Winner of numerous awards including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. This is the story of a young boy's love affair with the local cinema, where he regularly sneaks into the village priest's weekly preview and censorship session. Years later now a successful film director he returns to his native town. Stunning and beautiful.
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1998)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha
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SECRETS AND LIES (1996)
Certification15 Our Rating
Secrets And Lies; time bombs that can shatter a family's respectable suburban veneer. But painful memories between an estranged mother and daughter slowly lead to a powerful friendship and healing force within their fractured family. Very funny, truthful and involving. Brilliantly acted and directed.
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993)
CertificationU Our Rating
Sumptuous adaptation of Edith Wharton's period drama set in the NY high society of the 1880s. Day Lewis plays the gentleman set to be married to May in the wedding of the year, but increasingly fascinated by the beautiful Countess Olenska. Decor reflects and oppresses characters, posture, gesture, glance and witty ironic narration convey not only individual psychology but the ideals of an entire etiquette-obsessed elite. Tragedy awaits. Awesome; one of the best period adaptations ever made, both
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THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (1991)
Certification15 Our Rating
A strange and highly acclaimed story of two women, born at the same time, in Paris and Prague. Despite being of different parents and backgrounds, their lives develop in eerily similar ways, culminating in their gradual subconscious realisation of each others existence. Cryptic and absorbing.
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THREE COLOURS BLUE (1993)
Certification15 Our Rating
The first part of Kieslowski's acclaimed allegorical delve into the French psyche. Binoche plays a woman with a tortured soul, her husband and daughter having died in a tragic car accident. Beautifully directed, with an incredibly lyrical and melancholy feel, Binoche's performance is outstanding.
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