About Schmidt
(2002) [M]

In director Alexander Payne's About Schmidt, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson in one of his richest performances) has arrived at several of life's crossroads all at the same time as he is forced to deal with an ambiguous future as he enters retirement. Soon after, his wife of 42 years passes away...  More

Chicago
(2002) [M]

Winner of six Academy Awards (2002) including Best Picture and starring sexy Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones's Diary), Best Supporting Actress winner Catherine Zeta-Jones (Traffic), Best Supporting Actress nominee Queen Latifah (Bringing Down The House) and Golden Globe winner Richard Gere...  More

All Or Nothing
(2002) [MA]

Taking place over the course of a weekend and set amongst the run-down surroundings of a south London housing estate, Mike Leigh's All Or Nothing paints a vivid portrait of the lives of taxi driver Phil (Timothy Spall), his dysfunctional family and a selection of their neighbours. Phil's partner...  More

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
(2000) [M]

At the sudden death of her husband, Thelma is prematurely placed into a nursing home by her selfish money grabbing son. Rebelling against the system she takes on the Nursing Home establishment and wins recognition, her independence and a chance to love again.  More

Cambridge Spies (2 Disc Set)
(2003) [M]

In 1934, four brilliant, but seemingly conventional young men at Cambridge University are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for communism, a talent for lying and a hatred of Hitler and fascism, they began a 20-year career of deceit and treachery. The...  More

The Recruit
(2003) [M]

The Recruit is a twist-filled mind game thriller set in the world of U.S. secret agents. Walter Burke (Al Pacino) recruits computer whizz James Clayton (Colin Farrell) to be part of his training course for CIA field operatives based in "the Farm", a training school at the CIA's home in Langley....  More

Tape
(2002) [MA]

After 10 years apart, three people come together at a motel to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. Anxious, edgy and fuelled up on drugs and drink, Vince (Ethan Hawke), a volunteer firefighter and dealer from the West Coast paces around his motel room awaiting the...  More

Swing
(2002) [PG]

Max (Oscar Copp) is first seen timidly venturing into the gypsy neighbourhood of a small Alsace town, intent on buying a guitar. He’s staying with his grandmother for the summer, and has fallen for the exuberant jazz played by French gypsies since the 30s, when it was made famous by the...  More

The Experiment
(2001) [MA]

The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards. The 'prisoners' are locked up and have...  More

Frida
(2002) [MA]

Nominated for six 2002 Academy Awards (including Salma Hayek for Best Actress), Frida is the triumphant motion picture about an exceptional woman who lived an unforgettable life. A product of humble beginnings, Frida Kahlo (Hayek) earns fame as a talented artist with a unique vision. And from her...  More

The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste)
(2001) [R]

The Piano Teacher is a powerful and controversial new drama from the award winning filmmaker Michael Haneke. Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman of around forty who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her...  More

The Pianist (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [MA]

Roman Polanski's remarkable, Oscar and Palme D'Or winning film The Pianist tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody). Managing to survive in the Krakow ghetto while the vast majority of the Jewish population have been transported to concentration camps, Szpilman leads a lonely,...  More

City By The Sea
(2002) [MA]

In its heyday, the New York borough of Long Beach was a tourist haven labeled 'the city by the sea'. But now it's a derelict zone riddled with drug addicts and criminals. Raised in Long Beach, detective Vincent La Marca (De Niro) long fled his crumbling hometown for Manhattan. But he left behind...  More

Before You Go
(2002) [M]

Directed by veteran British film-maker Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita), Before You Go is based on Shelagh Stephenson's play 'The Memory of Water'. Three sisters (Julie Walters, Joanne Whalley and Victoria Hamilton) return to their family home in Northumberland following the...  More

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
(2001) [MA]

The first ever Inuit film to receive a theatrical release, Atanarjuat is a truly epic piece of storytelling and a wonderfully lyrical cinematic experience. The film is a recreation of an ancient Inuit legend of Atanarjuat - a classic quest story set in the Arctic at the dawn of the first...  More

Dinner Rush
(2000) [MA]

The exciting, chaotic, behind-the-scenes dramas of a TriBeCa Italian restaurant is lovingly brought to life in Dinner Rush. Director Bob Giraldi creates a rapid-fire tale of gangsters, gourmet food, high-flying chefs, bookies and obnoxious patrons - brought to life with snappy dialogue and an...  More

Adaptation
(2002) [MA]

Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Oscar winner Chris Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), neurotic Hollywood screenwriter...  More

Garage Days
(2002) [MA]

Alex Proyas, director of The Crow and Dark City, switches gears for the lightweight romantic comedy Garage Days. Set in the Sydney suburb of Newtown, Freddy (Kick Gurry) really wants his band to make it big. The band consists of his girlfriend Tanya (Pia Miranda) on bass, the drugged-out Lucy...  More

The Sicilian Clan
(1969) [M]

Top shelf French crime thriller. Two criminals join forces to steal millions of pounds worth of jewelery which are to be shown to the public in Venice. The heist is to take place on an aircraft. Excellent score by Ennio Morricone.

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Enough
(2002) [MA]

In the Michael Apted thriller Enough, Jennifer Lopez plays former waitress Slim who marries a customer who has defended her honour, but later discovers her husband (Bill Campbell) is a womaniser prepared to enforce the rule of law with regular beatings if Slim decides not to tow the line and...  More

Bloodwork
(2002) [M]

Clint Eastwood produces, directs and stars as FBI Profiler Terry McCaleb in this absorbing and edgy thriller based on the acclaimed best selling novel by Michael Connelly, Blood Work. Unrelenting in his pursuit of justice, McCaleb is fast closing in on his latest adversary - a psychopath dubbed...  More

Changing Lanes
(2002) [M]

a collision with Doyle Gipson, also on the way to the courthouse - for his children's' custody hearing. In that moment the duo's lives alter forever. Short on time and under pressure, Banek offers Gipson a blank cheque to cover the cost of the accident, and avoid the delay of "doing things...  More

Heaven
(2002) [M]

Love, retribution and redemption. Devastated by her husband's death from a drug overdose, Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, tries to bring justice to the biggest drug dealer in Turin when the local police ignore her information about him. In building a home-made bomb and setting...  More

8 Women
(2002) [M]

Directed by Francois Ozon, 8 Women is a delightful and unconventional tongue-in-cheek thriller – part murder mystery, part musical – featuring some of the greatest actresses in French cinema. It is Christmas and a family gathers to celebrate the festive period with wealthy industrialist...  More

The Man From Elysian Fields
(2001) [M]

A biting, multi-layered morality tale about an author, Byron Tiller. This Psycholological drama is about an impoverished writer lost in a world of money, power and male escorts. Though happily married with a child, Byron Tiller is struggling to make ends meet as a novelist. His last work called...  More

La Haine: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(1995) [MA]

Injured by a police inspector during an interrogation, Abdel is at a hospital, almost dead. In the suburbs where he lives, some riots happened during the night, and one policeman lost his gun. One of Abdel's friends, Vinz, finds it. Vinz and his two pals, Said and Hubert, have nothing to do so...  More

Last Orders
(2001) [M]

When Jack Dodd passes away, his three best friends and son unite to carry out his last wish. It's a request that will send them on a journey of discovery into the life they all shared - the precious and precarious relationships, the beers, the tears, secrets fondly remembered and some too hard to...  More

K19 The Widowmaker
(2002) [M]

At the height of the 1960's Cold War, Russia launches its flagship nuclear submarine, the K-19. In command is iron-willed Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Ford). Also aboard is the popular executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson), who clashes with Vostrikov but shares his unwavering patriotism....  More

Brotherhood Of The Wolf
(2001) [MA]

The year is 1764 and for the past two years a mysterious beast has been killing scores of women and children in the Gevaudan region of France. With the whole country shaken by these inexplicable killings, the King decides to send scientist Gregoire du Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan) and his taciturn...  More

Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!)
(2001) [R]

Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to be impressive, the friends tell Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach called Boca del Cielo. Intrigued with their story and desperate to escape, Luisa...  More