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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

Underworld: Extended Edition ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

7/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Erwin Leder, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane B...

In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (Werewolves), a shrewd gang of... Read more

Borderland (2007)

5.6/10
Director: Zev Berman
Starring: Brian Presley, Martha Higareda, Jake Muxworthy, Rider Strong, Damian Alcazar, Se...

Inspired by true events that took place in 1989, in the bordertown of Matamoros, Mexico, this unnerving, ruthless thriller features three college stud... Read more

The Century of Flight - Vol. 2 (2004)

Starring: Narrated by, Robert Powell

Volume 2 of 2. Using impressive archive film and photography, this 26-part series describes the breathtaking development of flying from the early days... Read more

Guy X (2005)

5.1/10
Director: Saul Metzstein
Starring: Jason Biggs, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Northam, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Michael I...

It's 1979. Jason Biggs is Corporal Rudy Spruance who joined the army to avoid jail-time and now finds himself on the receiving end of a small but sign... Read more

The Last House on the Left (2009)

6.6/10
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Starring: Garret Dillahunt, Michael Bowen, Joshua Cox, Riki Lindhome, Aaron Paul, Sara Pax...

A grim remake of Wes Craven's provocative 1972 film. Four criminals on the lam encounter a pair of teenage girls in a small mountain town. After murde... Read more

Classic Albums: Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley (2005)

8.3/10
Director: Jeremy Marre
Starring: Elvis Presley, Keith Richards, B B King

This film tells the unusual story that lies behind the making of Elvis Presley's first album for RCA Records, in 1956, and his meteoric rise to supers... Read more

My Favourite Season ( Ma Saison Preferee ) (1993)

Director: Andre Techine
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Carme...

When their aging mother is faced with encroaching infirmity, middle-aged brother and sister Emilie (Catherine Deneuve) and Antoine (Daniel Auteuil) ar... Read more

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II (2008)

8.2/10
Director: Seth Green
Starring: Voices Of, Rachael Leigh Cook, Donald Faison, Carrie Fisher, Seth Green, Seth Ma...

Seth Green's second feature length parody of some of the most iconic moments from the 'Star Wars' franchise - and it pulls no punches, taking some of... Read more

Lady of Burlesque (1943)

6.4/10
Director: William A Wellman
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck

A mystery novel by stripper Gypsy Rose Lee served as the basis for this entertaining whodunit, with Barbara Stanwyck as the star of a burlesque house... Read more

Wallander (2008)

8/10
Director: Philip Martin, Niall MacCormick
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Jeany Spark, Richard McCabe, Sarah Smart, Tom Beard, Tom Hiddle...

Kenneth Branagh plays Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in three feature-length detective dramas based on the best-selling books by Henning Mankell. 'S... Read more

Michael Palin: Around the World in 20 Years (2009)

8.4/10
Director: Roger Mills
Starring: Michael Palin

Michael Palin owns what must be the most-used passport in Britain. Now it has been taken out of the drawer once again for 'Around the World in 20 Year... Read more

Poirot: Series 1 (Volume 1) (1989)

8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Hugh Fraser

A literary legend became a TV phenomenon when David Suchet took on the role of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's most famous sleuth. Using his "little... Read more

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( Blu-ray ) (1937)

7.6/10
Director: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature features a magical story, memorable music and unforgettable characters. The beautiful and kindhearted... Read more

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen (1987)

8.7/10
Director: Chris Clough
Starring: Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford

The time: 1959. The place: the Shangri-La Holiday Camp, South Wales. The Doctor and Mel want time out. The hedonistic alien Navarinos wants to catch s... Read more

Speed ( IMAX ) (1984)

7.2/10
Director: Greg MacGillivray

From the dawn of man to the distant future, see how the need to go faster has shaped our lives and motivated our progress in this dynamic visual and e... Read more

Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases: Volume 2 (2009)

8/10

That wily mouse outsmarts the lumbering cat every time, but by jove the feline keeps trying! Contains 14 of the greatest Tom and Jerry shorts ever, in... Read more

She Stoops to Conquer (2003)

7.8/10
Director: Max Stafford-Clark, Robin Lough
Starring: Nigel Cooke, Fritha Goodey, Bella Merlin, Stephen Beresford, Matthew Sim, Jane W...

Recorded live at The Theatre Royal in Bath, Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners tells of the clever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one n... Read more

Roman Polanski Collection: Knife in the Water / Repulsion / Cul-de-Sac (1962)

Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac, Ian Hendry, Jolanta Umec...

'Knife in the Water' (90 mins): An absorbing drama that grows out of the tensions created when a couple off for a sailing weekend pick up a student hi... Read more

Halloween ( Blu-ray ) (1978)

7.8/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P J Soles

One of the most successful independent films ever, it spawned a host of imitators - but this is the real thing. The then-young director John Carpenter... Read more

One Step Beyond: Vol. 1 (1959)

7.9/10
Director: John Newland
Starring: Dennis Patrick, Mickey Shaughnessy, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvette Mimieux, Harry Tow...

This ground-breaking anthology series debuted on U.S. television one year before 'The Twilight Zone' and ran for a total of 96 half-hour episodes. Joh... Read more

New Town Killers (2008)

5.7/10
Director: Richard Jobson
Starring: Dougray Scott, Alastair MacKenzie, James Anthony Pearson, Liz White, Charles Mne...

Alistair (Dougray Scott) is a cold-hearted hedge fund banker who gets his kicks hunting down human prey on the streets of Edinburgh. Enlisting a naive... Read more

Diagnosis: Death (2009)

4.9/10
Director: Jason Stutter
Starring: Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Suze Tye, Bret McKenzie, Rhys Darby, Jemaine Cl...

Raybon Kan is an unethical high school teacher who has fallen for one of his students in this horror spoof. As fate would have it, both of them are di... Read more

One Eyed Monster (2008)

4.2/10
Director: Adam Fields
Starring: Ron Jeremy, Veronica Hart, Carmen Hart, Amber Benson, Charles Napier

Ron Jeremy plays himself (though not for long) in this way over-the-top horror spoof in which his tadger is possessed by a homicidal alien and starts... Read more

Shall We Kiss? (2007)

6.8/10
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuel Mouret, Julie Gayet, Michael Cohen, Stefano Accorsi

A wryly observant and very contemporary meditation on the many implications of a simple kiss. Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, they spend the evenin... Read more

Gomorrah (2008)

7/10
Director: Matteo Garrone
Starring: Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Cantalupo, Maria Nazionale, Marco...

Matteo Garrone's stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, is one of cinema's most authentic depictions of organized crime. A tour de force... Read more

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 1, Vol 4 (2009)

8.6/10

Episodes 17-22. Created by George Lucas, this animated series is set during the same time-frame as Genndy Tartakovsky's 2003 series - between 'Episode... Read more

Chocolate (2008)

7/10
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Starring: Jeeja Yanin Vismitananda, Hiroshi Abe, Pongpat Wachirabunjong, Taphon Phopwandee...

From the director of 'Ong Bak' comes another martial arts extravaganza, and this time the ass-kicker is an autistic girl, the product of an illicit re... Read more

Let George Do It! (1940)

Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Br...

One of British comedian George Formby's most successful films, in this war-time musical he plays ukelele-ist George Hepplewhite who gets on a boat thi... Read more

The High Life: Series 1 (1994)

8.1/10
Director: Angela deChastelai Smith
Starring: Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond, Patrick Ryecart

Hilariously over-the-top and camp Scottish sit-com written by and starring Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson, friends from their days at the Royal Scotti... Read more

An American Werewolf in London ( Blu-ray ) (1981)

7.6/10
Director: John Landis
Starring: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine

David Naughton and Jenny Agutter star in writer/director John Landis' classic cult black comedy. American backpackers David (David Naughton) and Jack... Read more

The Naked City (1948)

7.6/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

When a beautiful young model is found dead in her apartment, the police initially suspect it was suicide. But after the coroner discovers it was murde... Read more

By Brakhage: An Anthology (2003)

Director: Stan Brakhage

Artist and filmmaker Stan Brakhage has made nearly 400 films over the past 50 years, never mainstream and always fascinating. Brakhage turns his camer... Read more

Outrageous Fortune: Series 5 (2009)

6.1/10
Starring: Frank Whitten, Antony Starr, Robyn Malcolm, Siobhan Marshall, Antonia Prebble, K...

The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition in thievery, larceny and petty crimes. Or at least they used to be. At the beginning of s... Read more

Louis Theroux: The Collection (2007)

8.5/10
Starring: Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux's witty and non-judgemental approach to documentary-making has earned him a reputation for making some of the most entertaining films of... Read more

The Glory Guys (1965)

6.2/10
Director: Arnold Laven
Starring: Andrew Duggan, Harve Presnell, James Caan, Peter Breck, Senta Berger, Slim Picke...

Cavalry captain Demas Harrod (Tom Tryon) and his faithful scout, Sol Rogers (Harve Presnell), are placed under the command of xenophobic general Frede... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Master Blackmailer (1992)

7.6/10
Director: Peter Hammond
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Robert Hardy, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams

Charles Augustus Milverton is intent on destroying the society wedding of the year unless his blackmail demands are met. A man who preys upon weakness... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Illustrious Client / The Creeping Man (1991)

7.6/10
Director: Tim Sullivan
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Charles Kay, Anthony Valentine, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams

'The Adventure of The Illustrious Client' - Sir James Damery asks Holmes for help in persuading Violet Merville to end her association with Baron Grun... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: Shoscombe Old Place / The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1991)

7.6/10
Director: Patrick Lau, June Howson
Starring: Jeremy Brett, Jude Law, Peter Vaughan, Robin Ellis, Edward Hardwicke, James Pure...

'The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place' - Sir Robert Norberton has gambled all on the success of a horse in the Champion Stakes. Meanwhile, John Mason... Read more

Andre Rieu in Wonderland (2007)

Director: Pit Weyrich
Starring: Andre Rieu

"Once upon a time - as a child I had only to hear these magical words and I would find myself transported to the land of fairy-tales. I would dream o... Read more

Big Fish ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

8/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter,...

An adventure as big as life itself, Tim Burton's imaginative fable stars Albert Finney as Edward Bloom, a dying eccentric known for spinning larger-th... Read more

Death Note: Volume 2 (2006)

9/10

The net begins to tighten around Light when the enigmatic detective L brings in FBI agents to assist on the case. Light becomes rattled when he meets... Read more

All Gas and Gaiters (1971)

7.9/10
Starring: John Barron, William Mervyn, Derek Nimmo, Robertson Hare

Between 1966 and 1971 the ecclesiastical rivalries at St. Oggs Cathedral entranced a generation of viewers. Now available for the first time are all e... Read more

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume 2, Part 2 (1993)

7.4/10
Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, Corey Carrier, George Hall, Ronny Coutteure

The award-winning adventures of the young Indiana Jones continue with 'The War Years'. This time, Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery) is serving in the infan... Read more

Melissa (1974)

7.4/10
Director: Peter Moffatt
Starring: Peter Barkworth, Ronald Fraser

BBC drama from 1974, adapted from the classic Francis Durbridge novel. Journalist Guy Foster (Peter Barkworth) returns home to find that his wife has... Read more

The Worst Week of My Life: Series 1 (2004)

8/10
Director: Dan Zeff
Starring: Sarah Alexander, Janine Duvitski, Ben Miller, Emma Pierson, Alison Steadman, Geo...

This entertaining comedy series from the BBC follows the bumbling Howard as he lurches from one appallingly embarrassing disaster to the next in the w... Read more

The Pallisers: Volume 3, Episodes 14-20 (1974)

8.3/10
Director: Hugh David
Starring: Philip Latham, Susan Hampshire, Anna Massey, Barbara Murray, Roland Culver

Based on six political novels by Anthony Trollope and set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England, this is a... Read more

In Love with Adolf Hitler (2007)

Director: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle
Starring: Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler

A unique, compelling and thoroughly fascinating documentary drawing on the vast personal film and photo archives of Eva Braun along with exclusive sho... Read more

24: Season 6 (2006)

8.6/10
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jayne Atkinson, Regina King, Peter MacNico...

After 20 months in a Chinese prison, Jack Bauer is suddenly returned to the United States. But instead of being free, Jack's release is part of a secr... Read more

Les Vampires (1915)

6.9/10
Director: Louis Feuillade
Starring: Musidora , Edouard Mathe

Ten-part silent serial from French pioneer Louis Feuillade. Made at a time when France was in the grip of fear and suspicion due to WWI, this hugely p... Read more

Babylon 5: Season 3 - Point of No Return (1995)

8.3/10
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Bi...

The year is 2260 and the space station that was the last, best hope for peace is now the only hope for victory. Sheridan and the rest of the Babylon 5... Read more

Babylon 5: Season 4 - No Surrender, No Retreat (1996)

8.3/10
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan

The future begins - or ends - here and now. "Here" is the huge space station Babylon 5. "Now" is the fateful year 2261. Commander John Sheridan has al... Read more

Apocalypto ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

7.8/10
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead

Mel Gibson's Mayan epic was overshadowed by the director's personal antics, but this hugely-scaled mythological tale is a vivid and ferocious window o... Read more

Saawariya (2007)

5.4/10
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Sonam Kapoor, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Ranbir Kapoor

In this Bollywood offering - can Gulab (Rani Mukherjee) win the heart of Raj (Ranbir Kapoor), the musician who yearns for Sakina (Sonam Kapoor), who i... Read more

Hostel Part II (2007)

5.5/10
Director: Eli Roth
Starring: Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Richard Burgi, Jay...

Director Eli Roth's blood-soaked follow-up to his sleeper horror hit focuses on a trio of American college girls whose tour of Eastern Europe lands th... Read more

Directed by Douglas Sirk: Volume 2 - Written on the Wind / The Tarnished Angels / Imitation of Life (1959)

Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Lana Turner, John Gavi...

Douglas Sirk's body of work collected for posterity. The man is a Hollywood icon to actors and producers that have followed in his footsteps. His infl... Read more

Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Bob Richardson
Starring: Voices Of, Michael Massee, Olivia D'abo, Justin Cross, Grey DeLisle, Marc Worden

When the world is in crisis and age-old enemies are on the verge of attack, six of Earth's mightiest heroes - Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Giant-M... Read more

Hollow Man ( Blu-ray ) (2000)

5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens

Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more

State of the Union (1948)

7.4/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou

Based on a hit Broadway play, this insightful Frank Capra film stars Spencer Tracy as a would-be presidential candidate and Katharine Hepburn as his e... Read more

Sweet Land (2005)

7.3/10
Director: Ali Selim
Starring: Alan Cumming, John Heard, Ned Beatty, Paul Sand, Tim Guinee, Alex Kingston, Lois...

Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI,... Read more

Hellzapoppin' (1941)

7.6/10
Director: H C Potter
Starring: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson

Absolutely mad, frame-busting comedy starring the infamous duo of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. Ole and Chic are a couple of stagehands who try to help... Read more

The War Bride (2001)

Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Starring: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean, Julie Cox, Molly Parker

This endearing World War II drama stars Anna Friel as Lily, a vivacious girl in war-torn London. She falls in love with Charlie (Aden Young), a Canadi... Read more

The Devil Came on Horseback (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg

In 2004, former U.S. marine Brian Steidle was assigned to Darfur as an 'unarmed monitor' and became a key witness to the region's unfolding genocide,... Read more

Dororo (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Akihiko Shiota
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kou Shibasaki, Eita , Mieko Harada, Yoshio Harada, Nakai Kiic...

Based on a manga by anime grandmaster Osamu Tezuka ('Astroboy'), this fantasy actioner features a powerful samurai who makes a deal with 48 demons who... Read more

Alien Apocalypse (2005)

4.5/10
Director: Josh Becker
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Renee O'Connor

An astronaut doctor, Ivan Hood (Bruce Campbell), and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space, to find the world has been taken o... Read more

Shaurya (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Samar Khan
Starring: Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, Seema Biswas, Deepak Dobriyal, Javed Jaffrey

Captain Javed Khan has been charged with mutiny, treason and killing a fellow officer. Old friends Akash and Sid are assigned as defense and prosecuti... Read more

Paris When it Sizzles (1963)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Quine
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward, William Holden

Audrey Hepburn and William Holden sizzle, too, in this breezy romantic bon bon, as a screenwriter and his secretary act out film situations in an atte... Read more

Son of Paleface (1952)

7/10
Director: Frank Tashlin
Starring: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers

Bob Hope and Jane Russell reprise their roles as the lead characters of 'The Paleface'. Hope plays Junior Potter, an Ivy League student who returns to... Read more

The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

6.5/10
Director: Leslie Norman
Starring: Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd, David McCallum, Ronald Fraser

A film based on the successful play by Willis Hall about a British patrol in Burma who are determined to kill an innocent Japanese prisoner in a mad r... Read more

Weirdsville (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Allan Moyle
Starring: Scott Speedman, Taryn Manning, Wes Bentley

Set in the, well, weird town of Weedsville, Ontario, this inventive comedy follows a slacker as he tries to dispose of his girlfriend's body after she... Read more

Bernard Shaw Collection: Vol. 1 (1989)

Director: David Jones, Desmond Davis, Herbert Wise, James Cellan Jones
Starring: Coral Browne, Penelope Wilton, James Grout, Derek Godfrey, Robert Powell, Helena...

This collection of BBC adaptations brings to life the memorable characterizations, brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit of Bernard Shaw's c... Read more

Down Argentine Way (1940)

6.6/10
Director: Irving Cummings
Starring: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J Carrol Naish

Classic comedy in which Don Ameche stars as Ricardo Quintana, the charming son of a less charming Argentine horse breeder. Betty Grable is vacationing... Read more

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( Blu-ray ) (2004)

7.9/10
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Ri...

Alfonso Cuaron ('A Little Princess') takes over the directing reigns for this terrific third instalment (of a projected seven) in the beloved fantasy... Read more

Australian Atomic Confessions (2006)

Director: Kathy Aigner

In this disturbing documentary, Australian servicemen and nomadic aboriginals reveal the devastating effects of British atomic testing carried out in... Read more

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

7/10
Director: Dave Bullock
Starring: Voices Of, Kyle MacLachlan, Lucy Lawless, Jeremy Sisto, David Boreanaz, Miguel F...

Inspired by the best-selling graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke and produced by the multiple Emmy Award-winning animation legend, Bruce Timm, this is the e... Read more

Housewife, 49 (2006)

7.7/10
Director: Gavin Miller
Starring: Stephanie Cole, Victoria Wood, David Threlfall

The 1940s are caringly recreated for this offering with Victoria Wood, who also wrote the drama, playing it straight as a Lancashire housewife struggl... Read more

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2006)

7.6/10
Director: Rick Ray
Starring: H H Dalai Lama

If you could meet one person in the world, who would it be and why? Director Rick Ray's answer is 'the Dalai Lama'. Filmed during a private visit to h... Read more

The Chaser's War On Everything: Season 1, Episodes 1-13 (2006)

8.6/10
Starring: Julian Morrow, Chas Licciardello, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen

The first series of ABC's Logie Award-winning series featuring Julian Morrow, Chas Licciardello, Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel and Andrew Hansen doing... Read more

Rogue (2007)

6.2/10
Director: Greg McLean
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington, Barry Otto

An idyllic wildlife outback cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists, stranded on a tidal mud island, are stalked by a massive man-ea... Read more

People of the Wind (1976)

8/10
Director: Anthony Howarth
Starring: (Voice of) , James Mason

This feature-length documentary captures the migratory lifestyle of nomadic peoples and remains gripping throughout. The Babadi clan of the same Bakht... Read more

Bionicle: Mask of Light (2003)

5.7/10
Director: Terry Shakespeare, David Molina
Starring: Jason Michas, Andrew Francis, Scott McNeil, Kathleen Barr

Robotic island tribe the Matorans are protected by six powerful guardians known as Toa. Two small Matorans - the potentially heroic 'herald' and a his... Read more

The Transformation of the World into Music (1996)

7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog

This elegant and adroitly executed Werner Herzog documentary captures the annual excitement surrounding the Bayreuth Festival. Celebrating the operati... Read more

Return To Waterloo / Come Dancing With The Kinks (1985)

Director: Julien Temple, Ray Davies
Starring: Kenneth Colley, Ray Davies

Ray Davies of the Kinks, well-respected as one of rock's best storytellers, makes his filmmaking debut in 'Return to Waterloo' starring Kenneth Colley... Read more

New Orleans - Music in Exile (2006)

6.9/10
Director: Robert Mugge

On August 29th, 2005, hurricane winds, torrential rains and a series of failed levees decimated The Big Easy and virtually destroyed one of the most u... Read more

Penn and Teller: Bullshit! - Season 1 (2003)

Starring: Penn Jillette, Teller

Using undercover operatives, intensive research and heaps of skepticism, world-famous magicians Penn Jillette and Teller expose the truth of modern sc... Read more

Bustin' Loose (1981)

6.1/10
Director: Oz Scott
Starring: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, George Coe, Robert Christian

Starring comic genius Richard Pryor, this raucous, light-hearted comedy is the entertaining tale of shifty ex-con Joe Braxton who after finding himsel... Read more

Karas: Part 2 - The Revelation (2005)

7/10
Starring: Matthew Lillard, Jay Hernandez, Cree Summer

From legendary anime studio Tatsunoko Productions ('Speed Racer') comes the second installment in the 'Karas' story. Picking up exactly where the firs... Read more

Warlords of Atlantis (1978)

Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Cyd Charisse, Donald Boisset, Lea Brodie

AKA 'Seven Cities to Atlantis', this family-aimed fantasy sees the ever-heroic Doug McClure leading an expedition to the lost city of Atlantis. He dis... Read more

The Tarnished Angels (1957)

7.3/10
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson

Based on the celebrated novel by author William Faulkner and set during the early 1930s this classic romance stars Robert Stack as Roger Schumann, a d... Read more

George Washington (2000)

7.4/10
Director: David Gordon Green
Starring: Candace Evanofshi, Donald Holden, Curtis Cotton III, Damian Jewan Lee, Rachel Ha...

The impressive debut from filmmaker David Gordon Green ('Undertow') is a lyrical, highly-praised drama set in a small, rundown North Carolina town aro... Read more

Heidi: Part Two (1980)

7.3/10
Director: Tony Flaadt

Part Two of the 1978 TV adaptation of Johanna Spyri's novel. The charming tale of a young orphan called Heidi who is taken to live with her Grandfathe... Read more

Follyfoot: Series 1 (1971)

8.3/10
Director: Michael Apted, Stephen Frears, Vic Hughes
Starring: Gillian Blake, Steve Hodson, Arthur English, Christian Rodska, Desmond Llewelyn

Based on Monica Dickens' 1963 novel 'Cobbler's Dream', the series was set in a horse sanctuary and often dealt with the way horses were poorly treated... Read more

Highlander: The Search For Vengeance (2006)

6.8/10
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

In this distant and animated sequel to the 1986 film, lone warrior Colin travels with wise-cracking ghost Amergan across a desolate landscape, searchi... Read more

Desert Fury (1947)

6.7/10
Director: Lewis Allen
Starring: Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, Wendell Corey

In the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert lies the small gambling oasis Purple Sage, run by the tough talking Fritzi Haller who stubbornly controls... Read more

The Bucket List (2007)

7.4/10
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd, Rob Morrow, Alfonso Fr...

Rob Reiner's seriocomic road movie stars Jack Nicholson as a terminally ill corporate billionaire sharing a hospital room with cancer-stricken mechani... Read more

Helvetica (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Gary Hustwit

An engaging and funny investigation into the world's most ubiquitous typeface. Are you partial to Times New Roman? How do you feel about Arial Narrow,... Read more

Civic Duty (2006)

6.3/10
Director: Jeff Renfroe
Starring: Peter Krause, Kari Matchett, Richard Schiff, Khaled Abol Naga

With the stress of losing his job finally getting to him, Terry (Peter Krause), an unemployed accountant, begins to suspect his new neighbour, a Middl... Read more

Ancient Egypt: The Rosetta Stone (2007)

6.6/10

For hundreds of years the glorious history of Ancient Egypt remained a mystery to the world, its secrets locked away in the baffling language of the h... Read more

Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Gillian Armstrong

Florence Broadhurst lived an amazing life. Not content with reality, she invented and reinvented her past to be even more interesting. Before her brut... Read more

Crusades: Volume 2 (1995)

8.3/10
Starring: Narrated by, Terry Jones

For 200 years the armies of Europe battled Muslim forces for control of the Holy Land (and its riches). Now the full story is told in exciting fashion... Read more

Batman: The Animated Series - Volume 3 (1994)

8.9/10
Starring: Voices Of, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill

Gotham City crime czars Scarface and Rupert Thorne battle evil masterminds like The Joker and The Penguin for money, power and respect, and just when... Read more

Bella (2006)

7.3/10
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Starring: Tammy Blanchard, Manny Perez, Eduardo Verastegui, Ali Landry

After an accident puts an end to his career as a professional athlete, an international soccer star is forced to take work at his brother's Mexican re... Read more

Crime Wave / Decoy (1954)

Director: Andre De Toth, Jack Bernhard
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Edward Norris, Jean Gillie, Charles Bronson

Film noir double feature features the underrated noir thriller 'Crime Wave' (1954), about a hardboiled LA cop out to get a 'reformed' ex-con who was l... Read more

They Live By Night / Side Street (1949)

Director: Anthony Mann, Nicholas Ray
Starring: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger

This double feature includes Nicholas Ray's lyrical story of romantic fatalism, 'They Live by Night' (1948), about a young outlaw couple on the run fo... Read more

Goodbye Bafana (2007)

Director: Bille August
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Diane Kruger, Dennis Haysbert

The surprising relationship that developed between Nelson Mandela and South African prison guard James Gregory is explored in this riveting biodrama.... Read more

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

6.7/10
Director: Justin Chadwick
Starring: Eric Bana, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morr...

Outstanding performances highlight this lavish romantic drama chronicling the rivalry between Boleyn sisters Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Anne (Natal... Read more

The Secret Life of Words (2005)

7.5/10
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Julie Christie, Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Camara, Sverre Ousdal, Eddie M...

A remarkable, thoughtful drama staring Sarah Polley as a deaf factory girl who is persuaded by her boss to take a vacation. After travelling to the co... Read more

Frisky Dingo: Season 1 (2006)

8.2/10

Being a supervillain isn't what it used to be in this mind-melting show from the folks at [adult swim]. Killface is a criminal overlord whose devious... Read more

The Riverman (2004)

6/10
Director: Bill Eagles
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Sam Jaeger, Cary Elwes, Kathleen Quinlan

Based on the book co-written by Robert Keppel, formerly chief criminal investigator for the attorney general of Washington State, the film recounts Ke... Read more

Boxing Day (2007)

7.1/10
Director: Kriv Stenders
Starring: Richard Green, Tammy Anderson, Syd Brisbane, Stuart Clark

Living alone on home detention, recovering alcoholic, Chris, is preparing Christmas lunch for his family when an old friend turns up at his doorstep a... Read more