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Caramel on DVD (2008)
Starring: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Yasmine Al Masri
Director: Rodney El Haddad, Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily
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Caramel is a deliciously indulgent and intimate account of five women working together in a beauty parlour. Beautiful Layale is oblivious to the gaze of a local admirer and instead fixates on a married man. Nisrine will soon be married but is afraid her fiancé will discover he isn't her first ..read more »
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Elite Squad - Aka: Tropa De Elite on DVD (2007)
Starring: Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro
Director: José Padilha, Jose Padilha
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Based on the book, Elita Da Tropa by Luiz Eduardo Soares, The Elite Squad (Aka: Tropa De Elite) tells the story of two childhood friends who decide to enlist in Rio de Janeiro's Military Police Department. After juggling their police jobs and college, both make up their minds to try out for a ..read more »
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Ben X on DVD (2008)
Starring: Greg Timmermans, Laura Verlinden, Marijke Pinoy
Director: Nic Balthazar
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As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager (Timmermans) retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
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The Kingdom (2 discs) (1994)
Starring: Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Holger Juul Hansen, Kirsten Rolffes
Director: Lars Von Trier
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All five episodes of Lars von Triers' surreal hospital soap are collected together. The Kingdom is a state of the art hospital which stands on desolate foggy marshland, but it contains a portal to the spirit world within.
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City Of Men (2 discs) on DVD (2004)
Starring: Naima Silva, Darlan Cunha, Camila Monteiro
Director: Meirelles, Paulo Morelli, Lund
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Fernando Mireilles ('City of God') directs this gritty TV series set in Dona Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro's many sprawling 'favelas' (slums). Featuring a cast of local actors and filmed in a rudimentary style using a Super 16 camera, the series follows the street lives of two teenage boys, ..read more »
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Pusher on DVD (1999)
Starring: Slavko Labovic, Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen
Director: Nikolas Winding Refn
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Frank is a small-time pusher who sells heroin together with his friend Tony. The heroin is supplied by an ex-Yugoslav dealer, Milo, and safely kept at his hooker girlfriend Vic's apartment. When a heroin deal goes wrong and Frank is busted by the police, he is released because of a lack of evidence,..read more »
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Central Station on DVD (1998)
Starring: Marilia Pera, Fernanda Montenegro, Vincius De Oliveira
Director: Walter Salles
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Dora is a former school teacher who makes a living by writing letters for illiterate people passing through Rio de Janeiro's main train station, Central Station. Among her clients are Ana and her nine-year-old son Josue, who has a fierce desire to meet his father, whom he has never seen. Dora has ..read more »
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Taxidermia on DVD (2006)
Starring: Piroska Molnar, Gergo Trocsanyi, Adel Stanczel
Director: Gyorgy Palfi
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Grotesquely surreal offering from Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi charting three male generations of the same, bizarre family. Told in seperate strands, the first follows Vendel (Csaba Czene), a WWII orderly consumed by lust, who passes the boredom by spying on women around the barracks and ..read more »
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Ten Canoes on DVD (2006)
Starring: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin
Director: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
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A thousand years ago in Northern Australia, ten Aboriginal men head out into the swamp to harvest goose eggs. Among them is young Dayindi (Gulpilil), who fancies one of the wives of tribal elder Minygululu (Peter Minygululu). Minygululu tries to defuse the situation by telling Dayindi a story of ..read more »
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The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros on DVD (2005)
Starring: Nathan Lopez, Soliman Cruz, Ping Medina
Director: Auraeus Solito
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A gay youngster in Manila is caught between his shady family and his affection for a local cop.
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- from 935 members