Kangaroo
(1986)

D.H. Lawrence's tale of an idealist writer who flees the wreck of post-war Europe in search of a freer, more tolerant world in which to re-build his marriage. He and his wife settle in Australia and soon face the leader of a secret Fascist army who tries to bully them into em-bracing his ideas.....  More

The Company Of Wolves
(1984) [M]

A bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotations. Granny tells her granddaughter Rosaleen strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smoldering look in their eyes; about sudden...  More

The Verdict
(1982) [M]

Sidney Lumet's riveting courtroom drama earned five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Paul Newman's towering performance as a down-and-out alcoholic attorney who stumbles onto one last chance to redeem himself. When attorney Frank Calvin (Newman) is given an...  More

Europa (Zentropa)
(1991) [M]

Lars Von Trier's Europa is an alluring film that follows Leopald Kessler (Jean- Marc Barr), an American pacifist of German descent as he travels to Germany to help the country rebuild and becomes involved in a surreal nightmare. His uncle gets him employment working on the giant railway complex...  More

48 Hrs
(1983) [R]

Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy make one of the most unusual and entertaining teams ever in Walter Hill's roller-coaster thriller, 48 Hours. Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million...  More

Any Which Way You Can
(1980) [M]

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add...  More

Under Milk Wood
(1973) [PG]

Dylan Thomas only wrote one play and this is the first and only screen adaptation of that world famous Welsh classic. The original play has been presented in nearly every country in the world, and on celluloid it remains by turn moving, funny, beautiful and completely timeless - a kaleidoscope of...  More

El Norte
(1983) [M]

El Norte is a realistic picture of both the Guatemalan government's oppression of the Quiche Indians and the hard life of illegal immigrants in the United States. After the Guatemalan army destroys their village of San Pedro, two teenage Quiche Mayan Indian siblings journey north (hence El Norte)...  More

3 Days Of The Condor
(1975) [M]

A man named Turner works for the CIA reading books and postulating possible scenarios that could be applied to inteliigence work. He goes out to get lunch but when he returns everyone at the center has been killed. He calls his superior and asks for someone to bring him in, he tells him that his...  More

Before Night Falls
(2000) [MA]

Julian Schnabel's Before Night Falls spans the whole of the brilliant Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas' life, from his poverty-stricken childhood to his persecution, torture and exile from Fidel Castro's Cuba. It is a vivid portrait of a remarkably talented and responsive man and a piercing account...  More

Carrie
(1976) [R]

Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie "catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go" (Time Magazine)! Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie (in Oscar®-nominated performances), John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is "absolutely spellbinding" (Roger...  More

America's Sweethearts
(2001) [M]

Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are America's Sweethearts - the country's favourite couple, on-screen and off. But when their very public romance turns into a very private breakup, only veteran press angent Lee (Billy Crystal) and Gwen's assistant Kiki (Julia Roberts) can help...  More

Prick Up Your Ears
(1987) [M]

'Prick Up Your Ears' is a celebration of the outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Olman), and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), which concluded with their violent and premature deaths. Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) was one of the 1960s golden boys, from working class Leicester...  More

The Tree Of Wooden Clogs
(1978) [G]

Olmi gathered together an ensemble cast of peasants from the area as actors, used direct sound and shot in almost documentary style. The result is a wonderfully authentic film whose characters exist so naturally that you are immediately transported to another time and place. A testament to the...  More

The Shiralee
(1987) [PG]

Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready...  More

Happiness
(1998) [R]

From the director of Welcome To The Dollhouse comes a wickedly comic and confronting tale of perversity and the desire in contemporary suburbia. Set in New Jersey, Happiness interweaves the stories of three sisters. The hippiefied lost soul Joy Jordan, the self loathing best-selling author...  More

Cry Freedom
(1987) [PG]

The unforgettable friendship of two unforgettable men. The tension and terror that is present-day South Africa is powerfully portrayed in director Richard Attenborough's sweeping story of black activist Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington) and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life...  More

Un Flic (Dirty Money)
(1972) [PG]

Jean Pierre Melville's final film is a French gangster thriller that sees a small town bank heist go wrong. Scintillating performances from Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna and Alain Delon. *MR  More

Magnum Force
(1973) [R]

Underworld figures are being murdered all over San Francisco. One by one, criminals who have eluded prosecution are getting the justice they deserve, justice you'd think Detective Harry Callahan might approve of with a tight-lipped smile. But if you think so, you've misjudged Harry - and so have...  More

55 Days In Peking
(1963) [G]

A story of love and passion, set in 1900 Peking. A Dowager Empress is inciting fanatics to take over the city and attack the international diplomatic quarter. Dmitri Tiomkin was nominated for an Academy Award for his song 'So Little Time'.  More

Cape Fear (1991) (2 Disc Set)
(1991) [M]

Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese brings heart-pounding suspense to one of the most acclaimed thrillers of all time. Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte)....  More

The Crimson Rivers (2 Disc Set)
(2000) [MA]

When Commissaire Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), France's leading serial killer investigator, is called to investigate a grisly murder, he enters a world of secrets, lies and unthinkable horrors. The dead, whose hands and eyes have been removed, are clues to a terrible tradition the killer can no...  More

Truly Madly Deeply
(1990) [PG]

From writer-director Anthony Minghella, Truly Madly Deeply is a wonderful romantic comedy that sparkles with supernatural charm. Ever since her lover Jamie (Alan Rickman) died, Nina (Juliet Stevenson) has longed for him to be back in her life. Then one lonely evening, that seemingly impossible...  More

The World According To Garp
(1982) [M]

In this splendid film adaption of John Irving's bestseller, Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp, a complex and unpredictable writer at odds with a violent and cruel world. "The World According to Garp" earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor, John Lithgow, and Best...  More

The Tailor Of Panama
(2001) [MA]

In this seductive spy thriller based on the best-selling novel by John Le Carre, Academy Award winner GEOFFREY RUSH delivers a dazzling performance as Harry Pendel, an ex-con turned tailor to the rich and famous of Panama and husband of the beautiful Louisa (JAMIE LEE CURTIS). And in the role of...  More

15 Minutes
(2001) [MA]

Robert De Niro stars as homicide detective Eddie Flemming, a man who knows how to handle high-profile murders. But now, with a crime that has ended in a grisly fire and a pair of Eastern European killers on a rampage across the city, Flemming must team up with a rival: the low-key Arson...  More

An Angel At My Table
(1990) [M]

Jane Campion's An Angel At My Table is an extraordinarily moving celebration of the life of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. Based on her autobiographical trilogy, the film follows Janet through her poor childhood in the Depression and her growing fascination with literature;...  More

The Enforcer
(1976) [R]

When Detective Harry Callahan stops a liquor store hostage standoff in his own no-nonsense way, he gets busted back to personnel. But not for long. When terrorists rob an arms warehouse and go on a blood-soaked extortion spree, San Francisco's leaders quickly seek out Callahan: The Enforcer....  More

Sudden Impact
(1983) [MA]

Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, the superiors of San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan have sent him on an out-of-town assignment until things cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. Clint Eastwood hits the mark again in Sudden Impact. Callahan's older, dirtier and...  More

The Rock
(1996) [MA]

Welcome to The Rock. Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage star in this action adventure blockbuster from the Jerry Bruckheimer stable. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas...  More