The First Of The Few (Spitfire)
(1942) [G]

This classic 1942 war movie tells the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Jeffrey Quill - developed the aeroplane whose technological superiority helped Britain to win the vital battle of the skies. It features...  More

The Man With The Golden Arm
(1955) [M]

Frank Sinatra is unforgettable as Frankie Machine, a recovering heroin addict and poker-dealer, who on release from prison wants to pursue a new career as a drummer. However, shaking off the past doesn't prove to be easy. Based on the 1949 novel by Nelson Agren, Otto Preminger's The Man With The...  More

Lift To The Scaffold (L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud)
(1957) [PG]

Whether the face of Jeanne Moreau, or the mournful trumpet of Miles Davis, this film is forever etched into the memory of all who have watched it. Narrative centres around a bungled crime of passion, but the lingering memories of the film stem from the black & white photography, the creeping...  More

Les Amants (The Lovers)
(1958) [R]

At the age of 26, Louis Malle directed his second fiction feature, "Les Amants". The star, Jeanne Moreau, had been the focus of "Ascenseur pour L'echefaud", and their collaboration continued here. In this delicately woven tale of frustrated love & passion, Malle utilizes long takes, an elegant...  More

Accident
(1967) [PG]

Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. Things begin to change for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful student who is engaged to William, another of Stephen's...  More

Bonjour Tristesse
(1958) [PG]

Based on a bestseller written by teenager Francoise Sagan, this film tells a story about Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.

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Straw Dogs
(1971) [R]

Quiet American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his British-born wife Amy (Susan George) relocate to Amy's rural English hometown in an attempt to flee the violent social unrest brewing in the US. When David hires some locals, including a former boyfriend of Amy's, to repair his...  More

The Tamarind Seed
(1974) [M]

Judith (Julie Andrews), an attractive widow, is holidaying in Barbados where she meets the charming and handsome Feodor (Omar Sharif) the russian military attache to Paris. A friendship develops but unbeknown to Judith, Feodor uses his position to conceal his position as Second-in-Command of the...  More

Anna Karenina (1935)
(1935) [PG]

Count Leo Tolstoy's ill-fated heroine Anna Karenina, who suffers the pains of doomed love. Set in the reign of Czar Nicholas 1st of Russia.  More

The Outlaw Josey Wales
(1976) [M]

As The Outlaw Josey Wales, two-time Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood is ideally cast as a hard-hitting, fast-drawing loner, recalling his "Man with No Name" from Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. But unlike that other mythic outlaw, Josey Wales has a name - and a heart. After avenging his...  More

The Mackintosh Man
(1973) [M]

A top-notch spy thriller about an agent who is assigned the task of killing a communist spy who has infiltrated the ranks of British Intelligence. Based on 'The Freedom Trap' by Desmond Bagley. *MR  More

Dive Bomber
(1941) [PG]

Michael Curtiz directs an outstanding cast lead by Errol Flynn and Ed MacMurray, in this visually exciting Academy Award nominated WWII drama about two naval officers who are trying to understand and prevent altitude sickness. The two men must get past their personal differences in order to...  More

The Boston Strangler
(1968) [M]

Why did 13 woman willingly open their doors to the Boston Strangler? Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen...  More

The Train
(1964) [PG]

Inspied by a true incident during World War II, in The Train Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance fighter, doggedly attempting to stop a train used by the Nazis (led by Paul Schofield as Colonel Von Waldheim) to steal precious French art treasures in the summer of 1944. Featuring spectacular...  More

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (2 Disc Set)
(1962) [M]

Director Robert Aldrich's story: a thriller about ageing vaudeville child star who initiates a psychotic reign of terror over her crippled '30's movie queen sister. His stars: Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. All he needed was the money. But when Aldrich scoured Hollywood for backing, He kept...  More

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
(1964) [M]

Bette Davis delivers a powerhouse performance as Charlotte Hollis, a reclusive spinster still mourning the savage murder of the man she loved some 37 years ago. When the state wants her property in order to construct a new highway, to help her resist Charlotte turns to her worldly cousin, Miriam...  More

The Young Lions
(1958) [PG]

Academy Award®-winning actor Marlon Brando captures the extraordinary contradictions and complexity of a decent man who winds up as a Nazi officer. The Young Lions tells the story of World War II from both sides. The American, represented by Montgomery Clift and Dean Martin. And the German, made...  More

The Desert Rats
(1953) [M]

Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is Tobruk, held by a vastly out numbered force of Australian troops. Richard Burton leads these troops on daring raids against Rommel, keeping him off balance as they earn the nickname 'The Desert Rats'.  More

Twelve O'Clock High
(1949) [G]

This gritty World War II action drama starring Gregory Peck, Oscar? winner Dean Jagger, Hugh Marlow, Gary Merrill and Millard Mitchell is seen as one of the most realistic portrayals of the heroics and perils of war. Convinced an Air Force commander is at the breaking point, Brigadier General...  More

D-Day The Sixth Of June
(1956) [PG]

In this electrifying film, Robert Taylor portrays Captain Brad Parker, an American officer on the front lines on June 6. 1944, D-Day, when 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships will come together to invade Normandy and determine the world's future. And since Parker and his commander...  More

The Enemy Below
(1957) [PG]

Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens star in this gripping World War II drama about an American destroyer and a German U-boat stalking each other at sea. As both men try to outthink and outmanoeuvre each other, the chase becomes a deadly game in which any mistake can bring instant defeat and death....  More

Sea Wife
(1957) [PG]

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of...  More

Little Women (1933)
(1933) [G]

Based on Louisa M. Alcott's beloved novel, this story of four sisters growing up in Massachusetts during the American Civil War is one of Hollywood's most enduring classics. We enter their world to share their joys and sorrows as they become the 'little women' that their father so proudly calls...  More

Blood On The Sun
(1945) [PG]

A newspaper editor in the 1920s works for the American owned Tokyo Chronicle. He reports on a controversial story and is asked by the Japanese authorities to retract it. When this is refused he is implicated in a murder...  More

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
(1974) [M]

When Alice's husband dies, she has no money but must support her 11 year old son. They start from California on the west coast and travel to find a better life.  More

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
(1965) [M]

Alec Leamas, a British spy is sent to East Germany supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own people see him as just a cog. His struggle back from dehumanization becomes the final focus of the story. Based on the...  More

King Rat
(1965) [PG]

George Segal became a star with his performance in this epic WWII drama based on the best-selling novel by James Clavell. The movie chronicles the scams of a streetwise GI held in a Japanese prison camp. Under the harrowing camp conditions, he rises to a position of power over his military and...  More

The Caine Mutiny
(1954) [PG]

Humphrey Bogart is Lt. Commander Queeg, the skipper of the minesweeper Caine, who, when involuntarily relieved of his command during a violent typhoon, brings his officers up on charges for conspiring The Caine Mutiny. Nominated for seven 1954 Academy Awards - including Best Picture and Actor...  More

The Cockleshell Heroes
(1954) [G]

In World War II, Royal Marine Major Stringer (Jose Ferrer) and Captain Thompson (Trevor Howard) chose volunteers for an unknown job. They trained the volunteers intensively in top secrecy for more than a year and then embarked with them on the most dangerous mission of the war - the canoe...  More

Operation Pacific
(1951) [G]

Dedicated Navy man Duke Gifford (John Wayne) has a tough time trying to take command of a US submarine following the death of his commanding officer. For one thing, Duke feels guilty over the events that led to the captain's death. Add the fact that his ex-wife (Patricia Neil) is aboard serving...  More