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Fear and Trembling (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Alain Corneau
Starring: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama, Yasunari Kondo, Sokyu Fuj...

This comedy of cultural errors sees Belgian Amelie (Sylvie Testud) returning to Japan after pleasant memories from her childhood there. However as a... Read more

The Sky is Falling (2000)

6.6/10
Director: Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbe, Barbara Enrichi, Gianna Giachetti

Based on Lorenza Mazzetti's acclaimed novel inspired by her true life experiences in WWII Tuscany. Two recently orphaned girls come to live with thei... Read more

Concert For George (2002)

8.7/10
Director: David Leland
Starring: Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, The Heartbr...

Filmed by award-winning director David Lealand on November 29, 2002 at The Royal Albert Hall in London, "Concert For George" is a beautifully filmed,... Read more

Flightplan (2005)

6.3/10
Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby

Kyle (Jodie Foster) is a mother whose sanity comes into question in this mile-high thriller. Somehow her daughter has gone missing in-flight, but was... Read more

Union Square (2003)

6.6/10
Director: Stephen Szklarski

A chilling and powerful glimpse into the lives of the homeless heroin addicts who populate New York's Union Square. Seven 20-something-year-old indiv... Read more

Happy Endings (2005)

6.4/10
Director: Don Roos
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Laura Dern, Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter,...

A melee of dysfunctional relationships provide the impetus for three loosely interwoven darkly comic stories covering topics from sexual ambiguity to... Read more

Look At Me (2004)

6.9/10
Director: Agnes Jaoui
Starring: Virginie Desarnauts, Keine Bouhiza, Gregoire Oestermann, Serge Riaboukine, Miche...

Lolita is the daughter of a famous writer, struggling to define her own identity in this witty French comedy. She's self-concious about her weight but... Read more

Fortress 2: Re-Entry (1999)

4.5/10
Director: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Pam Grier, Christopher Lambert, Willie Garson, Patrick Malahide

Futuristic fugitive Christopher Lambert, on the run with his family since the first "Fortress," is recaptured by authorities and placed in a high-tech... Read more

Minder: Series 2 (1980)

7.8/10
Director: Various
Starring: George Cole, Dennis Waterman, Hetty Baynes, Patrick Malahide, George Layton

Intended as a Dennis Waterman vehicle following the success of 'The Sweeney', Arthur Daley played by George Cole undoubtedly became everyone's favouri... Read more

Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

3.3/10
Director: John Derek
Starring: Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law, Miles O'Keeffe

Experience the Tarzan story from Jane's point of view as Tarzan defends her against a beachcombing King of the Beasts, untangles her from a python's s... Read more

St Ives (1976)

6.4/10
Director: J Lee Thompson
Starring: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin, Dana Elcar

Ex-crime reporter Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) has elegant taste, a yen for gambling and an unfinished novel in his typewriter. Hired to locate... Read more

Worzel Gummidge: Captain Worzel (1981)

7.2/10
Director: James Hill
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Geoffrey Bayldon, Una Stubbs, Mike Berry, Charlotte Coleman

Join everyones' favourite scarecrow - Worzel Gummidge in three more fun-filled episodes of the adventures of Worzel and his friend Aunt Sally! Episdoe... Read more

Story of a Love Affair (1950)

7.1/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Gino Cervi, Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bose

An early masterpiece from then documentary-maker director Michelangelo Antonioni, said to be one of Martin Scorsese's favourite films. Setting the to... Read more

Boccaccio 70 (1962)

7.2/10
Director: Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli
Starring: Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Tomas Milian,...

This loose modern retelling of Boccaccio's Decameron is essentially four short films from four of Italy's finest directors. Fellini, Visconti, Monicel... Read more

Corpse Bride (2005)

7.4/10
Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Starring: Voices Of, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Danny...

Tim Burton returns to the world of stop-motion with this macabre comedy about a man who accidentally marries a corpse! A hugely talented voice cast i... Read more

Smallville: Season 2 (2002)

8.1/10
Starring: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, John...

Before the Legend...Before the Icon...He was a teenager growing up in "Smallville." In the complete second season of the hit series, Clark grapples wi... Read more

Hukkle (2004)

7.2/10
Director: Gyorgy Palfi
Starring: Ferenc Bandi, Jozsef Forkas, Jozsefne Racz, Ferenc Nagy, Ferencne Virag

In a world where everything exists to be eaten by something else, a small Hungarian village is the setting for this most original and genre-defying fi... Read more

The Land Has Eyes (2005)

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

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

Happy Birthday To Me (1981)

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

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

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

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

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

Evolution: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (2001)

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

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

Swamp Water (1941)

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

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

Primer (2004)

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

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

The Turning Point (1977)

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

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

Samurai Assassin (1964)

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

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

Hardware: Series 1 (2003)

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

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

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)

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

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

Billy Connolly: Live In New York (2005)

7.3/10
Starring: Billy Connolly

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

Next of Kin (1982)

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

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

Cafe Lumiere (2003)

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

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

Rabid Grannies (1989)

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

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

1990: Bronx Warriors (1983)

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

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

Night Watch (2004)

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

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

Dawn Anna (2005)

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

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

Stay (2005)

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

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

The Five Obstructions (2003)

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

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

The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection: Volume 1 (1914)

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

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

The Beano Videostars (1998)

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

The Essential Charlie Chaplin: Volume 4 (1914)

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpin

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

Fast Company (1979)

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

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

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)

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

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

Bobby Deerfield (1977)

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

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

Shock (1946)

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

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

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

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

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

Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971)

Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Claudine Auger

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

Mercano The Martian (2002)

6.5/10
Director: Juan Antin

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

Neville's Island (1998)

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

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

The Wild Duck (1984)

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

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

Czech Dream (2004)

7.5/10
Director: Filip Remunda, Vit Klusak

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

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

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

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

Danger Man: Missions 29 - 39 (1961)

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

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

Murderball (2004)

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

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

Broken Flowers (2005)

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

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

Shopgirl (2005)

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

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

Five Days to Midnight (2004)

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

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

Moonlighting: Season 1 & 2 (1985)

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

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

Saathi (1967)

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

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

Heights (2004)

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

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

The Jacket (2004)

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

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

Bottom: Series 2 (1992)

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

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

The Companeros (1970)

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

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

The Cisco Kid Collection (1950)

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

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

The Jackie Chan Collection (1973)

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

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

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

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

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

Sedition (2005)

Director: Russell Campbell

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

Golgo 13: Kowloon Assignment (1977)

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

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

Gilmore Girls: Season 2 (2001)

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

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

House Of Bamboo (1955)

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

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

Fame: Season 1 (1982)

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

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

Nightmare Alley (1947)

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

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

Daniel Deronda (2002)

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

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

Salem Witch Trials (1998)

6.2/10

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

North Country (2005)

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

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

Casanova (2005)

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

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

Bombon (2004)

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

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

First Descent (2005)

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

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

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

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

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

Go West / The Big Store (1941)

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

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

Melies the Magician (1997)

Director: Jacques Meny

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

Colin McCahon: I Am (2004)

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

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

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)

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

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

Crazed Fruit (1956)

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

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

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

Director: David Mitton
Starring: Narrated by, Ringo Starr

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

Monarch of the Glen: Series 1 (2000)

7.7/10
Director: Edward Bennett, A J Quinn
Starring: Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair MacKenzie, Lorraine Pilkington

"Monarch of the Glen" is a whimsical contemporary series set in the magnificent Scottish Highlands. The crumbling Glenbogle Estate, with its 200 tenan... Read more

The Adventures of Tintin - Volume 3 (2002)

Starring: Tintin

Four of Tintin's fabulous adventures are collected together in one dvd package! The fully animated tales are; "The Broken Ear", "The Crab with the Gol... Read more

Teenage Caveman (2001)

3.3/10
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, Richard Hillman

David (Andrew Keegan) is frustrated with the repressive laws of his cave dwelling tribe. Restless, stubborn and defiant, his attitude problem turns de... Read more

Robbie the Reindeer Trilogy: The Whole Herd ( Hooves of Fire / Legend of the Lost Tribe / Close Encounters of the Herd Kind ) (1999)

Director: Richard Goleszowski, Peter Peake, Donnie Anderson
Starring: Ardal O'Hanlon, Jane Horrocks, Steve Coogan, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse

A Robbie the Reindeer triple feature. "Hooves of Fire" (1999) - Robbie must fulfil his destiny to run the race of his life and take on his father's sw... Read more

Hell is for Heroes (1961)

7/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Mike Kell...

Young stars Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Nick Adams and Bob Newhart (in his film debut) play a hopelessly ou... Read more

Battlestar Galactica: Episodes 9-16 (1978)

8.7/10
Starring: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson Jr, John Colicos,...

In the Seventh Millennia of recorded history, the Battlestar Galactica roams the vast wilderness that is space. The robotic Cylon Alliance has destroy... Read more

Old School (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn

What's a guy supposed to do when he catches the early flight home and finds his girlfriend in bed with a room full of naked strangers? Return to colle... Read more

Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

5.8/10
Director: Jimmy Sangster
Starring: Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price

In "Horror of Frankenstein" Baron Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) appears more interested in his philandering than he does in the more bizarre branc... Read more

Le Fate Ignoranti (2000)

Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz, Andrea Renzi

Aka "The Ignorant Fairies", "His Secret Life". When Antonia's husband dies in a car accident, she is stricken with grief. Whilst sorting through his p... Read more

Coup De Torchon ( aka Clean Slate ) (1981)

7.7/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stephane Audran, Eddy M...

Aka "Clean Slate". An inspired rendering of Jim Thompson's pulp novel "Pop. 1280", Bertrand Tavernier's "Coup De Torchon" deftly transplants the story... Read more

Runaway Jury (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Bruce Mc...

This intense adaptation of John Grisham's thriller boasts John Cusack as a juror on a high-profile civil case in New Orleans in which the widow of a m... Read more

Paper Moon (1973)

8.1/10
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Madeline Kahn, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, John Hillerman

Ryan O'Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this very bright, very warm, and very funny period film for which Tatum won an Oscar in her first film... Read more

Rio Lobo (1970)

6.8/10
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Victor French

The final film of Howard Hawks, and the fifth pairing over a 22-year period with the Duke, is a classic action-filled John Wayne western set into moti... Read more

Super Sucker (2002)

4.5/10
Director: Jeff Daniels
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell, Dawn Wells

In this laughfest, Jeff Daniels (who also wrote and directed) plays a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman embroiled in a heated competition with riva... Read more

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)

5.3/10
Director: Jeremy Summers
Starring: Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Tsai Chin

In the foothills of northern China a long procession is winding its way through the hills. Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) and his daughter, Lin Tang, are... Read more

Hanky Panky (1982)

5.6/10
Director: Sidney Poitier
Starring: Gene Wilder, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark, Gilda Radner

Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner make for a wacky team of sleuths in a comedic thriller that has Chicago architect Wilder on the run, with Radner in tow,... Read more

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1958)

Director: Roy Boulting
Starring: Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas

Peter Sellers is Amphibulos, the corrupt Prime Minister of a small Pacific Island. He hopes to profit from renewed interest in the island from the Bri... Read more

Wrong Turn (2003)

6.1/10
Director: Rob Schmidt
Starring: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Kevin Zegers

'Deliverance' meets 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' in this nail-biting horror tale. After a car accident leaves them stranded in the backwoods of West... Read more

No Good Deed (2002)

5.5/10
Director: Bob Rafelson
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgard, Doug Hutchison, Joss Acklan...

Aka "The House on Turk Street". In director Bob Rafelson's adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett story "The House on Turk Street", Samuel L. Jackson is a... Read more

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Mickey Lemle
Starring: Ram Dass

A Harvard colleague, and fellow LSD experimenter, of Timothy Leary in the early 1960s, professor Richard Alpert became the renowned spiritual guru and... Read more

Northern Exposure: Season 1 (1990)

8.2/10
Director: Peter O'Fallon, Jack Bender, John David Coles
Starring: John Corbett, Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum, Darren E Bur...

Joel Fleishman (Rob Morrow) is a new medical college graduate. Due to a clause in the small print of his scholarship contract he finds himself in the... Read more

The Early Films of Peter Greenaway 1 (2003)

Director: Peter Greenaway

Before his international arthouse hit "The Draughtsman's Contract", Peter Greenaway had made a series of highly inventive and witty short films. Their... Read more

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

6.6/10
Director: Chuck Russell
Starring: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Cr...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to bed...fearsome Freddy's back, and he's tormenting the dreams of some troubled teens under the care of... Read more

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

5.1/10
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Starring: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Jo Minter

For the young people of Elm Street, the nightmare never ends! Once more Freddy returns from the grave for revenge, focusing on the dreams of the unbor... Read more

Undead (2002)

5/10
Director: The Spierig Brothers
Starring: Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, Lisa Cunningham, Dirk Hunter, Emma Ran...

Peaceful, rustic Berkeley is a charming fishing community where life is sweet and the people friendly. All that is about to change. After losing her c... Read more

Calendar Girls (2003)

6.9/10
Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelo...

Based on a true story, this comedy with serious moments stars Julie Walters as a British housewife in her fifties who loses her husband to leukemia. W... Read more

Porridge: Series 2 (1975)

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

Ronnie Barker stars with Richard Beckinsale, Brian Wilde and Fulton MacKay in a second series at her Majesty's pleasure. Six episodes. Written by Dick... Read more

Dr Seuss: The Cat in the Hat (1971)

7.2/10
Director: Hawley Pratt

In a marvellously animated version of one of the most beloved of all Dr. Seuss tales, two youngsters find themselves at home with nothing to do on a r... Read more

Magic (1978)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret , Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter

An eerie, terrifying story scripted by William Goldman from his own novel boasts Anthony Hopkins as Corky, a ventriloquist whose dummy, Fats, begins t... Read more

Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight (2002)

Director: Murray Lerner
Starring: Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox

"Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at the Isle of Wight" documents the guitarist's legendary performance before 600,000 people at this massive outdoo... Read more

The Circus (1928)

8.1/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia, Henry Bergman

When we first meet Chaplin's Tramp in this comic gem, he's in typical straits: broke, hungry, destined to fall in love and just as sure to lose the gi... Read more

The Kid (1921)

8.3/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan

For the first time as a filmmaker, Chaplin stepped into feature-length storytelling with this tale of the down-but-never-out Tramp (Chaplin) and the a... Read more

ABC for Kids: Just for Fun! (2004)

Join all your favourite "ABC for Kids" playmates in this wonderful collection of stories and adventures. Join the railroad with Thomas and Friends, da... Read more

The Way Things Work: Rolling Stones (2000)

7.6/10
Director: Diego Zamora

What do a wheelbarrow and a bottle opener have in common? Did you know that a dentist's drill is a direct descendant of the first windmill? And what o... Read more

The Grudge (2002)

6.7/10
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa

Aka 'Ju-on'. Japanese legend has it that a man who dies in a fit of rage leaves behind a malevolent presence that nests in his home; a contaminant tha... Read more

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers (2004)

7.3/10
Starring: Mike Myers

Party-on as Saturday Night Live celebrates Mike Myers' awesome seasons as a regular on the show. Compiled by the producers of SNL, Mike Myers' lineup... Read more

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)

7.9/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Natalie Wood

Recent widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) rents a house by the ocean, which turns out to be haunted by a cantakerous sea captain (Rex Harrison). Although... Read more

Beat Street (1984)

6.5/10
Director: Stan Lathan
Starring: Rae Dawn Chong

The Bronx is the hippest place in America, as breakdancers, graffiti artists, DJs and rap musicians converge for an exciting street scene. Grandmaster... Read more

Twenty One Days (1938)

Director: Basil Dean
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Francis L Sullivan

Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted twenty-one days of compa... Read more

Mambo Italiano (2003)

6.7/10
Director: Emile Gaudreault
Starring: Luke Kirby, Ginette Reno, Paul Sorvino

Light-hearted sex farce from Canada stars Luke Kirby as a young man who discovers he's gay and becomes involved with a policeman and old high school c... Read more

The Far Pavilions (Part Three) (1984)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Duffell
Starring: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Rossano Brazzi, Omar Sharif, John Gielgu...

Part Three, Episodes 5 and 6. Based on M. M. Kaye's enormously successful novel, "The Far Pavilions" is a lavish epic set in the India of the British... Read more

Looney Tunes Collection: Best of Daffy and Porky (2004)

Starring: Daffy Duck, Porky Pig

In this deliriously ditzy collection of uncut, fully re-mastered all-time favourite Looney Tunes shorts: thrill to the sci-fi foolery of Daffy and Por... Read more

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Volume 1 (1967)

7.9/10

2068: Earth is at war with a bizarre Martian enemy - the Mysterons. Only Spectrum, the world security organisation, and its number one agent Captain S... Read more

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Volume 3 (1967)

7.9/10

2068: Earth is at war with a bizarre Martian enemy - the Mysterons. Only Spectrum, the world security organisation, and its number one agent Captain S... Read more

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons: Volume 4 (1967)

7.9/10

2068: Earth is at war with a bizarre Martian enemy - the Mysterons. Only Spectrum, the world security organisation, and its number one agent Captain S... Read more

Joe 90: Volume 1 (1968)

6.8/10

Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine, a brilliant computer expert, has invcented an incredible device called The Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfe... Read more

Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5 (2003)

8.2/10
Director: Dewi Humphries
Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, June Whitfield

In "Absolutely Fabulous: Series 5", Edina and Patsy surround themselves with a constellation of stars, including Kristin Scott Thomas, former Spice Gi... Read more

My American Uncle ( Mon Oncle D'Amerique ) (1980)

7.9/10
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger-Pierre

Witty treatise on human behaviour from Alain Resnais observes the interactions of three people: a manager at a textile plant (Gerard Depardieu), an ac... Read more

True Confessions (1981)

6.4/10
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Starring: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, C...

In 1940's Los Angeles, Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (Robert De Niro), a rising star in the Catholic Church hierarchy, has a talent for fundraising that... Read more

The Delinquents (1957)

5.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Peter Miller, Tom Laughlin

This rare offering was the first big-screen directorial effort by Robert Altman, who also wrote and produced the film. Future "Billy Jack" star Tom L... Read more

Hotel Splendide (2000)

6.5/10
Director: Terence Gross
Starring: Toni Collette, Daniel Craig, Katrin Cartlidge

The Hotel Splendide is on a remote and cold island, accessible only by a once-a-month ferry. It's a dark and dreary spa created by the late Dame Blanc... Read more

Children Underground (2000)

8.3/10
Director: Edet Belzberg

An Oscar-nominated documentary on the homeless children of post-Cold War Bucharest, Romania, focusing on a year in the lives of five kids living in su... Read more

The Educational Archives: Sex and Drugs (2003)

7.8/10
Starring: Sonny Bono

A collection of sex education and drug prevention films, ranging in date from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Some historical, some hysterical and... Read more

Scary Movie 3 (2003)

5.5/10
Director: David Zucker
Starring: Anna Faris, Anthony Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Camryn Manheim, Simon Rex, George...

Great trilogies come in threes. David Zucker ("Flying High") takes over the directing reigns for this latest outing that features Anna Faris, Charlie... Read more

Hammer House of Horror: Volume 1 (1980)

7.8/10
Director: Peter Sasdy, Tom Clegg, Alan Gibson, Don Leaver
Starring: Jon Finch, Peter Cushing, Peter McEnery, Anna Calder-Marshall, Kathryn Leigh Sco...

For more than two decades, the name of Hammer was synonymous with horror, winning a legendary place in the history of British films. Hammer Horror mov... Read more

The Europeans (1979)

6.4/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Tim Woodward, Wesley Addy, Lisa Eichhorn, Norman Snow

The Henry James novel about the contrasts between a 19th-century New England family and their European-raised cousins is expertly translated to the sc... Read more

Infernal Affairs (2002)

8.1/10
Director: Andrew Lau Wai Keung, Alan Mak Siu Fai
Starring: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Eric Tsang

Two cops on opposite sides of the law face off in "Infernal Affairs", a gripping psychological thriller from Hong Kong. Detective Yan (Tony Leung) is... Read more

Together (2002)

7.4/10
Director: Chen Kaige
Starring: Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi, Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige

Moving drama from director Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine") centers on a 13-year-old violin prodigy whose father takes him from their small provin... Read more

1900 (1976)

7.7/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Alida Valli, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Gerard Depardie...

Aka "Novecento". This sweeping chronicle of 20th century Italy focuses on the sons of two contrasting families; the landowner's son (Robert De Niro) a... Read more

What Happened to Kerouac? (1986)

7.1/10
Director: Lewis MacAdams, Richard Lerner
Starring: Steve Allen, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg

A lively and revealing investigation into the personal history and creative process of Jack Kerouac - father of the Beat Generation, author of 'On the... Read more

Johnny Guitar (1954)

7.7/10
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Scott Brady, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, Er...

Joan Crawford is the strong-willed woman running a gambling house, Sterling Hayden the notorious gunman looking to forget his past and Mercedes McCamb... Read more

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones / The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

Director: Robert Butler, Robert Stevenson
Starring: Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero, Kurt Russell, William Schallert, Tommy Kirk, Annette Fu...

'The Misadventures of Merlin Jones' - Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello star in this slapstick Disney comedy about a college "genius" whose latest inve... Read more

The School of Rock (2003)

Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Sarah Silverman

Terrific comedy showcases a tailor-made part for Jack Black as an egomaniacal heavy metal guitarist who gets booted out of his band, then has to seek... Read more

In America (2002)

7.8/10
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Djimon Hounsou

Moving (and loosely autobiographical) drama from director Jim Sheridan ("In the Name of the Father") and his screenwriting daughters Naomi and Kirsten... Read more

Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)

6.4/10
Director: Chris Kennedy
Starring: Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day

Ralph (Matt Day) is a young country singer who leaves his parents' outback property to try and make it big in Nashville. He hitches a ride with Boyd (... Read more

Scorched Earth: Propaganda (2000)

5/10

This episode provides an intriguing look at the part played by propaganda as governments struggled to gain the upper hand in the war away from the bat... Read more