When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.

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Against a backdrop of snow and racism in the immediate post-war USA, a young ethnic Japanese is charged with murdering a fellow fisherman off the Pacific coast. By clever use of flashback a tale of love won and lost is revealed. Superb cinematography makes this enigmatic tragedy from the director of "Shine" truly memorable. find out more...

James Ellroy's fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity is set around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert, are called to investigate the grizzly murder of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short aka "The Black Dahlia", but the men's private lives keep colliding with their professional world and the more they investigate th find out more...

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt, his former lover, whose missing husband is the object of a manhunt by both the American and Russian armies. Intrigue mounts as Jake tries to uncover a myriad of secrets, and not just those of the uneasy allies but Lena herself. It would seem only Tully, an apparently lowly car pool driver with some impressive black market connections, is in a position to provide an escape from the immin find out more...

A typically surreal and star studded tale from Wes Anderson about M. Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel and his role as confidante and facilitater to the good, the bad, the great and the ugly; keenly assisted by his young protégé. A beautifully, quirkily visualised joy.

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