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Certification12 Our Rating

Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Well-received version of an extremely familiar morality tale.

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CertificationPG Our Rating

Based on the novel by Truman Capote. A brilliant romantic comedy about a young girl, Holly Golightly, who is determined to marry into money, but discovers that her next door neighbour has more important qualities! find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Torrid passion and family feuding in the Deep South from the novel by Tennessee Williams. Taylor is the bitchy wife of Newman, the favourite son, who is unable to face the responsibility of marriage, and Jack Carson connives for the favours of his dying father, superbly played by Burl Ives. Melodramatic. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Following Cobain from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surrou find out more...


Certification18 Our Rating

David Cronenberg puts the human psyche under the microscope here, with the central characters seemingly hypnotised by their own dark compulsions. James and Catherine have an open relationship, proudly regaling each other with the ice-cold details of their latest extra-marital exploits, but a head-on crash involving Holly Hunter provides the catalyst for James's erotic obsession with auto accidents and, after hooking up with Vaughan, who re-stages celebrity car crashes, and his lover, who wears l find out more...

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Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

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Certification15 Our Rating

A father is haunted by the death of his young child. Omens point to disaster and hallucinations predict the future as this wonderful atmospheric film moves to its disturbing climax. Shot in the beautiful city of Venice and based on the book by Daphne du Maurier.

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Certification15 Our Rating

Dracula goes art house in an interpretation by Guy Maddin and the Winnipeg National Ballet of Bram Stoker's classic blood sucker. Dracula - Pages From a Virgin's Diary is a visually gorgeous affair, elegantly choreographed and atmospherically shot in sepia, it is also not without wit, which breathes much needed life into the proceedings. find out more...
DUNE (1985)

Certification15 Our Rating

Lynch has toiled to condense Frank Herbert's mammoth SF novel into two hours twenty: 10000 years in the future the life-and-death struggle between the Atreides and Harkonnens for the vital spice Melange, which is vital for space travel and is guarded by giant mile-long worms, takes place on a third planet - Arrakis, the desert planet, home to the Fremen, dune dwellers with vivid blue eyes. Fremen legend tells of a Messiah who will be able to drink the water of life, previous tasters having tried find out more...
ELEGY (2008)

Certification15 Our Rating

Based on Philip Roth's short novel, 'The Dying Animal', 'Elegy' is a deeply affecting drama about the power of passion to blur the lines between love and obsession. David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is a middle-aged college professor who lives a life of "emancipated manhood". That is, until one of his students, the beautiful Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz), catches his eye and immediately he is consumed by passion. Stellar performances from Kingsley, Cruz, Hopper and Clarkson. find out more...