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The Man In The Iron Mask (1998)
(1998) [M]

All for one and one for all! For the honor of the crown and the destiny of a country, the world's most renowned Musketeers reunite for one last epic battle. It is a time of both splendor and despair. France's self-serving King Louis XIV enjoys the riches of the world while his people die of...  More

Tom Jones
(1963) [M]

Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture, and featuring a cast of superb actors headed by the young Albert Finney and Susannah York, Tony Richardson's wickedly funny adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel (scripted by John Osbourne) is a rollicking, picaresque period comedy to savour....  More

The Bounty
(1984) [PG]

Robert Bolt's screen adaptation of Richard Hugh's book 'Captain Bligh and Mister Christian' (itself a widely acclaimed account of The Mutiny On The Bounty) is directed here by Roger Donald (No Way Out, Species, Dante's Peak). Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, and particularly the emminently...  More

The Horse Whisperer
(1998) [M]

Academy Award winner Robert Redford (Up Close & Personal, Indecent Proposal) stars with Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) in this landmark epic adapted from one of the most acclaimed novels of our time! After a devastating riding accident, a young girl and her...  More

Mrs. Dalloway
(1997) [M]

Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In...  More

Hurly Burly
(1998) [MA]

Hurly Burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting and decadent lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes whose personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything peddled by the studios.  More

The Age Of Innocence
(1993) [G]

Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive...  More

Lolita
(1997) [R]

When schoolteacher Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons), marries his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith), it's purely to get close to her daughter Lolita (Dominique Swain) who reminds him of the childhood sweetheart he lost in tragic circumstances. But Humbert's forbidden love becomes an...  More

Exodus
(1960) [PG]

Adapted from Leon Uris’ international bestseller by Dalton Trumbo, Otto Preminger's Exodus is an exciting, panoramic and deeply moving masterpiece. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the Israeli underground, manages to lead 600 Jews from the detention camps of Cyprus onto a large...  More

The Winslow Boy
(1999) [G]

Based on real life events in 1912 England, this exquisitely crafted film tells of Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old navel cadet expelled from the Academy for stealing a five-shilling postal note, and his father, London Banker Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) all-consuming attempt to prove his...  More