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The Naked Kiss
(1964) [MA]

A prostitute beats her pimp senseless, skips town, resumes her livelihood in a buttoned-down suburb, rescues orphans and exposes her hometown's leading philanthropist as a paedophile! Welcome to the unforgettable world of pulp auteur Samuel Fuller, a nightmarish vision of a world where perverse...  More

Mystery Train
(1989) [M]

A young Japanese couple, obsessed with 1950s America and the music of Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, visits Memphis. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying. Screamin' Jay Hawkins plays a cameo as the...  More

Tiger Bay
(1959) [PG]

In director J.Lee Thompson's classic thriller Tiger Bay, Polish sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills in her breakthrough role) who steals the gun. Investigating...  More

Anatomy Of A Murder
(1959) [M]

A riveting courtroom drama of rape and premeditated murder is brought to life with an all-star cast in director Otto Preminger's suspenseful and highly-acclaimed Anatomy of a Murder. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1959), the film pits a humble small-town lawyer (James...  More

Chinatown
(1974) [M]

A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her...  More

Last Exit To Brooklyn
(1989) [R]

Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter...  More

Blood Simple
(1984) [R]

Deep in the heart of Texas, a jealous bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife and her lover. The sleazy hitman double-crosses the husband, killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime, or so it seems, but disposing of the corpse is not so simple. Blood Simple uncoils its...  More

For Queen And Country
(1988) [M]

Denzel Washington stars as Reuben, an ex-paratrooper, in this hard-hitting British thriller. Returning to civilian life for the first time in nine years, Reuben must confront racism, poverty and corruption in Thatcher's Britain. After serving his country in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, St....  More

The Godfather Part 2 (2 disc set)
(1975) [R]

Upon its release The Godafther: Part II was hailed as the best sequel to a movie ever made, however this film is much more than that. Coppolla utilised a quite brilliant screenplay and turned it into a visually captivating treat, as well as using his directorial skills to make the audience view...  More

Angels With Dirty Faces
(1938) [PG]

Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to...  More