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The Thing (AKA: The Thing From Another World)
(1951) [PG]

Ned Scott is a reporter banging around Alaska, looking for a story. When he meets Captain Patrick Hendry and his flight crew, he joins them on a trip to an arctic research base where numerous scientists are camped. It seems their scientific gear has detected the crash of an unknown aircraft - and...  More

1900 (2 disc set)
(1976) [R]

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (De Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by...  More

The Sheltering Sky (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]

From director Bernardo Bertolucci comes this epic dramatisation of Paul Bowles' novel. Starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger, this is an extraordinary voyage of vision, redemption and love. Yearning for adventure and an escape from a suffocating, repressive society, Port and his wife Kit...  More

The Decameron
(1971) [R]

The first of Pasolini's colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story cycles (to be followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights, The Decameron contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Capturing the...  More

El Mariachi / Desperado (Double Feature)
(1992) [M]

Set in a Mexican border town, this film follows the fortunes of a sensitive peace-loving El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) who wishes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as an itinerant musician, earning his living through singing in local bars. He enters town at exactly the same...  More

Arabesque
(1966) [PG]

Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren star in this high-speed, high-class tale of Middle Eastern intrigue set in London. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen, this breezy romantic thriller casts Peck as an Oxford professor of languages hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret...  More

Red Planet
(2000) [M]

In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds...  More

Ninja Scroll
(1993) [MA]

Removed from the typical futuristic element of most Japanese animated adventures, this 1994 feature takes place in more of a sword-and-sorcery epic set in feudal Japan. Jubei Kipagami, a ninja mercenary, wanders the countryside in search of work. On his travels, he encounters Kagero, a female...  More

Armageddon
(1998) [M]

From the team who produced and directed 'The Rock' comes the biggest movie of the year - ARMAGEDDON! Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, Armageddon is a meteor storm of action-adventure movie-making that has you on the edge of your seat forgetting to...  More

Blood: The Last Vampire
(2000) [M]

Japan’s first fully-digitally-animated feature film, Blood - The Last Vampire takes place in the fall of 1966. The Vietnam War is underway and the U.S. military machine is being supplied out of the Yokota Air Force Base - a plot of U.S. land within Japan. Within the compound, the atmosphere is...  More