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The Home Song Stories (2 Disc Set)
(2007) [M]

Tom (Darren Yap), a Chinese Australian man in his early forties, writes about his childhood. We see the story unfold as he does. It is 1964. Tom's mother, Rose Hong (Joan Chen), a beautiful and glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, meets Bill (Steven Vidler), an Australian sailor, and migrates to...  More

Master Of The House
(1925) [PG]

Since the failure of his small business, Victor has become a household tyrant, constantly complaining and criticising his long suffering family. The saintly forbearance of his wife Ida seems only to drive Victor to ever more vindictive acts of tyranny. Finally, Victor's old nanny, watching his...  More

Japanese Story
(2003) [M]

A feisty Australian geologist (Sandy) lands the unwanted task of showing a Japanese businessman (Hiromitsu) around the mines in the deserts of the Pilbara, with a view to selling his comany the unique geology software she has been developing. Hiromitsu meanwhile, mistakes her as her driver, and...  More

Black Snake Moan
(2006) [MA]

In a small Tennessee town, two unlikely souls are about to be lured together at the sticky crossroads between rage and love. Found lying on the side of the road, beaten and nearly dead, is Rae (Christina Ricci), a 22-year-old who has developed a reputation around town for having an insatiable...  More

Scream of Stone (Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein)
(1991)

A meeting of two world famous climbers, one is an experienced mountaineer the other a free climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the free climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing...  More

Snow Cake
(2006) [M]

Taciturn Englishman Alex Hughes (Alan Rickman) has travelled to Canada to meet the mother of his deceased son. Driving through the winter landscape, he picks up a young hitchhiker, Vivienne, who is en route to her home town of Wawa. But when a freak road accident leaves Vivienne dead, Alex finds...  More

The Good Shepherd
(2006) [M]

Ever since his father's suicide, Edward Wilson wants to do good to the world. But he makes it into a habit to take one decision after another that makes his life an unhappy one. In the Second World War he becomes a member of the OSS, an Intelligence Service operating in London. When the Cold War...  More

Come and See (Idi i smotri)
(1985) [M]

Elem Klimov's stunning COME AND SEE is a relentlessly brutal condemnation of war hidden in the guise of a surrealistic coming-of-age nightmare. A physically and emotionally draining viewing experience, the film follows Florya (played brilliantly by Alexei Kravchenko), a 12-year-old boy living in...  More

Boom!
(1968) [M]

In what Tennessee Williams describes as the best film adaptation of his work he'd ever seen, Sissy Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor), the world's richest woman, has retired to her lavish estate to dictate her autobiography when poet Chris Flanders (Richard Burton) washes up on her beach. Flanders has...  More

Secret Ceremony
(1968) [M]

Academy Award Tx winner Elizabeth Taylor headlines the cast of this superb, deeply moving psychodrama. Secret Ceremony is a dark journey, a melange of mental illness and deception. Cenci (Mia Farrow), a wealthy, psychotic waif fixes on Leonora (Taylor), a prostitute who strongly resembles the...  More