively - have a typical love/hate relationship with each other. They both work on a banana plantation and live with their extended family consisting of their mother, abusive stepfather, sister Nadia, and Beto's wife To a and their children. The family are rural peasant class and are barely making ends meet. The brother's fortunes change when into their lives comes Batuta, a soccer scout.
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EDEN IS WEST
DVD
Legendary Greek director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing, The Ax) returns with perhaps his most personal film, a playful fairy tale which tackles both the hardships suffered by illegal immigrants to Europe, and the magical nature of a world in which every experience is full of both promise and threat.
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