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The Da Vinci Code
(2006) [M]

Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is...  More

The White Masai
(2005) [M]

At once a captivating romance and a breath-taking travelogue into the Kenyan outback, The White Masai is an epic journey based on the autobiography of Corinne Hofmann. It tells the unbelievable - yet true - tale of a white European woman who becomes the wife of a Masai warrior. The exotic African...  More

Robbery Under Arms (1985)
(1985) [PG]

The classic tale of Australia‘s most colourful outlaw for the first time on DVD! Acclaimed actor Sam Neill (The Dish, Jurassic Park) stars as the suave and enigmatic bushranger Captain Starlight in this lavish action adventure tale set in the rugged Australian outback. Joined by bush larrikin,...  More

Marie Antoinette
(2006) [PG]

Lavish historical drama from writer/director Sofia Coppola. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) is only 14 years old when she's pledged to marry Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the 15-year-old king of France, in an alliance that has everything to do with politics and...  More

Casino Royale (2 Disc Set)
(2006) [M]

With his brand-new license to kill in hand, Bond tracks the infamous Le Chiffre, a man suspected to be the world's biggest banker for terrorist organizations. With back-up from MI:6, Bond takes on Le Chiffre in an ultra-high stakes game of Texas Hold'Em Poker, hoping to win his money and coerce...  More

Macbeth
(2006) [MA]

Romper Stomper director Geoffrey Wright transplants Shakespeare's savage tale of power, murder and revenge to 21st century gangland Melbourne in his highly acclaimed, 5-time AFI Award nominated hit. Promising a bruising cocktail of drama and violence, Macbeth features stunning performances from...  More

A Good Year
(2006) [M]

Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe re-team for this adaptation of author Peter Mayle's best-selling novel. After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent...  More

300
(2006) [MA]

Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, "300" is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice...  More

Becoming Jane
(2006) [PG]

Fictional romantic biopic of author Jane Austen. A young girl's future prospects in English society of 1795 are based around marrying for financial gain. As a rebellious twenty-year-old, Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) contemplates a future mapped out for her by her parents, when into her life rides...  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