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Lifeboat (2 disc set)
(1944) [PG]

Nominated for three Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock's gripping World War II drama, is a remarkable story of human survival. After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Their problems are further compounded when they pick up a ninth passenger -...  More

The Barefoot Contessa
(1954) [PG]

Sparking with "juicy dialogue" (Leonard Maltin) and a superb cast (including Edmond O'Brien in an Oscar®-winning performance), this landmark film is "spectacular… ingeniously-fashioned, original entertainment" (Variety). With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas...  More

Number Seventeen
(1932) [G]

A beautiful girl, member of a gang of thieves, falls in love with a detective who is on the track of her confederates. She saves him from death at the hands of the gang and thereafter the film traces their adventure in fleeing from the revenge of her former associates. The girl and the detective...  More

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
(1934) [G]

A husband and wife's holiday in Morocco goes horribly wrong when their son is kidnapped, leading them into a web of mystery and intrigue.  More

Sabotage
(1936) [PG]

Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the...  More

Tunes Of Glory
(1960) [PG]

A powerful drama unfolds when genteel, Oxford educated Colonel Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives to take command at the barrcks where bluff hard drinking Major Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) has been Acting Colonel. Under Jock's command, the officers and men have enjoyed a certain laxity that...  More

The Spiral Staircase
(1945) [PG]

This superb Hitchcockian thriller shocked critics and audiences on its initial release. With a superb performance from the cast (Dorothy McGuire in particular), a wonderful eerie gothic mansion and a chilling atmosphere of fear and suspense, it is easy to see why the film stands out as one of the...  More

Somebody Up There Likes Me
(1956) [PG]

The story of fighter Rocky Graziano and his rise to fame. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Also includes the original theatrical trailer.

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The Odd Angry Shot
(1979) [M]

Tom Jeffrey's classic Australian film The Odd Angry Shot is set in the late 1960s in the war Australians shared with the United States: the struggle for Vietnam. Harry (Graham Kennedy), is a hard-edged SAS corporal who is serving his second tour of duty in Vietnam. In his new company of...  More

The Day Of The Jackal
(1973) [PG]

The Day of the Jackal is a taut and colourful suspense thriller about the attempt by the right-wing OAS to assassinate General De Gaulle. Edward Fox portrays the ruthless anonymous assassin hired by exiled OAS chief Colonel Rodin (Eric Porter) to carry out the execution. Working under the...  More