Shaft
(1971) [M]

John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the White Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter.  More

The Night Of The Living Dead
(1968) [R]

George A. Romero's masterpiece of horror. Falling radiation from a satellite brings the recently deceased back to life and looking for the living for food! A group of living people barricade themselves inside a farmhouse desperate to survive the night as the zombie horde swarms outside.  More

The Little Shop Of Horrors
(1960) [PG]

Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The plant needs food to grow up, so it convinces him to start killing people.  More

Dogs In Space (2 disc set)
(1987) [R]

The film is set in a house occupied by a collection of social misfits. The main storyline is that of a strange musician's relationship with a girl, their drug use and his band. These events are surrounded by a chaotic myriad of sub-plots. A homicidal chainsaw maniac's lust for his machine and a...  More

Meantime
(1984) [M]

This wry and amusing working class comedy is an early work by writer/director Mike Leigh. Frank (Jeff Robert) and his two deadbeat sons, Mark (Phil Daniels) and Colin (Tim Roth) are unemployed and living in a cramped apartment in London's East End. Wanting to escape the doldrums of his mediocre...  More

Hammett
(1982) [M]

Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett's early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam) involved in an elaborate extortion plot by his former detective agency mentor, Jimmy Ryan. Ryan shows up at...  More

Barton Fink
(1991) [M]

New York, 1941. Socially conscious scriptwriter Barton Fink has made it big on Broadway. Now Tinsel Town is taking notice. Hired by Hollywood to write a wrestling picture, Barton quits the city smog for movie stardom. L.A. has got the Barton Fink feeling. Barton Fink has got writer's block....  More

Dead Ringers
(1988) [M]

The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing....  More

Dead Man
(1995) [R]

Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the second half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native...  More

Last Year in Marienbad (L'Annee derniere a Marienbad)
(1961) [M]

In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad. Because...  More

Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One)
(1968) [MA]

Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France...  More

Weekend
(1967) [R]

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a...  More

A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister)
(2001) [R]

A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is...  More

El Mariachi / Desperado (Double Feature)
(1992) [M]

Set in a Mexican border town, this film follows the fortunes of a sensitive peace-loving El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) who wishes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as an itinerant musician, earning his living through singing in local bars. He enters town at exactly the same...  More

The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder on Sex)
(1972) [M]

Fassbinder on Sex combines three of Fassbinder's most risque and self-reflexive films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and his Friends and In a Year with 13 Moons, which offer the maverick filmmaker's unique views about sex and the nature of sexuality.

The Bitter Tear of Petra...  More

The End Of Violence
(1997) [M]

Two hit-men have been hired to kill Mike Max, a producer of gore movies... on the very day that his wife, Paige Stockard, walks out on him. The hoods abduct Mike, but the following day their decapitated bodies are discovered under a freeway junction – and there's no sign of their victim....  More

Paris, Texas
(1984) [M]

Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), a seemingly mute, semi-catatonic, amnesiac man wanders out of the desert and into a small, rural Texan town, his sole possession a piece of paper bearing the Los Angeles telephone number of his younger brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Returning to LA with Walt,...  More

The Damned
(1969) [M]

An incisive view of a rich and powerful German family, pressured and corrupted by war. A decadent German family of great wealth wallows in its own decay as its factories produce armaments for Hitler and his followers.  More

Zabriskie Point
(1970) [M]

Set against the sights and sounds of the youth movement of the late sixties.

An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and...  More

Blow Up
(1966) [M]

Director Michelangelo Antonioni packs nonstop action into a controversial cinematic close-up of mid-sixties mod London where Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles star with David Hemmings in this expose of British counterculture. David Hemmings plays a master photographer who explores the city...  More

The Family Stone
(2005) [M]

Every year the unconventional Stone family gather in their New England hometown to celebrate the holidays. On this occasion there will be an extra guest, as eldest son Everett (Dermot Mulroney) is bringing his girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) to meet the clan. She nervously tells...  More

Me and You and Everyone We Know
(2005) [R]

An original, offbeat and very funny comedy, Me And You And Everyone We Know is the directorial feature debut of celebrated performance artist, author, actress and writer-director Miranda July. Richard (John Hawes) is a shoe salesman with two boys and a failed marriage. Now single, he expects...  More

Year of the Gun
(1991) [M]

American journalist David Raybourne has arrived in Rome to write a political best seller about The Red Brigade, a militant left-wing group terrorizing Italy. When a daring photojournalist believes his book to be a piece of non-fiction...the manuscript falls tragically into the wrong hands. Now...  More

Before Sunset
(2004) [M]

The sequel to Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. On the last stop of his book tour, at the tail end of a reading in a Paris book shop, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) finds Celine (Julie Delphy) watching from the back of the room. She lives in Paris now, he in New York. He's flying out that evening and they...  More

Big Doll House
(1971) [MA]

Director Jack Hill (COFFY, SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy, funny, thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines, new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier), rebel girl...  More

The Company
(2003) [PG]

With THE COMPANY, maverick director Robert Altman brings his idiosyncratic vision to Chicago and the acclaimed Joffrey Ballet. Neve Campbell is Ry, an aspiring performer who gets her chance to shine when a fellow dancer is injured. Stepping into the spotlight, Ry finally reaches her true...  More

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004) [M]

In Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr....  More

Straight to Hell
(1987) [M]

A gang of greedy thieves rob a bank, double-cross their boss and escape into the desert. But when the trigger-happy bandits try to hide in a strange town, they find themselves at war with a sadistic family of coffee-addicted outlaws known as The McMahons. Desperate, deranged and cranky, their...  More

Touching the Void
(2003) [M]

May, 1985 - Peru. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, ambitious young mountaineers, set off to scale the hitherto unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande, a remote and treacherous peak in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson and Yates reach the summit but shortly after starting the descent, an accident turns their...  More

Headrush
(2004) [MA]

Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignment of drugs for a local gangster. It's set in the present day in Dublin, Ireland against the backdrop of the end of the Celtic Tiger: the...  More