One of the funniest, most enjoyable, satirical comedies is this treasure of a movie, the plot of which, loosely concerns the quest for the perfect Jap... Read more
A wicked black comedy from the director of 'The Hairdresser's Husband', guaranteed to provoke and delight in equal measure about a man who got away wi... Read more
The legendary tale of the Cossacks' fight for freedom from the Poles over 400 years ago. Yul Brunner stars as a powerful Cossack chieftain leading his... Read more
Juzo Itami's hilarious follow-up to 'Tampopo' is a satiric comedy of ambition, greed and the battle of the sexes. A disarming and dedicated woman tax... Read more
Polanski's most autobiographical film is, like "Repulsion", a journey through the distorted realm of the human mind. Polanski himself plays Trelkovsky... Read more
Robert Duvall gives yet another Academy Award winning performance as Mac Sledge, a self-destructive alcoholic and country singer who finds redemption... Read more
Leatherface, the Cook, Grandpa, and company are back, proving that the family that slays together stays together, in Tobe Hooper's follow-up to his 19... Read more
An all-singing, all-dancing musical-comedy treat. More magical MGM moments with "more stars than there are in heaven," including hosts Fred Astaire an... Read more
Classic 50's creature feature about giant ants discovered in New Mexico that lead the authorities into final battle in the storm drains under Los Ange... Read more
Terence Stamp plays the mysterious Christ or Devil figure who stays briefly with a wealthy Italian family, seducing them one by one. He then goes as q... Read more
'They Call Me Trinity', is a wild spoof on 'The Magnificent Seven' made international superstars of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer playing half-brothers... Read more
One of the finest of all World War II films, based on the true story of America's P.T. boat Squadron in the Philippines during the early days of war.... Read more
This widely acclaimed film is arresting as both an intense drama about a troubling family dynamic and as an allegory about the tension that filled the... Read more
The 'Roaring Twenties' live on in this Oscar-winning musical comedy of innocent girls, wild flappers, romance and crime. Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler-... Read more
A colourful Disney comedy-travelogue that combines animation and live action. Filled with infectious music, eye-popping visuals and amusing cartoon se... Read more
Fashion model Irene Jacob meets an embittered retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) by accident, then develops a relationship with him and enters his... Read more
This story concerns a hapless Pole whose beautiful French wife (Julie Delpy) is divorcing him for no longer being able to perform in bed. Full of iron... Read more
One of the funniest French films in recent years; the lives of three happy-go-lucky French bachelors are turned upside-down when a former lover of one... Read more
Through a computer error, college student Lara Flynn Boyle is assigned to room with two guys - shy, intellectual Josh Charles, who may be gay, and in-... Read more
Kurosawa's version of 'Macbeth' spares no effort in creating an atmosphere of obsessive madness and supernatural compulsion. The black and white contr... Read more
Billy Crystal has two major problems in this slightly black comedy. One is a severe case of writer's block and the other is Owen, who wants his writin... Read more
Bond (Sean Connery) must thwart SPECTRE's most audacious plot to date, when its agents hijack a British bomber, armed with two nuclear warheads, and h... Read more
Strap in with the incredible Tracy team and prepare for takeoff. All systems are go as the amazing electronic puppets, in the first feature-length sup... Read more
Clint Eastwood stars as a New Orleans cop who, while hunting down a vicious sex murderer, suffers his own descent into sexual darkness. This razor-sha... Read more
Vivid true-life story of the stormy careers and personal relationship between Ike and Tina Turner is further boosted by two remarkable central perform... Read more
Director Howard Hawks once bet Ernest Hemingway he could make a good film from one of the author's worst books. Needless to say, he won the bet with t... Read more
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the defence lawyer of a black man accused of rape in the American South. Scripted by Hor... Read more
The tale of three drag queens headed for Hollywood whose car breaks down in a small rural town where they are befriended by the local female populatio... Read more
Aka "Tokyo Monogatari". One of the legendary classics of humanist cinema tells the simple, sad story of an elderly couple who travel to Tokyo to visit... Read more
Those immortal Mark Twain heroes, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, are given the Disney treatment in this colourful and exciting family film. Follow their ad... Read more
13th-century Templars are executed and blinded (by crows) for killing women during blood rituals. They return from their graves as mummified, bloodthi... Read more
A satirical fable based on the Elmore Leonard novel about a young ex-monk who may have God-given healing powers and who is pursued by people seeking t... Read more
Aka 'All the Mornings of the World'. One of the most celebrated motion pictures to explore the art of music, this French drama, set in the 17th centur... Read more
The Oscar-winning cinematography stands out in this all-star epic about a burning skyscraper. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden and Faye Duna... Read more
Based on Neville Shute's internationally bestselling WWII tale about Japanese oppression of female British POWs in Malaysia. Virginia McKenna, Peter F... Read more
A gripping high powered action film about the French Resistance trying to waylay a train taking French Art treasures to Germany. Read more
Peggy Ann Gardner finds that life can be difficult if you are poor and live in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Adapted from Betty Smith's novel,... Read more
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 f... Read more
Follows two law-school room-mates (John Cusack and James Spader) who take different paths in life; one goes to work for the Justice Department, determ... Read more
A gripping story about a down-and-out reporter (Clint Eastwood) who is sent to cover the execution at San Quentin of convicted murderer Isaiah Washing... Read more
This insightful black comedy follows the developing romance between an unlikely pair of misfits. Maria (Adrienne Shelly) an obnoxious, tartily dressed... Read more
This riveting adaptation of James Kennaway's novel boasts superb performances by Alec Guinness and John Mills as British army officers locked in a bat... Read more
An enjoyable tribute to the 60s TV series by Rod Serling. Four stories directed by John Landis ('Prologue', 'Time Out'), Steven Spielberg ('Kick the C... Read more
About the coming together of two unlikely brothers, the result of an experiment in superior breeding, and their immensely funny, eventful journey to f... Read more
Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Jerry Barrone star in this poignant memoir of growing up in South Philadelphia during the depression. Read more
The long-awaited sequel to Roman Polanski's 1974 'Chinatown' sees Jack Nicholson taking over the reins as well as reprising his role as private eye Ja... Read more
Monte Hellman's acclaimed cult film concerns a race around the back-roads of America between a pair of drag-racing drifters (musicians James Taylor an... Read more
Tall, mysterious man returns to his hometown after a stint in prison, causing a variety of reactions from the locals. This quirky, independently made... Read more
This film version of a wonderfully evocative radio play weaves a magical tapestry of words around the lives and dreams of the inhabitants of the tiny... Read more
Revisionist western that has Clint Eastwood as a one-time mad killer, long since reformed, who comes reluctantly out of 'retirement' to make one more... Read more
A powerful western drama about racism and family ties directed by John Huston. Set in Texas in the 1850's, a proud and strongwilled family discovers a... Read more
An urban love story involving a waitress (Marisa Tomei) who can't seem to keep a boyfriend and a shy well-meaning orphan with a heart ailment (Christi... Read more
Visually beautiful film set in 1870's New Zealand. After the family and village of a Maori tribesman is wiped out in a senseless raid, the tribesman,... Read more
In 1926, the tragic and untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to co... Read more
Paul Newman gives one of his finest peformances as a Boston Lawyer who's hit bottom, until a medical negligence case gives him a chance to restore his... Read more
An extremely effective adaptation of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about strange goings on in a small English village after all the wome... Read more
A strange mist overcomes an idyllic coastal town, causing ten women to give birth to children who turn out to be mind-controlling demons. This remake... Read more
Robert Altman's audacious portrait of the tortured life of painter Vincent Van Gogh, his relationship with his troubled brother Theo and his struggle... Read more
A powerful psychological study of a novice nun (Silvia Pinal) who loses her innocence when forced by her Mother Superior to visit nasty uncle Fernando... Read more
Four African-American women support and comfort each other through a year of romantic ups and downs. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon and... Read more
Keanu Reeves, Anthony Quinn and Giancarlo Giannini star in this romantic drama from the director of 'Like Water for Chocolate' and spins the tale of a... Read more
Oliver Stone invades the stone canyons of the stock market battlezone with the story of a young broker who is willing to do almost anything to land th... Read more
In this robust adaptation of the Jean Anouilh play, Peter Sellers is General Fitzjohn, whose pursuit of a sexy Parisian is thwarted by his put upon wi... Read more
Michael Caine stars in this congenial comedy about the commercial and social exploitation of a small rundown Caribbean outpost, governed by Caine, upo... Read more
In America in the 1970s, history teacher Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) abandons his planned lessons and recounts his personal history to his students. He t... Read more
The youth comedy hit of 1992 about the pleasures of best buddies Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey), who transferred their Saturday Night Live... Read more
Gay Taiwanese-American Winston Chao tries to fool his parents via a fake wedding, with unexpected complications. This grand comedy knowingly and poign... Read more
This sequel to "Once Were Warriors" again stars Temuera Morrison as Jake Heke, who having turned his back on his family, must deal with a new set of c... Read more
The mission is clear. Get in. Get the general. Get out. Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to t... Read more
Another fascinating . . sometimes maddening chapter in director Werner Herzog's continuing obsession with the fate of the earth and the fate of himsel... Read more
Race relations are turned on their head in this thought provoking, speculative drama set in an America where the privileged black majority controls al... Read more
The British Special Air Services, an anti-terrorist group, is pitted against an organization of international terrorists who plan to take over the U.S... Read more
A poignant based-on-fact drama, set in Texas during the 1930s and charting the complex relationship between two independent minded souls: pulp novelis... Read more
The Wiggles star along with characters Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus and Captain Feathersword in this children's feature-length film. Read more
Peckinpah at his violent best. In the Southwest of 1913, Pike Bishop (William Holden) is leader of 'The Wild Bunch', a gang of outlaws coerced by a Me... Read more
Marlon Brando is Johnny, the leader of a vicious biker gang which invades a small, sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed biker seems bent on de... Read more
A tearful British star crossed romance effort set against the backdrop of World War II. RAF officer Dirk Bogarde is assigned to learn Japanese in orde... Read more
An unusual fantasy from Russia about a group of St. Petersburg residents who find a strange 'spatial ladder' in the closet of a deceased neighbor that... Read more
'The first time I saw the film I thought it was a knockout; on second viewing it already seemed a classic,' wrote J. Hoberman of Wim Wenders' re-exami... Read more
A beautiful, deeply moving film in which four relationships are explored; a young widow and her mother, who's trying to break through her daughter's d... Read more
A rare example of a film so wild, so utterly rambunctious and so bursting with invention that it defies description. Based on the novel by Richard Con... Read more
An unlikely religious leader (Brad Dourif) recruits a ragtag band of followers for his Church of Christ Without Christ in order to expose the hypocris... Read more
The great Disney version of Jules Verne's famous adventure/fantasy about a sailor (Kirk Douglas) and a scientist who get involved with Captain Nemo, (... Read more
Called 'the definitive documentary' produced and directed by Michael Apted. Beginning in 1963 a camera has followed a group of children from the age o... Read more
In this charming comedy, three women make wishes for romance at Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain, spurring several amorous adventures. Won Oscars for... Read more
Street-weary cop Nick Nolte springs smart-aleck convict Eddie Murphy for two days in order to capture a mad dog killer. James Remar is the dangerous q... Read more
A powerful and important piece of World War 2 propaganda, which controversially was filmed from the point of view of a group of German soldiers. Asked... Read more
Tony Randall plays six roles in this western/fantasy about a travelling circus that has the power to alter lives. Randall plays the ancient Dr. Lao as... Read more
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about... Read more
Based on a true-life 1943 incident, with most of the film is set in a British midget submarine, commandeered by John Mills. The sub's mission (togethe... Read more
Aka 'Hero'. A top T.V. reporter (Geena Davis) is rescued from a plane crash by a stranger (Dustin Hoffman). A reward is offered to the hero but a conm... Read more
John Huston reunites with his 'Maltese Falcon' cast in this lively espionage drama originally focused on a Japanese invasion of Hawaii until real life... Read more
Legendary Japanese actor Kazuo Hasegawa plays Yukinojo Nakamura, a kabuki actor who - like Hasegawa himself - was renowned for being an onnagata, or f... Read more
A provocative examination of voyeurism and the power of images from Atom Egoyan. Elias Koteas plays an insurance adjuster who secretly likes giving aw... Read more
The clan from Australia gets into all kinds of trouble when they travel to England. From the cartoon strip by Barry Humphries and Nicholas Garland. Wi... Read more
An acclaimed live-action movie about the adventures of a curious kitten named Milo and a pug nosed pup named Otis. Narrated by Dudley Moore. Read more
In this poignant and humourous love story, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someo... Read more
Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, and tells a hallucinatory tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary cit... Read more
A twisted tale of murder, alleged police corruption and conniving opportunists that tracks the sensational trial and conviction of America's First Fem... Read more
A gritty sci-fi, crime procedural in the vein of The Hidden and District 9, Alien Nation is a tense tale of urban life in Los Angeles circa 1991. Here... Read more
Angelic canines Charlie and Itchy are back on Earth, sent down to find Gabriel's horn. Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton and Dom Deluise provide the voices... Read more
William Hurt stars in a dazzling debut as a research scientist on an incredible journey into the inner space of the mind. He tries everything from ps... Read more
A gentle, beautifully filmed tale of a middle-aged bachelor's (Michael Palin) torment after meeting two 'American Friends' in the Swiss Alps: An attra... Read more
Steven Spielberg executive produced this animated heart-tugger about a family of Russian-Jewish mice that become separated on their way to America. Di... Read more
A riveting courtroom drama pitting small town lawyer James Stewart against big city prosecutor George C Scott, in a trial of Ben Gazzara, accused of m... Read more
Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra play two sailors on leave in Hollywood. While setting up his shy friend Clarence (Sinatra), Gene Kelly, as Joe, falls for... Read more
A uniquely Felliniesque ocean voyage, circa 1914, with a journalist (Freddie Jones) acting as our host and introducing us to a variety of celebrated g... Read more
Widely regarded as Tarkovsky's finest film 'Andrei Rublev' charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th century Russia... Read more
This extraordinary event celebrating Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday was filmed live at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and features performa... Read more
In an offbeat Western drama that predated "Witness," John Wayne plays a hardened gunslinger who is tamed by strong-willed Quaker girl Gail Russell, bu... Read more
Nicola Pagett stars as Anna Karenina in this wonderful adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful and timeless tale of passion set in Russia in the 1870s. A... Read more
Aileen Quinn, Carol Burnett and Albert Finney star in this adaptation of the Broadway hit based on the comic strip. With Tim Curry and Bernadette Pete... Read more
One of Woody Allen's most well-loved and funniest films, with Diane Keaton as the ditsy sometime object of Woody's neurotic affections. Originally co... Read more
Colin Blakely and Jan Lapataire star in this BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's passionate tale. Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire... Read more
In an ant colony a neurotic worker named Z (voiced by Woody Allen) sets out to, with the help of his soldier buddy Weaver (Sylvester Stallone) prove h... Read more
Scientist Bela Lugosi turns into a gorilla in this z grade cult horror classic.Jaw-droppingly bad acting, cardboard sets, and "one-take" direction tur... Read more
Bryan Singer's follow-up to his superb 'The Usual Suspects' is this grand psychological number based on a novella by Stephen King. Brad Renfro, a high... Read more
First time director Frank Marshall spins a taut comic yarn as a wayward tropical spider crawls into small town USA, breeds and weaves a web of terror... Read more
Ten different directors select a different aria and have free rein to do anything that they want. The world of opera meets the medium of film with a w... Read more
Celebrated Yugoslavian Director, Emir Kusturica ('Underground') comes to America to paint this lavish picture about a young dreamer (Johnny Depp) who'... Read more
Sylvester Stallone (in tweeds) is the old timer hitman looking for a way out while Antonio Banderas ('Desperado') is the young pretender looking to be... Read more
Convinced by the CIA and Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) that he closely resembles international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, U.S. naval officer Aidan... Read more
Gaulish custom requires that a would-be chief must challenge and defeat another to become the leader of two tribes in this animated tale based on the... Read more
Based on a true story by Dr Oliver Sacks ("Awakenings") about a blind masseur (Val Kilmer), blind since childhood, who falls in love with client Mira... Read more
Burt Lancaster delivers a stunning performance as the seemingly washed-up gangster, with Susan Sarandon as his lost-soul companion. A moving portrait... Read more
Following on from his success with 'The Big Blue', Luc Besson has created this 'Marine Opera' containing superb images from the Seychelles to the Nort... Read more
'Goodbye, Children'. Louis Malle returns to the days of the German occupation during World War II to recount the story of friendship between two schoo... Read more
Set in a surreal 1999 London where scientist Ms. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) teams up with dapper secret agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) to defeat a maxi... Read more
This fast-paced cop/buddy movie stars a well-matched Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as detectives assigned to investigate the theft of a large quantit... Read more
It's Thelma and Louise on horseback as the four leads, (Madeleine Stowe, Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson and Drew Barrymore) working girls at a... Read more
Reflecting his fondness for American crime films and motifs this stylish Akira Kurosawa thriller stars Toshiro Mifune and delves into corporate corrup... Read more
Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the el... Read more
Peckinpah's lyrical, enjoyable fable of a loner who builds a life for himself in a remote part of the Old West. Jason Robards, David Warner and Stella... Read more
The gender-bending, true-life sagebrusher about Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis), an outcast from a wealthy Eastern family, who searches for a new life... Read more
'Baraka' is an ancient Sufi word meaning a blessing, or the breath or essence of life, from which the evolutionary process unfolds. This gorgeous and... Read more
A dynamite serio-comedy based on the true story of the leveraged buyout of the giant congolomerate R J R - Nabisco in the greedy 80s. James Garner, Jo... Read more
"E.T."as if it were written and directed by a psychopath! The story of Duane Bradley and his little brother Belial who have come to New York looking f... Read more
Join superheroes Batman (Robert Lowery) and Robin (John Duncan) as they help Commissioner Gordon (Lyle Talbot) battle The Wizard, a villainous madman... Read more
In this sequel to 1989's "Batman", the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wea... Read more
Based on the novel by Leon Uris, a group of servicemen through boot camp then on to New Zealand where even more training takes place (and a romance be... Read more
The first animated feature to be nominated for Best Picture, Disney's enchanting romance follows the blossoming relationship between the beautiful, bo... Read more
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's update of the Faust legend, in which timid short order cook Stanley Moon sells his soul to the devil (aka George Spiggot... Read more
A battle of wits aboard a US destroyer tracking Soviet submarines off Greenland during the Cold War. Richard Widmark is a skipper with an obsession to... Read more
Steve Guttenberg learns his affair with Isabelle Huppert, as a boss's wife, can cost him more than his present job, when he volunteers to be a proxy w... Read more
Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener who's led a sheltered life and whose thoughts and behaviour are to... Read more
Set in 1931, a time of promise and optimism in pre-Franco Spain, this delightfully earthy, cheerful comedy tells of a hearty young army deserter (Jorg... Read more
Johnny Depp plays a child-like drifter with a fixation on Buster Keaton, who goes to live with Benny (Aidan Quinn) and his mentally disturbed, somewha... Read more