Inherit The Wind
(1960) [G]

Two-time Best Actor Oscar winners Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling re-creation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the twentieth century. Garnering four Academy Award nominations including Best Actor (Tracy), and featuring Gene Kelly in a rare, critically...  More

Mildred Pierce
(1945) [PG]

The kind of woman most men want-but shouldn't have! A Mother's Love Leads To Murder - And An Oscar! What Veda wants, her mother - Mildred Pierce - provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop the male-dominated business world and marry a wealthy man she doesn't love....  More

Niagara
(1953) [PG]

A vacationing couple, George and Rose Loomis (Joseph Cotton and Marilyn Monroe), rent a quaint bungalow at romantic Niagara Falls. But Rose and her lover plan to murder the unsuspecting George - in the falls! A dramatic departure from her more upbeat roles, Monroe's fascinating performance as the...  More

The Rats Of Tobruk (The Chauvel Collection)
(1944) [PG]

Tells the story of three men - Bluey, a tough two fisted drover (Taylor), Milo, a laconic dingo trapper (Rafferty), and Pete, an intellectual English "new chum" (Finch). Together they serve in North Africa, fighting against the forces of Rommel in what has now become one of Australia's greatest...  More

Picnic
(1955) [PG]

The morning of a small town Labor Day picnic, a drifter (Hal Carter) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the richest man in town. Hal is an egocentric braggart - all potential and no accomplishment. He meets up with Madge Owens, the...  More

Strangers On A Train
(1951) [M]

Two strangers, making idle chitchat on a train, agree that “some people are better off dead”, and hypothetically speculate that if they swapped murders, they could commit the perfect, motiveless crime. Only later does one of the men realise that the other was serious about his murderous...  More

Lust For Life
(1956) [PG]

Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yellow grain. Trees bursting with white bloom. "The pictures come to me as in a dream," Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare. Winner of Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards, Kirk Douglas gives a...  More

If....
(1968) [M]

This Palme D'Or winning film takes an allegorical look at the British Public School system. 'If'... is an amazing blend of fact and fantasy which features a young Malcolm McDowell, successfully launching his film career in his debut. The students at College House are kept in line by tradition,...  More

Open City
(1945) [M]

Based on true the story of Don Morosi, a priest and Resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome, Rossellini's first feature after the Mussolini era has become synonymous with Italian neo-realism. Shot on the locations where the events actually happened, using hand-held cameras, film...  More

Woman Of The Dunes
(1964) [M]

When entomologist Jumpei (Eiji Okada) travels to sand dunes on an expedition, he is met by a group of people who offer him a place to spend the night. They soon lead him to a house at the bottom of a sandpit. Upon climbing into the pit, he finds a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) living alone. Placed...  More

Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children Of Paradise)
(1945) [PG]

Poetic realism reaches sublime heights in this ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music and design, director Marcel Carne and screenwriter Jacques Prevert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19th-century Paris, teeming with hucksters...  More

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
(1967) [PG]

Nominated for 10 1968 Academy Awards®, this masterpiece of modern cinema features powerhouse performances by an impressive cast of Academy Award ® Winners. A heart-warming tale of love in the face of adversity, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is made even more poignant by the fact that it was to...  More

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
(1955) [PG]

Newsman Mark Elliott is an American war correspondent temporarily staying in Hong Kong during the Korean War. While there he meets and pursues a beautiful Eurasian Doctor. But when they begin to fall in love, their friends and families pressure them to stop the cross cultural relationship....  More

The Long Hot Summer
(1958) [PG]

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and...  More

The Grapes Of Wrath
(1940) [PG]

This remarkable film version of John Steinbeck's novel was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor (Henry Fonda), Film Editing, Sound and Writing. John Ford won the Best Director Oscar and Jane Darwell won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the...  More

How Green Was My Valley
(1941) [PG]

Winner of five Academy Awards, this inspiring, yet heart-breaking "Hollywood milestone" (Halliwells's Film Guide) from producer Darryl F. Zanuck and director John Ford is "a perfection of screen art" and "one of the finest" pictures ever made (Variety). Sixty-year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his...  More

Sunset Boulevard
(1950) [PG]

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the...  More

To Sir With Love
(1967) [PG]

A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class punks in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of the teens in the 60's. SIDNEY POITIER gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray, an out of work engineer who turns to teaching in London's...  More

Giant (2 Disc Set)
(1956) [PG]

The legendary epic that's as big as Texas. Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the...  More

Rebel Without A Cause
(1955) [M]

In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens - and reverberate more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's...  More

All Quiet On The Western Front
(1930) [PG]

Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact. Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilizing...  More

North West Frontier
(1959) [PG]

Kenneth More keeps his upper lip stiff in this colourful adventure set in colonial India. Captain Scott (More) is sent by the British Governor to rescue a five-year-old Hindu Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt (Lauren Bacall), when a rebellion breaks out amongst the tribesmen....  More

Dersu Uzala (2 disc set)
(1975) [G]

A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asiatic hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns at the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilisation. Four...  More

Midnight Cowboy
(1969) [M]

A "cowboy," Joe Buck, moves to New York City from Texas to make his fortune as a hustler servicing rich Park Avenue women. Shortly after arriving, he is hustled by homeless con man Ratzo Rizzo, who had said he would manage him for a $20 fee. Bent on getting his money back, Buck finds the rapidly...  More

The Searchers
(1956) [G]

With The Searchers, John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, and ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger,...  More

Razor's Edge, The (1946)
(1946) [PG]

Based on W. Somerset Maugham's highly acclaimed 1944 novel, this is a sprawling, ambitious account of one man's quest for spiritual identity. Over a number of years and continents, we watch as Chicago scion Larry Darrell, newly returned from World War I, breaks off his engagement to the lovely...  More

The Night Of The Hunter
(1955) [M]

Robert Mitchum gives one of his finest performances as the psychopathic preacher, Harry Powell, who is arrested for a minor offence in a small West Virginian town. His cell mate, Ben Harper, who faces the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. By the time that...  More

On The Beach
(1959) [PG]

The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S. submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction. Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news; the...  More

Green For Danger
(1946) [G]

In a rural English hospital during WW2, a postman dies on the operating table and the nurse states she knows the murderer is dead too. The facetious Inspector Cockrill suspects one of the five doctors and nurses who were in the operating theater to be the assassin. But four poisonous pills have...  More

Dog Day Afternoon (2 disc set)
(1975) [M]

On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic losers set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) is the follower, and disaster is the result. The robbery should have taken ten minutes. Four hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. Eight hours later, it was...  More