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The Diary Of A Teenage Girl
[ Sony Pictures / DVD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe... |
Love Story
[ Rialto Distribution Ltd DVD / DVD - released 9/May/2013 ] M:Contains sexual themes. A beautiful stranger on the Coney Island train becomes both lead actress and real life object of desire in this choose your own adventure documentary about writing a fictional love story on the streets of New York... |
Sorry We Missed You
[ DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] From legendary director Ken Loach, SORRY WE MISSED YOU tells the story of Ricky and his family who have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a... |
Spookers
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 25/Oct/2017 ] As night falls at Spookers, dozens of seemingly ordinary people become freaks, zombies and chainsaw-wielding clowns. Every weekend come rain, hail or shine, this diverse group of amateur performers unite to terrify punters at the southern... |
Una
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 9/Nov/2017 ] UNA follows a young woman's journey to reclaim her past. Fifteen years earlier, Una ran away with an older man, Ray, a crime for which he was arrested and imprisoned. When she comes across a photo of him in a trade magazine, Una tracks him down and... |
2040
[ Madman / DVD - released 7/Nov/2019 ] Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream.... |
2040 (Blu-Ray)
[ Madman / Blu-ray - released 7/Nov/2019 ] Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream.... |
American Animals
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] From Bart Layton (The Imposter) and starring Evan Peters (The X-Men Series), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk & The Killing of the Sacred Deer), and Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale) comes the extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends living an... |
Celia
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Celia Lashlie was a fearless, impassioned and charismatic advocate for the at-risk and vulnerable. In this documentary, she lays it all out in an honest and heartfelt way that inspires us all to make a difference in our own lives and to the... |
Gurrumul
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning through songs and music... |
Hail Satan?
[ Madman / DVD - released 7/Nov/2019 ] Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, HAIL SATAN? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). When... |
I'm Your Man
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 12/May/2022 ] Recently separated forty-something Alma is a research scientist and entirely dedicated to her work. Needing research funds, she's persuaded by her supervisor to participate in an extraordinary study: for three weeks she must live with a human-like... |
The Kindergarten Teacher
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Stuck in an unsatisfying marriage and with teenage children who ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) treads water by teaching kindergarten with quiet dispassion. One day everything changes when Lisa discovers that Jimmy, a... |
Mega Time Squad
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] A small-town crim finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in... |
Waru
[ Vendetta Films DVD / DVD - released 31/Jan/2018 ] Eight female Māori directors have each contributed a ten minute vignette, presented as a continuous shot in real time, that unfolds around the tangi (funeral) of a small boy (Waru) who died at the hands of his caregiver. The vignettes are all subtly... |
Yuli
[ Lime Light / DVD - released 13/Feb/2020 ] Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His... |
All Governments Lie
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 9/Nov/2017 ] All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Legacy of I.F. Stone is a theatrical documentary created by a team of Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, who subscribed to I. F. Stone's newsletter in their teens. "I. F. Stone's Weekly" inspired us then,... |
Ants On A Shrimp: Noma In Tokyo
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 13/Apr/2017 ] Ants On A Shrimp is an exploration of creativity and inspiration, and a journey of discovery into the people and places, sights and sounds, tastes and flavours, of one of the world's most amazing food cultures. In January 2015, Noma, recognized as... |
A Band Called Death
[ Madman / DVD - released 13/Mar/2014 ] Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early '70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs... |
Being Evel
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] Millions know the man, but few know his story. In BEING EVEL, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Junge and actor/producer Johnny Knoxville take a candid look at American daredevil and icon Robert Evel' Knievel, while also reflecting on our... |
Best Of Enemies
[ Hi Gloss Entertainment / DVD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] Best of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex. Masterfully directed by... |
Blackfish
[ Madman / DVD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] Never capture what you can't control. On February 24, 2010, police were called to a marine park in Florida after a killer whale had taken the life of one of its trainers. The whale, Tilikum, had killed before, but yet had been allowed to continue... |
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr! |
Capharnaum
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 13/Jun/2019 ] Sao Paulo International Film Festival: WINNER Best Feature Film Sarajevo Film Festival: WINNER Audience Award Norwegian International Film Festival: WINNER Audience Award Melbourne International Film Festival: WINNER People's Choice Award |
Chasing Asylum
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 12/Jan/2017 ] Chasing Asylum exposes how 'The Lucky Country' became a nation where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights. Featuring rare footage from inside Australia's detention camps, CHASING... |
Come to Daddy
[ Umbrella / DVD - released 17/Jun/2020 ] Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), a privileged man-child, arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father (Martin Donovan, Tenet), who he hasn't seen in 30 years. He quickly discovers that not... |
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (Blu-ray & UV)
[ Sony Pictures / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2016 ] Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe... |
The Double
[ Madman Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Oct/2014 ] Simon James is a timid young man, working for a mysterious government organisation, scratching out an existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams, Hannah. Undermined... |
The Duke Of Burgundy
[ Madman / DVD - released 11/Feb/2016 ] Day after day, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) act out a simple yet provocative ritual that ends with Evelyn's punishment and pleasure. As Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship, Evelyn's obsession with erotic... |
End Of The Tour - Uv (Nz)
[ Sony Pictures / Blu-ray Disc - released 23/Mar/2016 ] THE END OF THE TOUR tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter (and novelist) David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of... |
Enemy (Blu Ray)
[ Madman / Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Sep/2014 ] Jake Gyllenhaal reunites with his PRISONERS director, Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history... |
Exit Through the Gift Shop
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 2/Dec/2010 ] The incredible true story of how the world's greatest Street Art movie was never made... "A film about a man who tried to make a film about me" is how renowned British graffiti artist Banksy describes this feature. Banksy is used to fiercely... |
Far From Men
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2016 ] Featuring a career-best performance from the multi-talented Viggo Mortensen and a superb original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, FAR FROM MEN is a gripping tale of morality and friendship set during the Algerian War, against an unforgiving... |
Free To Run
[ Madman / DVD - released 9/Feb/2017 ] Today, all anybody needs to run is the determination and a pair of the right shoes. But just fifty years ago, running was viewed almost exclusively as the domain of elite male athletes who competed on tracks. With insight and propulsive energy,... |
From Up On Poppy Hill (Studio Ghibli Collection)
[ Studio Ghibli DVD / DVD - released 11/Jul/2013 ] Set in Yokohama, From Up On Poppy Hill is a high school love story that take place in the year before the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. As the country begins to pick itself up from the devastation of the Second World War, the new generation struggles... |
A Ghost Story
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 24/Nov/2017 ] With A Ghost Story, acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost... |
God Willing
[ Palace Films DVD / DVD - released 9/Mar/2017 ] The #1 smash-hit comedy success of the 2015 Lavazza Italian Film Festival (where it premiered as the Opening Night Gala), this wildly entertaining and multi award-winning debut feature from writer-director Edoardo Falcone is the story of an almighty... |
Good Time
[ HiGloss DVD / DVD - released 14/Dec/2017 ] After a botched bank robbery lands his vulnerable younger brother in prison, small-time hustler Constantine (Robert Pattinson) is plunged into the buzzing labyrinth of New York's underworld in an increasingly desperate attempt to free the only family... |
Haemoo
[ Eastern Eye / DVD - released 15/Oct/2015 ] Down on their luck, a commercial fishing vessel takes on a cargo of thirty illegal immigrants and attempts to smuggle them from China to Korea. However, the crew and immigrants are put in danger when they encounter heavy storms, fog and the Marine... |
I Am Not A Witch
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 12/Jul/2018 ] Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp in the middle of a desert. At the camp she takes part in an... |
