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Aberdeen
A Film by Hans Petter Moland. Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey and Charlotte Rampling star in this moving drama about an alcoholic who is reunited with his estranged daughter.




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Big Score, The
Fred Williamson and Richard Roundtree star in this hard-edged action/drama about an embittered narcotics cop who is accused of a crime he didn't commit and is now ready to settle The Big Score.



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Born in Flames
The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative classic is a comic fantasy of female rebellion set ten years after the Second American Revolution.




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Brothers In Trouble- VHS
A Film by Udayan Prasad. A funny and moving portrait of the secret lives and loves of a group of Pakistani "illegals" in 1960's Britain.



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Butterfly Kiss
A Film by Michael Winterbottom. A pair of lesbian lovers (Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves) are on a lethal rampage through Britain, with music by The Cranberries, PJ Harvey and Bjork!




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Cleopatra's Second Husband
A Film by Jon Reiss. Blackly comic, perversely erotic, and thoroughly unpredictable, this genre-bending story of sexual mindgames stars indie favorite Radha Mitchell (High Art).




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Dance For Camera
Selected from festivals in Europe and North America, and winners of over 17 international awards, these six dance films are among the most outstanding examples of a new genre that merges dance and film.



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Dance For Camera 2
From a Butoh-inspired portrait of a demented aristocrat, to a sensual bedroom metamorphosis, this latest collection of award-winning dance films from around the world will "bewitch, bedazzle and bewilder!"



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Dark Odyssey- VHS
A Film by William Kyriakis and Radley Metzger. She reached out for love and found a loaded gun...so begins Dark Odyssey, Radley Metzger's first feature, shot in 1950's New York City.



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Empty Bed, An
In this early classic of gay cinema, John Wylie beautifully portrays Bill Frayne, a gay man in his sixties who reflects on his younger days, the choices he has made, and the prospect of an empty bed.




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Friends- VHS
A Film by Elaine Proctor. Passion and politics mix in this powerful drama about three young women, all friends, in contemporary South Africa.



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Hussy
Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren gives a smoldering performance as Beaty, who works as a hostess and prostitute in a posh London nightclub in order to support her young son.



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I am the Cheese
In this captivating adaptation of Robert Cormier’s best-selling novel, 14-year-old Adam Farmer seeks to uncover a secret lost in his subconscious that will allow him to locate his parents, who have disappeared mysteriously.



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John & Julie- VHS
A film by William Fairchild. With Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther). The charming story of two English schoolchildren who run away to London to see the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.



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March in April- VHS
A Film by Stephen Kinsella. Family, friends and lovers gather for an historic march on Washington, as one young man must come out to his ailing mother.



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Night Stalker
Detective J.J. Striker is assigned to hunt down a bloodthirsty Night Stalker before he can kill again. As Striker doggedly scours the city, armed with a single clue, he learns that the killer gains inhuman strength by absorbing the lives of his prey.



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Nowhere Man
A potent brew of suspense and black humor, Nowhere Man is the story of one man’s search for his missing member, severed and stolen by his jilted fiancée after her pornographic past comes to light.



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Only the Brave- VHS
A Film by Ana Kokkinos. An edgy, sensuous story about two teen-age girls, whose passion to escape their surroundings is compounded by their growing affection for one another.



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Parting Glances
A Film by Bill Sherwood. Starring Steve Buscemi, this pioneering work of gay cinema tells the surprisingly funny, wonderfully acted story of a man and his former and current lovers, set in the gay scene of Manhattan.




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Perception
In this darkly comedic gem, Piper Perabo stars as Jen Marshall, an LA girl with a reckless personality and a laundry list of burned bridges. When Jen returns to New York, unexpected tragedy strikes.



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Secret Society
A Film by Imogen Kimmel. The story of Daisy, twenty years old and plump as a dumpling, and her adoring husband Ken. When Ken discovers that Daisy has joined a "secret society" of women sumo wrestlers, Daisy is forced to make a difficult decision.




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September 11
Eleven acclaimed directors each make an 11 minute short film in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The result is a daring and moving global cinematic reply that "forces us to look at the entire event afresh." (The New York Times).



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She Must Be Seeing Things- VHS
A Film by Sheila McLaughlin. The strength of a love affair between two women is tested when one disguises herself as a man and jealously shadows her lover.



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Strangers In Good Company
A Film by Cynthia Scott. The surprising hit about seven old women stranded at a deserted farmhouse, miles from civilization, who turn a crisis into a magical time of humor and spirit.




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Suspended Animation
A film by John Hancock. Animator Thomas Kempton gets more than he bargained for when a snowmobile trip turns to terror in the wilds of Northern Michigan.



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Trusting Beatrice- VHS
A Film by Cindy Lou Johnson. Starring European starlet Irene Jacob, this comedy about a mysterious French woman who falls for an out-of-work neighbor is both charming and romantic.



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Tuvalu
A Film by Veit Helmer. Young apprentice and daydreamer Anton lives and works in a vast, once-grand bathhouse, now ancient and crumbling, where citizens go to escape their dreary lives. Into his world comes the beautiful Eva...




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Virgil Bliss
A Film by Joe Maggio. When Virgil Bliss, a mild-mannered Southerner and career criminal, is released from prison he finds himself on the mean streets of Brooklyn trying to build a new life.




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Wax: Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees- VHS
A Film by David Blair. The mind-blowing story of a weapons designer / bee-keeper who enters a hallucinatory alternative reality where A-Bombs, the Gulf War and insects collide.



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Working Girls
Award-winning feminist director Lizzie Borden (Born in Flames) spent six months interviewing real prostitutes for this acclaimed 1986 drama, delivering an unflinching look at “The World's Oldest Profession”.










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