Emerald City (2 Disc Set)
(1990) [M]

A tale of two cities, four people and life's little pleasures... money, lust, temptation, greed, power and ambition. Adapted from David Williamson's hit play, this classic black comedy sees a successful couple move from Melbourne to Sydney in search of artistic integrity but instead encounter a...  More

The Conversation
(1974) [M]

A paranoid and secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. *MR  More

The Wild Duck
(1983) [PG]

Director Henri Safran adapts Henrik Ibsen's stage play to an Australian setting and a turn-of-the-century ambience in this presentation of an illicit love and its consequences. Harold (Jeremy Irons) is a somewhat over-the-edge photographer who has lost out at a career in the sciences. His wife...  More

Showgirls
(1995) [MA]

When young drifter Nomi Malone is stranded in Las Vegas, she befriends seamstress Molly and supports herself by being an exotic dancer. When she meets the new lead showgirl for the Stardusts' show, Cristal Conners she becomes enthrilled at the glamorous life of the Vegas showgirl and determines...  More

Tess
(1979) [PG]

Roman Polanski's beautiful, Oscar-winning adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel. In 19th-century England a peasant named John Durbeyfield discovers he descends from a noble family, the d'Urbervilles. He sends his eldest daughter Tess (Nastassja Kinski) to live with Alec d'Urberville (Leigh...  More

Bad Timing
(1980) [R]

Art Garfunkel stars in this powerful psychological drama directed by Nicolas Roeg. Told in flashback, it tells the story Alex (Garfunkel) who whilst lecturing in Vienna begins a passionate affair with a young American Milena (Theresa Russell). Unable to cope with her promiscuity Alex becomes...  More

Six Degrees Of Separation
(1993) [M]

When a Manhattan art dealer couple open their doors to a young man who has been mugged, their world is changed forever. Claiming to be a friend of their children, the young man cons his hosts with tales of grandeur. A wickedly funny adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway play.  More

The Fire In The Stone
(1984) [G]

When his precious cache of opals is stolen, 14-year-old Ernie, who lives with his alcoholic father in the harsh and lawless opal fields of inland Australia, sets out with a friend determined to find the thief.  More

Frances
(1982) [M]

A retrospective of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and her later downfall and ill-health which were the result of black-listing. An inspirational account of the life and career of a woman of courage. Based on a true story. The violent, tragic, but true story of a rebellious...  More

Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle
(1994) [M]

An evocative portrait of renowned writer and wit Dorothy Parker which chronicles her boozy adventures both in Manhattan as a writer for The New Yorker and member of the celebrated Algonquin roundtable and later in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Jennifer Jason Leigh delivers a stunning performance...  More

Insignificance
(1985) [M]

A New York night in 1953. Fans crowd the sidewalks and the famous hide out in bars. Four 20th Century icons, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe Dimaggio and Senator Joseph McCarthy are dropped into a melting pot of the sexual and the cerebral. The group is forced into conversation and each of...  More

Another Country
(1984) [M]

Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance playing Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.*MR  More

Death And The Maiden
(1994) [R]

Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed third World country. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime...  More

When Night Is Falling
(1995) [R]

Camille and Martin are in love and teachers at a christian college; they get the opportunity to get a better job, but they would have to marry for that. But when Camille's dog dies, she recognizes that her love for Martin is not even as big as the love for her dog. After that, Camille gets to...  More

Sense And Sensibility (BBC TV)
(1981)

Devoted sisters Elinor and Marianne are forced by tragic circumstances to set about the delicate task of finding suitable husbands. Marianne, with her passionate hunger for emotional experience, falls for the handsome, dashing but heartless John Willoughby. The outwardly collected Elinor is in...  More

Minority Report (2 disc set)
(2002) [M]

For six years, Washington D.C. has been murder free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crime. But when the chief of the Precrime Unit (Cruise) is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up - or he'll fall...  More

Priest
(1994) [MA]

A Priest tries to reconcile his love for another man with his love for God, but when a girl steps into the confessional and reveals that her father sexually abuses her, he's frustrated by the laws of the church and questions his faith in a God who would allow this to happen.  More

Quiz Show
(1994) [M]

Academy Award winner Robert Redford's critically acclaimed triumph, Quiz Show, was cheered as "One Of The Year's 10 Best" by over 80 critics nationwide. It's an exciting look behind-the-scenes at the thrills and high-stakes competition of TV's hottest big-money game show! But fame and fortune...  More

The Professional (Leon)
(1994) [R]

From acclaimed director Luc Besson comes the hard-hitting, action-packed thriller, Leon. Gary Oldman plays a corrupt government official whose maniacal greed leads to murder on the streets of New York. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues when he crosses paths with a lone hitman named Leon....  More

A Bronx Tale
(1993) [M]

In his directorial debut, two-time Academy Award-Winner Robert DeNiro stars as Lorenzo Anello, a hard-working bus driver who must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from falling into a life of crime. The streets of the Bronx are a tough place for a kid to grow up, you learn...  More

Night Train To Venice
(1994) [M]

Martin is delivering to his publisher his latest novel which reveals a threat from a Fascist sect whose leader has influence over a bunch of skinheads who board the train on which Martin is travelling...  More

Boxcar Bertha
(1972) [R]

Free-spirited Bertha (Hershey) is a small-time crook with a "love 'em and leave 'em" philosophy until she falls hard for union man – and Robin-Hood-of-the-rails – Big Bill Shelly (Carradine). Stealing from the rich and giving to the workers, Bertha and Bill soon become the most notorious...  More

Running On Empty
(1982) [M]

Fox is a young man that lives in the fast lane. He believes he is the fastest man on the road - but street racing is illegal. If he doesn't accept his latest challenge he could lose his girl...if he does accept, he could lose his life. Living dangerously, living fast and winning at any cost is...  More

Bullets Over Broadway
(1994) [M]

Big city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting, all-star comedy from Woody Allen that had audiences and critics rolling in the aisles. David Shayne (John Cusack), an idealistic young writer, will do anything to get his first Broadway play of the ground - even...  More

Dawn
(1979) [PG]

This classic biographical drama, produced in 1979, explores Fraser's life before and after her competitive years, beginning with her working-class upbringing in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, and climaxing in the notorious events surrounding the Tokyo Olympics when she was banned from competitive...  More

Pret-a-Porter
(1994) [M]

Julia Roberts and Tim Robbins head a glittering all-star cast in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy new comedy hit Pret-a-Porter. At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now everybody's a suspect - including two guests (Julia Roberts - The Pelican Brief, and Tim Robbins - The...  More

The Ballad Of Narayama
(1983) [R]

In this second, award-winning interpretation of a novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, director Shohei Imamura has inserted some scenes of violence and ritual sex that are shocking and were absent in the first, 1958 film. The story is set in the 19th century in a remote and severely impoverished mountain...  More

Face To Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)
(1976)

A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness. Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullman) is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, she succumbs to a breakdown. Jenny is haunted by images and...  More

Zorba The Greek
(1964) [M]

Michael Cacoyannis's powerful film starring Anthony Quinn garnered seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. On the Greek isle of Crete, Basil (Alan Bates), a shy, inhibited writer from England is befriended by Zorba, a boisterous, gregarious peasant...  More

Speed
(1994) [M]

Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrillers, breath-taking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. KEANU REEVES stars as Jack Traven, a L.A.P.D. Swat team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (DENNIS HOPPER) has...  More