Kitchen Stories
(2003) [PG]

With its dry Nordic humour and distinguished visual style - comparisons with Aki Kaurismaki abound - acclaimed Norwegian director Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories proved to be one of 2003's genuine and most idiosyncratic cinema highlights. In the early 1950's Sweden's Home Research Institute is...  More

Pennies from Heaven (Disc 1 of 3)
(1978) [M]

In Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven, Bob Hoskins plays Arthur, a salesman dealing in sheet music who falls in love with a school teacher called Eileen (Cheryl Campbell). When Eileen discovers that she is pregnant and that Arthur is already married to Joan (Gemma Craven) she runs away. Arthur...  More

The Return (Vozvrashcheniye)
(2003) [M]

In contemporary Russia young brothers Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov) and Andrey (Vladimir Garin) have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. Running home after a fight with neighbourhood kids the boys are shocked to discover their father (Konstantin Lavronenko)...  More

The Fluffer
(2001) [R]

Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney) is the ultimate fantasy man: a chiseled Adonis and the biggest star in gay porn. The fact that he's straight doesn't seem to make a difference to anyone. Not to Julie (Roxanne Day), his lap-dancer girlfriend, who promises to take care of him and dreams of having...  More

Code Unknown
(2000) [M]

On a bustling Paris street corner, four separate lives intersect, setting into motion a stunning film by acclaimed filmmaker Michael Haneke. Carefully interweaving the stories of Anne, a promising actress (Juliette Binoche), her photojournalist boyfriend Georges (Thierry Neuvic), a young teacher...  More

Sideways
(2004) [M]

This is the story of failed novelist Miles (Paul Giamatti) and his washed-up actor friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church). Jack is soon to be wed and, to toast their youth, the pair take a final road trip in the week before the nuptials. A serious wine enthusiast, Miles is determined to educate his...  More

Closer
(2004) [MA]

Set in contemporary London, this is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen) - their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals. This is a bitingly funny and honest look at modern relationships, from Academy Award winner Mike Nichols....  More

The Town is Quiet (La Ville Est Tranquille)
(2000) [MA]

The Town Is Quiet exposes a complex mosaic of intersecting characters and subplots reminiscent of the critically acclaimed social statements of Altman's Nashville and Short Cuts. The film centers on Michele, who works at a fish market while supporting her long unemployed husband, her...  More

Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
(2001) [M]

The story of Hollywood legend Judy Garland is vividly told in this widely acclaimed film,which features Emmy Award winning portrayals by Judy Davis and Tammy Blanchard. Based on the book by her daughter, Lorna Luft, the remarkable story of Hollywood legend Judy Garland is vividly told in this...  More

Boiling Point
(1990) [M]

In Takeshi Kitano's quirky second film, Masaki (Masahiko Ono), a quiet baseball-playing gas station attendant, runs into trouble with the local yakuza. Masaki's baseball coach, Iguchi (Takahito Iguchi), turns out to be a former yakuza and attempts to straighten out the situation but only winds up...  More

Sonatine
(1993) [MA]

SONATINE is a masterwork from legendary writer, actor and director Takeshi Kitano. Kitano is Murakawa, a yakuza chief sent to Okinawa to settle a dispute between two factions. Several of his men die is suspicious circumstances so Murakawa and the rest of the gang retreat to a remote beach house...  More

Lady Snowblood Volume 2: Love Song of Vengeance
(1974) [MA]

Lady Snowblood is the movie that inspired Tarantino's Kill Bill. When a woman is raped by a vicious gang and dies in prison, her newborn daughter Yuki must carry out her revenge. Growing up as an assassin, Yuki prepares to hunt down her mother's attackers with extreme prejudice. No longer the...  More

Lady Snowblood Volume 1
(1973) [R]

Lady Snowblood is the movie that inspired Tarantino's Kill Bill. When a woman is raped by a vicious gang and dies in prison, her newborn daughter Yuki must carry out her revenge. Growing up as an assassin, Yuki prepares to hunt down her mother's attackers with extreme prejudice. No longer the...  More

Lost Things
(2003) [M]

Four teenagers, who are nearing the end of their school lives and are about to take the first steps into the adult world, set off for a weekend of sun, surf and fun on a remote beach in the north of Sydney. The two boys, Gary and Brad are intent on indulging their carnal desires with the two...  More

Water Drops on Burning Rocks
(1999) [MA]

Germany, the '70s. Leopold, a smug, still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces a fresh faced, carrot-topped 19-year old Franz who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold, a kind of gone-to-seed Dirk Bogarde, turns cranky and argumentative....  More

The Stroll (Progulka)
(2003) [M]

Olya steps out of a luxurious car and begins a stroll through the streets of St Petersburg, striking up an acquaintance with Alyosha and, later, best friend Petya. Whilst feeding them increasingly fanciful stories, she plays them against one another as they traverse and explore the beautiful and...  More

A Touch of Spice (Politiki Kouzina) (2 Disc Set)
(2003) [M]

"A Touch of Spice" is a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Costantinoupolis, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor,teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor; they both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an...  More

Bride and Prejudice
(2005) [PG]

Director Gurinder Chadha and the team that created Bend It Like Beckham put an entirely different spin on Jane Austen's story of spirited courtship - Bollywood style! Bride & Prejudice shifts the comic tale of a witty young woman trying to find a suitable husband, to a cross-cultural setting that...  More

DemonLover
(2002) [R]

Demonlover is Olivier Assayas' breathtaking vision of our spectacle-driven modern global society. On the surface, the film follows Diane (Connie Nielsen) who works for VolfGroup, a hugely powerful conglomerate that is negotiating the acquisition of TokyoAnime, whose revolutionary pornographic 3-D...  More

I Heart Huckabees
(2004) [M]

Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences, the meaning of which escape him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life; his relationships; and his conflict...  More

Tom White
(2004) [M]

Tom White (Colin Friels) is at breaking point as an architectural draughtsman, his middle class life overpowering him. His impotent fury is as confusing to him as to his workmates and his wife Helen (Rachael Blake). When he slips out of his world and wanders into the urban undergrowth of...  More

The Phantom of the Opera
(2004) [PG]

Based on the hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the tale tells the story of a disfigured musical genius that haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with the lovely Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating...  More

The Forgotten
(2004) [M]

What if everything you believed in... everything every moment you experienced... and every memory you hold clear... never happened? Julianne Moore stars as Telly Paretta, a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her eight-year old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist (Gary...  More

In My Father's Den
(2004) [MA]

Due to the death of his father, prize-winning war photographer Paul Prior (Matthew MacFadyen) has returned to his remote New Zealand hometown, battle-scarred and world-weary. When his brother Andrew (Colin Moy) – whom he hasn't seen in 16 years – convinces him to stay and help with the sale...  More

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
(2004) [M]

The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers traces the British comic's turbulent rise from popular BBC radio performer to one of the world's most gifted comedic actors. Propelled by an overly possessive mother, Sellers struggled to reconcile his relationship with women, celebrity and his many selves....  More

The Clearing
(2004) [M]

Wayne (Robert Redford) and Eileen Hayes (Helen Mirren) appear to be living perfect lives. But all illusions are shattered when Wayne, a successful businessman, is kidnapped by a man (Willem Dafoe) in broad daylight from the Hayes' elegant mansion on their Pittsburgh estate. Eileen is concerned...  More

The Bride Wore Black
(1968) [M]

Francois Truffaut's 1968 thriller was an attempt to reconcile the exclusive experience of the Hitchcockian hero with the expansiveness of Jean Renoir's view of flawed humanity. Jeanne Moreau stars as a newlywed whose husband is shot dead on the church steps following their wedding. The story then...  More

Shall We Dance (Japanese Version)
(1996) [PG]

Shohei Sugiyama is an accountant who spots a beautiful Japanese woman in a dance studio window. Hoping to get closer to her, even though he's married and has a child, he signs up for dance lessons in secret, and slowly begins to fall in love with the art form itself.

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La Dolce Vita
(1960) [M]

Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg star in Federico Fellini's best-loved masterpiece, which was awarded a Best Foreign Film Oscar and the Palme D'Or. La Dolce Vita explores the life of a gossipy newspaper columnist who becomes involved in the decadent lifestyles of Roman society in the 1960s.  More

Ten
(2002) [PG]

A perceptive and revealing portrait of contemporary Iran set in Tehran, Ten begins with a beautiful and articulate female driver (the beguiling Mania Akbari) picking up her young son from school. After boldly revealing in a less than harmonious exchange that the woman has divorced her husband,...  More