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

Howard's End (25th anniversary, 4K restoration edition)
(1992) [G]

From Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us A Room With A View and Maurice, also based on Forster's novels, comes this masterful adaptation of Howard's End. A story of two families who are drawn together by extraordinary circumstances in spite of their vastly differing backgrounds and...  More

Smiley's People (2 disc set)
(1982) [M]

The bespectacled spy master is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus' – and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably,...  More

Stormy Monday
(1988) [M]

Cosmo, a ruthless American businessman, arrives in Newcastle intent on buying up The Waterfront District for redevelopment. However, one property still eludes him – The Key Club owned by the tough and prosperous Finner. When Brendan, a new employee at the club meets Kate, Cosmo's former...  More

The Dresser
(1983) [PG]

The lives and relationships within an English touring stage company provide the backdrop for 1983 Oscar nominee The Dresser. Sir (Albert Finney), a grandiloquent old man of the theater, has given his soul to his career, but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the...  More

A Voyage Round My Father
(1982) [PG]

John Mortimer's autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father, about his relationship with lawyer father Clifford Mortimer (Sir Laurence Olivier). Alan Bates co-stars as the younger Mortimer, who must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself. His father, a successful...  More

Licence To Kill
(1989) [M]

James Bond (Timothy Dalton) takes on his most daring adventure ever when he turns renegade and goes head to head with one of the international drug cartel's most brutal and powerful leaders. This time, he's fighting not for country, not for justice...but for revenge!  More

For Your Eyes Only
(1981) [M]

The Greek underworld provides the setting for this chapter in the Bond legacy. The title song received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song in 1981. The action includes a hair-raising chase down a Cortine bobsleigh run, a ferocious underwater battle in spy-tech vehicles and a...  More

A View To A Kill
(1985) [MA]

Roger Moore stars in his last appearance as 007, pitting his wits against a billionaire industrialist, who intends to make a killing of earthquake proportions on the world microchip market. Super-intelligent Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), the product of Nazi genetic experimentation, has stolen...  More

Chariots Of Fire (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1981) [PG]

Set in post World War I, this film is based on the true-life story of two elite British athletes pursuing Olympic gold in 1924. Dark-haired and handsome, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), the son of a wealthy Jewish immigrant, attends Cambridge University while adding to his growing list of...  More

Life Is Sweet
(1990) [M]

Wendy and Andy (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) have twin daughters, Natalie and Nicola. Natalie (Claire Skinner) is a plumber, and Nicola (Jane Horrocks) is unemployed. Natalie is relaxed whereas Nicola is anorexic. Andy is persuaded by his friend Patsy to buy a mobile snack bar. Wendy works...  More

A Zed And Two Noughts
(1985) [M]

Two women passengers die in a car crash as a result of which the female driver has a leg amputated. The zoologist twin husbands of the dead women are fascinated by the processes of decay, start an affair with the amputee and liberate animals from a zoo. Tirelessly provocative, sexy, funny and...  More

Excalibur
(1981) [M]

The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur, from visionary moviemaker John Boorman. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte D'Arthur are here: Arthur removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the...  More

Altered States
(1980) [M]

Scientist William Hurt explores the avenues of altered consciousness, dabbling in tribal drug rituals and sensory deprivation tanks. But mental changes begin to affect him physically and he hallucinates back to the event of his birth, slowly regressing into primitive stages of human evolution......  More

Blackadder 4: Blackadder Goes Forth (Remastered)
(1989) [PG]

The Western Front 1917: Captain Blackadder joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high sex drive. Now he's twenty yards from a lot of heavily armed people who want to kill him. Worse still, his brother officer is a man whose family...  More

Without A Clue
(1988) [PG]

A madcap comedy which takes a fresh look at the classic Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson escapades. Holmes is actually a figment of Dr. Watson's own success in crime detection, a character who Watson uses when he writes in `The Strand' magazine. But when the printing plates for five pound notes are...  More

The Comfort Of Strangers
(1990) [M]

Paul Schrader directs this stylish adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel scripted by Harold Pinter. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) first fell in love on a romantic holiday in Venice. Now, four years later, they have returned to rekindle their romance and determine where their...  More

Edens Lost
(2005) [M]

Edens Lost is the compelling story of Angus Weekes, a seventeen-year-old boy growing up in Australia in the 1930s. After the death of his Aunt and guardian May Collins, Angus is drawn into the mysterious and enchanted world of the St James Family. His experience with the family in their Blue...  More

Impromptu
(1991) [M]

Better known in her own day than even Charles Dickens, George Sand (Judy Davis) was the most celebrated writer of the early nineteenth century and possibly its most notorious Bohemian. Fredric Chopin (Hugh Grant) was one of the greatest musicians of his age who gained a legendary reputation...  More

A Month In The Country
(1987) [PG]

They came to a Yorkshire village to heal their battle-scarred minds. Two Great War survivors who forged an unusual bond during the idyllic summer of 1920. Birkin's task was to uncover a medieval masterpiece in the local church, while Moon discovered a Saxon chapel in the graveyard. And through...  More

Eating Raoul
(1982) [M]

A black comedy. Paul and Mary Bland are a charming middle-class couple who would like open a restaurant. But as Paul has lost his job and real estate is expensive it doesn't seem possible. When a swinger from an upstairs apartment makes a pass at Mary, Paul accidently kills him. They discover...  More

Heat And Dust
(1983) [M]

The passion, violence, mystery and beauty of India are rapturously evoked in Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed Heat And Dust, based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist. Blending east with west, and moving effortlessly between the vibrant world of...  More

For Queen And Country
(1988) [M]

Denzel Washington stars as Reuben, an ex-paratrooper, in this hard-hitting British thriller. Returning to civilian life for the first time in nine years, Reuben must confront racism, poverty and corruption in Thatcher's Britain. After serving his country in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, St....  More

Hope And Glory
(1987) [M]

A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war...  More

The Commitments
(1991) [M]

Dubliner Jimmy Rabbitte, is a man with a vision - to bring soul music to Dublin. His friends Derek and Outspan ask him to manage their band and Jimmy agrees, but only on his terms. He places an ad in the local paper which simply reads "have you got soul? If so, the World's Hardest Working Band is...  More

Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams
(1983) [G]

Filmed at Heaven, one of London’s hottest clubs in 1983, the Eurythmics striking stage presence is complimented by a spectacular laser show. The concert is only part of the story. Also included in “Sweet Dreams (The Video Album)” are video clips of “Sweet Dreams”, “Love Is A...  More

My Left Foot
(1989) [M]

Based on the life story of Christy Brown, this touching film depicts his struggle for a normal life. Born with cerebral palsy into a very poor family, Christy was able to control movement in his left foot and speak in guttural sounds. With the help of his strong-willed and dedicated family and...  More

My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985) [M]

Set within the Asian community in London, My Beautiful Laundrette is an unusual love story concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years. Omar (Gordon Warnecke) takes over the running of his wheeler-dealer uncle's laundrette with the intention of turning it into a...  More

Dangerous Liaisons
(1988) [M]

Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her...  More

A Passage To India
(1984) [PG]

Oscar-winning story of the social friction between the British and Indian communities, which clash dramatically when an Indian befriended by two visiting English women is accused of raping one during a trip to the remote Marabar caves.  More