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There’s a great, wide world of cinema out there, and hard though it may be to believe sometimes, not all of it is in English. Here, then, is a selection of the best from the rest of the planet, from Nikita and The Kite Runner to Cinema Paradiso and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Kite Runner, The   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Amir return to his homeland in Afghannistan to help an old friend.

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Twins Effect, The(2004)   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Action/Adventure
Jackie Chan;  Ekin Cheng;  Josie Ho;
The Twins Effect takes you straight into the action packed world of vampire hunters Reeve (Ekin Cheng) and Lila (Josie Ho), who are part of a secret o...

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Abnormal Beauty(2004)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Horror/Occult
Oxide Pang Chun
Ekin Cheng;  Race Wong;  Anson Leung;
Jiney is a sexy young student who finds she becomes sexually aroused while watching people die, however someone else also has this addiction...

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Motorcycle Diaries, The(2004)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Walter Salles
Gael Garcia Bernal;  Rodrigo De La Serna;  Mia Maestro;
An adaptation of a journal written by Che Guevara when he was 23 years old. Along with his friend Alberto Granado he crossed South America by motorcyc...

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Paradise Now   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
"PARADISE NOW" follows two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a strike on Tel Aviv and focuses on their last days together. Whe...

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Kung Fu Hustle(2004)   DVD 15Trailer(s) Available
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Martial Arts
Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow; 
Set in China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious "Axe Gang."

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Ju-On: The Grudge 2   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Horror/Occult
Takashi Shimizu
Noriko Sakai;  Chiharu Niyama; 
This is the Japanese sequel to the horror classic. B-list actress Kyoko is asked to appear on a show about the haunted house from Ju-On. Here she find...

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Ring 2   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Horror/Occult
Hideo Nakata
Daisuke Ban;  Kyoko Fukada;  Kenjiro Ishimaru;
Journalist, Mai Takano, once again investigates the strange video tape which has claimed the life of her boyfriend. She is deeply drawn into the super...

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Maria Full Of Grace   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Joshua Marston
Catalina Sandino Moreno;  Virginia Ariza;  Johanna Andrea Mora;
Desperate to escape from her banal life in rural Colombia, seventeen year old Maria Alvarez accepts a job of transporting heroin into the United State...

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Letters From Iwo Jima   DVD 15
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4 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe; 
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who...

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Bad Education   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Pedro Almodovar
Gael Garcia Bernal;  Fele Martinez;  Daniel Gimenez Cacho;
A young man, Enrique (played by Fele Martinez) is working as a film director. He is visited by a childhood friend Ignacio Rodriguez (played by Gael Ga...

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Ring 0   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Horror/Occult
Norio Tsuruta
Yukie Nakama; 
More psychic goings on in this prequel to 'Ring', Sadako takes a job in a Tokyo theatre company and soon people start dying...

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Nativity Story, The(2006)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

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L'Appartement(1995)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Thriller
Gilles Mimouni
Vincent Cassel;  Romane Bohringer;  Jean-Philippe Ecoffey;
A man who has to choose between three beautiful women becomes involved in murder. French dialogue with subtitles.

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Man Bites Dog(1992)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Comedy
Benoit Poelvoorde
Remy Belvaux;  Andre Bonzel;  Benoit Poelvoorde;
A black comedy about an amiable but seriously warped mass murderer who kills without motive or conscience. The story follows the increasingly close re...

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11/09/01 - September 11(2002)   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
World Cinema > Documentaries & Biographies
Claude LeLouch
Eleven international directors were invited to create eleven minutes of film in response to the catastrophic events of September 11th 2001 in New York...

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The Brown Bunny(2004)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
2 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Vincent Gallo
Vincent Gallo;  Chloe Sevigny; 
It's the story of one man's tragic loss of the love of his life. He is Bud Clay. And he races motorcycles.

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Sympathy For Mr Vengeance(2002)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Park Chan-Wook
Kang-Ho Song;  Hyun-Joon Shin;  Du-Na Bae;
When his sister needs a kidney transplant, a deaf-mute and his girlfriend kidnap the daughter of a business man to raise the money needed.

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Kings And Queen   DVD 15
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3 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen is an extraordinary work with depth, suspense, startling surprises, a unique combination of perspectives. There ar...

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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon   DVD 12
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Martial Arts
Ang Lee
Chow Yun Fat;  Michelle Yeoh;  Zhang Ziyi;
Amazing martial arts fighting sequences (choreographed by Yuen wo Ping - The Matrix), stunning special effects, action adventure and romance have made...

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