Cruising
(1980) [R]

The controversial story of an under-cover cop who enters the gay scene of Manhattan to search for a psychotic killer.

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Basic Instinct
(1992) [R]

An ice pick stained with blood. A silk scarf tied to a bed post. A fading rock star brutally slain. The clues and the victim, but where is the killer? For Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), a cop on the edge whose best friend is the bottle, what begins as just another murder hunt quickly turns into...  More

I Vitelloni
(1953) [G]

Fausto, the leader of a gang of shiftless young men in a small Italian seaside town, is forced by his father to marry a local girl after it is discovered she is pregnant. Irrespective of his predicament Fausto and his friends persist in their daily slothful rituals. All the while Fausto continues...  More

Picnic At Hanging Rock: Director's Cut (2 Disc Set)
(1975) [PG]

Based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day, Picnic At Hanging Rock is suffused with menace, mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900, a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly...  More

Empire Of The Sun
(1987) [PG]

Nominated for six Academy Awards and winner of three BAFTA's, Steven Spielberg's tale of a youngster's harrowing and remarkable experiences in World War II-era China stars Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Ben Stiller and Leslie Phillips. Empire of...  More

The Big Steal
(1990) [PG]

Danny Clark loves Joanna Johnson and Jaguars. The only problem is he doesn't have either of them. Danny trades his ancient Nissan Cedric in for a Jag with crooked dealer Farkas, and a loan. The Jag has a dodgy motor and Danny is forced to try to steal the original motor from Farkas. Joanna hates...  More

Matewan
(1987) [M]

A small town in 1920's West Virginia explodes when unionist miners clash with the owners of a tyrannical coal company in this critically acclaimed film from writer/ producer John Sayles (Lone Star). Earnest labor leader Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, A Time To Kill) arrives in Matewan to better the...  More

Black Robe
(1991) [M]

A compelling adventure of one man's extraordinary mission, driven by his dreams of martyrdom, to save the souls of "the Savages" in the hostile wilderness of seventeenth century North America. A long and perilous journey which soon becomes a struggle for his own survival, and for the world which...  More

Excalibur
(1981) [M]

The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur, from visionary moviemaker John Boorman. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte D'Arthur are here: Arthur removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the...  More

A Town Like Alice
(1956) [G]

Peter Finch and Virginia McKenna star in this award-winning adaptation of Nevil Shute’s moving novel. Jean, a prisoner in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, meets a captive Australian, Joe, and the two form a mutually affectionate relationship. He tells her of his home town and how he hopes to...  More

Camelot (1967)
(1967) [G]

The legend of King Arthur has enchanted generation after generation. His pure, perfect kingdom was shattered because of the tragic passion between Queen Guenevere and the Round Table's bravest knight Lancelot. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe shaped that saga into the 1960 musical Camelot....  More

Crimes And Misdemeanors
(1990) [M]

Poignant, penetrating and scathingly hilarious, Crimes and Misdemeanors is a deftly rendered tale about the complexity of human choices and the moral microcosm that they represent. Showcasing Allen’s brilliant grasp of the link between the funny and the fatal, his nineteenth movie, Crimes and...  More

Frankie And Johnny (1991)
(1991) [M]

Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer light up the screen in this captivating romantic comedy. Pfeiffer plays Frankie, a waitress at a N.Y.C. coffee shop. After a series of hurtful relationships, the last thing Frankie's looking for is a new man...until he comes looking for her. Pacino is an outgoing...  More

Papillon
(1973) [M]

They called him Papillon, meaning "butterfly." If only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island. Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J....  More

Billy Bathgate
(1991) [M]

Hungry for a taste of the good life, street-wise New York teenager Billy Bathgate joins a gang of fiery 1930's mobster Dutch Schultz. Billy is seduced by the power, money and glamour of crime and quickly rises up through the ranks. But when he falls for Drew Preston, Dutch's sultry, strong-willed...  More

The Boat (Das Boot)
(1981) [M]

Widely considered to be director Wolfgang Petersen's best film and one of the finest German films ever made, DAS BOOT is stunningly realistic in its portrayal of the cramped conditions aboard a German submarine.  More

Where The Green Ants Dream
(1984)

The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream.  More

Veronika Voss (The BRD Trilogy)
(1982) [M]

An ominous and lurid melodrama, Veronika Voss is constructed as a complex compendium of film styles and filmic references, not spelled out in anthological form, but integrated with the dramatic content. A hauntingly original work.  More

September (2007)
(2007) [M]

Ed (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy(Clarence John Ryan) have been best friends for as long as they can remember. While Ed goes to school, Paddy works with his father, Michael(Kelton Pell) labouring without pay on the farm owned by Ed's father,Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith). Ed and Paddy spend their...  More

Play Misty For Me
(1971) [M]

Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut with this contemporary thriller about psychotic obsession. Eastwood also takes the lead in the starring role as Dave Garver, a popular radio disc jockey who repeatedly receives on-air phone requests from a sexy female fan to "play Misty for me". When the...  More

New Jack City
(1991) [R]

Nino Brown is an American success story, an entrepreneur who's found the ultimate cash crop: crack. Nino thinks he's untouchable but he's wrong: a handful of street-smart cops are determined to bring him down. New Jack City is a gangster movie for the '90s, a hard-hitting tale with "a gritty...  More

Lonely Hearts
(1982) [PG]

The New York Times called director Paul Cox “a bright new film-making talent” for his enchanting story – co-written with John Clarke (The Games) - of unsung hero Peter, a piano tuner, loner and kleptomaniac whose toupee only fools the man underneath. Peter desperately visits a dating...  More

High Tide
(1987) [M]

A story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park. Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis.  More

Crossroads
(1986) [M]

Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn the...  More

The Big Easy
(1987) [M]

Ellen Barkin stars alongside Dennis Quaid in this humorous, stylish and erotic thriller. When a Mafia hood is found dead in a New Orleans fountain, Lt Renny McSwain (Quaid), and his partner (Ned Beatty) decide that it is a Mafia hit. However, Assistant District Attorney Anne Osborne (Barkin)...  More

Pink Floyd ... The Wall
(1982) [M]

The story of The Wall is told simply with the music of Pink Floyd, images and natural effects. There is no conventional dialogue to progress the narrative. Our story is about Pink, a Rock and Roll performer, who sits locked in a hotel room, somewhere in Los Angeles. Too many shows, too much dope,...  More

Spotswood
(1992) [PG]

An everyday story about loyalty, betrayal, lust and footwear. An outside consultant is hired to boost profits at a hopelessly inefficient factory. He is forced to question his conscience when he becomes drawn into the lives of the workers.  More

Altered States
(1980) [M]

Scientist William Hurt explores the avenues of altered consciousness, dabbling in tribal drug rituals and sensory deprivation tanks. But mental changes begin to affect him physically and he hallucinates back to the event of his birth, slowly regressing into primitive stages of human evolution......  More

Gorky Park
(1983) [M]

Murder, seduction and intrigue in the Kremlin form the backdrop for Gorky Park. Scripted by Dennis Potter from Martin Cruz Smith's best seller and directed by the versatile Michael Apted, Gorky Park is a gripping, intricate thriller co-starring Lee Marvin in his last great performance. When three...  More

White Hunter, Black Heart
(1990) [PG]

For a film of "excitement, wit and intelligence" (Rex Reed, New York Observer), your hunt is over. As star and director of White Hunter, Black Heart Clint Eastwood crafts one of the most acclaimed movies of his enduring career. He plays brilliant, driven filmmaker John Wilson (loosely based on...  More