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People in New York are dropping dead in the middle of the street. What is the mystery behind these strange and sudden deaths - and what could it possibly have to do with playing golf? In competition - Sundance 1998 / Special Jury Prize - 1997 Berlin Film Festival / Grand Prize Best Short Film - Deauville 1998

Tina is an addict. Tonight she takes her first step on the long road to recovery and in doing so reveals how far one woman will go to appease her appetite.

On a basketball court in Brooklyn a boy must confront the dangers that sometimes come with growing up.

An unusual man living deep in the underbelly of a city park shows us the strange way in which animals can participate in our love lives.

Travelling through America. Harvey tries to make a living by selling super-absorbant sponges.

After a long struggle with addiction. Irene is rebuilding her life working nights at the local bingo hall and cleaning houses by day. Along with her boyfriend Rick she takes care of her two young sons and a menagerie of animals. Rick supplements his methadone dependency with small time pill trading. An unusual barter brings a new addition to the household and yet another crisis.

Dirt and Maggie are travelling across the country looking for the real America only to crash head first into its disappointing myth.

This 1950's public service announcement warns Americans of the disease called Heterosexuality

Life is Beautiful is one of those rare uplifting movies that leaves an imprint on everyone who sees it. The story revolves around Guido Orefice, a flighty Jewish gentleman who simply wishes to enjoy life to the fullest in Tuscany, with the woman of his dreams - an exquisite Italian lady named Dora (who, by the way, is his wife in real life), whom he meets when she falls from, all things, a loft in a barn.
The first part of the movie covers Guido's chase of Dora who is well above him in station. To overcome this difficulty, Guido pursues her with the gusto of an eight year-old boy chasing his first kiss. Eventually his charm and a series of cleverly manipulated circumstances win her over. The story then moves to the period during WW II. Guido and Dora are married and have a son Giosue (watch for him, he almost steals the show). Their life turns for the worse when both father and son are taken away to a concentration camp. Dora is so distraught that she joins them, in a separate train car, on the grueling journey to the camp. While in the camp, Guido goes to elaborate lengths to keep his son from understanding the truth of their situation as well as managing to make Dora aware of their presence through a number of inventive signals. The story is full of twists, and the biggest twist is still to come.
This truly is one of the great movies - little wonder that it won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. A must-see for everyone.

The Finzi-Continis' are an aristocratic Jewish-Italian family living in Ferrara in 1938. The Fascists are in power, anti-semiticism is on the rise and the nation is preparing for war. Due to their aristocratic isolation, the family seems complacent about all the changes, even when racial restrictions are imposed on it. They believe that their position in Italian society will protect them and simply retreat into their stately homes. Micol (Dominique Sanda) is being courted by Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio), a middle-class Jewish boy, but has midnight liaisons with Malnate (Fabio Testi), a Gentile whom she can never marry. Tragedy is inevitable, but the film tells the story in a dispassionate manner. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which was adapted from a novel by Giorgio Bassani, won an Oscar for best foreign-language film.