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Certification12
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Set during the cultural revolution in China we follow two urbane young men after they are dismissed to a remote, but beautiful, mountainous corner of the country to re-learn the basic tenets of Chairman Mao's communist ideology. At first depressed by their predicament, the two lads soon perk up when they come across a hidden selection of western literature, a find they eagerly share with the curious and beguiling local seamstress. They also survive by telling stories, making music and pulling te
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Certification15
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Two soldiers return from Vietnam, one mentally scarred, the other physically. We flashback to their childhood and the fascination the slightly crazy one has with flying. So maybe after the horror of war it's a more logical decision to be a bird! A brilliant film about disillusionment, growing up and existential madness.
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Certification12
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It is 1970 and nine-year old Anna is not amused. Seemingly overnight her bourgeois family have decided to abandon their middle class life and transform into leftist radicals. Gone is the grand family pad, gone are the new clothes and, humiliatingly, gone are Anna's beloved religious lessons. In their place is a cramped apartment filled with bearded revolutionaries, demonstrations and refugee nannies with strange cooking habits. But Anna is no wilting flower and before you can regurgitate the fir
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Certification15
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Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d
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Certification15
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'Carlos' tells the story of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan terrorist/revolutionary better known as Carlos the Jackal. Commencing with his joining the PFLP, through the 1975 raid on the OPEC meeting in Vienna, his time on the run until his eventual capture in 1994, the film depicts the man as a revolutionary, a terrorist, a mercenary, an arrogant charmer, and a cold blooded megalomaniac. Shuffling false passports like a pack of cards this playboy is seemingly irresistible to women, whom he
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Certification15
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'Carlos' tells the story of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan terrorist/revolutionary better known as Carlos the Jackal. Commencing with his joining the PFLP, through the 1975 raid on the OPEC meeting in Vienna, his time on the run until his eventual capture in 1994, the film depicts the man as a revolutionary, a terrorist, a mercenary, an arrogant charmer, and a cold blooded megalomaniac. Shuffling false passports like a pack of cards this playboy is seemingly irresistible to women, whom he
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Certification18
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A brutal gripping thriller that finds Vietnam Vet Ray Hicks helping out an old friend by smuggling a stash of heroin into the States. Double-crossed and ambushed Ray barely escapes with his life, a state of affairs his attackers are determined to rectify. Also known as 'Who'll Stop The Rain?', 'Dog Soldiers' is a tight, hard, action adventure with emotional depth and one of the best American films of the late 70's
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Certification15
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Dickens classic novel is updated and shifted to modern America in this admirable adaptation by Mexican director Cuaron. Seen through the eyes of the grown-up Finn (Ethan Hawke), the story kicks off in 1970s Florida, with the orphan fatefully bumping into an escaped convict (Robert De Niro), and meeting the love of his life Estella (Paltrow), niece of batty old Anne Bancroft. Ten years later, the now successful Finn inhabits the elite New York art world, aided by his mystery benefactor, and conti
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Certification15
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A marvelous, great looking adaptation of Esther Freud's acclaimed novel. Kate Winslet plays discontented mum Julia, who decides to swap rainy '70s London for sweltering, dusty Morocco. She soon discovers, however, that life on the breadline with two young daughters (5 and 7 year-olds) in Marrakesh is not much more fun than it was in London, and matters aren't helped when she falls for a swarthy young street hustle and one of the kids falling victim to the local lurgy. Bristol 9-year-old Carrie M
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Certification15
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Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation.
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