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A Tattooed Life
(1965) [M]

Hired killer Tetsu wants to retire from life as a hitman but the partners of his last kill have other ideas. Tetsu's brother Kenji tries to help, but when a yakuza is killed both brothers flee to China and hide as workers on a construction site. The yakuza will not rest until the brothers are...  More

House of Bamboo
(1955) [M]

In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heal ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. But Eddie isn't quite what he seems as...  More

They're a Weird Mob
(1966) [PG]

They're A Weird Mob is about Sydney, Australia in 1965, a sprawling, growing city of three million people. And what people! Easy going, down-to-earth and hilariuosly funny. In truth, a very weird mob. Into the city and fresh off the boat comes innocent, Italian immigrant Nino Culotta who soon...  More

Sawdust and Tinsel
(1953) [M]

Albert, the owner of a small and tawdry circus, arrives at a town where he attempts to effect a reconciliation with his wife Agda whom he left for the circus many years before. She refuses to resume their marriage, while Albert's former lover, Anne, upset at Albert's rejection, has a humiliating...  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

Medea
(1969) [M]

Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini interprets the ancient Greek tragedy in his own distinctive style. Maria Callas,in her only film role, plays Medea, the central character in the ancient Greek story of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece, and brings to the role her commanding...  More

The Killers (1946)
(1946) [PG]

The Killers (1946), a neglected screen classic from director Robert Siodmak, is an intense, hard-edged, stylish film noir of robbery, unrequited love, brutal betrayal and double-cross. It featured two unknowns: Burt Lancaster in his film debut (at age 32) and a break-out memorable performance...  More

Day of Wrath (Vredens dag)
(1943) [M]

Carl Theodor Dreyer made this film during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and, similar to the way Arthur Miller demonised the Hayes Code in his play 'The Crucible', Day Of Wrath uses the larger narrative of witch-hunts to point out the paranoid obsession of the period. The story follows Anne, the...  More

Hamlet (2000)
(2000) [MA]

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City. Loaded with style and substance, packed with haunting imagery, and featuring a superb cast, this version of Hamlet will change the way you think about Shakespeare.  More

Fellini's 8 1/2
(1962) [M]

Searching for the creativity required to deliver his next movie and hassled by industry figures, his wife and his mistress, a film director (Mastroianni) retreats into a world of memories, dreams and fantasies to escape his tormentors. The result is a dazzling array of themes and images which...  More