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  • Othello

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    With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a “rethinking” of Shakespeare’s play, albeit still retaining the original’s power and potency. The story is set in the London of the near future, a crime-ridden metropolis virtually torn apart by racial hostilities. By order of the Prime Minister, black police…

  • Tape

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    Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping,…

  • Lantana

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    Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges — drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and…

  • Kissing Jessica Stein

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    Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper’s personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by ‘lesbian-curious’ Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething art gallerist.

  • Chicago

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    Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

  • The Music Man

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    Con man “Professor” Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa, promising that he can teach the small town’s children how to play in a magnificent marching band. It’s all part of a big swindle, but falling in love with the town librarian wasn’t part of the deal.

  • Bang Bang You’re Dead

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    A troubled and bullied high school student fights against judgement from his community after threatening to bomb the football team.

  • Mambo Italiano

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    When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.

  • Memories of Murder

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    During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation’s first series of rape-and-murder cases.

  • Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding

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    Tony and Tina are excited to get married but they dread having the ceremony. Tina’s mother and Tony’s father used to be an item and neither parent has gotten over their bitter breakup. As everyone comes together to help plan the event, the parents cannot stop bickering and they are constantly at each other’s throat.…

  • Stage Beauty

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    Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor’s success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on…

  • A Good Woman

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    Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy’s sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne’s appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play “Lady Windemere’s Fan.”

  • The Phantom of the Opera

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    A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

  • Closer

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    A love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Four strangers – with one thing in common: each other.

  • The Dying Gaul

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    A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband – to chilling results.

  • Ashura

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    Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same…

  • The Producers

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    Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming wealthy old biddies to invest in a production many times over the actual cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a…

  • The King and the Clown

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    Two clowns living in Korea’s Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.

  • Rent

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    This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make…

  • Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

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    From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way, he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus Himself, but always…

  • The History Boys

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    The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the…