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After the deluge

Follows the lives of the four men from the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperatly to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-star his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his own age. All three of these men must come to terms with their father's mental state. Cliff, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, is reliving his dibstubing memorieis of the war and his first love. Through these four stories, we uncover a families troubled past, and their struggle towards a reconciled future.

Barchester Chronicles

The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires.
Based on the novels The Warden and Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope.

Eating: a very serious comedy about women and food

MPAA rating: R; for language.
Nelly Alard, Frances Bergen, Mary Crosby, Lisa Richards, Gwen Welles, Daphna Kastner, Elizabeth Kemp, Marlena Giovi, Marina Gregory.

At a fashionable birthday party in Southern California, a parade of women playfully mingle and muse on their body image hang-ups, eating disorders, relationships, and a conformist society obsessed with beauty. For these partygoers, even their untouched slices of cake provide insight into the love-hate relationship between femmes and food. A hilarious and thought-provoking smorgasbord of "biting" observation about women, love, neuroses, and the food that binds them all.

He knew he was right

Based on the classic novel by Anthony Trollope, the story follows Louis and Emily Trevalyan. After a blissful first year of marriage, things turn darker when a roguish Colonel takes an interest in Emily that fans the flames of Louis's jealousy.

Infernal affairs

Rated: R, for violence.
Chinese and dubbed English dialogues; optional subtitles in English and Spanish.
Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang.

A story of a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same - to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.

Troy

Rated R.
Closed-captioned.
Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Brendan Gleeson, Saffron Burrows, Julie Christie, Peter O'Toole, Rose Byrne, Garrett Hedlund, John Shrapnel, Nigel Terry, James Cosmo, Julian Glover, Vincent Regan, Trevor Eve, Tyler Mane.
Producers, Wolfgang Petersen, Diana Rathburn, Colin Wilson.

In 1193 B.C., Prince Paris, the son of the King of Troy falls in love with Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, and convinces her to follow him away from her husband, Menelaus. The result is an epic war. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles, the greatest warrior in all the world, is called in to fight against Troy and give Greece the upper hand. Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, and the greatest Trojan warrior embodies the hopes of the people of his city.