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A Breath of Scandal
(1960) [G]

It's 1907 in Vienna, the "City of the Waltz." Beautiful Sophia Loren is the Austrian princess who, despite her exile from the familial estate for "scandalous indiscretions," scorns her mother's wish to marry a prince. Instead, she sets her sights on handsome John Gavin, a visiting American mining...  More

The Umbrella Woman
(1987) [M]

Marge, a sensuous but proper wife, lives with her quiet lumberjack husband Sonny in a remote Aussie town. Lonely and unfulfilled, Marge is both aroused and revolted when the town’s sexy new bartender, Neville, unsuccessfully forces his attentions on her. However, with her passions unleashed...  More

Two English Girls
(1971) [M]

Among the great Francois Truffaut films, this lavish period drama follows a doomed romantic triangle and is inevitably compared to Jules and Jim, another three-way love story based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Leaud (who played Antoine Doinel in five Truffaut...  More

The Last Emperor (Director's Cut)
(1987) [M]

Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece won nine Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Director), and remains one of the greatest historical dramas ever put to film. This sweeping cinematic spectacle follows the tumultuous life of Pu Yi, the last Chinese emperor, from his elite origins in the...  More

Braveheart
(1995) [MA]

Rousing Hollywood epic about Scottish rebels fighting English oppression. Packed with idyllic scenery and brutally realistic battles. William Wallace (Mel Gibson) sets out to avenge the deaths of his Scottish relatives by raising an army and taking on the might of the English  More

There Will Be Blood
(2007) [M]

The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil...  More

There Will Be Blood (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [M]

The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil...  More

My Boy Jack
(2007)

It's 1914. Rudyard Kipling (David Haig from Four Weddings And A Funeral), the British Empire's greatest supporter, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack (Daniel Radcliffe from the Harry Potter films), is determined to play his part in the imminent war with Germany, but finds...  More

Une vieille maitresse (An Old Mistress)
(2007) [R]

Set in 1835 - the century in which LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES was penned - AN OLD MISTRESS is a Parisian tale of lust, longing and the torments of passion.

Vicomte de Prony, a dapper aristocrat, loves nothing more than to observe and comment upon the romances of his similarly...  More

Moliere
(2007) [PG]

Beginning in Paris the 22-year-old Jean Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Moliere, is not yet the writer that history recognises as the father and true master of comic satire. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor.

Director Laurent Tirard roots the story in an intriguing fact...  More