The Country Girl
(1954) [PG]

A riveting film adaptation of writer Clifford Odets’ acclaimed play. Bing Crosby is Frank Elgin, an alcoholic, guilt-ridden former musical star desperate to make a comeback. William Holden is the hotshot Broadway director in need of a "name" star for his new stage production. And Grace Kelly is...  More

Carrington V.C.
(1955) [PG]

David Niven stars in this gripping drama about a war hero who finds himself facing disgrace and ruin in a military courtroom. Major Carrington won the Victoria Cross at Tobruk, but his wartime heroics have caused deep resentment amongst some who did not see action. So when money goes missing from...  More

Suddenly Last Summer
(1959) [M]

This acclaimed film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Southern Gothic journey into the dark workings of the human mind was “very controversial for its time and still packs a wallop” today. With spellbinding performances from Academy Award ® Winners Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor,...  More

Rich and Strange
(1931) [G]

Fred and Emily believe that their lives would be enriched if they were more financially well off. After writing to a relative to obtain an inheritance in advance, the couple soon embark upon a life that they could previously only dream of, but will riches bring them happiness?  More

The League of Gentlemen
(1959) [PG]

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by...  More

The Desert Fox
(1951) [PG]

James Mason delivers a strong performance in this fascinating portrait of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early 1940's, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he hd sworn allegiance, was...  More

Sunday Too Far Away
(1975) [M]

Set on one of the vast sheep stations in inland Australia, 1955, Sunday too Far Away is a classic of Australian cinema and is presented for the first time on DVD in its original widescreen aspect ratio along with some rare bonus archival material. Jack Thompson is Foley, the best shearer on...  More

Breaker Morant
(1980) [PG]

Hero or villian? His exploits shook an empire... and made him a legend. South Africa, 1901: The British war against the Boers has deteriorated into bitter guerilla warfare. A unit of the Bushveldt Carbineers made up mainly of Australians is ordered by the British High Command to fight the Boer on...  More

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959) [PG]

One of the most influential films of all time, Alain Resnais’ first feature sees a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exercise their own scarred memories of...  More

Beauty & The Beast (La Belle Et La Bete)
(1946) [PG]

Jean Cocteau's interpretation of the classic fairy tale story of the beautiful young girl who sees the true loneliness of the disfigured beast is much more than a children's story. Illustrating the tale with live-action and fantastic prosthetics for Jean Marais as the Beast, Cocteau's vision is...  More

Orpheus (Orphee)
(1949) [PG]

Cocteau's retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus - the musician whose virtuoso gifts charmed all who heard his music; animals and gods - is among the most breathtaking films ever made. Translated to Paris' Left Bank in the 1950s, Jean Marais' Orpheus is now a renowned poet. To retrieve his dead...  More

The Rules Of The Game (La Regle Du Jeu)
(1939)

Denigrated by the public, vilified by the critics, re-cut at the insistence of its producers, and finally banned by the French government as 'demoralising', La Regle de Jeu was an utter disaster at the time of its original release. Now hailed as one of Renoir's greatest masterpieces it frequently...  More

La Grande Illusion
(1937) [G]

The setting is World War I where three French Army prisoners of war from widely differing backgrounds, share a common interest in an escape. An internationally acclaimed production which highlights the senselessness of war. French dialogue.  More

Fahrenheit 451
(1966) [PG]

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of...  More

Jules Et Jim (Jules and Jim)
(1962) [M]

Hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of all time, Francois Truffaut's internationally award-winning film Jules And Jim is set pre and post The First World War, and tells the tale of two young students, Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian, and Jim (Henri Serre), a Frenchman, in love with...  More

Les Mistons / Antoine and Colette (2 short films by Francois Truffaut)
(1959) [PG]

Les Mistons:
Truffaut's acclaimed first film, is the touching story of the sexual awakening of a group of adolescent boys who idolise and become the tormentors of an older girl (Bernadette Lafont), and her boyfriend (Gerard Blain).

'Les Quatre Cents Coups', Truffaut's first feature,...  More

The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) - Les Mistons (short feature)
(1959) [PG]

Praised by film-makers (Akira Kurosawa called it "One of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen.") and critics the world over, Truffaut's 400 Blows launched the Nouvelle Vague and paved the way for some of cinema's most important and influential directors. Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel...  More

Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro)
(1958) [PG]

From the moment it first appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 - where it won the Palme d'Or - it was clear Black Orpheus was a very special film. Adapted from the ancient Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, we are transported to modern day Rio de Janeiro in Camus’ stunning interpretation...  More

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
(1919) [E]

Arguably the First GREAT Horror Film ever made Francis and his friend Alan visit a fair in the small German town of Holstenwall where a sideshow is run by the mysterious Dr Caligari. Caligari is exhibiting a Somnambulist, Cesare; who has slept for 23 years and knows the secrets of the past and...  More

Pandora's Box
(1928) [PG]

G.W. Pabst's film that catapulted Louise Brooks to international acclaim and made her 'the' icon of the Jazz Age tells the tragic story of Lulu, the hedonistic dancer and prostitute. Based on the plays of F. Wedekind. Music by Mahler.  More

The Blue Angel
(1930) [PG]

The film that made Marlene Dietrich a star is an icon of Weimar cinema. Filmed simultaneously in German and English, Directors Suite presents both versions in their original, different forms. Dietrich stars as cabaret star Lola Lola, the resident attraction at The Blue Angel. When the upright,...  More

Nosferatu (1922)
(1922) [PG]

Nosferatu is the original Dracula movie and still, after eighty years, the scariest. When Bram Stoker's widow refused to grant Murnau the rights to Dracula, Murnau and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen simply changed the characters' names and went ahead with the film, creating one of the great...  More

Miracle In Milan
(1950) [G]

Vittorio DeSica's follow-up to The Bicycle Thief documents the lives of the poverty-stricken in post-war Italy. Francesco Golisano is Good Toto, an orphan boy who begins living with a cluster of beggars. His organizational efforts bring some structure to the colony and engenders a sense of faint...  More

Umberto D
(1952) [PG]

The story of an old retired office worker whose lonely, impoverished life becomes unbearable to the point where something has to give. Italian dialogue with subtitles.  More

The Bicycle Thief (Ladri Di Biciclette)
(1948) [PG]

An Italian worker during the great depression finds work putting up posters. On his first day his bike is stolen and his chance to bring his family out of poverty is in jeopardy. He takes his son and some friends through the city in search of the bicycle that means economic survival to him.  More

Ossessione
(1942) [PG]

A restless wife, Giovanna, meets Gino, a rough and handsome vagabond. Their passions affair leads to the murder of Giovanna's boorish husband. Can a strong and sensual affair survive the guilt? Adapted from James M. Cain's classic novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, Ossessione is a dark and...  More

La Terra Trema
(1948) [G]

A haunting account of the tough life led by Sicilian fishermen and of their struggle against exploitation by unscrupulous businessmen. The film was awarded Special Prize at the 1948 Venice Film Festival. Italian and Sicilian dialogue with English subtitles.  More

L'Avventura (2 Disc Set)
(1959) [PG]

When L'Avventura premiered alongside La Dolce Vita at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize, it ignited a storm of controversy that sparked the international career of the great Michelangelo Antonioni - he went on to direct some of the most influential art films of the 60s and 70s...  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

Cinema Paradiso
(1989) [PG]

Salvatore, a successful film director, returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo. He was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso where Salvatore spent the happiest times of his childhood and developed his love of film. To the fatherless young boy...  More