Shadowlands
(1993) [PG]

CS Lewis is the author of the Narnia books - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Known as Jack, he teaches at an Oxford College, during the 1930's. An American fan, Joy Gresham, arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically Joy becomes terminally...  More

The Lover
(1992) [R]

The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese...  More

True Romance
(1993) [R]

Clarence Worley (Slater) is a loner who has little experience in the ways of love until he meets Alabama Whitman (Arquette), a sex kitten with an irresistible innocence. The day she enters his life his world changes for the better - and the worst. After a whirlwind courtship Clarence commits a...  More

Wide Sargasso Sea
(1993) [M]

A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love blooms, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect...  More

The Piano
(1992) [MA]

Ada (Holly Hunter), mute since birth, her nine year old daughter (Anna Paquin), and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear...  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

One From The Heart
(1982) [M]

Francis Ford Coppola directed this experimental theatrical music drama about love in Las Vegas. The film stars Frederic Forrest (Hank) and Teri Garr (Frannie) as an unhappy couple breaking up on their five-year anniversary. Frannie is courted by a piano player/waiter, Ray (Raul Julia), who...  More

Betty Blue (37°2 le matin)
(1986) [R]

They fought by day and made love at night. Theirs was an affair of destructive passions and violent emotions. Of impotence overcome by force. Because when Betty Blue rose up and hit her lover's life like a whirlwind, nothing could be the same again. He had been a quiet, failed man living in a...  More

Les Choses De La Vie (Things Of Life)
(1970) [M]

A dramatic car crash at an intersection and Pierre is thrown from his car into a field. Whilst fighting for his life on the way to hospital, his mind fills with images from his life – his mistress, his ex-wife, his son, his friends, the places he has known – everything which gives his life...  More

Un Homme Et Une Femme (A Man and A Woman)
(1966) [PG]

Critically acclaimed around the world, A Man and A Woman stars Anouk Aimee as a widowed script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a racer who lost his wife to suicide. The film is a study of moments between the time they meet and the point at which they begin to read each other intuitively. A Man...  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

Laura (1944)
(1944) [PG]

Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment...  More

The Mark Of Zorro
(1940) [G]

This swashbuckling remake of the silent classic stars Tyrone Power as the dashing masked avenger who single-handedly saves Los Angeles from Spanish despots. Don Diego Vega (Power) is summoned home from his elite training corps in Spain to California, where he finds his father, the Alcalde,...  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 Swan
(1956) [G]

Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship...  More

Brigadoon
(1954) [G]

Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a...  More

Show boat
(1951) [G]

From novel (by Edna Ferber) to Broadway smash (by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) to three film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) to stage revivals. Like Ol' Man River, Show Boat just keeps rollin' along. Produced by Arther Freed and directed by George Sidney, this 1951 version of the saga of...  More

War And Peace
(1956) [G]

A decade of preparation and two years of filming went into the making of this all-time classic version of Leo Tolstoy's 20th-century masterpiece. The personal stories of many characters, love affairs and philosophies are woven throughout this massive and intricate tapestry of Russia during...  More

Maurice
(1987) [M]

E.M. Forster's (A Room with a View, Howard's End) story, set in pre-World War I England, studies a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It is the coming of age for two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby) and Clive...  More

The Romantic Englishwoman
(1975) [M]

Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman is a drama about the conflict of life, love and sex in a modern marriage. A sucessful novelist's wife (Glenda Jackson), attractive but strangely unfulfilled, suddenly decides to take a holiday at a German spa. It is a holiday that has a devastating effect...  More

Husbands And Wives
(1992) [M]

When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they too are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to move on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy becomes...  More

The Graduate
(1967) [M]

Benjamin is home from school, having graduated with honors from college with no idea of what to do with his life. Mrs. Robinson, a close family friend old enough to be his mother, tells him that she's "available." As Ben begins the affair, he finds that it fills his time, but depresses him. Under...  More

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
(1976) [R]

Obsession and fate collide in one of the most controversial and provocative films ever made. English widow Anne Osborne (Ryan s Daughter s Sarah Miles) lives by the sea with her young son, Jonathan. The arrival of a rugged American sailor, Jim (Blade s Kris Kristofferson), brings Anne the joy and...  More

The Far Pavilions
(1984) [PG]

HBO's first mini-series, set in 19th century British colonial India, involves war battles, love, treachery and intrigue as well as love and honor involving a romance between a British calvary officer and an Indian princess who has been promised in an arranged marriage to a despotic ruler.  More

Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete)
(1965) [M]

A classic romantic adventure story in which a young couple set out on a series of crazy adventures on the French Riviera. French dialogue with subtitles.  More

Le Beau Mariage (A Good Marriage)
(1982) [PG]

An art student decides that she wants to get married. She sets out to capture Edmond. French dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Elvira Madigan
(1967) [PG]

Directed by Bo Widerberg and inspired by the famous John Lindstrom Saxon ballad, this classic Swedish film centres on circus performer Elvira Madigan (Pia Degermark) and army officer Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren). Both have run away from their lives - Elvira from her family's circus, Sixten...  More

Reds
(1981) [M]

An instant classic. Warren Beatty's 'Reds' was nominated for more Academy Awards in 1982 than any other film for the previous 15 years. The recipient of numerous critical Best Picture prizes throughout the world, it won every major directorial award of 1981-1982 for Beatty. 'Reds' is the story of...  More

The Hot Spot
(1990) [M]

A loner (Johnson) drives into a small Texas town and gets himself a job at a used car dealership. He gets an idea for robbing a small local bank after he tries to open a new bank account at the same time a fire occurs nearby. The bank was left open while all of the employees went to fight the...  More