The Idiots
(1998) [R]

A group of perfectly intelligent young people decide to react to society's cult of an aimless, non-creative and non-responsible form of intelligence by living together in a community of "idiots". Their main activity becomes going out into the world of "normal" people and pretending to be mentally...  More

My Name Is Joe
(1998) [MA]

Ken Loach's 'My Name Is Joe' is a slice of life so raw that you can see the blood dripping off it and as in real life it mixes humour, passion, tragedy and violence in equal measure. Joe (Peter Mullan) is a recovering alcoholic and has done a few things in his past which he'd rather forget. Like...  More

The Sixth Sense
(1999) [M]

Dr Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist haunted by the painful memory of a disturbed young patient he was unable to help. So when he meets Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) a frightened, confused 8 year old with a similar condition, Dr Crowe seeks to redeem himself by doing everything...  More

Fire
(1996) [M]

In New Delhi Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband, Jatin. The extended family, owners of a video store, live together according to custom. Family tensions escalate. Radha, Sita's sister-in-law, is unable to conceive; her...  More

Earth
(1998) [MA]

Earth, the second film in Deepa Mehta's controversial trilogy, is an emotionally devastating love story set within the sweeping social upheaval and violence of 1947 India. As her country teeters on the brink of self-rule and instability, eight year old Lenny, an innocent girl from an affluent...  More

David Copperfield (BBC)
(1999) [PG]

Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.  More

Limbo
(1999) [M]

Set in small-town Alaska, John Sayles' Limbo is the story of Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn), a fisherman traumatised by an accident at sea years before. Into Joe's landlocked life comes Donna de Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), a nightclub singer with a habit of picking rotten male...  More

Terms Of Endearment
(1983) [M]

Terms Of Endearment dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable, insightful story of two captivating people, mother and daughter, unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. From grand slapstick to deepest sentiment, director James L. Brooks masterfully paints scenes...  More

The Red Violin
(1998) [M]

In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in...  More

Days Of Being Wild
(1991) [M]

Set in Hong Kong in the hot summer of 1960. A disillusioned and cruel young man is kept in luxury by a retired courtesan who provides everything except the identity of his real mother. He plays carelessly with lovers until leaving for the Philippines where the truth may ultimately destroy him.  More

It All Starts Today
(1998) [M]

Based upon the experiences of director Bertrand Travernier's screenplay collaborator, Dominique Sampiero, 'It All Starts Today...' revolves around Daniel Lefebvre, the director of a kindergarten in Hernaing, a poor area in Northern France. Appalled by the deprivation that his pupils must endure,...  More

Tea With Mussolini
(1999) [PG]

Florence, 1934. A diverse group of cultured ladies meet for tea each afternoon: Lady Hester Random (Maggie Smith), widow of the British Ambassador to Italy, Arabella (Judi Dench), an artist and singer, Georgie (Lily Tomlin), the exuberant American Archaeologist, and the brash and uninhibited Elsa...  More

Pecker
(1998) [M]

A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. However, Pecker soon discovers that instant over-exposure has its negative side and when his subjects become objects of public derision, he...  More

Affliction
(1997) [MA]

Wade Whitehouse is a sheriff of a small New Hampshire town who achieved nothing in life in the opinion of his ex-wife Lillian and daughter Jill and is a heavy drinker. His girlfriend Margie accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy...  More

Existenz
(1999) [M]

Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her...  More

Bedrooms And Hallways
(1998) [M]

A fast-moving nineties spin on the traditional British bedroom farce. A man fast approaching thirty years of age and living in London arrives home to a surprise party. But for a man whose personal life is in disarray, a party isn't what the doctor ordered......  More

Gummo
(1997) [R]

Xenia, Ohio, is a small poor and boring city that never fully recovered after a tornado in the 1970s. Teenager Solomon and his slightly older friend Tummler, have nothing to do but kill time, buying glue to sniff and get high.  More

Summer Of Sam
(1999) [R]

The dynamic John Leguizamo is teamed with Academy Award® winner Mira Sorvino in an electrifying, must-see movie that takes you back to New York City's infamous summer of 1977! The heat is soaring to record highs, blackouts are filling the streets with looters...and the murders of a man who calls...  More

Erskineville Kings
(1999) [M]

Director Alan White's debut feature, with a dynamic ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman (X-Men, Swordfish), Joel Edgerton (The Secret Life Of Us, Star Wars II & III) and Aaron Blabey (Crash Burn) brings a gritty truth and performances of true power to the Australian screen. Barky (Marty Denniss)...  More

The Winslow Boy
(1999) [G]

Based on real life events in 1912 England, this exquisitely crafted film tells of Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old navel cadet expelled from the Academy for stealing a five-shilling postal note, and his father, London Banker Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) all-consuming attempt to prove his...  More

Life Is Beautiful
(1997) [M]

Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II... and Guido must rely on those very...  More

Cookie's Fortune
(1999) [M]

Life in small town Mississippi means fishing, drinking and singing the blues. But when a dead body is discovered, everyone in Holly Springs soon becomes involved in the liveliest and funniest murder mystery the South has ever seen. A wonderfully warm-hearted comedy, Cookie's Fortune boasts superb...  More

The Miracle Worker
(1962) [M]

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke deliver remarkable, Oscar-winning performances in Arthur Penn's film The Miracle Worker. Locked in a frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness since infancy, 7-year-old Helen Keller (Duke) has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her...  More

Central Station
(1998) [M]

Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film 1998 and features an unforgettable performance by Fernanda Montenegro as Dora a lonely and cynical older woman who spends her days unhappily writting letters for illiterate customers at Janero's Central Station. Reluctantly she befriends a...  More

Two Hands
(1999) [MA]

A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl, who Ledger starts a...  More

American History X
(1998) [MA]

American History X unfolds through the eyes of Danny, whose older brother Derek is seeking retribution for their father's murder. Full of anger, Derek becomes the charismatic leader of a local white power movement. Despite his intelligence, Derek's hateful actions culminate in a brutal murder and...  More

Wall Street
(1987) [M]

Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with with to approach the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker...  More

The General
(1998) [M]

Family man. Psychopath. Folk hero. Gangster. Martin Cahill was all this and more. For twenty years he captured the imagination of the public while eluding capture by the police. Thumbing his nose at authority, Cahill wound up stealing over $60 million until the IRA decided to put him out of...  More

Gods And Monsters
(1999) [M]

Ian McKellen delivers a riveting, award-winning performance as Hollywood horror director James Whale. It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past....  More

Manhattan
(1979) [M]

Isaac Davis is a divorced TV writer unhappy with his job. His ex-wife left him for another woman and is writing a revealing book about her relationship with Isaac. He presently dates a seventeen year old high-school student, Tracy, who idolises him, though he does not love her. When he meets...  More