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Conspiracy Theory (1997)

6.7/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart

Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a sometime New York cabbie and fulltime conspiracy buff. Julia Roberts is a federal attorney who refused to believe him... Read more

Cool World (1992)

4.8/10
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Brad Pitt

Gabriel Byrne plays an artist who is drawn into a bizarre cartoon universe where he meets the pen and ink girl of his dreams. Read more

The Court Jester (1956)

7.9/10
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Starring: Glynis Johns, Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury

Danny Kaye has one of his best roles in this beloved comedy classic which rates as one of the funniest comedies of all time. To help restore the thron... Read more

Crazy Moon (1987)

6.6/10
Director: Allan Eastman
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Vanessa Vaughan, Peter Spence

Kiefer Sutherland, the son of Donald, stars in this off-beat comedy-drama-love story about a kid from the 80s who is obsessed by the 30s. He meets a s... Read more

Crimson Tide (1995)

7.3/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfi...

As renegade forces seize control of nuclear weapons in Russia, the submarine USS Alabama sails into dangerous waters. Tensions rise when communication... Read more

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

6.5/10
Director: Peter Faiman
Starring: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon

Paul Hogan is the laid-back Aussie adventurer who shows a pretty American reporter (Linda Kozlowski) around the bush country, then accompanies her to... Read more

Crooklyn (1994)

6.9/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly

An uplifting look at a family in a crowded but cosy Brooklyn neighbourhood in the 1970s, focusing on young Troy (Zelda Harris) who has a special relat... Read more

Crusades: Volume 1 (1995)

8.3/10
Director: Alan Ereira, David Wallace
Starring: Presented By, Terry Jones

For 200 years the armies of Europe battled Muslim forces for control of the Holy Land (and its riches). Now the full story is told in exciting fashion... Read more

Cry Freedom (1987)

7.5/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington

Stirring epic drama by Richard Attenborough ("Gandhi") that follows the friendship between white South African journalist Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) a... Read more

Cry, The Beloved Country (1995)

6.9/10
Director: Darrell Roodt
Starring: James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Charles S Dutton

A stirring drama based on Alan Paton's acclaimed novel and starring James Earl Jones as a rural South African Priest who befriends Richard Harris, a m... Read more

Crying Freeman (1995)

6.5/10
Director: Christophe Gans
Starring: Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Rae Dawn Chong

A lethal samurai assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears to regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing t... Read more

Cul-de-sac (1966)

7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Mac...

A distinctly macabre comedy/thriller in which two gangsters (Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran) are on the run, and seek refuge at an island castle of... Read more

Cutter's Way (1981)

6.9/10
Director: Ivan Passer
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Nina Van Pallandt, Stephen Elliott

One of the most original American films of the last decade. Alex Cutter (John Heard) is the Vietnam veteran disfigured in the war. When his best frien... Read more

D.O.A. (1949)

7.4/10
Director: Rudolph Mate
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Neville Brand

Well made thriller concerns Edmond O'Brien's attempts to find out who has given him a slow acting poison and why. Read more

D-Day The Sixth Of June (1965)

6.1/10
Director: Henry Coster
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter

Captain Brad Parker (Robert Taylor) is an American officer on the front lines on June 6, 1944 - "D-Day" - when 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000... Read more

The Damned (1969)

7.6/10
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem

A gigantic allegory of the rise of Nazism through the decadent Krupp-like family; a baroque film which explores the dark cycles of violence and evil i... Read more

Dangerous Game (1993)

5.7/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Madonna , Harvey Keitel, James Russo

Madonna is joined by James Russo and Harvey Keitel in this violent and intense psychodrama. Playing a film director, Harv pushes his art to ever great... Read more

Dangerous Minds (1995)

6.4/10
Director: John N Smith
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Courtney B Vance, George Dzundza

Michelle Pfeiffer portrays LouAnne Johnson, a Marine turned teacher assigned to an inner-city classroom where no self respecting school ma'am would la... Read more

Dark Star (1974)

6.4/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Cal Kuniholm

A cult classic that began as a $6,000 project by a group of Californian students, 'Dark Star' is an earth spaceship on a mission to find and destroy a... Read more

The Dark Wind (1991)

5.7/10
Director: Errol Morris
Starring: Fred Ward, Gary Farmer, Lou Diamond Phillips, John Karlen

From the director of 'The Thin Blue Line', Lou Diamond Phillips plays Navajo cop Jim Chee, who uses his tracking instincts and knowledge of tribal mys... Read more

Darkman (1990)

6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels

A black, tongue-in-cheek movie influenced by old movies and comic books telling the tale of a scientist interrupted from his work developing plastic s... Read more

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

8/10
Director: George A Romero
Starring: Scott Reiniger, Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, David Emge

As modern society is consumed by zombie carnage, four desperate survivors barricade themselves inside a shopping mall to battle the flesh-eating horde... Read more

Day of the Dead (1985)

7.2/10
Director: George A Romero
Starring: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joe Pilato

George Romero's third instalment in his 'Living Dead' series, following 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Dawn of the Dead'. As the last camp of human... 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

Dead End (1937)

7.4/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney

Humphrey Bogart is outstanding as a vicious gangster on the run in this masterful, gripping drama directed by William Wyler and written by Lillian Hel... Read more

Dead Man (1995)

7.7/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, John Hurt, Lance Henriksen, Michael Win...

A one-of-a-kind stylish western written by director Jim Jarmusch, about a city accountant (Johnny Depp) who heads off to the wild west for job. When... Read more

Dead Ringers (1988)

7.3/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi Von Palleske

David Cronenberg does it again in this psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons as a pair of disturbed, identical twin gynaecologists. A techni... Read more

The Dead (1987)

7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Helena Carroll, Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly

The last film of great American director, John Huston, is a faithful and artful adaptation of a James Joyce story from 'The Dubliners'. The screenplay... Read more

The Dead Zone (1983)

7.2/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Martin Sheen, Colleen Dewhurst,...

Christopher Walken stars in this David Cronenberg film of a Stephen King thriller about a man with the ability to read the thoughts of others. A gift... Read more

Deep Cover (1992)

6.9/10
Director: Bill Duke
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Charles Martin Smith

An unrelenting noirish thriller about a cop (Larry Fishburne) who poses as a drug dealer and partners sleazy lawyer Jeff Goldblum who becomes seduced... Read more

The Defiant Ones (1958)

7.7/10
Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Theodore Bikel, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier

Nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture, Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones broke new ground by delivering its message of racial toler... Read more

Delius: Song of Summer (1968)

Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Max Adrian, Maureen Pryor, Christopher Gable

Perhaps the finest of the series of biographical films that Ken Russell made for the BBC in the Sixties, "Song of Summer" is an immensely moving story... Read more

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)

6.7/10
Director: Delmer Daves
Starring: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Anne Bancroft

The story of Christian persecution in ancient Rome begun in 'The Robe' continues here as arena fighter Victor Mature pits his newfound faith against t... Read more

Detour (1945)

7.4/10
Director: Edgar G Ulmer
Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Tim Ryan

This noir masterwork was made on pennies by Edgar G. Ulmer,and focuses on a New York night club pianist hitchhiking to L.A. who is picked up by an ami... Read more

The Devil's Own (1997)

6.1/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Treat Williams, Margaret Colin, Ruben Blades, George H...

IRA assassin Brad Pitt escapes British surveillance and makes his way to America in order to obtain Stinger missiles from an illegal arms dealer. Stay... Read more

The Devil's Playground (1976)

6.8/10
Director: Fred Schepisi
Starring: Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, John Frawley

Termed 'a comedy of sympathy about the old Christian fear of sex' (David Elliott), 'The Devil's Playground' is directed by Fred Schepisi ('The Chant o... Read more

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

7.6/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Geret

This wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Bunuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival... Read more

Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)

7.6/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L Jackson

After travelling across America to battle bad guys in the first two films, New York detective Bruce Willis gets to stay on his home turf this time out... Read more

Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani (1984)

8.7/10
Director: Graeme Harper
Starring: Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Christopher Gable

Captured for arms-running on the mining planet of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri are under sentence of death. Then a mysterious masked intruder... Read more

Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964)

8.7/10
Director: Richard Martin
Starring: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford

Arriving in a devastated London in the middle of the 21st century, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan discover that the Daleks have invaded Earth. Wil... Read more

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

8/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Carol...

Incredible-but-true story of a loser who holds up a Brooklyn bank to raise money for his lover's sex-change operation, and sees simple heist snowball... Read more

Dogs in Space (1986)

6.6/10
Director: Richard Lowenstein
Starring: Chris Haywood, Michael Hutchence, Nique Needles, Saskia Post

Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS, heads a cast of youthful performers in this Australian counter-culture drama. Alienated youths hang out in... Read more

A Doll's House (Fonda) (1973)

6.5/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Jane Fonda, Trevor Howard, David Warner, Edward Fox

Jane Fonda stars as Nora in Joseph Losey's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play. Nora risks destruction in order to save her husband's health, an... Read more

Don Giovanni (1979)

7.7/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Kiri Te Kanawa

The tale of womaniser Don Giovanni and his servant Leporello. Giovanni's attempts to woo Donna Anna end in tragedy when he kills her father in a duel.... Read more

Don't Look Now (1973)

7.3/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason

Excellent psychic thriller about a married couple who, just after the accidental drowning of their young daughter, start having strange occurences in... Read more

The Doom Generation (1995)

6/10
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech

Writer-director Gregg Araki knocks off 'Natural Born Killers' with this tale of three teen slackers who go on a cross-country sex-and-violence spree,... Read more

The Double Life Of Veronique (1991)

7.8/10
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Halina Gryglaszewska, Irene Jacob, Kalina Jedrusik

Two women with identical looks, birthdates and names unknowingly have their lives inter-connected in this beautifully crafted thriller. When one of th... Read more

Dragnet (1987)

5.9/10
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Dabne...

Here are the facts, Ma'am: Dan Aykroyd is Sgt Joe Friday, following in his famed uncle's gumshoed footsteps. Tom Hanks is Friday's unconventional, wis... Read more

Dragon Fist (1979)

6.2/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan

Revenge. Honour. These two words become one in the mind of Kung-Fu artist Yuan as he seeks revenge for the death of his master. Jackie Chan stars. Read more

Dream With The Fishes (1997)

7/10
Director: Finn Taylor
Starring: David Arquette, Brad Hunt, Kathryn Erbe

Tells the slightly surreal story of a voyeuristic loner called Terry (David Arquette) whose final attempt to end it all is frustrated by a small time... Read more

Drop Dead Fred (1991)

5.9/10
Director: Ate De Jong
Starring: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason

Comic fantasy starring Phoebe Cates as a recently divorced woman who calls on her imaginary childhood friend to help her out of dire emotional straits... Read more

Duck Soup (1933)

8/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern

In postage-stamp sized Freedoria, Prime Minister Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) declares war on neighbouring Sylvania just for the hell of it in this sati... Read more

Duck Tales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)

Starring: Scrooge McDuck

In this feature-length animated tale, Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, have a series of adventures after receiving a magic lantern... Read more

Duel (1971)

7.7/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dennis Weaver

Dennis Weaver stars as the travelling salesman driving through the American Southwest who wages a desperate battle for survival after he is mysterious... Read more

Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956)

6.4/10
Director: Fred F Sears
Starring: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis

A B film elevated to near classic status with stunning special effects by Ray Harryhausen. After misinterpreting a message for peace from the initiall... Read more

Easy Rider (1969)

7.4/10
Director: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Peter Fonda, Phil Spector

Counter-culture road movie with Dennis Hopper (also directing) and Peter Fonda getting out their choppers to travel across the Southwest. On their wa... Read more

Eat the Rich (1987)

6/10
Director: Peter Richardson
Starring: Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Kathy Burke, Robbie Coltrane, Katri...

In direct opposition to the advice of Jonathan Swift, (whose 'Modest Proposal' of 1729, suggested the Irish poor sell their children as livestock to e... Read more

El Dorado (1966)

7.6/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: James Caan, John Wayne, Paul Fix, Robert Mitchum, Edward Asner, Michelle Carey,...

Howard Hawks successfully reworks his "Rio Bravo" with John Wayne as a gunslinger who returns to El Dorado, which he visited a year before and found a... Read more

El Topo (1971)

7.5/10
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky

Aka "The Mole." "I ask of film what most North Americans' ask of psychedelic drugs" said Writer, Director and star Alexandro Jodorowsky of this stunni... Read more

Eleni (1985)

6.9/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt, Oliver Cotton

Haunting images from the past and a present-day, thirst for justice and revenge fuel this true-life story directed by Peter Yates and based on author... Read more

Elvira Madigan (1967)

7.5/10
Director: Bo Widerberg
Starring: Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren

Is a simple and tragic story of a young Swedish officer who falls in love with a beautiful circus performer. Outstanding photography makes this film.... Read more

Emma (Paltrow) (1996)

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

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

The Enemy Below (1957)

7.6/10
Director: Dick Powell
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curt Jurgens, Theodore Bikel

Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens match wits in this acclaimed WW II submarine chase film. A tense and compelling study of bravery in unforgiving circum... Read more

An Evening with Robin Williams (1982)

8/10
Director: Don Mischer
Starring: Robin Williams

Off the wall and unglued like you've never seen him before! The inspired lunacy of Robin Williams is captured live in concert on his home turf - The G... Read more

Pump Up The Volume (1990)

7.2/10
Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Christian Slater, Scott Paulin, Ellen Greene, Samantha Mathis, Annie Ross

A funny, fast-talking rally call to rebellious youth. It features Christian Slater ('Heathers') as Hard Harry, the raunchy one-man private radio stati... Read more

Q - The Winged Serpent (1982)

Director: Larry Cohen
Starring: David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark

Aka: 'The Winged Serpent'. An ex-junkie stumbles on a nest of Quetzelcoatl's (the flying serpent god of the Aztecs) following a series of ritualistic... Read more

The Quiet Earth (1985)

6.8/10
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Peter Smith

A brilliant kiwi sci-fi thriller with Bruno Lawrence believing he is the last person on earth - until he stumbles on two more survivors, one a young w... Read more

Quigley Down Under (1990)

6.8/10
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman

Tom Selleck stars in this appealing Western as an American cowboy who travels to mid-19th century Australia to work for ruthless ranch owner Alan Rick... Read more

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow

Secret agent Quiller (George Segal) is charged with tracking down the leaders of a neo-Nazi organisation in Berlin but finds he may have been set up b... Read more

Quiz Show (1994)

7.5/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes

A fascinating film based on a real life scandal caused by a television quiz show. A disgruntled ex-champ (John Turturro) tells exactly how the show wa... Read more

Radiance (1997)

6.3/10
Director: Rachel Perkins
Starring: Rachael Maza, Deborah Mailman, Trisha Morton-Thomas

A mixture of the dramatic and humorous unfold as three young women re-unite, after many years apart, for their mother's funeral. Each with a different... Read more

Radio Flyer (1992)

6.9/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Elijah Wood, Lorraine Bracco, John Heard

About two brothers whose divorced mother remarries. Unbeknownst to her, the childrens new stepdad turns out to be a child abuser, and the boys devise... Read more

The Rainmaker (1997)

7.1/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight

An idealistic young lawyer (Matt Damon) takes on the might of a crooked insurance company with only ambulance chasing legal eagle Danny DeVito to offe... Read more

Raising Arizona (1987)

7.4/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Nicolas Cage, William Forsythe, Randall Tex Cobb

Riotous comedy caper from Joel and Ethan Coen about an infertile couple (ex-con Nicolas Cage and policewoman Holly Hunter) who desperately want childr... Read more

Rambo III (1988)

5.8/10
Director: Peter MacDonald
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc De Jonge

Sylvester Stallone is the one-man fighting machine who heads to Afghanistan to rescue his former Army Commander (Richard Crenna) from Russian captivit... Read more

Rancho Notorious (1952)

7/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer

Fritz Lang's final film noir infused western - a highly moral and distinctly feminist tale that innovatively reworked his themes of love, betrayal and... Read more

The Rapture (1991)

6.4/10
Director: Michael Tolkin
Starring: Mimi Rogers, Patrick Bauchau, David Duchovny

A thought-provoking film where virtually no others have dared to tread, about a young woman in a brain-dead job who becomes involved with a fundamenta... Read more

The Raven (1963)

6.7/10
Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Jack Nicholson

The wheels of horror churn amid touches of humour in this twisted tale of sorcery most fowl! Inspired by the gothic poem by Edgar Allan Poe and starri... Read more

Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987)

7.6/10
Director: Robert Townsend
Starring: Eddie Murphy

Filmed live at New York's Felt Forum, Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on 80s love, se... Read more

Raw Deal (1986)

5.5/10
Director: John Irvin
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Darren McGavin, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shen...

This violent and tongue-in-cheek thriller stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a small-town sheriff (and former FBI agent) who single-handedly takes on the... Read more

Reach for the Sky (1956)

7.3/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Alexander Knox

A well told account of British pilot Douglas Bader (Kenneth More) who overcame the loss of both legs, to become one of the most remarkable fighter ace... Read more

Albert Lamorisse's Classic Shorts: The Red Balloon / White Mane (1956)

Director: Albert Lamorisse
Starring: Georges Sellier, Pascal Lamorisse, Laurent Roche, Alain Emery

Two acclaimed, classic shorts by Albert Lamorisse. 'The Red Balloon' (1956) - This exquisite short remains one of the most beloved children's films of... Read more

Reds (1981)

7.5/10
Director: Warren Beatty
Starring: Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Warren Beatty, Maur...

Academy Award-winning director Warren Beatty's acclaimed epic, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Beatty), American Communist, jour... Read more

Reefer Madness (1936)

3.7/10
Director: Louis Gasnier
Starring: Warren McCollum, Dorothy Short, Dave O'Brien

'If you smoke it...you will go insane'. This classic anti-marijuana propaganda film depicts innocent high school kids being "turned on" by adult pushe... Read more

The Relic (1997)

5.7/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt

It's 'Alien in a museum' as a monster imported from the South American jungle stalks the halls of a Chicago museum; only tough cop Tom Sizemore and le... Read more

The Replacement Killers (1997)

6.1/10
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker

Chow Yun-Fat follows the footsteps of Hong Kong action auteurs Jackie Chan and John Woo with his own bid to crossover into mainstream Hollywood fare.... Read more

Repo Man (1984)

6.9/10
Director: Alex Cox
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Vonetta McGee, Sy Richardson, Tracey Walter

Young L.A. punk Emilio Estevez gets an indoctrination into the sleazy world of car repossession by "repo man" Harry Dean Stanton in director Alex Cox'... Read more

Restless Natives (1986)

7.2/10
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Vincent Friell, Joe Mulloney, Ned Beatty

Unemployed Scottish lads Will (Vincent Friell) and Ronnie (Joe Mullaney) are living on a housing estate in Edinburgh. Broke, bored and in an effort to... Read more

Retroactive (1997)

6.3/10
Director: Louis Morneau
Starring: James Belushi, Kylie Travis, Frank Whaley

This witty, suspenseful sci-fi/thriller is a cross between 'Groundhog Day' and 'Natural Born Killers'. Jam-packed with action and centering around a h... Read more

Revenge Of The Pink Panther (1978)

6.7/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon

Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom return for the fifth in the Pink Panther series, this one set in Hong Kong. With Dyan Cannon, theme music by Henry Manci... Read more

Revolution (1985)

5.3/10
Director: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski, Steven Berkoff

A dramatic look at "the world turn'd upside down," the world of the American Revolution. Al Pacino stars as a Scottish immigrant who fights the Britis... Read more

Riff Raff (1990)

5.2/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman

The scams, arguments, shoddy practices and humour of a group of workers, one just out of jail, working on expensive flats are the basis for this gem.... Read more

The Right Stuff (1983)

7.9/10
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Lance Henriksen, C...

Long but exhilarating adaptation of Tom Wolfe's account of the U.S. manned space programme, with emphasis on test pilot Chuck Yeager, played by Sam Sh... Read more

Risky Business (1983)

6.8/10
Director: Paul Brickman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano

Chicago teen Tom Cruise's parents leave the house and the car in his care while they go on vacation, leading him to do what any red-blooded American b... Read more

River's Edge (1986)

7.1/10
Director: Tim Hunter
Starring: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Ione Skye, Roxana Zal, Daniel Roebu...

A powerful drama that uses a real incident to convey the hopelessness and hostility barely hidden under the surface of today's teenager. A big kid mur... Read more

The Robe (1953)

6.8/10
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie

A lavish costume drama set during the crucifixion of Jesus and the birth of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Richard Burton, Jean Simmons star. Trivi... Read more

The Rock (1996)

7.4/10
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe

An action/suspense tale of a disgruntled marine General (Ed Harris) who takes over Alcatraz, threatening to obliterate San Francisco with high-tech po... Read more

Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)

6.8/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Reginald Gardiner

Jerry Lewis becomes a full-time baby-sitter for movie sex-siren Marilyn Maxwell, who doesn't want her public to know she's had triplets. Connie Steven... Read more

The Rocketeer (1991)

6.4/10
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring: Alan Arkin, Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Sorvino, Timothy Dalton

A glorious adventure for all, about a young pilot who is transformed into a jet-propelled hero when Nazi agents attempt to steal a top- secret inventi... Read more

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

7.4/10
Director: Jim Sharman
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Tim Curry, Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien, Patricia...

This camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cul... Read more

Roger and Me (1989)

Director: Michael Moore
Starring: Michael Moore

An acclaimed look by journalist Michael Moore at the devastation caused in his hometown of Flint, Michigan when General Motors decided to close most o... Read more

Rollerball (1975)

6.6/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, Moses Gunn, John Beck, Pamela Hensley, Ra...

The most popular sport in the 21st century is Rollerball--a gory combination of roller derby and gladiator combat played with motorcycles. James Caan... Read more

Roman Holiday (1953)

8.1/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Audrey Hepburn

A delightful comedy about a newspaperman in Rome (Gregory Peck) who meets and falls for a lonely princess (Audrey Hepburn) travelling incognito. Featu... Read more

Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli) (1968)

7.6/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea, Leonard Whiting, Michael York

One of the most popular film adaptations of Shakespeare's classic, the recipient of international acclaim and four Academy Award nominations. Starring... Read more

Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989)

6/10
Director: Percy Adlon
Starring: Alex Winter, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold, Marianne Sagebrecht

Bavarian-born Marianne Sagebrecht ('Bagdad Cafe') has settled with American husband Brad Davis in Stuttgart, Arkansas. She's become obsessed with spen... Read more

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

8/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: John Cassavetes, Mia Farrow, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Mauric...

Horrifying and darkly comic, "Rosemarys Baby" was Roman Polanski's Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira L... Read more

Round Midnight (1986)

7.4/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Dexter Gordon, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Lonette McKee, Herbie Ha...

Bertrand Tavernier's exquisite homage to jazz - the moving story of a black jazz musician (sax great Dexter Gordon) in 1959 Paris, struggling to creat... Read more

Roy Orbison: Black and White Night (1988)

9/10
Director: Tony Mitchell
Starring: Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson...

A live performance by some legendary performers: Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, K D Lang, Bonnie Raitt, J D Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Je... Read more

Rumble in Hong Kong (1974)

Director: Hdeng Tsu
Starring: Jackie Chan, John Chang, Charlie Chin, Phoenix Chen

Before "The Bronx" Jackie Chan displayed his prowess as the bodyguard of a Hong Kong gangster who goes against a tough female cop in order to protect... Read more

Ruthless People (1986)

6.9/10
Director: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams
Starring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater

A comedy about kidnapping, attempted murder, weight loss and revenge, from the directors of 'Flying High'. Danny DeVito wants to rid himself of naggin... Read more

Safe (1995)

7.2/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman, Julianne Moore, James LeGros

This thought-provoking tale of modern-day alienation stars Julianne Moore as an L.A. housewife who develops allergic reactions to everyday household c... Read more

Saint Jack (1979)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers

Ben Gazzara portrays a small-time pimp with big dreams working the pleasure palaces of Singapore in this stunning drama of political corruption and in... Read more

The Salute of the Jugger ( aka The Blood of Heroes ) (1989)

Director: David Peoples
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Anna Katarina, Delroy Lindo

A post-holocaust action thriller in which Rutger Hauer, the leader of a band of armour-clad gladiators, decides to challenge the ruling-laws. Read more

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Steve McQueen

This compelling drama features a splendid performance by Steve McQueen as a jaded sailor on an American gunboat on the Yangtze River in 1926. His incr... Read more

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

7.2/10
Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: John Wayne, John Agar, Adela Mara, Forrest Tucker

The Duke was never better than as the haunted Sergeant Stryker, a man hated by his men (with few exceptions) for his unyielding toughness, but it is b... Read more

Sanjuro (1962)

8.2/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama

The hero of Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' returns to help a group of very earnest, very green, very young samurai get their clan rid of corruption. As in 'Yoji... Read more

Scarecrow (1973)

7.3/10
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan

Two towering performances by Al Pacino and Gene Hackman dominate this unusual but fascinating buddy film with Pacino and Hackman as drifters who team... Read more

Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)

7/10
Starring: Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, Shaggy

This feature-length adventure begins when Scooby and Shaggy sign on as gym teachers at Miss Grimwood's School for Ghouls - only to discover the pupils... Read more

Scream Blacula Scream (1973)

5.6/10
Director: Bob Kelljan
Starring: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier

'The black prince of shadows stalks the earth again'. An occult ritual summons vampire William Marshall from spirit exile, and only the occult skills... Read more

Screamers (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer

2078: War has devastated a distant planet; the few human survivors are pitted against 'Screamers', self-evolving robots programmed to kill... Based up... Read more

Sea of Love (1989)

6.8/10
Director: Harold Becker
Starring: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman

Al Pacino bounced back from oblivion in this thriller about the investigation by two New York detectives involving a series of killings. Ellen Barkin... Read more

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982)

6.6/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Billy Connolly, Sting , Bob Geldof, Phil Collins, J...

More Pythonesque humour from John Cleese and his gang of terrible, tastless and crazy cohorts including; Alexei Sayle, Rowan Atkinson and Barry Humphr... Read more

Send A Gorilla (1989)

4.7/10
Director: Melanie Read
Starring: Carmel McGlone, Katherine McRae, Perry Piercy

A grand romp about the strain of Valentines Day on a Gorilla Singing Telegram Company. Stars Carmel McGlone, Katherine McRae. Read more

The Set-Up (1948)

7.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias

One of the best film noirs of the '40s, this atmospheric tale centres around an ageing prize-fighter who refuses to be corrupted by the mob. A great p... Read more

sex, lies, and videotape (1989)

7.2/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Andie MacDowell, James Spader, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Gallagher

An original, quirky film that won newcomer Steven Soderbergh the top prize at Cannes and captured the imaginations of audiences worldwide. Graham Dalt... Read more

Shadow Makers (1989)

Director: Roland Joffe
Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, John C McG...

Aka 'Fat Man and Little Boy'. An arresting film about the development of the atomic bomb, focusing on General Groves (Paul Newman) and the brilliant J... Read more

Shadowlands (1993)

7.4/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Joseph Mazzello

An intelligent, observant, handsome adaptation of William Nicholson's award-winning play, inspired by the late-blooming romance between the fifty some... Read more

Shadows And Fog (1992)

6.8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: John Cusack, Kathy Bates, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen

Woody Allen's wonderful 1920s mystery comedy is the story of one fantastic, Kafka-esque night when the circus came to a small European town and a mani... Read more

Shame (1987)

7.2/10
Director: Steve Jodrell
Starring: Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Simone Buchanan

A gripping drama about a motorcyclist who finds herself caught up in a campaign of terror when she pulls into a small town to have her bike repaired.... Read more

Shattered (1991)

6.5/10
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Corbin Bernsen, Joanne Whalley

Based on Richard Neely's novel this intricate spy/thriller stars Tom Berenger who begins to think the car accident that caused his memory loss may not... Read more

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

9.3/10
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Tim Robbins, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bello...

Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of the novella by Stephen King stars Tim Robbins as a man serving two life sentences in New England's Sh... Read more

She's Gotta Have It (1986)

6.6/10
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Spike Lee

The celebrated first feature from independent black filmmaker Spike Lee, a brazenly comic foray into sexual politics. Tracy Camilla Johns stars as Nol... Read more

Shiloh (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Dale Rosenbloom
Starring: Blake Heron, Michael Moriarty, Scott Wilson, Rod Steiger

Based on the award-winning children's novel, this moving family drama follows a boy who tries to rescue a beagle puppy from its abusive owner and lear... Read more

Shining Through (1992)

6.4/10
Director: David Seltzer
Starring: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud

Sweeping WWII romance-drama stars Melanie Griffith as a secretary who falls in love with her mysterious new boss (Michael Douglas). She soon discovers... Read more

Shooting Lily (1996)

7.9/10
Director: Arthur Borman
Starring: Matt Wilson, Amy Smallman

What can a husband do when the woman he loves leaves him for no reason at all? In this case he has it all on tape - his obsessive camcorderings of the... Read more

Short Circuit (1986)

6.6/10
Director: John Badham
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens

No 5, a state-of-the-art military robot develops a mind of its own after being zapped by lightning during a storm! Upon meeting an animal lover, the m... Read more

The Silence of the Lambs (1990)

8.6/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice... Read more

The Silent Partner (1978)

7.5/10
Director: Daryl Duke
Starring: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, John Candy

Elliot Gould, Christopher Plummer and Suzannah York star in this terrifying thriller that pits a mild-mannered bank clerk against an evil and sadistic... Read more

Silent Running (1971)

6.7/10
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Bruce Dern stars in this sci-fi classic as a botanist preserving the only botanical specimens of life on Earth, under huge geodesic domes, whose rebel... Read more

Sister Act (1992)

6.3/10
Director: Emile Ardolino
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel

Relive all the fun, laughter and irrestible music of the unforgettable hit comedy Sister Act. A sassy lounge singer (Whoopi Goldberg) is forced to hid... Read more

Sisters (1973)

6/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Director/co-writer Brian De Palma's first foray into Hitchcockian screen suspense in a bloody thriller. Reporter Jennifer Salt witnesses Margot Kidder... Read more

Slacker (Special Edition) (1991)

7.1/10
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Rudy Basquez, Richard Linklater, Jean Caffeine

A one-of-a-kind pseudo-documentary about the obsessions of the oddball residents of Austin, Texas. This hilarious film celebrates the lifestyle of 'Sl... Read more

The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Bernard Miles, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenn...

Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them... Read more

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

7.6/10
Director: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature features a magical story, memorable music and unforgettable characters. The beautiful and kindhearted... Read more

So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)

6.4/10
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Starring: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia

Charlie begins to suspect his new wife Harriet might be the killer he's read about in the tabloids. This delightfully quirky outing stars Nancy Travis... Read more

Solaris (1972)

8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet

A mind-bending, metaphysical film about an investigation into why astronauts on a space station situated above the planet Solaris have suffered mental... Read more