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Salem Witch Trials (1998)

6.2/10

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

North Country (2005)

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

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

Casanova (2005)

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

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

Bombon (2004)

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

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

First Descent (2005)

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

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

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

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

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

Go West / The Big Store (1941)

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

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

Melies the Magician (1997)

Director: Jacques Meny

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

Colin McCahon: I Am (2004)

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

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

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)

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

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

Crazed Fruit (1956)

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

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

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

Director: David Mitton
Starring: Narrated by, Ringo Starr

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

Full Body Massage (1995)

5.7/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Mimi Rogers, Bryan Brown

Mimi Rogers ('The Rapture') and Bryan Brown ('Breaker Morant') star in this provocative drama from acclaimed director Nicolas Roeg. Nina, a successful... Read more

The Punk Rock Movie (1978)

6.8/10
Director: Don Letts
Starring: The Clash, Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols

Produced in London in 1978, this 35mm documentary feature captures the leaders of the movement in performance and on tour and highlights the punk rock... Read more

Triple Agent (2004)

6.4/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Serge Renko, Katerina Didaskalou

Loosely based on a true story, this sublime drama from director Eric Rohmer follows the complex marriage between a Greek painter and her White Russian... Read more

The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)

7.9/10
Director: David Thacker
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Jodhi May, Juliet Aubrey, Polly Walker, James Purefoy

Based on the classic novel by Thomas Hardy. Ciaran Hinds stars as Michael Henchman, a 19th-century English merchant and well-respected townsman, who r... Read more

West of Hot Dog / The Sleuth (1925)

Director: Harry Sweet
Starring: Stan Laurel

In 'The Sleuth' Stan Laurel gets his man after adopting a series of comic disguises. In 'West Of Hot Dog' Stan Laurel also stars as the heir to a fort... Read more

Just Friends (2005)

6.2/10
Director: Roger Kumble
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein, Julie Hagerty, Chris Marquett...

Ryan Reynolds was 'the fat kid' in high school with a secret crush on best pal Jamie (Amy Smart). When his true feelings are outed, she gently turns... Read more

Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard (1996)

Director: Shimako Sato
Starring: Kimika Yoshino, Wataru Shihodo, Chieko Shiratori, Akira Otani, Eisei Amamoto, Ak...

In this prequel to the first film an evil spirit has massacred a village of witches and wizards in ancient Japan. Skip to present day and an archaeol... Read more

Life Show (2002)

Director: Huo Jianqi
Starring: Tao Hong, Tao Zeru

Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Chi Li, this affecting character study centres on Lai Shuang Yang a young, single woman living in revolutionary Ch... Read more

Donkey Skin (1971)

7.1/10
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig, Jacques Perrin

At once charming, bizarre and eerie, director Jacques Demy's ('The Umbrellas of Cherbourg') colourful adaptation of the fairytale by Perrault (who als... Read more

When Eight Bells Toll (1970)

6/10
Director: Etienne Perier
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nathalie Delon, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins

Alistair MacLean adapted the screenplay for 'When Eight Bells Toll' from his own novel. It stars Anthony Hopkins as a ruthless spy, moving about Scotl... Read more

Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950)

7.6/10
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill

'Laura' director Otto Preminger reunited with stars Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney for this moody crime drama in which Andrews is a violent cop who acc... Read more

Garden of Evil (1954)

6.8/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rit...

Western set against the backdrop and greed of the gold rush. Three Americans (Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell) are stranded in a sma... Read more

Rodney Dangerfield - No Respect (1989)

Director: Various
Starring: Rodney Dangerfield, Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr, Bob Nelson, Jeff Altman, etc ...,...

The ultimate Rodney Dangerfield collection, this set contains 3 discs of the comic's hilarious stand-up along with 3 ABC specials 'It's Not Easy Bein'... Read more

Margaret's Museum (1995)

7.3/10
Director: Mort Ransen
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Clive Russell, Kate Nelligan

Based on several short stories by Sheldon Currie, this offbeat romantic tragedy is about a plucky woman's surprising love affair in a 1940s-era Nova S... Read more

Unknown White Male (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Rupert Murray
Starring: Doug Bruce

In July 2003, ex-pat Brit Douglas Bruce, woke up on a subway train in New York headed for Coney Island. He had no idea who he was, how he got there o... Read more

Underworld: Evolution (2006)

6.7/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Bill Nighy, Derek Jacobi

The violent feud between the snooty vampires and thuggish werewolves escalates as beautiful Death Dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and her forbidden Ly... Read more

Legend of a Fighter (1982)

7.4/10
Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Ka-Yan Leung , Yasuaki Kuraka, Yuen Yat-cho

Representing the very best in martial arts filmmaking, from acclaimed director Yuen-Woo Ping, this is the fictionalised life story of revered martial... Read more

Iron Fisted Monk (1977)

Director: Sammo Hung
Starring: Sammo Hung, James Tien, Chan Sing, Fung Hak-on, Wu Ma

Sammo Hung's first directorial outing is a well-polished, innovative and highly entertaining kung-fu flick that was breaking new ground with its blend... Read more

Tenko: Series 1 - Episodes 6 - 10 (1981)

8.8/10
Starring: Stephanie Beacham, Stephanie Cole, Ann Bell, Louise Jameson, Eiji Kusuhara, Burt...

In 1941 the terrors of war-torn Europe seem far away for the small community of ex-pat Brits living in Singapore. But their privileged lives are soon... Read more

Echo of the Elephants - The Story of an Elephant Family (1993)

Director: Martyn Colbeck
Starring: David Attenborough, Cynthia Moss

In January 1990, Cynthia and Martyn embarked on the first of what would ultimatly be four exceptional films produced over thirteen years in the shadow... Read more

National Geographic: The Gospel of Judas (2006)

7.5/10

Hidden for nearly two thousand years, an ancient Gospel emerges from the sands of Egypt that tells a very different version of the last days of Jesus... Read more

The Magnificent Seven: Season 1 (1998)

7.7/10
Director: Christopher Cain, Geoff Murphy, Peter Markle
Starring: Michael Biehn, Ron Perlman, Dale Midkiff, Eric Close, Andrew Kavovit, Anthony St...

Based on the original film and with a movie-length pilot directed by our own Geoff Murphy this TV western stars Michael Biehn ('The Terminator') as th... Read more

Dixie Dregs: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1978 (1978)

Starring: Steve Morse

Out of the musically fertile jazz-rock fusion era of the 1970s emerged the Dixie Dregs, led by genius guitarist Steve Morse. Featured here is the comp... Read more

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

4.3/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Rob...

Not considered one of the better 'Pink' sequels, it concerns a bumbling New York cop who is mistakenly charged with finding both the Pink Panther jewe... Read more

Hart to Hart: Season 1 (1979)

6.7/10
Director: Karen Arthur, Ray Austin
Starring: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Roddy McDowall, Jill St John, Na...

Created by best-selling author Sidney Sheldon (who also brought us 'I Dream of Jeannie'), Mr and Mrs H (Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers) are a pair... Read more

Derailed (2005)

6.6/10
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, David Morrissey, G...

An intelligent fast-paced thriller with Clive Owen as Charles, a seemingly happily married ad executive who has a chance encounter on a train with Luc... Read more

Hustle and Flow (2004)

Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Anthony Anderson, Taraji P Henson, Terrence Howard, Ta...

Djay (Terrence Howard) is a low-level pimp and drug dealer scratching a living in the Memphis ghettoes. As he approaches the age where his father une... Read more

Syriana (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blak...

Stephen Gaghan (screenwriter of 'Traffic') directs this labyrinthine story of corruption in the global oil industry, based partly on the writings of e... Read more

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

7.6/10
Director: Katja von Garnier
Starring: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker, Pat...

American women didn't get the vote until 1920, an important yet largely overlooked historical landmark that is given air in this HBO-produced drama st... Read more

Lackawanna Blues (2005)

7.9/10
Director: George C Wolfe
Starring: S Epatha Merkerson, Julie Benz, Robert A Bradley, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Kathlee...

Based on a one-man show by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (played by Hill Harper) this is the inspiring story of Nanny Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) a big-heart... Read more

American Gothic (1988)

6.8/10
Director: John Hough
Starring: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Steiger, Michael J Pollard, Sarah Torgov, Janet Wright

A group of vacationers is stranded on a remote island where they become the 'guests' of a demented family who desperately want them for dinner...and l... Read more

American Graffiti / More American Graffiti (1973)

Director: Bill L Norton, George Lucas
Starring: Ron Howard, Bo Hopkins, Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Mart...

"American Graffiti" (1973) - Follow the misadventures of a group of friends on one summer night in '62, as they prepare for the uncertainty of life af... Read more

Mystics (2002)

6/10
Director: David Blair
Starring: Milo O'Shea, David Kelly, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Liam Cunningham

Dave and Locky are a couple of old-timers who have found the perfect scam, offering 'solace and peace' to the bereaved. Dave poses as a medium, whilst... Read more

The Salamander (1981)

6.2/10
Director: Peter Zinner
Starring: Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Christopher Lee, Sybil Danning, Eli Wallach, Claudia...

Based on Morris West's best-selling novel, this tense political thriller explores the world of treasonous politics, love and high finance. In Italy's... Read more

I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse (1973)

7.1/10
Director: Fernando Arrabal
Starring: Emmanuele Riva, George Shannon, Hachemi Marzouk

Surrealist filmmaker Fernando Arrabal's second feature concerns a wealthy aristocrat (George Shannon) who flees a terrible crime, winding up in the de... Read more

Loverboy (2004)

6/10
Director: Kevin Bacon
Starring: Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Campbell Scott, Marisa To...

Kevin Bacon's directorial debut is a moving drama based on Victoria Redel's best-selling novel about Emily (Kyra Sedgwick), a woman who was neglected... Read more

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

7.5/10
Director: George Clooney
Starring: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr, Patricia Clarkson, Frank Lan...

George Clooney's second outing as a director is both an intelligent homage to iconic American broadcaster Edward R Murrow (convincingly portrayed by D... Read more

Three Colours Trilogy ( Blue, White, Red ) (1993)

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jul...

This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieslowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The film... Read more

Twin Falls Idaho (1999)

7.3/10
Director: Michael Polish
Starring: Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Patrick Bauchau, Michelle Hicks, Lesley Ann Warren,...

Taking the "love triangle drama" to new heights, filmmaking siblings Mark and Michael Polish play conjoined twins waiting in a rundown hotel room for... Read more

Neverwhere (1996)

7.3/10
Director: Dewi Humphries
Starring: Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, Clive Russell, Paterson Joseph, Trev...

Based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling fantasy novel this 6-part mini-series which he co-devised with Lenny Henry, lives in the grimy underworld of Londo... Read more

Hotel de Love (1996)

6.4/10
Director: Craig Rosenberg
Starring: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Ray Barrett, Pippa Grandison, Peter...

Saffron Burrows is the object of everyone's affection in this Australian rom-com. Stephen (Simon Bossell) and Rick (Aden Young) are fraternal twins w... Read more

The Living Room: Series 3 (2006)

5.6/10
Director: Simon Baumfield, Mark Albiston, Nathan Morris, James Anderson, Makerita Urale
Starring: Steve Abel, Tusiata Avia, Rod Bridgeman, Ed Davis, Caitlin Devoy, Grenell Family...

From Sticky Pictures comes the award-winning third season of the show that showcases Aotearoa's creative culture. With inspirational and creative 'ho... Read more

Gilmore Girls: Season 4 (2003)

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

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

Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists (2005)

7.4/10
Starring: Pete Seeger

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

The Greatest Jazz Films Ever (2003)

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

How Arnold Won The West (2004)

5.9/10
Director: Alex Cooke
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Carlos Saura Box Set (1995)

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

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

Comedy Company: Volume 2 (2004)

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

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

Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

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

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

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

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

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

The Future of Food (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Deborah Koons Garcia

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

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

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

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

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)

7.8/10
Director: Anthony Lucas

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

Fellini's Magic (2002)

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

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

Number 96 (1972)

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

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

The Secret Service: The Complete Series (1969)

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

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

Supercar: The Complete Series (1959)

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

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

In Search of Mozart (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Phil Grabsky

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

Paper Clips (2004)

7.4/10
Director: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab

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

Destination Moon (1950)

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

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

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

Director: Marc Gordon-Bates

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

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

Director: Marc Gordon-Bates

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

Dragnet: Volume 2 (1954)

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

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

New Adventures of Tarzan: Volume 2 (1934)

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

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

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

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

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

Barbara Taylor Bradford: A Woman Of Substance (1984)

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

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

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Double Bill (1983)

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

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

Wildlife Specials: Leopard (1997)

8.5/10
Starring: David Attenborough

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

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

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

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

The Hired Hand (1971)

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

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

Last Holiday (2006)

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

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

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

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

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

Where the Truth Lies (2005)

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

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

Sheitan (2006)

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

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

Gilmore Girls: Season 5 (2004)

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

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

Zathura (2001)

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

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

Great Adventurers: Robert Falcon Scott (2001)

7.2/10

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

Body Melt (1993)

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

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

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

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

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

The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark (1943)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Executioners (2003)

3.7/10

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

The New Oceania (2004)

Director: Shirley Horrocks
Starring: Albert Wendt

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

Austen Tayshus - Australia Day Special (2006)

Starring: Sandy Gutman

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

Banana in a Nutshell (2005)

7.1/10
Director: Roseanne Liang

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

Islands of Death: Volume 1 (1945)

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

Islands of Death: Volume 2 (1945)

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

Death in Gaza (2003)

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

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

The Sunshine Man (2006)

Director: Peter Tonks
Starring: Des Morgan

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

Carlos Castaneda - Enigma of a Sorceror (2006)

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

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

Greedy (1994)

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

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

Yakuza Deka 1: Secret Police (1970)

Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tanpa

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

My Sister's Keeper (2002)

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

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

Bromo and Juliet (1926)

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

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

Clarence: Series 1 (1988)

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

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

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

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

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

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

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

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

Event 16 (2006)

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

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

Brothers (2004)

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

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

Tara Road (2005)

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

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

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

Director: Michael Pressman
Starring: Paige Turco, David Warner

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

Signs - A Warning? (2002)

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

Aida - The Opera (1998)

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

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

School for Seduction (2004)

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

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

Live and Become (2005)

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

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

Hornblower 7: Loyalty (2003)

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

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

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

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

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

The Thing About My Folks (2005)

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

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

Carnivale: Season 2 (2004)

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

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

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

8.5/10
Director: Stan Lathan
Starring: Dave Chappelle

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

Tomie (1999)

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

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

Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinematheque (2005)

Director: Jaques Richard

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

Zapatista (1998)

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

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

How Art Made the World (2005)

8.3/10

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

Danny, The Champion of the World (1989)

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

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

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 3 (2006)

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

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

Unconscious (2004)

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

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

Alive (2002)

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

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

Infernal Affairs 3 (2003)

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

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

Law And Order (1953)

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

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

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

7.7/10
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Starring: Lucynna Winnika

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

No. 2 (2006)

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

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

The Libertine (2004)

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

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

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 4 (2006)

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

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

Doctor Who: Series 2, Volume 5 (2006)

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

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

50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)

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

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

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

8.4/10

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

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

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

Seven Chances (1925)

8/10
Director: Buster Keaton
Starring: Buster Keaton

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

The Proposition (2005)

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

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

Monk: Season 4 (2005)

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

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

La Commare Secca ( The Grim Reaper ) (1962)

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

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

Soft Beds Hard Battles (1973)

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

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

Alan Davies: Urban Trauma (2000)

7.3/10
Starring: Alan Davies

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

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

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

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

Candy (2006)

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

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