6/10

Director: Raja Gosnell

Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan

Drew Barrymore plays a twenty-five-year-old journalist who gets her first chance as a reporter by attending a high school undercover and pretending to... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Don Coscarelli

Starring: Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Angus Scrimm

Aka 'The Never Dead'. Shortly after losing his parents, teenager Mike (Michael Baldwin) grows suspicious of a tall man (Angus Scrimm) he sees lifting... Read more

5.1/10

Director: George Miller (II)

Starring: Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt

This sequel follows the young hero in a quest to save a beautiful princess. On his odyssey he befriends some fabulous creatures while battling some ho... Read more

6/10

Director: Richard Linklater

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dwight Yoakam...

The true-life saga of four Texas brothers who robbed banks across the US from 1919 to 1924 and lived to tell about it. Matthew McConaughey and Ethan H... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Franklin J Schaffner

Starring: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews, Tom Baker, Michael Bryant, Maurice...

The epic, lavish, yet ultimately tragic true story of Tsar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), a man who lost an empire because he couldn't say 'no' to his... Read more

8/10

Director: Irwin Winkler

Starring: Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman

High calibre acting shines through as lawyer Robert De Niro romances the wife (Jessica Lange) of bar owner and longtime buddy Cliff Gorman while attem... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Delbert Mann

Starring: Jane Alexander, John Hurt, Glynnis O'Connor, Beau Bridges, Doug McKeon, Ian Bann...

An entertaining true story about two families who plan an escape from East Berlin by hot-air balloon. Starring John Hurt and Jane Alexander. Read more

7.8/10

Director: John Huston

Starring: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon

John Huston directs this gripping Tennessee Williams' adaptation chronicling a former preacher's (Richard Burton) dalliances with three women--a nymph... Read more

6/10

Director: Warren Light

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra

A trio of New Yorkers time-share an apartment with funny, romance-inducing results when one, housewife Annabella Sciorra, falls in love with another (... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Federico Fellini

Starring: Giulietta Masina, Francois Perier, Franca Marzi

The third of Fellini's trilogy of solitude. 'Nights of Cabiria' features Giulietta Masina as an impoverished prostitute living on the outskirts of Rom... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Ultra-violent anime in which the Koga Ninja team investigates a mysterious village and soon discover the village wells were poisoned by the Eight Devi... Read more

Director: Tim Fywell

Starring: Ashley Judd, Mira Sorvino, Josh Charles

This imaginative, offbeat biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe, with the two lead actresses (Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd) battling as the alt... Read more

7.1/10

Director: King Vidor

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan

This rousing adventure saga is based on the exploits of colonial American frontiersman Robert Rogers and his men. Spencer Tracy stars as Rogers, leadi... Read more

8/10

Director: Irving Rapper

Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid

A classic romance about tragic love. Bette Davis plays a woman so dominated by her mother that she is afraid to love until her psychiatrist sets her o... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Jonathan Lynn

Starring: Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri

In this grand farce, Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane play lower-echelon English crooks who decide to rip off their boss and fly to Brazil. When their pl... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Jerry Lewis

Starring: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore

Jerry Lewis is a mild mannered chemistry professor who follows in the footsteps of Dr Jekyll and becomes Buddy Love, a heartless lounge lizard and hea... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Gene Saks

Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are two divorced buddies who decide to be roommates in this classic film adaptation of the Neil Simon smash hit play. Read more

7.5/10

Director: Gary Sinise

Starring: Alexis Arquette, John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sher...

The year is 1930. America is gripped by the Depression. But in a time of poverty and despair, two men refused to give up hope. Lennie (John Malkovich)... Read more

6.7/10

Director: David Mamet

Starring: Debra Eisenstadt, William H Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon

David Mamet directed this screen version of his controversial two-character stage drama about a frustrated, self-involved male Professor (William H. M... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Carol Reed

Starring: Harry Secombe, Jack Wild, Mark Lester, Oliver Reed, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis

The musical version of Dicken's classic 'Oliver Twist' adds song and dance to the story of a brave lad trying to survive amidst wretched social condit... Read more

Director: George Scribner

Starring: Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin

An orphaned kitten named Oliver, left alone in the city, is taken in by a daring dog named Dodger and joins his pack of streetwise mutts in this fun f... Read more

7.8/10

Director: David Lean

Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, John Howard

The first British sound filming of the Dickens novel, David Lean's classic drama is highlighted by Alec Guinness' portrayal of the sinister Fagin. Rob... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Starring: Francois Cluzet, Brigitte Rouan, Gregoire Colin

A brooding, based-on-fact account of a country couple whose young son mysteriously disappears. Six years later he 'reappears' but is no longer the spe... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Richard Donner

Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Billie Whitelaw

Undoubtedly one of the scariest movies ever made, this horror classic stars Gregory Peck as an American diplomat who, rather than tell his wife (Lee R... Read more

8.2/10

Director: Elia Kazan

Starring: Rod Steiger, Marlon Brando, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden

Marlon Brando stars in the archetypal role of ex-fighter Terry Malloy, working for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. T... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Starring: Danny Aiello, Gena Rowlands, Holly Hunter, Laura San Giacomo, Richard Dreyfuss

Director Lasse Hallstrom's ('My Life as a Dog') U.S. debut film is this superb off-beat romantic comedy about a repressed young woman (Holly Hunter) s... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton

An extraordinarily visual film examining the bittersweet romance between Teri Garr and Frederic Forrest, with support from Nastassia Kinski and Harry... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Starring: Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe

An exciting based-on-fact POW drama about Franz von Werra (Hardy Kruger) who, after two failed escape attempts from an English prison camp, is transfe... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Harold Becker

Starring: John Savage, James Woods, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox

Powerful film version of Joseph Wambaugh's fact-based novel about the killing of a policeman and his partner's eventual breakdown. James Wood's electr... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Blake Edwards

Starring: Cary Grant, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Tony Curtis, Dick Sargent, Joan O'Brien

Directed by Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria), Operation Petticoat moves from one hilarious situation to the next. With the USS Tiger... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Oliver Parker

Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irene Jacob

Laurence Fishburne is very good in the title role bringing out the warrior Moor's essential innocence and passion, while Kenneth Branagh is brilliant... Read more

4.9/10

Director: Matt Reeves

Starring: David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Barbara Hershey

David Schwimmer plays a young unemployed New Yorker who gets the call to deliver a eulogy at the funeral of a high school friend he can't remember. So... Read more

5.2/10

Director: Lynton Butter

Starring: Bruce Spence, Peter McCauley, Marshall Napier

A black comedy about Bail Beaumont-Foster, a fallen aristocrat and his life long mate, Sam Jamieson and the riotous events that follow, when the pair... Read more

8/10

Director: Franklin J Schaffner

Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe

Based on a true story, petty criminal Henri Charriere, a.k.a. Papillon (Steve McQueen), is framed for murder and transported for life to the penal col... Read more

5.6/10

Director: Michael Moore

Starring: Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta

This time Elvis is an ex-airline pilot who starts a charter helicopter sightseeing service and finds himself coping with pretty tourists. Suzanna Leig... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Martin Ritt

Starring: Joanne Woodward, Louis Armstrong, Paul Newman, Serge Reggiani, Sidney Poitier, D...

From the smoky cellar bistros of Paris' Left Bank comes this tender, bittersweet tale of two American expatriate jazz musicians (Paul Newman, Sidney P... Read more

8.9/10

Director: Edward Sedgwick

Starring: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood

A rare Buster Keaton film of the sound era in which he proves he was as brilliant as ever; Keaton is a sign-tacker hit by a car outside a mansion, bro... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Charlie Peters

Starring: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Jack Warden, Blair Brown, Tim Curry, Frances McDo...

A darkly humorous account of how an offbeat family deals with the death and funeral of the clan patriarch. Bob Hoskins, William Petersen and Blair Bro... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Kevin Hooks

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore

Wesley Snipes is a crack anti-terrorist expert planning early retirement when he is thrust into the middle of an airline hi-jacking perpetrated by vil... Read more

7/10

Director: Tim Burton

Starring: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton

You want some fresh air? Here it is! Pee-wee Herman goes on an adventure to recover his most important possession - a bicycle stolen by some nasties.... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller

Wistful, and often joyously funny film featuring Kathleen Turner as Peggy, a 43-year-old mother of two and facing a divorce. A freak mishap at her hig... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Wes Craven

Starring: Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie

Claustrophobically effective horror film, shot with humour and social commentary, about a young boy who breaks into the home of his landlord and finds... Read more

6.1/10

Director: Mira Nair

Starring: Marisa Tomei, Anjelica Huston, Alfred Molina

A Cuban plantation owner imprisoned for 20 years, is finally released in 1980 and allowed to join the boat migration to Florida, where he yearns to se... Read more

7.1/10

Director: George Marshall

Starring: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Constance Collier

Hold tight for this one! It's one harrowing escape after another. Betty Hutton comes on like fireworks in this witty comedy about the former star of t... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Robert Towne

Starring: Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly

'Chinatown' screenwriter Robert Towne's directorial debut explores the relationship between two young women (Mariel Hemingway and real-life athlete Pa... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Mary Lambert

Starring: Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Dale Midkiff, Brad Greenquist, Miko Hughes

Stephen King adapted his own best-seller about a mysterious Indian burial ground with resurrective powers, and how one family's desperate decision lea... Read more

8/10

Director: Luis Bunuel

Starring: Adolfo Celi, Adriana Asti, Bernard Verley, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Claude Brialy, M...

Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel's surrealist gem "The Phantom of Liberty". Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Simon Wincer

Starring: Tom Burlinson, Martin Vaughan, Judy Morris

An uplifting story of Australia's greatest race horse (but New Zealand bred), told with wit, intelligence and feeling. The race photography is superb.... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Peter Weir

Starring: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse

A spellbinding mystery set in 1900 and filmed with stunning beauty, about a group of schoolgirls, some of whom mysteriously disappear on a St. Valenti... Read more

5.5/10

Director: Glenn Gordon Caron

Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Jay Mohr, Olympia Dukakis, Illeana Douglas, Kevin...

This feel good romantic comedy stars Jennifer Aniston who hatches a plot to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position - and snare... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders

Aka "Pierrot Goes Wild". Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina run away together to the South of France, he is escaping from his rich wife, she is escapi... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Peter Greenaway

Starring: Yoshi Oida, Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor

Peter Greenaway's bold stylistic experiment has as it's theme, the 'correspondence' between the daughter of a famous writer and a publisher, written o... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske

Starring: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Voices Of, Cliff Edwards

The brilliant story of a little puppet who dreams of being a real boy unfolds as a shining example of vivid, rich, finely detailed Disney animation at... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Frank Capra

Starring: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams

A fast-paced, clever romantic comedy about a poor reporter (Robert Williams) who marries a society girl (Jean Harlow) only to rebel against her lifest... Read more

7/10

Director: Clint Eastwood

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Donna Mills, Jessica Walter, John Larch

Superb suspense story that was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut. Eastwood plays a late-night DJ who has a one-night stand with devoted listener Jess... Read more

8/10

Director: Jacques Tati

Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte

Called one of the funniest men in the world by the New York Times, Jacques Tati's 'Playtime' is an hilarious comedy and satire on coping with the mode... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Richard Eyre

Starring: Frank Finlay, Jonathan Pryce, Rosemary Harris, Tim Curry

Jonathan Pryce plays the opportunistic news reporter who claws his way to the top no matter what the cost in director Richard Eyre's ("Notes on a Scan... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty

An energized, action-packed story about a young FBI agent (Keanu Reeves) investigating a series of Southern California bank robberies. In order to get... Read more

5.4/10

Director: Katt Shea Ruben

Starring: Cheryl Ladd, Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt

In this erotically-charged thriller, Drew Barrymore turns in a heated performance as a sly teenage seductress who befriends fellow troubled student Sa... Read more

7.4/10

Director: David Swift

Starring: Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden

Walt Disney's version of this classic childhood book is grand entertainment for the whole family. Hayley Mills is the energetic and optimistic young o... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Jane Campion

Starring: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey

With the help of a supportive cousin (Martin Donovan), one of the few headstrong, independent American women of the late 19th century (Nicole Kidman)... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Godfrey Reggio

"Life in Transformation". As a follow up to "Koyaanisqatsi", this visual montage shows how the Third World societies have been exploited. Beautifully... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Victor Salva

Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum

A rural teen (Sean Patrick Flanery) whose skin is ghostly white and whose nickname is Powder, is the local pariah; he's scary, shy, brilliant and seem... Read more

7.2/10

Director: John G Avildsen

Starring: Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman, John Gielgud

It's the 1930s, and as the people he cares for die or leave his village, young South African P.K. bonds with much older Doc (Armin Mueller-Stahl). A f... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Griffin Dunne

Starring: Aidan Quinn, Dianne Wiest, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Stockard Channing

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman shine in this comedic fantasy/romance playing sisters who turn to the witchcraft their family has practiced for gener... Read more

5.5/10

Director: Penny Marshall

Starring: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Gregory Hines

A vibrant fantasy/comedy based on 1947s 'The Bishop's Wife', features Denzel Washington as an angel sent to Earth to help Whitney Houston and her mini... Read more

6.3/10

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Starring: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, Robe...

The streets of Los Angeles are already a war zone, but when an interplanetary 'big game' hunter arrives, a deadly battle erupts between the police, a... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Howard Deutch

Starring: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy

Molly Ringwald is the school girl from the wrong side of town, Andrew McCarthy the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. A bittersweet, critic... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Robert Z Leonard

Starring: Greer Garson, Edna May Oliver, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland...

An outstanding adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about five husband-hunting sisters in 19th Century England. Laurence Olivier stars as Mr Darcy (afte... Read more

7/10

Director: Brenda Chapman, Simon Wells, Steve Hickner

Starring: Val Kilmer, Sandra Bullock, Ralph Fiennes, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Steve Ma...

A spectacular animated retelling of the story of Moses. The biggest star-studded voice cast ever assembled for an animated film includes Val Kilmer, R... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Barbra Streisand

Starring: Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner

About a man (Nick Nolte) who keeps a lifetime of harrowing memories bottled up inside - until he's forced to spill them to a psychiatrist (Barbara Str... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Stephan Elliott

Starring: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce

The outrageous tale of three drag queens who hit the road in a pink bus called Priscilla and head to Alice Springs to perform a cabaret show. Terence... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Sergei Bodrov

Starring: Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr

This devastating drama, based loosely on Tolstoy's Prisoner of the Caucsus, tells of two Russian soldiers captured by Chechen rebels and held in an im... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Betty Thomas

Starring: Mary McCormack, Robin Quivers, Howard Stern, Paul Giamatti

This screen adaptation of Howard Stern's (the 90's Lenny Bruce) no-holds-barred autobiography charts his rise to power and notoriety. Follow the super... Read more

6.8/10

Director: John Huston

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, John Randolph,...

Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner in a black comedy about a Mafia hit man who falls in love with a beautiful free-lance killer. With Anjelica Huston... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Mel Brooks

Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Dick Shawn

Mel Brook's hilarious hit about a producer who comes up with a surefire scheme for making money... on a musical production that he is absolutely cert... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse

Starring: Hugo Weaving, Genevieve Picot, Russell Crowe

A highly original inventive film about Martin, blind since birth and mistrustful, who must rely on others to describe the photographs he takes as 'pro... Read more

5.6/10

Director: Ismail Merchant

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Sean Young, Sam Waterston

Set in Paris and New York City, focuses on Author Jeanne Moreau exploring two distinct cultures, past and present life experiences and relationships o... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ken Russell

Starring: Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, Alan Webb

Director Ken Russell's moving adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel is set in 1920s England and chronicles the complicated romantic lives of artist Glen... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Michael Wadleigh

Starring: Arlo Guthrie, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens,...

It was an event destined to become the definitive document on the freaked out craziness of the peace-and-love era. In August, 1969, half a million hip... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Michael Mads...

This epic-length biography shows how fate and circumstance turned the fabled Earp into a hardened and heartless man who killed in the name of law and... Read more

5.1/10

Director: Robert Greenwald

Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck

'Xanadu' is a look at the future and a loving rememberance of the way things were in the heyday of Hollywood. The musical score includes the hit songs... Read more

8.3/10

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Eijiro Tono, Seizaburo Kawazu, Toshiro Mifune

Kurosawa's first full-length comedy. Toshiro Mifune is the unemployed samurai warrior who comes to a small village torn apart by two warring factions... Read more

5.1/10

Director: Yahoo Serious

Starring: Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard

At the turn of the last century, the son of a Tasmanian apple grower discovers the theory of relativity, splits the beer atom, discovers gravity and i... Read more

6.9/10

Director: John Frankenheimer

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews

Burt Lancaster gives a forceful performance as a prosecutor whose search for the truth puts his career in jeopardy in this tough, hard-hitting expose... Read more

4.4/10

Director: Sam Pillsbury

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson

A sexually charged drama described as 'Last Tango in New Orleans'. Judge Reinhold plays a brilliant but burned out poet whose beautiful wife (Erika An... Read more

7.5/10

Director: D A Pennebaker

Starring: David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder

David Bowie at his most outrageous, performing many of his biggest songs. Filmed in London in 1973, during Bowie's last appearance as the androgynous... Read more

Director: Lucio Fulci

Starring: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson

Aka "Zombie". A gory pulp zombie tale in true spaghetti style. A woman travels to a remote island from which her father's boat returned with only zomb... Read more

5.8/10

Director: Renny Harlin

Starring: Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Samuel L Jackson, LL Cool J, Michael Rapaport, Ste...

Sharks being used in intelligence-enhancing experiments go out of control, attacking the occupants of a high-tech undersea compound in this sci-fi fla... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Rose Troche

Starring: Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving, Tom Hollander

A breezy and bustling farce about a man (Kevin McKidd) who enters therapy after many failed relationships. In the group session he comes clean about h... Read more

5.7/10

Director: Steve Miner

Starring: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White

An investigative team of malcontents, armed with state-of-the-art equipment, high-powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm, must work together t... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Starring: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller

Six strangers wake up inside a three-dimensional maze of interlocking cubes. None of them know how they got there or why they have been chosen. Some c... Read more

5.3/10

Director: Rand Ravich

Starring: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea DuVall

On a routine space shuttle mission a pair of astronauts leave their spacecraft to repair a satellite... there's an explosion and NASA loses contact fo... Read more

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis

This original work focuses on an obsessed math prodigy. A strange numeric pattern thrown up by the fluctuations of the stock market, which only he can... Read more

5.1/10

Director: Sydney Pollack

Starring: Harrison Ford, Bonnie Hunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S Dutton, Dennis Haysb...

In one of Harrison Ford's most critically acclaimed roles he plays an Internal Affairs Sergeant who teams up with a high-powered Congresswoman, becomi... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Chris Columbus

Starring: Robin Williams, Oliver Platt, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz

The hilarious and heart-warming story of one robot's extraordinary 200-year journey to become an ordinary man. From the director of "Mrs Doubtfire". S... Read more

8.3/10

Director: Majid Majidi

Starring: Mohammad Amir Naji, Karnal Mirkarimi, Amir Farrokh Hashemian

This acclaimed heart-warming tale follows two young siblings in an Iranian city as they try to keep the loss of their sister's only shoes from their p... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija

Master Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's meticulous swan song was this tale, starring Tom Cruise as a doctor who is married to an art curator (Nicole Kidman... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Costa Botes

Starring: Jim Moriarty, Kirsty Hamilton

When Grace (Kirsty Hamilton) meets Gerald (Jim Moriarty), a delicate relationship develops. He repairs her confidence, which was shattered when her mo... Read more

7.1/10

Director: David O Russell

Starring: Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, George Clooney

March 1991; the Iraqi Desert in the aftermath of Desert Storm. Four American soldiers discover a map reputedly leading to a huge cache of gold stolen... Read more

6.6/10

Director: John McTiernan

Starring: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Omar Sharif

Based on Michael Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead", this medieval adventure stars Antonio Banderas as a 10th-century ambassador from Baghdad who is conf... Read more

8.8/10

Director: David Fincher

Starring: Meat Loaf, Tom Waits, Jared Leto, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton deliver grand performances in this stunningly original, darkly comic film from the director of 'Seven'. A chance encounter... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Starring: Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo, Charlize Theron

From the director of "My Life as a Dog" comes author John Irving's acclaimed adaptation of his novel set in 1940's New England, which follows a young... Read more

5.4/10

Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan

Starring: Tom Selleck, Tom Everett Scott, Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres, Blythe Danner

In this wonderful mix of charm, comedy and romance, Kate Capshaw plays the owner of a small town New England bookstore who has to figure out who wrote... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Michael Mann

Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Gina Gershon, Michael Gambon, Phi...

This powerful, riveting true-life story centers on Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), a scientist with a major tobacco company who reveals potentially da... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Jay Roach

Starring: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Burt Reynolds, Mary McCormack, Colm Meaney, Mike Mye...

This rousing mix of sports drama and small-town comedy follows a Sports Illustrated writer who returns to his Alaska hometown with a challenge for the... Read more

7.3/10

Director: Kevin Smith

Starring: Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Bud Cort

Wayward angels Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, exiled in Wisconsin for millenia, discover that a New Jersey church holds the theological key to their gett... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Anthony Minghella

Starring: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman

A lush, involving thriller based on Patricia Highsmith's novel starring Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, a young New Yorker hired by a tycoon to persuade was... Read more

7/10

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Starring: Thandie Newton, David Thewlis

This erotic and emotional love story is set in a lush Roman villa and focuses on a reclusive British musician (David Thewlis) who is irresistably draw... Read more

8.4/10

Director: Sam Mendes

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher, Mena...

Five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director and Actor, went to this lacerating, darkly funny look at decay in contemporary suburbia. Kevin Sp... Read more

8/10

Director: Alice Harper, Martin Gorst

Starring: Narrated by, Stephen Hawking, John Hurt

Breathtaking imagery and extraordinary graphics highlight this wonderful offering. Featuring interviews with leading cosmological astronomers and worl... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Delbert Mann

Starring: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal

A remarkably good remake of the 1930 classic anti-war film telling of the experiences of a group of raw recruits in the German trenches of W.W.I. Erne... Read more

6.2/10

Director: Peter Yates

Starring: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte

This underwater thriller, based on Peter Benchley's novel, focuses on two lovers on a Caribbean vacation who discover a sunken wreck laden with treasu... Read more

8.5/10

Director: David Mallet, Franco Dragone

Starring: Cirque du Soleil

Following the successful three-year tour across North America, the internationally renowned "neo-traditional" company presents their dazzling stagesho... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Bruce Neibaur

Starring: Omar Sharif, Kate Maberly

This stunning National Geographic film takes you through five millennia of splendour of one of the world's greatest civilizations. Surrounding you wit... Read more

6.1/10

Director: Howard Zieff

Starring: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante

Goldie Hawn is delightful as a spoiled Jewish/American princess who decides to get away from her life by joining the "new liberal" Army. Her army camp... Read more

8.7/10

Director: Larry Jordan

Starring: Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard's unique ability in looping topics such as pop culture and human behaviour into bizarre chains of association has catapulted him into one... Read more

Director: Shirley Horrocks

This, one of the most popular New Zealand documentaries of recent years, takes a light-hearted look at the growing craze for "Kiwiana" or things which... Read more

8.7/10

Director: Yusuke Watanabe

Starring: Shiro Kishibe, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume

A surreal blend of Oriental fable, Kung Fu actions, Buddhist philosophy and slapstick comedy are the ingredients of this wonderfully dubbed 70's class... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Stanley Donen

Starring: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore

This Bondian adventure stars Gregory Peck as a language professor hired to decipher a secret code. He and Sophia Loren must outwit hired gunmen and cu... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Gerald Thomas

Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw,...

Things get campy when the crew head towards the woods in the hopes of finding a nudist colony. But when they arrive in the great outdoors, there's no... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Gordon Douglas

Starring: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andrea Martin, Alan Hale, Warren Oates

A thrilling, intelligent WWII tale about a tough by-the-book captain of a submarine (Edmond O'Brien) whose problems with a young demolitions expert (... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Joanna Cassidy

Groundbreaking blend of live-action and animation in which jaded, 1940's detective Bob Hoskins goes searching for a murderer with prime suspect, and c... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Simon Shore

Starring: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gordon, Charlotte Brittain, Stacy Hart

Focusing on 16 year old Steven (Ben Silverstone), who, struggling with his homosexuality and the need to keep it a secret, is surprised when, while wa... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Milos Forman

Starring: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti

In an acclaimed performance that borders on channelling, Jim Carrey plays kamikaze comic genius Andy Kaufman, who delighted in tricking, perplexing, a... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Rob Minkoff

Starring: Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Michael J Fox, Nathan Lane

Amazing computer animation and the voice of Michael J Fox help bring to life E.B. White's tiny mouse hero in this delightful live-action family film.... Read more

Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Starring: Emilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux, Jeremie Renier, Olivier Gourme...

'Rosetta' (1999, 90 mins) Winner of the 1999 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and widely hailed as a masterpiece, 'Rosetta' is an extraordinary... Read more

5.6/10

Director: Michael Anderson

Starring: Bo Derek, Charlotte Rampling, Richard Harris, Will Sampson

After his mate is killed, a 25-foot killer whale seeks revenge against sailor Richard Harris and follows him to a final showdown in the Arctic. This r... Read more

5.8/10

Director: Norman Taurog

Starring: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Deborah Wally

With three women (a spoiled rich girl, a man-hungry author, and his band's drummer) out to snare him, racecar driver/singer Elvis sure has his hands f... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Stuart Heisler

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly, Sessue Hayakawa

Believing his wife is in a Japanese concentration camp, and ignorant of the daughter she bore, Air Corps hero Humphrey Bogart finds both in a post-war... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Pedro Almodovar

Starring: Cecilia Roth, Penelope Cruz, Antonia San Juan

When her teenage son is killed, Madrid nurse Cecilia Roth sets out to fulfill the boy's wish to find the father he never knew. Roth's quest to locate... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Neil Jordan

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea

In London shortly after World War II, author Ralph Fiennes is asked by civil servant friend Stephen Rea for help in determining whether wife Julianne... Read more

8/10

Director: David Lynch

Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Everett McGill, Harry Dean Stanton

In a gentle, G-rated change of pace that still features his trademark fascination with rural American quirkiness, director David Lynch recounts the tr... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Lars von Trier

Starring: Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lei, Gerald Wells

Lars Von Trier's stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for yo... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Mark Robson

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Claudia Cardinale

Anthony Quinn is a glory-seeking soldier, fighting France's doomed cause in colonial Indochina and Algeria, whose climb through the ranks is stalled w... Read more

6.7/10

Director: James Wong

Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Tony Todd

A high school student has a terrifying vision of a plane crashing right before he and his classmates are to head to Paris on a senior trip. Seven peop... Read more

6.6/10

Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Starring: Jim Carrey, Renee Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Robert Forster

In this comedy from the Farrelly Brothers, Jim Carrey is Charlie, a Rhode Island state trooper whose anger is so repressed that he develops another pe... Read more

5.6/10

Director: Patrick Lussier

Starring: Christopher Walken, Vincent Spano, Kayren Ann Butler, Brad Dourif

The third seraphic shocker finds Gabriel (Christopher Walken) once again fighting "on the side of the angels", as he tries to defend the half-human Da... Read more

5.9/10

Director: Rob Reiner

Starring: Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Julie Hagerty, Tim Matheson, Paul Reiser, Rob R...

Follow the ups and downs of 15 years in the lives of Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, a couple facing the possible end of their marriage, in direct... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Dominic Sena

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Duvall

Nicolas Cage stars as a legendary car thief who returns to Southern California, after calling it quits, to save brother Giovanni Ribisi, who will be b... Read more

6.1/10

Director: Adrian Edmondson

Starring: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Vincent Cassel, Helene Mahieu

"Bottom" meets "Fawlty Towers" in this movie spin-off featuring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson's characters from "Bottom&quo... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Roland Emmerich

Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper, Tcheky K...

Mel Gibson is Benjamin Martin, the legendary 'Hero of Fort Wilderness' who in 1776 leaves left military life to raise his family on his South Carolina... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Zhang Yimou

Starring: Sun Honglei, Zhang Ziyi, Zheng Hao, Zhao Yuelin, Li Bin

An exotic and exquisite film set in the unfamiliar Chinese outback that tells a simple, sweet love story in flashback. Sun Honglei, Zheng Hao and Zhao... Read more

5.7/10

Director: Ben Elton

Starring: Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson, Dawn French, Joann...

Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson are trying to have a baby with not much success and much frustration as their lives become increasingly caught up in... Read more

6/10

Director: Betty Thomas

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Elizabeth Perkins, Diane Ladd, Steve Buscemi

Sandra Bullock is a newspaper reporter who, while intoxicated, crashes a limousine on the day of sister Elizabeth Perkins' wedding. Bullock enters a r... Read more

7.4/10

Director: Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura's ('Carmen', 'Blood Wedding') love letter to the Flamenco explores the music and movement of this most passionate dance form. With close... Read more

Director: Tomoaki Hosoyama

Starring: Kei Mizutami, Kunihiko Ida, Eisei Amamoto

This over-the-top farce about greed, power, and Japan's national obsession with weather reports stars a gorgeous Kei Mizutami playing a very unusual w... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Matt Williams

Starring: Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, James Frain, Sally Field

Pregnant teen Natalie Portman is abandoned in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart by her low-life boyfriend while on a cross country trip and promptly takes up resid... Read more

6.5/10

Director: Todd Phillips

Starring: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Rachel Blanchard

Josh (Breckin Meyer) has a major problem - besides the fact that he is in college in Ithaca, NY and his longtime girlfriend, Tiffany, is in Austin TX.... Read more