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Michael Palin: Around the World in 20 Years (2009)

8.4/10
Director: Roger Mills
Starring: Michael Palin

Michael Palin owns what must be the most-used passport in Britain. Now it has been taken out of the drawer once again for 'Around the World in 20 Year... Read more

Guy X (2005)

5.1/10
Director: Saul Metzstein
Starring: Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Michael I...

It's 1979. Jason Biggs is Corporal Rudy Spruance who joined the army to avoid jail-time and now finds himself on the receiving end of a small but sign... Read more

Lexx: Season 4 (2001)

7.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael McManus, Xenia Seeberg, Nigel Bennett, Brian Downey

The last season of this sexy SCI FI channel hit cuts a brutally funny path through planet Earth. The hapless crew of the hungry organic spaceship coul... Read more

The Railway Children (2000)

7.3/10
Director: Catherine Morshead
Starring: Jenny Agutter, Richard Attenborough, Michael Kitchen

Jenny Agutter (who played Bobbie in the 1970 film version) stars as Mother alongside Sir Richard Attenborough in a Masterpiece Theater presentation of... Read more

The Long Way Home (Simon Wiesenthal Collection) (1997)

7.1/10
Director: Mark Jonathan Harris
Starring: David Paymer, Helen Slater, Martin Landau, Michael York, Morgan Freeman, (narrat...

Using interviews with Holocaust survivors, newsreel footage, and readings of letters, journals, and news reports, to tell the story of the hardships f... Read more

The Inglorious Bastards ( Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato ) (1978)

6.6/10
Director: Enzo G Castellari
Starring: Fred Williamson, Ian Bannen, Peter Hooten, Jackie Basehart, Bo Svenson, Michael...

Inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film in name and genre only, this 'macaroni combat' film is set in WWII Europe as a group of American soldier... Read more

Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)

7.1/10
Director: Lauren Montgomery
Starring: John Larroquette, Kurtwood Smith, Larry Drake, Michael Madsen, Victor Garber, Tr...

When pilot Hal Jordan accepts a mysterious ring from a dying alien creature, it transforms him into a Green Lantern - one of an elite force of superhe... Read more

Thunder Rock (1942)

6.8/10
Director: Roy Boulting
Starring: Barry Morse, James Mason, Michael Redgrave, Jean Sheppard

An adaptation of Robert Ardrey's stage play. Michael Redgrave plays a writer who tries to reveal what is happening in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy,... Read more

Frozen River (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Courtney Hunt
Starring: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone Junior

A powerfully unflinching tale of two women, who, driven by economic hardship, form an unlikely partnership smuggling illegal immigrants across the Can... Read more

Prison Break: Season 4 (2008)

8.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael Rapaport, William Fichtner, Wentworth Miller, Wade Williams, Robert Knep...

The complete final season. After engineering an escape from the hellish Panamanian prison Sona, brothers Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows are dete... Read more

Wiseguy: Season 3 (1989)

7.9/10
Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Ken Wahl, Michael Chiklis, Patti D'arbanville, Robert Davi, Ji...

Undercover operative, Vincent Terranova (Ken Wahl) returns to his mafia roots, exploiting his reputation as Sonny Steelgrave's right-hand man to fini... Read more

The Lucky Ones (2008)

7/10
Director: Neil Burger
Starring: Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams, Michael Pena, Molly Hagan

Three soldiers meet up en route back to the States from the Iraq War; Fred Cheaver (Tim Robbins), out for good, and keen to reunite with his wife and... Read more

Underworld: Extended Edition ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

7/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Erwin Leder, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane B...

In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (Werewolves), a shrewd gang of... Read more

Six Feet Under: Season 1 (2001)

8.7/10
Starring: Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez,...

From Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning writer of "American Beauty", comes a series that digs where others fear to tred. When a bus kills Nathaniel Fisher,... Read more

Poltergay (2006)

5.4/10
Director: Eric Lavaine
Starring: Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski, Gilles Gaston Dreyfus, Jean...

An over-the-top horror spoof from France, with a young married couple thrilled to have bought a decrepit old mansion at a cheap price only to discover... Read more

The Sentinel ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

6.1/10
Director: Clark Johnson
Starring: David Rasche, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Martin Donovan, Michael Douglas,...

Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a veteran Secret Service agent who has had a long and distinguished career protecting the US president, but when in... Read more

The Omen ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

5.5/10
Director: John Moore
Starring: David Thewlis, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, Michael Gambon, Liev Schreiber, Seamus...

Aka 'The Omen 666'. In this chilling remake of 'The Omen' (1976) man's darkest fears are manifested as an unspeakable terror is unleashed on the world... Read more

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4, Part 2 (2008)

8.7/10
Starring: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis,...

All will be revealed in the thrilling final chapter of "Battlestar Galactica". From their initial action-packed battles against the Cylons to their de... Read more

Species ( Blu-ray ) (1995)

5.8/10
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Alfred Molina, Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Michael Madsen,...

Another take on things from another world. A creature who is made of half alien and half human DNA adopts the guise of a beautiful woman and sets off... Read more

Planet of the Apes ( Blu-ray ) (2001)

5.7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Paul Giamatti, Michael Clarke Dun...

Director Tim Burton's visually stunning "re-imagining" of the beloved 60's sci-fi classic stars Mark Wahlberg as a 21st-century astronaut who is trans... Read more

Courage Under Fire ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

6.6/10
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Bronson Pinchot, Denzel Washington, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon, Meg Ryan,...

Denzel Washington plays a guilt-ridden army officer investigating pilot Meg Ryan, a candidate for a posthumous Medal of Honor for heroism during the P... Read more

Men of Honour ( Blu-ray ) (2000)

Director: George Tillman Jr
Starring: Charlize Theron, Cuba Gooding Jr, David Keith, Hal Holbrook, Michael Rapaport, P...

This is the true story of Carl Brashear, the first black member of the U.S. Navy's deep sea diving team. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Brashear, the Navy rec... Read more

Omoo Omoo - The Shark God (1949)

3.2/10
Director: Leon Leonard
Starring: Ron Randell, Michael Whalen

A sea captain (Trevor Bardette) courts disaster when he removes a pair of black pearls from a native shrine. According to native legend, bad luck will... Read more

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)

7.4/10
Director: Hardy Martins
Starring: Bernhard Bettermann, Michael Mendl, Irina Pantaeva

Captured while fighting in World War II, German soldier Clemens Forell (Bernhard Bettermann) escapes the hell of his confinement in a Siberian labor c... Read more

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Arthur Lowe, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman, Michael Hordern, Peter...

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including th... Read more

100 Feet (2008)

5.5/10
Director: Eric Red
Starring: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Pare, Ed Westwick

Marnie (Famke Janssen) is in prison for the murder of her abusive husband, but is granted early release on the condition she remain under house arrest... Read more

Falling Down ( Blu-ray ) (1993)

7.6/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Frederic Forrest, Michael Douglas, Rachel Ticotin, Robert Duval...

Los Angeles takes a blasting when life in the slow lane for one very angry defence worker (Michael Douglas) gets a bit too much and, taking road rage... Read more

Seraphim Falls ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

6.7/10
Director: David Von Ancken
Starring: Ed Lauter, John Robinson, Liam Neeson, Michael Wincott, Pierce Brosnan, Robert B...

A beautifully filmed, old-style western, with Liam Neeson as the enigmatic Morsman Carver, on the trail of Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) several years after... Read more

Children of Men ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.9/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Pam Ferris, Peter Mullan, Claire-Hope...

In the year 2027, the human race has lost its ability to procreate and society is rapidly descending into chaos. Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of PD Jam... Read more

Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (2008)

8.5/10
Starring: Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Michael J Nelson, Jim Mallon, Joel Hodgson

Running for eleven seasons, this cult TV comedy took an inspired idea - taking the mick out of old films - and made it a hit. A man and his robot side... Read more

Sweet Liberty (1986)

5.7/10
Director: Alan Alda
Starring: Alan Alda, Bob Hoskins, Lillian Gish, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer

A Hollywood film crew invades the small Southern town of the author whose Revolutionary War novel they've turned into a racy teen comedy, much to his... Read more

Too Young to Die (1990)

5.9/10
Starring: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michael O'Keefe, Michael Tucker

Stars Juliette Lewis as a benighted teenaged girl. She is married at 14, is deserted, and begins walking the streets at 15. Abused by virtually every... Read more

The Shield: Season 6 (2007)

8.7/10
Director: Various
Starring: CCH Pounder, Michael Chiklis, Benito Martinez

"Are you ready for this?" quintessential cop on the edge Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) asks his longtime nemesis, Councilman David Aceveda (Benito Mart... Read more

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Starring: Steven Mackintosh, Bill Nighy, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Michael Sheen, Rhona Mitra,...

The third in the 'Underworld' series is a slick prequel that fleshes out the story of the ancient war between Vampires and their one-time slaves, the... Read more

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
Starring: Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Rhona Mitra, Steven Mackintosh, David Ashton, Kevin G...

The third in the 'Underworld' series is a slick prequel that fleshes out the story of the ancient war between Vampires and their one-time slaves, the... Read more

Troll / Troll 2 (1985)

Director: John Carl Buechler, Drago Floyd
Starring: June Lockhart, Michael Moriarty, Noah Hathaway, Shelley Hack, Sonny Bono, Julia...

"Troll" (1985) is a bizarre comic fantasy/adventure about a San Francisco apartment house that serves as a gateway to a dimension of trolls and demons... Read more

Mr Mom (1983)

6.5/10
Director: Stan Dragoti
Starring: Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Martin Mull, Ann Jillian, Christopher Lloyd

What happens when husband Michael Keaton loses his job and wife Teri Garr has to go to work, leaving him with the housework, the neighbours and the ki... Read more

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)

7.3/10
Director: David Swift
Starring: Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Robert Morse

Robert Morse recreated his Tony-winning stage role in this filming of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Window washer J. Pierpont Finch applies the... Read more

The New Statesman: Series 1 & 2 (1987)

7.9/10
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Rik Mayall, Marsha Fitzalan, Michael Troughton

Witty political satire stars Rik Mayall as ruthless former Conservative MP Alan B'Stard - the newly appointed European Commissioner of Internal Affair... Read more

Village of the Damned (1960)

7.3/10
Director: Wolf Rilla
Starring: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn

An extremely effective adaptation of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about strange goings on in a small English village after all the wome... Read more

An Unmarried Woman (1978)

7.2/10
Director: Paul Mazursky
Starring: Alan Bates, Cliff Gorman, Jill Clayburgh, Michael Murphy

In an Oscar and Bafta-nominated performance, Jill Clayburgh plays a New York art gallery worker trying to cope with life after her husband walks out o... Read more

Ironweed (1987)

6.8/10
Director: Hector Babenco
Starring: Carroll Baker, Diane Venora, Fred Gwynne, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Michael...

Oscar-nominated turns by Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson spark this somber Depression-era tale, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William K... Read more

A Private Function (1985)

6.6/10
Director: Malcolm Mowbray
Starring: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott

In 1947, people in England are having a thin time. In a little-known Yorkshire town, plans are afoot to fatten a contraband pig which is then stolen.... Read more

Moonwalker (1988)

6/10
Director: Colin Chilvers, Jerry Kramer
Starring: Michael Jackson, Sean Lennon, Kellie Parker, Brandon Adams, Joe Pesci

Michael Jackson's video companion to 'Bad' features a live version of 'Man in the Mirror', the Claymation fun of 'Speed Demon', Michael's cover of 'Co... Read more

The Map Reader (2008)

5.5/10
Director: Harold Brodie
Starring: Rebecca Gibney, Jordan Selwyn, Mikaila Hutchinson, Bonnie Soper, Rachel Nash, Mi...

In a small New Zealand town, 16-year-old Michael leads a lonely, introverted existence with his single mum, Amelia (Rebecca Gibney), whose guilt and a... Read more

Acolytes (2008)

5.6/10
Director: Jon Hewitt
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Sebastian Gregory, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Joshua Payne, Belinda M...

Bullied by a particularly nasty piece of work, teens Mark and James decide to make a plan and take action. But things take a turn when they accidental... Read more

Death Warmed Up (1983)

Director: David Blyth
Starring: Bruno Lawrence, David Letch, Margaret Umbers, Michael Hurst

Michael Tucker is programmed into killing his parents by genetic surgeon Dr Archer Howell and is incarcerated in a psychiatric institution for the cri... Read more

The Star Chamber (1983)

6.3/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless

Michael Douglas is an idealistic judge who's fed up with having to release rapists and murderers due to legal loopholes and technicalities until he di... Read more

Suddenly (2006)

6.3/10
Director: Johan Brisinger
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Moa Gammel, Catherine Hansson, Sten Ljunggre...

Lasse (Michael Nyqvist) is a contented man with a loving wife and two healthy children, until a tragic car accident claims the lives of his spouse and... Read more

Trumbo (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Peter Askin
Starring: Nathan Lane, Paul Giamatti, Brian Dennehy, Donald Sutherland, Liam Neeson, Micha...

Legendary Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo ('Roman Holiday', 'Spartacus') was the most well-known member of the Hollywood 10 who famously defied M... Read more

Smallville: Season 7 (2007)

8.3/10
Starring: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Erica Durance, Allison Mack, John...

The seventh season sees several characters coming and going. Martha has moved to Washington; but two new characters are set to become regulars - junio... Read more

Hunger (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Michael Fassbender

Follows life in the Maze Prison of Northern Ireland, with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by... Read more

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

4.1/10
Director: Mic Rodgers
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Bill Goldberg

This theatrical sequel to the 1992 actioner features Jean-Claude Van Damme as the former "unisol" who must take on a rogue government supercomputer na... Read more

Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Jackson

Witness the 'King of Pop' in all of his glory in this compilation of his greatest music videos. Included are innovative and exciting videos for such s... Read more

Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short films (1993)

8.2/10
Starring: Eddie Murphy, George Wendt, Macaulay Culkin, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan

A fantastic collection of videos produced for Jackson's hit "Dangerous" album. Dance along to 'Black or White,' with George Wendt and Macaulay Culkin;... Read more

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco (2007)

7.7/10
Director: Gary Leva
Starring: Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Brad Bird, Milos Forman, Saul Zaentz, Sofi...

While L.A. has been the undisputed capital of studio filmmaking in America since the early 20th century, San Francisco has become home to a different... Read more

Lexx: Season 3 (2000)

7.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael McManus, Xenia Seeberg, Brian Downey

Follow the adventures of a group of desperate fugitives aboard the Lexx: "the most powerful destructive force in the two universes." The Lexx is a mas... Read more

Lexx: Season 2 (1998)

7.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael McManus, Xenia Seeberg, Brian Downey

A crew of outcasts from an evil empire bounce around a parallel universe in a stolen, organic spacecraft - the awesomely powerful Lexx. With bold orig... Read more

Changeling (2008)

7.8/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, Amy Ryan

Based on a shocking true story, director Clint Eastwood's riveting drama stars Angelina Jolie as a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles whose son goes mi... Read more

Changeling ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.8/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, Amy Ryan

Based on a shocking true story, director Clint Eastwood's riveting drama stars Angelina Jolie as a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles whose son goes mi... Read more

The Objective (2008)

5.5/10
Director: Daniel Myrick
Starring: Jonas Ball, Matthew R Anderson, Jon Huertas, Michael C Williams, Sam Hunter, Jef...

A CIA operative based in the Middle East is on the look-out for suspicious activity in the wake of September 11th, when his instruments show a tremend... Read more

The Hanging Gale (1995)

8.1/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Paul McGann, Joe McGann, Mark McGann, Stephen McGann, Michael Kitchen, Fiona Vic...

Ireland, 1846. The four Phelan brothers (played by the four McGann brothers) are torn between non-violent protest and bloody revolt when the injustice... Read more

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best (2005)

8.9/10
Starring: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jone...

Michael Palin's personal selection of the best sketches from the entire run of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', including a never-seen-before retrospec... Read more

The Doors ( Blu-ray ) (1991)

7.2/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Frank Whaley, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin Dillon, Kyle MacLachlan, Meg Ryan, Michael...

A vivid impression of Jim Morrison and his group's rise to fame and eventual undoing, and recreating the sights and sounds of the rock and drug era of... Read more

Sin City ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

8/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, Elijah Wood, Michae...

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller together adapted three of Miller's noir-drenched stories from his famous comic series. With a stellar cast (includin... Read more

Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

6.9/10
Director: Martin Davidson
Starring: Tom Berenger, Michael Pare, Joe Pantoliano, Ellen Barkin

In the early 1960's, Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) and his band, The Cruisers, enjoyed a brief fling with success, but their career came to a halt when... Read more

The Story of India (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Wood

A six-part BBC series with engaging historian Michael Wood taking a fascinating look at the 10,000-year history of the Indian sub-continent. A colourf... Read more

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

7.4/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, James Caan, Edward Fo...

In September 1944, flush with the success after the Normandy invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a bold plan to drop 35... Read more

No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)

4.9/10
Director: Dave Payne
Starring: Michael Muhney, Desmond Askew, Wilmer Calderon, Valerie Cruz

A prequel to the celebrated comic-horror 'Reeker' which shows us how the smelly serial killer got his start. Finding themselves trapped in a lonely di... Read more

Casualties of War (1989)

7.1/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Don Harvey, John C Reilly, John Leguizamo, Michael J Fox, Sean Penn, Thuy Thu Le...

Brian DePalma's searing war drama stars Michael J. Fox as a green recruit in Vietnam who must make an agonizing moral decision when his platoon gang-r... Read more

Le Quai Des Brumes ( Port of Shadows ) (1938)

7.7/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan

Deserter Jean arrives in Le Havre and looks for a shelter before leaving the French territory. Housed in a shed on the docks, he meets the mysterious... Read more

Le trou ( The Hole ) (1960)

8.5/10
Director: Jacques Becker
Starring: Marc Michel

Marc Michel plays a man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell where his fellow prisoners are planning... Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3 (1989)

8.6/10
Starring: Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Mic...

Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this series is the successor to the original... Read more

The Shield: Season 5 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: D J Caruso, Guy Ferland, Stephen Kay, Phillip Atwell, Michael Chiklis, Dean White, Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace, Kenneth Johnson,...

The tension mounts with Vic and his crew squarely in the sights of Internal Affairs Officer Jon Kavanaugh (Forest Whitaker). Determined to the point o... Read more

Seven Pounds (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Elpidia...

Will Smith reunites with director Gabriele Muccino ('The Pursuit of Happyness') for this heart-tugging drama about an IRS man with a fateful secret wh... Read more

Revolutionary Road (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins, Ka...

Sam Mendes directs his wife Kate Winslet and her 'Titanic' co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio in this searing adaptation of Richard Yates' novel about 1950s s... Read more

Revolutionary Road ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Shannon, Richard Easton, T...

Sam Mendes directs his wife Kate Winslet and her 'Titanic' co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio in this searing adaptation of Richard Yates' novel about 1950s s... Read more

Saw ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

7.6/10
Director: James Wan
Starring: Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Tobin Bell,...

Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face im... Read more

The Last Drop (2005)

4.6/10
Director: Colin Teague
Starring: Billy Zane, Michael Madsen

A skilled team of special operatives track a hidden cache of Nazi gold that could fund an Allied victory before Christmas. With 35,000 U.S. troops beh... Read more

Palin on Art (2008)

Starring: Michael Palin

Michael Palin's latest adventure, this time into the world of art. Three fascinating specials investigate intriguing artists and their paintings: Pali... Read more

Yes Man (2008)

6.8/10
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper, John Michael Higgins, Rhys Darby, D...

Carl (Jim Carrey) has all but shut down his life in the wake of his divorce. He avoids his friends, he doesn't answer his phone, he doesn't do anythi... Read more

Brideshead Revisited ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Emma Thompson, Greta Scacchi, Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, J...

A fresh take on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, substantially trimmed down compared to the 11-hour BBC series from 1981, but successfully distilling the... Read more

Ted Bundy (2002)

7.2/10
Director: Matthew Bright
Starring: Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Ann Bliss, Steffani Brass

Stylish and disturbing, this dramatisation provides insight into the complex and profoundly disturbed life of the notorious serial killer. From his pr... Read more

Starship Troopers ( Blu-ray ) (1997)

7.2/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Michael Ironside, Jake Busey, Patr...

From the bridge of the Fleet Battlestation Ticonderoga, with its sweeping galactic views, to the desolate terrain of planet Klendathu, teeming with sh... Read more

The Devil's Whore (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Marc Munden
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Dominic West, John Simm, Tim McInnerny, Tom Goodman-Hill, Pe...

A four-part mini-series set during the English Civil War as seen through the eyes of 17-year-old courtier Angelica Fanshawe. An English co-production... Read more

Tombstone (1993)

7.8/10
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Zane, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestley, Joanna Pacula, Jon Te...

A star-studded western that follows the Earp brothers (Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton) as they encounter villainous types in the Old West.... Read more

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

7.8/10
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Alberta Watson

Stepping back into the high-heeled shoes of his acclaimed off-Broadway play's title character, director/co-writer John Cameron Mitchell stars as the b... Read more

Frost / Nixon ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.7/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jone...

Three years after the Watergate scandal forced him from office, Nixon finally broke his silence on the matter, speaking to jet-setting young journalis... Read more

Frost / Nixon (2008)

7.7/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Macfadyen, Oli...

Three years after the Watergate scandal forced him from office, Nixon finally broke his silence on the matter, speaking to jet-setting young journalis... Read more

Little Dorrit (1988)

8.3/10
Director: Christine Edzard
Starring: Alec Guinness, Bill Fraser, Cyril Cusack, Derek Jacobi, Eleanor Bron, Joan Green...

Christine Edzard's film is a brilliant reworking of the Charles Dickens classic in two parts. The first part ("Nobody's Fault") is told from Arthur Cl... Read more

Lexx: Season 1 (1996)

8.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Malcolm McDowell, Michael McManus, Rutger Hauer, Tim Curry, Bria...

Follow the adventures of a group of desperate fugitives aboard the Lexx, "the most powerful destructive force in the two universes." Behold the first... Read more

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

8.5/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale,...

Franco Zeffirelli's highly acclaimed version of the life of Jesus. This epic, moving drama, filmed in Tunisia and Morocco, features a stellar internat... Read more

La Chamade (1968)

Director: Alain Cavalier
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli

Aka "Heartbeat". Catherine Deneuve delivers a heartfelt and multi-layered performance as a beautiful young woman who finds herself having to choose be... Read more

Another Gay Movie (2006)

5/10
Director: Todd Stephens
Starring: Michael Carbonaro, Jonah Blechman, Jonathan Chase, Mitch Morris, Ashlie Atkinson...

A twist on the well-worn conceit of four horny friends each trying to get their cherries popped before college - these four teen virgins are gay. Jaro... Read more

Les Cousins (1959)

7.4/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Michele Meritz

Charles (Gerard Blain) is a naive provincial with bourgeois aspirations. He moves to Paris and stays with his urbane and decadent cousin (Jean-Claude... Read more

Special (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore
Starring: Michael Rapaport, Paul Blackthorne, Josh Peck, Robert Baker, Jack Kehler, Alexan...

Les leads an uninspiring life, doing little more than eating, sleeping, working, and reading comic books. That is until he decides to volunteer as a t... Read more

Wall Street (1987)

7.4/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Terence Stamp, Sean Young, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook, Daryl Ha...

Oliver Stone invades the stone canyons of the stock market battlezone with the story of a young broker who is willing to do almost anything to land th... Read more

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977)

5.9/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Richard Basehart, Barbara Carrera

Burt Lancaster stars in the title role as the deranged scientist, who uses his remote island as a base for experiments in creating half-human, half-an... Read more

Mirror, Mirror: The Complete Series (1995)

5.6/10
Director: John Banas, Sophia Turkiewicz
Starring: Judy McIntosh, Michala Banas, Petra Jared

Two 14 year old girls discover they can see through identical mirrors 100 years apart and that they can travel to each other's times. At first this is... Read more

The Big Gay Sketch Show: Season 1 (2006)

5/10
Director: Amanda Bearse
Starring: Dion Flynn, Erica Ash, Stephen Guarino, Johnny McGovern, Michael Serrato, Julie...

Headed by a cast of eight fresh, up-and-coming comedic actors, "The Big Gay Sketch Show" features a combination of traditional and music-based sketche... Read more

Garbage Warrior (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Oliver Hodge
Starring: Michael Reynolds

Michael Reynolds is a revolutionary eco-architect whose buildings utilize the waste we humans produce and reduce the impact we have on the delicate en... Read more

Donnie Brasco ( Blu-ray ) (1997)

7.8/10
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Al Pacino, Anne Heche, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen

Based on the memoirs of FBI agent Joseph Pistone (Johnny Depp), aka Donnie Brasco, whose mission is to infiltrate the mob and collect evidence on the... Read more

Drop Zone (1994)

5.6/10
Director: John Badham
Starring: Gary Busey, Kyle Secor, Wesley Snipes, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter

Exhilarating aerial photography punctuates this tale about a gang of gonzo parachutists (headed by uber-villain Gary Busey) planning to 'drop in' and... Read more

The Queen ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Alex Jennings, Michael Sheen

Helen Mirren is a dead ringer for Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frear's multiple award-winning film that centres on the aftermath of Princess Diana's... Read more

Hoboken Hollow (2005)

3.8/10
Director: Glen Stephens
Starring: Jason Connery, Mark Holton, Dennis Hopper, C Thomas Howell, Michael Madsen, Lin...

Jason Connery plays an Iraqi War vet whose adjustment back to the real world is proving difficult. When his marriage falls apart, he decides to hitch... Read more

Hell Ride (2008)

5.1/10
Director: Larry Bishop
Starring: Eric Balfour, Michael Beach, Larry Bishop, Vinnie Jones, Michael Madsen, Leonor...

A Tarantino-produced biker flick, directed by Larry Bishop (son of Rat-packer, Joey Bishop), that pays homage to the old school biker movies of the '6... Read more

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

6.5/10
Director: Irving Lerner
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Michael Craig, Nigel Davenport, Robert Shaw

Setting off to find a fortune in the legendary Kingdom of Gold, prejudiced adventurer Robert Shaw encounters an admirable people and civilisation he w... Read more

Moonraker ( Blu-ray ) (1979)

6.3/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Roger Moore, Corinne Clery, Richard Kiel

The sky's no longer the limit for 007 when Roger Moore, as James Bond, blasts into orbit to bring down an obsessed tycoon with his own space station a... Read more

The Front (1976)

7.4/10
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Andrea Marcovicci, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel

This acclaimed comedy with a serious theme stars Woody Allen, in a rare non-Allen vehicle, as Howard Prince, a cashier who is convinced to 'front' for... Read more

The Wrong Box (1966)

7/10
Director: Bryan Forbes
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John M...

Some of Britain's best known comics appear in this screwball farce about two zany families who battle over an inheritance in Victorian England. John M... Read more

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006)

8.1/10
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Geraldine James, James Wilby, Peter Firth, Sean Pertwee, Ja...

The definitive history of the world's first superpower, this compelling dramatised documentary series combines CGI with spectacular live action battle... Read more

Planet Terror ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jeff Fahey, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Michael Biehn, Naveen And...

A.K.A. 'Grindhouse: Planet Terror'. A mishap with a bio-weapon on a nearby military base begins mutating the residents of a small Texas town into fles... Read more

The Grave (1996)

5.9/10
Director: Jonas Pate
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Craig Sheffer, Donal Logue, Eric Roberts, Gabrielle Anwar,...

From his prison cell, a man recounts the epic tale of a quest for buried treasure. Two men escape from prison in order to search for a fortune claimed... Read more

Angels One Five (1952)

6.5/10
Director: George More O'Ferrall
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray

The title refers to the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WWII British fighter pilots whose squadron leader, Tiger Small (Jack Hawkins), is taken out... Read more

Le Beau Serge (Blu-ray) (1958)

7.2/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz, Bernadette Lafont

The first film from French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol sees ailing city-dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) make a therapeutic trip back t... Read more

Le Beau Serge (1958)

7.2/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michele Meritz, Bernadette Lafont

The first film from French critic-turned-director Claude Chabrol sees ailing city-dweller Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) make a therapeutic trip back t... Read more

Here to Stay: Series Two (2007)

7.3/10
Starring: Paolo Rotondo, Shimpal Lelisi, Ruud Kleinpaste, Madeline Sami, Stephanie Tauevih...

New land! New life! Start afresh! Adventures in Paradise! Leave the slums! Become a New Zealander! That's what the emigration ads promised. The realit... Read more

Faerie Tale Theatre: Volume 1 (1982)

8.4/10
Director: Jeremy Kagan, Lamont Johnson, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Peter Medak, Roger Vadim, Tony Bill, Howard Storm, Emile Ardolino, Eric Idle, Gilbert Cates, Graeme Clifford, Ivan Passer, James Frawley
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Barbara Hershey, Beatrice Straight, Bernadette Peters, Beverly...

With lavish special effects, unique scripting and an outstanding cast of actors and directors, this terrific series, created and executive produced by... Read more

Brideshead Revisited (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Greta...

A fresh take on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, substantially trimmed down compared to the 11-hour BBC mini-series from 1981, but successfully distillin... Read more

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

7.7/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: James Bolam, Michael Redgrave, Peter Madden, Tom Courtenay

The engrossing story of a rebellious young man chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. A superbly acted film, it also confronts the rig... Read more

The 6th Day (2000)

5.9/10
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Duvall, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rapaport, Michael Ro...

Arnold Schwarzenegger finally meets the screen foe he may not be able to defeat - himself, in this imaginative sci-fi thriller. In the near future, he... Read more

Pale Rider ( Blu-ray ) (1985)

7.3/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Richard Dy...

Clint Eastwood wears two hats as director and actor in this first-rate western adventure, Eastwood's homage to "Shane". Clint stars as the mysterious... Read more

Broken (2006)

4.9/10
Director: Alan White
Starring: Heather Graham, Linda Hamilton, Tess Harper, Jake Busey, Michael Goorjian, Jerem...

A waitress, looking to make good on a series of bad life choices, finds her noble quest for redemption stifled when a deeply disturbed ex-boyfriend co... Read more

Edward the Seventh: The Complete Series (1975)

Director: John Gorrie
Starring: Annette Crosbie, Charles Dance, Derek Fowlds, Francesca Annis, Jane Lapotaire, J...

Directed by John Gorrie ('The Oscar Wilde Collection'), this BAFTA-winning drama focuses around the life of Edward VII and the dramas, romances, trage... Read more

The Way to the Stars (1945)

Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Basil Radford, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Stanley Holloway, Do...

In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, a deserted airfield somewhere in the heart of England becomes a bustling bomber command station. This excellent... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: Volume 1 (1980)

Director: Various
Starring: Joan Collins, John Gielgud, Joss Ackland, Michael Gambon, Saeed Jaffrey, Cyril L...

From the master of the macabre and creator of "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory" comes one of the most star-studded series ever created featuring bizar... Read more

The Quiet American (Blu-ray) (1958)

6.7/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Audie Murphy, Bruce Cabot, Michael Redgrave, Georgia Moll, Claude Dauphin

1952 Saigon is a hotbed of political turmoil and espionage as the corrupt colonial powers tangle with the Communist uprising. An idealistic American c... Read more

The Quiet American (1958)

6.8/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Audie Murphy, Bruce Cabot, Michael Redgrave, Georgia Moll, Claude Dauphin

1952 Saigon is a hotbed of political turmoil and espionage as the corrupt colonial powers tangle with the Communist uprising. An idealistic American c... Read more

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

7.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Billy Gray, Hugh Marlowe, Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe

A spacecraft lands in Washington D.C. and an alien emerges, with a menacing robot whose destructive powers defy imagination. So begins the science-fic... Read more

In Search of Peace (Simon Wiesenthal Collection) (2006)

6.7/10
Director: Richard Trank
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Michael York, Richard Dreyfuss, Edward Asner, (Voices of)

Michael Douglas narrates this documentary look at the first 20 years of Israel's existence, with a concentration on the origins of the Middle East Con... Read more

The Hidden (1987)

7/10
Director: Jack Sholder
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Clu Gulager

A young FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) teams up with an L.A. cop (Michael Nouri) to solve mysterious goings on involving an alien organism that switches... Read more

Mad Dog Morgan (1976)

6.1/10
Director: Philippe Mora
Starring: David Gulpilil, Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, Frank Thring, Michael Pate

Dennis Hopper plays 'Mad Dog' Morgan - an outlaw who is wanted at any price, dead or alive. "Mad Dog" is set against the tumultous Gold Rush era of Au... Read more

The American Way ( aka Riders of the Storm ) (1986)

5.9/10
Director: Maurice Phillips
Starring: Dennis Hopper, James Aubrey, Michael J Pollard

A group of radical Vietnam vets become broadcasting pirates and take on a Presidential candidate in this crazy comedy. The vets and their leader, "Cap... Read more

The Return of Captain Invincible (1982)

5.7/10
Director: Philippe Mora
Starring: Alan Arkin, Arthur Dignam, Bill Hunter, Christopher Lee, David Argue, John Bluth...

During World War II, superhero Captain Invincible (Alan Arkin) helped us fight the cause and was called a hero. But soon after, he was labeled a commu... Read more

Three Men and a Cradle (1985)

6.6/10
Director: Coline Serreau
Starring: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, Andre Dussollier

One of the funniest French films in recent years; the lives of three happy-go-lucky French bachelors are turned upside-down when a former lover of one... Read more

The Chase (1946)

6.7/10
Director: Arthur Ripley
Starring: Jack Holt, Peter Lorre, Robert Cummings, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan

Tormented ex-GI Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) takes a job with gangster Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran) as an innocent chauffeur but soon becomes embroile... Read more

Shooter ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Danny Glover, Elias Koteas, Mark Wahlberg, Ned Beatty, Rade Serbedzija, Michael...

Ex-army super-sniper, Mark Walhberg, is pressured back into active duty to help prevent a top-level assassination, only to find his government have pu... Read more

Funny Games (2007)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart

Michael Haneke remakes his own controversial suburban ennui-meets-home invasion thriller with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as the bored couple who find th... Read more

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Series 2 (1974)

7.6/10
Starring: Michael Crawford, Michele Dotrice

Welcome to the chaotic world of accident prone Frank Spencer (Michael Crawford). No matter where he is or what he's doing, Frank just seems to find ha... Read more

The Comeback: The Complete Series (2005)

8/10
Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Laura Silverman, Damian Young, Malin Akerman, Robert Michael Morris...

Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) used to be at the top of everybody's list, now with her hit sit-com behind her, roles are thin on the ground, and she's... Read more

Doc Hollywood (1991)

6.1/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Barnard Hughes, Bridget Fonda, David Ogden Stiers, Frances Sternhagen, Julie War...

Lively and bittersweet comedy stars Michael J. Fox as a crass young physician who finds himself stuck in a small South Carolina town while his car is... Read more

Game 6 (2004)

5.9/10
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Bebe Neuwirth, Catherine O'Hara, Griffin Dunne, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr

Scripted by acclaimed novelist Don DeLillo, this excellently performed character study stars Michael Keaton as an unstable writer and features Catheri... Read more

Boarding Gate (2007)

5.1/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Kelly Lin, Kim Gordon, Carl Ng, Alex Descas, Joana...

A seedy thriller from Olivier Assayas ('Demonlover') with Asia Argento as an ex-prostitute with a penchant for S & M, drugs and assassination. She has... Read more

Black Rain (1989)

6.6/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura

Ridley Scott directs this stylish suspenser starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia as New York detectives assigned to escort the extradited Yakuza h... Read more

Four Friends (1981)

7.1/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Jim Metzler, Reed Birney, Lois Smith, Michael Huddleston, Craig Wasson, Jodi The...

Set during the tumultuous 1960s, an era when everyone's values were turned inside out, shaken around, and reassembled. This story of four working-clas... Read more

I'll Make You Happy (1999)

5.6/10
Director: Athina Tsoulis
Starring: Carl Bland, Ian Hughes, Jennifer Ward Lealand, Jodie Rimmer, Michael Hurst, Rena...

Siggy is a teenage bad-girl who lives and works in Auckland's red light district. She dreams of getting off the streets, her flatmate dreams of Tibet... Read more

Oliver Twist (1999)

7.9/10
Director: Renny Rye
Starring: Annette Crosbie, Emily Woof, Julie Walters, Lindsay Duncan, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Ke...

Adapted by Alan Bleasdale, this version of "Oliver Twist" gives viewers a new look at an old story, waiting 90 minutes to even introduce its eponymous... Read more

Maigret: The Complete Series (1992)

7.7/10
Starring: Barbara Flynn, Michael Gambon, James Larkin, Geoffrey Hutchings, Ciaran Madden,...

Michael Gambon plays the Belgian, pipe-smoking Chief Inspector Maigret, one of television's classic fictional sleuths from the pen of Georges Simenon.... Read more

Shotgun Stories (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs, Michael Abbott Jr, Natalie Canerd...

An intimate family drama and a tragedy of biblical proportions, this Southern gothic meditation on revenge and broken families is an understated stunn... Read more