Human Touch
(2004) [MA]

From Paul Cox (Innocence), one of Australia's most celebrated filmmakers, comes the erotically charged drama Human Touch. Anna (Jacqueline McKenzie) is in her early 30s. She has a burgeoning music career as a singer, and has a loving relationship with her painter boyfriend, David. When Anna's...  More

Basic Instinct 2
(2006) [MA]

In the psychological thriller Basic Instinct 2, after re-locating from San Franciso to London, best-selling crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) one again finds herself on the wrong side of the law. Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey), a respected London criminal psychiatrist, is...  More

Capote
(2005) [M]

The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small...  More

5 x 2 (Five Times Two)
(2004) [MA]

5 x 2 is a haunting and realistic evocation of the evanescence of love and how adult relationships evolve over time. Returning to a more intimate scale following his international smashes Swimming Pool and 8 Women, Francois Ozon's chamber drama is an anatomy of a failed marriage told in reverse...  More

Firewall
(2005) [M]

Thriller starring Harrison Ford as Jack Stanfield, an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft, Jack's life is turned upside down when his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two children are kidnapped....  More

The World's Fastest Indian
(2005) [PG]

Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade. Set in the late 1960's, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian Motorcycle, Burt sets off from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah....  More

Crimson Gold
(2003) [M]

We see an attack on a jeweller’s shop in Teheran. The raid gets totally out of hand. Before the film has picked up speed, the attacker has pointed the gun at his own temple. Panahi then cuts to pizza delivery boy Hussain, fat and bloated as a result of cortisone treatment. Together with his...  More

Mango Kiss
(2003) [M]

American independent filmmaker Sascha Rice makes her feature debut with Mango Kiss, based on the stage play Bermuda Triangles: The Non-Monogamy Experiment. Butch Lou (Michelle Wolff) and femme Sassafras (Daniele Ferraro) drive to San Francisco together, share an apartment, and become lovers in an...  More

Stupid Boy
(2004) [R]

Loic, a young, gay man in Switzerland, fills the emotional void of his turbulent sex life with dreams of self-betterment. When a casual but tender encounter with an older man presents the promise of emotional connection and validation, Loic arrives at one of the most crucial crossroads of his life.  More

Tsotsi
(2005) [M]

In a shantytown on the edges of Johannesburg, South Africa, nineteen year old Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) has repressed any memory of his past, including his real name: "Tsotsi" simply means "thug" or "gangster" in the street language of the ghetto. Orphaned at an early age and compelled to...  More

Azumi 2: Death or Love
(2005) [MA]

Sometime after the events of Azumi, the eponymous protagonist (Aya Ueto), a beautiful young assassin, and her sole surviving friend, Nagara (Yuma Ishigaki), set out to prevent a rebellion against the Tokugawa Shogunate by a recalcitrant feudal lord who is being aided by a clan of killers with...  More

Red Lion
(1969) [MA]

When a poor servant (Toshiro Mifune) borrows the Imperial Red Lion mane and impersonates an army officer in town, he expects a warm welcome, but he gets much more than he bargained for. Torn between his friends, incompetent town officials and a secret group of assassins, the bumbling servant is...  More

Lacombe Lucien
(1974) [M]

With a superb music score by Django Reinhardt, this is a Louis Malle film about the German occupation of France. Based on his own experiences in France during the occupation, Malle's film does not paint a pretty picture of the French Resistance and eventually he emigrated to America because of...  More

The World
(2004) [PG]

Chinese writer/director Jia Zhang Ke's The World is his fourth feature, but it's his first set in a major city, and the first film he's made with the cooperation of the Chinese government. The World is set at the eponymous amusement park in Beijing. Tao (Zhao Tao, who played the Mongolian King...  More

Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live)
(1962)

Vivre Sa Vie presents 12 episodes in the life of a young woman who turns to prostitution to pay her rent. Each episode features a theatrical scene preceded by a title that lists the characters in the episode, its location, and a brief summary of the action. As he would throughout his career,...  More

36 Quai des Orfevres
(2004) [MA]

For some months now, a violent gang in Paris has been operating with complete disregard for the law. Head of the Judicial Police, Robert Mancini (Andre Dussollier), lays down a challenge to his two subordinates: whichever man captures the gang will replace him as head of the Criminal...  More

Paradise Now
(2005) [M]

Said (Kais Nashef) is a young Palestinian living in Nablus, and working as a mechanic. He gets his friend Khaled (Ali Suliman) a job, but the hot-tempered and impulsive Khaled quickly loses it. Suha (Lubna Azabal), a pretty, well-traveled young woman and the daughter of a well-known "martyr,"...  More

The Weather Man
(2005) [MA]

Nicolas Cage stars in this off-beat comedy as Chicago TV weather forecaster Dave Spritz, who has a love-hate relationship with his public, and with his eccentric family. When he is given the opportunity to move to New York and hit the big time in his career, Dave makes one last effort to reunite...  More

The Merchant of Venice (The BBC Shakespeare Collection)
(1980) [PG]

Antonio's best friend, Bassinio, is in love with Portia, a wise and wealthy heiress, and needs three thousand ducats to press his suit. With Antonio's money tied up in ships at sea, he approaches Shylock, a jewish usurer, who agrees to lend the money under the provision that Antonio shall forfeit...  More

Munich
(2005) [MA]

Inspired by real events, Steven Spielberg's Munich reveals the intense story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes – and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on...  More

Imagine Me and You
(2005) [M]

A new bride finds she's tempted to leave her husband under circumstances she never anticipated in this romantic comedy-drama. Rachel (Piper Perabo) and Heck (Matthew Goode) are longtime sweethearts who have decided to take the plunge and get married, but on the day of their wedding, while Rachel...  More

Russian Dolls
(2005) [M]

A French writer finds his life is once again being turned sideways by his footloose European friends in this sequel to the international hit L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment). Five years after we last saw him, Xavier (Romain Duris) has given up his aspirations of a career in...  More

Othello (The BBC Shakespeare Collection)
(1981) [G]

The BBC Shakespeare is a unique collection of some of the finest dramas in the English language, each production a celebration of the greatest talents in contemporary British Theatre and Television. These plays feature the cream of the 20th Century's acting talent. Desdemona defies her father to...  More

Four Brothers
(2005) [M]

From acclaimed director John Singleton comes a gritty, urban tale about four adopted brothers from delinquent backgrounds, bound together by their love of the mom who adopted and raised them. After she is brutally murdered, the brothers reunite to avenge her death.  More

North Country
(2005) [MA]

A fictionalised account of the first successful sexual harassment case in the United States. When Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to support, she turns to the predominant...  More

Hustle and Flow
(2005) [M]

One man's struggle to rise above his circumstances prompts him to try a career in music in this acclaimed drama from writer and director Craig Brewer. Djay (Terrence Howard) is a low-level pimp and drug dealer who scraped together a living in the ghettos of Memphis, TN. Djay isn't happy with his...  More

Rent
(2005) [M]

This film adaptation of the Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Boheme features many members of the original cast. It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS and both its physical and emotional...  More

Transamerica
(2005) [MA]

Comedy drama starring Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree. One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and in trouble with the law. Bree helps her son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), who believes that she is simply a do-gooder. She buys a...  More

Figures in a Landscape
(1970) [PG]

Renowned actors Robert Shaw (Black Sunday) and Malcolm McDowell (Star Trek: Generations) star as desperate fugitives in an unnamed foreign land, wanted for unkown crimes by a nameless, faceless enemy. Against a raw, unforgiving backdrop of parched desert and frozen mountains, MacConnachie (Shaw)...  More

Shinobi
(2005) [MA]

After years of war, Japan is united by the Shogun. Bound by a code of peace, the tribes of the Iga and Koga ninja maintain an uneasy truce. Beautiful Oboro is the leader of the Iga, heroic Gennosuke the Koga leader. The two fall in love, not knowing who the other is. The Shogun hatches a plan to...  More