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Chaplin
(1992) [M]

Containing an abundance of screen talent, Richard Attenborough's critically acclaimed Chaplin is a captivating recreation of the life of movie legend Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr's BAFTA winning performance in this wonderful film takes you on a journey through the laughter and misery of the...  More

The Carpetbaggers
(1964) [M]

George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting...  More

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
(1962) [M]

Ask Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) and he'll say that Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is a hero worthy of the Medal of Honour. But despite what he says, Marco suspects otherwise. A bizarre, recurring nightmare gives him the uneasy feeling that Shaw is something far less heroic and...  More

Eleni
(1985) [PG]

Based on the autobiographical novel by Nicholas Gage. A New York times reporter returns to his homeland in search of answers regarding the death of his mother, who was executed while helping her children escape from a communist forced labour camp.  More

I Confess
(1953) [PG]

Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto...  More

Hear My Song
(1991) [M]

Popular 1950's singer Josef Locke (Ned Beatty - 'The Big Easy'/ 'Deliverance'), fled from England 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the taxman and Police Chief Jim Abbott (David McCallum). What he also left behind was the love of his life, Cathleen Doyle (Shirley Anne Field). Now Mickey...  More

For A Few Dollars More
(1965) [M]

This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing Man With No Name. Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal...  More

Riff Raff
(1990) [M]

Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site. Here he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying, but usually failing, to control his workers, Shem, Mo and Larry and the other lads as they duck and dive the...  More

Scent Of A Woman
(1992) [M]

Al Pacino won his first "Best Actor" Oscar for his brilliant portrayal of an overbearing, blind retired Lieutenant Colonel who hires a young guardian (Chris O'Donnell), to assist him. It's a heart-wrenching and heartwarming tale of opposites attracting when they embark on a wild weekend trip that...  More

Once Upon A Time In America (2 Disc Set)
(1984) [R]

Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends...  More