Closely Observed Trains (Closely Watched Trains)
(1966) [M]

Jiri Menzel's tragicomic Closely Observed Trains is generally regarded as one of the finest examples of the Czech New Wave movement of the mid-1960s. Universally acclaimed by critics, in 1968 the film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The story concerns Milos Hrma, a trainee...  More

La Grande Bouffe (Blow Out)
(1973) [R]

An amusing satire on life, the world and appetites in general. A group of middle-aged men decide to have one last good blow out. Previously banned from general release in Britain. French dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Mad Dog And Glory
(1993) [M]

Two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro stars with Uma Thurman and Bill Murray in a totally offbeat love story that Vincent Canby of The New York Times calls "full of rewards." Chicago evidence detective Wayne Dobie (DeNiro) is a shy, soft-spoken man who hasn't drawn his gun in fifteen years. His...  More

Trust
(1991) [M]

From director Hal Hartley Trust is a biting, provocative comedy of suburban Middle America. An America riddled with violent, miraculous, hilarious and occasionally lifesaving accidents. A landscape where philosophical bourbon-swilling nurses share the streets with confused grenade-wielding...  More

The Last Days Of Chez Nous
(1992) [PG]

Vicki returns to her elder sister Beth's house in Australia after an affair in Italy. Beth, with a teenage daughter, has become involved in something of a marriage of convenience with Frenchman J.P., and her rather prickly house proud ways are causing frictions counterpointed by Vicki's more...  More

The Heartbreak Kid
(1993) [M]

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a schoolteacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a...  More

Johnny Suede
(1991) [M]

Johnny Suede is a young man with an attitude and an immense pompadour, who wants to be a rock n' roll star like his idol Ricky Nelson. He has all the stylistic accouterments, except a pair of black suede shoes. And one night, after leaving a nightclub, like manna from heaven, a pair of black...  More

Mediterraneo
(1991) [M]

Set during World War II, the story follows eight Italian soldiers sent to guard a small Greek island. After their ship is sunk and their radio breaks down, it seems as if they no longer exist. Eventually a small Italo/Greek community is formed and the locals forget why they came. The soldiers'...  More

A Christmas Story
(1983) [G]

It's Christmas time and there's only one thing on Ralphie Parker's Christmas list this year: a Red Ryder Carbine Action, 200 Shot, Range Model Air Rifle, but many obstacles stand in the way of his dream because every adult that he confronts keeps telling him he'll shoot his eye out. Meanwhile The...  More

Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
(1992) [PG]

America's smallest hero takes a giant bite out of the big apple!

The McAllister family go on a holiday to Florida. Kevin gets separated from his family and manages to get himself onto a plane to New York instead. There, he checks into the best hotel with his father's credit card and...  More

The Romantic Englishwoman
(1975) [M]

Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman is a drama about the conflict of life, love and sex in a modern marriage. A sucessful novelist's wife (Glenda Jackson), attractive but strangely unfulfilled, suddenly decides to take a holiday at a German spa. It is a holiday that has a devastating effect...  More

Cool World
(1992) [M]

When ex-con cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a voluptuous vixen named Holli Would. But the ‘toonsmith becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli pulls Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him...  More

Scent Of A Woman
(1992) [M]

Al Pacino won his first "Best Actor" Oscar for his brilliant portrayal of an overbearing, blind retired Lieutenant Colonel who hires a young guardian (Chris O'Donnell), to assist him. It's a heart-wrenching and heartwarming tale of opposites attracting when they embark on a wild weekend trip that...  More

Hear My Song
(1991) [M]

Popular 1950's singer Josef Locke (Ned Beatty - 'The Big Easy'/ 'Deliverance'), fled from England 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the taxman and Police Chief Jim Abbott (David McCallum). What he also left behind was the love of his life, Cathleen Doyle (Shirley Anne Field). Now Mickey...  More

Take The Money And Run
(1969) [PG]

Woody Allen sends up criminals and gangster movies in his first comic masterpiece as writer, director and star. This is vintage Woody Allen and with his trademark visual gags and inspired one-liners, this hilarious comedy established him as a major force in filmmaking. Psychologically unfit for...  More

The Party (2 Disc Set)
(1968) [PG]

In Blake Edward's The Party, Peter Sellers plays bungling Indian actor Hrundi V Bakshi who accidently blows up the set of his first Hollywood movie. Studio head Fred Clutterbuck vows that Bakshi will never work in the movies again but unwittingly invites him to his lavish Hollywood party. Sellers...  More

Strictly Ballroom
(1992) [PG]

Scott Hastings is a champion ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckling who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes...  More

Britannia Hospital
(1982) [M]

A spectacular farce set in an old hospital that alarmingly resembles Britain at its most chaotic. Everything starts to go wrong when the medical administrators are faced with a threatened strike, angry scenes, and a Royal visit. Third instalment in Lindsay Anderson's "Mick Travers" trilogy with...  More

Night On Earth
(1991) [M]

A hip and hilarious comedy from cult director Jim Jarmusch. The action takes place in five cities in one night, with a brilliant cast of cabbies and customers. The stories, stretching from sunset to sunrise, range form the ridiculous to the sublime, punctuated by a haunting theme song by Tom...  More

Pauline At The Beach (Pauline A La Plage)
(1983) [M]

The third film in director Eric Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series in which Pauline has her fifteen-year-old eyes opened to the duplicity, hypocrisy and plain silliness of adult sexual politics. French language with subtitles.  More

Le Beau Mariage (A Good Marriage)
(1982) [PG]

An art student decides that she wants to get married. She sets out to capture Edmond. French dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Les Valseuses
(1974) [R]

Originally released in 1974, Les Valseuses(French slang for 'balls') was universally decreed as shocking and nothing short of scandalous. It is the tale of two aging juvenile delinquents, furious with the world, who take to the road and go on an orgy of petty thievery and much much worse....  More

Shadows And Fog
(1992) [PG]

A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of...  More

Local Hero
(1983) [PG]

David Puttnam's first production after "Chariots of Fire" and director Bill Forsyth's follow up to "Gregory's Girl", this delightfully observed comedy looks at the conflict between a Texas oil company and the canny residents of a Scottish fishing village, whose land is needed by the Americans for...  More

The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane
(1990) [M]

Ford "Mr. Rock n' Roll Detective" Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it's not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts. Another one of them is that all his employers that want him to find a girl...  More

The Player
(1992) [M]

Movie executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving death threats from an anonymous screenwriter. Deducing that the letters are coming from rejected hopeful David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio), Griffin sets up an 'accidental' meeting with the writer and, during an argument, kills him. While the...  More

Doctor in Love
(1960) [PG]

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.  More

Wayne's World
(1992) [PG]

Wayne is still living at home. He has a world class collection of name tags from jobs he's tried, but he does have his own public access TV show. A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their show professionally and Wayne & Garth find that it is no longer the same....  More

The Raven
(1963) [PG]

In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe's poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magician named Bedlo comes to Craven for help- the evil Scarabus has...  More

The Fearless Vampire Killers
(1967) [PG]

The Fearless Vampire Killers is a clever comedy-horror directed by and starring Roman Polanski. An expert on bats, Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his dim-witted assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski), travel to Transylvania to find and destroy vampires, where Alfred falls for the vampire's...  More