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Gilmore Girls: Season 4 (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Jared Padalecki...

In the fourth season, the much-loved mother-daughter duo are separated as Rory heads off to college. Meanwhile Lorelai is finally opening her dreamed... Read more

Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists (2005)

7.4/10
Starring: Pete Seeger

This documentary offers an honest and unblinking look at Guthrie's life and career, featuring interviews with friends, fans, and historians who offer... Read more

The Greatest Jazz Films Ever (2003)

A compilation of some of the finest documentary footage of jazz greats, this collection features LIFE photographer Gjon Mili's Oscar-winning short 'Ja... Read more

How Arnold Won The West (2004)

5.9/10
Director: Alex Cooke
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Even by the standards of Golden State politics, the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election - whose field of 135 candidates included porn actres... Read more

Carlos Saura Box Set (1995)

Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Joaquin Cortez, Paco De Lucia, Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol, Miguel Angel Sola,...

Contains "Flamenco", "Carmen" and "Tango", three unrivalled celebrations of Latin American dance from Carlos Saura. "Tango" shows the passionate strug... Read more

Comedy Company: Volume 2 (2004)

7.4/10
Starring: Marianne Fahey, Kim Gyngell, Mark Mitchell

In 1988 a group of unknown comedians burst onto the TV scene with a show that revolutionised Australian television - 'The Comedy Company'. Overnight i... Read more

Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

4.3/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling, Hugh Dancy

Shazzer finds herself once more on the wrong side of the law, this time in the UK where expert psychiatrist Michael Glass (David Morrissey) has been b... Read more

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

6.4/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford, Vanessa Shaw, Dan Byrd, Emilie de...

Stranded in the New Mexico desert, a family find themselves under attack by savage 'hill people', mutilated after exposure to radiation from nuclear t... Read more

The Future of Food (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Deborah Koons Garcia

This provocative, award-winning documentary offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabelled, patented, genetically en... Read more

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Series 1 (1989)

8.4/10
Director: Kevin Bishop, Peter Orton
Starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie

One of the greatest sketch shows ever produced by British television, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie made a fantastically witty team. Many of the gags w... Read more

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Anthony Lucas

Set in a world of iron airships, this stunning silhouette animation tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plag... Read more

Fellini's Magic (2002)

Director: Carmen Piccini
Starring: Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese, Anthony Quinn, Anita Ekberg, Woody Allen, Rob...

A cinematic valentine to one of Italy's most famous sons, the great director, Federico Fellini. With reminiscences from those who worked with him inc... Read more

Number 96 (1972)

7.7/10
Starring: Johnny Lockwood, Philippa Baker, Gordon McDougall, Sheila Kenelly, Bunny Brooke,...

Like a raunchy Australian version of 'Beverly Hills 90210' from the '70s, this classically camp, yet ground-breaking series features the residents of... Read more

The Secret Service: The Complete Series (1969)

7.2/10
Starring: Voices Of, Stanley Unwin, Sylvia Anderson

The last of Gerry Anderson's 'Supermarionation' TV series, it centres around Father Unwin, local eccentric vicar and a secret agent working for the to... Read more

Supercar: The Complete Series (1959)

7.3/10
Starring: Voices Of, Graydon Gould, Sylvia Anderson

The series that kicked off Gerry Anderson's 'Supermarionation' career, the Supercar was a prototype vehicle that could travel by land, air or sea deve... Read more

In Search of Mozart (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Phil Grabsky

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth this documentary by award-winning film-maker Phil Grabsky ("The Boy Who Plays On... Read more

Paper Clips (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab

In this poignant documentary, students at a Tennessee school begin a project in which they attempt to collect six million paper clips, each signifying... Read more

Destination Moon (1950)

6.4/10
Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: Dick Wesson, Warner Anderson, John Archer

The first Hollywood science-fiction project to take a serious look at the possibilities of manned spaceflight, George Pal's Oscar-winning colour film... Read more

W.I.T.C.H: The Second Collection (2005)

Director: Marc Gordon-Bates

The adventures continue with the five members of "W.I.T.C.H.", the top-secret group dedicated to defeating Phobos, the evil prince of the Metaworld. W... Read more

W.I.T.C.H: The First Three Episodes (2005)

Director: Marc Gordon-Bates

Meet W.I.T.C.H., five ordinary girls with extraordinary superpowers, and discover the magic and power of friendship. With the forces of earth, wind, f... Read more

Dragnet: Volume 2 (1954)

5.9/10
Director: Jack Webb
Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander

"... The story you are about to see is true - only the names have been changed to protect the innocent". Includes 3 classic episodes - 'The Big Break... Read more

New Adventures of Tarzan: Volume 2 (1934)

5.4/10
Director: Edward Kull
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt

This oddity was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' own company and was the first Tarzan film shot on location (in Guatemala). The adventurers seek the... Read more

Teaserama: The Holy Grail of Girlie Flicks! (1955)

5/10
Director: Irving Klaw
Starring: Bettie Page, Tempest Storm, Joe E Ross

A rare, colour burlesque feature, with strippers, dancers and comics at the top of their risque form. The incomparable Bettie Page is featured in sizz... Read more

Barbara Taylor Bradford: A Woman Of Substance (1984)

Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Jenny Seagrove, Deborah Kerr, Barry Bostwick

Barbara Taylor Bradford's sweeping best-seller of ambition, love and deception comes to life in this acclaimed mini-series. Jenny Seagrove stars as Em... Read more

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Double Bill (1983)

Director: Gary Nelson
Starring: Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud, Delta Burke, Tom Atkins

Stacy Keach stars as the fast-quipping, hard-boiled private eye, Mike Hammer, in these two made-for-TV movies that preceded the excellent series. 'Mu... Read more

Wildlife Specials: Leopard (1997)

8.5/10
Starring: David Attenborough

The leopard is the least known of all Africa's big cats. Until now, the leopard, an animal of the night, has been virtually impossible to observe. Usi... Read more

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: Series 1 (1989)

8/10
Director: David Bell
Starring: Kate Lonergan, Wayne Morris, Tony Robinson, Danny John-Jules

Imagine that The Merry Men are as thick as one short plank, Robin Hood is a vapid, fashion-conscious air head from the village of Kensington and Maid... Read more

The Hired Hand (1971)

7/10
Director: Peter Fonda
Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden

Peter Fonda stars in and directed this underrated Western that subtly subverts the macho genre. Harry (Fonda) and his buddy Arch (Warren Oates) have... Read more

Last Holiday (2006)

6.4/10
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: LL Cool J, Gerard Depardieu, Giancarlo Esposito, Timothy Hutton, Queen Latifah,...

Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is living an ordinary, unchallenging life in New Orleans despite her friend telling her she needs to live a little. When... Read more

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

5.1/10
Director: David Zucker
Starring: Anthony Anderson, Craig Bierko, Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Chingy , Carmen Electra...

Spoof-meister David Zucker takes the reins (and the mickey) once more, parodying everything from 'Brokeback Mountain' to Oprah as aliens prepare to wi... Read more

Where the Truth Lies (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, David Hayman, Rachel Blanchard, Maury C...

In the mid 1950s, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) were a wildly popular comedy team who suddenly broke up, at the peak of t... Read more

Sheitan (2006)

5.7/10
Director: Kim Chapiron
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Roxane Mesquida, Olivier Barthelemy, Nico Le Phat Tan, Ladj Ly,...

A madcap French frightener featuring a suitably demented Vincent Cassel as Joseph, a rural, satan-worshipping handyman/caretaker! When Eve, the daugh... Read more

Gilmore Girls: Season 5 (2004)

7.5/10
Director: Jackson Douglas
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Keiko Agena, Ya...

Season five of this perennially popular show is a fan favourite and sees a rift developing between mother and daughter for the first time as Rory star... Read more

Zathura (2001)

6.2/10
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Jonah Bobo, Josh Hutcherson, Tim Robbins, Kristen Stewart, Dax Shepard, Voice Of...

When two brothers start playing an old board game they found in the basement, a roll of the dice catapults them - and their house - into outer space,... Read more

Great Adventurers: Robert Falcon Scott (2001)

7.2/10

Robert Falcon Scott's doomed attempt to be first to the South Pole became a race against his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen. When Scott and his exhaus... Read more

Body Melt (1993)

5/10
Director: Philip Brophy
Starring: Gerard Kennedy, Andrew Daddo, Ian Smith, Lisa McCune

A gore-filled Aussie B-movie, directed by Philip Brophy and based on his own short stories, in which a small Melbourne community is being used as guin... Read more

I Walked With A Zombie / The Body Snatcher (1945)

Director: Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise
Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwate...

Double bill of classic chillers from producer Val Lewton opens with the moody, dreamlike 'I Walked with a Zombie', in which the nurse to a West Indies... Read more

The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark (1943)

Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter

A young woman comes to New York City to look for her missing sister and uncovers a deadly devil-worshipping cult in 'The Seventh Victim', starring Kim... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.2 (1979)

Director: Alastair Reid, Claude Whatham, Herbert Wise, Michael Tuchner, Simon Langton
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected: 1.4 (1979)

Director: Claude Whatham, Giles Foster, Herbert Wise, John Gorrie
Starring: John Alderton, Joan Collins, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Michael Gambon, Susan G...

Like his children's books, Roald Dahl's adult stories never fail to suprise. Each stand alone, playfully macabre story in this acclaimed series is a b... Read more

The Executioners (2003)

3.7/10

An absorbing 3-part series, that will take you on a journey through the history of mankind's ultimate form of punishment: the death penalty. Utilising... Read more

The New Oceania (2004)

Director: Shirley Horrocks
Starring: Albert Wendt

Samoan-born Albert Wendt is a leading South Pacific novelist, poet and dramatist. Filmed by one of New Zealand's leading documentary teams, this also... Read more

Austen Tayshus - Australia Day Special (2006)

Starring: Sandy Gutman

Austen Tayshus is the stage name for controversial Aussie comic, Sandy Gutman, best known for a comedy single he released in 1983, 'Australiana'. He... Read more

Banana in a Nutshell (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Roseanne Liang

First generation Chinese kiwi, Roseanne Liang began this documentary as something to keep her mind off the fact that her traditional Chinese parents w... Read more

Islands of Death: Volume 1 (1945)

Containing interviews from people who were there, this documentary series is a comprehensive guide to the battle that raged in the Pacific during the... Read more

Islands of Death: Volume 2 (1945)

The second volume of this excellent series continues its exposition of the battle that raged in the Pacific during the Second World War. Vintage foota... Read more

Death in Gaza (2003)

8.2/10
Director: James Miller
Starring: James Miller, Saira Shah

This extraordinarily powerful film takes an unflinching look at the lives of three Palestinian children who have grown up surrounded by messages of ha... Read more

The Sunshine Man (2006)

Director: Peter Tonks
Starring: Des Morgan

'The Sunshine Man' is a short comedy film about the sale of rose-tinted glasses. A telephone salesman sells memories and dreams to wary customers. Read more

Carlos Castaneda - Enigma of a Sorceror (2006)

Director: R Torjan
Starring: Readings By , Peter Coyote, Carlos Castaneda

Best-selling author and dubbed 'the godfather of the new age movement', Carlos Castaneda claimed to be the apprentice of sorcerer, Don Juan and to hav... Read more

Greedy (1994)

6.3/10
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Michael J Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Olivia D'abo, Phil Hartman, Ed Begley...

Kirk Douglas plays old Uncle Joe a millionaire close to death's door and with a sudden influx of close relatives. The family are worried the new biki... Read more

Yakuza Deka 1: Secret Police (1970)

Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tanpa

Sonny Chiba plays a hard-bitten undercover cop trying to win the confidence of two rival yakuza gangs in order to bust their illegal drugs operations.... Read more

My Sister's Keeper (2002)

6.1/10
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
Starring: Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, Lynn Redgrave, Kimberly Brown

Adapted from Margaret Moorman's book about two sisters struggling to come to terms with their mother's (Lynn Redgrave) death. Kathy Bates is Christin... Read more

Bromo and Juliet (1926)

6.2/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, Corliss Palmer

Star of the Hal Roach studios, Charley Chase is the main player in these two two-reelers, the first of which 'Bromo and Juliet' sees him reluctantly t... Read more

Clarence: Series 1 (1988)

7.6/10
Director: Mike Stephens
Starring: Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson

Ronnie Barker's final TV comedy series saw him playing the myopic removal man, Clarence. Set in 1937, Clarence spends most of his time trying to woo... Read more

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

7.4/10
Director: Jack Gold
Starring: Rick Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Connie Booth, Rachel K...

Ricky Schroder plays Ceddie, a sweet-natured boy living in lower class Manhattan, when his mysterious English grandfather (Alec Guiness) sends for him... Read more

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

8.2/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa

Andy Griffith made his stunning movie debut as Lonesome, a big ol' teddy bear whose meteoric rise to TV fame is paralleled by his plunge into booze, s... Read more

Event 16 (2006)

4.7/10
Director: Derek Pearson
Starring: Peter Rutherford, Jocelyn Christian, Ezra Keddell, Julian White, John Porter

Kiwi writer/director Derek Pearson's debut feature is this engrossing and effects-heavy sci-fi murder mystery set in Wellington in 1893, 2006 and 2038... Read more

Brothers (2004)

7.6/10
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Michael's life is on track, he has a successful military career, a beautiful wife, Sarah (Connie Nielsen) and two loving daughters, but he's about to... Read more

Tara Road (2005)

6/10
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Brenda Fricker, Ruby W...

Adapted from Maeve Binchy's best-selling novel about two women, one American (Andie MacDowell) and one Irish (Olivia Williams) who swap houses - and l... Read more

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

Director: Michael Pressman
Starring: Paige Turco, David Warner

The Fab Four of the reptile world are back and up to their shells in trouble, as the Shredder and a gang of martial arts mavens use the toxic waste th... Read more

Signs - A Warning? (2002)

Learn the history of the enigmatic markings that have 'cropped' up in fields in England. Featuring fascinating eye-witness accounts, dramatic archive... Read more

Aida - The Opera (1998)

Director: Martin Duhowitz
Starring: Pauletta de Vaughn, Bruno Sebastian, Adriana Nicolai, Walter Donati

This monumental 1997 production was recorded on the biggest open-air stage in Europe - the Roman Quarry in St Margarethen. Verdi's famous opera, comm... Read more

School for Seduction (2004)

5.1/10
Director: Sue Heel
Starring: Kelly Brook, Dervla Kirwan, Neil Stuke, Emily Woof, Jessica Johnson, Margi Clark...

In the British tradition of comedies like 'The Full Monty' and 'Calendar Girls' this feel-good film stars Kelly Brook as Italian temptress Sophia, who... Read more

Live and Become (2005)

7.9/10
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Starring: Yael Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe, Sirak M Sabahat, Roni Ha...

In 1984, at the height of the Ethiopian famine, Israel put 'Operation Moses' into effect where they airlifted over 8000 Jews from the afflicted region... Read more

Hornblower 7: Loyalty (2003)

Director: Andrew Grieve
Starring: Lorcan Cranitch, Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann, Julia Sawalha, Barb...

Our man Horatio takes advantage of his time off and falls in love, but it's not long before he's called back as the Commander of the Hotspur and he se... Read more

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

6.6/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina,...

Ron Howard's blockbuster interpretation of Dan Brown's best-selling book stars Tom Hanks as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon who finds himself summo... Read more

The Thing About My Folks (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Starring: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Olympia Dukakis, Elizabeth Perkins

Paul Reiser wrote the screenplay and stars in this 20 year pet project about a middle-aged man, Ben, who must come to terms with his parents' divorce.... Read more

Carnivale: Season 2 (2004)

8.5/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael J Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clancy Brown, Debra Christofferson, Tim De...

Season Two of this gothic Depression tale picks up with Ben Hawkins looking like a murderer, and as the stand-off between Good and Evil looms the fate... Read more

Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth (2004)

8.5/10
Director: Stan Lathan
Starring: Dave Chappelle

Outrageous comedian Dave Chappelle is back on the stand-up circuit with more wry observations about everything from black celebrity to crackheads, fro... Read more

Tomie (1999)

5.3/10
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Starring: Miho Kanno, Yoriko Douguchi, Tomoroh Taguchi, Mami Nakamura

After a past trauma a young girl is trying to recover her memories with the aid of a psychiatrist and the name 'Tomie' keeps cropping up. Meanwhile a... Read more

Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque (2005)

Director: Jaques Richard

This charming offering celebrates the man who cultivated cinema's future by protecting its past. A legendary film programmer and archivist Henri Langl... Read more

Zapatista (1998)

6.8/10
Director: Benjamin Eichert, Rick Rowley
Starring: Noam Chomsky, Narrated by, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos

On January 1st 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. A few minutes after midnight Mayan troops took over the South... Read more

How Art Made the World (2005)

8.3/10

The mystery of why our world looks the way it does is unravelled in this landmark BBC series that crosses 5 continents and 100, 000 years Dr. Spivey t... Read more

Danny, The Champion of the World (1989)

6.8/10
Director: Gavin Millar
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Samuel Irons, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Lion...

Nine year old Danny Smith lives an idyllic life in a gypsy caravan at the back of his Dad's garage but all this looks set to change when evil landowne... Read more

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 3 (2006)

8.7/10
Starring: Camille Coduri, Maureen Lipman, David Tennant, Shaun Dingwall, Billie Piper, Noe...

After all the human drama of the previous two episodes, 'Doctor Who' becomes once again an action packed sci-fi thriller. The Doctor, Rose and Micky... Read more

Unconscious (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Joaquin Oristrell
Starring: Leonor Watling, Luis Tosar, Alex Brendemuhl, Nuria Prims, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Set in 1913 Barcelona as psychoanalysis was captivating an entire generation, this unashamedly bawdy Spanish farce stars Almodovar darling Leonor Watl... Read more

Alive (2002)

5.8/10
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Hideo Sakaki, Ryo , Koyuki , Shun Sugata, Erika Oda, Tak Sakaguchi, Jun Kunimura

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presen... Read more

Infernal Affairs 3 (2003)

7/10
Director: Andrew Lau Wai Keung, Alan Mak Siu Fai
Starring: Andy Lau, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Leon Lai, Kelly Chen, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang,...

Following on directly from the first film, Ming (Andy Lau) has been relegated to mudane office work as he awaits an official investigation. Meanwhile... Read more

Law And Order (1953)

5.9/10
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone, Preston Foster, Alex Nicol

This Western drama stars ex-US President Ronald Reagan as a marshal looking to retire with lady love Dorothy Malone, but he's forced to strap on his s... Read more

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

7.7/10
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Starring: Lucynna Winnika

A brilliantly filmed and at times unsettling exploration of faith and repression, the film is based on the documented story of the possession of a gro... Read more

No. 2 (2006)

5/10
Director: Toa Fraser
Starring: Mia Blake, Ruby Dee, Taungaroa Emile, Rene Naufahu, Tuva Novotny, Miriama McDowe...

Nana Maria (Ruby Dee) is a feisty eighty-something matriarch who decides to host a family get-together to announce the heir to her estate. Not as eas... Read more

The Libertine (2004)

6.4/10
Director: Laurence Dunmore
Starring: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Kell...

Johnny Depp plays the hedonistic writer John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, close friend of Charles II (John Malkovich) and a notorius figure in 17th cent... Read more

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 4 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: James Strong, Dan Zeff
Starring: Camille Coduri, Claire Rushbrook, Shaun Parkes, David Tennant, Billie Piper, Pet...

Volume 4 of kicks off with the two-parter 'The Impossible Planet' and 'The Satan Pit' in which a spacecraft has been sucked into a black hole in the f... Read more

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 5 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: Graeme Harper, Euros Lyn
Starring: Barbara Windsor, Camille Coduri, Edna Dore, David Tennant, Shaun Dingwall, Billi...

In 'Fear Her' the Doctor and Rose travel to London in 2012 to see the Olympics - only to find that children are mysteriously disappearing before peopl... Read more

50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)

5.7/10
Director: Stewart Main
Starring: Andrew Patterson, Harriet Beattie, Jay Collins, Georgia McNeil, Michael Dorman,...

Growing up in Central Otago in 1975, 12-year-old Billy is a farmer's son out of step with the other kids at his school. He's not interested in farmin... Read more

Europe's Secret Armies: The Mountain Men of Crete (2003)

8.4/10

Its geographical importance in both German and Allied planning for the domination of the Mediterranean and Africa was to prove Crete's downfall. As th... Read more

Commanding Heights Vol. 1: The Battle of Ideas (2002)

Based on Daniel Yergin's bestseller, this informative PBS series presents an in-depth analysis of America's role in the new worldwide economy. Volume... Read more

Seven Chances (1925)

8/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton

When he stands to inherit a fortune if he can get married by 7 o'clock, Buster Keaton becomes the quarry of an army of would-be brides (and gets caugh... Read more

The Proposition (2005)

7.4/10
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: John Hurt, Danny Huston, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, David Wenham, Ray Winstone

Co-written with Nick Cave and with a searing soundtrack from him, this revisionist outback Western stars Guy Pearce as Charlie Burns a man who must ch... Read more

Monk: Season 4 (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Adam Arkin, Milan Cheylov
Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford

Two-time Emmy Award winner, Tony Shalhoub, was nominated for a third time for his work in Season Four. He's getting to know his new assistant, Natali... Read more

La Commare Secca ( The Grim Reaper ) (1962)

6.9/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Carlotta Barilli, Lorenza Benedetti, Clorinda Celani, Vincenzo Ciccora

Bertolucci's debut feature was written by his friend Pier Paolo Pasolini and bears that filmmaker's mark of realism. When a prostitute is murdered in... Read more

Soft Beds Hard Battles (1973)

Director: Roy Boulting
Starring: Peter Sellers, Curt Jurgens, Jenny Hanley, Rula Lenska, Timothy West

Peter Sellers plays multiple characters in this World War II romp. Madame Grenier is the head of a famous Parisian brothel and after most of her Frenc... Read more

Alan Davies: Urban Trauma (2000)

7.3/10
Starring: Alan Davies

Join 'Jonathan Creek' star Alan Davies in his engaging stand-up show as he renounces Satan, tries to keep his terrorising cats under control and share... Read more

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition) (1974)

8.3/10
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapma...

King Arthur meets Monty Python in this irreverent, insanely funny film with Graham Chapman as King Arthur convening his knights to seek the Holy Grail... Read more

Candy (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Neil Armford
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Noni Hazlehurst, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tony Martin

Wannabe poet and intravenous heroin user Dan (Heath Ledger) is freshly in love with Candy (Abbie Cornish), a blonde Botticelli angel with a yen for pa... Read more

The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 2 (1980)

5.1/10
Starring: Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle, James Best, Sorrell Book...

The souped up '69 Dodge has a full tank and is revving and ready to take on bungling local lawmen Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane again. While... Read more

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

6.4/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: The Rolling Stones

French director Jean-Luc Godard's documentation of late '60s western counter-culture intercuts footage of the Rolling Stones hard at work on their 'Be... Read more

The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985)

8.6/10
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Charles Bukowski

During the years filmmaker Barbet Schroeder spent making the 1987 film 'Barfly', his evenings were often spent in (frequently inebriated) discussions... Read more

Santa's Slay (2004)

5.4/10
Director: David Steiman
Starring: Robert Culp, Emilie de Ravin, Bill Goldberg, Saul Rubinek, Douglas Smith, Dave T...

Ex-WWE Wrestling champ Bill Goldberg steps out of his leotard and into a Santa suit in this twisted Christmas comedy. He plays the devil's son who,... Read more

Zatoichi 22: Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman (1971)

Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Jimmy Wang Yu

On the outskirts of the town of Furukawa, Zatoichi meets a young boy whose parents have been murdered by a corrupt local samurai. Accompanying the boy... Read more

The Biggest Battle (1978)

4.8/10
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Starring: Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Orson Welles

A.k.a. 'The Greatest Battle'. A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fath... Read more

Jessica (2004)

7.9/10
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Starring: Lisa Harrow, Sam Neill, Leeanna Walsman

Based on the novel 'Jessica' by Bryce Courtenay, this epic three-hour-plus period drama traces a woman's harsh, tumultuous life in the Australian bush... Read more

Red Dwarf VI (1993)

Director: Andy De Emmony
Starring: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn

Red Dwarf is lost and Lister can't remember where he parked it. Chasing their mother ship leads the crew through simulant hunting zones, hostile GELF... Read more

Paradise Found (2001)

5.8/10
Director: Mario Andreacchio
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Chris Haywood, Alun Armstrong

In the Paris of the 1880s, Paul Gauguin (Kiefer Sutherland) is a successful stockbroker who loves his Danish wife Mette (Nastassja Kinski) and four ch... Read more

New Zealand: The Royal Tour (2002)

6.4/10
Starring: Helen Clark

Join New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark for a Royal Tour of this extraordinary land of extremes. Climb the snowy southern alps, jet boat in just f... Read more

Malefique (2002)

6.4/10
Director: Eric Valette
Starring: Gerald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac, Dimitri Rataud

Four prisoners in a cell - Carrere, Marcus, Daisy and Lassalle. Behind a stone slab, mysteriously pulled loose, they discover a book: the diary of a p... Read more

The Good Life: Series 1 (1975)

6.5/10
Starring: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington

When Tom Good, a 40-year old draughtsman, and his wife Barbara, drop out of the rat race and become self-sufficient they change their lives forever. T... Read more

Possible Worlds (2000)

6.9/10
Director: Robert Lepage
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Rick Miller, Sean McCann, Gabriel Gascon

According to George Barber, "Each of us exists in an infinite number of possible worlds." It is this proposition that fuels the narrative of director... Read more

Requiem (2001)

5.2/10
Director: Herve Renoh
Starring: Patrick Dell'Isola, Moussa Maaskri, Julie-Anne Roth, Jo Prestia, Marc Chapiteau

Four hardened crooks break out of prison. Hunted down, with nowhere to run, they seek refuge in the only place the police cannot follow: a Cistercian... Read more

Taxi: Season 1 (1978)

7.7/10
Starring: Danny DeVito, Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza, Andy Kaufman...

Buckle up and hang on - you're about to enter a garage filled with laughs in Taxi: The Complete First Season. Here's the premiere season of the popula... Read more

Wuthering Heights (1970)

6.7/10
Director: Robert Fuest
Starring: Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews, Hugh Griffith, Ian Ogilvy

One of the all-time great love stories, Emily Bronte's timeless story features Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall as tragic lovers Catherine and... Read more

The Homecoming (1973)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Hall
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant, Terence Rigby

In this offering adapted from the play by Harold Pinter, Michael Jayston brings his wife Vivien Merchant home to visit his long-estranged family. Jays... Read more

Butley (1974)

7.2/10
Director: Harold Pinter
Starring: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Susan Engel, Richard O'Callaghan

After winning acclaim on the London stage, director Harold Pinter and star Alan Bates bring Simon Gray's acerbic academia character study to the scree... Read more

Family Guy: Season 3 (2001)

8.2/10
Starring: Voices Of, Seth MacFarlane, Seth Green, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis

The weird and wonderfully warped Family Guy is back! So what's new with the Griffin family? Well, Brian has become addicted to cocaine - not ideal for... Read more

Life in the Trenches (1999)

The First World War (1914 - 1918) was supposed to be 'the war to end all wars'. For the young, eager and patriotic men who enlisted in their thousands... Read more

England's Wars with France (2000)

This programme harnesses state-of-the-art computer technology to explore, explain and bring new perspectives to some of the most famous battles. "Hast... Read more

History of Warfare: Great Sea Battles (1993)

2 Episodes. "The Armada" - This atmospheric programme features footage of the restoration of the Mary Rose, and discusses the events and issues leadin... Read more

Line of Fire: The Gulf War 1991 (2002)

7.3/10

On August 2nd 1990, Iraq, under its ferocious dictator Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait, its oil-rich neighbour. Not long out of a war with Iran, Iraq b... Read more

John Safran's Music Jamboree (2002)

Director: Clayton Jacobson
Starring: John Safran

John Safran shares his passion for the wild world of contemporary music and wins two AFI awards - Best Comedy Series and Most Innovative Programme Con... Read more

Constantine (2004)

7/10
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Max Baker, Pruitt Tayl...

Loosely based on the DC Comics/Vertigo "Hellblazer" graphic novels, "Constantine" tells the story of John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), a man who has li... Read more

Closer (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Clive Owen, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman

Emotional and sexual gamesmanship, as seen through the couplings and uncouplings of four people - photographer Julia Roberts, stripper Natalie Portman... Read more

Saint Ange (2004)

Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Lou Doillon, Catriona MacColl, Dorina Lazar

A young cleaning woman, Anna (Virginie Ledoyen), sent to spruce up the abandoned St. Ange orphanage in the remote French Alps in 1960, discovers that... Read more

The Stroll (2003)

7.4/10
Director: Aleksei Uchitel
Starring: Irina Pegova, Pavel Barshak, Yevgeni Tsyganov

A.k.a. "Progulka". Olya (Irina Pegova) steps out of a luxurious car and begins a stroll through the streets of St Petersburg, striking up an acquainta... Read more

Friends: Season 1, Episodes 9 - 16 (1994)

8.9/10
Director: James Burrows, Peter Bonerz, Michael Lembeck, Paul Lazarus, Alan Myerson
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

Allo Allo! - Vive La Resistance (1982)

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

A collection of 3 episodes from the much loved comedy series. "The British Are Coming" (First Broadcast 30 Dec 1982) - Two escaping British airmen are... Read more

Munchhausen (1943)

8.6/10
Director: Josef von Baky
Starring: Hans Albers

In early 1943, just as Nazi Germany began its collapse with the surrender at Stalingrad, the famed Ufa Studios released an elaborate super-spectacle t... Read more

Sonny (2002)

5.7/10
Director: Nicolas Cage
Starring: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton, Mena Suvari, Seymour Cassel, B...

Meet Sonny (James Franco) and his mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn). Sonny has returned from the Army to his mother's loving arms, to the sultry, sordid s... Read more

Killing Words (2003)

Director: Laura Mana
Starring: Goya Toledo, Dario Grandinetti, Fernando Guillen, Eric Bonicatto

A.k.a. "Palabras Encadenadas". Locked in a dark basement, Laura (Goya Toledo), a psychiatrist in her early thirties, contemplates in horror a video wh... Read more

Justice League: Paradise Lost (2003)

6.6/10

The galaxy's ultimate crime-fighting strike squad, Justice League, continues its ongoing battle against enemies on the Earth and beyond! In "Paradise... Read more

Twin Peaks: Season 1 (1990)

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

From the minds of Mark Frost and David Lynch comes the wildly imaginative, darkly comic mystery-thriller series that became one of the most acclaimed... Read more

Captain's Log (2002)

6.4/10
Starring: Peter Elliot

Follow in the footsteps of Captain James Cook. Re-live his amazing voyage and first contact with Maori. Peter Elliott sails around New Zealand using t... Read more

M*A*S*H: Season 2 - Volume 1 (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

Yoga Beginners Class 1 (1992)

Starring: Louisa Sear, Rachel Zinman

If you're fed up with Aerobics, this class is for you. A 60 minute Yoga workout for people who have done little or no Yoga before. Yoga is not a trend... Read more

The UFO Chronicles (2004)

Starring: Lee Majors

There have been thousands of UFO sightings since the beginning of time that includes reports in the Bible, as well as best selling books like "Chariot... Read more

Her Majesty (2001)

7.1/10
Director: Mark J Gordon
Starring: Sally Andrews, Vicky Haughton, Mark Clare, Liddy Holloway

1953 New Zealand. Elizabeth Wakefield (Sally Andrews) is a 13 year old with a dream. She wants the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth to visit her Waikato... Read more

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy - Working with Time (2001)

8.1/10
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Starring: Andy Goldsworthy

In the timeless tradition of "Travelling Birds" and "Koyaanisqatsi", "Rivers and Tides" depicts the magical relationship between art and nature while... Read more

Fireman Sam: To the Rescue! (2005)

6.3/10
Starring: Fireman Sam

Sam and the gang are back with brand new exciting adventures heroically helping the residents of Pontypandy. Sam is joined by a host of fun and engagi... Read more

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

6.2/10
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Colleen Camp, Barret Oliver, Kathryn Walker, Jos...

Everyone in town is in awe of young Daryl's extraordinary talents and abilities, and so are his foster parents. He can perform advanced mathematics, m... Read more

Plein Soleil ( Purple Noon ) (1960)

7.8/10
Director: Rene Clement
Starring: Alain Delon, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet

Based on the critically acclaimed novel 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' by Patricia Highsmith, this is a susenseful edge-of-your-seat thriller! A handsome,... Read more

Child's Play 3 (1991)

5/10
Director: Jack Bender
Starring: Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers

One of filmdom's most notorious killers is back to wreak more mayhem as Chucky continues his quest to possess the body of a human child. Eight years a... Read more

Miami Vice: Season 1, Disc 5-8 (1984)

6/10
Starring: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas

The cops. The cars. The clothes. From executive producer Michael Mann ("Heat") comes the first season of the explosive, groundbreaking detective show... Read more

Columbo: Season 1 (1971)

8.2/10
Starring: Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Ray Milland, Eddie Albert, Suzanne Pleshette, Don Amech...

Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk), a disheveled, cigar-chomping sleuth, appears to be an incompetent bumbler. But that facade is designed to lull his murder su... Read more

Nip / Tuck: Season 2 (2004)

7.7/10
Starring: Julian McMahon, Dylan Walsh, Joely Richardson, Roma Maffia, John Hensley

Flash and cash. Sex and style. Power and prestige. All it takes is a Nip/Tuck. Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon return as the elite plastic surgery team... Read more

Fidel and Che (2002)

Director: David Attwood
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Victor Huggo Martin, Patricia Velasquez

A.k.a. "Fidel". An epic story spanning 60 years of a Cuban leaders' rise from guerrilla outpost to presidential palace. Starring Gael Garcia Bernal ("... Read more

SpongeBob SquarePants: Tide and Seek (2003)

6.8/10

Join SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Mr Krabs and Sandy in ten over-the-top animated adventures from down in the deep blue sea. Episodes include: 'Merm... Read more

Facing Windows (2003)

7.4/10
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Raoul Bova, Massimo Girotti, Filippo Nigro

A young working-class wife and mother, Giovanna, has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers... Read more

Dear Frankie (2004)

7.8/10
Director: Shona Auerbach
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, Sharon Small

This touching and humorous movie has earned the raves of critics and won the hearts of audiences everywhere! To spare the feelings of her fatherless b... Read more

In the Line of Duty (1989)

7.2/10
Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen, Michael Wong, Michael Woods

From Yuen Woo Ping, the acclaimed action director of "The Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "In the Line of Duty" is literally a non-stop... Read more