Bangkok Hilton (2 Disc Set)
(1989) [M]

Gripping drama about Kat Stanton, a young Australian woman who, whilst searching for her father, ends up in Thailand where she falls in love with Arkie Regan, a photographer. Arkie asks Kat to carry some luggage through Thai customs for him. She finds herself arrested for drug smuggling. She is...  More

Angela's Ashes
(1999) [M]

Angela's Ashes tells a powerful, autobiographical story of one boys' upbringing in the 1930s. Born in Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents (Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson) returned to Ireland disillusioned with future prospects in America. Based on...  More

The Hurricane
(1999) [M]

Academy Award winner Denzel Washington plays Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man who in the prime of his boxing career, found himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir 'The Sixteenth Round' inspired a teenager (Vicellous Reon Shannon) from Brooklyn...  More

It All Starts Today
(1998) [M]

Based upon the experiences of director Bertrand Travernier's screenplay collaborator, Dominique Sampiero, 'It All Starts Today...' revolves around Daniel Lefebvre, the director of a kindergarten in Hernaing, a poor area in Northern France. Appalled by the deprivation that his pupils must endure,...  More

The Winslow Boy
(1999) [G]

Based on real life events in 1912 England, this exquisitely crafted film tells of Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old navel cadet expelled from the Academy for stealing a five-shilling postal note, and his father, London Banker Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) all-consuming attempt to prove his...  More

The Miracle Worker
(1962) [M]

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke deliver remarkable, Oscar-winning performances in Arthur Penn's film The Miracle Worker. Locked in a frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness since infancy, 7-year-old Helen Keller (Duke) has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her...  More

Gods And Monsters
(1999) [M]

Ian McKellen delivers a riveting, award-winning performance as Hollywood horror director James Whale. It's 1957, and Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past....  More

All That Jazz
(1979) [M]

All That Jazz is a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its celebrated writer/director/choreographer, Bob Fosse. The multi-talented performer was an Oscar®, Tony and Emmy Award winner. Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane is the award-winning musical...  More

Hilary And Jackie
(1998) [M]

Hilary and Jackie tells the remarkable story of one of the world's best-known cellists, the late Jacqueline du Pre. The exquisite passion of Jackie's playing provides a magnificent backdrop to a story of volatile passions, thwarted ambitions and sibling rivalry. Both Emily Watson as Jackie and...  More

Kundun
(1997) [PG]

In 1937, in a remote area of Tibet close to the Chinese border, a a two year old child is identified as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, the compassionate Buddha. Two years later, the child is brought to Lhasa where he is schooled as a monk and as head of state amidst the color and pageantry...  More

Head On (Australian)
(2000) [R]

In this gritty Australian drama, the nihilistic son of Greek immigrants indulges in 24 hours of hedonism in ethnically conflicted inner-city Melbourne. Ari (Alex Dimitriades), a 19-year-old layabout, spends his time picking up strange men for furtive sex; dealing, and doing, speed with his...  More

The Bounty
(1984) [PG]

Robert Bolt's screen adaptation of Richard Hugh's book 'Captain Bligh and Mister Christian' (itself a widely acclaimed account of The Mutiny On The Bounty) is directed here by Roger Donald (No Way Out, Species, Dante's Peak). Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian, and particularly the emminently...  More

Kurt And Courtney
(1998) [M]

After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people: Cobain's aunt who provides home movies and recordings, the estranged father of Cobain's widow Courtney Love, an L.A. private investigator who...  More

PT 109
(1963) [G]

All-action story of torpedoboat PT 109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, in a desperate fight against the Japanese Imperial Navy in the Solomon Islands during WWII.  More

Seven Years In Tibet
(1997) [M]

Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head to Himalayan expedition in 1939, only to fall into the hands of Allied forces as a prisoner of war. He and a fellow escapee, Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), make their...  More

The Untouchables
(1987) [M]

Prohibition Chicago, 1931. A select team of Government investigators led by a young determined Federal Treasury agent. They couldn't be bribed. They couldn't be bought. They would risk everything to stop Al Capone's reign of terror when organized crime turned the city into a battlefield. They...  More

Rope
(1948) [PG]

James Stewart stars with Farley Granger and John Dall in a highly-charged thriller inspired by the real-life Leopold-Loeb murder case. Granger and Dall give riveting performances as two friends who strangle a classmate for intellectual thrills, then proceed to throw a party for the victim's...  More

The Truce
(1997) [M]

This is the true story of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz after the war. It deals with their experiences in readjusting to life and their fears about what they will find at home.  More

Missing
(1982) [M]

This political thriller has its origins in an actual event – the disappearance of a young American writer and filmmaker, Charles Horman (John Shea), during a South American military coup. Jack Lemmon stars as Charles’ father, Ed Horman, a prominent New York businessman, who comes to the aid...  More

A Night To Remember
(1958) [PG]

For many years Roy Baker's 1958 re-enactment of the greatest sea drama of the 20th Century - the sinking of RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912 has been considered the definitive movie version. Based on the book by Walter Lord, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER is told through the eyes of crew member, Second Officer...  More

Ulysses' Gaze
(1995) [M]

Ulysses' Gaze traces the journey of Greek-American filmmaker, "Mr. A" (Harvey Keitel), across the Balkans in search of the past. He seeks three lost film reels made in the early years of cinema by two Greek brothers. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth....  More

Beaumarchais (The Scoundrel)
(1996) [PG]

A lavish costume-drama based on the life of the author of two famous eighteenth-century comedies - 'The Marriage Of Figaro' and 'The Barber Of Seville'. He was also an arms dealer, a spy, a woman-chaser, and a defender of human rights. French dialogue.  More

Private Parts
(1997) [MA]

There's only one way to describe Howard Stern: funny. Private Parts captures Howard at his most hilarious, in a bare-all, no-jokes-barred look at a true entertainment sensation. Based on the #1 bestseller, Private Parts follows Howard's amazing transformation from school nerd to media superstar....  More

Mabo: Life Of An Island Man
(1997) [G]

The world knows little of the life of Eddie Mabo. This film tells the story of a man so passionate that he fought an entire nation and its legal system, giving his name and much of his life to a legal judgement that continues to reverberate throughout Australia.  More

Molokai : The Story Of Father Damien
(1999) [M]

Molokai is the immensely moving and true story of Father Damien (David Wenham, The Bank, The Boys, Better Than Sex) a young, devout Belgian priest. Set in the late nineteenth century, Damien sees his ultimate calling as living amongst the exiled lepers of the island of Molokai. By embracing them...  More

Evita
(1996) [PG]

She began life as an illegitimate country girl born into poverty. She ended it as the most powerful woman in all of Argentina. This is the astounding true story of a woman whose will to succeed saw her defy all odds to become a legendary figure in her own country and ultimately the world. Madonna...  More

Gypsy (1962)
(1962) [G]

Ringing with the show biz sass of its peerless Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim score, Mervyn LeRoy's film version of the Broadway hit "Gypsy" sweeps you on a grand tour of vintage burlesque. It gets up close and personal with its depiction of the roller-coaster relationship of Louise (Natalie Wood),...  More

The Dismissal (2 Disc Set)
(1983) [PG]

The mini-series about the drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labour Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and...  More

Caligula (R rated version)
(1979) [R]

The most expensive adult movie ever made, Caligula tells the tale of the mad Roman emperor's rise and fall. Depicting his descent into madness and depravity with graphic sex and violence, and with an all-star cast, Caligula is a true cult classic. Lavish sets, some truly over the top acting...  More

Ned Kelly
(1970) [PG]

True story of a frontier cowboy in Australia who is convicted as a horse thief. He insists he is innocent and takes to the hills to live as an outlaw. Rock superstar Mick Jagger makes his dynamic screen debut in this explosive frontier crime saga from Academy Award winner director Tony...  More