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CertificationPG Our Rating

A young teacher in modern Bhutan, Ugyen, shirks his duties while planning to go to Australia to become a singer. As a reprimand, his superiors send him to the most remote school in the world, a glacial Himalayan village called Lunana, to complete his service. He finds himself exiled from his Westernized comforts after an arduous 8 day trek just to get there. There he finds no electricity, no textbooks, not even a blackboard. Though poor, the villagers extend a warm welcome to their new teache find out more...

RUSHMORE (1999)

Certification15 Our Rating

A quirky, clever and charming movie from rookie director Anderson, who flies in the face of convention by making the hero of this high school-based comedy a slightly geeky academic who's anything but the all-American kid. Max Fischer is a brilliant but mixed-up scholarship kid at the Rushmore Academy, with a frenzied timetable and an uncanny knack of baffling both students and teachers alike. He attracts the attention of Blume (the superb Bill Murray), a rich, bored, middle-aged parent, apparen find out more...

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Jeri Blank is a 47-year-old crack whore fresh from the joint and ready to return to her childhood home. Sound like a silly premise? It certainly is in the hands of comic geniuses Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello. In order to resurrect her comatose father, Jeri is instructed to go back to high school... and excel. So the ridiculous Jeri and her underutilized libido hit the halls, looking for fresh meat and navigating the hell that is Flatpoint High School, a place not short of racial and sexual innue find out more...

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After his business goes bankrupt, 30 something Kyung-Min (Oh Jung-Se) kills his wife impulsively. Hiding his anger, he seeks out his former middle school classmate Jong-Suk (Yang Ik-June). For the first time in 15 years they meet and hiding, their own current situations, they talk about their school days. At school, they were classified by their wealth and grades. Kyung-Min and Jong-Suk were at the bottom and were the 'pigs'. They were bullied by a ruling class of 'dogs'. This bullying led to find out more...


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An award winning and disturbing story of a young German girl who enters a writing competition with an essay entitled "My Home Town During the Third Reich". She runs into enormous resistance and resentment from the people with personal experience. A poignant film about German angst. find out more...

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Justin Cobb is just your average, gifted, under achieving teenager… apart from the fact that he's still sucking his thumb. ‘Cured' of his habit by his dentist, Justin launches himself with gusto into the world of sex, drugs and the school debating society, effectively alienating all those he holds dearest. 'Thumbsucker' is a clever, witty and thoughtful slice of indie American cinema, helped considerably by a well impressive cast. find out more...

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Sammi Curr was a famous, devil-worshiping rock star who died under mysterious circumstances. Now he wants to come back to life. Doing so requires possessing radio waves & automobiles, making a few human sacrifices and living the satanic rock'n'roll dream.
A cult cautionary tale of why you should NEVER play your records backwards... And where else will you get to see Ozzy Osbourne preach about the evils of heavy metal music? 

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