Hope And Glory
(1987) [M]

A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war...  More

Drugstore Cowboy
(1989) [M]

Crime is a way of life for Bob (Matt Dillon) and his wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch). Their lives are fuelled by an addiction that drives them from state to state robbing pharmacies for pills and thrills. Bob is a legend in his own right, honoured by his fellow gang members for his cold, tough and...  More

Frantic
(1988) [M]

Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes while the couple is visiting Paris. To recover her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops and triplicate-form bureaucrats. Ultimately - and reluctantly - he must try a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more...  More

Henry And June
(1990) [M]

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros) meets Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and his wife June (Uma Thuman). Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo (Richard E Grant) as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to...  More

Blood Simple
(1984) [R]

Deep in the heart of Texas, a jealous bar owner hires a private eye to kill his wife and her lover. The sleazy hitman double-crosses the husband, killing him instead and pocketing the cash. The perfect crime, or so it seems, but disposing of the corpse is not so simple. Blood Simple uncoils its...  More

Sex, Lies And Videotape
(1989) [M]

With smouldering sensuality and biting humour, the surprising relationship between the three title subjects is relvealed in Steven Soderbergh's Palme D'Or-winning debut sex, lies, and videotape. James Spader won the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his brilliantly understated and...  More

Do The Right Thing
(1989) [R]

It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the center of the action.  More

Alice
(1990) [PG]

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs...  More

Last Exit To Brooklyn
(1989) [R]

Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter...  More

Chinatown
(1974) [M]

A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her...  More

My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985) [M]

Set within the Asian community in London, My Beautiful Laundrette is an unusual love story concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years. Omar (Gordon Warnecke) takes over the running of his wheeler-dealer uncle's laundrette with the intention of turning it into a...  More

Caravaggio
(1986) [M]

A powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art, 'Caravaggio' brings together Derek Jarman's twin worlds of film and painting.  More

Hairspray
(1988)

Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where "The Corny...  More

Repulsion
(1965) [M]

Repulsion, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen...  More

High Hopes
(1988) [M]

Set in and around King’s Cross and London’s suburbs in the early weeks of 1988, ‘High Hopes’ examines the contrasting lives and personalities of an assortment of characters.

Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine-gun the Royal Family and...  More

Mystery Train
(1989) [M]

A young Japanese couple, obsessed with 1950s America and the music of Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, visits Memphis. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying. Screamin' Jay Hawkins plays a cameo as the...  More

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
(1990) [PG]

From Tom Stoppard the Oscar Winning Writer/Director of "Shakespeare in Love" comes another unique twist on the work of William Shakespeare. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Gary Oldman & Tim Roth) are two incidental characters in "Hamlet", summoned to the court of the King of Denmark. This story is...  More

The Producers (1968)
(1968) [G]

Low-rent Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his high-strung accountant Leo Bloom discover that, with the help of a few gullible investors, they can make more money on a flop than on a hit! Armed with the worst show ever written and an equally horrific cast, this double-dealing duo is banking on...  More

Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
(1991) [E]

This sparkling documentary lets us see and hear the miracle that was Billie Holiday. Featured are rare TV and movie clips. Along with commentary by a stellar group of jazz instrumentalists and singers who knew her well. Among those recalling Lady Day are the vocalists Carmen McRae and Annie...  More

Darling
(1965) [M]

Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a young, attractive and vivacious model and socialite who is determined to become rich and famous. Although married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert Gold (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair...  More

Girl On A Motorcycle
(1968) [MA]

Girl on a Motorcycle was originally released in the U.S. by Warner Brothers in 1968 as Naked Under Leather - severely edited for an American R-rating. At last you can see the Uncensored Version of this cult classic. Marianne Faithfull stars as a bored, small town newlywed who decides to leave her...  More

The Naked Kiss
(1964) [MA]

A prostitute beats her pimp senseless, skips town, resumes her livelihood in a buttoned-down suburb, rescues orphans and exposes her hometown's leading philanthropist as a paedophile! Welcome to the unforgettable world of pulp auteur Samuel Fuller, a nightmarish vision of a world where perverse...  More

The Grifters
(1990) [M]

When con artist Roy Dillon is visited by his conning Mother, Lilly, she forces him off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend Myra, the third con artist, comes to visit Roy and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he's...  More

The Handmaid's Tale
(1990) [M]

With "cool eroticism, intelligence and intensity" (Playboy), this eerie futuristic thriller, based on Margaret Atwood's controversial and critically acclaimed best-selling novel, is filled with "large themes and deep thoughts" (Roger Ebert). Boasting a phenominal cast including Natasha Richardson...  More

Mo' Better Blues
(2007) [M]

Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington gives a riveting performance in Spike Lee’s breathtaking film on music and love. Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (Washington) is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends Indigo (Joie Lee) and Clarke (Cynda Williams). But when he...  More

Milagro Beanfield War
(1988) [M]

"Milagro, New Mexico. Population 426. Nothing had changed here for 300 years. But there's something about this day..." When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his beanfield by 'borrowing' some water from a large, potentially destructive, development site, he...  More

Miller's Crossing
(1990) [M]

A highly stylised gangster film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the...  More

Hannah And Her Sisters
(1986) [M]

Arguably Woody Allen's best production with the exception of "Annie Hall". The film follows three sisters (Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey and Oscar-winner Dianne Wiest) through their careers and their relationships. Farrow is the backbone that keeps everything together. However, husband Michael...  More

Videodrome
(1983) [R]

Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show, he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.  More

Easy Rider
(1969) [M]

Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank and set off for a trip across America, on their own personal odyssey looking for a way to lead their lives. On the journey they encounter bigotry and hatred from small-town...  More