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Iris (2001)

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

Razor’s Edge, The (1946)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Power, Tyrone | Tierney, Gene | Payne, John | Baxter, Anne | Webb, Clifton | Marshall, Herbert | Watson, Lucile | Latimore, Frank | Lanchester, Elsa | Kortner, Fritz | Wengraf, John | Humphreys, Cecil | Pilcer, Harry | Wright Sr., Cobina | Adrian, George
Directors: Goulding, Edmund
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Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. Isabel marries Gray, and following the crash of 1929, is invited to live in Paris with her rich, social climbing, Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, having attained his goal, is reunited with Isabel. While slumming one night Larry, Isabel and company are shocked to discover Sophie, a friend from Chicago. Having lost her husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie is living the low-life with the help of drugs an abusive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate her, but his efforts are sabotaged by Isabel who has tried in vain to reignite Larry’s interest in her.

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Norman, Zack | Arau, Alfonso | Ojeda, Manuel | Taylor, Holland | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Smith, Eve | Nesnow, Joe | Chávez, José | Muñoz 'Chachita', Evita | García, Camillo | Puebla, Rodrigo | Morayta, Paco
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Joan Wilder is a mousey writer of romance novels. She finds a package from her sister mailed from Colombia in her mailbox. A call from her sister tells her that she has been kidnapped and that bringing the package to Colombia is necessary for her safety and release. Being fairly clueless, she leaves for Colombia to rescue her sister. She is lost within hours of her arrival. She is nearly murdered by one of the men searching for the package when Jack Colton, a fairly low life American rescues her. They begin a journey through the jungle with bullets flying nearby. Is Joan up to all of this? What a way to find out.

Angel (2007)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Belgium | France | UK
Actors: Garai, Romola | Rampling, Charlotte | Russell, Lucy | Fassbender, Michael | Neill, Sam | Tong, Jacqueline | Duvitski, Janine | Benjamin, Christopher | Powell, Jemma | Woods, Simon | Pargeter, Alison | Matthews, Seymour | Georgeson, Tom | Stubbs, Una | Lavelle, Rosanna
Directors: Ozon, François
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Based on the book by Elizabeth Taylor, “Angel”, this is the story of a young woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world around her, and creates her own realities.

Duplex (2003)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Stiller, Ben | Barrymore, Drew | Essell, Eileen | Fierstein, Harvey | Theroux, Justin | Remar, James | Wisdom, Robert | Kurtz, Swoosie | Shawn, Wallace | Rudolph, Maya | Valletta, Amber | Klein, Cheryl | Maculan, Tim | Titone, Jackie | Lazarev, Yevgeni
Directors: DeVito, Danny
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Alex Rose (Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Barrymore) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone they are giddy with anticipation. The duplex is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), the cranky old lady who lives on the rent-controlled top floor. Assuming she is elderly and ill, they take the apartment but their hopes are quickly dashed when they realize that Mrs. Connelly is an energetic senior who enjoys watching her television at top volume day in and day out and rehearsing in a brass band. A writer, Alex is attempting to finish his novel against a looming deadline. However, each day as he begins to write, he is interrupted by Mrs. Connelly’s numerous demands and requests and what begins as a nuisance quickly escalates into an all-out war. When Nancy loses her job and the pair are trapped at home together with Mrs. Connelly, their rage turns to homicidal fantasy as they plot ways to get rid of their no-good neighbour…

Jewel of the Nile, The (1985)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Turner, Kathleen | DeVito, Danny | Focás, Spiros | Eisenberg, Avner | Magid, Paul David | Patterson, Howard Jay | Nelson, Randall Edwin | Williams, Samuel Ross | Furst, Timothy Daniel | Fillali, Hamid | Taylor, Holland | Cuevas, Guy | DePalma, Peter | Richards, Mark Daly
Directors: Teague, Lewis
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This is the sequel to “Romancing the Stone” where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the “jewel”. Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another… What is the story of this “jewel”?

Basic Instinct (1992)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Stone, Sharon | Dzundza, George | Tripplehorn, Jeanne | Arndt, Denis | Sarelle, Leilani | Young, Bruce A. | Ross, Chelcie | Malone, Dorothy | Knight, Wayne | von Bargen, Daniel | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Mouton, Benjamin | McGee, Jack | Cable, Bill
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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A former rockstar Johnny Boz is brutally killed during sex , and the case is assigned to the Detective Nick Curran of the SFPD . During the investigation , Nick meets Catherine Tramell , a crime novelist who was Boz’s girlfriend when he died . Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman , and though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz , he is unable to find any evidence . Later , when Nilsen , Nick’s rival in the police is killed , Nick suspects of Catherine’s involvement in it . He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her , but as their relationship progresses , the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine’s guilt .

Human Stain, The (2003)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Kidman, Nicole | Harris, Ed | Sinise, Gary | Miller, Wentworth | Barrett, Jacinda | Lennix, Harry J. | Gregg, Clark | Smith, Anna Deavere | Mitchell, Lizan | Washington, Kerry | Newman, Phyllis | Martindale, Margo | Canada, Ron | Avital, Mili
Directors: Benton, Robert
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.