Mrs. Miniver
(1942) [G]

The Wartime Classic Of A Nation's Darkest - Yet Finest - Hour. Kay Miniver doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England. And she does it so well that Winston Churchill would say Mrs. Miniver was more vital to the...  More

The Great Gatsby
(1974) [PG]

F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is a story that could have only taken place in the Jazz Age - an era in which recklessness with money, liquor, women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness. Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and...  More

Jungle Fever
(1991) [M]

Spike Lee's drama is a complex, multilayered, and volatile look at interracial romance in present-day New York City. Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), an up-and-coming African American architect, seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice apartment on a renovated street in Harlem, a...  More

Ma Nuit Chez Maud (My Night at Maud's)
(1969) [G]

The "my" in My Night At Maud's belongs to the protagonist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, a Catholic engineer whose struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with a woman he's never met (Marie-Christine Barrault) while attending mass. A chance meeting with an amoral old...  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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And God Created Woman
(1956) [PG]

Roger Vadim's directorial debut broke box-office records and censorship taboos in its teasing display of eroticism in the sunny vacation playground of the Saint-Tropez seashore. It also made Brigitte Bardot an international star.

Bardot is Juliette, cinema’s original sex-kitten,...  More

From The Terrace
(1960) [PG]

Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his career goals, he is forced to choose between business success, married to the beautiful, but unfaithful Mary and starting over with his true love,...  More

Lonely Hearts
(1982) [PG]

The New York Times called director Paul Cox “a bright new film-making talent” for his enchanting story – co-written with John Clarke (The Games) - of unsung hero Peter, a piano tuner, loner and kleptomaniac whose toupee only fools the man underneath. Peter desperately visits a dating...  More

A Summer Place
(1959) [PG]

Troy Donahue's first starring role. A story of middle-aged adultery intertwined with teenage love and adult hypocrisy about it set on an island off the Maine coast. The song "Theme From A Summer Place" was a chart topper the year of the movie's release.

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Peyton Place
(1957) [M]

Based on Grace Metalious' best-selling novel, Peyton Place received an impressive nine Oscar nominations in 1957, including Best Picture. Lana Turner's acclaimed performance as Constance MacKenzie, the single mother of a beautiful teen (Diane Varsi), earned her a Best Actress nomination (Varsi...  More

The African Queen
(1951) [G]

Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn...  More

Belle De Jour
(1967) [M]

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in...  More

Goodbye Mr Chips
(1939) [G]

An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life. Beloved classic based on the novel by James Hilton.  More

I'll Be Seeing You
(1954) [PG]

Based on a timeless theme enveloping the rebirth of hope and the recapturing of lost dreams through a great love, ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ tells a tenderly dramatic story of two bewildered souls who find their way to social and emotional rehabilitation. Ginger Rogers is the girl who is on leave...  More

The Comfort Of Strangers
(1990) [M]

Paul Schrader directs this stylish adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel scripted by Harold Pinter. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) first fell in love on a romantic holiday in Venice. Now, four years later, they have returned to rekindle their romance and determine where their...  More

Pride and Prejudice
(1940) [G]

The arrival of the wealthy Mr Darcy in the neighbourhood causes great excitement within the Bennet family. One of her five daughters, Mrs Bennet feels, is sure to capture the heart of the wealthy young aristocrat. That fate befalls the spirited Elizabeth. Judging him on first impressions and the...  More

A Kind Of Loving
(1962) [M]

The legendary John Schlesinger (Yanks, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy) made his feature film directorial debut with this bittersweet and beautifully acted drama about a young draughtsman, Vic Brown (Alan Bates), whose life comes apart at the seams when he begins a relationship with typist Ingrid...  More

The Go-Between
(1970) [PG]

Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a...  More

Heat And Dust
(1983) [M]

The passion, violence, mystery and beauty of India are rapturously evoked in Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed Heat And Dust, based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist. Blending east with west, and moving effortlessly between the vibrant world of...  More

Too Beautiful For You (Trop Belle Pour Toi!)
(1989) [M]

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of...  More

Out Of Africa
(1985) [M]

The most acclaimed motion picture of 1985 stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in one of the screen's great epic romances. Directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack, Out Of Africa is the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria...  More

The Night Heaven Fell
(1957) [PG]

Ursula leaves the convent where she was educated, to start living with her uncle, the count Ribera, and her aunt Florentine. When she arrives, a young man from the village, Lambert, whose sister took her own life, accuses the count of being responsible for his sister's death, for having sexually...  More

Dangerous Liaisons
(1988) [M]

Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her...  More

Romeo And Juliet (1968)
(1968) [PG]

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned the screen world when he cast two young unknowns to portray the star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet, but it was a gamble that resulted in one of the most popular motion pictures of all time, winning international acclaim and four Academy Award...  More

The Silver Fleet
(1943) [G]

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaberates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a childs rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?...  More

Roselyne And The Lions (Director's Cut)
(1989) [M]

Roselyne and boyfriend Thierry have run away to become lion tamers in Munich's Koenig Circus, but Thierry is having his work cut out for him with this particular pride. Meanwhile Roselyne is wining and dining with male admirers. The couple's ambitions become threatened by feelings of jealousy....  More

Rebecca
(1940) [PG]

"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderlay again." Rebecca’s haunting opening line conjures the entirety of Hitchcock’s romantic, suspenseful, elegant film. A young woman (Joan Fontaine) believes her every dream has come true when her whirlwind romance with the dashing Maxim de Winter (Sir...  More

A Room With A View
(1985) [PG]

A Room With A View features an incomparable cast which includes Denholm Elliott, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Day – Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands. A Room With A View tells of Lucy Honeychurch, a beautiful young English girl abroad, whose emotions are rocked when she witnesses...  More

Love In The Afternoon (aka Chloe in the Afternoon)
(1972) [M]

The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day,...  More

La Ronde (1950)
(1950) [PG]

An all-knowing narrator (Anton Walbrook) guides us through a series of stories about love affairs in Vienna, 1900. In each story, a new character forms a liaison with a character from the previous story, creating the circular effect represented in the title of the film.  More