Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont
(2005) [PG]

Dan Ireland's latest film is the comedy drama, Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont, based on the best selling novel of the same name, by the late, celebrated English author, Elizabeth Taylor, for Cineville and Picture Entertainment. The story centers around an elegant elderly lady (Mrs Palfrey) who,...  More

Sanshiro Sugata
(1943) [PG]

The Directorial debut from one of the screen's greatest ever Directors - Akira Kurosawa. SANSHIRO SUGATA is the tale of the emergence of the fighting art of Judo in old Japan. Set in the late 19th century, the film follows a wayward young man Sugata and his quest for knowledge. After witnessing...  More

The Seventh Continent
(1989) [MA]

Austrian director Michael Haneke’s first feature introduces us to the themes and characters that have continued to populate his work up to and including his current US remake of Funny Games. Three years in the life of Georg, his wife Anna and their daughter Eva. It’s the story of a bourgeois...  More

Dreamgirls
(2006) [M]

Double Oscar-winning musical drama following the meteoric rise of a 60s all-girl vocal group. Based on the 1981 Broadway hit musical, the film follows full-figured belter Effie White (Jennifer Hudson) and her school friends Deena Jones (Beyonce Knowles) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose), aka...  More

Blood Diamond
(2006) [MA]

Edward Zwick directs this tale of a prized diamond, the hands through which it passes and the inhumanity that results from man's greed. Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a former Zimbabwean mercenary now living in Sierra Leone during the '91-'00 civil war. Archer hears that an imprisoned Mende...  More

Breakfast on Pluto
(2005) [MA]

Set in the 1970’s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy), an endearing, but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown and aware from a very early age that he is different, Patrick survives this harsh environment with the...  More

The Son (Le Fils)
(2002) [M]

This intensely focused film from brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (LA PROMESSE, ROSETTA) follows Olivier (Olivier Gourmet), a man in mid-life working as a carpentry instructor in a blue collar French suburb. By day he teaches teenage boys how to work with wood. By night he leads a drab,...  More

The Promise (La Promesse)
(1997) [M]

A young man born into criminal circumstances is forced to deal with his conscience in this drama from Belgium. Roger (Olivier Gourmet) is a corrupt businessman who smuggles illegal aliens into Antwerp and protects them from the law in exchange for working with his construction company. However,...  More

The Child (L'Enfant)
(2005) [M]

After learning he has a newborn son, a small-time thief attempts to go straight - but not until his amorality is pushed to its breaking point - in this social-problem drama from writer-directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Eighteen-year-old Sonia (Deborah Francois) has just given birth...  More

The Myth (2 disc set)
(2005) [M]

From the director or RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, THE MYTH is a comedy adventure across time. Archeologist Jackie and scientist William tour to India where they discover mysterious artifacts that transport Jackie back in time to his past life as a warrior general with a love long forgotten. Filled with...  More

The High and The Mighty (2 disc set)
(1954) [PG]

Soar into the skies on a thrilling airborne adventure in this meticulously restored John Wayne film classic. In one of his most memorable roles, Wayne plays Dan Roman, a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments, he finds himself scheduled on a...  More

Oh! What a Lovely War
(1969) [G]

The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, presented as the "new attraction" at the Brighton Amusement Pier, complete with syrupy cheer-up songs, shooting galleries, free prizes and a scoreboard toting up the dead The Story focuses mainly on the members of one family (last...  More

Friends with Money
(2006) [M]

Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusak star in Friends With Money – the story of four best friends whose comfortable lives are thrown off balance as the realities of early middle age set in. It paints a painfully hilarious portrait of modern life in the...  More

Children of Men
(2006) [MA]

Children of Men envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The world’s youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set against a backdrop of London...  More

The Sentinel
(2006) [M]

This dramatic thriller is based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Petievich. Special Agent, Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) suspects that the neo-Nazi Aryan Disciples have positioned one of their own in the White House, but his investigation is cut short by a blackmailer who knows of his...  More

Ten Canoes (2 disc set)
(2006) [M]

Set centuries ago in tribal times, Ten Canoes is a surreal tragi-comedy. Dayindi (played by Jamie Gulpilil, son of the great David Gulpilil) covets one of the wives of his older brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping,...  More

The Devil Wears Prada
(2006) [PG]

In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size zero is the new 2, six is the new 8, and a bad hair day can end a career, Runway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) – the most powerful woman in fashion – Runway is a...  More

The Cave of the Yellow Dog
(2005) [PG]

Mongolian drama, from director Byambasuren Davaa. Six-year-old Nansaa (Nansalmaa Batchuluun) is out taking a walk when she finds a small dog in a nearby cave. Her father, worried about the effect the dog will have on his sheep, tells her to get rid of it, but when he is away on a long trip to the...  More

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
(2005) [M]

The true story of a young woman who did what few in Nazi Germany dared even think! A student in wartime Munich, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans are members of the White Rose resistance to Hitler’s Third Reich. Spied distributing anti-Nazi propaganda at their university, the Scholls are...  More

Clean
(2004) [M]

Awarded the Best Actress Award at the 2004 Festival de Cannes for her performance, Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love, 2046) stars as the conflicted and confused Emily Wang in writer/director Olivier Assayas’ film. Her past riddled with drug use, crime and the recent death of her (once famous...  More

The Ax (Le Couperet)
(2005) [M]

A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.  More

Live and Become
(2005) [M]

A lush, moving, epic drama spanning two continents and two decades, Romanian-born, Paris-based director Radu Mihaileanu's incredibly moving and highly relevant Live and Become follows the life of an Ethiopian boy who is passed off as an African Jew to escape his ravaged country. As the years pass...  More

Hard Candy
(2005) [R]

Provocative thriller from director David Slade. For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark (Ellen Page) has been chatting on-line with 'Lensmaster319', a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff (Patrick Wilson). The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks and they hit it off,...  More

2:37
(2006)

situations that so many of today’s youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragedy will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. As the film unfolds, the individual stories of the six teenagers are revealed, each...  More

The Chumscrubber
(2005) [MA]

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle (Jamie Bell) finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to...  More

Brick
(2005) [M]

Off-beat drama from writer/director Rian Johnson, imitating the conventions of 1940s hardboiled film noir as a teenager investigates his ex-girlfriend's death in a small Southern Californian town. Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is an outsider at his high school, but when his ex-girlfriend Emily...  More

Factotum
(2005) [M]

Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, Factotum is the story of a man living on the edge, of a writer who is willing to risk everything to make sure that his life is his poetry. The excitement of betting at the race track, the passion of his love affairs with the women - Jan and Laura - who like...  More

Tony Takitani
(2004) [PG]

Tony Takitani is an adaptation of a Haruki Marakumi story. Alienated by his English name and from his own feelings of neglect of his father, a jazz trumpter, Tony Takitani becomes a skilled engineering draughtsman. One day he falls for Eiko, courts and marries her and knows happiness for the...  More

A Bittersweet Life
(2005) [MA]

Cool headed perfectionist Sun-woo has earned the trust of his boss by adeptly managing an upscale restaurant. When his boss suspects his young lover of an affair he orders Sun-woo to kill her if she has betrayed him. When Sun-woo catches her with her secret lover, he surprisingly lets them go....  More

Minor Mishaps
(2002) [M]

The members of a Danish family are thrown into many a crisis by the death of the mother. John, the deceased's widower, is something of a joker; an old charmer who allowed his wife to spoil him for 46 long years and who never really had to take on responsibility for his family. Eva, the oldest...  More