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Putuparri And The Rainmakers
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Sep/2016 ] Putuparri and the Rainmakers is a universal story about the sacred relationship between people and place. It takes audiences on a rare and emotional journey to meet the traditional rainmakers of Australia's Great Sandy Desert who have fought a... |
The Red Turtle
[ Studio Ghibli / Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 20/Jul/2017 ] In a majestic world of intricate hand-drawn textures, a shipwrecked man is found marooned on a desert island. With his attempted escapes thwarted by the strange and larger-than-life titular red reptile, the man's existence is forever altered when... |
The Salesman
[ HiGloss DVD / DVD - released 12/Oct/2017 ] Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) are actors in an amateur Tehran production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. When their home is devastated by earth works on a nearby building site, they are forced to move into a... |
The Salt Of The Earth
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 13/Aug/2015 ] Nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary, celebrated filmmaker Wim Wenders (BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, PARIS, TEXAS) captures the uniqueness and raw beauty of the work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. For the last 40 years, Salgado has been... |
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... |
The Square
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 13/Sep/2018 ] Winner Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2017. From Force Majeure director Ruben Ostlund comes the Palme d'Or winning satire - The Square. A poignant reflection of our times - about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's... |
Stray
[ Madman Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/Mar/2019 ] Two damaged strangers fall into a complex intimate relationship in Dustin Feneley's beautiful and compelling debut feature film, set against the backdrop of the breathtaking Southern Alps. Jack (Kieran Charnock, 'The Rehearsal'), a young man on... |
Submarine
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 9/Feb/2012 ] 'Submarine' is the highly-acclaimed debut feature from Richard Ayoade (star of THE 'I.T. Crowd' and 'Nathan Barley'), based on the hilarious, best-selling novel by Joe Dunthorne. In his head, 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts)... |
Summer 1993
[ Palace Films / DVD - released 10/Jan/2019 ] The breakout critical discovery of the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, where it was named Best First Feature, Carla Simón's autobiographical jewel is one of the most evocative and affecting depictions of childhood seen in years. In the summer of 1993,... |
Take Every Wave: The Life Of Laird Hamilton
[ Madman / DVD - released 10/May/2018 ] This is the remarkable story of an American icon who changed the sport of big wave surfing forever. Transcending the surf genre, this in-depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores the fear, courage and ambition that push a man to... |
Tickled
[ Vendetta DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] After stumbling upon a bizarre "competitive endurance tickling" video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking-the... |
Tokyo Story: Restored And Remastered
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 12/Jan/2017 ] restored and remastered. An elderly couple travel from rural Japan to Tokyo on a once-in-a-lifetime visit to their adult children. On arrival, they discover the burgeoning capital and the priorities of their family are distinctly different to their... |
Top Of The Lake: China Girl (Season 2)
[ Sony Pictures DVD / 2 DVD - released 27/Jun/2018 ] In this crime mystery story, Detective Robin Griffin has recently returned to Sydney and is trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realises... |
A War
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 9/Mar/2017 ] Company commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk - Lucy, A Hijacking) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile, back in Denmark, Claus' wife Maria (Tuva Novotny - TV series Spiral) is trying to hold everyday life together with a... |
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... |
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
[ Madman / DVD - released 14/Feb/2019 ] Since igniting the punk movement with ex-partner and Sex Pistols' manager Malcolm McLaren, Dame Vivienne Westwood has been redefining British fashion for over 40 years, and is responsible for creating many of the most distinctive looks of our time.... |
Woman At War
[ HiGloss / DVD - released 10/Oct/2019 ] Halla is a fifty-year-old independent Icelandic woman, a respected choir leader who lives a mysterious double life. Known to the public only by her alias "The Mountain Woman," Halla is a passionate environmental activist, secretly waging a... |
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... |
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.... |
