Lost in the Stars
(1974) [PG]

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical Lost in the Stars is based on Alan Paton's classic novel Cry, The Beloved Country. This film, like the stage musical and the book it was based on, is a moving indictment of racial hatred, made at the height of apartheid. Lost in the Stars tells the story...  More

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
(1975) [PG]

A music revue featuring the troubadour-like ballads of French songwriter Jacques Brel, with new English lyrics. Brel himself sings, showcasing his beautiful delivery and profound and touching lyrics.  More

The Motorcycle Diaries
(2004) [M]

This is the true story of a 23-year-old medical student from Argentina, Che Guevara, who traveled across South America on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado in 1951-1952, in a personal odyssey which would ultimately inspire him to become a revolutionary who had a profound impact on the...  More

Bubba Ho-Tep (2 disc set)
(2002) [M]

Bubba Ho-Tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death”, then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams...  More

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
(2004) [M]

Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew—Team Zissou—set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined...  More

Surviving Desire
(1991) [M]

A perfectly formed 60 minute film detailing the relationship between misanthropic college professor Jude (Martin Donovan, Hartleys favourite leading man) and Sofie (Mary B. Ward), a beautiful student in one of his literature classes. Sofie is the only member of his class not to be driven mad by...  More

Friday Night Lights
(2004) [PG]

Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer (8 Mile) and director Peter Berg team up with Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton to create what Newsweek called one of the "top ten films of the year". Friday Night Lights chronicles the 1988 season of a courageous bunch of friends, the Permian High...  More

The Knack . . . and How to get it
(1965) [M]

You either have it or you don't. The knack, that is, of seduction! From the director of the Beatles' movies A Hard Day's Night and Help! comes this "inventive and hilarious" (Time) romp through love and sex in 1960's London. Featuring Richard Lester's frenetic filmmaking style – careening from...  More

My Life Without Me
(2003) [M]

Ann (Sarah Polley) is 23, has two daughters, a husband, Don (Scott Speedman) and lives in a trailer at the back of her mother's home in Vancouver. Her grey existence is transformed however when she discovers she has an untreatable condition. Keeping this a secret, she makes a list entitled...  More

Baadasssss!
(2003) [M]

Critics and audiences alike have gotten behind Mario Van Peebles' candid portrait of his father Melvin's struggle as a young, black director during the society-shifting early '70s. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin (played by son Mario) deals with two-faced backers, a rag tag crew,...  More

Biggie and Tupac
(2002) [M]

The hit of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, BIGGIE & TUPAC investigates the still unsolved murders of rap superstars Christoper Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur. The story of two close friends who had a misunderstanding, a falling out and then became deadly...  More

Garden State
(2004) [MA]

When Andrew Largeman returns to his hometown in New Jersey for the first time in 10 years to attend his mother's funeral, he is reconnected with the world he left behind, and meets a girl, Samantha, who may change his life forever. Having recently stopped taking the powerful antidepressants he...  More

Saw
(2004) [MA]

Two strangers awaken, chained side-by-side to the wall of a filthy bathroom. Neither knows how they came to this awful predicament, nor what might await them. But the man lying on the floor and missing part of his head might be a clue. Soon, they'll discover they are the latest victims of a...  More

Napoleon Dynamite
(2004) [PG]

Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) is a high-school outcast in every sense of the word. More interested in playing tetherball by himself and drawing pictures of his favourite animal, the "liger" (a combination of lion and tiger), Napoleon is ignored by everyone in his tiny hometown of Preston, Idaho....  More

Sideways
(2004) [M]

This is the story of failed novelist Miles (Paul Giamatti) and his washed-up actor friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church). Jack is soon to be wed and, to toast their youth, the pair take a final road trip in the week before the nuptials. A serious wine enthusiast, Miles is determined to educate his...  More

Closer
(2004) [MA]

Set in contemporary London, this is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Clive Owen) - their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals. This is a bitingly funny and honest look at modern relationships, from Academy Award winner Mike Nichols....  More

Tibet, Cry of the Snow Lion
(2003) [M]

Tibet: Cry Of The Snow Lion is a dramatic documentary that takes viewers through the astonishing recent political history of the country. Spending over ten years making the film, director Tom Piozet presents a clear, concise, educational chronology that tracks the major events and developments in...  More

The Weather Underground
(2002) [M]

In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path. This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's "Days of Rage." Outraged...  More

DemonLover
(2002) [R]

Demonlover is Olivier Assayas' breathtaking vision of our spectacle-driven modern global society. On the surface, the film follows Diane (Connie Nielsen) who works for VolfGroup, a hugely powerful conglomerate that is negotiating the acquisition of TokyoAnime, whose revolutionary pornographic 3-D...  More

I Heart Huckabees
(2004) [M]

Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has been experiencing an alarming series of coincidences, the meaning of which escape him. With the help of two Existential Detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin), Albert examines his life; his relationships; and his conflict...  More

Noi The Albino
(2003) [M]

Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year-old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland, cut off from the outside world by a shroud of snow. He dreams of escape from his white-walled prison with Iris, a pretty young city girl who works in a local gas...  More

Bad Santa
(2003) [MA]

In this cleverly twisted, merrily irreverent story of a Santa so bad he’s wickedly funny, Billy Bob Thornton is Willie T. Stokes, a washed-up, wise-cracking department store Santa who is actually a safecracker who makes one big score every year—on Christmas Eve. As shoppers head home from the...  More

Polish Wedding
(1998) [PG]

The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes...  More

River's Edge
(1986) [R]

Based on the horrifying real-life murder of a young California girl, this "powerful portrait" (Newsweek) of deadly, disaffected teens stars Keanu Reeves (The Matrix), Crispin Glover (Charlie’s Angels: The Movie), Ione Skye Leitch (One Night Stand), Daniel Roebuck (Final Destination) and Dennis...  More

Peter Weir Short Film Collection
(1971) [M]

Collected together for the first time are the selected seminal short films of internationally acclaimed director Peter Weir ("Picnic at Hanging Rock", "Gallipoli", "Master and Commander"). This DVD provides a rare opportunity to witness Weir's formative work, displaying the themes and style that...  More

The Notebook
(2004) [PG]

Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) arrives at the coastal town of Seabrook, North Carolina, to spend the summer with her family. Still in her teens, she meets local boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) at a carnival. Noah instantly senses that he and Allie are meant to be together – despite the fact...  More

Coffee and Cigarettes
(2003) [M]

A comic series of short vignettes built on one another to create a cumulative effect, as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine Popsicles, Paris in the '20s, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide--all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes. As director...  More

Heavy
(1995) [M]

Victor is the overweight, underappreciated cook at "Pete and Dolly's" - a roadside diner where the regulars are even staler than the coffee, and just as bitter. Callie the enchanting new waitress, is a breath of fresh air who breezes her way right into Victor's heart. Heavy has the critics...  More

The Secret Lives of Dentists
(2002) [M]

An insightful dramatic comedy by award winning director Alan Rudolph (Afterglow, Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle) who employs this dental observation as a powerful metaphor for the complexities of marriage and human relationships. Dr. Dave Hurst (Campbell Scott) shares a private clinical...  More

Girl With a Pearl Earring
(2003) [PG]

Set in mid 17th Century Delft in Holland, Girl with a Pearl Earring is a coming-of-age drama about the imagined relationship between Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and a quietly beautiful peasant girl Griet (Scarlett Johansson).  More