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3 IRON (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Tae-suk is never short of a place to stay, and every place provides a revelation, none more so than the house of a rich business man. Tae-suk enters the homes of strangers while they are away, stays for a short time, leaves the place immaculate and then moves on, but in this house he discovers Sun-hwa, the abused wife of its owner and in a break from his solitary existence Tae-suk decides to take her with him. 3 Iron is a ravishing tale of romance in both its execution and imagery. Tender, restr find out more...

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As a young pilot returns home in May 1945, a relationship is formed as he desperately contacts a radio operator before bailing out of the sky. He lives, evading his celestial escort, meets the aforementioned operator and falls in love. But he must face a heavenly court to decide if he should live or die. Amazing.

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Certification12 Our Rating

Jacob Peterson is devoted to the small Indian orphanage that he runs, but cash flow problems force him to return to Denmark where, despite his bullish nature, he receives a very generous funding offer from a wealthy businessman. Frustratingly for Jacob the money has stipulations, one of which is to attend a wedding, an event which propels him back into a past he thought long forgotten. 'After The Wedding' is a stunning drama that builds and maintains more tension than most thrillers; characters find out more...

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Cut off from the world by war, a small psychiatric hospital finds life relatively unchanged, that is until the staff desert it and the patients find themselves their own keepers. House of Fools is at times life affirmingly crazy and touchingly poignant. Though easy to draw comparisons with ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' this is not a story about the inadvertent fascism of an institutional ‘caring' beaurocracy but the dangers of an encroaching and largely ambivalent outside worl find out more...


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A young Irish family move to the bubbling cauldron of humanity that is New York, but though full of wonderment and excited anticipation of their new home, they must first overcome the tragedy that drew them away from Ireland and which still haunts them. Directed by the man responsible for My Left Foot and In The Name Of The Father, In America is another remarkable drama which tugs at about every emotional heart string available while deftly avoiding the all too common trait of manipulative, tear find out more...

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Christopher McCandless is a bright, likable, precociously perceptive, young middle-class college graduate, who, tortured by his dysfunctional childhood, is determined to find a simpler, purer and more harmonious life. He gives away all that he has and sets out across North America, his ultimate goal the perfect isolation of the Alaskan wilderness. Based on real events 'Into The Wild' is beautifully judged, paced and performed; an epic, gloriously visualised road trip and also a moving and though find out more...

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Mona’s teenage life defines the word ‘crap’, not tragic, just without hope; her brother is the only family she has left and he’s found God in the same obsessively sociopathic way that he originally found booze, while a weekly hump in the back of a van with a married man actually constitutes fun rather than repetitive sexual abuse. Into this world wanders Tamsin, pretty, pretentious, spoilt but ignored and with a dangerous sense of mischief born of arrogance and naivety. An intense relationship b find out more...

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Everything takes place over the course of just 24 hours in the hive of hustle and bustle that is Buenos Aires. A young con artist is spotted and recruited by a master of the game and together they set in motion a crime of fantastical audacity; But for two men who've made their living from the art of deception the temptation for a double cross is almost too much to bear. Nine Queens is an incredibly sharp thriller that just gives you enough time to grasp what's happening before making another wil find out more...

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Barbara Covett is a teacher unloved by both her pupils and her colleagues, while new young art teacher, Sheba Hart, would appear to be the mirror opposite in every way. Together the two form an unlikely friendship, the lonely embittered older woman and the vivacious well loved younger woman, but while the likelihood of any such relationship lasting is slim, the whole fragile scenario collapses amidst rage, betrayal and blackmail when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having an affair with one of t find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

The world as a lunatic asylum. Jack Nicholson plays the anarchist determined to challenge the smug system of authority and obedience that rule the roost. The first film by Czech dissident Forman after migrating from Czechoslovakia to the United States, and a superb comment on society! Won Best Picture plus others at 1975 Academy Awards. find out more...