Antwone Fisher was born in prison and placed in the care of an evil foster mother. Years later, as a young sailor with a temper problem he is sent to a marine psychiatrist for evaluation. What follows is an emotional journey of discovery, in which he confronts buried memories from his past of an appalling childhood, including sexual abuse.
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CHINATOWN (1974)
Certification18 Our Rating
Polanski has a go at the film noir detective thriller, very bleak, very twisted and very menacing it is to. Nicholson plays a private-eye in pre-war LA who is hired to pursue an adultery case, but finds himself embroiled in a complicated murder investigation.
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EXCALIBUR (1981)
CertificationPG Our Rating
An epic telling of the Morte D'Arthur, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which manages to be bloody realistic, mystical and Wagnerian.
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PEYTON PLACE (1957)
Certification15 Our Rating
Alison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbour. Beneath the town's placid God-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets involving sexual attraction and repression, illegitimacy, rape, gossip, intolerance, and class snobbery. No wonder Allison had moved to a quiet place like New York. Peyton Place had the dubious distinction of 9 Oscar nominations, but not one winner.
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SONG OF SONGS (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
Devoutly religious Ruth returns from Israel to care for her dying mother but when she tries to bring her estranged brother David back into the fold, in accordance with her mother's wishes, the result unfolds into a disturbing journey that touches upon the very darkest realms of sexual obsession.
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THE DREAMERS (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Bernardo Bertolucci paints another ravishing (if slightly too lush) portrait of adolescent awakenings and youthful exuberance. Set in Paris, 1968, amid the social turmoil and student protests, the film charts the relationship of three characters: Isabelle and Theo (sister and brother) and American student Matthew. Their mutual obsession for film of all forms and periods brings them together, and a lot of the films pleasure (for movie fans, anyway) derives from
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THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
From the director of Rushmore comes the story of Royal Tenenbaum and his idiosyncratic family. Having separated from his wife ten years ago, Royal has been estranged from his strange children and wants to make up for some lost time. A little white lie gets Royal back into his family home but all will not go as he plans. Richie used to play tennis professionally until a breakdown on the court; Margot, a chain-smoking playwright has an unseemly marital past and an even dimmer present, while widowe
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