Madame Sata
(2002) [MA]

Born to slaves in the arid wasteland of Northern Brazil and sold by his mother at the age of seven, Joao Francisco pursued his freedom on the mean streets of Lapa, Rio de Janeiro. Jet-black, six feet tall, with solid muscle bursting through a silk shirt and tight pants - a cut throat razor in his...  More

Baadasssss!
(2003) [M]

Critics and audiences alike have gotten behind Mario Van Peebles' candid portrait of his father Melvin's struggle as a young, black director during the society-shifting early '70s. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin (played by son Mario) deals with two-faced backers, a rag tag crew,...  More

15
(2003) [R]

A provocative film acted by real street kids, 15 exposes a gritty side of modern-day Singapore life that will blow your mind… “Growing up in the world’s most oppressive nanny state can be bad for your mental health, and 15 tells it like it is. 26-year-old Royston Tan’s social satire has...  More

Maria Full of Grace
(2004) [M]

Winner of the Dramatic Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and two major awards at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, Joshua Marston's Maria Full Of Grace introduces us to a determined young woman whose desire for a brighter future leads her into a world of unimaginable danger. Maria...  More

Bodyline: 3 part TV mini-series (Disc 1 of 3)
(1984) [PG]

Dramatisation of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This...  More

The Book of Life
(1998) [M]

The end of the millennium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and...  More

Happenstance
(2000) [M]

The Beating of The Butterfly's Wings is an innovative examination of the chaos theory in action, as the film follows a dozen or so characters whose tiniest and seemingly most random gestures create ripples and waves in other peoples lives. A woman on the morning train tells that the full moon...  More

Galileo
(1975) [PG]

Fiddler On the Roof's Topol and a wish-list cast of British theatrical aristocracy. including Sir John Gielgud (Arthur Becket), Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange), Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal) and Tom Conti (Reuben, Reuben), ground Bertolt Brecht's famous theatrical imagination in precise,...  More

In Celebration
(1975) [PG]

Utilizing the same brilliant cast as In Celebration's original highly acclaimed Royal Court Theater run, director Lindsay Anderson (O Lucky Man, If) re-imagines his stage triumph into a riveting cinematic experience. Anderson grounds David Storye's ferocious and poignant drama in a setting that...  More

Il Bidone (The Swindle)
(1955) [M]

Part of Fellini's "Trilogy of loneliness" - with 'La Strada' and 'Nights Of Cabiria' - Il Bidone is a powerful, humorous and heartbreaking portrait of an aging man's redemption from a life of crime and deception. Stars Giulietta Masina (Juliet of the Spirits) and Academy Award Winner Broderick...  More

Scandal (Kurosawa)
(1950) [PG]

Ichiro is a young painter on holiday in the mountains. By chance he meets Miyako- a famous singer who is staying at the same hotel. Wanting privacy, Miyako is uncooperative with the press and soon a tabloid magazine falsely suggests a scandalous relationship between the singer and the young...  More

Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto
(1954) [PG]

Hiroshi Inagaki's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan's Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war....  More

Spanglish
(2004) [M]

From acclaimed multiple Oscar-winning writer/director/producer James L. Brooks comes the comedy/drama SPANGLISH - a look at cultures colliding as a beautiful native Mexican woman Flor (Paz Vega), the mother of an equally stunning 12-year-old becomes the housekeeper for an affluent Los Angeles...  More

Ray (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]

Born in a poor town in Georgia, Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) went blind at the age of seven, shortly after witnessing his younger brother's accidental death. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Ray found his calling and his gift at a piano...  More

Don't Move
(2004) [MA]

A surgeon recalls the crucial moments of his life as his own teenage daughter lies on the operating table, hovering between life and death in this tense Italian drama. In his second outing as a director, Sergio Castellitto takes the viewer on an emotional-filled ride and brings a violently...  More

Deck Dogz
(2005) [M]

Three youths skate across Sydney to meet their hero, Tony Hawk, who is hosting a pro skating competition. Hearing about a contest at the oceanside Beachbowl, where visiting American star Tony Hawk is awarding sponsorships, the trio set out on an overnight trek, pursued by police, drug-pushers and...  More

The Aviator (2 Disc Set)
(2004) [M]

The Aviator tells the story of the emotional life of aviation pioneer, Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) between the late 1920s to the 1940s. During this time, he turned a small fortune into a massive one, was test flying innovative aircraft that he had designed, directing or producing movies...  More

La Chinoise
(1967) [M]

Godard's brilliant dialectical farce, distinctly disquieting as well as gratingly funny, in which five Parisian students, members of a Maoist cell, discuss the implications of the Chinese cultural revolution and the chances of using terrorism to effect a similar upheaval in the West. Dazzlingly...  More

Beat Street
(1984) [PG]

Beat Street stars Rae Dawn Chong and an all-star cast of Hip-Hop pioneers including: Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force, Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five, Dougie Fresh, The Treacherous Three including Kool Mo Dee, Special K, DJ Jazzy Jay and Ice-T. However, this film is about more than...  More

Biggie and Tupac
(2002) [M]

The hit of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, BIGGIE & TUPAC investigates the still unsolved murders of rap superstars Christoper Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur. The story of two close friends who had a misunderstanding, a falling out and then became deadly...  More

The Innocents
(1961) [PG]

Adapted from the Henry James novel 'Turn of the Screw'. Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), a repressed spinster-governess, looks after two small children in a lonely mansion haunted by tragedy in this ground breaking horror classic. Widely considered to be the finest ghost story ever filmed, The...  More

Red Beard
(1965) [M]

The last collaboration between Kurosawa and the powerhouse actor Toshiro Mifune, Red Beard is the story of a young and arrogant medical graduate. Assigned to serve at an impoverished local clinic, Dr Yasumoto feels he is better than his surroundings. His superior is Dr Niide- known as 'Red Beard'...  More

The Twilight Samurai
(2003) [M]

Set in feudal Japan, Seibei is a low ranking Samurai and a widower, with two young daughters and an aging mother to support. One day, he encounters Tomoe, a childhood friend and beautiful divorcee and the two quickly strike up a friendship. Fearing he is too poor to make an offer of marriage to...  More

The Iceman Cometh
(1973) [PG]

Lee Marvin, in a tour de force performance, stars as the charismatic Hickey, a reformed drunk whose smiling facade masks shocking self deception. With performances the LA Times described as "quite simply, perfect", The Iceman Cometh is the American Film Theatre's greatest achievement.  More

The Maids
(1975) [PG]

Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play two Parisian maids plotting to murder their mistress. Director Christopher Miles (A Time For Loving) and legendary cinematographer Douglas Slocombe focus Genet's heady theatrically into a riveting and dynamic cinematic experience.  More

Machine Gun Kelly
(1958) [M]

Charles Bronson plays George 'Machine Gun' Kelly in this fast paced crime thriller directed by Roger Corman. Kelly, a small time crook, hooks up with Flo (Susan Cabot), who convinces him to knock off banks before he resorts to kidnapping, a sideline that proves his undoing.  More

Libido
(1973) [M]

From acclaimed Directors Fred Schepisi, Time Burstall, John B. Murray and David Baker, comes this groundbreaking anthology film exploring 70s sexual behaviour. Scripted by four of Australia's greatest authors - David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor. Starring in these...  More

Ladder 49
(2004) [M]

Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), rookie firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) has matured into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. But Jack still struggles to balance the risky job with family demands from his wife and kids. And he relies...  More

Kinsey
(2004) [MA]

Academy Award®-winner Bill Condon turns the microscope on Alfred Kinsey in a portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What began for Kinsey (Liam Neeson) as a scientific endeavour soon took on an intensely personal relevance - and ultimately an unexpected journey...  More

Garden State
(2004) [MA]

When Andrew Largeman returns to his hometown in New Jersey for the first time in 10 years to attend his mother's funeral, he is reconnected with the world he left behind, and meets a girl, Samantha, who may change his life forever. Having recently stopped taking the powerful antidepressants he...  More