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Artemisia
(1997) [R]

Visually ravishing and sensual, Artemisia tells the extraordinary story of seventeen year old Artemisia Gentelischi, daughter of the renowned painter Orazio. Although passionately sharing her father's love of art, she is frustrated by the conventions seventeenth century Italy which forbids women...  More

The Emperor And The Assassin
(1998) [MA]

From Chen Kaige, the director of Farewell, My Concubine comes The Emperor And The Assassin - a visually stunning epic exploring the devastating price one country pays for peace and one man pays for power.Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into...  More

Vatel
(2000) [M]

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low...  More

The Tracker
(2002) [M]

The Australian outback, 1922... four men relentlessly track a fugitive, an Aboriginal man accused of murder. In charge of the expedition is the Fanatic (Gary Sweet), calculating and complex. The Follower (Damon Garneau) is new to the frontier, a greenhorn. The Veteran (Grant Page) is along for...  More

The Name of the Rose
(1986) [MA]

Based on Umberto Eco's award-winning bestseller, The Name of the Rose is a chilling tale of dark deeds and murderous mayhem within the shadowy cloisters and forbidding battlements of a 14th-century Italian medieval monastery. One monk has fallen to his death. Or was he pushed? Another is...  More

Northanger Abbey
(1987) [PG]

A taste for melodrama from reading too many Gothic novels is almost Catherine Morland's downfall when she falls in love with Henry Tilney. Invited to stay at Northanger Abbey, she finds evidence of a sinister family secret. This is a disturbingly surreal interpretation of the Jane Austen novel.  More

Brides
(2004) [PG]

Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.  More

The Libertine
(2004) [MA]

Centuries before Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Bruce and John Belushi, there was the Earl of Rochester. He sounds like a modern day rock star. He lived on the edge, partied like there was no tomorrow and pushed the boundaries of art and wild behaviour to new extremes. Yet the Second Earl of Rochester aka...  More

The Illusionist
(2006) [M]

Nothing Is What It Seems. A supernatural mystery that combines romance, politics and magic, The Illusionist is the latest film from the producers of Crash and Sideways, starring Oscar nominees, Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as...  More

Portrait of a Marriage
(1990) [M]

Melodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West (Janet McTeer) and novelist Violet Keppel (Cathryn Harrison) against the backdrop of post-World War I England and opposition by Vita's politican husband Harold Nicolson (David Haig). Vita and Violet's...  More