On The Waterfront
(1954) [PG]

Marlon Brando gives one of the screen's most electrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award® winner for Best Film. Ex-fighter Terry Malloy (Brando) could have been a contender, but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. Terry is...  More

The Harder They Fall
(1956) [M]

Humphrey Bogart delivers one of his most memorable performances as Eddie Willis, a sportswriter who joins forces with a corrupt boxing promoter (Rod Steiger). Together, they scheme to deceive Toro Moreno (Mike Lane), a clumsy, seven-foot giant, and the public into believing Moreno has a shot at...  More

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
(1990) [R]

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince here to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up... Will this approach endear him to her?

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Cruising
(1980) [R]

The controversial story of an under-cover cop who enters the gay scene of Manhattan to search for a psychotic killer.

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Basic Instinct
(1992) [R]

An ice pick stained with blood. A silk scarf tied to a bed post. A fading rock star brutally slain. The clues and the victim, but where is the killer? For Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), a cop on the edge whose best friend is the bottle, what begins as just another murder hunt quickly turns into...  More

In Cold Blood
(1967) [M]

In Cold Blood is the powerful, true story of a callous muder, based on the best-selling classic by Truman Capote. A prosperous and respected Kansas famer, his wife and his two teenage children are wantonly and brutally sluaghtered. The murderers are two mindless ex-convict drifters: Perry Smith...  More

Billy Bathgate
(1991) [M]

Hungry for a taste of the good life, street-wise New York teenager Billy Bathgate joins a gang of fiery 1930's mobster Dutch Schultz. Billy is seduced by the power, money and glamour of crime and quickly rises up through the ranks. But when he falls for Drew Preston, Dutch's sultry, strong-willed...  More

New Jack City
(1991) [R]

Nino Brown is an American success story, an entrepreneur who's found the ultimate cash crop: crack. Nino thinks he's untouchable but he's wrong: a handful of street-smart cops are determined to bring him down. New Jack City is a gangster movie for the '90s, a hard-hitting tale with "a gritty...  More

JFK : Director's Cut (2 disc set)
(1991) [M]

Part fact and part opinion. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is highly suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI to explain JFK's assassination. When he takes it upon himself to investigate, he unearths a deadly conspiracy that may go deeper than he could have ever imagined.  More

The Big Easy
(1987) [M]

Ellen Barkin stars alongside Dennis Quaid in this humorous, stylish and erotic thriller. When a Mafia hood is found dead in a New Orleans fountain, Lt Renny McSwain (Quaid), and his partner (Ned Beatty) decide that it is a Mafia hit. However, Assistant District Attorney Anne Osborne (Barkin)...  More

Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer
(1986) [R]

Based on the life and killings of Henry Lee Lucas, famed American serial killer who now resides on death row in Texas. “Its always the quiet ones”. How many times have we heard this phrase used to describe a killer. Too often. Henry is the boy next door who just cant get that taste for...  More

Gorky Park
(1983) [M]

Murder, seduction and intrigue in the Kremlin form the backdrop for Gorky Park. Scripted by Dennis Potter from Martin Cruz Smith's best seller and directed by the versatile Michael Apted, Gorky Park is a gripping, intricate thriller co-starring Lee Marvin in his last great performance. When three...  More

Little Caesar
(1931) [PG]

"R-I-C-O, Little Caesar, that's who!" Edward G. Robinson bellowed into the phone. And Hollywood got the message: 37 year old Robinson, not gifted with matinee-idol looks, was nonetheless a first-class star and moviegoers hailed the hard-hitting social consciousness dramas that became the...  More

The Sting
(1973) [PG]

Combining startling cinematography, a superb cast and a riveting script, The Sting is a movie that can quite easily be described as a classic. Redford and Newman are brilliant in their portrayals as the couple of con-men and the supporting cast is one of the strongest you will see in any film,...  More

The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers
(1946) [PG]

FATE Drew Them Together... And Only MURDER Could Part Them! No one's as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she is "bad" - and the Double Indemnity star gives an equally chilling performance opposite rugged Van Heflin and dynamic Kirk Douglas (making his feature-film debut) in The Strange Love Of...  More

Boyz N The Hood
(1991) [M]

John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face....  More

The Stranger
(1946) [PG]

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is...  More

The Pope Of Greenwich Village
(1984) [M]

Turn up the Sinatra, put on the leather jacket, and slip into a rollicking high-voltage movie that produces tears of laughter. Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts and Daryl Hannah create emotion-charged characters who tingle with energy and play with conviction in this modern day classic that's as robust...  More

The Public Enemy
(1931) [PG]

In William Wellman's classic crime film The Public Enemy, James Cagney does a star turn as Tom Powers, a trouble-ridden individual who rises from the position of cheap thug to that of a powerful Prohibition gangster. When his best friend is murdered, Powers self-destructively seeks deadly...  More

Key Largo
(1948) [PG]

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), her invalid father-in-law (Lionel Barrymore) and ex-GI Frank...  More

Dark Passage
(1947) [PG]

Bogey's on the lam and Bacall's at his side in Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry, a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene...  More

White Heat
(1949) [PG]

As a psychotic thug devoted to his hard-boiled ma, James Cagney - older, scarier and just as electrifying - gives a performance to match his work in The Public Enemy as White Heat's cold-blooded Cody Jarrett. Bracingly directed by Raoul Walsh, this fast-paced thriller tracing Jarrett's violent...  More

Angels With Dirty Faces
(1938) [PG]

Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks. O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to...  More

The Godfather Part 2 (2 disc set)
(1975) [R]

Upon its release The Godafther: Part II was hailed as the best sequel to a movie ever made, however this film is much more than that. Coppolla utilised a quite brilliant screenplay and turned it into a visually captivating treat, as well as using his directorial skills to make the audience view...  More

For Queen And Country
(1988) [M]

Denzel Washington stars as Reuben, an ex-paratrooper, in this hard-hitting British thriller. Returning to civilian life for the first time in nine years, Reuben must confront racism, poverty and corruption in Thatcher's Britain. After serving his country in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, St....  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

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

Anatomy Of A Murder
(1959) [M]

A riveting courtroom drama of rape and premeditated murder is brought to life with an all-star cast in director Otto Preminger's suspenseful and highly-acclaimed Anatomy of a Murder. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture (1959), the film pits a humble small-town lawyer (James...  More

Tiger Bay
(1959) [PG]

In director J.Lee Thompson's classic thriller Tiger Bay, Polish sailor Korchinsky (Horst Buchholz) is furious to discover his lover has left him for another man and shoots her. The crime is witnessed by 10-year-old Gillie (Hayley Mills in her breakthrough role) who steals the gun. Investigating...  More