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Twin Sisters
(2002) [M]

Nominated for an Academy Award or The Best Foreign Language Film and based on the internationally bestselling novel "The Twins" by Tessa de Loo, Twin Sisters is a powerfully moving and epic love story spanning sixty years.The film opens in Germany 1926,when 6-year old twin sisters are separated...  More

Helen of Troy
(1956) [M]

Robert Wise directs this swords and sandals epic. Young Trojan Prince Paris (Jacques Sernas) journeys to Sparta hoping to negotiate a peace treaty to end the war between Troy and Greece. Washed ashore following a storm, Paris meets the beautiful Helen (Rossana Podesta) and unaware that she is the...  More

The Legend of Suriyothai
(2001) [MA]

Set in 16th century Thailand over the course of 57 years (1491-1548), this is an epic tale and political history of the Kingdom of Ayothaya, culminating in the story of Queen Phra Suriyothai (Bhirombhakdi), who rode into battle against the Burmese invasion to protect her husband at the Battle of...  More

Angels in America
(2003) [MA]

Based on Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Angels in America is a sweeping film, both epic and intimate, which explores the politics, morality and search for hope in the story of six interconnected characters and an Angel, in the complex and turbulent world of New York in the late...  More

The Godfather Part 3
(1990) [M]

In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican,...  More

Musa: The Warrior
(2001) [MA]

It is 1375 and tribal clans are at war. When the Korean peace envoys are betrayed, they escape and stumble across a Ming Princess (Zyang Zi-Yi - Star of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") and the vengeful Yan army follows in hot pursuit. Musa is an epic re-telling of the Kurosawa masterpiece Seven...  More

The Leopard: Director's Suite (2 disc set)
(1963) [PG]

Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento—when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic...  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 Alamo
(1960) [PG]

John Wayne produces, directs and stars in this epic chronicle of one of America's defining moments. This magnificent movie tells the gripping story of those brave Texans at the San Antonio Mission, known as the Alamo, who sacrifice their lives to halt the Mexican army of General Santa Anna. The...  More