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Wages of Fear
(1953) [M]

In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerene are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivallry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death. Subtitled...  More

Upstairs Downstairs :Series 1 (Disc 1 of 4)
(1971) [PG]

As the first major costume drama series written specially for British TV award-winning Upstairs Downstairs was an outstanding success. It became one of the best-loved and most acclaimed dramas of all time and now the 8 colour episodes from the 1st series are yours to enjoy in this sumptuous...  More

Spellbound (1945)
(1945) [PG]

Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature-or so she thinks. When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, the bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled...  More

The Fugitive Kind
(1959) [M]

Valentine Xavier is an "entertainer" in New Orleans - he plays a guitar given to him by Leadbelly - but when he runs afoul of the law one too many times, he vows to quit the scene and start anew elsewhere. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small southern town somewhere between New Orleans and...  More

I Want to Live!
(1958) [M]

Robert Wise's powerful I Want To Live is based on a true story of Barbara Gramham (an Oscar-winning Susan Hayward), executed for a crime she allegedly did not commit. So gruelling were the gas chambers scenes considered originally, they were cut entirely from the British cinema release, despite...  More

A Kiss Before Dying
(1956) [M]

Bud Corliss, a darkly handsome college boy is so obsessed with wealth that he'll do anything to get it. When his rich girlfriend Dorothy gets pregnant and is threatened with disinheritance, Bud stages her suicide, sending her plummeting from the roof of a high-rise. It's the perfect crime...  More

Desire Under The Elms
(1958) [PG]

Eugene O'Neill's riveting play about a family torn apart by greed explodes onto the screen in a soaring film version starring Anthony Perkins and Sophia Loren. Perkins is the farmer's son Eben, awaiting the day he will inherit the land from his tyrannical, widowed father (Burl Ives). But when...  More

Dragonwyck
(1946) [PG]

This classic gothic thriller from Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) is set in 1940s New York State and sees an innocent young woman (Gene Tierney) leave her rural home to stay with her wealthy and sophisticated cousin, Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price). Occupying Dragonwyck, a dark...  More

Anna Karenina (1948)
(1948) [PG]

After falling in love with a Russian army officer, Anna scandalizes Moscow by leaving her husband and child to carry on the affair. But when her forbidden lover's ardour cools, she finds herself outcast by an unforgiving society. When her husband refuses to give her a divorce, Anna - in one of...  More

A Delicate Balance
(1973) [PG]

Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story), Oscar winner Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons), Oscar nominee Lee Remick (Days of Wine and Roses), and Joseph Cotten (The Third Man) form the core of this dream cast bent on exploring the full range of conflict and confrontation in...  More