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The City Of Women
(1980) [M]

The culmination of Fellini's life-long obsession with the fairer sex, City of Women stars Fellini's favourite alter-ego, Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2) as a modern-day Don Juan who tackles middle-age, and feminism, by attempting to bring together all the women in his life - past,...  More

Damage
(1992) [R]

Jeremy Irons plays Stephen Fleming, a respected Member of Parliament and Junior Minister, comfortable with his life as he approaches his fiftieth birthday. Secure in his enduring marriage, he has no premonition of the storm that is about to engulf him when he is drawn to an attractive woman...  More

Come In Spinner (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]

COME IN SPINNER is a mini-series adaptation of the Australian wartime novel of the same name. It's an insightful look into the lives of three women in 1944 who work in the beauty salon of a top hotel in Sydney. The show was directed by Robert Marchand and stars Lisa Harrow and Kerry Armstrong....  More

The Heartbreak Kid
(1993) [M]

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a schoolteacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a...  More

Raise The Red Lantern
(1991) [M]

China in the 1920's. After her fathers death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in seperate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as...  More

Europa Europa
(1990) [M]

First posing as a fervent young Stalinist, Perel - who harbored aspirations to be Clark Gable - then becomes an accepted and respected member of the Nazi Youth, burying his true background in a desperate bid for survival. Directed with deft intelligence by former Zanussi collaborator Holland,...  More

Au Revoir Les Enfants
(1987) [PG]

During WWII, in a Catholic boarding school in the French countryside, two boys become friends. One is a French boy, Julien Quintin, and the other is a Jewish boy, Jean Bonnet, who is being hidden from the Nazis by the friars who run the school. Louis Malle directed this film based on what...  More

Wild Strawberries
(1959) [PG]

Winner of the Grand Prix Award for Best Film at the 1958 Berlin Film Festival, Ingmar Bergman's classic Wild Strawberries concerns an elderly academic, introverted and emotionally arid, who makes a journey to collect a university award and en route relives his past through nightmares, dreams and...  More

The Club
(1980) [M]

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club. It's tough enough on the Australian Rules Football field, but in the boardroom it's a battle ground! In this club nobody plays by the rules. Outside the fans are cheering the high marks and the low...  More

Wide Sargasso Sea
(1993) [M]

A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love blooms, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect...  More