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The Berenstain Bears: Volume 3 (2002)

7.2/10

Set in the rolling hills of Bear Country, the series stars a fun loving family of Bears whose love, loyalty and humour allow them to overcome any obst... Read more

Long Weekend (1977)

5.1/10
Director: Colin Eggleston
Starring: John Hargreaves, Briony Behets

"Long Weekend" is an ecological thriller which examines the typical city dweller's attitude to the great outdoors. Marcia and Peter are hoping their c... Read more

Road Games (1981)

6.7/10
Director: Richard Franklin
Starring: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis

Pat Quid (Stacy Keach) is a lone trucker who plays games to keep his sanity on long hauls through the desolate Outback. A free-spirited hitchhiker (Ja... Read more

Born Romantic (2000)

6.5/10
Director: David Kane
Starring: Craig Ferguson, Ian Hart, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Lester, Catherine McCormack, Jim...

Six Londoners, three men and three women, search for romantic fulfillment on the dance floor of a seedy salsa club. With the guidance of a philosophic... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 4.2 (1984)

Starring: Cyril Cusack, Charles Dance, Zoe Wanamaker, Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Rich...

Darkly humourous and playfully macabre stories served up with a twist of fate. Each stand-alone episode in this acclaimed series is a brilliantly acte... Read more

Pippi On The Run (1968)

6.8/10
Director: Olle Hellbom
Starring: Inger Nilsson

Made by Swedish and German companies for broadcast on European TV, this charming series was later edited, and dubbed, to make the popular feature fil... Read more

Pippi In The South Seas (1968)

6.9/10
Director: Olle Hellbom
Starring: Inger Nilsson

Made by Swedish and German companies for broadcast on European TV, this charming series was later edited, and dubbed, to make the popular feature film... Read more

Man In A Suitcase: Episodes 9-16 (1966)

7.9/10
Director: Charles Crichton, Herbert Wise, Pat Jackson, Robert Tronson
Starring: Richard Bradford, Donald Sutherland, Felicity Kendal, George Sewell

Episodes 9-16 see Former US Intelligence Agent McGill (Richard Bradford) dealing with a personal death threat, blackmail, a blind witness to murder an... Read more

Man In A Suitcase: Episodes 17-24 (1966)

7.9/10
Director: Charles Crichton, Freddie Francis, John Glen, Peter Duffell
Starring: Richard Bradford, Jacqueline Pearce, Colin Blakely, Justine Lord, Derren Nesbitt

In episodes 17-24, an old flame of McGill's rears her pretty head in East Germany; he travels to Africa to investigate a Jesuit priest and is framed f... Read more

We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year (2005)

8.4/10
Director: Matt Saville
Starring: Chris Lilley

One of Australia's most freakishly talented improv comedians, Chris Lilley, plays 5 very different nominees for the coveted 'Australian of the Year Aw... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet (1933)

7.6/10
Director: Edwin L Marin
Starring: Reginald Owen, Anna May Wong

Based on the very first Sherlock Holmes story, this is a real spine-tingler involving a string of victims found dead with the word Rache - German for... Read more

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

4.7/10
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Starring: Tom Atkins, Dan O'Herlihy, Stacey Nelkin, Ralph Strait

"Halloween III" is the story of an evil toy maker who intends to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins through the use of magic masks. Once the... Read more

Oz - A Rock 'n' Roll Road Movie (1976)

Director: Chris Lofven
Starring: Bruce Spence, Graham Matters, Joy Dunstan, Gary Waddell

It's 1976. Dorothy is a groupie... The Scarecrow is a surfie... The Tin Man is a mechanic... The Cowardly Lion is a bikie... The Wicked Witch drives a... Read more

Cannibal Ferox (1981)

5.2/10
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Starring: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Lorraine De Selle, Danilo Mattei

Here it is! one of the most notorious and violent films of all time. A group of anthropologists are on a trip to the jungles of Colombia in search of... Read more

Two for the Seesaw (1962)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine

Based on the two-character play by William Gibson. Robert Mitchum plays an Omaha businessman, newly arrived in New York. Though unhappily married, Mit... Read more

Silent Night, Deadly Night 1 and 2 (1984)

Director: Charles E Sellier, Lee Harry
Starring: Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Brian Wilson, Eric Freeman, James L Newman

'Silent Night, Deadly Night' (1984) - On a wintry Christmas Eve in 1971, little Billy, travelling with his family, watches in horror as a killer dress... Read more

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)

7.3/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modi...

Hitler: The Rise of Evil begins by tracing the young, developing mind of a burgeoning madman, following him through his formative years and how he evo... Read more

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

7.2/10
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Starring: Chiharu Niyama, Ryudo Uzaki, Masahiro Kobayashi

When an American submarine is mysteriously destroyed at sea - it can only mean one thing - Godzilla has returned! An investigative journalist meets a... Read more

The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

7.4/10
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Lawrence Pressman, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler

Robert Shaw, turned playwright to create 'The Man in the Glass Booth'. This brilliant drama inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, is concerned with... Read more

History of Warfare: Early Middle Ages (1993)

2 episodes. "The Viking Wars" - During the bleak years of the Dark Ages, fierce warriors of Scandinavia ravaged Britain. It was the Age of the Vikings... Read more

A Farewell to Arms (1957)

5.9/10
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica

In the winter of 1917 an American ambulance driver (Rock Hudson) enlists in the Italian army and is wounded in action. He is gradually restored to hea... Read more

Only Fools and Horses: Series 3 (1983)

8.9/10
Director: Ray Butt
Starring: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Lennard Pearce

Crafty cockney market trader Derek Trotter dreams of making a fortune, but each dodgy deal and shady scheme always seems to end in disaster. Grandad's... Read more

North and South (2004)

8.1/10
Director: Brian Percival
Starring: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Sinead Cusack, Lesley Manville, Tim Pigott...

A powerful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's feisty and passionate love story, set across the social divides in the changing world of Victorian indust... Read more

Happy Days: Season 1 (1974)

7.5/10
Starring: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams, Donny Most, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross,...

Poodle skirts...jukeboxes...cars with soaring tail fins...and rockin' and rollin' all week long. Join one of America's best-loved TV families - the Cu... Read more

Friends: Season 1, Episodes 17 - 24 (1994)

8.9/10
Director: James Burrows, Peter Bonerz, Michael Lembeck, Gail Mancuso, Robby Benson, Kevin Bright
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David...

You can never have enough "Friends". Revisit that first year in which Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Monica (Courtney Cox), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Ma... Read more

Hogan's Heroes: The Informer (1965)

7.9/10
Starring: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Ivan Dix...

Contains the first four episodes of the popular 60s wartime comedy series. "The Informer" (Pilot episode) - At Stalag 13, a German prisoner-of-war cam... Read more

Fat Albert's Greatest Hits (1972)

Starring: Bill Cosby

Hey Hey Hey! It's Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, available on DVD for the very first time! Relive the fun of this hugely loved piece of cartoon histor... Read more

Roswell: Coverups and Close Encounters (1997)

7.5/10
Director: Dan Goldman
Starring: Jonathan Frakes

No other event in the 20th century has captured the imagination of mankind like the crash site located at Roswell, New Mexico. So much so, the entire... Read more

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 5, Episodes 12-22 (2000)

8.2/10
Director: Daniel Attias, Joss Whedon, David Grossman, David Solomon, James A Contner, Michael Gershman, Nick Marck, Marti Noxon
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Emma Caulfield, Michel...

After an unsettling encounter with Dracula, Buffy asks Giles to once again be her Watcher. Luckily he agrees, for Buffy is about to face problems far... Read more

Messages from Water (2004)

A photo-essay from Japan entitled 'Messages from Water' took Europe by storm as it made its way around the world. By taking a photographic look at wat... Read more

Yuva (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Mani Ratnam
Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi

When three young men are brought together by an accident on Calcutta's Second Hoogly Bridge, their lives change irreversibly. Their change, their conf... Read more

M*A*S*H: Season 2 - Volume 3 (1973)

8.4/10
Starring: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, Gary Bu...

Korea, 1950. They were a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. While it was a healing way station for the wo... Read more

Justice League: Starcrossed the Movie (2004)

6.6/10

A spaceship is coming to Earth, and its occupants look familiar...like Hawkgirl! When a Thanagarian armada descends upon Earth, the Justice League tur... Read more

Rhinoceros (1974)

6/10
Director: Tom O'Horgan
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Karen Black

Reunited for the first (and only) time since their brilliant performances in Mel Brooks' "The Producers", Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder excel in "Rhinoc... Read more

The Adventurers (1950)

5.6/10
Director: David MacDonald
Starring: Dennis Price, Jack Hawkins, Siobhan McKenna

A.k.a. "Fortune in Diamonds". Pieter Brandt (Jack Hawkins) is a soldier journeying across the countryside of South Africa after the Boer War. He is lo... Read more

Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: Season 1 (1959)

The first story ("Jet Fuel Formula") ran forty hilarious episodes, becoming the longest Rocky and Bullwinkle adventure. It set the tone of Jay Ward ca... Read more

Chip 'n' Dale: Trouble in a Tree (1948)

7.1/10

The most mischievous characters to ever come out of Disney studios, Chip 'n' Dale are cute, cuddly and always in the centre of trouble. In this specia... Read more

The Day of the Triffids (1981)

7.4/10
Director: Ken Hannam
Starring: John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne

Following the Earth's close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower strikes Britain's population blind. Bill Masen (John Duttine), recovering in a Lon... Read more

Child's Play 2 (1990)

5.8/10
Director: John Lafia
Starring: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Grace Zabriskie

Chucky's back! The notorious killer doll with the satanic smile comes back to life in this new chapter depicting the terrifying struggle between young... Read more

Two Deaths (1995)

6.6/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Michael Gambon, Sonia Braga, Patrick Malahide, Nickolas Grace

Once a year a group of friends gather with an intent to catch up with each others' lives. This year, despite a violent revolution embroiling on the st... Read more

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1965)

6.4/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters

When a sightseeing Soviet commander runs his submarine aground off the New England coast, the crew's attempts to find a boat to dislodge them almost s... Read more

The Woman in Red (1984)

5.9/10
Director: Gene Wilder
Starring: Gene Wilder, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Michael Huddleston, Ke...

Businessman Teddy Pierce (Gene Wilder) has always played by the rules...until he meets the woman in red. With killer legs and a knockout style, sexy C... Read more

Carnivale: Season 1 (2003)

8.5/10
Director: Alison Maclean, Jeremy Podeswa, Peter Medak, Tim Hunter, Rodrigo Garcia, John Patterson, Jack Bender, Scott Winant
Starring: Michael J Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Clancy Brown, Debra Chris...

1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbi... Read more

Catherine Cookson: The Black Velvet Gown (1991)

Director: Norman Stone
Starring: Bob Peck, Janet McTeer, Geraldine Somerville, Jean Anderson

"The Black Velvet Gown" is a story of great power and diversity that is one of Catherine Cookson's major achievements. When her miner husband dies, Ri... Read more

Catherine Cookson: The Black Candle (1991)

Director: Roy Battersby
Starring: Samantha Bond, Nathaniel Parker, Denholm Elliott, Tara Fitzgerald

"The Black Candle" follows the fortunes of Bridget Mordaunt (Samantha Bond), who at 24 inherited her father's mill and has since built a solid busines... Read more

Five Minutes to Live (1962)

5.7/10
Director: Bill Karn
Starring: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Ronnie Howard, Cay Forester

In this classic crime noir thriller, country music legend Johnny Cash (in his film debut) stars as Johnny Cabot, a violent, guitar playing ex-con who... Read more

Il Bidone (1955)

7.6/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart

A.k.a. "The Swindle". The second film in master Italian director Federico Fellini's "trilogy of loneliness" - with "La Strada" and "Nights of Cabiria"... Read more

Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1975)

6.8/10
Director: John Quested
Starring: Donal McCann, Siobhan McKenna, Des Cave

Brian Friel's "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" is one of the great pieces of modern Irish drama, and cemented Friel's reputation as the greatest living Ir... Read more

Wild Colonial Psychos: Bandits on the Run (2005)

Starring: Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Mark 'Chopper' Read, Rodger 'The Dodger' Rogerson

Australia's most notorious detective, Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson hooks up with the Wild Colonial Psychos in an on-stage extravaganza not to be missed... Read more

Allo Allo! - Goodbye Rene (1984)

Director: David Croft
Starring: Gorden Kaye, Richard Marner, Carmen Silvera, Kim Hartman

Meet Rene, the most wanted man in German occupied France. Women want his body, the Resistance want his brain and the Germans want his sausage. This a... Read more

Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2004)

8.1/10
Director: Robert Kane Pappas

Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth? Are Americans being sold a bill of goods by a handfu... Read more

Secrets of San Simeon (2001)

Starring: Patricia Hearst, Narrated by

This is the ultimate video tour of Hearst Castle. Relive the history, excitement and glamour of the past! Visit the buildings, rooms and gardens, and... Read more

Dudley Do-Right: The Best of (1969)

3.9/10
Starring: Dudley Do-Right

Everyone's favourite true-blue Canadian Mounted Policeman, Dudley Do-Right, tries to live up to his name while saving Inspector Fenwick's daughter, Ne... Read more

The Mystery of Picasso (1956)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Starring: Pablo Picasso

In 1955, director Henri-Georges Clouzot ("The Wages of Fear") joined forces with his friend Pablo Picasso to make an entirely new kind of art document... Read more

London / Robinson in Space (1994)

Director: Patrick Keiller

Two provocative film essays from Patrick Keiller, one around London, one around England. Neither feature film nor documentary, 'London' (1994) records... Read more

Jupiter's Wife (1994)

7.2/10
Director: Michel Negroponte

Ten years following its theatrical debut, this astonishing real-life mystery continues to haunt audiences around the world. Winner of the Special Jury... Read more

Wonder Woman: Season 2 (1977)

7.5/10
Starring: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Norman Burton

What's Wonder Woman up to now? Flash forward 35 years from her stirring Season One adventures defending America in World War II. Without missing a bea... Read more

Ten Little Indians (1965)

6.7/10
Director: George Pollock
Starring: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price

From the devious mind of the Madame of Mystery, Agatha Christie, comes this adaptation of arguably her best and most famous tale. A dinner party in a... Read more

Macbeth (McKellen) (1979)

6.6/10
Director: Philip Casson
Starring: Judi Dench, Marie Kean, Ian McDiarmid, Bob Peck, Ian McKellen

Shakespeare's classic tale of the Scots nobleman whose ambition, spurred on by his alluring wife and an evil prophecy, leads him to treachery, murder... Read more

Peter Cushing: The Abominable Snowman / Bloodsuckers / Shock Waves (1957)

7.8/10
Director: Val Guest, Robert Hartford-Davies, Ken Wiederhorn
Starring: Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis, William Mervyn, Patrick Macnee, B...

From the 1950s to the 1980s the unmistakably gaunt features of Peter Cushing gave British cinema its most recognizable horror star. Bringing unprecede... Read more

La Chinoise (1967)

7.3/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako

Born in a decade of political turmoil, Godard's caustic farce has become a cinematic marker for the significant historical events sorrounding its crea... Read more

Gleaming the Cube (1989)

6.2/10
Director: Graeme Clifford
Starring: Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Ed Lauter, Art Chudabala

Graeme Clifford (Past Tense) directs this spectacular skateboarding drama, starring Christian Slater. Brian Kelly (Slater) is a skateboarder, alienate... Read more

Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television: Volume 1 (1980)

Director: Alan Bridges, Gavin Millar, Richard Loncraine
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Tom Conti, Denholm Elliott, Kika Markham, Cheryl Campbell, Lio...

Dennis Potter has long been acknowledged as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Though he had considerable success in series... Read more

Star Trek Enterprise: Season 4 - Disc 1/2 (2004)

7.5/10
Starring: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgom...

Set in the 22nd century, a hundred years before James T. Kirk helmed the famous starship of the same name, 'Enterprise' takes place in an era when int... Read more

Star Trek Enterprise: Season 4 - Disc 3 (2004)

7.5/10
Starring: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgom...

Set in the 22nd century, a hundred years before James T. Kirk helmed the famous starship of the same name, 'Enterprise' takes place in an era when int... Read more

Brasileirinho (2005)

7.3/10

In Rio in the late 1800s, Brazilian musicians started to blend European melodies, Afro-Brazilian rhythms and a melancholic interpretation of the nativ... Read more

Night of the Fox (1990)

6.2/10
Director: Charles Jarrott
Starring: George Peppard, Michael York

Based on Jack Higgins' best selling novel, an American officer carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy takes part in landing manoeuvres, wh... Read more

Laurel & Hardy - The Stolen Jools (1931)

Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

Three classic short films starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy " The Stolen Jools" (1931) "The Sawmill" (1922) and " The Tree In A Test Tube" (1943) Read more

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Volume 3 (1940)

7.1/10
Director: Ford Beebe
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe

Chapters 5-8. Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo, has unleashed his latest terrible weapon for the destruction of Earth, a 'purple dust' that is kil... Read more

Keystone Comedies: Vol 2 (1915)

Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain

Keystone Comedies is a collection of silent film shorts produced by the legendary Mack Sennett. Featuring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Miss Mabel Normand... Read more

Men Behaving Badly: Series 6 (1997)

7.7/10
Starring: Neil Morrissey, Martin Clunes, Leslie Ash, Caroline Quentin

The entire sixth (and final) outrageous series of 'Men Behaving Badly' is included in this special collection. Episodes include: 'Stag Night', 'Weddin... Read more

A Matter of Life and Death ( aka Stairway to Heaven ) (1946)

8.1/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring

One night over Europe, a crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead except for the young pilot (David Niven) d... Read more

Flightless: Bill Hammond's Cure For Being A Kiwi (2007)

Director: Alan D'Arcy Erson
Starring: Ian Hughes

At war with his wife and disturbed by a chance encounter with a Hammond bird painting, Kevin McManus (Ian Hughes) goes on a journey of self discovery... Read more

Two Men and a Tinnie (2006)

John Doyle is a city boy who's never been to the outback. His mate Dr Tim Flannery is one of Australia's leading scientists and thinkers who knows the... Read more

Hollow Man 2 (2006)

Director: Claudio Faeh
Starring: Peter Facinelli, Laura Regan, Christian Slater

In-name-only sequel finds a Seattle detective teaming up with a biologist in order to stop a soldier who volunteered for a new invisibility experiment... Read more

The 3 Stooges: Volume 2 (2004)

Starring: The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges are simply legendary. A hugely popular comedy act from the early years of Hollywood cinema, they set the standard for slapstick and... Read more

Daughter of Darkness / Blind Terror (1990)

Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Anthony Perkins, Stewart Bick

'Daughter of Darkness' (1990): Dark Visions, bizarre vignettes. For Cathy Stevens these are more then just recurring dreams, she believes they hide a... Read more

Hate Crime (2005)

6.2/10
Director: Tommy Stovall
Starring: Seth Peterson, Bruce Davison, Chad Donella, Lin Shaye

The lives of gay couple Robbie and Trey are thrown into turmoil when they start getting harassed by their religious new neighbour Chris. After Trey my... Read more

Running (1979)

5.8/10
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern
Starring: Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach

Despite the promise of his early career, the life of former world-class runner Michael Andropolis has been a crashing failure. Wanting to win back bot... Read more

Rumpole of the Bailey: Series 4 (1987)

8.5/10
Starring: Leo McKern

London's most disheveled barrister returns for a fourth series of the genre-defining 'Rumpole of the Bailey'. Flawless writing by John Mortimer and st... Read more

Doodlebugs - Hitler's Terror Weapons (1998)

By 1943 the tide of war had finally started to flow in the favour of allied forces. As the industrial might and great cities of Germany began to suffe... Read more

Dennis the Menace: Vol 1 (1993)

5.5/10
Starring: Dennis the Menace

Four animated adventures following the cheeky schoolboy Dennis. In 'Brother Rats', when Henry and George hold a fraternity reunion, Dennis mistakes tw... Read more

Spider-Man: The Venom Saga (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Animation

After rescuing the pilot of a space shuttle carrying two strange meteors, Spider-Man notices a black stain on his costume and a disturbing change in h... Read more

It Conquered the World / Creature From the Haunted Sea (1956)

Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland, Peter Graves, Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Morela...

'It Conquered the World' (1956) - One of several remaining members of its race, an Alien from Venus is guided to Earth by disgruntled scientist Tom An... Read more

Kung Faux: Vol. 2 (2004)

6.9/10

Kung Faux is a series of classic kung fu films that have been individually re-cut down to standard television half hour lengths, re-scored with hit mu... Read more

Brass: Series 1, Episodes 1-7 (1982)

8.1/10
Director: Gareth Jones
Starring: Timothy West, Barbara Ewing, James Saxon, Caroline Blakiston

The Hardacres and the Fairchilds live in the same mill town in Northern England. That however is where the similarity ends. Bradley Hardacre (Timothy... Read more

Poirot: Sad Cypress (2003)

8.6/10
Director: Dave Moore
Starring: David Suchet, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Diana Quick, Rupert Penry-Jones, Paul McGa...

As Poirot watches the judge sentence socialite Elinor Carlisle to death for poisoning her aunt Laura Welman and her rival in love, Mary Gerrard, he ca... Read more

Bells of San Angelo (1947)

5.8/10
Director: William Witney
Starring: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Andy Devine

This time its Dale Evans, playing an authoress of western novels, who outwits the bad guys. The first Rogers film with Andy Devine. Includes the songs... Read more

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet / Voyage to the Planet Of Prehistoric Women (1965)

Director: John Sebastian, Derek Thomas
Starring: Mamie Van Doren, Faith Domergue, Marc Shannon, Basil Rathbone, Paige Lee, Mary M...

"Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" (1965) - The first space ship to land on Venus in the year 2000 contains two astronauts and a robot, while a second... Read more

The Brain That Wouldn't Die / The Brain Eaters (1963)

Director: Bruno Vesota, Joseph Green
Starring: Herb Evers, Adele Lamont, Cornelius Keefe, Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Virginia Leith

"The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1965) - A demented (but hopelessly romantic) surgeon keeps his fiancee's disembodied head alive after an auto accident... Read more

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Volume 1 (2002)

6.4/10
Director: Kenji Kamiyama

Volume 1 of 7. In the future, life in the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyo... Read more

Oklahoma! (1999)

8/10
Director: Trevor Nunn
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Maureen Lipman, Josefina Gabrielle, Shuler Hensley

Screen superstar Hugh Jackman, winner of the 2004 Tony Award for his lead performance in the Broadway production of "The Boy from Oz", and acclaimed a... Read more

The Shape Of Things To Come (1979)

3.1/10
Director: George McCowan
Starring: Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse, John Ireland

In this unparalleled journey into psychedelic space travel and intergalactic kitsch, mankind now populates a vast domed city on the Moon after the Ear... Read more

Mulan 2 (2004)

5.7/10

The spirited Mulan gets the thrill of her life when General Shang asks for her hand in marriage, but the surprises are just beginning. Throwing a wren... Read more

Sex and the City: Season 2 (1998)

7.1/10
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis

The girls are back in town... once again columnist Carrie Bradshaw and her buddies indulge in a celebration of sass, sensuality and sisterhood. With e... Read more

The Fast and the Furious (1954)

6.7/10
Director: John Ireland, Edward Sampson, Jr
Starring: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruno Ve Sota, Bruce Carlisle, Larry Thor

Frank Webster (John Ireland), a convicted murderer, escapes from prison and goes on the run. The fugitive kidnaps a beautiful woman (Dorothy Malone) a... Read more

Barry Humphries' Flashbacks (1998)

Director: David Mitchel
Starring: Barry Humphries

Come on a journey through the decades as celebrated entertainer Barry Humphries presents a highly satirical view of life in Australia from the 1950s t... Read more

Rawhide (1938)

6/10
Director: Ray Taylor
Starring: Lou Gehrig, Smith Ballew, Evelyn Knapp, Arthur Loft

Baseball legend Lou Gehrig hangs up his bat and glove, puts on a ten gallon Stetson and heads out west for his sister's ranch - and a whole lot of tro... Read more

The Night Stalker (1971)

7.8/10
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Starring: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins

This unforgettable first entry in the "Night Stalker" series introduced the world to the quirky reporter with a penchant for the paranormal and became... Read more

Billabong Odyssey (2003)

6.9/10
Director: Philip Boston

The most ambitious surfing movie ever undertaken, "Billabong Odyssey" is based on a three-year global expedition to find and ride the biggest waves in... Read more

The American Nightmare (2000)

7.4/10
Director: Adam Simon

Disfigured knife-wielding murderers. Buxom teens fleeing for their lives through dark woods. Hordes of the undead limping along deserted streets. Thes... Read more

The New Zealand Wars: Episode 2 (1998)

8/10
Starring: James Belich

"Kings and Empires". In 1840 the lands as far as the eye could see were part of an empire. The empire was not British, but Maori. It's 'emperor' was t... Read more

Porridge: The Christmas Specials (1975)

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

"No Way Out" - In his innocence, Godber is looking forward to Christmas, but Fletch just wants a quiet sojourn in the prison hospital. As he says: "th... Read more

King of the Cowboys (1943)

6.4/10
Director: Joseph Kane
Starring: Smiley Burnette, Roy Rogers, Peggy Moran

This 1943 movie was described by Variety magazine as "The latest Roy Rogers, his best by far to date." The star had just appeared on the front cover o... Read more

The City of Lost Souls (2000)

6.4/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Teah , Michelle Reis, Koji Kikkawa, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Ren Osugi

Explosive and stylish, this turbo-charged thriller from "Audition" director Takashi Miike is an all-out assault on the senses. Set in Rio, Okinawa and... Read more

Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (1988)

8.5/10
Director: Michael Hampe, Claus Viller
Starring: Cecilia Bartoli, David Kuebler, Gino Quilico

Seville, mid-18th century. In Madrid, Count Almaviva has encountered a young woman with whom he has fallen head-over-heels in love, but he has so far... Read more

Kiwi Country - New Zealand (2004)

"New Zealand - Kiwi Country" is an Award-winning documentary that takes you on a spectacular journey throughout this wonderful country. This programme... Read more

Dallas: Season 1 & 2 (1978)

7/10
Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman, Steve Ka...

Power, wealth, sex, glorious extravagance. One place has them all. "Dallas" foreshadowed the Greed Decade of the 1980s and changed the TV landscape, i... Read more

Flying High II: The Sequel ( aka Airplane II: The Sequel ) (1982)

Director: Ken Finkleman
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr, Chuck Connors, Rip Torn...

There's a mad bomber on board, the first lunar shuttle is about to self-destruct, the engines are not working, and - worst of all - the flight crew di... Read more

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975)

6/10
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Joan Sims, Bernard Bressl...

Combining healthy doses of suspense and humour, this lighthearted comedy/thriller skips and slides through one outrageous situation after another. An... Read more

Jimi Plays Berkeley (1970)

7.8/10
Starring: Jimi Hendrix

"Jimi Plays Berkeley" showcases some of Jimi's finest ever performances filmed over two concerts at the Berkeley Community Theatre on May 30, 1970. Th... Read more

The Groove Tube (1974)

5.9/10
Director: Ken Shapiro
Starring: Ken Shapiro, Richard Belzer, Chevy Chase

"The Groove Tube" spoofs television and commercials in an outrageous series of skits. Lampooning everything from cooking shows to public service annou... Read more

Ring of Terror (1962)

1.6/10
Director: Clark L Paylow
Starring: Joseph Conway, Ester Furst, Austin Green

There's something a little strange about Lewis Moffitt. In class, he is the only pre-med student unfazed by the hacking and dismemberment required in... Read more

Invasion U.S.A. (1952)

2.7/10
Director: Alfred E Green
Starring: Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy

The exploitation masterpiece "Invasion U.S.A." begins when a mysterious stranger (Dan O'Herlihy) engages a diverse group of Manhattan bar patrons in a... Read more

Tackle Happy (2000)

6.5/10
Director: Mick Molloy

A brave documentary film that follows the adventures of two men as they take their confronting and controversial cabaret comedy, "Puppetry of the Peni... Read more

Invasion of the Saucer Men / Target Earth (1957)

Director: Edward L Cahn, Sherman A Rose
Starring: Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Richard Denning, Virginia Grey

Invasion Of The Saucerman (1957) - Little Green Men, who arrive on a flying saucer, attack teenagers in lovers lane. Preying on humans by killing them... Read more

Bill Hicks Live (2004)

8.7/10
Director: Chris Bould
Starring: Bill Hicks

Legendary, late comedian Bill Hicks was just starting to gain critical mass when he passed away in 1994. A comic's comic, Hicks was dedicated to stand... Read more

Impact / Strange Illusion (1945)

Director: Arthur Lubin, Edgar G Ulmer
Starring: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Warren William, Regis Toomey, Jimmy Lydon

Impact (1949) - Brain Donlevy is Walter Williams, a wealthy industrialist whose vicious, two-timing wife, Irene and her lover, Jim Torrance, plot Walt... Read more

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (2002)

6.4/10
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Yumiko Shaku, Shin Takuma, Kumi Mizuno, Akira Nakao

Godzilla has returned and Tokyo is once again under attack! A team of crack scientists take DNA from the first Godzilla and design Kiryu, a giant mech... Read more

The Fourth Angel (2001)

5.4/10
Director: John Irvin
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Priestley

When the terrorists who killed his wife and daughter are released from prison as part of a shady political compromise, British journalist Jeremy Irons... Read more

Don Juan (1973)

7.2/10
Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carriere, Jane Birkin

In what was her last feature film, Brigitte Bardot sizzles as a calculating nymphet in this feminised version of the Don Juan story. A lusty seductres... Read more

Brother (1997)

8/10
Director: Alexei Balabanov
Starring: Sergei Bodrov Jr, Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko

Aka "Brat". Danila Bagrov, just demobbed from the army, returns to his quiet, provincial home town. But life is monotonous and boring in this Russian... Read more

Hawken's Breed (1987)

2.2/10
Director: Charles Pierce
Starring: Peter Fonda, Jack Elam, Bill Thurman, Serene Hedin

Her name was Spirit and his first glimpse of her came as she bathed in a mountain stream. His name was Hawken, a loner until that moment when he lost... Read more

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

6.9/10
Director: Terence Fisher
Starring: Peter Cushing, Eunice Gayson, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn

In this sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein", Peter Cushing's Baron is rescued from the guillotine and escapes to Carlsbruck, where he assumes a new... Read more

Ticket to Heaven (1981)

7.2/10
Director: Ralph L Thomas
Starring: Meg Foster, Saul Rubinek, Nick Mancuso

This pointed, psychological drama stars Nick Mancuso as a teacher who comes under the influence of a religious cult, robbing the educator of his will... Read more

The Son (2002)

7.7/10
Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Starring: Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart

A.k.a. 'Le Fils'. Olivier Gourmet, winner of the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, commandingly plays Olivier, a divorced carpentry i... Read more

The Search for Nazi Gold (2004)

Starring: Hosted By, Michael York

This is a true story based on stolen Nazi gold, which may have been found. Hosted by Michael York, we trace the rise and fall of the Third Reich and H... Read more

Taken: Disc 1/2 (2002)

7.8/10
Director: Bryan Spicer, Tobe Hooper, Breck Eisner, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Starring: Steve Burton, Joel Gretsch, Catherine Dent, James Kirk, Anton Yelchin, Andy Powe...

An epic saga weaving together extraordinary stories of alien abduction, as experienced by three families over four generations. Episode One: Beyond th... Read more

Racing with the Moon (1984)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage

Artfully directed by Richard Benjamin, this is the story of Henry "Hopper" Nash (Sean Penn) and his buddy Nicky (Nicolas Cage) enjoying their last boy... Read more

The Long Kill (1998)

5.6/10
Director: Bill Corcoran
Starring: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Travis Tritt, Waylon Jennings

Aka "Outlaw Justice". When a member of their former outlaw gang is murdered, retired gunslingers Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson strap on the sho... Read more

Teknolust (2002)

5.3/10
Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, Karen Black, Thomas Jay Ryan

Rosetta's (Tilda Swinton) lab holds more than the usual beakers and Bunsen burners. This bio-geneticist isn't just creating the perfect woman: she's c... Read more

Langrishe, Go Down (1978)

Director: David Jones
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Judi Dench, Harold Pinter

In 1930s Dublin, German scholar Otto Peck (Jeremy Irons) is writing his precious thesis with excrutiating preciousness and cynicism. He plunges into a... Read more

Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within (2002)

7.7/10
Director: Lewis Cohen
Starring: Cirque du Soleil

The 2003 Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Non-Fiction Program, this 13-part TV series follows the preparation and production of the acclaimed Cirque... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities (1980)

6.6/10
Director: Jim Goddard
Starring: Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Nigel Hawthorne, Barry Morse, Billie Whitelaw

Charles Dickens' classic tale of honour and sacrifice involving the cruel Marquis St Evremonde, his nephew Charles Darnay, who gives up his inheritanc... Read more

Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You For the Last Time - Live on Broadway (1998)

8/10
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld

Filmed live in New York at Broadway's Broadhurst Theater, "I'm Telling You For the Last Time" marks an historic occasion in the annals of comic histor... Read more

Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers - Chapters 5-8 (1936)

6.5/10
Director: Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Starring: Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton

Chapters 5-8. Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its orb... Read more

Smiley Gets A Gun (1959)

7.3/10
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Starring: Sybil Thorndike, Chips Rafferty, Keith Calvert, Bruce Archer

The happy-go-lucky Smiley gets into more strife and misadventures in "Smiley Gets A Gun". Sergeant Flaxman (Chips Rafferty) promises Smiley a .22 rifl... Read more

The Great Adventurers (1999)

Six programmes exploring the remarkable feats of the men who were the 'great adventurers' of their time. The episodes are "Columbus", "Livingstone and... Read more

The Storyteller: The Complete Collection (1987)

8.9/10
Director: Charles Sturridge, Jim Henson, Jon Amiel, Paul Weiland, Steve Barron, Peter Smith
Starring: John Hurt

This anthology series, comprised of all nine episodes, features both human actors and creations from Jim Henson's Creature Shop in this retelling of c... Read more

Duel of Fists (1971)

Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: David Chiang, Ti Lung, Ching Li, Liu Lan-ying

Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer, discover they are brothers, and together, both in and out of the ring, they must... Read more

The Bat (1959) / Shock (1946)

Director: Alfred L Werker, Crane Wilbur
Starring: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Lynn Bari, Gavin Gordon, Anabel Shaw

A Vincent Price double feature. "The Bat" (1959) - The master of horror, Vincent Price, and the 'bewitching' Agnes Moorehead star in this classic adap... Read more

National Geographic: Beyond the Movie - Troy: Ancient Myths and Unsolved Mysteries (2004)

7.5/10
Director: Tim Baney

Retold throughout 3,000 years of human history, the tale of the Trojan War remains one of the most compelling stories in Western culture. Now, embark... Read more

Adventures of the Old West: Pioneers and the Promised Land (1993)

7.7/10
Director: Stephen Purvis
Starring: Narrated by, Kris Kristofferson

For hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who fled westward in search of a 'new world', the West was the land of opportunity and adventure-... Read more