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Drug Wars ( aka Bristol Boys ) (2005)

Director: Brandon David
Starring: Daniel Franzese, Tom Guiry, Will Janowitz, Adrian Martinez, Kevin Toolen, Tammy...

Based on the true story of a bunch of arrogant slackers in Bristol, Connecticut who set up a marijuana distribution business, but get so caught up in... Read more

The Backwoods (2006)

5.7/10
Director: Koldo Serra
Starring: Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Virginie Ledoyen, Lluis Homa...

A young English couple (Paddy Considine and Virginie Ledoyen) are going through a rough patch and decide to spend some time in the Basque country with... Read more

Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)

5.8/10
Director: Penny Marshall
Starring: Roscoe Lee Browne, Stephen Collins, Whoopi Goldberg, Carol Kane, Annie Potts, Jo...

Whoopi Goldberg made her comedy feature debut (after a dramatic turn in 'The Color Purple') in this comedy/thriller, as bank computer operator Terry,... Read more

Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

8.1/10
Director: Grigori Chukhrai
Starring: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova

Aloysha is a frightened young soldier fighting the Germans when, more by good luck than good management, he disables two enemy tanks. As a reward he... Read more

The Professionals: Series 3 (1980)

7.4/10
Starring: Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins, Gordon Jackson

By the third series, the cast chemistry is at its peak and our macho crimebusters are throwing out snappy banter and one-liners left and right. This... Read more

The Darling Buds of May: The Complete Series (1991)

7.8/10
Director: David Giles, Rodney Bennett, Robert Tronson, Steve Goldie
Starring: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stephanie Ralph, Philip Franks

Set in the idyllic rural bliss of 1950s England, David Jason is the head of the eccentric and lovable Larkin family, along with wife, Pam Ferris. Thei... Read more

Crime and Punishment (1998)

6.2/10
Director: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Ben Kingsley, Julie Delpy, Eddie Marsan, Lili Hovarth

Rodya (Patrick Dempsey) is a student in 19th century Russia, who believes his great intelligence gives him the right to commit any crime he deems will... Read more

The Face of Tutankhamun (2006)

8.5/10
Director: David Wallace, Derek Towers
Starring: Presented By, Christopher Frayling

The wondrous story surrounding the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb is brought to life in this four-part BBC series. Writer and creator Christopher Fra... Read more

In Search of the Trojan War (1985)

8.8/10
Starring: Presented By, Michael Wood

The tales of Troy and its heroes, Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen, have enthralled generation upon generation. But did these leg... Read more

Sesame Street: Old School - Volume 1 (1969)

8.2/10

Were some of your first friends named Grover, Mr Hooper and Bob? Do you remember the Ladybug Picnic? How about Pinball Number Count? Take a trip back... Read more

Takeshis' (2005)

6.4/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Terajima Susumu, Tets...

Japanese film icon Beat Takeshi writes, directs, edits and stars as himself and his own doppelganger in this surreal, comic fantasy about a convenienc... Read more

Darling Lili (1969)

6.2/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival

A musical World War I spy-spoof with Julie Andrews attempting to shed her goody-good image as a femme fatale music hall entertainer, who is really a G... Read more

The Anthony Trollope Collection: The Barchester Chronicles / The Way We Live Now / He Knew He Was Right (2004)

Director: David Giles, David Yates, Tom Vaughan
Starring: Donald Pleasence, David Gwillim, Geraldine McEwan, Alan Rickman, Nigel Hawthorne...

Three exceptional BBC mini-series, adapted from the works of 19th century novelist, Anthony Trollope. 'The Barchester Chronicles' (1982) is based on... Read more

Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the 20th Century - Part 2: Rhythm (1996)

7.6/10
Starring: Sir Simon Rattle

In the 20th century western music has freed itself from the dominance of melody and explored the richness of musical pulse for its own sake. beginnin... Read more

Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the 20th Century - Part 1: Dancing on a Volcano (1996)

7.6/10
Starring: Sir Simon Rattle

Melvyn Bragg executive-produced this excellent 7-part series that explores the revolutionary path classical music has taken during the 20th century. I... Read more

Dilbert: Volume 1 (1999)

7.3/10
Starring: Voices Of, Daniel Stern, Jim Wise, Kathy Griffin

Based on the popular comic strip by Scott Adams, Dilbert is a cubicle slave, toiling endlessly over indeterminate products at Pat-E-Tech Management.... Read more

Kon-Tiki (1950)

8/10
Director: Thor Heyerdahl

In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of scientists sailed over 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean, from Peru to Polynesi... Read more

Who Gets To Call It Art? (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Peter Rosen

What a scene, man! Take a trippy tour through the art world of the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of New York City's Henry Geldzahler. The Metropolit... Read more

Roy Rogers: Billy the Kid Returns (1938) / Saga of Death Valley (1939) / Days of Jesse James (1939)

7.4/10
Director: Joseph Kane
Starring: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, George Gabby Hayes

Known as the 'King of the Cowboys', Roy Rogers is at the top of his game in three sagebrushers - 'Billy The Kid Returns' has Roy as a Billy the Kid lo... Read more

Don Giovanni (1991)

7.2/10
Starring: Vladimir Dolezal, Alice Randova, Zdenek Harvanek, Dalibor Jedlicka, Conducted by...

Mozart wrote his opera 'Don Giovanni' as a gift to the city of Prague, and he himself conducted the first night, at the stunning Prague National Theat... Read more

Get Smart: Mr Big (1965)

6.5/10
Starring: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Edward Platt

Meet Maxwell Smart, Agent 99, the Chief and Fang, in this Emmy Award-winning spy-spoof series inspired by the comic genius of Mel Brooks and Buck Henr... Read more

With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)

6.4/10
Director: Howard Morris
Starring: Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin

A Doris Day favourite in which she plays a widow with three sons. She starts dating a man with a teenage daughter but when they announce their marriag... Read more

Curious George: Zoo Night and Other Animal Stories (2006)

6.5/10
Starring: Curious George, Narrated by, William H Macy

Curious George and the Man in the Yellow Hat feature in eight episodes of the 2006 series, narrated by William H Macy. As George observes and interac... Read more

Gypsy Heart (1998)

7.8/10
Director: Jocelyn M Ajami

A fascinating documentary chronicling the life of flamenco dancer Omayra Amaya, who manages to keep the fiery dance form alive and kicking in chilly B... Read more

Havoc (2005)

5.5/10
Director: Barbara Kopple
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Freddy Rodriguez, Bijou Phillips, Shiri Appleby, Michael Biehn, J...

Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple delivers this gritty drama about a pair of naive teens with a taste for the forbidden. Anne Hathaway tak... Read more

Harsh Times (2005)

6.9/10
Director: David Ayer
Starring: Christian Bale, Freddy Rodriguez, Eva Longoria, Tammy Trull, Terry Crews

The de-humanising effects of war are graphically illustrated through the disintegration of one man into psychosis, as the writer of 'Training Day' mak... Read more

Korea: The Forgotten War (1987)

7.5/10
Starring: Narrated by, Robert Stack

In June 1950, the North Korean Army initiated a massive attack on its southern neighbour, beginning a see-saw battle that would engulf the entire Kore... Read more

Skins (2002)

7.2/10
Director: Chris Eyre
Starring: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Noah Watts, Lois Red Elk, Michelle Thr...

A dire, though poignantly humourous, tale of two Native American brothers, living on one of the poorest reservations in the country. Rudy (Eric Schwe... Read more

Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq (2001)

Director: Pitof
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Ines Sastre, Andre Dussollier, Edith Scob, Mo...

Based on the memoirs of famous 19th century French detective Francois-Eugene Vidocq, this fantasy mystery was the directorial debut of visual effects... Read more

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Care
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Kieran Culkin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jena Malone, Jodie Foster, Jake...

Adapted from the novel by Chris Fuhrman about a group of bright-but-bored boys in a seventies Catholic school. To amuse themselves they have written... Read more

Three Stooges: The Early Years - Vol 2 (1934)

5.1/10
Starring: The Three Stooges

Stooges fans won't want to miss this amazing collection of rarities featuring the comedy team. Larry, Moe and Curly star with ex-boss Ted Healy in the... Read more

The Merchant of Venice (2004)

7.1/10
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson, Kris M...

Al Pacino takes the lead role of Shylock the moneylender in one of Shakespeare's most searing plays, with Jeremy Irons as the melancholy Antonio who o... Read more

Wall (2004)

6.7/10
Director: Simone Bitton

A thoughtful and thought-provoking documentation of the building of a massive partition by the Israeli government, separating Israel from the West Ban... Read more

An Angel For May (2002)

7.1/10
Director: Harley Cokliss
Starring: Matthew Beard, Charlotte Wakefield, Julie Cox, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, Angel...

A troubled schoolboy is transported back to war-time England after he stumbles on a door through time in an old Yorkshire farmhouse. He meets a kindl... Read more

Sharpe Vol. 3: Sharpe's Gold / Sharpe's Battle / Sharpe's Sword (1995)

Director: Tom Clegg
Starring: Sean Bean, Darragh O'Malley, James Purefoy, Emily Mortimer, Ian McNeice

'Sharpe's Gold' - Spain 1813, Major Richard Sharpe is assigned the task of trading guns for English deserters. He must pit his wits against El Casco.... Read more

The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006)

7.4/10
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ian Markiewicz

Comprised of unused footage from the 1976 documentary 'Grey Gardens', this 'new' film returns to the dilapidated East Hamptons mansion for more odd en... Read more

Lilith (1964)

7/10
Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Gene Hackman, Jessica Walte...

A haunting psychological drama, adapted from J.R. Salamanca's controversial novel, about a young trainee therapist (Warren Beatty) whose love for a be... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

7.3/10
Director: Wallace Worsley
Starring: Lon Chaney

One of the grandest spectacles of the silent cinema, fueled by Lon Chaney's wonderful (and painful) performance as Quasimodo, the deformed Parisian be... Read more

Getting Away With Murder (1996)

4.5/10
Director: Harvey Miller
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Dan Aykroyd

College ethics professor Dan Aykroyd begins to suspect that elderly neighbor Jack Lemmon is a fugitive Nazi death camp commandant and, unable to prove... Read more

Uncle Adolf (2004)

6.4/10
Director: Nicholas Renton
Starring: Ken Stott, Christine Tremarco, Stacy Hart, Elaine Cassidy, Ron Donachie

This major TV drama explores the real Hitler through his relationship with teenage niece Geli Raubal. As the shells rain down on his battered Berlin... Read more

The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)

6.4/10
Director: The Brothers Quay
Starring: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna

A characteristically surreal and stunning blend of live action, animation and puppetry from the Brothers Quay. On the eve of her wedding, opera singe... Read more

Everything Put Together (2000)

6.5/10
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally, Matt Malloy, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Justin Louis

Before 'Monster's Ball', Marc Forster wrote and directed this noir-ish psychological drama about a young mother coming to terms with the death of her... Read more

Tartuffe (1926)

7.3/10
Director: F W Murnau
Starring: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, Emil Jannings

Famous German filmmaker FW Murnau's interpretation of Moliere's satirical play about a devious housekeeper who convinces her master to cut his son out... Read more

The Dolly Sisters (1945)

6.5/10
Director: Irving Cummings
Starring: Betty Grable, June Haver, John Payne, S Z 'Cuddles' Sakall, Reginald Gardiner

Betty Grable and June Haver sing and dance their way through the title roles in this breezy musical biodrama about the vaudeville duo Jennie and Rosie... Read more

What A Way To Go! (1964)

7/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Dean Martin, Robert Cu...

This exuberant '60s comedy stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa May, a woman who, despite her best efforts to marry for love, always winds up with a man w... Read more

Dune (Special Edition) (1984)

6.6/10
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Brad Dourif, Sting , Max von Sydow

A monumental film by the director of 'Eraserhead' featuring Kyle MacLachlan, Sting and Max Von Sydow. The saga of an intergalactic warrior and his ris... Read more

Twin Peaks: Season 2 - Part 1 (1990)

8.8/10
Director: Caleb Deschanel, David Lynch, Duwayne Dunham, Lesli Linka Glatter, Tim Hunter, Tina Rathborne, Todd Holland
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Joan Chen, Piper Laurie, Madchen Amick, Dana A...

The long-awaited Second Season DVDs are here! In Part One Agent Cooper is shot by a mysterious assailant, and receives some bizarre clues from a gian... Read more

Out of the Blue (2006)

7.2/10
Director: Robert Sarkies
Starring: Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Lois Lawn, Simon Ferry, Tandi Wright, Paul Glove...

The devastating true story of the 1990 Aramoana massacre is told with great care by director Robert Sarkies, based on the book 'Aramoana: 22 Hours of... Read more

Lonely Hearts (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, James Gandolfini, Scott Caan, Laura Dern

Based on the story of real-life 'lonely hearts killers', Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez, who left a bloody trail of murdered, mostly elderly women, acr... Read more

Lorna Doone (2000)

7.1/10
Director: Mike Barker, Anthony Calf
Starring: Anthony Calf, Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle, Barbara Flynn, Joanne Froggatt, Mart...

Witness to his father's murder by the Doones when he was just a child, John Ridd is hell-bent on revenge. But a chance meeting with a beautiful girl c... Read more

Murder, She Wrote: Season 1 (1984)

6.9/10
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley, Claude Akins

After Jean Stapleton and Doris Day both turned down the role, Angela Lansbury became Jessica McGill, retired teacher, successful mystery writer and in... Read more

Manon (1995)

7.1/10
Starring: Steven Heathcote, Justine Summers

In 18th century Paris, Manon, a captivating young woman, falls passionately in love with a penniless student, des Grieux. Manipulated by her avariciou... Read more

Headspace (2005)

4.7/10
Director: Andrew van den Houten
Starring: William Atherton, Olivia Hussey, Udo Kier, Mark Margolis, Dee Wallace, Sean Youn...

When Alex has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger his intellect begins to rapidly expand, but as the power of his mind grows, so does the my... Read more

Battleground Vietnam: War in the Jungle (2006)

From the beginning of French colonisation to the fall of Saigon in 1975, this is the complete story of the Vietnam War, its roots, its battles, its he... Read more

Creature Comforts: Series 2 - Part 2 (2006)

7.7/10
Director: Nick Park
Starring: Animated

This set completes the second season of hilarious insight from the mouths of house cats, caged hamsters, tourist pandas and more, courtesy of Aardman... Read more

World War 2 In Colour (2000)

This two part series from Germany, brings together a compilation of amazing unseen archival footage from pre-war Germany to the end of the war in Afri... Read more

When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan (2006)

7.7/10
Director: Jasmine Dellal

In 2001, American promoters persuaded five noted bands of gypsy musicians to join forces for what was billed as 'The Gypsy Caravan Tour'. The line-up... Read more

Flushed Away (2006)

6.6/10
Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell
Starring: Voices Of, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Bill Nighy, Andy...

Aardman Studio's first CGI animated feature revolves around Roddy (voiced by Hugh Jackman), a society mouse, living the high life in a Kensington pent... Read more

Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

5.1/10
Director: Tyler Perry
Starring: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Henry Simmons, Lisa...

Tyler Perry adapted his play, directed and also played three characters in his sequel to 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman', in which pistol-packing grandma... Read more

Peking to Paris (2006)

8.2/10

In 1907, when the motorcar still had something to prove, the punishing Peking to Paris race was born of a casual dare in a Parisian newspaper. More t... Read more

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

7.4/10
Director: Doug Atchison
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Keke Palmer, Curtis Armstrong

Award-winning family drama about a young girl who beats the odds in order to enter the national spelling bee, under the patient tutelage of strict tea... Read more

The Exodus Decoded (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Simcha Jacobovici
Starring: Narrated by, James Cameron

James Cameron narrates Jewish Canadian director Simcha Jacobovici's exploration of the biblical exodus from Egypt, in light of new evidence which may... Read more

Just Ask For Diamond (1988)

Director: Stephen Bayly
Starring: Colin Dale, Saeed Jaffrey, Susannah York, Dursley McLinden, Patricia Hodge, Jimm...

Private Eye Tim Diamond (Dursley McLinden) and his way-too-smart kid brother, Nick team up with failing nightclub singer Susannah York for action, lau... Read more

Foyle's War: Series 2 (2003)

8.4/10
Director: Giles Foster, Jeremy Silberston
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden, Honeysuckle Weeks

As war rages over Europe Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen), is battling crime on the homefront. All four episodes fr... Read more

Ghost Rider (2007)

5.2/10
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Wes Bentley, Sam Elliott, Donal Logue, Peter Fonda

Stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze (Nic Cage) sells his soul to save his father from terminal cancer, but Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) is not the most tr... Read more

Mr Bean's Holiday (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Steve Bendelack
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Steve Pemberton, Karel Roden, Emma...

Gangly goofball, Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) wins an all-expenses-paid trip to the balmy south of France, though naturally his holiday will be anything b... Read more

Cheers: Season 2 (1983)

7.8/10
Starring: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, John R...

In the second season, Sam and Diane's new relationship is off to a shaky start, to the surprise of noone. Norm separates from Vera, Cliff falls for C... Read more

Volver (2006)

7.6/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lam...

Pedro Almodovar's 16th feature film stars Penelope Cruz as a hard-working janitor, supporting a daughter and a layabout husband in Madrid. Her own mo... Read more

Origin - Spirits of the Past (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Keiichi Sugiyama

In the not-too-distant future man has unleashed an environmental catastrophe. 300 years later the planet has recovered but mankind is still at odds w... Read more

Ben 10: Season 1 (2005)

7.1/10

Typical kid Ben Tennyson finds an extraterrestrial device that allows him to become a host of alien-fighting superheroes in this engaging, kid-friendl... Read more

Ed Byrne: Pedantic and Whimsical (2006)

8.3/10
Director: Helen Downing
Starring: Ed Byrne

Capturing all of the Irish comedian's best live bits, and showing how he worked his way up from local comedy circuits to becoming the biggest-selling... Read more

Monarch of the Glen: Series 1 (2000)

7.7/10
Director: Edward Bennett, A J Quinn
Starring: Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair MacKenzie, Lorraine Pilkington

"Monarch of the Glen" is a whimsical contemporary series set in the magnificent Scottish Highlands. The crumbling Glenbogle Estate, with its 200 tenan... Read more

The Adventures of Tintin - Volume 3 (2002)

Starring: Tintin

Four of Tintin's fabulous adventures are collected together in one dvd package! The fully animated tales are; "The Broken Ear", "The Crab with the Gol... Read more

Teenage Caveman (2001)

3.3/10
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, Richard Hillman

David (Andrew Keegan) is frustrated with the repressive laws of his cave dwelling tribe. Restless, stubborn and defiant, his attitude problem turns de... Read more

Robbie the Reindeer Trilogy: The Whole Herd ( Hooves of Fire / Legend of the Lost Tribe / Close Encounters of the Herd Kind ) (1999)

Director: Richard Goleszowski, Peter Peake, Donnie Anderson
Starring: Ardal O'Hanlon, Jane Horrocks, Steve Coogan, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse

A Robbie the Reindeer triple feature. "Hooves of Fire" (1999) - Robbie must fulfil his destiny to run the race of his life and take on his father's sw... Read more

Hell is for Heroes (1961)

7/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Mike Kell...

Young stars Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Nick Adams and Bob Newhart (in his film debut) play a hopelessly ou... Read more

Battlestar Galactica: Episodes 9-16 (1978)

8.7/10
Starring: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson Jr, John Colicos,...

In the Seventh Millennia of recorded history, the Battlestar Galactica roams the vast wilderness that is space. The robotic Cylon Alliance has destroy... Read more

Old School (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn

What's a guy supposed to do when he catches the early flight home and finds his girlfriend in bed with a room full of naked strangers? Return to colle... Read more

Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

5.8/10
Director: Jimmy Sangster
Starring: Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price

In "Horror of Frankenstein" Baron Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) appears more interested in his philandering than he does in the more bizarre branc... Read more

Le Fate Ignoranti (2000)

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz, Andrea Renzi

Aka "The Ignorant Fairies", "His Secret Life". When Antonia's husband dies in a car accident, she is stricken with grief. Whilst sorting through his p... Read more

Coup De Torchon ( aka Clean Slate ) (1981)

7.7/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stephane Audran, Eddy M...

Aka "Clean Slate". An inspired rendering of Jim Thompson's pulp novel "Pop. 1280", Bertrand Tavernier's "Coup De Torchon" deftly transplants the story... Read more

Runaway Jury (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Bruce Mc...

This intense adaptation of John Grisham's thriller boasts John Cusack as a juror on a high-profile civil case in New Orleans in which the widow of a m... Read more

Paper Moon (1973)

8.1/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Madeline Kahn, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, John Hillerman

Ryan O'Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this very bright, very warm, and very funny period film for which Tatum won an Oscar in her first film... Read more

Rio Lobo (1970)

6.8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Victor French

The final film of Howard Hawks, and the fifth pairing over a 22-year period with the Duke, is a classic action-filled John Wayne western set into moti... Read more

Super Sucker (2002)

4.5/10
Director: Jeff Daniels
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell, Dawn Wells

In this laughfest, Jeff Daniels (who also wrote and directed) plays a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman embroiled in a heated competition with riva... Read more

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)

5.3/10
Director: Jeremy Summers
Starring: Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Tsai Chin

In the foothills of northern China a long procession is winding its way through the hills. Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) and his daughter, Lin Tang, are... Read more

Hanky Panky (1982)

5.6/10
Director: Sidney Poitier
Starring: Gene Wilder, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark, Gilda Radner

Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner make for a wacky team of sleuths in a comedic thriller that has Chicago architect Wilder on the run, with Radner in tow,... Read more

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1958)

Director: Roy Boulting
Starring: Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas

Peter Sellers is Amphibulos, the corrupt Prime Minister of a small Pacific Island. He hopes to profit from renewed interest in the island from the Bri... Read more

Wrong Turn (2003)

6.1/10
Director: Rob Schmidt
Starring: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers

'Deliverance' meets 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' in this nail-biting horror tale. After a car accident leaves them stranded in the backwoods of West... Read more

No Good Deed (2002)

5.5/10
Director: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgard, Doug Hutchison, Joss Acklan...

Aka "The House on Turk Street". In director Bob Rafelson's adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett story "The House on Turk Street", Samuel L. Jackson is a... Read more

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Mickey Lemle
Starring: Ram Dass

A Harvard colleague, and fellow LSD experimenter, of Timothy Leary in the early 1960s, professor Richard Alpert became the renowned spiritual guru and... Read more

Northern Exposure: Season 1 (1990)

8.2/10
Director: Peter O'Fallon, Jack Bender, John David Coles
Starring: John Corbett, Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum, Darren E Bur...

Joel Fleishman (Rob Morrow) is a new medical college graduate. Due to a clause in the small print of his scholarship contract he finds himself in the... Read more

The Early Films of Peter Greenaway 1 (2003)

Director: Peter Greenaway

Before his international arthouse hit "The Draughtsman's Contract", Peter Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive and witty short films. Their... Read more

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

6.6/10
Director: Chuck Russell
Starring: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Cr...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to bed...fearsome Freddy's back, and he's tormenting the dreams of some troubled teens under the care of... Read more

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

5.1/10
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter

For the young people of Elm Street, the nightmare never ends! Once more Freddy returns from the grave for revenge, focusing on the dreams of the unbor... Read more

Undead (2002)

5/10
Director: The Spierig Brothers
Starring: Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, Lisa Cunningham, Dirk Hunter, Emma Ran...

Peaceful, rustic Berkeley is a charming fishing community where life is sweet and the people friendly. All that is about to change. After losing her c... Read more

Calendar Girls (2003)

6.9/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelo...

Based on a true story, this comedy with serious moments stars Julie Walters as a British housewife in her fifties who loses her husband to leukemia. W... Read more

Porridge: Series 2 (1975)

8.3/10
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Brian Wilde, Fulton MacKay

Ronnie Barker stars with Richard Beckinsale, Brian Wilde and Fulton MacKay in a second series at her Majesty's pleasure. Six episodes. Written by Dick... Read more

Dr Seuss: The Cat in the Hat (1971)

7.2/10
Director: Hawley Pratt

In a marvellously animated version of one of the most beloved of all Dr. Seuss tales, two youngsters find themselves at home with nothing to do on a r... Read more

Magic (1978)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret , Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter

An eerie, terrifying story scripted by William Goldman from his own novel boasts Anthony Hopkins as Corky, a ventriloquist whose dummy, Fats, begins t... Read more

Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight (2002)

Director: Murray Lerner
Starring: Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox

"Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight" documents the guitarist's legendary performance before 600,000 people at this massive outdoo... Read more

The Circus (1928)

8.1/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia, Henry Bergman

When we first meet Chaplin's Tramp in this comic gem, he's in typical straits: broke, hungry, destined to fall in love and just as sure to lose the gi... Read more

The Kid (1921)

8.3/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan

For the first time as a filmmaker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the a... Read more

ABC for Kids: Just for Fun! (2004)

Join all your favourite "ABC for Kids" playmates in this wonderful collection of stories and adventures. Join the railroad with Thomas and Friends, da... Read more

The Way Things Work: Rolling Stones (2000)

7.6/10
Director: Diego Zamora

What do a wheelbarrow and a bottle opener have in common? Did you know that a dentist's drill is a direct descendant of the first windmill? And what o... Read more

The Grudge (2002)

6.7/10
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa

Aka 'Ju-on'. Japanese legend has it that a man who dies in a fit of rage leaves behind a malevolent presence that nests in his home; a contaminant tha... Read more

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers (2004)

7.3/10
Starring: Mike Myers

Party-on as Saturday Night Live celebrates Mike Myers' awesome seasons as a regular on the show. Compiled by the producers of SNL, Mike Myers' lineup... Read more

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)

7.9/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Natalie Wood

Recent widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) rents a house by the ocean, which turns out to be haunted by a cantakerous sea captain (Rex Harrison). Although... Read more

Beat Street (1984)

6.5/10
Director: Stan Lathan
Starring: Rae Dawn Chong

The Bronx is the hippest place in America, as breakdancers, graffiti artists, DJs and rap musicians converge for an exciting street scene. Grandmaster... Read more

Twenty One Days (1938)

Director: Basil Dean
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Francis L Sullivan

Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted twenty-one days of compa... Read more

Mambo Italiano (2003)

6.7/10
Director: Emile Gaudreault
Starring: Luke Kirby, Ginette Reno, Paul Sorvino

Light-hearted sex farce from Canada stars Luke Kirby as a young man who discovers he's gay and becomes involved with a policeman and old high school c... Read more

The Far Pavilions (Part Three) (1984)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Duffell
Starring: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Rossano Brazzi, Omar Sharif, John Gielgu...

Part Three, Episodes 5 and 6. Based on M. M. Kaye's enormously successful novel, "The Far Pavilions" is a lavish epic set in the India of the British... Read more

Looney Tunes Collection: Best of Daffy and Porky (2004)

Starring: Daffy Duck, Porky Pig

In this deliriously ditzy collection of uncut, fully re-mastered all-time favourite Looney Tunes shorts: thrill to the sci-fi foolery of Daffy and Por... Read more

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Volume 1 (1967)

7.9/10

2068: Earth is at war with a bizarre Martian enemy - the Mysterons. Only Spectrum, the world security organisation, and its number one agent Captain S... Read more

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Volume 3 (1967)

7.9/10

2068: Earth is at war with a bizarre Martian enemy - the Mysterons. Only Spectrum, the world security organisation, and its number one agent Captain S... Read more

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Volume 4 (1967)

7.9/10

2068: Earth is at war with a bizarre Martian enemy - the Mysterons. Only Spectrum, the world security organisation, and its number one agent Captain S... Read more

Joe 90: Volume 1 (1968)

6.8/10

Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine, a brilliant computer expert, has invcented an incredible device called The Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfe... Read more

Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5 (2003)

8.2/10
Director: Dewi Humphries
Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield

In "Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5", Edina and Patsy surround themselves with a constellation of stars, including Kristin Scott Thomas, former Spice Gi... Read more

My American Uncle ( Mon Oncle D'Amerique ) (1980)

7.9/10
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger-Pierre

Witty treatise on human behaviour from Alain Resnais observes the interactions of three people: a manager at a textile plant (Gerard Depardieu), an ac... Read more

True Confessions (1981)

6.4/10
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Starring: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, C...

In 1940's Los Angeles, Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (Robert De Niro), a rising star in the Catholic Church hierarchy, has a talent for fundraising that... Read more

The Delinquents (1957)

5.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Peter Miller, Tom Laughlin

This rare offering was the first big-screen directorial effort by Robert Altman, who also wrote and produced the film. Future "Billy Jack" star Tom L... Read more

Hotel Splendide (2000)

6.5/10
Director: Terence Gross
Starring: Toni Collette, Daniel Craig, Katrin Cartlidge

The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It's a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanc... Read more

Children Underground (2000)

8.3/10
Director: Edet Belzberg

An Oscar-nominated documentary on the homeless children of post-Cold War Bucharest, Romania, focusing on a year in the lives of five kids living in su... Read more

The Educational Archives: Sex and Drugs (2003)

7.8/10
Starring: Sonny Bono

A collection of sex education and drug prevention films, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Some historical, some hysterical and... Read more

Scary Movie 3 (2003)

5.5/10
Director: David Zucker
Starring: Anna Faris, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Camryn Manheim, Simon Rex, George...

Great trilogies come in threes. David Zucker ("Flying High") takes over the directing reigns for this latest outing that features Anna Faris, Charlie... Read more

Hammer House of Horror: Volume 1 (1980)

7.8/10
Director: Peter Sasdy, Tom Clegg, Alan Gibson, Don Leaver
Starring: Jon Finch, Peter Cushing, Peter McEnery, Anna Calder-Marshall, Kathryn Leigh Sco...

For more than two decades, the name of Hammer was synonymous with horror, winning a legendary place in the history of British films. Hammer Horror mov... Read more

The Europeans (1979)

6.4/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Tim Woodward, Wesley Addy, Lisa Eichhorn, Norman Snow

The Henry James novel about the contrasts between a 19th-century New England family and their European-raised cousins is expertly translated to the sc... Read more

Infernal Affairs (2002)

8.1/10
Director: Andrew Lau Wai Keung, Alan Mak Siu Fai
Starring: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Eric Tsang

Two cops on opposite sides of the law face off in "Infernal Affairs", a gripping psychological thriller from Hong Kong. Detective Yan (Tony Leung) is... Read more

Together (2002)

7.4/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi, Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige

Moving drama from director Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine") centers on a 13-year-old violin prodigy whose father takes him from their small provin... Read more

1900 (1976)

7.7/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Alida Valli, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Gerard Depardie...

Aka "Novecento". This sweeping chronicle of 20th century Italy focuses on the sons of two contrasting families; the landowner's son (Robert De Niro) a... Read more

What Happened to Kerouac? (1986)

7.1/10
Director: Lewis MacAdams, Richard Lerner
Starring: Steve Allen, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg

A lively and revealing investigation into the personal history and creative process of Jack Kerouac - father of the Beat Generation, author of 'On the... Read more

Johnny Guitar (1954)

7.7/10
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Scott Brady, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, Er...

Joan Crawford is the strong-willed woman running a gambling house, Sterling Hayden the notorious gunman looking to forget his past and Mercedes McCamb... Read more

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones / The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

Director: Robert Butler, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero, Kurt Russell, William Schallert, Tommy Kirk, Annette Fu...

'The Misadventures of Merlin Jones' - Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello star in this slapstick Disney comedy about a college "genius" whose latest inve... Read more

The School of Rock (2003)

Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman

Terrific comedy showcases a tailor-made part for Jack Black as an egomaniacal heavy metal guitarist who gets booted out of his band, then has to seek... Read more

In America (2002)

7.8/10
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Djimon Hounsou

Moving (and loosely autobiographical) drama from director Jim Sheridan ("In the Name of the Father") and his screenwriting daughters Naomi and Kirsten... Read more

Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)

6.4/10
Director: Chris Kennedy
Starring: Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day

Ralph (Matt Day) is a young country singer who leaves his parents' outback property to try and make it big in Nashville. He hitches a ride with Boyd (... Read more

Scorched Earth: Propaganda (2000)

5/10

This episode provides an intriguing look at the part played by propaganda as governments struggled to gain the upper hand in the war away from the bat... Read more

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episodes 13-16 (1997)

8.2/10
Director: Michael Lange, Bruce Seth Green, Joss Whedon, James A Contner
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Da...

"Surprise" - The fate of the world is at stake when Spike and Drusilla gather the dismembered body parts of the judge to use as the ultimate weapon ag... Read more

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episodes 21-22 (1998)

8.2/10
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Da...

"Becoming - Part 1" - A web of conspiracy, suspense and heartbreak surrounds Buffy as the time has come to destroy Angel. Buffy's decision is complica... Read more

The Secret Garden (BBC) (1975)

7.3/10
Director: Katrina Murray
Starring: Sarah Hollis Andrews

From the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett comes this enchanting children's classic that tells the story of a spoilt, lonely orphan girl whose life is... Read more

Platform (2000)

7.4/10
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Wang Hong-wei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jing-dong, Yang Tian-yi

Aka "Zhantai". Jia Zhang-ke's ambitious film follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history, from 1979 to 1989.... Read more

Beyond Borders (2003)

6.5/10
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Teri Polo, Linus Roache, Noah Emmerich

In this compelling, globe-trotting saga, Angelina Jolie is Sarah Jordan, an American living in London and trapped in an unhappy marriage to the son of... Read more

In the Cut (2003)

5.3/10
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mark Ruffalo, Meg Ryan, Nick Damici, Sharrieff Pugh

This steamy thriller from director Jane Campion ("The Piano") offers star Meg Ryan in revealing nude and sex scenes, as she plays a lonely teacher inv... Read more

Chasing Liberty (2004)

6.1/10
Director: Andy Cadiff
Starring: Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Piven, Annabella Sciorra, Caroline Goodall, M...

While on a diplomatic trip to Prague with her parents, first daughter Mandy Moore sneaks away in order to explore the countryside for herself. As secr... Read more

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

7.9/10
Director: Dalton Trumbo
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Di...

Screenwriter/novelist Dalton Trumbo wrote his pacifist novel "Johnny Got His Gun" in 1939, and after being blacklisted in the 1950s (he was one of the... Read more

Paycheck (2003)

6.3/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore, Joe Morton,...

In this sci-fi thriller adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, Ben Affleck plays a corporate espionage electronics whiz offered a vast sum by old pal... Read more

The Merchant of Venice (2000)

7.1/10
Director: Trevor Nunn
Starring: Henry Goodman, David Bamber, Alexander Hanson, Derbhle Crotty

An acclaimed stage-to-screen adaptation of the multi-award winning 1999 Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's play set in the 1930s. Henr... Read more

100 Years of Comedy (2000)

5.6/10
Starring: Various

Journey on a rip-roaring trip through the world of cinema comedy, with the funniest moments in the history of Hollywood, from the slapstick of the sil... Read more

Nemesis Game (2003)

5.6/10
Director: Jesse Warn
Starring: Carly Pope, Ian McShane, Brendan Fehr, Rena Owen, Jay Baruchel, Vanessa Guy, Adr...

A shy college student (Carly Pope), obsessed with finding the reason behind her mother's death, is befriended by an enigmatic comic book store owner (... Read more