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The Land Has Eyes (2005)

Director: Vilsoni Herenko
Starring: Rena Owen, Sapeta Taito, James Davenport, Voi Fesaitu, John Fatiaki

Fijian playwright Vilsoni Herenko has lived in Hawaii since 1991, but returned to Fiji to make his first feature film. A beautiful coming of age stor... Read more

Happy Birthday To Me (1981)

6.1/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Matt Craven, Tracy Bregman, Jack Blum

A stand-out '80s slasher that took everything way over the top. From the outrageous to the absurdly outrageous. While it may not be the best film in... Read more

Evolution: The Evolutionary Arms Race / Why Sex? (2001)

6.1/10
Director: Gail Willumsen
Starring: Narrated by, Liam Neeson

"Evolution" this groundbreaking and definitive seven-part series explores all facets of evolution, offering a definitive view of the extraordinary imp... Read more

Evolution: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (2001)

6.1/10
Director: David Espar, Susan K Lewis
Starring: Narrated by, Liam Neeson

"Evolution" this groundbreaking and definitive seven-part series explores all facets of evolution, offering a definitive view of the extraordinary imp... Read more

Swamp Water (1941)

7.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John...

French auteur Jean Renoir made his US debut with this thriller about a man wrongly sentenced to hang who escapes from prison to clear his name. After... Read more

Primer (2004)

6.9/10
Director: Shane Carruth
Starring: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Anand Upadhyaya, Casey Gooden, Carrie Crawford

Everything you think you know about modern science is about to unravel. Written, directed by and starring Shane Carruth, this critically acclaimed low... Read more

The Turning Point (1977)

6.9/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerrit...

Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft are estranged friends and dancers at the end of their careers, but they are brought back together by MacLaine's dau... Read more

Samurai Assassin (1964)

7.6/10
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Ito Yonosuke, Eijiro Tono

Based loosley on true events, the great Toshiro Mifune plays a masterless samurai in 1860 as the rule of the shogun is coming to an end. A few disgru... Read more

Hardware: Series 1 (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Ben Kellett
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ryan Cartwright, Peter Serafinowicz, Ken Morley, Susan Earl, Ell...

Written by Simon Nye, the creator of "Men Behaving Badly", this BAFTA nominated series stars Martin Freeman (The Office). Set in a local hardware shop... Read more

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)

3.8/10
Director: Dan Hoskins
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Martha Quinn, Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen

A gang of benevolent biker chicks rolls into a small town to encounter a settlement full of zombies created by evil mortician Ralph Willum. Now these... Read more

Billy Connolly: Live In New York (2005)

7.3/10
Starring: Billy Connolly

Though he's been touring the States with great success for more than 30 years, this is the first time one of his live shows has been taped there. Fil... Read more

Next of Kin (1982)

6.4/10
Director: Tony Williams
Starring: Jackie Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott, Gerda Nicolson

Shortly after Linda Stevens returns home to take over her recently deceased mother's estate, horrible events begin to occur. All night she hears a voi... Read more

Cafe Lumiere (2003)

7/10
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Yo Hitoro, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo

Inspired by the centenary of acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu's birth, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's luminous portrait of modern Japan chronicles the lif... Read more

Rabid Grannies (1989)

4.8/10
Director: Emmanuel Kervyn
Starring: Danielle Daven, Anne Marie Fox, Jack Mayar, Elliot Lison

It's off to your grandmother's house we go for "Rabid Grannies", the blood spattered tale of two little old ladies who open a surprise package from he... Read more

1990: Bronx Warriors (1983)

8.1/10
Director: Enzo G Castellari
Starring: Stefania Girolami, Mark Gregory, Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly, Fred Williams...

In the shattered wasteland of inner-city New York, a desperate alliance of beleaguered gangs arm themselves for a final, apocalyptic battle against ru... Read more

Night Watch (2004)

6.5/10
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Mariya Poroshin

In 14th Century Russia two warring factions of vampires called a delicate truce. Overshadowing this peace is an ancient prophecy, one that foretells o... Read more

Dawn Anna (2005)

7/10
Director: Arliss Howard
Starring: Debra Winger, Krista Rae

Telling the true story of single mother Dawn Anna (Debra Winger) who raised four children alone on a teacher's salary and still finds time to coach vo... Read more

Stay (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Janeane Garofalo, B D Wong, Bob Hoskin...

In this mind-bending psychological thriller, college student Henry (Ryan Gosling) plans to kill himself in three days, unless psychologist Sam Foster... Read more

The Five Obstructions (2003)

7.5/10
Director: Lars von Trier, Jorgen Leth
Starring: Jorgen Leth, Lars Von Trier, Jacqueline Arenal, Daniel Hernandez Rodriguez, Patr...

Idiosyncratic director Lars von Trier has pulled out all the stops in this virtually unclassifiable film as he challenges his mentor, director Jorgen... Read more

The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection: Volume 1 (1914)

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

This collection of seven shorts from the legendary Charlie Chaplin includes: "Making A Living" (1914, 8 min.) - This typical Keystone slapstick comedy... Read more

The Beano Videostars (1998)

The world's wildest boy - Dennis The Menace - and his fellow stars from "The Beano" comic are here in sparkling animation. As well as Dennis's dogs, t... Read more

The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Volume 4 (1914)

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin

This collection of seven shorts from the legendary Charlie Chaplin includes: "The New Janitor" (1914, 11 min.) - Charlie has become a janitor only to... Read more

Fast Company (1979)

5.5/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings

Early in his career, horror maven David Cronenberg directed this auto racing drama about a veteran driver (William Smith) who runs afoul of a crooked... Read more

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)

6.7/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Koji Chihara, Seiji Chihara, Sarina Suzuki, Kyosuke Yabe, Moeko Ezawa, Marie Kik...

A vaguely autobiographical and sometimes violent comedy/drama from the eclectic and prolific Takashi Miike which he followed with the prequel, 'Young... Read more

Bobby Deerfield (1977)

5.9/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Romolo Valli

From award-winning director Sydney Pollack comes this off-kilter drama, starring Al Pacino as jaded racecar driver "Bobby Deerfield". While Deerfield'... Read more

Shock (1946)

6.3/10
Director: Alfred L Werker
Starring: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw

In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was o... Read more

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)

4.4/10
Director: Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Starring: Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, John Altamura, Rick Collins, Lisa Gaye, Jessica Dublin...

This third instalment (put together entirely from sub-plot and time cuts made from Part II) has Toxie finding there is little to do in Tromaville afte... Read more

Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971)

Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Claudine Auger

A family's murderous battle over some bayfront property is the subject of director Mario Bava's bloody horror-thriller, which many have cited as the g... Read more

Mercano The Martian (2002)

6.5/10
Director: Juan Antin

Directed by an Argentinean university professor this animated feature film stars Mercano, a peaceful Martian whose life is turned upside down when a w... Read more

Neville's Island (1998)

6.9/10
Director: Terry Johnson
Starring: David Bamber, Martin Clunes, Timothy Spall, Jeff Rawles

When four businessmen (Timothy Spall, Martin Clunes, Jeff Rawle and David Bamber) embark on a 'team building' trip, they end up stranded on an island... Read more

The Wild Duck (1984)

6.3/10
Director: Henri Safran
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Irons, John Meillon, Lucinda Jones

Director Henri Safran adapts Henrik Ibsen's timeless play to an Australian setting and a turn-of-the-century ambience in this poignant story of an ill... Read more

Czech Dream (2004)

7.5/10
Director: Filip Remunda, Vit Klusak

Documenting the largest consumer hoax the Czech Republic has ever seen in which Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak set out to explore the psychological and... Read more

M*A*S*H: Season 8 - Volume 1 (1979)

8.4/10
Starring: Alan Alda, Gary Burghoff, Loretta Swit, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr,...

Korea, 1950. They were a M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. Loosely based on real life M*A*S*H unit 80... Read more

Danger Man: Missions 29 - 39 (1961)

8/10
Director: Charles Frend, Michael Truman, Peter Graham Scott, Seth Holt, Pennington Richards, Terry Bishop
Starring: Patrick McGoohan

Before "The Prisoner", Patrick McGoohan was John Drake - aka - "Danger Man". Set in the deadly world of international espionage and intrigue, Drake is... Read more

Murderball (2004)

7.8/10
Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Starring: Joe Soares, Mark Zupan, Keith Cavill

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2005 Oscars, and a worldwide festival hit, 'Murderball' is an inspiring, testosterone-fuelled look at th... Read more

Broken Flowers (2005)

7.2/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Julie Delpy, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wr...

Bill Murray is at his deadpan best in this typically understated comedy/drama from unique auteur, Jim Jarmusch. Emotionally stilted Don Johnston (Mur... Read more

Shopgirl (2005)

6.4/10
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson, Sam Bottoms, Fr...

Steve Martin stars in and adapted the screenplay from his own novella about shopgirl Mirabelle (Claire Danes); she's depressed, underpaid, in debt and... Read more

Five Days to Midnight (2004)

Director: Michael Watkins
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Randy Quaid, Kari Matchett, Angus MacFadyen, Hamish Linklater, G...

Originally made for television this tense mix of murder and sci-fi sees physics professor J T Neumeyer (Timothy Hutton) trying to solve his own murder... Read more

Moonlighting: Season 1 & 2 (1985)

7.6/10
Director: Robert Butler
Starring: Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley, James Karen, Dennis Lipscomb, Jim...

Golden Globe Award-winners Cybill Shephard and Bruce Willis welcome you to the Blue Moon Detective Agency, where danger is their businessâ?| as long a... Read more

Saathi (1967)

6.6/10
Director: Sridhar
Starring: Rajendra Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Vyjayanthimala

Raj, Simi and Vyjayantimala grew up together. Simi is in love with Raj, but he doesn't realise and marries Vy. When Vy gets ill she runs away not wa... Read more

Heights (2004)

5.5/10
Director: Chris Terrio
Starring: Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Eric Bogosian, Matt...

A smart ensemble drama revolving around 24 hours in the lives of five ambitious New Yorkers. Glenn Close is the link as a Broadway diva who's just fo... Read more

The Jacket (2004)

7.1/10
Director: John Maybury
Starring: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly L...

A relentlessly stylish whodunit with Adrien Brody as delusional Gulf War vet, Jack Stark, who winds up in a mental hospital run by the brutal Dr Becke... Read more

Bottom: Series 2 (1992)

8.2/10
Director: Ed Bye
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Christopher Ryan, Robert Llewellyn

Theyâ??re two revolting, sad pervies... and theyâ??re back! Adrian Edmondson and Rick Mayall return in their anarchic black comedy series about sub-cu... Read more

The Companeros (1970)

Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Fernando Rey, Jack Palance

An interesting Spaghetti Western with political themes in which mercenary Franco Nero joins revolutionary Thomas Milian to help free a pacifist profes... Read more

The Cisco Kid Collection (1950)

Director: Derwin Abrahams, George Cahan
Starring: Bill Catching, Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carrillo, Marshall Reed

Based on the early stories of O Henry. Follow the hilarious adventures of the heroic Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo) and his bungling sidekick Pancho (Leo... Read more

The Jackie Chan Collection (1973)

Director: Hdeng Tsu, Chu Yen-ping, Zhu Wu
Starring: Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Jimmy Wang Yu, Wang Qing

This collection of five films from legendary martial arts hero Jackie Chan includes: "Fantasy Mission Force" (1984) - A truly off-the-wall WW2 actione... Read more

Instrument of War: Part One - Ladies From Hell (1997)

6.2/10
Director: Patrick King, Grahame Wickings
Starring: Narrated by, Charlton Heston, Tom Conti, Hannah Gordon

The fierce, kilted, bagpipe-wielding highlanders were nicknamed 'The Ladies From Hell' by their enemies. This award-winning documentary traces their... Read more

Sedition (2005)

Director: Russell Campbell

This fascinating documentary tells the sobering account of New Zealand's WW II conscientious objectors who fought against legislation and stuck to the... Read more

Golgo 13: Kowloon Assignment (1977)

7.5/10
Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Emi Shindo, Callan Leung

Based on a best-selling Japanese comic, Sonny Chiba stars as 'Golgo 13', a master assassin whose calling card is a single shot between the eyes. Match... Read more

Gilmore Girls: Season 2 (2001)

8.1/10
Director: Nicole Holofcener, Steve Gomer, Jamie Babbit, Danny Leiner, Gail Mancuso, Michael Katleman, Robert Berlinger, Amy Sherman, Dennis Erdman, Chris Long
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Keiko Agena, Ya...

Those acclaimed Gilmore Girls are back for a second season of warmth, charm, zingy repartee and heart-stopping moments. In this 6-disc set are all 22... Read more

House Of Bamboo (1955)

6.9/10
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Cameron Mitchell

Samuel Fuller directs this noir classic set in post-World War II Tokyo. After organising a robbery that results in the murder of an American GI, gang... Read more

Fame: Season 1 (1982)

6.9/10
Director: Various
Starring: Debbie Allen, Lee Curreri, Erica Gimpel, Bronwyn Thomas, Albert Hague, Valerie L...

Based on Alan Parker's hit film, this Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning TV series portrays the lives of a diverse group of talented students at New... Read more

Nightmare Alley (1947)

7.8/10
Director: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray

This noir classic tracks the rise and fall of con man/carnival worker Tyrone Power. Seducing side-show performer Joan Blondell to learn the secret of... Read more

Daniel Deronda (2002)

7.3/10
Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Romola Garai, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Dancy, Jodhi May, Edward Fox,...

George Eliot's last and most underrated novel has been wittily adapted to the small screen by the BBC. Daniel Deronda (Hugh Dancy), though intelligen... Read more

Salem Witch Trials (1998)

6.2/10

in 1692 19 men and women were hanged, and one man was 'pressed' to death following the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Almost twenty years late... Read more

North Country (2005)

7.3/10
Director: Niki Caro
Starring: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, M...

Acclaimed kiwi helmer Niki Caro went to Minnesota for this fictionalised account of the most famous sexual harrassment case in history. Charlize Ther... Read more

Casanova (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin

Heath Ledger plays the notorious Venetian playboy who goes too far when he's caught leaving the boudoir of a novice nun. The Inquisition puts him on... Read more

Bombon (2004)

7.1/10
Director: Carlos Sorin
Starring: Juan Villegas, Walter Donado, Gregorio the Dog

52-year-old Patagonian Juan 'Coco' Villegas has been a petrol attendant for 20 years when he suddenly finds himself unemployed. He does odd jobs and... Read more

First Descent (2005)

7.2/10
Director: Kemp Curley, Kevin Harrison
Starring: Shaun White, Nick Perata, Hannah Teter, Shawn Farmer, Terje Haakonsen, Narrated...

The history of snow-boarding from its beginnings as a back yard hobby in the '80s, to its current status as a billion dollar recreation industry and O... Read more

The Thirty-Nine Steps ( The 39 Steps ) (1978)

6.6/10
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills

This suspenseful thriller is much closer to John Buchan's original novel than has been filmed before. With a fine cast of British character actors inc... Read more

Go West / The Big Store (1941)

Director: Charles Riesner, Edward Buzzell
Starring: The Marx Brothers, John Carroll, Diana Lewis, Virginia Grey, Margaret Dumont

Groucho, Chico, Harpo - all certifiably wacko in a double dip of comedies. The Marxmen "Go West" to where the sun always shines, the fun never sets an... Read more

Melies the Magician (1997)

Director: Jacques Meny

A documentary on pioneering French filmmaker Georges Melies along with fifteen of his rarely seen restored films from 1898-1905. Included are the leg... Read more

Colin McCahon: I Am (2004)

9.6/10
Director: Paul Swadel
Starring: Voice Of, Sam Neill

Tracing the life of pioneering artist Colin McCahon, examining the New Zealand cultural context that influenced and inspired his work and his artistic... Read more

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)

6.1/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen

Based on Pearl S Buck's gripping novel, this memorable Cold War drama follows priests William Holden and Clifton Webb as they are stationed at a remot... Read more

Crazed Fruit (1956)

7.5/10
Director: Ko Nakahira
Starring: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara

Two brothers compete for the amorous favours of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking in this film from director Ko... Read more

The Classic Adventures of Thomas and Friends: Series 1 (1984)

Director: David Mitton
Starring: Narrated by, Ringo Starr

All aboard for this classic collection of original 'Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends' stories. Join Thomas, together with his buddies Edward, Gordon... Read more

Full Body Massage (1995)

5.7/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Mimi Rogers, Bryan Brown

Mimi Rogers ('The Rapture') and Bryan Brown ('Breaker Morant') star in this provocative drama from acclaimed director Nicolas Roeg. Nina, a successful... Read more

The Punk Rock Movie (1978)

6.8/10
Director: Don Letts
Starring: The Clash, Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols

Produced in London in 1978, this 35mm documentary feature captures the leaders of the movement in performance and on tour and highlights the punk rock... Read more

Triple Agent (2004)

6.4/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Serge Renko, Katerina Didaskalou

Loosely based on a true story, this sublime drama from director Eric Rohmer follows the complex marriage between a Greek painter and her White Russian... Read more

The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)

7.9/10
Director: David Thacker
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Jodhi May, Juliet Aubrey, Polly Walker, James Purefoy

Based on the classic novel by Thomas Hardy. Ciaran Hinds stars as Michael Henchman, a 19th-century English merchant and well-respected townsman, who r... Read more

West of Hot Dog / The Sleuth (1925)

Director: Harry Sweet
Starring: Stan Laurel

In 'The Sleuth' Stan Laurel gets his man after adopting a series of comic disguises. In 'West Of Hot Dog' Stan Laurel also stars as the heir to a fort... Read more

Just Friends (2005)

6.2/10
Director: Roger Kumble
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein, Julie Hagerty, Chris Marquett...

Ryan Reynolds was 'the fat kid' in high school with a secret crush on best pal Jamie (Amy Smart). When his true feelings are outed, she gently turns... Read more

Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard (1996)

Director: Shimako Sato
Starring: Kimika Yoshino, Wataru Shihodo, Chieko Shiratori, Akira Otani, Eisei Amamoto, Ak...

In this prequel to the first film an evil spirit has massacred a village of witches and wizards in ancient Japan. Skip to present day and an archaeol... Read more

Life Show (2002)

Director: Huo Jianqi
Starring: Tao Hong, Tao Zeru

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Chi Li, this affecting character study centres on Lai Shuang Yang a young, single woman living in revolutionary Ch... Read more

Donkey Skin (1971)

7.1/10
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig, Jacques Perrin

At once charming, bizarre and eerie, director Jacques Demy's ('The Umbrellas of Cherbourg') colourful adaptation of the fairytale by Perrault (who als... Read more

When Eight Bells Toll (1970)

6/10
Director: Etienne Perier
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nathalie Delon, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins

Alistair MacLean adapted the screenplay for 'When Eight Bells Toll' from his own novel. It stars Anthony Hopkins as a ruthless spy, moving about Scotl... Read more

Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950)

7.6/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill

'Laura' director Otto Preminger reunited with stars Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney for this moody crime drama in which Andrews is a violent cop who acc... Read more

Garden of Evil (1954)

6.8/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rit...

Western set against the backdrop and greed of the gold rush. Three Americans (Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell) are stranded in a sma... Read more

Rodney Dangerfield - No Respect (1989)

Director: Various
Starring: Rodney Dangerfield, Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Bob Nelson, Jeff Altman, etc ...,...

The ultimate Rodney Dangerfield collection, this set contains 3 discs of the comic's hilarious stand-up along with 3 ABC specials 'It's Not Easy Bein'... Read more

Margaret's Museum (1995)

7.3/10
Director: Mort Ransen
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Kate Nelligan

Based on several short stories by Sheldon Currie, this offbeat romantic tragedy is about a plucky woman's surprising love affair in a 1940s-era Nova S... Read more

Unknown White Male (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Rupert Murray
Starring: Doug Bruce

In July 2003, ex-pat Brit Douglas Bruce, woke up on a subway train in New York headed for Coney Island. He had no idea who he was, how he got there o... Read more

Underworld: Evolution (2006)

6.7/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Bill Nighy, Derek Jacobi

The violent feud between the snooty vampires and thuggish werewolves escalates as beautiful Death Dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and her forbidden Ly... Read more

Legend of a Fighter (1982)

7.4/10
Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Ka-Yan Leung , Yasuaki Kuraka, Yuen Yat-cho

Representing the very best in martial arts filmmaking, from acclaimed director Yuen-Woo Ping, this is the fictionalised life story of revered martial... Read more

Iron Fisted Monk (1977)

Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Sammo Hung, James Tien, Chan Sing, Fung Hak-on, Wu Ma

Sammo Hung's first directorial outing is a well-polished, innovative and highly entertaining kung-fu flick that was breaking new ground with its blend... Read more

Tenko: Series 1 - Episodes 6 - 10 (1981)

8.8/10
Starring: Stephanie Beacham, Stephanie Cole, Ann Bell, Louise Jameson, Eiji Kusuhara, Burt...

In 1941 the terrors of war-torn Europe seem far away for the small community of ex-pat Brits living in Singapore. But their privileged lives are soon... Read more

Echo of the Elephants - The Story of an Elephant Family (1993)

Director: Martyn Colbeck
Starring: David Attenborough, Cynthia Moss

In January 1990, Cynthia and Martyn embarked on the first of what would ultimatly be four exceptional films produced over thirteen years in the shadow... Read more

National Geographic: The Gospel of Judas (2006)

7.5/10

Hidden for nearly two thousand years, an ancient Gospel emerges from the sands of Egypt that tells a very different version of the last days of Jesus... Read more

The Magnificent Seven: Season 1 (1998)

7.7/10
Director: Christopher Cain, Geoff Murphy, Peter Markle
Starring: Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Dale Midkiff, Eric Close, Andrew Kavovit, Anthony St...

Based on the original film and with a movie-length pilot directed by our own Geoff Murphy this TV western stars Michael Biehn ('The Terminator') as th... Read more

Dixie Dregs: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1978 (1978)

Starring: Steve Morse

Out of the musically fertile jazz-rock fusion era of the 1970s emerged the Dixie Dregs, led by genius guitarist Steve Morse. Featured here is the comp... Read more

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

4.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Rob...

Not considered one of the better 'Pink' sequels, it concerns a bumbling New York cop who is mistakenly charged with finding both the Pink Panther jewe... Read more

Hart to Hart: Season 1 (1979)

6.7/10
Director: Karen Arthur, Ray Austin
Starring: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Roddy McDowall, Jill St John, Na...

Created by best-selling author Sidney Sheldon (who also brought us 'I Dream of Jeannie'), Mr and Mrs H (Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers) are a pair... Read more

Derailed (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, David Morrissey, G...

An intelligent fast-paced thriller with Clive Owen as Charles, a seemingly happily married ad executive who has a chance encounter on a train with Luc... Read more

Hustle and Flow (2004)

Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Anthony Anderson, Taraji P Henson, Terrence Howard, Ta...

Djay (Terrence Howard) is a low-level pimp and drug dealer scratching a living in the Memphis ghettoes. As he approaches the age where his father une... Read more

Syriana (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blak...

Stephen Gaghan (screenwriter of 'Traffic') directs this labyrinthine story of corruption in the global oil industry, based partly on the writings of e... Read more

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

7.6/10
Director: Katja von Garnier
Starring: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker, Pat...

American women didn't get the vote until 1920, an important yet largely overlooked historical landmark that is given air in this HBO-produced drama st... Read more

Lackawanna Blues (2005)

7.9/10
Director: George C Wolfe
Starring: S Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathlee...

Based on a one-man show by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (played by Hill Harper) this is the inspiring story of Nanny Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) a big-heart... Read more

American Gothic (1988)

6.8/10
Director: John Hough
Starring: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Steiger, Michael J Pollard, Sarah Torgov, Janet Wright

A group of vacationers is stranded on a remote island where they become the 'guests' of a demented family who desperately want them for dinner...and l... Read more

American Graffiti / More American Graffiti (1973)

Director: Bill L Norton, George Lucas
Starring: Ron Howard, Bo Hopkins, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Mart...

"American Graffiti" (1973) - Follow the misadventures of a group of friends on one summer night in '62, as they prepare for the uncertainty of life af... Read more

Mystics (2002)

6/10
Director: David Blair
Starring: Milo O'Shea, David Kelly, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Liam Cunningham

Dave and Locky are a couple of old-timers who have found the perfect scam, offering 'solace and peace' to the bereaved. Dave poses as a medium, whilst... Read more

The Salamander (1981)

6.2/10
Director: Peter Zinner
Starring: Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Christopher Lee, Sybil Danning, Eli Wallach, Claudia...

Based on Morris West's best-selling novel, this tense political thriller explores the world of treasonous politics, love and high finance. In Italy's... Read more

I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse (1973)

7.1/10
Director: Fernando Arrabal
Starring: Emmanuele Riva, George Shannon, Hachemi Marzouk

Surrealist filmmaker Fernando Arrabal's second feature concerns a wealthy aristocrat (George Shannon) who flees a terrible crime, winding up in the de... Read more

Loverboy (2004)

6/10
Director: Kevin Bacon
Starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Campbell Scott, Marisa To...

Kevin Bacon's directorial debut is a moving drama based on Victoria Redel's best-selling novel about Emily (Kyra Sedgwick), a woman who was neglected... Read more

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

7.5/10
Director: George Clooney
Starring: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr, Patricia Clarkson, Frank Lan...

George Clooney's second outing as a director is both an intelligent homage to iconic American broadcaster Edward R Murrow (convincingly portrayed by D... Read more

Three Colours Trilogy ( Blue, White, Red ) (1993)

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jul...

This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieslowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The film... Read more

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