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Macbeth (1978)
(1978) [PG]

Trevor Nunn's film of William Shakespeare's tragedy of ambition and witchcraft attempts to recreate his acclaimed 1976 staging of the play. Ian McKellen and Judi Dench play the ambitious pair who murder their way to the Scottish throne. Nunn's film retains the spare, simple look of his stage...  More

Romeo and Juliet
(1976) [PG]

For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are bitter enemies, sworn to hatred. Yet when their children, Romeo and Juliet, inadvertantly meet, they fall passionately in love. Defying their parents' wishes, they are...  More

King Lear
(1976) [PG]

An excellent made-for-television production. This Shakespeare tragedy brings out the themes of family relationships, youth versus age and the struggle of good over evil.  More

The Cat and the Canary (1979)
(1979) [M]

At the request of the long-deceased Cyrus West (Wilfrid Hyde-White), his surviving relatives are gathered together on a suitably stormy night for the "reading" of his will, exactly 20 years to the day of his death. The name of the sole heir to the fortune is announced by Cyrus himself, by way of...  More

Romeo and Juliet (1954) / Romeo and Juliet Ballet (1966) (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [M]

Disc 1: 1954 film version with Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall. In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry....  More

Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
(1967) [M]

The Carry On Gang destroy everything sacred about the classic story of the Scarlet Pimpernel, which is set during the French Revolution. Sid James stars as the Black Fingernail, always one jump ahead of Citizen Camembert and Citizen Bidet...  More

Carry On England
(1975) [PG]

Make love not war! The Carry On team are part of an experimental mixed anti-aircraft battery during World War II. The Luftwaffe never had it so easy! Troops Ready (Jack Douglas), Willing (Judy Geeson) and Able (Patrick Mower) join forces to strike terror into the heart of the enemy and run rings...  More

Carry On Behind
(1975) [PG]

More hilarious antics from the Carry On team. A glamorous Russian archaeologist joins a British dig behind a remote caravan site. Chaos is inevitable.  More

Carry On Loving
(1970) [PG]

The nineteenth installment in this famous series. When Sid James and Hattie Jacques open a marriage bureau, expect the usual frantic carrying on, with a calamitous climax of custard pie chaos.  More

To Paris with Love
(1955) [G]

Alec Guinness plays Sir Edgar Fraser, a widowed Scottish aristocrat who decides that it is time to introduce his 20-year-old son to the opposite sex. This, he decides, must be done in Paris, the most romantic city in the world. So off they go, and Sir Edgar is determined to find a beautiful,...  More