The Desperate Hours (1990)
(1990) [M]

Calculating .. ruthless .. deadly .. Michael Bosworth is a psychopath. He has escaped from custody and needs a place to hide. An ordinary house with an ordinary family - the Cornells - but Tim Cornell is no ordinary man, Vietnam vet and hard nosed businessman, he will not go down without a fight....  More

September
(1987) [PG]

At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.

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The Canton Godfather (Ji ji)
(1989) [PG]

Canton Godfather is a lavish martial-arts comic melodrama set in the 1930's. One of the most expensive Hong Kong movies ever made, it took nine months to shoot and cost $HK 64,000,000 to make. The subtle, Scorsese-inspired tracking shots, elegant montages, and innovative action sequences,...  More

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(2007) [MA]

Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal, hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the public. Robert Ford? No one knows him. Not yet. But the ambitious 19-year-old aims to change that. He'll...  More

Ordet
(1955) [PG]

Themes of religion and personal integrity punctuate Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet. Set on a Twentieth Century Danish farm, the story centres around Morton Borgen, his wife Inger and their three sons, all of whom have strayed from the Lutheran patriarchy of their upbringing. The family must face...  More

Dreams (Kvinnodröm)
(1955) [PG]

Ingmar Bergman's DREAMS follows Susanne, a photographer, and her model Doris as they journey to Gothenburg for a fashion shoot. While there, Susanne attempts to reconcile with her married lover while Doris endeavours to forget her fiancé by becoming involved with a rich businessman. Themes of...  More

Day of Wrath (Vredens dag)
(1943) [M]

Carl Theodor Dreyer made this film during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and, similar to the way Arthur Miller demonised the Hayes Code in his play 'The Crucible', Day Of Wrath uses the larger narrative of witch-hunts to point out the paranoid obsession of the period. The story follows Anne, the...  More

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
(2007) [M]

The story of one woman's crusade to control love, crush enemies and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world. As her cousin Mary Stuart conspires with Philip of Spain to topple the throne, Elizabeth prepares to go to war to defend her empire. Reprising the roles they...  More

The Cherry Orchard
(1999) [PG]

Set in Russia during the Nineteenth Century, The Cherry Orchard is based on the play by Anton Chekhov and is concerned with the effects of industrialisation and social change in Russia. In the film, aristocratic Madame Ranevskaya returns to her cherry orchard after a sojourn in Paris. She is...  More

4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
(2007) [MA]

When the flighty Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) decides to terminate her pregnancy – a crime in Romania from 1966 until 1989 – her fiercely loyal university dorm-mate and best friend, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), accompanies her to a hotel room to be “helped” by one Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), the only...  More

Control
(2007) [MA]

Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

In this time we see Curtis grow from David Bowie-infatuated teen to Sex Pistols-inspired punk, and eventually...  More

Combats de femme - Un amour de femme
(2001) [MA]

In an idyllic middle-class suburb, Jeanne is a successful osteopath with a family life that seems happy, but she feels that something is missing. Her life has become routine and at 35, she senses her youth slipping away. When Jeanne meets the sexy young Marie at a club, her life changes so...  More

The Tudors (Season 1, Disc 1)
(2007) [MA]

Emmy Award nominee and Golden Globe' winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers (from Elvis and Mission Impossible III) is Henry VIII in this epic series that focuses on the early years of the infamous King of England's almost 40 year reign. With a lust for power and an appetite for love, the young monarch...  More

Across the Universe (2 disc set)
(2007)

Set in America during the Vietnam war at the height of political and social unrest, this powerful love story from award-winning director Julie Taymor (TITUS) uses music by the Beatles to tell its heart-felt story. Part Moulin Rouge, part Hair and starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess, Across...  More

Eastern Promises
(2007) [R]

The new thriller from director David Cronenberg reteams him with his "A History of Violence" leading man Viggo Mortensen. The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Mr. Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained...  More

Michael Clayton
(2007) [MA]

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly...  More

The Last Seduction (1994)
(1994) [MA]

Bridget Gregory has a lot going for her: she's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's married to a doctor. But all of this isn't enough, as her husband Clay finds out. After she persuaded him to sell medicinal cocaine to some drug dealers, she takes off with the money, almost a million dollars, and...  More

Skins: Series 1 (Disc 3)
(2007) [R]

Fast-paced and full of angst-ridden fun, this British drama may be based on teenage characters and aimed at a teenage audience, but its content is strictly adult. Watch as eleven teens struggle with highly-charged issues of race, religion, sexuality, drugs, and food disorders. With a solid set of...  More

Skins : Series 1
(2007) [R] [TV series, 3 discs]

Fast-paced and full of angst-ridden fun, this British drama may be based on teenage characters and aimed at a teenage audience, but its content is strictly adult. Watch as eleven teens struggle with highly-charged issues of race, religion, sexuality, drugs, and food disorders. With a solid set of...  More

Skins: Series 1 (Disc 2)
(2007) [R]

Fast-paced and full of angst-ridden fun, this British drama may be based on teenage characters and aimed at a teenage audience, but its content is strictly adult. Watch as eleven teens struggle with highly-charged issues of race, religion, sexuality, drugs, and food disorders. With a solid set of...  More

Skins: Series 1 (Disc 1)
(2007) [R]

Fast-paced and full of angst-ridden fun, this British drama may be based on teenage characters and aimed at a teenage audience, but its content is strictly adult. Watch as eleven teens struggle with highly-charged issues of race, religion, sexuality, drugs, and food disorders. With a solid set of...  More

Visitors
(2003) [MA]

After six months at sea on an unassisted solo circumnavigation, Georgia Perry's 44-foot sloop is becalmed for several days. Cabin fever sets in, and the border between fact and fantasy begins to distort. However Georgia is eventually forced to question how her mind's tricks are able to leave...  More

Serenades (2001)
(2001) [M]

1890, Central Australia. On a Christian mission at the edge of the desert, a girl is born of an Aboriginal mother and an Afghan father. A dark skinned, green eyed, forbidden beauty - she is a reluctant traveler between the worlds of her parents. This is the story of Jila. Conceived against her...  More

Shooting Dogs
(2005) [MA]

Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) has come to Rwanda to teach because he believes he can make a difference. When the school becomes a haven for thousands of Rwandans fleeing escalating violence, Joe promises his brightest pupil, Marie, that the UN soldiers will protect her from the hordes of extremist...  More

Dans Paris (Inside Paris)
(2006) [M]

Anna has just left Paul who, annihilated by the separation, moves back with his father in Paris. His younger brother Jonathan, a casual student, still lives in his father's apartment and spends most of his time womanizing and fooling around. But what this apparent lightness conceals is a deep...  More

A casa nostra (Our Country)
(2006) [MA]

A tough, critical view of Italy from a director born into a fine film making pedigree, the Comencini family. A Casa Nostra uses a series of overlapping narratives to present an entirely different view of Italy than the one that features in the majority of Italian cinema seen internationally over...  More

Samsara
(2001) [MA]

A spiritual love story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, in the Himalayas, Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual enlightenment. A caravan of Lamas journey across the mountains, on a mission to return a brilliant young monk named Tashi (Shawn Ku) to his ancient...  More

The Flying Scotsman
(2006) [M]

Hope made him a dreamer, heart made him a hero. The Flying Scotsman is based on the remarkable true story of a Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree. In 1993, and as an unemployed amateur, Obree broke the world one-hour record on a bike of his own revolutionary design, which he constructed out of scrap...  More

The Devil's Playground (1976)
(1976) [M]

Fred Schepisi’s celebrated first feature is a lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy’s coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Victoria.

A semi-autobiographical retelling of the director’s own training for the priesthood, the story follows...  More

Jackie Brown
(1997) [MA]

Pam Grier is Jackie Brown: the sultry, scheming and dangerous flight attendant busy smuggling cash into America for local gunrunner Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson: Pulp Fiction). Busy that is, until an ATF agent (Michael Keaton: Desperate Measures) busts her at the airport. With a...  More