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Fearless Hyena (1979)

6.8/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan, living in a remote village, learns Kung-Fu from his grandfather. Soon he acts a master of a Kung-Fu school where a hood from way back kil... Read more

Fearless Hyena II (1983)

Director: Chuen Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan

A pair of evil Kung-Fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yan brotherhood. Twenty years later we see Jackie Chan, as he hunts... Read more

Female Trouble (1974)

7.3/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey

Divine is Dawn Davenport, teenage delinquent, unwed mother, working girl and murderer. Follow her outrageous life of violence and learn why crime is b... Read more

A Few Good Men (1993)

7.7/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon

Navy lawyer (Tom Cruise) is driven to investigate the case of two marines who killed a compatriot. Jack Nicholson plays the commanding officer who doe... Read more

Fierce Creatures (1997)

6.4/10
Director: Fred Schepisi, Robert Young
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Ronnie Corbett, Carey...

The stars of "A Fish Called Wanda" return to deal with an international conglomerates directive for a zoo in the rural heart of England to turn a 20%... Read more

The Fifth Element (1997)

7.7/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker

A dazzling, imaginative tale set in the 23rd century where a cabbie (Bruce Willis) finds himself involved with a strange woman (Milla Jovovich) who mi... Read more

True Believer (1989)

6.7/10
Director: Joseph Ruben
Starring: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr, Yuji Okumoto

Aka "Fighting Justice". A good thriller about lawyer James Woods being convinced to take on a murder case by his idealistic young associate (Robert Do... Read more

Finally Sunday! ( Confidentially Yours ) (1983)

7.4/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fanny Ardant

A.k.a. 'Confidentially Yours'. A wife and her lover are found murdered. Suspicion falls on her estate agent husband whose loyal secretary tries to pro... Read more

Fingers (1978)

7/10
Director: James Toback
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Jim Brown, Tisa Farrow, Michael Gazzo

A gritty Scorsese-esque character study of an aspiring concert pianist (Harvey Keitel) who moonlights as a debt collector for his aging mafioso father... Read more

Finian's Rainbow (1968)

6.3/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele

Fred Astaire plays codger Finian McLonergan, who thinks his magical pot of gold will grow and make him a millionaire until a real leprechaun (Tommy St... Read more

Fist of Fury (1972)

7.3/10
Director: Lo Wei
Starring: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Robert Baker

AKA 'The Chinese Connection'. In what many enthusiasts consider to be 'the ultimate martial arts movie', Bruce Lee is a true force of nature as he bat... Read more

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

8.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale

Herzog's saga of an impressario's obsession to bring his own opera boat up the Amazon River and over a mountain into Peru where he will have Caruso si... Read more

Flashback (1989)

6.2/10
Director: Franco Amurri
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Hopper, Carol Kane

Young straight-arrow FBI agent Kiefer Sutherland is ordered to transport a recently capturedundergroun political fugitive to the scene of his 60s crim... Read more

The Fly (1958) / Return of the Fly (1959)

Director: Edward Bernds, Kurt Neumann
Starring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton

'The Fly' - Vincent Price is a brilliant scientist who becomes obsessed with perfecting a device that can transmit matter from one location to another... Read more

The Fly (1986)

7.5/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz

Cronenberg's 'The Fly' is less a remake of the original film than a remake of the original short story about a brilliant scientist who develops a syst... Read more

The Fog (1980)

6.8/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman, To...

A small coastal town in California is attacked by the ghosts of mariners, who take a grisly revenge on the descendants of the six people who lured the... Read more

Footlight Parade (1933)

7.8/10
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler

One of Busby Berkeley's best, featuring out-of-this-world musical mumbers and songs like 'Honeymoon Hotel" and "Shanghai Lil". James Cagney is a down-... Read more

Footloose (1984)

6.5/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer

Kevin Bacon is great in this musical about a city kid who moves to a small town where dancing has been banned, and battles with a fire-and-brimstone m... Read more

Force 10 From Navarone (1978)

6.4/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Barbara Bach, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Robert Shaw, Franco Nero, Carl Weathers...

An attempt to create a sequel to 'The Guns of Navarone' in which the target this time is a bridge and dam in Yugoslavia. Robert Shaw steps into the Gr... Read more

Forever Young (1992)

6.3/10
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood

Thirties test pilot Mel Gibson volunteers for a cryogenics experiment and wakes up 53 years later when single mum Jamie Lee Curtis and her son Elijah... Read more

Forget Paris (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Billy Crystal
Starring: Billy Crystal, Joe Mantegna, Debra Winger, Julie Kavner, Richard Masur, Cathy Mo...

Billy Crystal plays a basketball referee who falls head over heels for Debra Winger, while burying his father in Paris in this sharply written comedy... Read more

Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995)

7.1/10
Director: Judy Rymer, Sam Neill
Starring: Sam Neill

Sam Neill looks at our national cinema using dozens of film clips to explore the dark undercurrent beneath the seemingly uneventful surface of New Zea... Read more

The Fourth War (1990)

5.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Jurgen Prochnow, Roy Scheider, Tim Reid, Lara Harris

Posted on each side of the Czech-West German border, US colonel Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider) and his Soviet counterpart Colonel Valachev (Jurgen Prochn... Read more

Frances (1982)

7.4/10
Director: Graeme Clifford
Starring: Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley, Bart Burns

Jessica Lange received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Frances Farmer, the intelligent Hollywood actress who was involuntarily committed to a... Read more

Frank and Jesse (1994)

4.6/10
Director: Robert Boris
Starring: Rob Lowe, Bill Paxton, Randy Travis

Another grand retelling of the infamous outlaws Frank and Jesse James, with star/co-producer Rob Lowe turning his character (Jesse) into a martyred he... Read more

Frank Lloyd Wright (1997)

7.8/10
Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Starring: Frank Lloyd Wright

An absorbing study of U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright's tumultuous life and career. Using all manner of original photographs, plans, home movies of... Read more

Frank Zappa: Does Humour Belong In Music? (1985)

6.9/10
Director: Frank Zappa
Starring: Ray White, Ike Willis, Frank Zappa, Bobby Martin

All songs composed by Frank Zappa except "Whippin' Post" by Greg Allman. Read more

Frankie and Johnny (1991)

6.7/10
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo

Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer light up the screen in this touching comedy about an outgoing short-order cook and the object of his desire, a love-sh... Read more

Free Willy (1993)

5.9/10
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Jason James Richter, Lori Petty, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Madsen

Jesse, a homeless orphan who spends his days evading the police, finally gets caught spray painting a whale tank at a local park. Because he distrusts... Read more

French Cancan (1954)

7.5/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir's exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays... Read more

French Twist (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Josiane Balasko
Starring: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat

A wonderful farce about a dancer-turned-housewife who decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson by inviting her new lover, a lesbian disc joc... Read more

The Freshman (1990)

6.5/10
Director: Andrew Bergman
Starring: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Maximilian S...

This off-beat comedy stars Matthew Broderick as a N.Y. University film student who gets a summer job with an Italian-American importer who looks suspi... Read more

Friday the 13th (1980)

6.5/10
Director: Sean S Cunningham
Starring: Adrienne King, Betsy Palmer, Harry Crosby, Kevin Bacon, Laurie Bartram

Director Sean Cunningham cemented the slasher genre with this gory, though unexciting, thriller about an unknown killer stalking camp counsellors at C... Read more

The Frighteners (1996)

7.1/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson

Peter Jackson's wild horror-comedy principally filmed in Lyttelton, and starring Michael J. Fox as a psychic con-artist who uses a trio of ghosts he's... Read more

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

7.3/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Salma Hayek, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, C...

Director Robert Rodriguez and star-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino throw in everything they can think of in this tale of a pair of bank-robbing brother... Read more

From Here to Eternity (1953)

7.7/10
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, De...

The talented Fred Zinnemann ('A Man for All Seasons') perfectly captures the static isolation and boredom that envelops the military personnel in peac... Read more

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

8.3/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Ed O'Ross, Kevyn Major Howard, R Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Vincent D'Onofrio,...

Stanley Kubrick visits Vietnam. Follow a few Marines from training on Paris Island to fighting in the Tet Offensive. With Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin... Read more

Funny Bones (1995)

7/10
Director: Peter Chelsom
Starring: Leslie Caron, Lee Evans, Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Re...

Jerry Lewis is the famous father of struggling comedian (Oliver Platt) desperate to make his own name in the business. He is not making it in Las Veg... Read more

Funny Face (1956)

7.1/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thomas

Fred Astaire is a fashion photographer, Audrey Hepburn the shy young girl he makes over into a top model in this lavish musical with a winning Gershwi... Read more

G.I. Jane (1997)

5.9/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft

She's an officer and a gentlewoman, but can Navy lieutenant Demi Moore, the first woman candidate for the elite Navy SEALs unit, survive both the rigo... Read more

Gas-s-s-s (1970)

Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Bud Cort, Cindy Williams, Robert Corff, Ben Vereen

Aka: "Gas! or: It Became Necessary to Destroy The World in Order to Save it". Odd hippy stuff about a gas that kills everyone on Earth over 25 years o... Read more

The Gauntlet (1977)

6.4/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle

A Las Vegas prostitute (Sondra Locke) who is a critical witness in an impending trial is stalked by assassins. A cop (Clint Eastwood) is sent to bring... Read more

The General (1927)

8.2/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender

One of the greatest films from the silent period, a true classic. Buster Keaton is an engineer on 'The General', a Confederate train during the Civil... Read more

Ghostbusters II (1989)

6.5/10
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hu...

After their last outing, the boys have been banned from ghost-busting and hold down regular jobs. However, the discovery of a massive river of ectopl... Read more

Giant (1956)

7.7/10
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Rock Hudson

A film of staggering scale and grandeur detailing the lives of cattleman Rock Hudson and his society wife Elizabeth Taylor and three generations of la... Read more

Gift Horse (1951)

Director: Compton Bennett
Starring: Dora Bryan, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, Trevor Howard

Aka "Glory at Sea". A fine WWII drama with Trevor Howard as a demanding, no-nonsense commander of a battleship who wins the respect of his men while b... Read more

Gimme Shelter (1970)

7.9/10
Director: Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles
Starring: The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Ike Turner

The controversial Altamont, Ca., show that climaxed 'The Rolling Stones' 1969 U.S. tour and saw the murder of a concert-goer by Hell's Angels security... Read more

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

7.8/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Jonat...

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelly "The Machine" Levene (Jack Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Ed Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma... Read more

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

7.3/10
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, June Allyson, Henry Morgan, Frances Langford, Louis Armstrong, Ge...

James Stewart and June Allyson star as the popular band leader and his wife in this Anthony Mann film bio loaded with swinging music and fine musician... Read more

The Go-Between (1971)

7.4/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard

Adaptation of the novel by L P Hartley, scripted by Harold Pinter. Seen through the eyes of a young boy, a love affair between the daughter of an affl... Read more

The Godfather Part II (1974)

9/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Talia Shire

The story of the Corleone clan continues, as new boss Al Pacino launches a violent campaign to extend his family's power, while flashbacks with Robert... Read more

The Godfather (1972)

9.2/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Al Pacino, John Cazale,...

Francis Ford Coppola's mafioso epic featuring Marlon Brando as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Based on Mario Puzo's novel, it's a masterful ble... Read more

The Gold Rush (1925)

8.2/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray

Considered by many to be Chaplin's finest comedy: Charlie is the gold prospector in the Yukon near starvation and treacherous villains. Many great sce... Read more

GoldenEye (1995)

7.2/10
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Joe Don Baker, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Famke Janssen, Izabella Scorupco, Judi...

Pierce Brosnan's invitation into the James Bond fold puts him head-to-head with a former associate, now a ruthless renegade agent trying to control 'l... Read more

Goldfinger (1964)

7.7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Honor Blackman, Sean Connery, Shirley Eaton, Gert Frobe, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwe...

In one of the most popular Bond adventures, 007 must foil Goldfinger - the man with the plan to irradiate Fort Knox and corner the world's gold market... Read more

The Gondoliers (1990)

8.4/10
Director: Brian Macdonald
Starring: David Hosbon, Roger Lemke, Suzanne Johnston

A stylish Australian production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta following the story of two men, recently married, who discover that they are need... Read more

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

7.3/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran

Robin Williams won an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the role of the wacky, motormouth, military disc jockey Adrian Cronauer. It's 1965 in Saigon... Read more

Good Will Hunting (1997)

8.3/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

Two young (then unknown) actors wrote a script that dealt with mental health issues and genius mathematicians. Within months, their script had been so... Read more

A Goofy Movie (1995)

6.8/10
Director: Kevin Lima
Starring: Goofy, Bigfoot

Enjoy all the outrageous fun and laughter of Disney's most lovable character as he stars in his very first full-length motion picture. Read more

The Goonies (1985)

7.8/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, Josh Brolin, Kerri Green, Martha Plim...

From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, 'The Goonies' plunges a band of small heroes into a swashbuckling, surprise-around-every-corner quest beyond... Read more

The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1964)

7.9/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Enrique Irazoqui, Susanna Pasolini, Mario Socrate

A totally original Italian version of the story of Christ, using only the words and scenes described by St Matthew. Director Pasolini, an avowed marxi... Read more

Graceland: Paul Simon (1987)

7.7/10
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Starring: Paul Simon, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela

Based on Paul Simon's Grammy-winning album that blended pop with African music. Featured is his 1987 performance in Zimbabwe with renowned trumpeter H... Read more

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

8.1/10
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Carradine, Jane Darwell, Henry Fonda

One of the great classics, this adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and John Carradine as Casey. Tom returns to the f... Read more

Great Balls Of Fire (1989)

6.2/10
Director: Jim McBride
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin

Dennis Quaid plays Jerry Lee Lewis in this biopic that traces 'the killer's' rise to rock and roll stardom in the '50s and the marriage to his teenage... Read more

The Great Escape (1963)

8.2/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner, James Donald, James Coburn, D...

An epic WWII adventure film starring Steve McQueen, unforgettable as "the Cooler King," leading Allied prisoners in a daring escape from a German POW... Read more

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)

6.5/10
Director: Julien Temple
Starring: Sid Vicious, Malcolm McLaren, Johnny Rotten

An outrageously cynical free-form documentary about the infamous, ground-breaking punk-rock band 'The Sex Pistols'. The original ad campaign pictured... Read more

The Great Train Robbery (1978)

7/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Sean Connery, Lesley-Anne Down

Aka "The First Great Train Robbery". Based-on-fact tale of the world's first moving train heist, this stylish thriller, written and directed by Michae... Read more

Heart and Souls (1993)

6.9/10
Director: Ron Underwood
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Charles Grodin, Elisabeth Shue, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Downey Jr

This sentimental fantasy follows the misadventures of Robert Downey Jr, who, at the moment of his birth is 'adopted' by a quartet of ghosts. Realising... Read more

Heart of the Dragon (1985)

7/10
Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Emily Chu

The story of a cop who forsakes his dreams of sailing around the world so that he can care for his mentally retarded brother. Innocently caught up in... Read more

Heat (1995)

8.2/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Diane Venora, A...

This intense police story showcases Al Pacino as a frazzled Los Angeles detective out to stop a group of thieves headed by mastermind Robert De Niro,... Read more

Heathcliff (1997)

8.2/10
Director: Frank Dunlop
Starring: Cliff Richard

The scene is set when a ragged gypsy bundle, the child Heathcliff, is brought to Wuthering Heights. As the passionate boy grows into the brooding man,... Read more

Heavens Above! (1963)

6.8/10
Director: John Boulting
Starring: Isabel Jeans, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Bernard Miles, Brock...

Peter Sellers, in an unusually low-key performance stars as a young vicar whose tendencies to interpret Christian doctrine in his own individualistic... Read more

Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

5.1/10
Director: Alan Smithee
Starring: Bruce Ramsey, Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley

This time from the infamous Smithee oeuvre! The unholy horror of Pinhead, his fellow Cenobites and their bizarre little boxes reaches from the 18th ce... Read more

Henry V (Olivier) (1944)

7.7/10
Director: Laurence Olivier
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Esmond Knight, Renee Asherson, Fe...

'Henry V' is one of Shakespeare's most compelling historical plays. Laurence Olivier won a special Oscar for outstanding achievement as an actor, prod... Read more

Hercules Returns (1993)

7.6/10
Director: David Parker
Starring: David Argue, Bruce Spence, Mary Coustas

Three film entrepreneurs open an old cinema with the classic 'B' grade film 'Hercules'. However, on opening night they discover that it's in Italian w... Read more

High Tide (1987)

7.2/10
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Starring: Judy Davis, Jan Adele, Claudia Karvan, Colin Friels

In an AFI Award winning performance, Judy Davis plays Lilli, a back-up singer for an Elvis impersonator. When she is fired from the tour in a NSW Sout... Read more

Hocus Pocus (1993)

6.8/10
Director: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw, Omr...

This lively, special effects-filled fantasy tells of three 17th-century witches who find themselves in a cauldron of trouble when three children use a... Read more

The Holcroft Covenant (1985)

5.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Michael Caine, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Mic...

Noel Holcroft (Michael Caine) is a New York architect who receives an unexpected inheritance from his ex-Nazi father; $40 billion in funds stolen from... Read more

Homegrown (1998)

5.8/10
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Starring: Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch, Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Bon Jovi, Ryan Phillippe, Judg...

An enjoyable caper movie about a trio of marijuana growers from Northern California who are forced to free-lance when their boss is gunned down. They... Read more

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)

6.9/10
Director: Duwayne Dunham
Starring: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Jean Smart, Benj Thall

A magical live-action adventure from the Disney studios about a golden retriever, a cat and a bulldog puppy who are separated from their human family... Read more

Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992)

4.8/10
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri

Would-be inventor Rick Moranis and his family have a big problem in this sequel, thanks to a growth ray that turns his 2-year-old son into a 100-foot-... Read more

Hope and Glory (1987)

7.4/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor

John Boorman's critically acclaimed memory of childhood - moving, funny, bittersweet. The main character, Bill, is a seven year old boy, Sarah Miles h... Read more

The Horse Whisperer (1998)

6.6/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansso...

After a tragic riding accident, the mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer (Robert... Read more

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

7.7/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

This surreal Gothic drama by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman stars Max von Sydow as Johan, a troubled artist who is literally haunted by demons from his... Read more

House of Cards (1993)

6.2/10
Director: Michael Lessac
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones, Park Overall

Architect Kathleen Turner and her two children return to the US after several years of living among Mayan ruins (and the eerie spirituality of the May... Read more

House Party (1990)

6.4/10
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Starring: Christopher Martin, Christopher Reid, Martin Lawrence, Robin Harris, Tisha Campb...

A rambunctious comic rap-attack that turns teenage movie conventions upside-down. After his father grounds him for brawling with a bruiser, a high sch... Read more

How the West Was Won (1962)

7.1/10
Director: George Marshall, Henry Hathaway, John Ford
Starring: Carolyn Jones, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Eli Wallach, George Peppard, Greg...

The sprawling story of three generations of 19th-century pioneers, and their odyssey from New England to the frontier, is a true western classic with... Read more

How To Irritate People (1968)

6.9/10
Director: Anon
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Connie Booth, Tim Brooke-Taylor

John Cleese with the help of Python's Michael Palin and Graham Chapman gives you all the know-how you need to irritate for business or pleasure. Read more

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

7.3/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney

The Coen Brothers' extravagant, dazzling comedy of invention features dynamite performances from Tim Robbins as the fall guy and Jennifer Jason Leigh... Read more

Hugo Pool (1997)

5.2/10
Director: Robert Downey
Starring: Alyssa Milano, Patrick Dempsey, Cathy Moriarty

A dark comedy about an L.A. pool cleaner (Alyssa Milano), her dealings with her dysfunctional parents, her experiences with an assortment of bizarre c... Read more

The Human Body (1998)

8.6/10
Director: Emma De'ath, Liesel Evans, Richard Dale
Starring: Robert Winston

Life inside the most complex mechanism on earth - our bodies - is explored and explained in this ground-breaking series. The latest imaging techniques... Read more

The Hunger (1983)

6.7/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon

Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie star as the lovers who need fresh blood to survive in the modern world. However, when Bowie starts to rapidly age, r... Read more

Hurlyburly (1998)

5.8/10
Director: Anthony Drazan
Starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Chazz Palminteri, Garry Shandling, Anna P...

David Rabe's blistering play about addiction, sexual confrontation and moral bankruptcy is bought to the screen with a stellar cast, including Sean Pe... Read more

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

7.7/10
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten

Robert Aldrich's follow-up to 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' was this all-star suspense shocker about a family with several skeletons in its close... Read more

I Am A Dancer (1972)

7.2/10
Director: Pierre Jourdan
Starring: Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Carla Fracci

A portrait of the great Rudolf Nureyev, from his homely beginnings in 1938 to one of the century's great dancers and superstars. Includes excerpts fro... Read more

I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

7.6/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place - the bleak and moody Scottish Hebr... Read more

I Love You To Death (1990)

6.4/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Joan Plow...

An off-beat comic love story inspired by true events, about a wife who tried to kill her philandering husband several times, and yet at the court case... Read more

I, Monster (1971)

5.9/10
Director: Stephen Weeks
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Mike Raven

Christopher Lee stars in this reworking of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". When the good doctor experiments with intravenous drugs that are supposed to relea... Read more

I Want To Live! (1958)

7.5/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent

Susan Hayward won an Oscar for her commanding performance in this true story of prostitute Barbara Graham, who, framed and convicted of murder, was to... Read more

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! (1988)

6.6/10
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Starring: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas

Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed and stars in this very funny parody of the blaxploitation films of the early seventies. The cast are culled from t... Read more

Matilda (1996)

6.9/10
Director: Danny Devito
Starring: Danny DeVito, Embeth Davidtz, Mara Wilson, Rhea Perlman

Director Danny DeVito turns Roald Dahl's story into a dark and whimsical fantasy about a smart, book-loving young girl whose parents send her to a boa... Read more

The Matrix (1999)

8.7/10
Director: The Wachowski Brothers
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Hugo Weaving

Cutting-edge visuals and production design feature in this mind altering tale about a computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) who discovers he is living an ill... Read more

Maurice (1987)

7.7/10
Director: James Ivory
Starring: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott

James Ivory directs this sensitive film about the love relationship between two men who meet studying at Cambridge in 1910. Based on the novel by E.M.... Read more

Maximum Overdrive (1986)

5.4/10
Director: Stephen King
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Yeardley Smith

Author Stephen King stepped behind the camera for the first time to direct his story of rampaging trucks - and it is so bad it may be some time before... Read more

The McKenzie Break (1970)

6.5/10
Director: Lamont Johnson
Starring: Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry

An engrossing war drama set in a P.O.W. camp in Scotland during WWII. After hearing of a planned prison escape, Irish intelligence officer Brian Keith... Read more

McQ (1974)

6.2/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur

In this thriller about crime in the streets, an ageing John Wayne plays a tough-as-nails cop out to get the gangster who murdered his partner. Edward... Read more

Mean Streets (1973)

7.4/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval

Scorsese's early masterpiece, set in New York's Little Italy, features a great cast headed by Harvey Keitel as a small-time hood trying to protect his... Read more

Meet the Feebles (1990)

6.7/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Harry, Bletch, Heidi

From that gross but sensational director of 'Bad Taste' comes this 'Sluppet' movie. The film revolves around the famous 'Feebles Variety Massacre' - t... Read more

The Memphis Belle (1944)

7.4/10
Director: William Wyler

Supervised by Lt. Col. William Wyler, director of such classics as 'Mrs Miniver' and 'Wuthering Heights', for the U.S. War Department. The film's subj... Read more

Metropolitan (1990)

7.4/10
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Taylor Nichols

A literate and witty tale of college-age Park Avenue preps and debs who gather during Christmas break to come to terms with their hopes and hormones.... Read more

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

6.6/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jack Thompson

A New York magazine writer (John Cusack) is sent to picturesque Savannah, Georgia, to cover a lavish party hosted by local antiques merchant Jim Willi... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett

Aka "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream". The bard's classic comedy has been transported from ancient Greece to late 19th century Italy w... Read more

The Millionairess (1960)

5.5/10
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Dennis Price, Vittorio De Sica

George Bernard Shaw's aceribic play served as the basis for this romantic satire starring Sophia Loren as a fabulously wealthy beauty who tires of men... Read more

The Canton Godfather ( aka Miracles ) (1989)

Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Richard Ng, Bill Tung

In 1930s Hong Kong we find Jackie Chan in the middle of a gang war between two rival mobs. He saves the life of a gang boss who appoints Jackie to suc... Read more

The Mirror (1974)

8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankovsky

Effortlessly blending past and present, dreams, subjective reminiscence and a wider overview of 20th Century Russian history, Andrei Tarkovsky creates... Read more

Misery (1990)

7.8/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Frances Sternhagen, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth

Stephen King's tale about a successful romance novelist who's nursed back to health after a car crash by his number one fan - who turns out to be a se... Read more

The Misfits (1961)

7.4/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter

Gable and Monroe in their last screen roles! Expertly directed by John Huston from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller, "The Misfits"... Read more

Miss Firecracker (1989)

6.1/10
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Starring: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins

Playwright Beth Henley adapts her acclaimed serio-comedy set in a small southern town gearing up for its annual beauty pageant. With Holly Hunter and... Read more

Mississippi Burning (1988)

7.8/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Brad Dourif, Gene Hackman, Frances McDormand, R Lee Ermey, Gailard...

The civil rights struggle, as interpreted by Alan Parker, received seven Oscar nominations and one award (Best Cinematography). Gene Hackman and Wille... Read more

Mississippi Masala (1992)

6.6/10
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury

A story of love between a black businessman (Denzel Washington) and an Indian immigrant (Sarita Choudhury) who become outcasts in the Deep South. An i... Read more

Modesty Blaise (1966)

5.2/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp

Of the many '60s cinema spies who arrived in the wake of James Bond, none cut a finer figure than Italian siren Monica Vitti as jewel thief-turned-sec... Read more

Monkey Shines (1988)

6.2/10
Director: George A Romero
Starring: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Stanley Tucci

A virile young man doesn't like the idea of becoming paralytic, immobilised and wheelchair bound. Enter Ella, a superintelligent (through the miracle... Read more

Monkey Trouble (1994)

5.3/10
Director: Franco Amurri
Starring: Thora Birch, Harvey Keitel, Mimi Rogers

A delightful film about a 9-year-old (Thora Birch) who yearns for a pet; she adopts a capuchin monkey whom she calls Dodger. A change of pace for Harv... Read more

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)

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

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

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

7.9/10
Director: Terry Hughes
Starring: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jone...

More biting humour from the Monty Python boys taken from a 1982 concert that featured the usual spectrum of God, death and life in heaven. The film al... Read more

The Mosquito Coast (1986)

6.6/10
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Conrad Roberts, Andre Gregory, Marth...

Director Peter Weir ('Witness') re-teams with Harrison Ford as they tackle Paul Theroux`s novel of an obsessive American inventor who transplants his... Read more

Moulin Rouge (1952)

7.2/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon

A rich, colourful film based on the life of Toulouse Lautrec, the 19th century Parisian artist whose growth was stunted by a childhood accident. An ex... Read more

Mr and Mrs Bridge (1990)

Director: James Ivory
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Blythe Danner

Set in Kansas City in the late 1930s, this acclaimed drama stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as an upper-class Kansas City couple who begin questi... Read more

Mrs Miniver (1942)

7.6/10
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Teresa Wright

The winner of seven Oscars in 1942 was an effective morale boost for all the folks on the home front. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon head a middle-cl... Read more

Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

6.9/10
Director: Brian Henson
Starring: Tim Curry, Kermit the Frog, Billy Connolly

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about loyalty and pirate loot becomes an entertaining mix of adventure, music and muppet madness in this romp s... Read more

Muriel's Wedding (1994)

7.2/10
Director: P J Hogan
Starring: Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths

An ugly duckling from a dysfunctional family yearns for a happier life, and starts on that road by leaving her home town of Porpoise Spit for Sydney,... Read more

Mute Witness (1994)

6.8/10
Director: Anthony Waller
Starring: Marina Sudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards

A mute American F/X artist working on a low-budget slasher film in Russia witnesses her co-workers seemingly making an after-hours snuff film. She is... Read more

Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)

7.8/10
Director: Frank Lloyd
Starring: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone

The classic version, starring Charles Laughton in an unforgettable role as Captain Bligh and Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian. This movie deservedly... Read more

My Brilliant Career (1979)

7.3/10
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Starring: Judy Davis, Robert Grubb, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes

Inspiring story of a spirited, sensitive young woman at the turn of the century who, despite poverty, isolation and pressure to marry, fulfils her dre... Read more

My Fellow Americans (1996)

6.5/10
Director: Peter Segal
Starring: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd

Two ex-Presidents of the US - longtime enemies - are forced to work together to uncover a plot to blame one of them for a dirty deal conducted by a cu... Read more

My Girl 2 (1993)

5.2/10
Director: Howard Zieff
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Anna Chlumsky, Jamie Lee Curtis, Austin O'Brien

Teenager Vada is back and feeling unwanted at home with dad and her new expectment stepmom. She heads off to LA to find out more about her real mother... Read more

My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)

6/10
Director: Michael Joens
Starring: Voices Of, Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Tony Randall, Cloris Leachman, Alice Pla...

Children under 7 should enjoy this animated fantasy that pits the good little ponies against an evil witch. The highlight is an encounter with the Smo... Read more

The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)

6.1/10
Director: Bart Freundlich
Starring: Blythe Danner, Roy Scheider, Julianne Moore

An emotionally mixed-up family get together for Thanksgiving and spend the weekend demonstrating why they've never got on with each other. Roy Scheide... Read more

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear (1991)

Director: David Zucker
Starring: George Kennedy, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Robert Goulet, O J Simpson

The second hilarious entry in the satirical film series focuses on Leslie Nielsen's effort to stop villainous business mogul Robert Goulet from making... Read more

The Naked Kiss (1964)

7.4/10
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante

AKA 'The Iron Kiss.' A reformed big city prostitute who tries to start again in a quiet town finds that beneath the little town's squeaky clean veneer... Read more

Nevada Smith (1965)

7/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith

Loosely based on a Harold Robbins book, this is the story of a cowboy who takes a long and involved revenge on the outlaws who murdered his family. St... Read more

Never Been Kissed (1999)

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

Phantasm ( aka The Never Dead ) (1979)

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

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)

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

The Newton Boys (1998)

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

Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

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

Night and the City (1993)

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

Night Crossing (1981)

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

The Night Of The Iguana (1964)

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