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Royal Wedding
(1951) [G]

Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal Wedding. They travel by cruise ship where Ellen meets and becomes involved with Lord John Brindale. This causes her to miss a rehearsal. Tom...  More

Paul McCartney (Live in Concert on the New World Tour)
(1993) [G]

Possibly the last footage of Paul and Linda performing together, Sir Paul(back when he was just plain Paul) plays 20 of his own post-Beatles tracks as well as Beatles classics from the New World Tour of 1993.

Track Listing # Drive My Car # Let Me Roll It # Looking For Changes #...  More

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [M]

One literate and profane night in the pathological marriage of two tortured souls, a middle-aged New England professor and his carping wife. Turning the underbelly of bourgeois academia into a microcosm of human relationships in all their arduous complexities, Mike Nichols' auspicious debut...  More

Lenny
(1974) [R]

Dustin Hoffman brings iconic '60s comedian Lenny Bruce to life in this landmark film that earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. A jagged portrait of a man driven to mainlining honesty into the arteries of a hypocritical culture, Bob Fosse's Lenny is an artful and unflinching...  More

Farewell My Concubine
(1993)

Nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar, this film, based on the novel by Lilian Lee, spans fifty years of Chinese art, passion and revolution, seen through the eyes of two male stars of the Peking Opera and the prostitute who comes between them. Mandarin dialogue with English subtitles.  More

A Heart In Winter (Un coeur en hiver)
(1992) [M]

Un Coeur En Hiver is director Claude Sautet's award-winning classic of modern French cinema, exploring the passion and conflict within a dangerous love triangle. Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) run a renowned violin making and repair business. One day Maxime introduces his...  More

A Doll's House
(1973) [PG]

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to...  More

Celluloid Heroes (2 Disc Set)
(1995) [M]

Produced by Film Australia in collaboration with the ABC to celebrate the first century of filmmaking in Australia, this fascinating four-part series details the evolution of Australian cinema from the early silent film-era to the modern ‘renaissance’ in Australian film-making when names like...  More

The Baby Of Mâcon
(1993) [R]

Reality and illusion collide in the baby of Macon, a masque performed to a 17th Century audience. An old woman gives birth and the community celebrate it as a miracle. The child seems imbued with mystical powers, which are exploited not least by his sister (Julia Ormond). When she seduces the...  More

Zorba The Greek
(1964) [M]

Michael Cacoyannis's powerful film starring Anthony Quinn garnered seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. On the Greek isle of Crete, Basil (Alan Bates), a shy, inhibited writer from England is befriended by Zorba, a boisterous, gregarious peasant...  More