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Throne Of Blood
(1957) [PG]

Kurosawa's film career began in 1936 at the Photo Chemical Laboratories in Tokyo. His directorial debut in 1943, Judo Saga, bore evidence of his economy of expression and marked his humanist approach. His Rashomon won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, and this led to the...  More

The Singing Detective: BBC TV mini-series (Disc 1 of 3)
(1986) [MA]

From one of the great experimentalists of TV drama comes a compellingly original tour-de-force which mingles fantasy and reality with haunting hit songs of the 1940's. The award-winning The Singing Detective, acclaimed as Dennis Potter's masterpiece, is a dazzlingly entertaining and multi-layered...  More

Elephant
(2003) [MA]

Winner of the Palme d'Or and the award for Best Director at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Gus Van Sant's Elephant is a powerful experience. Inspired by the tragic events of the Columbine High School shootings, Elephant begins as just another ordinary day at a typical American high school....  More

The Finished People
(2003) [MA]

The lives of three young men in their late teens and early twenties, all living desperate lives on the streets of Cabramatta, Sydney: Tommy (Jason McCormack) is a longtime heroin addict who's once again trying to reform himself and get a job, with the help of his friend Sara (Sarah Vongmany). Van...  More

Owning Mahowny
(2003) [M]

Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers another staggering performance in Richard Kwietniowski's follow-up to LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND. Dan Mahowney (Hoffman) is a well-respected assistant bank manager with a pretty fiance, Belinda (Minnie Driver). But Dan also happens to be a compulsive gambler....  More

Road Games
(1981) [M]

Stacy Keach is Pat Quid, a lone trucker who plays games to keep his sanity on long hauls through the desolate Australian Outback. Jamie Lee Curtis is a free-spirited hitchhiker looking for excitement with a game of her own. And somewhere up ahead, on the loneliest highway in the world, is a...  More

Long Weekend
(1978) [M]

Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch up their differences.  More

Osama
(2003) [M]

Osama tells the touching story of a 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. The Taliban have also forbidden women to leave their houses without a "legal companion." With her husband and brother dead there is no one left to...  More

Hour of the Wolf
(1968) [R]

The delicate, dangerous line between genius and insanity is brilliantly plumbed in this haunting film of surrealism, expressionism and full-blooded Gothic horror from Ingmar Bergman. Haunted by demons past and presenmt, artist Johan Borg (Max von Sydow) fights a losing battle to retain his sanity...  More

Shame
(1968) [M]

On a remote island far removed from a raging civil war, Jan and Eva (Max von Sydow, Liv Ullman) retreat to their apolitical fortress: a small vegetable farm. But their serene existence is shattered when soldiers violently invade their home. Now caught in the crosshairs of a brutal and inhuman...  More