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Twin Falls Idaho (1999)

7.3/10
Director: Michael Polish
Starring: Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Patrick Bauchau, Michelle Hicks, Lesley Ann Warren,...

Taking the "love triangle drama" to new heights, filmmaking siblings Mark and Michael Polish play conjoined twins waiting in a rundown hotel room for... Read more

Neverwhere (1996)

7.3/10
Director: Dewi Humphries
Starring: Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, Clive Russell, Paterson Joseph, Trev...

Based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling fantasy novel this 6-part mini-series which he co-devised with Lenny Henry, lives in the grimy underworld of Londo... Read more

Hotel de Love (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Starring: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Ray Barrett, Pippa Grandison, Peter...

Saffron Burrows is the object of everyone's affection in this Australian rom-com. Stephen (Simon Bossell) and Rick (Aden Young) are fraternal twins w... Read more

The Living Room: Series 3 (2006)

5.6/10
Director: Simon Baumfield, Mark Albiston, Nathan Morris, James Anderson, Makerita Urale
Starring: Steve Abel, Tusiata Avia, Rod Bridgeman, Ed Davis, Caitlin Devoy, Grenell Family...

From Sticky Pictures comes the award-winning third season of the show that showcases Aotearoa's creative culture. With inspirational and creative 'ho... Read more

Gilmore Girls: Season 4 (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Jared Padalecki...

In the fourth season, the much-loved mother-daughter duo are separated as Rory heads off to college. Meanwhile Lorelai is finally opening her dreamed... Read more

Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists (2005)

7.4/10
Starring: Pete Seeger

This documentary offers an honest and unblinking look at Guthrie's life and career, featuring interviews with friends, fans, and historians who offer... Read more

The Greatest Jazz Films Ever (2003)

A compilation of some of the finest documentary footage of jazz greats, this collection features LIFE photographer Gjon Mili's Oscar-winning short 'Ja... Read more

How Arnold Won The West (2004)

5.9/10
Director: Alex Cooke
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Even by the standards of Golden State politics, the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election - whose field of 135 candidates included porn actres... Read more

Carlos Saura Box Set (1995)

Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Joaquin Cortez, Paco De Lucia, Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol, Miguel Angel Sola,...

Contains "Flamenco", "Carmen" and "Tango", three unrivalled celebrations of Latin American dance from Carlos Saura. "Tango" shows the passionate strug... Read more

Comedy Company: Volume 2 (2004)

7.4/10
Starring: Marianne Fahey, Kim Gyngell, Mark Mitchell

In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - 'The Comedy Company'. Overnight i... Read more

Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

4.3/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling, Hugh Dancy

Shazzer finds herself once more on the wrong side of the law, this time in the UK where expert psychiatrist Michael Glass (David Morrissey) has been b... Read more

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

6.4/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford, Vanessa Shaw, Dan Byrd, Emilie de...

Stranded in the New Mexico desert, a family find themselves under attack by savage 'hill people', mutilated after exposure to radiation from nuclear t... Read more

The Future of Food (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Deborah Koons Garcia

This provocative, award-winning documentary offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabelled, patented, genetically en... Read more

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Series 1 (1989)

8.4/10
Director: Kevin Bishop, Peter Orton
Starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

One of the greatest sketch shows ever produced by British television, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie made a fantastically witty team. Many of the gags w... Read more

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Anthony Lucas

Set in a world of iron airships, this stunning silhouette animation tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plag... Read more

Fellini's Magic (2002)

Director: Carmen Piccini
Starring: Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Anthony Quinn, Anita Ekberg, Woody Allen, Rob...

A cinematic valentine to one of Italy's most famous sons, the great director, Federico Fellini. With reminiscences from those who worked with him inc... Read more

Number 96 (1972)

7.7/10
Starring: Johnny Lockwood, Philippa Baker, Gordon McDougall, Sheila Kenelly, Bunny Brooke,...

Like a raunchy Australian version of 'Beverly Hills 90210' from the '70s, this classically camp, yet ground-breaking series features the residents of... Read more

The Secret Service: The Complete Series (1969)

7.2/10
Starring: Voices Of, Stanley Unwin, Sylvia Anderson

The last of Gerry Anderson's 'Supermarionation' TV series, it centres around Father Unwin, local eccentric vicar and a secret agent working for the to... Read more

Supercar: The Complete Series (1959)

7.3/10
Starring: Voices Of, Graydon Gould, Sylvia Anderson

The series that kicked off Gerry Anderson's 'Supermarionation' career, the Supercar was a prototype vehicle that could travel by land, air or sea deve... Read more

In Search of Mozart (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Phil Grabsky

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth this documentary by award-winning film-maker Phil Grabsky ("The Boy Who Plays On... Read more

Paper Clips (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab

In this poignant documentary, students at a Tennessee school begin a project in which they attempt to collect six million paper clips, each signifying... Read more

Destination Moon (1950)

6.4/10
Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: Dick Wesson, Warner Anderson, John Archer

The first Hollywood science-fiction project to take a serious look at the possibilities of manned spaceflight, George Pal's Oscar-winning colour film... Read more

W.I.T.C.H: The Second Collection (2005)

Director: Marc Gordon-Bates

The adventures continue with the five members of "W.I.T.C.H.", the top-secret group dedicated to defeating Phobos, the evil prince of the Metaworld. W... Read more

W.I.T.C.H: The First Three Episodes (2005)

Director: Marc Gordon-Bates

Meet W.I.T.C.H., five ordinary girls with extraordinary superpowers, and discover the magic and power of friendship. With the forces of earth, wind, f... Read more

Dragnet: Volume 2 (1954)

5.9/10
Director: Jack Webb
Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander

"... The story you are about to see is true - only the names have been changed to protect the innocent". Includes 3 classic episodes - 'The Big Break... Read more

New Adventures of Tarzan: Volume 2 (1934)

5.4/10
Director: Edward Kull
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt

This oddity was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' own company and was the first Tarzan film shot on location (in Guatemala). The adventurers seek the... Read more

Teaserama: The Holy Grail of Girlie Flicks! (1955)

5/10
Director: Irving Klaw
Starring: Bettie Page, Tempest Storm, Joe E Ross

A rare, colour burlesque feature, with strippers, dancers and comics at the top of their risque form. The incomparable Bettie Page is featured in sizz... Read more

Barbara Taylor Bradford: A Woman Of Substance (1984)

Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Jenny Seagrove, Deborah Kerr, Barry Bostwick

Barbara Taylor Bradford's sweeping best-seller of ambition, love and deception comes to life in this acclaimed mini-series. Jenny Seagrove stars as Em... Read more

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Double Bill (1983)

Director: Gary Nelson
Starring: Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud, Delta Burke, Tom Atkins

Stacy Keach stars as the fast-quipping, hard-boiled private eye, Mike Hammer, in these two made-for-TV movies that preceded the excellent series. 'Mu... Read more

Wildlife Specials: Leopard (1997)

8.5/10
Starring: David Attenborough

The leopard is the least known of all Africa's big cats. Until now, the leopard, an animal of the night, has been virtually impossible to observe. Usi... Read more

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: Series 1 (1989)

8/10
Director: David Bell
Starring: Kate Lonergan, Wayne Morris, Tony Robinson, Danny John-Jules

Imagine that The Merry Men are as thick as one short plank, Robin Hood is a vapid, fashion-conscious air head from the village of Kensington and Maid... Read more

The Hired Hand (1971)

7/10
Director: Peter Fonda
Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden

Peter Fonda stars in and directed this underrated Western that subtly subverts the macho genre. Harry (Fonda) and his buddy Arch (Warren Oates) have... Read more

Last Holiday (2006)

6.4/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: LL Cool J, Gerard Depardieu, Giancarlo Esposito, Timothy Hutton, Queen Latifah,...

Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is living an ordinary, unchallenging life in New Orleans despite her friend telling her she needs to live a little. When... Read more

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

5.1/10
Director: David Zucker
Starring: Anthony Anderson, Craig Bierko, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Chingy , Carmen Electra...

Spoof-meister David Zucker takes the reins (and the mickey) once more, parodying everything from 'Brokeback Mountain' to Oprah as aliens prepare to wi... Read more

Where the Truth Lies (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, David Hayman, Rachel Blanchard, Maury C...

In the mid 1950s, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) were a wildly popular comedy team who suddenly broke up, at the peak of t... Read more

Sheitan (2006)

5.7/10
Director: Kim Chapiron
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Roxane Mesquida, Olivier Barthelemy, Nico Le Phat Tan, Ladj Ly,...

A madcap French frightener featuring a suitably demented Vincent Cassel as Joseph, a rural, satan-worshipping handyman/caretaker! When Eve, the daugh... Read more

Gilmore Girls: Season 5 (2004)

7.5/10
Director: Jackson Douglas
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Keiko Agena, Ya...

Season five of this perennially popular show is a fan favourite and sees a rift developing between mother and daughter for the first time as Rory star... Read more

Zathura (2001)

6.2/10
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Jonah Bobo, Josh Hutcherson, Tim Robbins, Kristen Stewart, Dax Shepard, Voice Of...

When two brothers start playing an old board game they found in the basement, a roll of the dice catapults them - and their house - into outer space,... Read more

Great Adventurers: Robert Falcon Scott (2001)

7.2/10

Robert Falcon Scott's doomed attempt to be first to the South Pole became a race against his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen. When Scott and his exhaus... Read more

Body Melt (1993)

5/10
Director: Philip Brophy
Starring: Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Lisa McCune

A gore-filled Aussie B-movie, directed by Philip Brophy and based on his own short stories, in which a small Melbourne community is being used as guin... Read more

I Walked With A Zombie / The Body Snatcher (1945)

Director: Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise
Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwate...

Double bill of classic chillers from producer Val Lewton opens with the moody, dreamlike 'I Walked with a Zombie', in which the nurse to a West Indies... Read more

The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark (1943)

Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter

A young woman comes to New York City to look for her missing sister and uncovers a deadly devil-worshipping cult in 'The Seventh Victim', starring Kim... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.2 (1979)

Director: Alastair Reid, Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Michael Tuchner, Simon Langton
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.4 (1979)

Director: Claude Whatham, Giles Foster, Herbert Wise, John Gorrie
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

The Executioners (2003)

3.7/10

An absorbing 3-part series, that will take you on a journey through the history of mankind's ultimate form of punishment: the death penalty. Utilising... Read more

The New Oceania (2004)

Director: Shirley Horrocks
Starring: Albert Wendt

Samoan-born Albert Wendt is a leading South Pacific novelist, poet and dramatist. Filmed by one of New Zealand's leading documentary teams, this also... Read more

Austen Tayshus - Australia Day Special (2006)

Starring: Sandy Gutman

Austen Tayshus is the stage name for controversial Aussie comic, Sandy Gutman, best known for a comedy single he released in 1983, 'Australiana'. He... Read more

Banana in a Nutshell (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Roseanne Liang

First generation Chinese kiwi, Roseanne Liang began this documentary as something to keep her mind off the fact that her traditional Chinese parents w... Read more

Islands of Death: Volume 1 (1945)

Containing interviews from people who were there, this documentary series is a comprehensive guide to the battle that raged in the Pacific during the... Read more

Islands of Death: Volume 2 (1945)

The second volume of this excellent series continues its exposition of the battle that raged in the Pacific during the Second World War. Vintage foota... Read more

Death in Gaza (2003)

8.2/10
Director: James Miller
Starring: James Miller, Saira Shah

This extraordinarily powerful film takes an unflinching look at the lives of three Palestinian children who have grown up surrounded by messages of ha... Read more

The Sunshine Man (2006)

Director: Peter Tonks
Starring: Des Morgan

'The Sunshine Man' is a short comedy film about the sale of rose-tinted glasses. A telephone salesman sells memories and dreams to wary customers. Read more

Carlos Castaneda - Enigma of a Sorceror (2006)

Director: R Torjan
Starring: Readings By , Peter Coyote, Carlos Castaneda

Best-selling author and dubbed 'the godfather of the new age movement', Carlos Castaneda claimed to be the apprentice of sorcerer, Don Juan and to hav... Read more

Greedy (1994)

6.3/10
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Michael J Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Olivia D'abo, Phil Hartman, Ed Begley...

Kirk Douglas plays old Uncle Joe a millionaire close to death's door and with a sudden influx of close relatives. The family are worried the new biki... Read more

Yakuza Deka 1: Secret Police (1970)

Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tanpa

Sonny Chiba plays a hard-bitten undercover cop trying to win the confidence of two rival yakuza gangs in order to bust their illegal drugs operations.... Read more

My Sister's Keeper (2002)

6.1/10
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
Starring: Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, Lynn Redgrave, Kimberly Brown

Adapted from Margaret Moorman's book about two sisters struggling to come to terms with their mother's (Lynn Redgrave) death. Kathy Bates is Christin... Read more

Bromo and Juliet (1926)

6.2/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, Corliss Palmer

Star of the Hal Roach studios, Charley Chase is the main player in these two two-reelers, the first of which 'Bromo and Juliet' sees him reluctantly t... Read more

Clarence: Series 1 (1988)

7.6/10
Director: Mike Stephens
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson

Ronnie Barker's final TV comedy series saw him playing the myopic removal man, Clarence. Set in 1937, Clarence spends most of his time trying to woo... Read more

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

7.4/10
Director: Jack Gold
Starring: Rick Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Connie Booth, Rachel K...

Ricky Schroder plays Ceddie, a sweet-natured boy living in lower class Manhattan, when his mysterious English grandfather (Alec Guiness) sends for him... Read more

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

8.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa

Andy Griffith made his stunning movie debut as Lonesome, a big ol' teddy bear whose meteoric rise to TV fame is paralleled by his plunge into booze, s... Read more

Event 16 (2006)

4.7/10
Director: Derek Pearson
Starring: Peter Rutherford, Jocelyn Christian, Ezra Keddell, Julian White, John Porter

Kiwi writer/director Derek Pearson's debut feature is this engrossing and effects-heavy sci-fi murder mystery set in Wellington in 1893, 2006 and 2038... Read more

Brothers (2004)

7.6/10
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Michael's life is on track, he has a successful military career, a beautiful wife, Sarah (Connie Nielsen) and two loving daughters, but he's about to... Read more

Tara Road (2005)

6/10
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Brenda Fricker, Ruby W...

Adapted from Maeve Binchy's best-selling novel about two women, one American (Andie MacDowell) and one Irish (Olivia Williams) who swap houses - and l... Read more

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Director: Michael Pressman
Starring: Paige Turco, David Warner

The Fab Four of the reptile world are back and up to their shells in trouble, as the Shredder and a gang of martial arts mavens use the toxic waste th... Read more

Signs - A Warning? (2002)

Learn the history of the enigmatic markings that have 'cropped' up in fields in England. Featuring fascinating eye-witness accounts, dramatic archive... Read more

Aida - The Opera (1998)

Director: Martin Duhowitz
Starring: Pauletta de Vaughn, Bruno Sebastian, Adriana Nicolai, Walter Donati

This monumental 1997 production was recorded on the biggest open-air stage in Europe - the Roman Quarry in St Margarethen. Verdi's famous opera, comm... Read more

School for Seduction (2004)

5.1/10
Director: Sue Heel
Starring: Kelly Brook, Dervla Kirwan, Neil Stuke, Emily Woof, Jessica Johnson, Margi Clark...

In the British tradition of comedies like 'The Full Monty' and 'Calendar Girls' this feel-good film stars Kelly Brook as Italian temptress Sophia, who... Read more

Live and Become (2005)

7.9/10
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Starring: Yael Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe, Sirak M Sabahat, Roni Ha...

In 1984, at the height of the Ethiopian famine, Israel put 'Operation Moses' into effect where they airlifted over 8000 Jews from the afflicted region... Read more

Hornblower 7: Loyalty (2003)

Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Lorcan Cranitch, Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann, Julia Sawalha, Barb...

Our man Horatio takes advantage of his time off and falls in love, but it's not long before he's called back as the Commander of the Hotspur and he se... Read more

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

6.6/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina,...

Ron Howard's blockbuster interpretation of Dan Brown's best-selling book stars Tom Hanks as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon who finds himself summo... Read more

The Thing About My Folks (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Starring: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Perkins

Paul Reiser wrote the screenplay and stars in this 20 year pet project about a middle-aged man, Ben, who must come to terms with his parents' divorce.... Read more

Carnivale: Season 2 (2004)

8.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael J Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Debra Christofferson, Tim De...

Season Two of this gothic Depression tale picks up with Ben Hawkins looking like a murderer, and as the stand-off between Good and Evil looms the fate... Read more

Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth (2004)

8.5/10
Director: Stan Lathan
Starring: Dave Chappelle

Outrageous comedian Dave Chappelle is back on the stand-up circuit with more wry observations about everything from black celebrity to crackheads, fro... Read more

Tomie (1999)

5.3/10
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Starring: Miho Kanno, Yoriko Douguchi, Tomoroh Taguchi, Mami Nakamura

After a past trauma a young girl is trying to recover her memories with the aid of a psychiatrist and the name 'Tomie' keeps cropping up. Meanwhile a... Read more

Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque (2005)

Director: Jaques Richard

This charming offering celebrates the man who cultivated cinema's future by protecting its past. A legendary film programmer and archivist Henri Langl... Read more

Zapatista (1998)

6.8/10
Director: Benjamin Eichert, Rick Rowley
Starring: Noam Chomsky, Narrated by, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos

On January 1st 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. A few minutes after midnight Mayan troops took over the South... Read more

How Art Made the World (2005)

8.3/10

The mystery of why our world looks the way it does is unravelled in this landmark BBC series that crosses 5 continents and 100, 000 years Dr. Spivey t... Read more

Danny, The Champion of the World (1989)

6.8/10
Director: Gavin Millar
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Samuel Irons, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Lion...

Nine year old Danny Smith lives an idyllic life in a gypsy caravan at the back of his Dad's garage but all this looks set to change when evil landowne... Read more

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 3 (2006)

8.7/10
Starring: Camille Coduri, Maureen Lipman, David Tennant, Shaun Dingwall, Billie Piper, Noe...

After all the human drama of the previous two episodes, 'Doctor Who' becomes once again an action packed sci-fi thriller. The Doctor, Rose and Micky... Read more

Unconscious (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Joaquin Oristrell
Starring: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Alex Brendemuhl, Nuria Prims, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Set in 1913 Barcelona as psychoanalysis was captivating an entire generation, this unashamedly bawdy Spanish farce stars Almodovar darling Leonor Watl... Read more

Alive (2002)

5.8/10
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Hideo Sakaki, Ryo , Koyuki , Shun Sugata, Erika Oda, Tak Sakaguchi, Jun Kunimura

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presen... Read more

Infernal Affairs 3 (2003)

7/10
Director: Andrew Lau Wai Keung, Alan Mak Siu Fai
Starring: Andy Lau, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Leon Lai, Kelly Chen, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang,...

Following on directly from the first film, Ming (Andy Lau) has been relegated to mudane office work as he awaits an official investigation. Meanwhile... Read more

Law And Order (1953)

5.9/10
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone, Preston Foster, Alex Nicol

This Western drama stars ex-US President Ronald Reagan as a marshal looking to retire with lady love Dorothy Malone, but he's forced to strap on his s... Read more

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

7.7/10
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Starring: Lucynna Winnika

A brilliantly filmed and at times unsettling exploration of faith and repression, the film is based on the documented story of the possession of a gro... Read more

No. 2 (2006)

5/10
Director: Toa Fraser
Starring: Mia Blake, Ruby Dee, Taungaroa Emile, Rene Naufahu, Tuva Novotny, Miriama McDowe...

Nana Maria (Ruby Dee) is a feisty eighty-something matriarch who decides to host a family get-together to announce the heir to her estate. Not as eas... Read more

The Libertine (2004)

6.4/10
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Starring: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Kell...

Johnny Depp plays the hedonistic writer John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, close friend of Charles II (John Malkovich) and a notorius figure in 17th cent... Read more

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 4 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: James Strong, Dan Zeff
Starring: Camille Coduri, Claire Rushbrook, Shaun Parkes, David Tennant, Billie Piper, Pet...

Volume 4 of kicks off with the two-parter 'The Impossible Planet' and 'The Satan Pit' in which a spacecraft has been sucked into a black hole in the f... Read more

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 5 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: Graeme Harper, Euros Lyn
Starring: Barbara Windsor, Camille Coduri, Edna Dore, David Tennant, Shaun Dingwall, Billi...

In 'Fear Her' the Doctor and Rose travel to London in 2012 to see the Olympics - only to find that children are mysteriously disappearing before peopl... Read more

50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)

5.7/10
Director: Stewart Main
Starring: Andrew Patterson, Harriet Beattie, Jay Collins, Georgia McNeil, Michael Dorman,...

Growing up in Central Otago in 1975, 12-year-old Billy is a farmer's son out of step with the other kids at his school. He's not interested in farmin... Read more

Europe's Secret Armies: The Mountain Men of Crete (2003)

8.4/10

Its geographical importance in both German and Allied planning for the domination of the Mediterranean and Africa was to prove Crete's downfall. As th... Read more

Commanding Heights Vol. 1: The Battle of Ideas (2002)

Based on Daniel Yergin's bestseller, this informative PBS series presents an in-depth analysis of America's role in the new worldwide economy. Volume... Read more

Seven Chances (1925)

8/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton

When he stands to inherit a fortune if he can get married by 7 o'clock, Buster Keaton becomes the quarry of an army of would-be brides (and gets caugh... Read more

The Proposition (2005)

7.4/10
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: John Hurt, Danny Huston, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, David Wenham, Ray Winstone

Co-written with Nick Cave and with a searing soundtrack from him, this revisionist outback Western stars Guy Pearce as Charlie Burns a man who must ch... Read more

Monk: Season 4 (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Adam Arkin, Milan Cheylov
Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford

Two-time Emmy Award winner, Tony Shalhoub, was nominated for a third time for his work in Season Four. He's getting to know his new assistant, Natali... Read more

La Commare Secca ( The Grim Reaper ) (1962)

6.9/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Carlotta Barilli, Lorenza Benedetti, Clorinda Celani, Vincenzo Ciccora

Bertolucci's debut feature was written by his friend Pier Paolo Pasolini and bears that filmmaker's mark of realism. When a prostitute is murdered in... Read more

Soft Beds Hard Battles (1973)

Director: Roy Boulting
Starring: Peter Sellers, Curt Jurgens, Jenny Hanley, Rula Lenska, Timothy West

Peter Sellers plays multiple characters in this World War II romp. Madame Grenier is the head of a famous Parisian brothel and after most of her Frenc... Read more

Alan Davies: Urban Trauma (2000)

7.3/10
Starring: Alan Davies

Join 'Jonathan Creek' star Alan Davies in his engaging stand-up show as he renounces Satan, tries to keep his terrorising cats under control and share... Read more

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) (1974)

8.3/10
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapma...

King Arthur meets Monty Python in this irreverent, insanely funny film with Graham Chapman as King Arthur convening his knights to seek the Holy Grail... Read more

Candy (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Neil Armford
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Noni Hazlehurst, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Martin

Wannabe poet and intravenous heroin user Dan (Heath Ledger) is freshly in love with Candy (Abbie Cornish), a blonde Botticelli angel with a yen for pa... Read more

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 2 (1980)

5.1/10
Starring: Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle, James Best, Sorrell Book...

The souped up '69 Dodge has a full tank and is revving and ready to take on bungling local lawmen Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane again. While... Read more

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

6.4/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: The Rolling Stones

French director Jean-Luc Godard's documentation of late '60s western counter-culture intercuts footage of the Rolling Stones hard at work on their 'Be... Read more

The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985)

8.6/10
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Charles Bukowski

During the years filmmaker Barbet Schroeder spent making the 1987 film 'Barfly', his evenings were often spent in (frequently inebriated) discussions... Read more

Santa's Slay (2004)

5.4/10
Director: David Steiman
Starring: Robert Culp, Emilie de Ravin, Bill Goldberg, Saul Rubinek, Douglas Smith, Dave T...

Ex-WWE Wrestling champ Bill Goldberg steps out of his leotard and into a Santa suit in this twisted Christmas comedy. He plays the devil's son who,... Read more

The Librarians: Series 2 (2008)

7.3/10
Starring: Bob Franklin, Heidi Arena, Kim Gyngell, Stephen Ballantyne, Roz Hammond, Wayne H...

Frances O'Brien, devout Catholic and panic disorder sufferer, is back in charge of the library. And breathing harder into her paper bag than ever. Her... Read more

School For Scoundrels (1960)

7.5/10
Director: Robert Hamer
Starring: Alastair Sim, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Terry-Thomas

Enrol at the wacky college of Lifemanship where a senior host of great British comedians teach a completely uproarious course on how to come out tops... Read more

Private Elvis (1993)

Starring: Elvis Presley

Private Elvis definitive documents Elvis Presley's years as a private in the American Army, and features rare footage and archive photographs of the s... Read more

Poisoned Waters (2009)

Director: Rick Young

Frontline (USA) examines the rising hazards to human health and the eco-system, and why it's so hard to keep our waters clean. The coastal estuaries o... Read more

Times and Winds ( Bes Vakit ) (2006)

7.4/10
Director: Reha Erdem
Starring: Ozkan Ozen, Ali Bey Iscan

This award-winning and critically acclaimed film follows the lives of three friends on the verge of adolescence in a remote Turkish mountain village.... Read more

Unlikely Heroes (Simon Wiesenthal Collection) (2006)

7.7/10
Director: Richard Trank
Starring: Ben Kingsley

Narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, 'Unlikely Heroes' tells the untold stories of Jewish resistance that took place throughout the Nazi Holocaust. In illust... Read more

Dean Spanley (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Toa Fraser
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole, Art Malik, Judy Parfitt,...

A whimsical and hypnotic tale, set in Edwardian England, and starring Peter O'Toole as the cantankerous father of an exasperated Jeremy Northam. Their... Read more

Adventureland (2009)

6.8/10
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Margar...

It's the summer of '87, and uptight college grad James (Jesse Eisenberg) has just had to give up a trip to Europe for a job at the local amusement par... Read more

Crossing Over (2008)

6.8/10
Director: Wayne Kramer
Starring: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis, Alice Braga,...

A harrowing ensemble drama that looks at life amongst illegal immigrants and the immigration enforcement agents whose job it is to secure the U.S. bor... Read more

Fanboys (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Kyle Newman
Starring: Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Christo...

1998. A fanatical group of 'Star Wars' devotees travel across country on a mission to steal a pre-release print of 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom M... Read more

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 1 (1994)

6.7/10
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Long ago... In a time of myth and legend, when ancient gods plagued man with suffering - only one man dared to challenge their power. Hercules! Starri... Read more

Japanese Crime Noir Classics ( Tokyo Drifter / A Tattooed Life / Branded to Kill / Youth of the Beast ) (1966)

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Tetsuya Watari, Joe Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, An...

A collection of four Japanese crime noir classics from maverick director Seijun Suzuki. "Tokyo Drifter" (1966) - Warned by studio bosses to play it sa... Read more

Supernatural: Season 3 (2007)

6.8/10
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Katie Cassidy, Jim Beaver

The yellow-eyed demon is vanquished, but at a terrible price. The battle that brought him down released hundreds of hellish demons into an unsuspectin... Read more

Storage (2009)

5.7/10
Director: Michael Craft
Starring: Matthew Scully, Robert Mammone, Damien Garvey, Saskia Burmeister

A gripping Aussie thriller following 17-year-old Jimmy, devastated after the brutal murder of his father and now working for his uncle in an undergrou... Read more

The House on 92nd Street (1945)

6.8/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Gene Lockhart, Leo G Carroll, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, William Eythe

A German-American student is contacted by Nazi spies working in New York City and looking for information on the atomic bomb program. With the help of... Read more

Elvis and Anabelle (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Will Geiger
Starring: Max Minghella, Blake Lively, Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Keith Carradine

An artful blend of romantic whimsy, dark comedy and magical realism, this Texas indie stars Max Minghella as Elvis, the soul-searching son of a mortic... Read more

Zero: An Investigation into 9/11 (2008)

7.9/10
Director: Francesco Tre, Franco Fracassi

With the central premise being that the official version of what happened on September 11th 2001 cannot be true, this documentary from Italian filmmak... Read more

Darwin: The Voyage That Shook the World (2009)

7.2/10
Director: Steve Murray

Marking the 200th anniversary of Darwin's death, this expansive documentary follows him as a young amateur scientist on board the HMS Beagle in 1831,... Read more

12 Monkeys ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

7.6/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Christopher Plummer, Madeleine Stowe

Inspired by Chris Marker's short film 'La Jetee' (also available) and set in the near future where a prisoner is sent back in time to the 90's to disc... Read more

Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

Director: Phil Claydon
Starring: James Corden, Mathew Horne, MyAnna Buring, Paul McGann, Vera Filatova, Silvia Co...

If the title doesn't make you want to watch this, then it's probably not for you. But if you're in the mood for a movie about two no-hoper guys who fi... Read more

Labyrinth ( Blu-ray ) (1986)

7.4/10
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Shelley Thompson, Toby Froud

Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) wished her baby brother would be taken away by goblins, and now her wish has come true. Jareth (David Bowie), the Goblin Kin... Read more

The Sky Crawlers (2008)

6.8/10
Director: Mamoru Oshii

Winner of the Best Animation Film at the Japanese Academy Awards, this futuristic sci-fi-tinged drama is based on a popular five-part novel by best-se... Read more

Waterworld ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

6.1/10
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Costner, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter

Exciting, exhilarating (and expensive) sci-fi saga, set on an ecologically ravaged future Earth covered by water. Kevin Costner, as a solitary wandere... Read more

Agatha Christie Mysteries: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)

Director: Tony Wharmby
Starring: Eric Porter, Francesca Annis, John Gielgud, James Warwick

Meet another pair of the best selling writer's witty crime solvers: Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, out to investigate a murder on a Welsh golf... Read more

30 Rock: Season 3 (2008)

5.8/10
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Scott Adsit, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski

Emmy Award winner Tina Fey writes, executive produces, and stars as Liz Lemon, the head writer of a live variety program in New York City. Liz's life... Read more

K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008)

6.8/10
Director: Shimako Sato
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Takako Matsu, Toru Nakamura, Takeshi Kaga, Reiko Takashima

Stylish superhero shenanigans in a rollicking adventure, based on a popular '80s manga. K-20 is the nickname for the Fiend with 20 Faces, a prankster... Read more

Martyrs (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylene Jampanoi, Catherine Begin, Robert Toupin, Patricia Tulasn...

The relentlessly brutal tale of a girl who, having suffered horrific abuse as a young child, is virtually catatonic after she makes a daring escape. H... Read more

The Chaser (2008)

7.9/10
Director: Hong-jin Na
Starring: Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hie Seo, In-gi Jung, Hyo-ju Park

Jung-ho is a former cop turned pimp. He is a foul-tempered, hard-talking man driven by the pursuit of easy money. So when some of his girls start goin... Read more

Haunting Douglas (2003)

6.4/10
Director: Leanne Pooley
Starring: Douglas Wright

'Haunting Douglas' is a documentary about Douglas Wright; choreographer, dancer, artist. From Tuakau, New Zealand to the stages of New York, Douglas'... Read more

The Hills Run Red (2009)

5.5/10
Director: Dave Parker
Starring: William Sadler, Alex Wyndham, Janet Montgomery, Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrinck

Nasty shocker about a group of young horror fans who try to track down a print of a legendary but mysteriously lost '80s slasher film. Their search le... Read more

54 (1998)

5.8/10
Director: Mark Christopher
Starring: Mike Myers, Neve Campbell, Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Breckin Meyer, Sherry St...

The days of 70's disco, drugs and hedonism rear their heads in this look back at New York's infamous Studio 54. Starring Mike Myers as the druggie clu... Read more

1984 (1956)

7/10
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave

George Orwell's landmark novel is the basis of this eerie, darkly satiric tale whose futuristic world is divided into three sections following an atom... Read more

Divine Trash (1998)

7.8/10
Director: Steve Yeager
Starring: Divine, Jim Jarmusch, Mink Stole, Steve Buscemi, John Waters, Paul Morrissey

Get the lowdown (and we mean low down!) on one of the most infamous films of all time, John Waters' 1972 cult classic "Pink Flamingos", in this acclai... Read more

Andy Warhol's Factory People (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Catherine Schorr O'Sullivan
Starring: Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Mary Woronov, Billy Name

In 1964, Andy Warhol took up residence in an abandoned hat factory in Manhattan's East Side and turned it into a hotbed of music, art, filmmaking and... Read more

The Motorcycle Diaries ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

7.8/10
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Mia Maestro, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De La Serna

From executive producer Robert Redford and acclaimed director Walter Salles ("Central Station") comes a love letter to a continent and its people. Bas... Read more

Eagle vs Shark ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Taika Waititi
Starring: Joel Tobeck, Brian Sergent, Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement, David Fane, Rachel H...

A quirky kiwi rom-com with Jemaine Clement of "Flight of the Conchords" fame as uber-geek Jarrod, an unlikely romantic foil to shy 'Meaty Boy' cashier... Read more

Emma (Paltrow) ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

6.7/10
Director: Douglas McGrath
Starring: Alan Cumming, Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Jul...

The course of true love runs hilariously askew once would-be Cupid Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) gets her hands on it in this grand adaptation of t... Read more

Wuthering Heights (2008)

7.7/10
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Starring: Kevin McNally, Charlotte Riley, Tom Hardy, Andrew Lincoln, Burn Gorman, Sarah La...

If there were ever a definitive tale about how all-encompassing and thwarted passion can destroy, this thrilling adaptation of Emily Bronte's only nov... Read more

Monarchy: Series 2 (2005)

6.1/10
Starring: David Starkey

Dr David Starkey presents the second series of his history of the British monarchy, beginning in the savage maelstrom of the Wars of the Roses. The Tu... Read more

Monarchy: Series 3 (2006)

6.1/10
Starring: David Starkey

Dr David Starkey presents the third series of his complete history of the British Monarchy. In this series, Starkey explores the period dating from 16... Read more

Die Hard 2 ( Blu-ray ) (1990)

7.1/10
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Bruce Willis, Franco Nero, John Amos, William Atherton, William Sadler, Reginald...

Bruce Willis is back as wisecracking Det. John McClane in this spectacular sequel. While awaiting the arrival of his wife's plane at Washington's Dull... Read more

Pulp Fiction ( Blu-ray ) (1994)

8.9/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel, Jo...

An audacious crime thriller that won 'Best Picture' at the Cannes Film Festival and is one exhilarating ride from start to finish. John Travolta and S... Read more

Fight Club ( Blu-ray ) (1999)

8.8/10
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, Tom Waits, Meat Loaf

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton deliver grand performances in this stunningly original, darkly comic film from the director of 'Seven'. A chance encounter... Read more

Rumpole of the Bailey: Series 6 (1991)

8.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Leo McKern, Marion Mack

Q.C. John Mortimer's satirical look at criminal law and the Old Bailey continues in this sixth series. Horace Rumpole makes his way through six compel... Read more

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

7.5/10
Director: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier
Starring: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Ray Romano, Jane Lynch, Bill Hader,...

While Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut, Manny, Diego and Sid are facing troubles of their own. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid... Read more

Family Guy Presents Something, Something, Something, Dark Side (2009)

Director: Dominic Polcino
Starring: James Woods, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Patrick Warburton, Alex Borstein, Seth MacF...

The 'Family Guy' crew present another 'Star Wars' homage following the hugely successful 'Blue Harvest', this time taking 'The Empire Strikes Back' as... Read more