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2004

s showtime drama

Screening: July 20
Running Time: 1hr 41mins
Genre: Romantic Drama
Director/s: Ken Loach
Actor/s: Eva Birthistle, Atta Yaqub, Ahmad Riaz

A cross-cultural romance causes concern on both sides of the fence in this tender love story from acclaimed director Ken Loach. Loach, famous for his searing tales of everyday life in ... read more

Against the Ropes

2004

v showtime drama

Screening: June 27
Running Time: 1hr 46mins
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Charles S. Dutton
Actor/s: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Tony Shalhoub

Inspired by the true story of Jackie Kallen, the most successful female manager in boxing history, Meg Ryan stars as the smart, gutsy woman who wants to break out of a dead-end job as ... read more

Agnes of God

1985

a showtime drama

Screening: June 28
Running Time: 1hr 34mins
Genre: Drama, Crime, Horror, Suspense
Director/s: Norman Jewison
Actor/s: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly

A newborn infant is found dead in a wastebasket in the room of Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly), a young cloistered nun in a convent outside Montreal. She claims to have no memory of the conce... read more

America

2009

va showtime drama

Screening: June 01
Running Time: 1hr 25mins
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Yves Simoneau
Actor/s: Rosie O'Donnell, Ruby Dee, Philip Johnson

Rosie O'Donnell stars as Dr Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment centre who encounters her newest patient, a 16-year-old boy named America (Philip Johnson). Through the... read more

American Gigolo

1980

lna showtime drama

Screening: June 08
Running Time: 1hr 51mins
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Paul Schrader
Actor/s: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo

Golden Globe nominee Richard Gere stars as a $1000 per night male escort in Paul Schrader's (Taxi Driver screenwriter) glossy swipe at 1980s materialism, but his routine begins to unra... read more

The American President

1995

l showtime drama

Screening: June 12
Running Time: 1hr 48mins
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director/s: Rob Reiner
Actor/s: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox

Rob Reiner directs Michael Douglas as widowed President of the United States, Andrew Shepherd, who decides that it's time to get back into the dating game and falls heavily for a feist... read more

An Unmarried Woman

1978

sa showtime drama

Screening: June 30
Running Time: 2hrs
Genre: Romantic Drama
Director/s: Paul Mazursky
Actor/s: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy

Jill Clayburgh stars as a wife in New York City who learns about the satisfactions of single life in this landmark film which helped to galvanise the Women's Movement in the late 1970s... read more

Angela's Ashes

1999

la showtime drama

Screening: July 01
Running Time: 2hrs 20mins
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Alan Parker
Actor/s: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt, Alan Parker directs this heartbreakingly funny look at growing up in Ireland. Emily Watson excels as a mother trying to kee... read more

Another Woman's Husband

2000

showtime drama

Screening: July 13
Running Time: 1hr 27mins
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Noel Nosseck
Actor/s: Lisa Rinna, Gail O'Grady, Dale Midkiff

A swimming instructor has much to learn from her new pupil, a successful psychologist whose fear of the water has paralysed her ever since witnessing the drowning death of her brother.... read more

The Apostle

1997

showtime drama

Screening: May 25
Running Time: 2hrs 8mins
Genre: Drama
Director/s: Robert Duvall
Actor/s: Robert Duvall, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton

Oscar-winner Robert Duvall wrote and directed this mesmerising tale of sin and redemption. After attacking a man having an affair with his wife, a popular preacher (Duvall) flees the l... read more

Apt Pupil

1998

va showtime drama

Screening: May 26
Running Time: 1hr 46mins
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director/s: Bryan Singer
Actor/s: Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison

Brad Renfro (Sleepers) stars at Todd Bowden, one of the top students in his high school class and a typical American 16-year-old - until he discovers a deadly secret. Ian McKellen sta... read more

Aurora Borealis

2005

la showtime drama

Screening: June 11
Running Time: 1hr 45mins
Genre: Romantic Drama
Director/s: James C.E. Burke
Actor/s: Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis

Ever since the premature death of his father, 25-year-old Minneapolis slacker Duncan (Joshua Jackson) is content with shuffling aimlessly through life, hanging out with his lifelong fr... read more

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