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Oscar (Best Foreign Language)
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Winner of numerous awards including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film; this is the story of a young boy's love affair with the local cinema, where he regularly sneaks into the village priest's weekly preview and censorship session. Years later now a successful film director he returns to his native town. Stunning and beautiful. An extra 50 minutes is incorporated into the Director's Cut in case you were left slathering for more!
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During the German Occupation a young trainee railway guard at a remote country station desperately tries to lose his virginity. He finally succeeds with the station master's wife. Satiric, anti-heroic, humorous and balanced tragi-comedy. Generally considered the finest Czech new wave film.
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Certification12
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Martial arts master Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien battle against the mysterious forces of evil to recover the Green Destiny sword. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a simple story of bad versus good, intertwined with romance in its purest fairytale form and all done on an epic scale. Visually stunning, beautifully performed and with the most breathtaking martial arts fight sequences yet to be committed to celluloid.
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Certification15
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Part 1 of the full length TV version. 8-year-old Fanny and 10-year-old Alexander live with their large and wealthy theatrical family in a Swedish province. But their lives are to change when their father collapses and dies, leaving their mother to be pursued by the puritanical local Bishop. Ingmar Bergman's "swan song"?
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Certification15
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Part 2 of the full length TV version. 8-year-old Fanny and 10-year-old Alexander live with their large and wealthy theatrical family in a Swedish province. But their lives are to change when their father collapses and dies, leaving their mother to be pursued by the puritanical local Bishop. Ingmar Bergman's "swan song"?
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Certification15
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A large rubber-tree plantation is owned by a French colonist in 1930s Vietnam. Eliane is a proud but imprudent woman, who lives with her father and her native adopted daughter Camille.
Camille runs off with mum's lover, gets married to another guy and goes on a long journey across the country to find the man she really loves. In between she discovers her Vietnamese identity and becomes an independent person.
Shot in stunning locations, a seductive romantic epic!
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Certification12
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Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, 1997, this charming Czechoslovakian comedy-drama features the most edibly adorable child star ever in Andrej Chaliman as five year old Kolya. Abandoned after his love-struck mother flees to Germany, Kolya is left at the mercy of confirmed bachelor and child-phobic cellist Louka, who's foolishly entwined himself in a marriage of convenience with the kid's mum. The political background, while necessary, never becomes too bogged-down, and indeed provides t
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CertificationPG
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Life as a circus is the theme of Fellini's tragi-comic road movie. Gelsomina, a naive simpleton, is sold to strongman Zampano, whose brutish behaviour becomes increasingly evident as they tour through the desolation that is post-war Italy. Despite the pessimism of much of the story, Fellini has already moved far from his roots in neo-realism and symbols, metaphors and larger-than-life performances hold sway, and moments of bizarre if inconsequential charm abound. Sad, sentimental and simply stun
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Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha
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