search movies
Genres
World Cinema
UK Premier
US Premier
Indie-Arthouse Cinema
Film Noir
UK Classics
US Classics
Australian
All genres
showcase
Now Available
Kino Hot Picks
Directors
Actors
collections
Kino All-time Top 100 rental titles
Christmas Movies
Blu-Ray High Definition
Director's Cut
Featured Genre
Actors' Studio
AACTA - AFI Winners . . . Best Picture
Oscar Winners . . . Best Picture
Cannes Classics
Members' Top 100 requested Titles
Service
Send a Gift
Contact Us
|
Drama
|
2922 Titles Found
|
|
|
|
|
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (2 disc set)
(2002) [PG]
Everyone's favorite novice wizard continues his adventures at Hogwarts in this sequel to the smash hit Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. This time around, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) -- who ignores warnings not to return to school if he values his life -- and his friends Ron (Rupert Grint)... More
|
|
|
Hard Eight
(1996) [MA]
Veteran gambler, Sydney, teaches John the art of professional gambling, but John soon falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and hooker. Sydney helps the couple to escape after John badly beats up a client but events soon lead to murder and revenge... More
|
|
|
Lovely And Amazing
(2001) [M]
From acclaimed director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Starring Academy Award nominee... More
|
|
|
The Accidental Spy
(2001) [M]
Internationally-acclaimed star Jackie Chan is Bei, a less-than-successful exercise equipment salesman who yearns for excitement in his life. One day, Bei follows his instincts and trails two-suspicious-looking men into action and foils their plans. The resulting publicity from Bei's heroism... More
|
|
|
Pollock
(2000) [MA]
Directed by and starring Academy Award® nominee (for Best Actor) Ed Harris (The Truman Show, The Rock), Pollock is a beautifully crafted, stunning drama about the legendary American painter Jackson Pollock. Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's... More
|
|
|
Walking On Water
(2002) [MA]
After the death of a friend, a household of long time friends and family are tossed into the myopic world of grief, where jealousy, betrayal and desire override more polite reactions to death. More
|
|
|
The Tracker
(2002) [M]
The Australian outback, 1922... four men relentlessly track a fugitive, an Aboriginal man accused of murder. In charge of the expedition is the Fanatic (Gary Sweet), calculating and complex. The Follower (Damon Garneau) is new to the frontier, a greenhorn. The Veteran (Grant Page) is along for... More
|
|
|
World Traveller
(2001) [MA]
An extremely handsome man in his early 30s, Cal has all of the outward trappings of success: a good career, a beautiful wife, a young son who adores him. But on the morning of his son's third birthday, something snaps inside Cal and he packs his bag and hits the road.
On the road, Cal has a... More
|
|
|
Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
(2003) [M]
Like mother, like daughter: neither New York playwright Sidda Lee Walker nor her eccentric Louisiana mother Vivi will likely take steps to mend the rift between them. No, this is a job for the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Ya-Yas - sworn lifelong friends of Vivi - stage an unorthodox "intervention" to... More
|
|
|
Road To Perdition
(2002) [MA]
He shouldn't have been there. But in the moment that Michael Sullivan's son witnessed a brutal slaying, the lives of this 12-year-old and his gangster father are shattered irrevocably. Now, targeted by the mob he's devoted his life to, Sullivan and his son find themselves with nowhere to turn and... More
|
|
|
The Business Of Strangers
(2001) [MA]
Julie Styron, a world-weary newly named CEO (Stockard Channing) and her brash young assistant Paula Murphy (Julia Stiles) spend an alcohol-fueled night at an airport hotel exchanging confidences, lies and playing power games centering on a slick corporate head-hunter. Their games take a dark turn... More
|
|
|
Greenfingers
(2000) [M]
A top-notch cast (including HELEN MIRREN and CLIVE OWEN from GOSFORD PARK and DAVID KELLY from WAKING NED DEVINE) headline this heart-felt comedy/drama based on a true story. The film brilliantly conveys the special bond formed when a gardening author and TV personality, Georgina Woodhouse... More
|
|
|
The Claim
(2000) [M]
THE CLAIM is an epic story of love, passion and redemption set against the winter landscape of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the making of California. Dillon (Peter Mullan) is a pioneer who defied the harsh winter in search of rumoured gold. Having amassed unimaginable riches, he runs a... More
|
|
|
I Am Sam
(2001) [M]
Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer give career-defining performances in this humorous and heartwarming story about a mentally challenged father who enlists the aid of a high-powered attorney to help him regain custody of his daughter. An all-star supporting cast and a spectacular soundtrack complete... More
|
|
|
Life As A House
(2001) [MA]
Academy Award-winner Kevin Kline stars in this heartfelt and humorous tale of a man who decides to tear down his house and winds up rebuilding the world around him. Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones), Jena Malone (Stepmom)... More
|
|
|
Black And White
(2002) [M]
True story that created headline news in 1959. A young aboriginal man Max Stuart, was convicted of murder in the light of questionable evidence presented, of nine year old Mary Hattam near Ceduna, on the south coast of Australia. International News Media Baron, Rupert Murdoch (played by Ben... More
|
|
|
Dirty Deeds
(2002) [MA]
Sydney, 1969. Crime is cool, cops are crooked and 20 bucks buys you a whole night out. For Barry (Bryan Brown), life is sweet. He runs the girls, the clubs and the illegal casinos, and not even crooked Detective Ray (Sam Neill) dares to stand in his way. Barry's wife Sharon (Toni Collette) wears... More
|
|
|
Bull Durham
(1988) [M]
Baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls new catcher, "Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner), punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" Laloosh (Tim Robbins), he's just been hired to train. Then sexy Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) informs both men that each season she chooses one... More
|
|
|
Mean Machine
(2001) [M]
Based on The Longest Yard, Robert Aldrich's 1974 prison tale about inmates who organize a football team and compete against the guards. Here, British director Barry Skolnick pulls together a ruthlessly funny cast and changes the resident sport to soccer. The leader of the prisoners is a former... More
|
|
|
Australian Rules
(2002) [M]
In Prospect Bay, a remote outpost on the South Australian coast, two communities, the Goonyas (whites) and the Nungas (blacks), come together on the one field they have in common, the football field. But the underlying racism and class warfare threatens to make the team's greatest victories... More
|
|
|
Apocalypse Now Redux
(1979) [R]
Some 49 minutes longer, with the addition of a number of fabled extra scenes, Francis Coppola's hugely ambitious Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now is now presented under the title Apocalypse Now Redux. Martin Sheen's mission (to terminate Marlon Brando's renegade Colonel Kurtz "with extreme... More
|
|
|
Unfaithful
(2002) [MA]
From Adrian Lyne, the director of Indecent Proposal and 9 1/2 Weeks comes a steamy and erotic thriller about sexual passion so intense, it consumes everything - and everyone - in its path. A housewife's (Diane Lane in an electrifying performance) perfect life and marriage prove no match for the... More
|
|
|
The Majestic
(2001) [PG]
Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) has just celebrated the opening of his first produced script when the House UnAmerican Activities Committee suddenly accuses him of being a Communist sympathizer and call him to testify. After an all night drive up the California coast, he crashes his car, develops... More
|
|
|
The Cat's Meow
(2001) [M]
In November of 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were, Charlie Chaplin, Hearst's mistress, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator, producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip... More
|
|
|
About A Boy
(2002) [M]
In this fine adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel, Hugh Grant plays Will, a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his dad years earlier. A serial womaniser, he spends his days lazing around his designer pad watching TV, and... More
|
|
|
Bread And Tulips
(2000) [M]
Rosalba is a housewife in Pescara with teenage sons, married since 21 to a plumbing supplier whose mistress is her sister-in-law. When a tour bus leaves her, and her husband calls to tell her to stay put, she rebels slightly and hitchhikes toward home, deciding on a whim to continue to Venice. More
|
|
|
Windtalkers
(2002) [MA]
WWII. Joe Enders, a decorated Marine who is by-the-book to a fault, is just coming back on duty (by cheating on his medical tests). "Ox" Anderson, much greener, is also getting the same new task: Protect the Navajo codetalkers (Ben Yahzee and Charles Whitehorse, respectively). While Enders is... More
|
|
|
John Q
(2002) [M]
John Q Archibald is a factory worker whose job has been cut to 20 hours a week. Even with his wife working, the family is sliding further into debt. Yet despite their financial problems, the Archibalds are happy, loving and especially proud of their nine-year-old son, Mike. Then tragedy strikes.... More
|
|
|
Beneath Clouds
(2002) [M]
Beneath Clouds is the story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport. To Lena, Vaughn represents... More
|
|
|
The Count Of Monte Cristo
(2002) [M]
Alexander Dumas’ classic story of an innocent man wrongly accused but deliberately imprisoned is given an exciting treatment by director Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves, Waterworld). Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless and honest young man whose... More
|
|
|
|
|