Prime Suspect 2
(1992) [M]

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison now deals with a racially charged murder. The long-dead body of a young black woman is discovered in a district recently convulsed by police brutality and which now is in the midst of a highly-charged political campaign. Her investigation is hampered by the...  More

Into The West
(1993) [PG]

Still mourning the death of his wife some years earlier Papa Riley, a Traveller King, has rejected the travellers way and opted for a settled life in Dublin, so immersed in his own grief, he distances himself from his two children, Ossie and Tito. When their grandpa arrives bringing with him a...  More

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
(1983) [M]

In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of committing suicide. One of the prisoners, interpreter John...  More

In The Name Of The Father
(1993) [M]

Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis gives an impassioned performance in this riveting drama that mirrors one man's 15 year struggle and ultimate triumph over a terrible injustice. Oscar winner Emma Thompson co-stars in this gripping and highly emotive film. In The Name Of The Father tells the...  More

Widows Peak
(1993) [PG]

Edwina (Natasha Richardson) has moved into the neighbourhood known as Widow's Peak, so called due to the prevalent marital status of the residents. The residents are all curious about their new neighbour, including Mrs Counihan (Joan Plowright), the resident's leader, whose son is busy wooing...  More

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
(1990) [G]

Two unhappy boarding school children, Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb fimd themselves on a perilous quest for the lost Prince Rillian, aided and abetted by their reptilian companion Puddleglum.Their travels lead them to the Giants of Garfang and underground to the land of the earthmen. Then they...  More

Time Bandits
(1981) [PG]

Co-written by Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin, the wonderfully inventive Time Bandits tells the story of Kevin (Craig Warnock), a young imaginative boy kidnapped by a band of mischievous dwarves who have stolen a map of the universe detailing the locations of holes in the space-time continuum...  More

The Remains Of The Day
(1993) [G]

Following the success of HOWARD'S END, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson reunited with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team and teamed with a stellar support cast that included James Fox, Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant for this extraordinary, moving story of blind devotion and repressed...  More

The Bostonians
(1984) [PG]

Vanessa Redgrave (in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Christopher Reeve are the stars of The Bostonians, Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed 1984 screen adaptation of the Henry James classic, which charts the struggle betwen two charismatic forces - a feminist and a chauvinist - to gain...  More

Raining Stones
(1993) [M]

Bob Williams (Bruce Jones) is a survivor. He supplements his dole by becoming embroiled in whatever scam is on offer, from rustling sheep to rodding drains. But now life has dealt him a bitter blow. His van has been stolen and his daughter, Coleen, is approaching her first communion. She needs...  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

Mansfield Park (BBC) (2 Disc Set)
(1983) [G]

When Sir Thomas Bertram takes in the 9-year-old daughter of an impoverished relative, his wife has someone to bully. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny's good nature and fortitude finally win her a valued place in the household and the man of her dreams. Anna Massey heads the cast of...  More

The Barchester Chronicles (2 disc set)
(1982) [G]

The acclaimed 1982 BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's novels. The community of Barchester is shaken from its cosy complacency when a newspaper's crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires. Overnight, Rev. Harding (Donald Pleasence) becomes a pawn in a battle...  More

Enchanted April
(1992) [G]

Four women rent a chateau on a remote Italian island to try to come to grips with their lives and relationships. They explore the differences in their personalities, reassess their goals, and re-examine their relationships in a sisterly fashion.  More

Shadowlands
(1993) [PG]

CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack, he teaches at an Oxford College, during the 1930's. An American fan, Joy Gresham, arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally...  More

Naked
(1993) [R]

"A MASTERPIECE OF DARK HUMOUR. THE FINEST FILM OF THE DECADE - Empire Magazine". Mike Leigh's most controversial and commercial work to date is a nightmarish trawl through the twilight world of London's excluded and rejected. It's a London that many people prefer to ignore, where friendships are...  More

Much Ado About Nothing
(1993) [PG]

'Much Ado About Nothing' is a fast moving, yet intricate tale of love and romantic combat, a 'Merry War' of trust and treachery, social graces and sheer physical attraction, chastity under suspicion and marriage in jeopardy.  More

Once Upon A Forest
(1993) [G]

A magical, animated world based on a story by Rae Lambert which follows the antics of Abigail the Woodmouse, Edgar the Mole and Russell the Hedgehog.  More

Orlando (1992)
(1992) [PG]

Sally Potter's dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel is the tale of the apparently immortal Orlando, who begins an epic quest for love and freedom in the court of Elizabeth I as a man, and completes the search 400 years later as a woman. This journey takes Orlando across the...  More

The Field
(1990) [PG]

Tradition-bound Irishman 'Bull' McCabe has devoted his life to cultivating the field. When it is put up for auction and attracts the attention of a wealthy American, the resulting conflict has a devastating effect on an entire village. Based on the play by John B. Keane.  More

Angel
(1982) [R]

Angel was the debut of writer/director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins) and it stars Stephen Rea as Danny, a young and talented saxaphone player. Danny witnesses the killing of his band manager when three masked terrorists bomb a dance-hall where his band had been playing. A young...  More

Maurice
(1987) [M]

E.M. Forster's (A Room with a View, Howard's End) story, set in pre-World War I England, studies a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It is the coming of age for two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby) and Clive...  More

Lord Of The Flies (1990)
(1990) [M]

The second big screen adaptation of William Golding's novel. After a harrowing plane crash into the sea, a group of American military cadets finds itself marooned on a deserted island. Realising the minimal chances of being rescued, the boys band together out of fear and desperation. But as the...  More

American Friends
(1991) [PG]

Francis Ashby, an Oxford University Professor, ventures into the Swiss Alps for a timely and well earned holiday before his prospective appointment as president of his college. What Ashby in his secure, well ordered life does not expect to face is a mid-life crisis in the chance meeting of two...  More

Riff Raff
(1990) [M]

Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site. Here he has to contend with Mick the bossy ganger trying, but usually failing, to control his workers, Shem, Mo and Larry and the other lads as they duck and dive the...  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

Chaplin
(1992) [M]

Containing an abundance of screen talent, Richard Attenborough's critically acclaimed Chaplin is a captivating recreation of the life of movie legend Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr's BAFTA winning performance in this wonderful film takes you on a journey through the laughter and misery of the...  More

Eye Of The Needle
(1981) [M]

Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan ignite the screen as ill-fated lovers in the exciting, emotionally involving thriller. Based on the best-selling novel by Ken Follet, this searing mystery is a roller coaster ride of suspense centring on the relationship between master spy and a brave woman -...  More

The Far Pavilions
(1984) [PG]

HBO's first mini-series, set in 19th century British colonial India, involves war battles, love, treachery and intrigue as well as love and honor involving a romance between a British calvary officer and an Indian princess who has been promised in an arranged marriage to a despotic ruler.  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