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Dog Day Afternoon (2 disc set)
(1975) [M]

On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic losers set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) is the follower, and disaster is the result. The robbery should have taken ten minutes. Four hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. Eight hours later, it was...  More

Green For Danger
(1946) [G]

In a rural English hospital during WW2, a postman dies on the operating table and the nurse states she knows the murderer is dead too. The facetious Inspector Cockrill suspects one of the five doctors and nurses who were in the operating theater to be the assassin. But four poisonous pills have...  More

On The Beach
(1959) [PG]

The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S. submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction. Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news; the...  More

The Night Of The Hunter
(1955) [M]

Robert Mitchum gives one of his finest performances as the psychopathic preacher, Harry Powell, who is arrested for a minor offence in a small West Virginian town. His cell mate, Ben Harper, who faces the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. By the time that...  More

Razor's Edge, The (1946)
(1946) [PG]

Based on W. Somerset Maugham's highly acclaimed 1944 novel, this is a sprawling, ambitious account of one man's quest for spiritual identity. Over a number of years and continents, we watch as Chicago scion Larry Darrell, newly returned from World War I, breaks off his engagement to the lovely...  More

The Searchers
(1956) [G]

With The Searchers, John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, and ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger,...  More

Midnight Cowboy
(1969) [M]

A "cowboy," Joe Buck, moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo, who had said he would manage him for a $20 fee. Bent on getting his money back, Buck finds the rapidly...  More

Dersu Uzala (2 disc set)
(1975) [G]

A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asiatic hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns at the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilisation. Four...  More

North West Frontier
(1959) [PG]

Kenneth More keeps his upper lip stiff in this colourful adventure set in colonial India. Captain Scott (More) is sent by the British Governor to rescue a five-year-old Hindu Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt (Lauren Bacall), when a rebellion breaks out amongst the tribesmen....  More

All Quiet On The Western Front
(1930) [PG]

Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact. Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilizing...  More