Zorba The Greek
(1964) [M]

Michael Cacoyannis's powerful film starring Anthony Quinn garnered seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. On the Greek isle of Crete, Basil (Alan Bates), a shy, inhibited writer from England is befriended by Zorba, a boisterous, gregarious peasant...  More

The Baby Of Mâcon
(1993) [R]

Reality and illusion collide in the baby of Macon, a masque performed to a 17th Century audience. An old woman gives birth and the community celebrate it as a miracle. The child seems imbued with mystical powers, which are exploited not least by his sister (Julia Ormond). When she seduces the...  More

Celluloid Heroes (2 Disc Set)
(1995) [M]

Produced by Film Australia in collaboration with the ABC to celebrate the first century of filmmaking in Australia, this fascinating four-part series details the evolution of Australian cinema from the early silent film-era to the modern ‘renaissance’ in Australian film-making when names like...  More

A Doll's House
(1973) [PG]

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to...  More

A Heart In Winter (Un coeur en hiver)
(1992) [M]

Un Coeur En Hiver is director Claude Sautet's award-winning classic of modern French cinema, exploring the passion and conflict within a dangerous love triangle. Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) run a renowned violin making and repair business. One day Maxime introduces his...  More

Farewell My Concubine
(1993)

Nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar, this film, based on the novel by Lilian Lee, spans fifty years of Chinese art, passion and revolution, seen through the eyes of two male stars of the Peking Opera and the prostitute who comes between them. Mandarin dialogue with English subtitles.  More

Lenny
(1974) [R]

Dustin Hoffman brings iconic '60s comedian Lenny Bruce to life in this landmark film that earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. A jagged portrait of a man driven to mainlining honesty into the arteries of a hypocritical culture, Bob Fosse's Lenny is an artful and unflinching...  More

Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (2 Disc Set)
(1966) [M]

One literate and profane night in the pathological marriage of two tortured souls, a middle-aged New England professor and his carping wife. Turning the underbelly of bourgeois academia into a microcosm of human relationships in all their arduous complexities, Mike Nichols' auspicious debut...  More

Paul McCartney (Live in Concert on the New World Tour)
(1993) [G]

Possibly the last footage of Paul and Linda performing together, Sir Paul(back when he was just plain Paul) plays 20 of his own post-Beatles tracks as well as Beatles classics from the New World Tour of 1993.

Track Listing # Drive My Car # Let Me Roll It # Looking For Changes #...  More

Royal Wedding
(1951) [G]

Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dance act whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal Wedding. They travel by cruise ship where Ellen meets and becomes involved with Lord John Brindale. This causes her to miss a rehearsal. Tom...  More

Much Ado About Nothing
(1993) [PG]

'Much Ado About Nothing' is a fast moving, yet intricate tale of love and romantic combat, a 'Merry War' of trust and treachery, social graces and sheer physical attraction, chastity under suspicion and marriage in jeopardy.  More

The Club
(1980) [M]

Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club. It's tough enough on the Australian Rules Football field, but in the boardroom it's a battle ground! In this club nobody plays by the rules. Outside the fans are cheering the high marks and the low...  More

The Picture Show Man
(1977) [G]

A warm and witty comedy set in the 20s, The Picture Show Man chronicles the adventures of Maurice Pym (John Meillon), a flamboyant showman traveling the Aussie outback unreeling silent films. Braving much hardship and heartbreak along the way, Pym soon clashes with rival showman Palmer - a...  More

The Bad And The Beautiful
(1952) [PG]

A director, an actress and a writer each explain why they never want to work with producer Jonathan Shields again. Through their stories a portrait is sketched of this man who rose from making B-movies to one of Hollywood's biggest producers by using people in order to get him to the top....  More

Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children Of Paradise)
(1945) [PG]

Poetic realism reaches sublime heights in this ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music and design, director Marcel Carne and screenwriter Jacques Prevert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19th-century Paris, teeming with hucksters...  More

Follow The Fleet / Shall We dance
(1936) [PG]

SHALL WE DANCE: Ballet star Peter "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. But a little white lie turns into hot gossip and everybody thinks that the celebrities are secretly married!

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The Gay Divorcee
(1934) [G]

Mistaken identity is central to the plot but the story goes out of the window when Astaire and Rogers take to the dance floor. Features the Academy Award-winning song 'The Continental' and 'Cole Porter's 'Night And Day'.  More

Flying Down To Rio
(1933) [G]

This is the first of the now famous Astaire-Rogers musicals. The story follows a dance band as they find success in Rio De Janeiro. The high point of the film is the climax, where a dancing team perform on the wings of a moving aeroplane.  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

Chaplin
(1992) [M]

Containing an abundance of screen talent, Richard Attenborough's critically acclaimed Chaplin is a captivating recreation of the life of movie legend Charlie Chaplin. Robert Downey Jr's BAFTA winning performance in this wonderful film takes you on a journey through the laughter and misery of the...  More

La Belle Noiseuse (2 disc set)
(1991) [MA]

Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin). When he encounters...  More

Strictly Ballroom
(1992) [PG]

Scott Hastings is a champion ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckling who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes...  More

Separate Tables
(1958) [PG]

Life in an English bed and breakfast where the eccentric guests all have one common trait – loneliness. There's Major Pollack (an Oscar winning David Niven) who hides a dark secret behind a polished military veneer; Sibyl Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr), a shy, neurotic old maid who lacks the...  More

The Dresser
(1983) [PG]

The lives and relationships within an English touring stage company provide the backdrop for 1983 Oscar nominee The Dresser. Sir (Albert Finney), a grandiloquent old man of the theater, has given his soul to his career, but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the...  More

Tales Of Beatrix Potter
(1971) [G]

Dancers from The Royal Ballet perform in this magical fusion of staged ballet and footage from the breathtaking English countryside. Such Beatrix Potter characters as Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin, Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddleduck are brought to life with the choreography of Sir Frederick...  More

MGM: When The Lion Roars (2 disc set)
(1992) [G]

When the Lion Roars is a tribute to MGM, perhaps the best studio of old Hollywood. It boasted wonderful stars, great films, and a sense of family between its employees. This documentary examines the early life of the studio focusing on moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, stars like...  More

Jesus Christ Superstar
(1973) [M]

This dazzling interpretation of the hit Tim Rice - Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera tells the story of Christ's final weeks in a bold and epic production. Shot entirely on location in Israel, Producer-director Norman Jewison creates a brilliant example of modern movie making with groundbreaking...  More

The Taming Of The Shrew
(1967) [G]

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor sparkle as Katharina and Petruchio in Franco Zeffirelli's sumptuous adaptation of Shakespeare's tale of male chauvinism and women's lib in the 16th century.  More

Hamlet (1948)
(1948) [G]

William Shakespeare's tragic tale of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mourning his father's...  More

Henry V
(1944) [G]

Based on one the most popular historical plays by Shakespeare and made in order to boost moral of British troops during WW2, this movie is about English king Henry V and his military campaign in France in 1415., this movie is about English king Henry V and his military campaign in France in 1415.  More