All That Heaven Allows
(1955) [PG]

Cary, a wealthy widow, falls in love with the much younger nurseryman, Ron Kirby. This provides gossip for the country club set, and her children are ashamed that she plans to remarry below her station. Ron is an independent man who can ignore the petty conventions of society, but can Cary also...  More

In The Realm Of The Senses
(1976) [R]

Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima's controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art - making Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris of four years earlier look like children's programming in comparison. The story concerns servant and...  More

Gilda
(1946) [PG]

Rita Hayworth sizzles alonside Glenn Ford and George Macready in Gilda, director Charles Vidor's classic noir set against a backdrop of high life and low characters in a Buenos Aires casino. Exuding sensuality and star power in a dazzling performance, Hayworth delivers lines like "If I'd been a...  More

The Family Man
(2000) [M]

High powered Wall Street investment banker Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is at the top of his profession, and he has the luxurious lifestyle to prove it. Life is just about perfect: that is until one snowy Christmas Eve night when Jack unwittingly stumbles into the middle of a grocery store...  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

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959) [PG]

One of the most influential films of all time, Alain Resnais’ first feature sees a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exercise their own scarred memories of...  More

Last Year in Marienbad (L'Annee derniere a Marienbad)
(1961) [M]

In Alain Resnais's masterwork, L'ANNEE DERNIERE A MARIENBAD, each fantasy laden, heavily dramatised, aesthetically perfected scene is dictated by the memories of a man (Giorgio Albertazzi), who is one of many elegant, aristocratic guests vacationing at the enchanting resort, Marienbad. Because...  More

Fahrenheit 451
(1966) [PG]

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of...  More

Jules Et Jim (Jules and Jim)
(1962) [M]

Hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of all time, Francois Truffaut's internationally award-winning film Jules And Jim is set pre and post The First World War, and tells the tale of two young students, Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian, and Jim (Henri Serre), a Frenchman, in love with...  More

Les Mistons / Antoine and Colette (2 short films by Francois Truffaut)
(1959) [PG]

Les Mistons:
Truffaut's acclaimed first film, is the touching story of the sexual awakening of a group of adolescent boys who idolise and become the tormentors of an older girl (Bernadette Lafont), and her boyfriend (Gerard Blain).

'Les Quatre Cents Coups', Truffaut's first feature,...  More

Six In Paris (Paris Vu Par)
(1964) [PG]

Six of France's finest directors took to the streets of Paris with scripts of their own devising, with each story conjuring up essential images of Paris in the 1960's. Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet),...  More

The Girl On The Bridge
(1999)

A girl on a bridge is preparing to take her own life, Adele (Vanessa Paradis) looks determined to jump but a passing stranger offers her an alternative ending. Gabor (Daniel Auteil) is a circus act on the search for a new assistant but is this where all knife-throwers like him find their new...  More

The Big Blue (Version Longue)
(1988) [M]

The timeless magical mysterious sea. A place on earth as untouched as the far reaches of space. For two men, its unknown depths will become the ultimate test of their courage. For one woman, the ultimate test of her love. In a place where man has only just begun to learn, Jacques Mayol has...  More

Tango
(1998) [PG]

This is the seductive world of the tango, stunningly brought to life by acclaimed director Carlos Saura, Grammy-award winning composer Lalo Schifrin and Oscar winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

Mario Suarez is a director, determined to make the ultimate tango movie. After his wife...  More

Carmen
(1983) [M]

The director of a dance company in modern-day Spain decides to stage a dance production of Bizet's 'Carmen', and goes in search of an appropriate leading lady. During the course of the rehearsals, the plot of the production and reality becomes inextricably intertwined. Spanish dialogue with...  More

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
(1988) [M]

This colourful hit put director Pedro Almodovar on the international map and cemented the reputation of its star, Carmen Maura. The film is a peppy little soap bubble as TV actress Pepa (Maura) wakes up to find a note from her lover, Ivan (Fernando Guillun), informing her he is leaving. Desperate...  More

The Marriage Of Maria Braun (The BRD Trilogy)
(1978) [M]

A portrait of a sensuous beauty who sells herself for wealth, and the husband who sacrifices his freedom for her. War-time drama. German dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Wings Of Desire
(1987) [PG]

One of Wim Wenders' biggest commercial successes and arguably his most accessible film to date, Wings Of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) centres around two trench-coated angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), wandering the streets of post-war, pre-unification Berlin. Invisible to...  More

The Promise (Das Versprechen)
(1994) [M]

Two lovers live in the same city yet they only see each other 3 times in thirty years. Konrad and Sophie are separated as they attempt to escape from East Berlin in 1961. From that point on, they live their lives in two diametrically opposing worlds. Sophie in the West, Konrad in the East. How...  More

L'Avventura (2 Disc Set)
(1959) [PG]

When L'Avventura premiered alongside La Dolce Vita at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize, it ignited a storm of controversy that sparked the international career of the great Michelangelo Antonioni - he went on to direct some of the most influential art films of the 60s and 70s...  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

Last Tango In Paris
(1972) [R]

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their...  More

Besieged
(1998) [PG]

A young African woman takes lodgings with a reclusive English pianist in the heart of Rome. She is slowly drawn into his life within the elegant and delapidated house and alive with the music of Bach, Mozart and Grieg.  More

Dolls
(2002) [M]

Cult director Takeshi Kitano weaves together three visually stunning and deeply touching stories of undying love inspired by traditional Japanese bunraku puppet theatre. The first concerns a rising young executive who turned his back on his girlfriend in pursuit of his career. After a failed...  More

Cousin Bette
(1998) [M]

COUSIN BETTE, based on the novel by Honore de Balzac, stars Jessica Lange in a delicious performance. Elisabeth Fisher (Jessica Lange), known to her relatives as Bette, is a humble seamstress in a burlesque theatre in Paris. She has always been taken for granted by her rich relations, and has...  More

Walk on the Wild Side
(1962) [M]

At the Doll House, a 1930's New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the...  More

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004) [M]

In Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr....  More

King Arthur (Director's Cut)
(2004) [M]

King Arthur (Clive Owen) is a half-British, half-Roman leader and warrior who commands a brave team of knights for the Roman Empire, protecting Hadrian's Wall from the Woads (ancient Britons) in the North. Arthur and his Sarmatian knights, who include Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) and Bors (Ray...  More

Facing Windows
(2003) [M]

Giovanna has been married to her devoted husband for nine years. She carries the responsibility for the family and the strain begins to show when they come across a lost and amnesiac elderly gentleman. Irritated by her husband's softness, her fantasies of the ideal are projected onto the...  More

Bed and Board
(1970) [M]

The fourth in Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series finds Doinel married to the beautiful Christine (Claude Jade) and still plugging away at odd jobs. After Christine informs him he will be a father, Doinel falls in with a seductive Japanese mistress (Hiroku Berghauer), but soon reunites with his...  More