The Babadook
Synopsis: Amelia (AFI Award winner Essie Davis, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, The Slap) is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called […]
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Jigyaku no Uta
Synopsis: Based on the comic strip series by Yoshiie Gouda, Happily Ever After is a visually striking dark comedy that follows the devoted wife Yukie and her unemployed ex-gangster husband […]
La Belle et la Bête
Synopsis: Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a […]
Ugetsu monogatari
Synopsis: “Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers,” said Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And Ugetsu, a ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese director’s supreme achievement. […]
Shinjū: Ten no amijima
Synopsis: Many films have drawn from classic Japanese theatrical forms, but none with such shocking cinematic effect as director Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide. In this striking adaptation of a bunraku […]
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Synopsis: Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned the screen world when he cast two young unknowns to portray the star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet, but it was a gamble that […]
An Affair to Remember
Synopsis: In this poignant and humorous love story nominated for four Academy Awards, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each […]
Sleepless in Seattle
Synopsis: What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew, was the only someone for you? Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in Nora Ephron’s […]
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Synopsis: Uncensored. Uninhibited. Unmarried. This hilarious romantic comedy is the story of Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger), a 32 year old “singleton” who decides to take control of her life by […]
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Synopsis: Fortysomething Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) thinks his marriage is perfect, until his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) asks for a divorce. Now Cal is single and looking for love with […]
Happy Birthday to Me
Synopsis: You’re invited to the bloodiest party of the year. Welcome to upscale Crawford Academy, where everyone – especially new student Ginny (Melissa Sue Anderson of Little House On The […]
Silent Night
Synopsis: He knows who’s been naughty In 1984, the slasher classic Silent Night, Deadly Night stunned audiences, was banned across America, and remains the most notorious Christmas movie in history. […]
To All a Goodnight
Synopsis: ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, Santa Claus is stirring, and he s not bringing gifts. Five young female boarders at the Calvin Finishing School […]
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