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Director Ron Krauss' Rave is an honest portrayal of the havoc wreaked by the innocence of youth, peer pressure and the overwhelming demands of family life. Daffy is a good kid from a Mexican family. Contrary to his father, Daffy has a low racial tolerance that causes obvious trouble with him and others. Nette, his girlfriend, just found out she is pregnant with Daffy's baby and is set on spending the rest of her life with him.
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Preston Tylk's first crime is taking his wife for granted. His next crime is murder. In classic, suspense-thriller style, Preston Tylk is a normal guy who, because of extraordinary circumstances, finds himself on a quest to get his life back. When his wife admits that she's been having an affair, Preston leaves the house in a rage--only when he returns, he finds his wife dead in their house. This starts a chain of events that blurs the line between right and wrong, good and bad. Preston is terrorized by his wife's lover, blamed for her murder and hunted by the authorities.
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Mr. Peach is a busybody. An interfering busybody, to be precise. He and his wife anxiously watch the window for who will move in next door--after the last neighbours left. The Chapmans, however, turn out to be far from the kind of couple one would want next door. They're rude, loud and aggressive, and Mr. Peach takes an instant dislike to both of them. Of course, Mr. Peach is no sweetheart himself. He's terrible at his job as a salesman, has gotten himself into so much debt and perceives just about anyone he comes in contact with as the enemy.
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Mamlakat loves Shakespeare, loves the theatre and wants to be an actress, but she lives in a small village isolated in an arid region of Central Asia, next to a large sea. So, why shouldn't this seventeen-year-old girl believe that the mysterious, handsome stranger is a friend of Tom Cruise? He wouldn't lie about such a thing. The next thing she knows, she is pregnant, desperate and on a quest to restore the family honor by finding the cowardly inseminator who seduced her.
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Morten Korch's much-loved novel, The Lady of Hamre, translates beautifully into a sun-drenched, idyll and fiery drama. Set in the late nineteenth century, long before women's liberation, it is the visually bold and stylized portrayal of a woman's life and fate as the heiress to the family farm. Bente makes a promise to her father, on his deathbed, to marry a neighbor's son and to carry on the family farm. Unfortunately for Bente, her husband, Gorme, is loutish and cruel and tries to take over the farm on his own terms.
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A great example of modern film noir, Lady in the Box is a first-rate thriller from writer/director Christian Otjen--a tense and creepy descent into a horror story that could happen to anyone. It's a dark night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the shore of one of the great lakes, and Jerry (Darren Burrows, Northern Exposure) is bragging to best friend Chris (Robert Knepper, Love and Sex) that he's got a sexy new girlfriend who wants to experiment with handcuffs. Jerry's also just received his own boat, and business is going well at the bar he's a 'tender at.
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Crept and Mattress have gone to hell,...literally! Their last assignment, as cops, led to their demise at the hands of a thug. Now, the duo find themselves amidst Beelzebub's fiery depths, believing they were sent there by mistake and trying to find a way home. Following Satan one day, after his psychiatric appointment (C'mon! He feels depressed too!), our dynamic twosome learn the secret to getting back to earth lies in a few magic crystals. As fate would have it, they steal a crystal and head back home to set events straight. What happens next can only be believed by seeing.
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"Suggesting an Iranian spin on Romeo and Juliet, but with the notion of tragic, unconditional love replaced by cynicism, director Rassul Sadr Ameli's The Girl in the Sneakers makes for an extremely delightful addition to the burgeoning canon of exciting new films from the Middle East." - Scott Foundas, Variety. It is a tale about Aideen and Tadai, a young teenage couple, one rebelling against her parents and the harsh structure of the Islamic culture; the other, a wistful daydreamer. Whichever way they are viewed, however, they are in love.
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A German comedy club may seem like an oxymoron, but it's the perfect starting point for this charming and original testimonial to the truest meaning of love and friendship. Our heroes are Paul and Alex, two of the finalists in a comedy competition and life-long best friends. Paul's act is reminiscent of Andy Kaufman and is a womanizer who sleeps with anyone willing (and believes that everyone is willing). Alex, on the other hand, is a promising standup comedian with a prosthetic leg due to cancer--a leg used to comedic perfection when the duo must escape some angry bikers.
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This story of love, romance and everything in between follows twenty-something, Greek-American Manny and his circle of friends, including brother Anthony, insecure Teddy and ladies-man Mike as they each pursue the fairer sex in their own ways. Teddy is still after Jenny, the girlfriend he just dumped, despite her best friend's efforts to keep them apart, and convinces Mike to help him in a scheme to get her back.