Movie Releases by Genre
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Crazy/Beautiful
June 29, 2001
This teen drama, set at a Southern California high school, focuses on the complicated romance between a rebellious girl from and affluent family (Dunst) and a hardworking Latino boy from East L.A. (Hernandez).
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Lumumba
June 27, 2001
At the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African continent. The Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. On June 30, 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became, at age 36, the first head of government of the new independent state. He would last two months in office. (Zeitgeist Films)
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Baby Boy
June 27, 2001
Ten years after "Boyz N the Hood," writer and director John Singleton returns to the same inner-city L.A. neighborhood and its complex social and political issues for the story of Jody (Gibson), a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a "baby boy" finally forced-kicking and screaming -- to face the commitments of real life.
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The Princess and the Warrior
June 22, 2001
Director Tom Tykwer reunites with his "Run Lola Run" star Franka Potente in this film about the relationship between a small time criminal and a shy psychiatric nurse who meet as the result of a horrible accident.
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Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
June 22, 2001
This anime film presents a Japan that lost a different Second World War -- not to America, but to Nazi Germany. Now, more than ten years after the defeat, the occupation troops have left, but their legacy is Jin-Roh's twilight-zone city where the domestic terrorism of "The Sect" plays out in everyday bombings and street battles against the counter-terrorist Capital Police -- and their elite armored, helmeted, and red-goggled Special Unit. (Viz Communications, Inc.)
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A Huey P. Newton Story
June 18, 2001
Originally born in a small town in Louisiana and later moving with his family to Oakland, California as an infant, Huey P. Newton became the co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party.
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Auggie Rose
June 15, 2001
An insurance salesman (Goldblum) adopts the identity of an ex-con, Auggie Rose, who dies in his arms during a liquor-store robbery.
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Russian Doll
June 15, 2001
A romantic comedy about the difficulties of finding a faithful lover.
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The Adventures of Felix
June 15, 2001
The comic adventures of a young gay man (Bouajila) who sets out to find the father he has never met.
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Songcatcher
June 15, 2001
Janet McTeer stars as turn-of-the century musicologist Dr Lily Penleric, and unlikely heroine whose earthy, unstoppable drive leads her to musical, personal and romantic discoveries -- as she uncovers remarkable songs, dances and beats of the heart in the Appalachian mountains. (Lions Gate Films)
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Sexy Beast
June 13, 2001
The story of one man's dangerous journey from peace of mind to paranoid panic when he's lured out of an idyllic retirement back to the gangster life. (Fox Searchlight)
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Erleuchtung garantiert
June 8, 2001
The adventures of two brothers who travel from Munich to Japan for a retreat in a Buddhist monastery.
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Dead or Alive
June 8, 2001
A detective, investigating a case involving Japanese and Chinese drug dealers, ends up corrupted.
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Divided We Fall
June 8, 2001
Based on a true story, this film is set in a small Czech town occupied by German forces during the last years of the Second World War. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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La grande strada azzurra
June 8, 2001
This, the first American theatrical release of the 1957 debut feature of Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, tells the story of a politically torn Italian fishing village.
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The Anniversary Party
June 8, 2001
Taking place over the course of one night, The Anniversary Party is a serio-comic, sometimes scathing inspection of a group of friends gathered for a celebration that becomes a scorching dissection of a marriage on the brink. (Fine Line Features)
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Bride of the Wind
June 8, 2001
A romantic portrait of Alma Mahler, an extraordinary woman who inspired, bedeviled and captivated the artistic geniuses of her age. (Paramount Classics)
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A Real Young Girl
June 1, 2001
Completed in 1975, this first film by Catherine Breillat, the director of "Romance" (1999), revolves around the return of a young girl from boarding school to her parents house for the summer.
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Farewell, Home Sweet Home
June 1, 2001
Focuses on the lives of a wealthy, eccentric Parisian family.
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Big Eden
June 1, 2001
Although it's been years since he was back, Henry Hart, a successful but lonely New York artist, returns to Big Eden, Montana, the town of his childhood, to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. This uniquely American fable about home and family hits upon the universal longing and hope we each have for finding a place where we are loved, and the unconditional desire to see those that we love find happiness. (Jour de Fête Films)
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Himalaya
May 25, 2001
A universal and timeless saga that tells a story of power, pride and glory. (Kino International)
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The Road Home
May 25, 2001
The story of a Chinese man who works in the city, far from the village where he was born. When his father dies he comes home for the funeral and spends three days with his mother, thinking back to the period in which his parents met and fell in love. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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The Man Who Cried
May 25, 2001
A girl whose name and language are taken away, who loses everything and everyone she loves and is driven into silence, nevertheless finds a singing voice and finally manages to find her long lost father. [Universal Focus]
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Pearl Harbor
May 25, 2001
Against the backdrop of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, two friends (Affleck, Hartnett) find themselves drawn into the war and in love with the same woman (Beckinsale).
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Our Song
May 23, 2001
This profile of inner-city life follows three teenage girls, best friends and members of their school's marching band, through the hot August streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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Angel Eyes
May 18, 2001
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice. (Warner Brothers)
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Strange Fits of Passion
May 18, 2001
A look at love through the eyes of a twenty-something virgin.
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Moulin Rouge!
May 18, 2001
Against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, this is the story of the doomed love affair between Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Nicole Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.
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Petits frères
May 18, 2001
Accompanied by her dog, 13-year old Talia (Touly), runs away from her home. After she gets in a fight with her stepfather (Dantsoff), she ends up in the Pantin projects near Paris, where she meets new friends. What she doesn't know is that they plan to do something not very nice... and it has to do with her dog.
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The Trumpet of the Swan
May 11, 2001
Based on the classic children's book by E.B. White, this is the tale of a trumpeter swan named Louis who learns to speak to the world with a trumpet stolen from a music store by his father.
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The King Is Alive
May 11, 2001
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of "King Lear" only manages to plunge this disparate group of travellers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own mortality. (IFC Films)
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Bread and Roses
May 11, 2001
In chronicling the experiences of Maya, a young Mexican woman who crosses the border illegally and must fend for herself in contemporary Los Angeles, director Ken Loach takes an individual's personal and professional struggle and builds it into a moving portrait of one of our nation's most troubled -- and least visible -- communities. (Lions Gate Films)
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Performance
May 11, 2001
In this re-release of the 1970 psychological drama, a murderer on the run takes refuge with an outcast rock star.
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Pavilion of Women
May 4, 2001
Based upon the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck, this film, set in 1930's China, deals with the themes of spiritual freedom and finding true love. (Universal Focus)
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Eureka
May 4, 2001
This beautifully composed black & white film explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seemed to be a normal morning in southwest Japan, a crazed killer, apparently without motive, hijacks a city bus. In the ensuing carnage only three people survive - the driver, a schoolgirl and her older brother. [The Shooting Gallery]
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Time and Tide
May 4, 2001
An exciting thriller with an international cast, Time and Tide takes place in remote comers of the world and features intrigue, a breathless pace and a series of exhilarating action sequences staged with the explosive bravura that has become Tsui's signature. (Columbia Tristar)
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Under the Sand
May 4, 2001
For years, Marie (Rampling) and Jean (Cremer) have happily spent their vacation together in the Landes region of western France. But this summer, while Marie naps on the beach, her husband vanishes without a trace.
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Nora
May 4, 2001
The passionate and true story of James Joyce and his lifelong love Nora Barnacle. Without her, the world would be without his literary legacy. (Alliance Atlantis)
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Ed Gein
May 4, 2001
A film based closely on the life of the famed Wisconsin serial killer. (Overseas FilmGroup)
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Deuces Wild
May 3, 2001
Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 1958, the year the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, this is the story of a gang war in turbulent times.
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Green Dragon
May 1, 2001
Focusing on a young brother and sister, this is a story of the first wave of Vietnamese refugees who were housed in camps across the southwestern deserts of the United States in 1975.
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Mauvais Sang
April 27, 2001
Carax's 1986 film about a man who schemes to steal the cure for a new illness that only afflicts lovers who don't really care about each other.
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The Golden Bowl
April 27, 2001
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal which tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower (Nolte) and his sheltered daughter (Beckinsale), both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat (Thurman and Northam), are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit. (Lions Gate Films)
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Driven
April 27, 2001
A high-tech action drama set in the dangerous, exhilarating world of open-wheel racing, Driven centers on the lives and careers of four drivers chasing the ultimate adrenaline rush. (Warner Brothers)
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The Luzhin Defence
April 20, 2001
Based on the Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name, this film examines the effects of love and obsession, and how two passions could tear a man apart. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Harry Is Here to Help
April 20, 2001
A spiraling descent into fear and the perils of relationships in the tradition of Hitchcock. (Miramax Films)
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The Low Down
April 20, 2001
A wryly-perceptive drama about growing up - when you're not even sure that's what you want to do. It is a contemporary story about young adults and their relationships, on life, love and other four-letter words. (The Shooting Gallery)
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The Center of the World
April 18, 2001
An erotic drama about a young computer wizard (Sarsgaard) who persuades a beautiful stripper (Parker) to spend three days with him in Las Vegas. Their arrangement becomes a journey into the dark secrets of their sexuality. (Artisan Entertainment)
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States of Control
April 13, 2001
AA provocative journey deep into the world of a woman determined to break through the sterility of modern life. (Phaedra Cinema)
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The Body
April 13, 2001
When an archeological find in the Middle East reveals a crucified body from the first century, a catholic priest (Banderas) is chosen to investigate whether the man may be Jesus Christ.
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The Circle
April 13, 2001
This film tells the intertwining stories of a group of seven Iranian women, each of whom has a criminal past due to societal prejudices and oppressive laws.
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Brigham City
April 13, 2001
What happens when a perfect small Mormon town is rocked with the discovery of a dead body? Brigham City is a thrilling murder mystery which shows that no place on earth is really safe from the world. (Zion Films)
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Lakeboat
April 13, 2001
Based on David Mamet's comic play, this is a depiction of the lives of sailors on the shipping freighters of the Great Lakes seen through the perspective of a young sailor working his way through college.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
April 13, 2001
At the start of the New Year, 32-year-old Bridget (Zellweger) decides it's time to take control of her life -- and start keeping a diary. Now, the most provocative, erotic and hysterical book on her bedside table is the one she's writing. [Miramax]
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Kingdom Come
April 11, 2001
The best and the worst of the Slocumb family are on display when Woodrow "Bud" Slocumb keels over from a stroke. As the town swelters in the summer heat, family tensions reach a comedic boil as the Slocumb clan comes together to remember their dearly departed. (Fox Searchlight)
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Chopper
April 11, 2001
A bold, blackly comic character study about a self-proclaimed "national icon" Mark 'Chopper' Read. A multi-sided examination of the pathology of a complex and violent man, a man who becomes a cult figure thanks to a colourful imagination and a wicked, old-world sense of humour. [First Look Pictures]
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The Day I Became a Woman
April 6, 2001
An Iranian film about women whose problem is being who they are: women. (Shooting Gallery)
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Blow
April 6, 2001
A high-velocity look at George Jung's (Depp) spectacular rise and fall -- based on the true story of how powder cocaine turned into America's biggest drug problem and how one man from the blue-collar suburbs became the 35 billion-dollar a-year conduit to the Colombian cartels. Ted Demme directs this riveting look at the manic allure -- and dangerous reality -- of a drug smuggler's everyday life, and unfolds one of the great untold stories from the recent annals of American crime and culture. (New Line Cinema)
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The Girl
April 6, 2001
Follows the spiraling affair between the film's narrator - a beautiful painter (de la Boulaye) - and a nightclub singer who she calls The Girl (Keim). (Artistic License)
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Shadow Magic
April 6, 2001
Set in 1902, this comedy centers around the arrival of a Westerner who introduces silent films to Imperial Peking.
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Booye kafoor, atre yas
April 6, 2001
In this semi-autobiographical story, director Bahman focuses on a 55-year-old filmmaker, Bahman Farjami, played by Farmanara himself. Farjami's work has been banned by the Iranian Post-Revolutionary Censor Board, however, he decides to film his own funeral, which further complicates his situation with the authoritites.
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Beautiful Creatures
April 6, 2001
In this witty and daringly original contemporary thriller set in Glasgow, Scotland, Dorothy (Lynch) and Petula (Weisz) are two women brought together by extraordinary circumstances with only one thing in common -- they both have rotten taste in men. (Universal Focus)
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Faat Kiné
March 30, 2001
Set in Dakar, Senegal, the film features a forty-year-old woman who refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field.
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The Tailor of Panama
March 30, 2001
Ruthless, seductive British spy Andy Osnard (Brosnan) may have been banished to Panama, but he's got a secret weapon -- Harry Pendel (Rush), a Cockney ex-con who has reinvented himself as a popular tailor to the rich and powerful of the country. Harry is famous for his storytelling as well as his suits, but this time Harry's yarn will give the arrogant Osnard his comeuppance. (Sony Pictures)
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Amores Perros
March 30, 2001
As three lives from disparate parts of Mexico City converge in a fatal car crash, their fractured stories unfold – revealing they are more connected than they seem.
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The Brothers
March 23, 2001
Traces the hilarious journey of four African-American men as they take on love, sex, friendship and two of life's most terrifying prospects -- honesty and commitment. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
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Enemy at the Gates
March 16, 2001
While the Nazi and Russian armies hurl rank after rank of soldiers at each other and the world fearfully awaits the outcome of the battle of Stalingrad, the celebrated Russian sniper, Vassili Zaitsev (Law) quietly stalks his enemies one man at a time. His fame, however, soon thrusts him into a duel with the Nazi's best sharpshooter, Major Konig (Harris), and the two find themselves waging an intense personal war while the most momentous battle of the age rages around them. (Paramount Pictures)
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Exit Wounds
March 16, 2001
Seagal stars as maverick Detroit police detective Orin Boyd, whose take-no-prisoners approach to domestic terrorism gets him booted downtown to the city's toughest precinct. (Warner Bros.)
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American Desi
March 16, 2001
A fun-loving romantic comedy focusing on the lives of second generation Indians in America. The story is set on a college campus and follows the exploits of an Indian freshman whose path in life takes a sharp detour down a road to self-discovery. (Eros Entertainment)
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The Dish
March 14, 2001
Set on a sheep farm in the remote town of Parkes, Australia in 1969, this is the amusing story of a satellite interface that served as a relay between NASA and Apollo 11 during the historic mission to the moon.
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Kissing Jessica Stein
March 13, 2001
A modern romantic comedy that breaks all the rules -- it blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love, and finds the funny, surprising and ultimately poignant overlap between the two. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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15 Minutes
March 9, 2001
A thriller seen through an eye-popping new lens - that of the media's hunt for shocking imagery, no matter the cost. In 15 Minutes, as the cops chase the murderers, the media chases the cops, and the whole thing fuels an escalating firestorm. (New Line Cinema)
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Simon Magus
March 9, 2001
Set in a small 19th century European village on the verge of modernization, Simon Magus stars Noah Taylor as the visionary outcast who is the key to a struggle against the building a railway station.
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Biandan, guniang
March 9, 2001
Set in Shanghai, this is the story two migrants from the countryside who move to the big city and follow divergent paths toward what they hope will be happy lives -- one as a worker, the other as a crook.
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Blow Dry
March 7, 2001
When the National Hairdressing Championships descend upon a small and unsuspecting Yorkshire town, no one is prepared for the glamour and the heartache, the scheming and the cheating which disrupt their lives. (Intermedia Films)
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The Caveman's Valentine
March 2, 2001
In this penetrating and touching neo-Gothic thriller, Samuel L. Jackson delivers a powerful performance as Romulus Ledbetter, a man caught on the sharp edge between genius and madness. (Universal Focus)
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Hit and Runway
March 2, 2001
In this comedy of culture clashes, a straight Italian restauranteur (Paducci) and a gay Jewish man (Jacobson) team up to write a screenplay about an undercover cop working in the fashion industry.
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Me You Them
March 2, 2001
Based on the true story of a woman who lived with her three husbands under the same roof in Ceara in northeastern Brazil. From this unusual situation, director Andrucha Waddington and screenwriter Elena Soarez created a fictitious plot that blends humor and passion and tells a story of an uncommon love quartet, led by Darlene, a strong intuitive woman full of the joy of living. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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Last Resort
February 23, 2001
Abandoned by her fiance at the airport, a young Russian woman, with child in tow, applies for asylum in England. With her dreams of a better life dampened by the faded seaside resort she must live in during the processing, an unusual friendship develops that gives her hope. [Shooting Gallery]
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
February 23, 2001
An emotionally-charged romantic epic about an extraordinary woman poised between two extraordinary men at a pivotal moment in time. Set in 1850 on the desolate and intensely beautiful island of Saint-Pierre, a remote French territory off the coast of Newfoundland, the film is a powerful and provocative examination of grand passions and their consequences. (Lions Gate Films)
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The Price of Milk
February 16, 2001
A film about a man, a woman, and 327 cows. (New Zealand Film Commission)
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Sweet November
February 16, 2001
Nelson (Reeves) and Sara (Theron) have nothing in common except an hour spent in DMV hell. Intrigued by each other, but not quite ready to commit, they settle on a rather unconventional courtship: a one-month trial, after which they'll go their separate ways. No expectations. No pressure. No strings attached. What neither of them counts on is falling in love. (Warner Brothers)
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Yom Yom
February 16, 2001
A series of vignettes set in Haifa. Part of a trilogy of films about life in Israel's major cities.
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Signs & Wonders
February 9, 2001
Living in Athens, an American leaves his wife for another woman and then tries to return...too late... she has become involved with a Greek political activist.
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The Taste of Others
February 9, 2001
The story of a factory owner who meets an actress who is a friend of a waitress who meets a bodyguard who works with a chauffeur who drives for an interior decorator who is the wife of the factory owner who would like to befriend with some artists who... (Offline Releasing)
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Bad Company
February 9, 2001
Fourteen year-old Delphine is impressionable, introverted and completely under the spell of a new worldly girl in school. Influenced by her new friend, Delphine falls in love with a dangerous young man who turns her boring life into something quite different.
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Journey to the Sun
February 9, 2001
The story of two men who form an unlikely friendship while making the transition to city life in Istanbul.
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Love, Honor and Obey
February 9, 2001
A North London courier gets involved with a gang of criminals. Once inside, he brings grief to everyone, including himself.
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The Invisible Circus
February 2, 2001
Feeling disconnected from the world around her, a young girl (Brewster) decides to follow her dead sister Faith's (Diaz) path through Europe and discover the truth of what happened to her. (New Line Cinema)
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In the Mood for Love
February 2, 2001
Chow Mo-wan rents a room in a Hong Kong apartment building. It's sheer coincidence that he moves in the same day that Su Li-zhen moves in next door. They never have a real conversation until Mr. Chow realizes that their respective spouses are having an affair. This discovery shocks both of them. Mr. Chow, feeling hurt and wishing to understand how the affair happened, begins finding excuses to spend time with Mrs. Chan. [USA Films]
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Nico and Dani
February 2, 2001
A portrait of adolescent experience set against the blazing sun and azure sea of a small seaside town near Barcelona. During ten days of freedom, two best friends discover love, sex, jealousy and disenchantment and thus cross that vague border separating adolescence from manhood. [Avatar Films]
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The Million Dollar Hotel
February 2, 2001
Focusing on a gang of unique outcasts and misfits living in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, this is a story of friendship, betrayal and the overwhelming power of unconditional love. (Icon/Road Movies)
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Left Behind
February 2, 2001
In one chaotic moment, millions people around the world suddenly disappear. This is the rapture that God has planned as the first sign to begin the unraveling of the end of time. (Left Behind Productions)
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Amy
January 26, 2001
This extraordinary movie tells the story of a young mother whose idealistic lifestyle is shattered by a traumatic event. She is faced with the prospect of life as a single mother, as she struggles to reach out to her daughter, who has cut herself off from the world. (Cascade Films)
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Voyages
January 26, 2001
Explores the stories of three Jewish women whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust.
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Trolösa
January 26, 2001
A deeply melancholy film about the hopelessness of modern relationships.
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Glamour
January 26, 2001
The chronicle of a Hungarian Jewish family during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century.
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The Pledge
January 19, 2001
Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson stars as Jerry Black, a Nevada homicide detective who volunteers for one final investigation on the eve of his retirement. He offers his expertise at a compromised crime scene and ends up making a promise to the young victim's mother that will change his life forever. (Warner Brothers)
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The Amati Girls
January 19, 2001
A warm, emotional story centered around four sisters and the relationship they share with their recently widowed mother. While trying to help her cope, each of the sisters begins to understand what is missing in their own lives and relationships, and the lessons they learn affect the entire family. (Providence Entertainment)
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Zheng hun qi shi
January 12, 2001
After placing an add in the personals, a young Taiwanese woman searches through the numerous replies in her quest for a husband.
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