My Brilliant Career
(1979) [G]

Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) is the eldest daughter of an impoverished New South Wales farming family. Bold and determined, Sybylla dreams of succeeding as an acclaimed writer. But in a time of sexist ignorance and bigotry, Sybylla has frequent clashes with procrustean conformists. Though it is...  More

Kiss Of The Spider Woman (2 disc set)
(1985) [M]

Set in the kind of Latin American gaol where even the clean linen is bloodstained, this explosive, sad yet stirring story tells of two prisoners with nothing in common except an extraordinary friendship that grows as they step into each other's worlds.  More

Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion
(1970) [M]

In a time of internal political disturbance, Roman police inspector Gian Maria Volonte (one of the gang members of Le Cercle Rouge; the bad guy in Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More; and star of Christ Stopped at Eboli) gets that plum assignment: crack down on political dissidents; then...  More

Smiley's People (2 disc set)
(1982) [M]

The bespectacled spy master is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus' – and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably,...  More

Stormy Monday
(1988) [M]

Cosmo, a ruthless American businessman, arrives in Newcastle intent on buying up The Waterfront District for redevelopment. However, one property still eludes him – The Key Club owned by the tough and prosperous Finner. When Brendan, a new employee at the club meets Kate, Cosmo's former...  More

The Dresser
(1983) [PG]

The lives and relationships within an English touring stage company provide the backdrop for 1983 Oscar nominee The Dresser. Sir (Albert Finney), a grandiloquent old man of the theater, has given his soul to his career, but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the...  More

The Hot Spot
(1990) [M]

A loner (Johnson) drives into a small Texas town and gets himself a job at a used car dealership. He gets an idea for robbing a small local bank after he tries to open a new bank account at the same time a fire occurs nearby. The bank was left open while all of the employees went to fight the...  More

Fried Green Tomatoes
(1991) [PG]

Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates), an overweight, middle-aged woman, is in a rut. Her husband Ed ignores her, and even his bedridden aunt throws blunt objects at her! But a chance encounter with a spry octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) leads to an unexpected friendship. Ninny tells Evelyn...  More

The Music Teacher (Le Maitre de Musique)
(1989) [G]

A mix of Amadeus, Diva, Dangerous Liasons and A Room With A View, Le Maitre De Musique (The Music Teacher) is an operatic delight, a battle of good and evil for the soul of an opera singing protege (Anne Roussel). Set aginst the backdrop of the romantic, opulent world of Grand Opera in the fading...  More

Rush
(1991) [R]

What happens when two cops stop loving their job... and start living it? Rush is an emotionally riveting, powerful and unsparing film (scripted by novelist Pete Dexter) exposing the plight of two narcotics officers who cross the line and become enmeshed in the dangerous but intoxicating...  More

A Voyage Round My Father
(1982) [PG]

John Mortimer's autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father, about his relationship with lawyer father Clifford Mortimer (Sir Laurence Olivier). Alan Bates co-stars as the younger Mortimer, who must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself. His father, a successful...  More

Law Of Desire
(1987) [R]

Law of Desire is an unbridled send-up of the absurdities of human desire, a wildly funny film that took American and European audiences by storm and immediately established director Pedro Almodovar. Law of Desire features a fabulous trio - Pablo, a famous Madrid director for whom men are prepared...  More

Quiet Days In Clichy
(1990) [R]

A writer and a photographer meet in Paris during the 1930s. Together, they spend their days at the Melody Club, a place of ill-repute, where both men become obsessed with a young girl called Colette. Based on the provocative works of author Henry Miller.  More

The Night Of Shooting Stars
(1982) [M]

This magical film by the Taviani Brothers is set on the night of the Feast of St. Lawrence during the last days of World War II. A woman recalls her beloved and a night years ago when, on another such night, a group of peasants fled through the Tuscan countryside amid exploding shells lighting up...  More

Chariots Of Fire (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1981) [PG]

Set in post World War I, this film is based on the true-life story of two elite British athletes pursuing Olympic gold in 1924. Dark-haired and handsome, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), the son of a wealthy Jewish immigrant, attends Cambridge University while adding to his growing list of...  More

Jungle Fever
(1991) [M]

Spike Lee's drama is a complex, multilayered, and volatile look at interracial romance in present-day New York City. Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), an up-and-coming African American architect, seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice apartment on a renovated street in Harlem, a...  More

Pump Up The Volume
(1990) [M]

Mark is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to Arizona from the East Coast. His parents give him a short-wave radio so he can talk to his pals, but instead he sets up shop as pirate deejay Hard Harry, who becomes a hero to his peers while inspiring the wrath of the local high...  More

The Hunt For Red October
(1990) [PG]

Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, "The Hunt For Red October" seethes with high-tech excitement and the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. A new, technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captian Marko Ramius. The...  More

Peeping Tom
(1960) [M]

From Michael Powell, the brilliant and acclaimed director of A Matter of Life And Death and Black Narcissus, comes a controversial masterpiece now recognised as one of the supreme achievements of British horror cinema. By day, clean cut Mark Lewis is a focus-puller at a film studio, supplementing...  More

Intervista
(1987) [M]

Fellini's movie combines the film-within-a-film. A playful recollection of previous works and an eerie conflating of the past and present in this surreal and imaginative distillation of a man's life and work. As Fellini prepares to adapt Kafka's Amerika, his every move and gesture is captured by...  More

Not Without My Daughter
(1991) [PG]

Two-time Oscar® winner Sally Field adds another powerful acting triumph to her gallery of great roles in the suspense thriller Not Without My Daughter, a riveting true story of terror and escape. Betty has come to the Middle East with her daughter and native-born husband (Alfred Molina, Species)...  More

La Lectrice
(1988) [M]

A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean's novel "La Lectrice". Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a...  More

Cobra Verde
(1987) [PG]

Based on Bruce Chatwin's novel The Viceroy of Ouidah, the film stars Kinski as a farmer-turned- bandit in 19th-century Brazil who is exiled to West Africa to revive the slave trade. Herzog once again focuses on an outcast overwhelmed by a foreign environment, with grand visualizations of an...  More

Mephisto
(1981) [M]

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own...  More

The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
(1972) [M]

"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" was Bunuel's most successful film; it made more money even than his famous "Belle de Jour" (1967), won the Oscar as best foreign film and was named the year's best by the National Society of Film Critics. It was released in a year when social unrest was at...  More

Life Is Sweet
(1990) [M]

Wendy and Andy (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) have twin daughters, Natalie and Nicola. Natalie (Claire Skinner) is a plumber, and Nicola (Jane Horrocks) is unemployed. Natalie is relaxed whereas Nicola is anorexic. Andy is persuaded by his friend Patsy to buy a mobile snack bar. Wendy works...  More

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(1990) [R]

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince here to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up... Will this approach endear him to her?

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The World Of Apu
(1959) [G]

Originally released in India as Apur Sansar, The World of Apu was the last of Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy". Pather Panchali (1955) covered Apu's early years in his native village, while Aparajito (1956) detailed his school years, and the tragedy that temporarily brought him back home. Now Apu...  More

The Bad Sleep Well
(1960) [PG]

In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for...  More

A Zed And Two Noughts
(1985) [M]

Two women passengers die in a car crash as a result of which the female driver has a leg amputated. The zoologist twin husbands of the dead women are fascinated by the processes of decay, start an affair with the amputee and liberate animals from a zoo. Tirelessly provocative, sexy, funny and...  More