The Lord Of The Rings (Animated)
(1978) [PG]

One Ring To Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them, One Ring To Bring Them All, And In The Darkness Bind Them. Only the first two parts of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic fantasy trilogy of the same name are covered by this rotoscoped animated feature about a band of travelers of different races who...  More

Frequency
(2000) [M]

A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is...  More

The Castle Of Cagliostro
(1979) [PG]

Although Lupin III is a hugely successful animated series on television and film in Japan and the U.S., The Castle of Cagliostro is distinguished by its director, Hayao Miyazaki, who would later direct such animated classics as Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Mononoke Hime. The daring...  More

Blood: The Last Vampire
(2000) [M]

Japan’s first fully-digitally-animated feature film, Blood - The Last Vampire takes place in the fall of 1966. The Vietnam War is underway and the U.S. military machine is being supplied out of the Yokota Air Force Base - a plot of U.S. land within Japan. Within the compound, the atmosphere is...  More

Armageddon
(1998) [M]

From the team who produced and directed 'The Rock' comes the biggest movie of the year - ARMAGEDDON! Starring the explosive talents of Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler, Armageddon is a meteor storm of action-adventure movie-making that has you on the edge of your seat forgetting to...  More

Ninja Scroll
(1993) [MA]

Removed from the typical futuristic element of most Japanese animated adventures, this 1994 feature takes place in more of a sword-and-sorcery epic set in feudal Japan. Jubei Kipagami, a ninja mercenary, wanders the countryside in search of work. On his travels, he encounters Kagero, a female...  More

Red Planet
(2000) [M]

In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds...  More

Arabesque
(1966) [PG]

Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren star in this high-speed, high-class tale of Middle Eastern intrigue set in London. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen, this breezy romantic thriller casts Peck as an Oxford professor of languages hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret...  More

The City Of Lost Children
(1995) [M]

On a mist-shrouded rig in the sea, Krank ages prematurely because he lacks one vital function: the ability to dream. And so he kidnaps children from the harbour town, to steal their dreams. Return to the fantastic world of the creators of Delicatessen, and journey with One - a former whale...  More

Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
(1990) [M]

A junkie called Nikita commits a robbery and kills a cop. Faced with the choice between a death sentence and a chance to work for the secret service, she spends three years training as a government assassin.  More

El Mariachi / Desperado (Double Feature)
(1992) [M]

Set in a Mexican border town, this film follows the fortunes of a sensitive peace-loving El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) who wishes to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as an itinerant musician, earning his living through singing in local bars. He enters town at exactly the same...  More

Fitzcarraldo
(1982) [PG]

Fitzcarraldo is a legendary film for many reasons - the background to the making of it, the battles between star Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog, the resulting masterwork. These factors combined to bring a vision to the screen unlike anything seen before (or since). A driven Irish...  More

Run Lola Run
(1998) [MA]

Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who works as a small-time courier for a big-time gangster, is in huge trouble. He has accidentally left the cash from a mob deal on the subway, and he has only twenty minutes to deliver the 100,000 marks to his unforgiving boss. Desperate, he calls his girlfriend, Lola...  More

The Decameron
(1971) [R]

The first of Pasolini's colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story cycles (to be followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights, The Decameron contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Capturing the...  More

The Sheltering Sky (2 disc set)
(1990) [M]

From director Bernardo Bertolucci comes this epic dramatisation of Paul Bowles' novel. Starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger, this is an extraordinary voyage of vision, redemption and love. Yearning for adventure and an escape from a suffocating, repressive society, Port and his wife Kit...  More

1900 (2 disc set)
(1976) [R]

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (De Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by...  More

Brother
(2000) [R]

A film by Takeshi Kitano, the director of Hana-Bi, Violent Cop and Boiling Point. In Japan, the sworn brotherhood of the Yakuza is described as being "thicker than the blood of kindred brothers". With his life under threat, disgraced Yakuza hard man Yamamoto (Takeshi) escapes to Los Angeles in...  More

The Fog
(2005) [M]

A remake of the original 1980 John Carpenter movie The Fog. Exactly 100 years ago, off the rocky shore of the town, a ship of lepers seeking refuge was betrayed by the town's founding fathers and pillaged and burned, killing everyone aboard. Now, on the town’s centenary celebrations, the ghosts...  More

Aeon Flux
(2006) [M]

400 years in the future, after a virus decimates the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, a secret...  More

Underworld 2: Evolution
(2006) [MA]

The Underworld saga continues as hunted Vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) seeks out Marcus (Tony Curran), king of the Vampires, in the hope of bargaining for her life. Hybrid Michael (Scott Speedman) wants to join Selene in her quest but is unable to trust the werewolf raging uncontrolled inside...  More

Jarhead
(2005) [MA]

Welcome to the suck. Jarhead is the darkly funny, action-packed screen adaptation of the best-selling autobiography by former US Marine Anthony Swofford. In 1991, nineteen year old Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a third generation marine enlistee. Conceived on a military base in Germany,...  More

The Thing (AKA: The Thing From Another World)
(1951) [PG]

Ned Scott is a reporter banging around Alaska, looking for a story. When he meets Captain Patrick Hendry and his flight crew, he joins them on a trip to an arctic research base where numerous scientists are camped. It seems their scientific gear has detected the crash of an unknown aircraft - and...  More

The Leopard: Director's Suite (2 disc set)
(1963) [PG]

Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy's Risorgimento—when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a unified, democratic...  More

Year of the Gun
(1991) [M]

American journalist David Raybourne has arrived in Rome to write a political best seller about The Red Brigade, a militant left-wing group terrorizing Italy. When a daring photojournalist believes his book to be a piece of non-fiction...the manuscript falls tragically into the wrong hands. Now...  More

Charley Varrick (aka Kill Charley Varrick)
(1973) [M]

Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the Mob in this fast-paced offbeat thriller directed by Don Siegel. Academy Award winner Walter Matthau stars in a rare dramatic role, along with the powerful Joe Don Baker, as a tough Mafia hitman. Charley robs small banks with small payrolls....  More

Catwoman
(2004) [M]

Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is...  More

Sugarland Express
(1974) [M]

The Sugarland Express is based on the true story of Lou Jean Poplin, who kidnapped a Texas State Trooper and led the police on a wild chase across the state in an effort to save her son from adoption. This complex role was enough to lure superstar Goldie Hawn back to the screen after a one-year...  More

White Chicks
(2004) [M]

Two ambitious but unlucky FBI agents (the Wayans Brothers) who go deep undercover as high society debutantes and infiltrate the sophisticated world of the Hamptons to investigate a kidnapping ring. A crazy gender/race swapping comedy from the makers of Scary Movie.  More

Open Water
(2004) [M]

Based on true events, Open Water follows an American couple, Daniel and Susan, (Daniel Travis and Blanchard Ryan) on an island holiday. Accidentally left behind on a scuba diving expedition, what follows is the story of their ordeal: cold, alone and miles from land, the couple is adrift in...  More

Tokyo Joe
(1949) [PG]

Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.

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