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Poirot: Taken at the Flood (2005)

8.6/10
Director: Andy Wilson
Starring: Celia Imrie, David Suchet, Tim Pigott-Smith, Patrick Baladi, Elliot Cowan

In this addition to the popular series based on the novels by Agatha Christie, the sudden death of wealthy Gordon Cloade puts his greedy family in qui... Read more

Back in the USSR (1991)

4.9/10
Director: Deran Sarafian
Starring: Frank Whaley, Roman Polanski, Natalya Negoda

A young American tourist in Moscow becomes involved in the Russian underworld when he's framed for murder. Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda and Roman Pola... Read more

Merlin's Apprentice (2006)

5.4/10
Director: David Wu
Starring: Sam Neill, John Reardon, Miranda Richardson, Christopher Jacot, Meghan Ory, Dunc...

Sequel to the acclaimed 1998 mini-series, 'Merlin' with Sam Neill reprising his role as Camelot's wizard. Not strictly following on from the first,... Read more

Subject Two (2006)

5.5/10
Director: Philip Chidel
Starring: Philip Chidel, Christian Oliver, Courtney Mace, Dean Stapleton

Dr Franklin Vick believes he may have found the cure for death itself. Retreating to his remote mountain cabin, he takes with him a troubled medical... Read more

A Few Days in September (2006)

5.4/10
Director: Santiago Amigorena
Starring: Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Sara Forestier, Tom Riley, Nick Nolte

An international tale of intrigue with more than a hint of satire has Juliette Binoche as a French agent on the trail of a missing CIA operative with... Read more

Urban Cowboy (1980)

6.3/10
Director: James Bridges
Starring: John Travolta, Debra Winger

Moving from his rural Texas home to take an oil refinery job near Houston, young hardhat John Travolta begins hanging out at famed honky tonk nightclu... Read more

The New Twilight Zone: Season 1 (1985)

Director: Martha Coolidge, Peter Medak, Rick Friedberg, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Wallace, Wes Craven, William Friedkin, etc
Starring: Bruce Willis, Terry O'Quinn, Annie Potts, Arliss Howard, Dee Wallace, James Crom...

Making its television debut in 1989, the New Twilight Zone followed the same format as its ground-breaking predecessor (minus Rod Serling), with stori... Read more

Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)

7.2/10
Director: Giles Foster
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Robert Hardy

James Wilby and Juliet Aubrey star in the intimate portrayal of the endearing love affair between the young Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Albe... Read more

Girls on Top: Series 1 and 2 (1985)

5.3/10
Director: Ed Bye, Paul Jackson
Starring: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Tracey Ullman, Ruby Wax, Joan Greenwood

Featuring the budding comedic talents of Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracey Ullman who play four diverse women sharing a London flat... Read more

A World Without Thieves (2004)

7.3/10
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Starring: Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You, Baoqiang Wang, Bingbing Li

Bo (Andy Lau) and Li (Rene Liu) play a pair of expert grifters who have just amassed a large wad of cash, prompting Li to say she wants out of the biz... Read more

Ugly Betty: Season 1 (2006)

6.6/10
Starring: America Ferrera, Christopher Gorham, Eric Mabius, Alan Dale, Tony Plana, Ana Ort...

Young actress America Ferrara won an Emmy for her role as Betty Suarez, an overweight, ugly duckling who gets a job in the high-flying world of fashio... Read more

The Muppet Show: Season 2 (1977)

8.4/10
Starring: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Don Knotts, Dom DeLuise, George Burns,...

This second season of the hit variety show has all the familiar skits, 'Pigs in Space', 'Swedish Chef', 'Veterinarian's Hospital' combined with anothe... Read more

Star Trek Fan Collective: Captain's Log (2001)

Starring: William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula

While fans once again voted on-line for their all-time favourite episodes, two each for the five Star Trek Captains, this collection also contains, fo... Read more

Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (2006)

7.9/10
Starring: Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, K...

Picking up where Season Two left off, the Cylons are ruling the majority of the surviving humans after they attempted to set up on the planet of New C... Read more

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Dan Aykroyd, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi...

Chuck and Larry (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) are two New York City firemen who have been fast friends for years. Strictly friends. But when widowe... Read more

Victoria Wood - Live at the Albert Hall (2001)

After two decades at the top of her profession, Victoria Wood is one of a small handful of British comedians capable of filling the country's largest... Read more

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977)

5.9/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Richard Basehart, Barbara Carrera

Burt Lancaster stars in the title role as the deranged scientist, who uses his remote island as a base for experiments in creating half-human, half-an... Read more

Missing in Action (1984)

5.4/10
Director: Joseph Zito
Starring: Chuck Norris, M Emmet Walsh

One of a string of Rambo-esque films dashed off in the '80s. Action ace Chuck Norris stars as a former Vietnam War P.O.W. who returns to Southeast Asi... Read more

Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (1934)

6.2/10
Director: Alexander Hall, Henry Hathaway
Starring: Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple

This double bill of early Shirley faves opens with the first film version of Damon Runyon's "Little Miss Marker" (1934), with Temple as the adorable t... Read more

The Very Best of Ronnie Barker (2008)

Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett

In this hilarious programme we revisit some of Ronnie Barker's funniest moments from an illustrious career that has made him one of Britain's best lov... Read more

Autumn Hearts (2007)

Director: Paolo Barzman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis

Thirty-five years after their internment at the hands of the Nazis, three friends reunite. Melanie (Susan Sarandon) is in an unsatisfying marriage to... Read more

Peep and the Big Wide World: The Windy Day (2004)

7.4/10
Starring: Joan Cusack

Join Peep, Chirp and Quack - three wonderfully inquisitive friends who explore their world. They live in a park (they are of course a chick, a duck an... Read more

Midsomer Murders: Series 5 (2002)

7.8/10
Director: Sarah Hellings, David Tucker, Peter Smith
Starring: Angela Thorne, Anton Rogers, Graham Crowden, Wendy Craig, John Nettles, Gwen Tay...

Barnaby and Troy investigate five more cases in their fifth season as the long arm of the law in the 'deadliest county in England'. 'Tainted Fruit': T... Read more

The Ambulance (1990)

5.9/10
Director: Larry Cohen
Starring: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, Janine Turner, Eri...

This paranoid thriller begins as Eric Roberts' girlfriend (Janine Turner) is taken away in an ambulance and he can't find her. She's been taken prison... Read more

Shootout! (2005)

7.9/10

Experience the danger of gun battle up close in this riveting, innovative documentary series from The History Channel. Using 3-D animation, aerial map... Read more

Body / Antibody (2007)

5.9/10
Director: Kerry Douglas Dye, Jordan Hoffman
Starring: Robert Gomes, Leslie Kendall Dye, Frank Deal, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Antony Hago...

Kip Polyard suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and hasn't left his apartment in 10 months; but now the seductive Celine has moved in next door... Read more

Match Point ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

7.6/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Brian Cox, Ewen Bremner, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Penelope Wilton, Scarlett Johanss...

In his first film set in the UK, Woody Allen's slick romantic thriller follows an opportunistic tennis coach (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who ingratiates hi... Read more

Solstice (2008)

5.4/10
Director: Daniel Myrick
Starring: Elisabeth Harnois, Shawn Ashmore, Tyler Hoechlin, Amanda Seyfried, Matt O'Leary,...

A group of high school students come together for their final fling before college, celebrating the summer solstice at a lake house. It's not long be... Read more

The Shield: Season 5 (2006)

8.7/10
Director: D J Caruso, Guy Ferland, Stephen Kay, Phillip Atwell, Michael Chiklis, Dean White, Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace, Kenneth Johnson,...

The tension mounts with Vic and his crew squarely in the sights of Internal Affairs Officer Jon Kavanaugh (Forest Whitaker). Determined to the point o... Read more

Role Models (2009)

6.9/10
Director: David Wain
Starring: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-P...

Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star as two salesmen sentenced to community service at a big-brother mentorship centre. The pair of boys-in-men's cl... Read more

The Spirit ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

4.8/10
Director: Frank Miller
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht, Jaime King, Eva Mendes, Sta...

A good-guy cop is killed in the line of duty and comes back to life as shadowy crimefighter 'The Spirit', now pitted against 'The Octopus' whose main... Read more

The Diary of Anne Frank (2008)

6.5/10
Director: Jon Jones
Starring: Iain Glen, Tamsin Greig, Ellie Kendrick, Kate Ashfield

This five-part BBC drama presents an intimate portrayal of the tragically short life of Anne Frank and her family. Anne's diary was first published ov... Read more

Beauty and the Beast: Season 1 (1987)

7.1/10
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Ron Perlman, Edward Albert, Roy Dotrice

'Beauty and the Beast' features the adventures and romance between Vincent (Ron Perlman), a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine (Linda Hamilton), a... Read more

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

6.8/10
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, Joe E...

Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) is running his father-in-law's (Boris Karloff) funeral home business...straight into the ground! Hounded by his landlor... Read more

Angel Face (1952)

7.3/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Barbara O'Neil, Herbert Marshall, Jean Simmons, Leon Ames, Robert Mitchum

This noir gem stars Robert Mitchum as an ambulance driver who catches the eye of a wealthy femme fatale (Jean Simmons). Hired as a chauffeur for Simmo... Read more

Night Court: Season 1 (1984)

7.7/10
Starring: Harry Anderson, John Larroquette, Richard Moll, Paula Kelly, Karen Austin

In the mid-eighties, a different kind of sitcom took audiences by surprise. 'Night Court' offered viewers a kooky, fun, and feel good approach to come... Read more

On Eagle's Wing (2006)

This joyous stage spectacular is a musical, a dance show and an oratorio all rolled into one. The power of the pipes, drums and explosive dance routin... Read more

The Comedians of Comedy (2007)

7.3/10
Starring: Sarah Silverman, Doug Benson, Patton Oswalt, Andy Kindler, David Cross

14 of today's top comics get together at the infamous Troubadour club in L.A. for a night of comedic anarchy! See Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Davi... Read more

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1, Volume 1 (Remastered) (1966)

8/10
Starring: DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner

Space. The final frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain... Read more

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2, Volume 1 (Remastered) (1967)

8/10
Starring: DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner

Space. The final frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain... Read more

Salem's Lot (2004)

6.2/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, James Cromwell, Rob Lowe, Rutger Hauer, Saman...

Welcome to Jerusalem's Lot - Salem's Lot, as locals call it. Population: 1319. And growing eerier by the moment. Because an ominous outsider has moved... Read more

Bride Wars (2009)

5.5/10
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Bryan Greenberg, Candice Bergen, Chris Pratt, Steve...

Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway play best buds whose friendship is put to the test when a clerical error sees their dream weddings (both at New York's P... Read more

Pride and Glory (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, John Ort...

Edward Norton plays an honest cop, assigned to investigate the precinct run by his potentially corrupt older brother. Director Gavin O'Connor co-wrote... Read more

Gran Torino (2008)

8.1/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher Carley, Brian Haley, Geraldine...

Clint Eastwood directs himself as Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran living in a crime-ridden area of Detroit. When a troubled local teen atte... Read more

The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Impressionism and the Post-Impressionists (2003)

8.7/10

A lively dance, a vase of brilliant yellow flowers and an afternoon on the banks of the Seine provide the inspiration for these three masterpieces fro... Read more

Not Going Out: Series 1 (2006)

7.8/10
Director: Alex Hardcastle
Starring: Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Miranda Hart, Megan Dodds

Lee is an unmotivated, thirty-something flatting in London with Kate, an attractive and successful American on whom he has a crush. Unfortunately, not... Read more

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 1 & 2 (2005)

8.8/10
Starring: Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Danny DeVito

Four self-centred friends run an Irish pub together in the City of Brotherly Love. Dennis, self-described ladies' man and spoilt brat, believes in rem... Read more

Tales of the Riverbank (2008)

5.2/10
Director: John Henderson
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Peter Serafinowicz, Mi...

Hammy Hamster, Roderick Rat and GP Guinea Pig are caught in a violent storm and embark on an epic journey in search of their lost homes. Their journey... Read more

By the Sword Divided: Series 1 (1983)

7.6/10
Director: Henry Herbert, Michael Custance, Brian Farnham, Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Julian Glover, Andrew MacLachlan, Rob Edwards, Jeremy Clyde, Tim Bentinck, Lucy...

Produced by the BBC, this epic historical drama series is set during the English Civil War and follows the changing loyalties and wrenching conflict w... Read more

Wanda Sykes: Sick and Tired (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Michael Drumm
Starring: Wanda Sykes

Voted one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Funniest People in America, the sardonic wit of Wanda Sykes will be familiar to viewers of 'Curb Your Enthusias... Read more

The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (2008)

Director: Murray Grigor

A sumptuous and comprehensive survey of Frank Lloyd Wright's life and career, from his apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan in Chicago to his final days... Read more

The Story of India (2007)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Wood

A six-part BBC series with engaging historian Michael Wood taking a fascinating look at the 10,000-year history of the Indian sub-continent. A colourf... Read more

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness (2000)

8.3/10
Starring: Alain De Botton

Popular British philosopher Alain de Botton investigates the pursuit of happiness in this six-part series, with each episode exploring the ideas and t... Read more

Sports Night: Season 1 (1998)

8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Robert Guillaume, Peter Krause, Joshua Malina, S...

Finally available, the first ever series from Aaron Sorkin (creator of 'The West Wing' and 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip') sees his intelligent, fast... Read more

Woman on the Run (1950)

7.4/10
Director: Norman Foster
Starring: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, Ross Elliot

Top-notch crime story about an artist who goes into hiding after witnessing a mob murder. His seemingly uncaring wife decides to help police and an ad... Read more

A Taste of Honey (1961)

7.6/10
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin

A lively tale of a pregnant Salford teenager, her mother, and her unlikely friendship with a gay man. Time has left its mark on many of the innovative... Read more

Slumdog Millionaire ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

8/10
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Starring: Irfan Khan, Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto

Danny Boyle's quirky and suspenseful romantic drama is set in the slums of Mumbai and riffs on the multi-cultural icon that is 'Who Wants to Be a Mill... Read more

The Last Drop (2005)

4.6/10
Director: Colin Teague
Starring: Billy Zane, Michael Madsen

A skilled team of special operatives track a hidden cache of Nazi gold that could fund an Allied victory before Christmas. With 35,000 U.S. troops beh... Read more

Sword of Xanten (2004)

Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Alicia Witt, Benno Furmann, Kristanna Loken

In a time lost to history, when the Gods still walked among us, they sent a warrior to reclaim the mystic gold that has plunged the world into endless... Read more

The Ice Runner (1993)

5.6/10
Director: Barry Samson
Starring: Victor Wong, Edward Albert

A U.S. spy stationed in the Soviet Union is betrayed by the CIA and sent to a prison camp. After assuming the identity of a dead thief he's transferre... Read more

An Audience With Victoria Wood (1988)

8.2/10
Starring: Victoria Wood

The incomparable Victoria Wood is the star of this special show that won two 1989 British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards. Before a celebrity... Read more

Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967)

8.7/10
Director: Morris Barry
Starring: Patrick Troughton, Deborah Watling, Frazer Hines

The terror of the Cybermen is finally over - or is it? An expedition heads to Telos (their home planet) to discover what has happened to the deadly si... Read more

Lexx: Season 2 (1998)

7.4/10
Director: Various
Starring: Michael McManus, Xenia Seeberg, Brian Downey

A crew of outcasts from an evil empire bounce around a parallel universe in a stolen, organic spacecraft - the awesomely powerful Lexx. With bold orig... Read more

Up the Yangtze (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Yung Chang

In China, it is simply known as 'The River'. But the Yangtze (and all of the life that surrounds it), is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation... Read more

Bacon's Arena (2009)

7.9/10
Director: Adam Low

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and for the first time we have a film biogra... Read more

Miss Austen Regrets (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Starring: Adrian Edmondson, Greta Scacchi, Imogen Poots, Olivier Williams

Approaching her fortieth birthday, Jane Austen (Olivia Williams) appears happily unmarried. When asked by her young niece Fanny (Imogen Poots) to help... Read more

The Shark Net (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Graeme Burfoot
Starring: Angie Milliken, Warren Mitchell, Dan Wyllie, Leeanna Walsman, Tim Draxl, William...

When Robert Drewe, aged six, moves with his family to Perth, he has every reason to expect a life of playful adventure. But divisions between his pare... Read more

Howards' Way: Series 1 (1985)

6.7/10
Director: Various
Starring: Tracey Childs, Edward Highmore, Dulcie Gray, Jan Harvey, Maurice Colbourne

Drama on the high seas! In a way. The Howards are an affluent English family with expensive hobbies and high aspirations, so when father Tom loses his... Read more

Le trou ( The Hole ) (1960)

8.5/10
Director: Jacques Becker
Starring: Marc Michel

Marc Michel plays a man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell where his fellow prisoners are planning... Read more

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3 (1989)

8.6/10
Starring: Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Mic...

Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this series is the successor to the original... Read more

Changeling ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.8/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, John Malkovich, Michael Kelly, Amy Ryan

Based on a shocking true story, director Clint Eastwood's riveting drama stars Angelina Jolie as a single mother in 1928 Los Angeles whose son goes mi... Read more

Twister ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

6.3/10
Director: Jan De Bont
Starring: Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most dest... Read more

Doubt (2008)

7.5/10
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Starring: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Outstanding performances highlight John Patrick Shanley's adaptation of his award-winning stage play. At a Bronx Catholic school, scandal and speculat... Read more

Bedtime Stories (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Adam Sandler, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce, Jonathan Pryce, Keri Russell, Lucy Lawl...

Handyman Skeeter Bronson's life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts... Read more

Fun at the Funeral Parlour: The Complete Series (2001)

7.7/10
Director: Christine Gernon, Peter Boyd MacLean
Starring: Paul Whitehouse, Tony Way, Alex Lowe, Rhys Thomas

Aiming to do for Welsh undertakers what 'Father Ted' did for Irish priests, this series follows a family who try to get their business of the ground,... Read more

Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Season 1 (1998)

8.5/10
Starring: Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Drew Carey, Greg Proops

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it just might be 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' - the series where gifted comics devise sketches, imperson... Read more

South Park: Season 6 (2002)

8.7/10
Director: Matt Stone, Trey Parker
Starring: Matt Stone, Trey Parker

In this season, Professor Chaos is back, Stan meets his future self, Cartman makes a memorable appearance on daytime televison, Bebe's newfound womanh... Read more

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006)

7.4/10
Director: Simon Curtis, Declan Lowney, Catherine Morshead
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Steven Mackintosh, Jodhi May, Janet McTeer, Jemma McKenzie-Brown,...

Jane Horrocks is Ros Pritchard; housewife, supermarket manager, and now, through a fortuitous confluence of events, Prime Minister of Britain. She bri... Read more

Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition (2008)

8.5/10
Starring: Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Michael J Nelson, Jim Mallon, Joel Hodgson

Running for eleven seasons, this cult TV comedy took an inspired idea - taking the mick out of old films - and made it a hit. A man and his robot side... Read more

Amadeus ( Blu-ray ) (1984)

8.3/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Elizabeth Berridge, F Murray Abraham, Jeffrey Jones, Simon Callow, Tom Hulce, Ch...

Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor and Director, this soaring, engrossing story of genius, jealousy and passion stars Tom H... Read more

Batman Beyond: Season 1 (1999)

8.1/10
Director: Bruce W Timm, Various
Starring: Voices Of, Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Lauren Tom, Stockard Channing

AKA 'Batman of the Future' in its original New Zealand release. The futuristic follow-up to the acclaimed 'Batman: The Animated Series' sees Bruce Way... Read more

Buzzy Bee and Friends (2009)

For more than 70 years, Buzzy Bee has held number one place as New Zealand's favourite toy - now Buzzy comes to life in this TVNZ series. Thirteen epi... Read more

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best (2005)

8.9/10
Starring: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jone...

Michael Palin's personal selection of the best sketches from the entire run of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', including a never-seen-before retrospec... Read more

2012 - The Odyssey (2006)

4.9/10

In this thought provoking feature documentary, Sharron Rose travels across the United States speaking to the many experts on this fast approaching pro... Read more

Ghost Town (2008)

6.7/10
Director: David Koepp
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, Ricky Gervais, Billy Campbell, Dana Ivey, Kristen Wiig

In the wake of a near-death experience, self-absorbed dentist Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) acquires the annoying ability to see the dead - turns out... Read more

JCVD (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem

Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this unique, existential heist thriller with a dark comic streak. Down and out, with only straight-to-DVD title... Read more

Against a Crooked Sky (1975)

5.4/10
Director: Earl Bellamy
Starring: Henry Wilcoxon, Richard Boone

A remake of John Ford's landmark western 'The Searchers'. Richard Boone appears in the John Wayne role, playing an ageing trapper obsessed with rescui... Read more

Cimarron Strip: The Beast That Walks Like a Man (1967)

7.5/10
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Stuart Whitman

The Houstan clan wants to cross the river at the edge of the Cimarron Strip and establish their claim to Mocane Valley in land that hasn't been settle... Read more

The Premature Burial (1961)

Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Hazel Court, Heather Angel, Ray Milland, Richard Ney

Talk about a tortured artist! Oscar-winner Ray Milland is Guy, a medical student and painter whose obsessive fear of being buried alive compels him to... Read more

The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

7.3/10
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Pau...

Southern Carolina, 1964. 14-year-old Lily (Dakota Fanning), haunted by the death of her mother, and unable to bear living with her emotionally distant... Read more

Charlie Bartlett (2007)

7/10
Director: Jon Poll
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr, Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Mark Rendall, Dylan T...

High school hijinks as perpetually expelled private schoolboy, Charlie Bartlett, tries his luck in public school. At first he seems an easy target for... Read more

Appaloosa (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Ed Harris
Starring: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance...

After drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering the helpless locals are being terrorised by a ruthless rancher and his hired thugs, two... Read more

Pinocchio (2008)

5.8/10
Director: Alberto Sironi
Starring: Robbie Kay, Alessandro Gassman, Violante Placido, Margherita Buy, Thomas Sangste...

A mini-series adaptation of Carlo Collodi's beloved children's story about a little wooden toy who became a real boy. Pinocchio is lovingly crafted by... Read more

Murder Party (2007)

6.1/10
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Chris Sharp, Sandy Barnett, Macon Blair, Paul Goldblatt, Beryl Guceri

Social misfit Christopher figures he'll be home alone on Halloween when he finds an invitation to a 'murder party'. He slaps together a cardboard cost... Read more

How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer (2008)

Director: Annamaria Talas
Starring: Kevin Bacon

'How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer' brings us a new view of the world, as we unfold the science behind the popular trivia game 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon'... Read more

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen
Starring: Voices Of, Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman, Kevin...

Adapted from Kate DiCamillo's award-winning children's book, about a kingdom that lost all its magic and laughter, and the little mouse who made a big... Read more

Bolt (2008)

6.9/10
Director: Byron Howard, Chris Williams
Starring: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton

Thanks to his starring role on a hit television show, Bolt (John Travolta) the pooch has become a household name. But he has bought into his own heroi... Read more

Twin Rivers (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Matthew Holmes
Starring: Matthew Holmes, Darren Holmes, Edwin Hodgeman, Robyn Dickinson

Set in 1939 Australia, two brothers embark on a 500 mile journey on foot across New South Wales following a dream. A chance encounter with a fellow tr... Read more

Vacas (1992)

7.2/10
Director: Julio Medem
Starring: Ana Torrent, Emma Suarez, Carmelo Gomez, Txema Blasco

Director Julio Medem presents a saga spanning over half a century of the twisted goings on between two families in Northern Spain. Carmelo Gomez and K... Read more

Peter Greenaway Collection: The Draughtsman's Contract / A Zed & Two Noughts / Peter Greenaway - A Documentary (1982)

Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Anne Louise Lambert, Anthony Higgins, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon,...

Peter Greenaway has crafted a string of visually extravagant films that are experimental, erudite, and have won him an ardent cult audience. This excl... Read more

Sports Night: Season 2 (1999)

8.3/10
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Robert Guillaume, Peter Krause, Joshua Malina, S...

Finally available, the first ever series from Aaron Sorkin (creator of 'The West Wing' and 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip') sees his intelligent, fast... Read more

X-Men: Volume 1, Episodes 9-16 (1992)

7.4/10
Director: Various

In a world that hates and fears them, several mutants (humans who are born with unique powers and abilities) have banded together to fight the hatred,... Read more

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 1, Vol 2 (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Dave Filoni
Starring: Voices Of, Tom Kane, Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor

Episodes 6-10. Created by George Lucas, this animated series is set during the same time-frame as Genndy Tartakovsky's 2003 series - between 'Episode... Read more

Breaking Bad: Season 1 (2008)

9.5/10
Starring: Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Bryan Cranston, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Aaron Paul

Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Anna Gunn) and... Read more

Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl (1977)

8.7/10
Director: George Spenton-Foster
Starring: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson

A sonic time scan draws the TARDIS to the Fetch Priory on Earth. There, the Doctor and Leela discover an impossibly old human skull that is the key to... Read more

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

Director: Richard Curtis
Starring: Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Tom Sturridge,...

Aka "Pirate Radio". In 1966, a rusty fishing trawler christened Radio Rock floats just outside British territorial waters, broadcasting illicit rock '... Read more

Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)

8.6/10
Starring: Michael Jackson

Witness the 'King of Pop' in all of his glory in this compilation of his greatest music videos. Included are innovative and exciting videos for such s... Read more

The Spectacular Spider-Man: Volume 1 (2008)

8.1/10
Starring: Spider-Man

This all-new, action-packed series starts at the beginning, telling the awesome story of Peter Parker and his alter-ego Spider-Man, as he discovers hi... Read more

Chicago 10 (2007)

7.4/10
Director: Brett Morgen
Starring: Hank Azaria, Mark Ruffalo, Nick Nolte, Roy Scheider, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schrei...

See contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unrave... Read more

Those Were the Days - Britain in the Sixties (2004)

Tells the story of a decade of massive change in Britain. From Beatlemania to the violent anti-war protests in Grosvenor Square, the major news storie... Read more

Pocoyo: The Messy Guest (2005)

7.9/10
Starring: Narrated by, Stephen Fry

Pocoyo is a fun-loving little boy with an insatiable curiosity, living in a world of limitless opportunities. Featuring a cast of colourful, loveable... Read more

Son of Samson / Son of Cleopatra (1961)

Director: Carlo Campogalliani
Starring: Mark Forrest, Mark Damon

Heeding an inner voice, the 'Son of Samson,' a loner from an outlying borough scourges the capital, using his high-caliber muscles to break up the Que... Read more

A Lion in the House (2006)

8.9/10
Director: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert

How does a family with a cancer-stricken child persevere in the face of the heart-wrenching challenges that emerge every day? Five such families are p... Read more

2012 - Science or Superstition (2008)

5.2/10

Armageddon enthusiasts... Add the year 2012 to the long list of dates tagged as the critical time humanity faces either an apocalyptic "end of days" o... Read more

Cool Hand Luke ( Blu-ray ) (1967)

8.1/10
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Starring: Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, Jo Van Fleet, Paul Newman, Ro...

A taut honest drama greatly aided by Stuart Rosenberg's direction and a marvellously controlled and artful performance by Paul Newman as a gutsy priso... Read more

Blindness (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McK...

A big city falls prey to a mysterious plague of blindness in Fernando Meirelles' ('City of God'; 'The Constant Gardener') adaptation of Jose Saramago'... Read more

12 Rounds (2009)

5.6/10
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: John Cena, Steve Harris, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen

WWE star John Cena is Danny Fisher, a New Orleans cop who put away a big-time jewel thief; and now a year later, finds himself on the receiving end of... Read more

Second Skin (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza

Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), are online video games where literally millions of people can assume characters and interact... Read more

Choking Man (2006)

6/10
Director: Steve Barron
Starring: Octavio Gomez Berrios, Eugenia Yuan, Mandy Patinkin, Aaron Paul, Kate Buddeke

Jorge (Octavio Gomez Berrios) is a shy young Ecuadorian dish washer living in Jamaica - not as in the Caribbean, but as in, Queens, New York City. He... Read more

The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories (2008)

7.3/10
Director: David Lambert
Starring: Neil Innes, Spencer Davis, Mike McCartney

This upbeat rockumentary (narrated by Victor Spinetti) features the vivid memories of those who witnessed the making of the cult 1967 Beatles movie, '... Read more

Woodstock ( Blu-ray ) (1970)

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

Wiseguy: Season 3 (1989)

7.9/10
Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Ken Wahl, Michael Chiklis, Patti D'arbanville, Robert Davi, Ji...

Undercover operative, Vincent Terranova (Ken Wahl) returns to his mafia roots, exploiting his reputation as Sonny Steelgrave's right-hand man to fini... Read more

Joseph Campbell: The Hero's Journey (1987)

8.8/10
Starring: Joseph Campbell

One of the greatest storytellers of our time, and arguably the greatest mythologist, Joseph Campbell spent most of his long, rich career explaining ho... Read more

Courage Under Fire ( Blu-ray ) (1996)

6.6/10
Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Bronson Pinchot, Denzel Washington, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon, Meg Ryan,...

Denzel Washington plays a guilt-ridden army officer investigating pilot Meg Ryan, a candidate for a posthumous Medal of Honor for heroism during the P... Read more

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

5.8/10
Director: Stephen Norrington
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh, Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Nase...

A hunter, a scientist, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal, a spy, a beast... When a masked madman known as "The Fantom" threatens to launch glob... Read more

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Jake S Hughes
Starring: Narrated by, Tom Stechschulte

Experience Alan Moore's groundbreaking comic as never before in this series that puts the original artwork on-screen, adding voiceover and an original... Read more

Poirot: The Third Girl (2008)

8.6/10
Director: Dan Reed
Starring: David Suchet, Zoe Wanamaker, Jemima Rooper

Celebrated Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is joined by crime novelist Ariadne Oliver (Zoe Wanamaker) as he attempts to prove the inno... Read more

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (2008)

6.3/10
Director: Chris Waitt

Freshly dumped and deeply despondent over an endless string of disastrous relationships, lovelorn filmmaker Chris Waitt picks up his camera and attemp... Read more

Send a Bullet ( Manda Bala ) (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Jason Kohn

Brazil is rife with crime and corruption at all levels of society; Jason Kohn's award-winning documentary examines several of the more imaginative way... Read more

Phone Booth ( Blu-ray ) (2002)

7.1/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Kiefer Sutherland, Radha Mitchell, Colin Farrell

A single phone call can change a man's life...or possibly end it. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly... Read more

Rocky ( Blu-ray ) (1976)

8.1/10
Director: John G Avildsen
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire

The first and the best! Writer and star Sylvester Stallone is the Philadelphia club fighter who gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at fighting the... Read more

The New Statesman: Series 1 & 2 (1987)

7.9/10
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Rik Mayall, Marsha Fitzalan, Michael Troughton

Witty political satire stars Rik Mayall as ruthless former Conservative MP Alan B'Stard - the newly appointed European Commissioner of Internal Affair... Read more

Kuffs (1992)

5.9/10
Director: Bruce A Evans
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Christian Slater, Milla Jovovich, Tony Goldwyn

After his brother is killed by art thieves, an irresponsible Christian Slater inherits a private security business and teams up with a veteran officer... Read more

Zack and Miri Make a Porno ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

6.6/10
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Jeff Anderson, Traci Lords, Jason Mewes, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Seth R...

Kevin Smith's raunchy romantic comedy caused a furore in Bible Belt America with entire cities refusing the movie, its poster and its title. Teaming u... Read more

A History of Violence ( Blu-ray ) (2005)

7.5/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Ed Harris, Maria Bello, Viggo Mortensen, William Hurt, Stephen McHattie, Ashton...

Adapted from a graphic novel, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is a quiet man living a quiet life in Indiana. A quiet shattered when a pair of fugitives wa... Read more

The Longest Day ( Blu-ray ) (1962)

7.8/10
Director: Andrew Marton, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Eddie Albert, Gert Frobe, Henry Fonda, Jeffrey Hunter, John Wayne,...

Acclaimed as one of Hollywood's greatest epics, producer Darryl F. Zanuck's brilliant re-creation of the Allied landing at Normandy on June 6, 1944 fo... Read more

Last Goodbye (2004)

5.2/10
Director: Jacob Gentry
Starring: David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Maggie Blye, Clementine Ford, Chris Rydell

Rich, character-driven drama finds the lives of six people converging over the course of a sweltering summer day. A successful TV actress (Clementine... Read more

Late Spring (1949)

8.3/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Yumeji Tsukioka

One of the most powerful of Yasujiro Ozu's family portraits, "Late Spring" tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his be... Read more

The Miracle Rider (1935)

7.2/10
Director: Armand Schaefer, B Reeves Eason
Starring: Charles Middleton, Tom Mix, Joan Gale

In 1930s Texas, Tom Morgan (Tom Mix) joins the Texas Rangers following the murder of his father to avenge his death and follow in his path as an advoc... Read more

The Pirate Movie (1982)

5.1/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Christopher Atkins, Kristy McNichol

A parody pastiche of Hollywood's finest films, this musical comedy puts a pop music spin on Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance." When pla... Read more

Poirot: Series 3 - Volume 1 (1991)

8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser

Dame Agatha Christie's incomparable Hercule Poirot is brought to life in these five stories, set in the art deco elegance of 1930's England. "How Does... Read more

The Rockford Files: Season 1 - Part 2 (1974)

8.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: James Garner, James Woods, Ned Beatty, Abe Vigoda, Lindsay Wagner, Suzanne Somer...

The world's most unlikely detective, offbeat ex-con Rockford solves the cases others can't. James Garner stars as the P.I. who would rather fish than... Read more

The Rockford Files: Season 2 - Part 2 (1975)

8.1/10
Starring: James Garner, Linda Evans, Louis Gossett Jr, Rob Reiner, Isaac Hayes, Noah Beery...

The world's most unlikely detective returns with the final 11 episodes from Season Two. James Garner stars as the offbeat Jim Rockford, an ex-con-turn... Read more

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Arthur Lowe, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman, Michael Hordern, Peter...

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including th... Read more

The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

6.6/10
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: Alain Delon, George C Scott, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif, Rex Har...

An all-star cast highlights this Terrence Rattigan ("The Browning Version") drama that follows a Phantom II Rolls Royce on a series of adventures thro... Read more

Fat Head (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Tom Naughton

Comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton dispenses with the false truths perpetuated in such documentaries as 'Super Size Me' by demonstrating w... Read more

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 4 ( A Caribbean Mystery / They Do It with Mirrors / The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side ) (1989)

7.8/10
Director: Christopher Petit, Norman Stone
Starring: Barry Newman, Claire Bloom, Donald Pleasence, Frank Middlemass, Jean Simmons, Jo...

"A Caribbean Mystery" - Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) is finding her luxury holiday in Barbados sadly dull. Then Major Palgrave is found dead and once mo... Read more

The Class ( Entre Les Murs ) (2008)

7.5/10
Director: Laurent Cantet
Starring: Francois Begaudeau, Franck Keita, Nassim Amrabt, Esmerelda Ouertani

French director Laurent Cantet does something miraculous with the well-worn conceit of a teacher and his underprivileged students in this fresh and op... Read more

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

5.7/10
Director: Andy Fickman
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciaran Hinds, T...

A rebooted reimagining of Alexander Key's sci-fi family adventure with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as a cab driver who gets tangled up with two aliens (... Read more